playersNumber for self balancing mission

[JPreston 10]

Couple of questions for the experts today.

I've got a co-op mission that works perfectly if I set the number of respawns (I've got a basic respawn limiter) and the number of enemies. I have however, been trying to get the mission to auto-balance itself. So if more players join, more enemies are spawned and the respawn limit is upped.

Initially I tried using:

players = playersNumber west;

publicvariable "players";

But as I'm sure you know that returns the number of playable AI, so the respawn limit always get set as if there are 10 players. Is there any work around for this as it is doing my head in!

Also I was trying to use the "Condition of presence: players >=5;" field to spawn more AI when there are more players. I cannot get them to spawn, anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

J

[Larrow 2822]

Try

numPlayers = {isPlayer _x} count playableUnits;

Condition looks ok, could try wrapping it in () maybe.

[JPreston 10]

Ok, after a few days of fiddling I've finally got my respawn system to work as intended. I still cannot get these AI units to spawn though. Tired wrapping the condition in () as suggested, to no avail.

Has anyone got any ideas about this?

J

[samatra 85]

players = ({isPlayer _x} count playableUnits);

Should properly count players. You can debug the value with

systemChat str(players);

to see what value "players" has at certain moment in your script. (will output value into chat)

Also if you use this variable just once you can simply avoid using variable completely:

if(({isPlayer _x} count playableUnits) > 5) then {
//something
};

Or use it in equation:

_number_of_ai_to_spawn = (({isPlayer _x} count playableUnits) * 5) min 10;

Edited June 3, 2013 by SaMatra