Random Player Spawn

[interectic 10]

I have looked all over but I haven't found an easy or direct tutorial on making a random player spawn at the beginning of a mission. I want to you this in multiplayer where the players are randomly scattered around the map. Please help!

[davidoss 552]

setPos

[interectic 10]

setPos

Can you give me an example of what you have done, if you have done this?

[davidoss 552]

Create some markers around the map and then in initPlayerLocal

_spawn_pos = ["marker1", "marker2", "marker3", "marker4", "marker5", "marker6", "marker7", "marker8", "marker9", "marker10"] call BIS_fnc_selectRandom;
waitUntil {!isnull player};
player setPos (getMarkerPos _spawn_pos);

or in init.sqf

if (hasInterface) then {

_spawn_pos = ["marker1", "marker2", "marker3", "marker4", "marker5", "marker6", "marker7", "marker8", "marker9", "marker10"] call BIS_fnc_selectRandom;
waitUntil {!isnull player};
player setPos (getMarkerPos _spawn_pos);
};

[interectic 10]

 

Create some markers around the map and then in initPlayerLocal

_spawn_pos = ["marker1", "marker2", "marker3", "marker4", "marker5", "marker6", "marker7", "marker8", "marker9", "marker10"] call BIS_fnc_selectRandom;
player setpos (getMarkerPos _spawn_pos);

can this be used for multiplayer?

[davidoss 552]

Why not?

Every player executing that code will receive different (most likely) spawn point.

[interectic 10]

Why not?

Every player executing that code will receive different (most likely) spawn point.

Thank you very much! Do you make missions a lot?

[davidoss 552]

Sometimes but big only

[interectic 10]

Sometimes but big only

Well I was curious if you could help me with some stuff sometime?

[davidoss 552]

Sure i am always open to help if it will not overrun my knowledge.

 Contact me direct if you wish.

 

Anyway we have here a great community if you ask with sense you will get your answer very quickly.

[interectic 10]

Sure i am always open to help if it will not overrun my knowledge.

 Contact me direct if you wish.

 

Anyway we have here a great community if you ask with sense you got your answer very quickly.

Yeah I can see that. Thank you.

[dreadedentity 278]

while {surfaceIsWater (getPos player)} do
{
	_randPos = [random 10000, random 10000, 0];
	player setPosATL _randPos;
};

Put all players in the water in the editor

[interectic 10]

while {surfaceIsWater (getPos player)} do
{
	_randPos = [random 10000, random 10000, 0];
	player setPosATL _randPos;
};

Put all players in the water in the editor

 

Thank you man, I will try this out.

[damsous 329]

Hello i try to do something similar for dedicated server and JIP compatible but without success.

 

I would like to create a ramdom spawn for civilian player around few other blufor player (p1,p2,p3....) so i use a marker everything work fine in the editor the marker auto update randomly around the selected unit but nothing work on dedicated, the marker don't move

 

I use this in the init.sqf

if ((!isServer) && (player != player)) then {waitUntil {player == player};};

[] spawn {
while{not isnull selectRandom [p1,p2,p3,p4,p5]} do {"respawn_civilian" setmarkerpos (selectRandom [p1,p2,p3,p4,p5] getpos [500, random 360]); sleep 5;};
};

 

I think its because the marker don't find any of this player when the server start (p1,p2...) and stop working.

 

My question there is a simple way to make a random respawn for a specific side around player with variable name ?