Respawn script?

[st!gar 3]

I'm assuming there's a way for the player to script respawning entities, but have been unable to find any guide regarding it.

Essentially, what I would like to be able to do, is this: a character/squad/vehicle gets destroyed. Said character/squad/vehicle then respawns at one, (out of several?), pre-determined positions, and proceeds to a given waypoint. If the entity gets destroyed again, it will respawn once more, and so forth. A convenient (if at worst somewhat gamey) way to simulate "never-ending" reinforcements or firefights.

This sounds like the sort of thing the game has a function for doing, but I've been unable to find one.

If anyone has any answers, it would be deeply appreciated. I'm not a very experienced mission-maker or coder, so if you do have an answer, it would help me if you used somewhat simple language. Note that all help is received gratefully, regardless.

Thanks in advance.

Edited February 23, 2015 by St!gar

[epicgoldenwarrior 11]

You dont need scripts to do this, take a look at BI's support missions.

That's all the details I'm gonna give, sorry.

[dreadedentity 278]

There is the "respawn" class you can add to description.ext, unfortunately I think it is for players only.

Another option is to script your own AI respawns. You'll want some kind of loop, whether it's a while loop or for loop is up to you. You'll want to check to make sure all of the units are dead, then spawn new ones after a certain amount of time.

I hope this gets you started in the right direction

[st!gar 3]

It should perhaps be mentioned that I was talking strictly about singleplayer; not multiplayer. There are fifty thousand guides online on how to create respawns in multiplayer, which is not what I need.

[R3vo 2654]

As I remember correctly, there has just been a AI script here in the forums, which handles respawn also.

[st!gar 3]

As I remember correctly, there has just been a AI script here in the forums, which handles respawn also.

Are you saying the game doesn't support AIs respawning in single-player?

[R3vo 2654]

Are you saying the game doesn't support AIs respawning in single-player?

It probably does, but I've never used it. Maybe someone else knows more about it.

[Larrow 2822]

Quick simple example for A unit,

Place down a unit in the editor, give it a waypoint for somewhere to move to and add the below to its init.

fnc_neverEnding = {

_this addEventHandler [ "killed", {

	_unit = _this select 0;

	_typeUnit = typeOf _unit;
	_oldGroup = group _unit;

	_spawnSpot = waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, 0 ];
	_newUnit = _oldGroup createUnit [ _typeUnit, _spawnSpot, [], 0, "FORM" ];

	_moveTo = waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, count ( waypoints _oldGroup ) - 1 ];
	_wp = _oldGroup addWaypoint [ _moveTo, 0 ];

	_newUnit call fnc_neverEnding;

}];
};

this call fnc_neverEnding;

When the unit is killed a new unit of the same type is spawned at the original units starting position (waypoint 0) and given a waypoint to goto of the original units last available waypoint position ( waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, count ( waypoints _oldGroup ) - 1 ] ).

Using something like the above along with some of the commands shown by DE should give you something to work from.

To god damn early in the morning when i should be sleeping, let us know how you get on.

[R3vo 2654]

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

Scroll down to - AI Spawning and Tactics - Maybe that helps. There are definitely modules for AI spawn and respawn.

[epicgoldenwarrior 11]

Like I said, the modules in game work for ai respawns and work both SP and MP.

[dreadedentity 278]

Like I said, the modules in game work for ai respawns and work both SP and MP.

Actually you didn't say that EGW, you didn't say much of anything

[st!gar 3]

Actually you didn't say that EGW, you didn't say much of anything

Indeed. I never got much information from you, whatsoever. I'm not entirely sure what you're going for, here. I'm asking for information. If you have information, I'm grateful if you share it with me. Not all this "hint-hint" -nonsense. Either say what you know, or don't bother replying.

Quick simple example for A unit,
Place down a unit in the editor, give it a waypoint for somewhere to move to and add the below to its init.

PHP Code:
fnc_neverEnding = {

_this addEventHandler [ "killed", {

_unit = _this select 0;

_typeUnit = typeOf _unit;
_oldGroup = group _unit;

_spawnSpot = waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, 0 ];
_newUnit = _oldGroup createUnit [ _typeUnit, _spawnSpot, [], 0, "FORM" ];

_moveTo = waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, count ( waypoints _oldGroup ) - 1 ];
_wp = _oldGroup addWaypoint [ _moveTo, 0 ];

_newUnit call fnc_neverEnding;

}];
};

this call fnc_neverEnding;

When the unit is killed a new unit of the same type is spawned at the original units starting position (waypoint 0) and given a waypoint to goto of the original units last available waypoint position ( waypointPosition [ _oldGroup, count ( waypoints _oldGroup ) - 1 ] ).

Using something like the above along with some of the commands shown by DE should give you something to work from.
To god damn early in the morning when i should be sleeping, let us know how you get on.

This is the exact sort of thing I'm looking for. I'll try it out. Thanks for the reply.

[Redphoenix 1540]

Just use the modules. They do theire job quite well.

[Larrow 2822]

Here is a similar example to my last but using the spawnAI module instead. download

As for my last example, its always handy to know how to do it manually instead of relying on the modules.

[st!gar 3]

Larrow, I just tried the Init-script you provided. It worked like a charm. Killed soldiers respawned where they started, joined their original groups, and proceeded to their original waypoint, assuming it hadn't been reached by the time they respawned. (Which, in the case of waypoints like "Search and Destroy", would be never.) Perfect.

If this forum had a way of adding Reputation, I would do it.

[epicgoldenwarrior 11]

Wow, who was the guy that mentioned modules?

Anyway its not a simple link link so thats why I'm not going to go into detail, I figured others could elaborate but it seems like theyre just regurgitating what I said.

[dreadedentity 278]

Wow, who was the guy that mentioned modules?

The first specific mention of modules in this thread was made by R3vo in post #9

[st!gar 3]

Here is a similar example to my last but using the spawnAI module instead. download

 

As for my last example, its always handy to know how to do it manually instead of relying on the modules.

 

 

Thank you for alerting me to the use of Modules, and the information regarding how to use them. I do have one question that I don't see answered in the guideline - how do you edit the properties of the soldiers spawned by the Modules? That is; their Skill levels, Behaviours, Formations and so forth? I'm assuming there is a way.