Escape From Altis style respawn - how to do?

[Wathagan 10]

So, I want to recreate the respawn system used in 'Escape From Altis'. I have a similar system in place, but instead of being able to choose the player to spawn to, you spawn where you died. I want this to be exactly like in the bohemia mission 'Escape From Altis'. Could anyone give any pointers? Please and thank you.

[Gekkibi 11]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Respawn

[Wathagan 10]

Ah, thank you. So I take it it's the SIDE option to get the dialogue.

[Gekkibi 11]

Use respawn = 2 if you want to respawn exactly where you died...

[Wathagan 10]

Well that is what I have in place AT THE MOMENT. That is what I want to change so it works like in the 'Escape From Altis' mission.

[Gekkibi 11]

Ah, I thought you wanted it that you respawn where you died. Too tired to read properly...

Never played wasteland/escape from x/insert-random-deathmatch-here, so I have no idea what you want.

[mikey74 187]

I use the respawn module but dont name it or put up a respawn marker. Set how long you want to wait before respawn in your description as usual. I dont know if it matters but I still set respawn to base, and it works like what you described as to what you wanted. ;) Hope that helped.

[Wathagan 10]

I still can't get the menu to open up when I die. I know I'm supposed to be using "respawnTemplates[] = {"MenuPosition"};" but where is it used and how? I want to be able to get the menu and select a group member to spawn to.

[Wathagan 10]

Is there no one who could help?

The idea is that when you die, you get window where you can choose which alive team member to spawn next to after the allocated time has passed.

EDIT: is there a way to get my hands on to the actual mission? Can the official mission .pbos be found somewhere so that one could unpack them and see how they are done?

Edited October 1, 2013 by Wathagan

[Gekkibi 11]

Put respawnTemplates to description.ext....

[Wathagan 10]

Put respawnTemplates to description.ext....

I still don't understand what I'm supposed to do. It's easy to just say put something somewhere without actually helping. But hey, what more can you expect from a fellow Finn.. :rolleyes:

[Antiprotestant 1]

I have had some success with the "respawnTemplates[] = {"MenuPosition"};", but I have not tried to attach the spawn location to a player.

What I achieved is a menu with multiple, selectable locations to spawn at, and more locations get added as time goes on.

description.ext

respawnTemplatesWest[] = {"MenuPosition"};
respawnTemplatesEast[] = {"MenuPosition"};

and a trigger in game with this in its init:

[east, "mkr1"] call BIS_fnc_removeRespawnPosition; sleep 5; [west, "mkr1"] call BIS_fnc_addRespawnPosition; hint "NATO units have occupied XXXX!";

It seems you are on the right path, maybe you can use setMarkerPos or attachTo on the marker and unit to achieve your goal.

Hope that helps.