Creating Random Enemy AI Spawn Points

[infiltrator_2k 28]

I've been digging around how to create random enemy spawn points but without much success. Basically I'm trying to find out the most simplest and effective way of adding random spawn points for AI units instead of them predictably spawning on one particular marker. Can someone please tell me what line of code will I have to add to get this MBT to spawn at multiple random markers?

_tankcrew = [];
_tankframe = [];


if (isServer) then {



_tankcrew = creategroup EAST; 
_tankframe = [getMarkerPos "SpawnA", 180, "O_MBT_02_cannon_F", _tankcrew] call BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle;


_wp1 = _tankcrew addWaypoint [(getmarkerpos "WP1"), 0];
_wp1 setWaypointType "SAD";
_wp1 setWaypointSpeed "FULL";
_wp1 setWaypointBehaviour "COMBAT";



};

Cheers

Ian

[hansson0728 12]

if spawnA is a marker you can use it as a center point and spawn the vehicle somewhere around that point by doing for example this:

_pos = getMarkerPos "SpawnA";

_RandomPos = [_pos, 0, 200, 30, 0, 5, 0] call BIS_fnc_findSafePos;

_tankframe = [_RandomPos, 180, "O_MBT_02_cannon_F", _tankcrew] call BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle;

check this out : http://tactical.nekromantix.com/wiki/doku.php?id=arma2:scripting:bis_fnc_findsafepos

[infiltrator_2k 28]

if spawnA is a marker you can use it as a center point and spawn the vehicle somewhere around that point by doing for example this:

_pos = getMarkerPos "SpawnA";

_RandomPos = [_pos, 0, 200, 30, 0, 5, 0] call BIS_fnc_findSafePos;

_tankframe = [_RandomPos, 180, "O_MBT_02_cannon_F", _tankcrew] call BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle;

check this out : http://tactical.nekromantix.com/wiki/doku.php?id=arma2:scripting:bis_fnc_findsafepos

That's awesome cheers ;)

[iceman77 14]

Additional info; You can also use BIS_fnc_relPos, then there is no way it will ever use the map's center as the default position if it can't find a sufficient gradient. Though, obviously this doesn't take "bad" areas into account like safe pos.

_position = [getMarkerPos "marker", random 150, random 360 ] call BIS_fnc_relPos;

Edited January 12, 2014 by Iceman77