Enabling Respawn Mid-Mission

[Alpine_gremlin 13]

Heya guys I was just messing around in the editor and was wondering if it was possible to start an MP mission with respawn disabled but then enable it and provide a spawn point once the mission had begun. I`ve googled this a bunch but can`t seem to find anything on this topic. Anyone have any thoughts on how I might go about this?

 

Cheers!

[KC Grimes 79]

It's tough to outline a plan without knowing more details. Feel free to share a bit more. Are you wanting players who are killed in your "pre-respawn period" to be removed from the game, or just in an eternal respawn state until respawn is made available? Any particular respawn type?

 

Either way, take a look at BIS_fnc_addRespawnPosition and the associated commands and documentation. One way or another that will probably achieve what you are looking for. 

 

Another idea is creating and deleting markers named respawn_whatever, as described in the documentation available above. 

[Alpine_gremlin 13]

Thanks for the response!

 

The reason why I haven`t used the BIS function outlined above is because I have to use the "Select Respawn Position" option for it to actually add the position. I don`t want players to see that respawn screen on mission start and instead start as normal. An eternal respawn/specator state would be good until the players can secure a respawn point. Think old school Battlefield Conquest where if a team loses all of their CPs, their dead team mates can`t respawn until the alive players capture one.

 

Creating/deleting markers is also an idea that crossed my head but how could I allow players to choose the particular point they want? The game chooses one at random if multiple markers are acting as respawn points.

[KC Grimes 79]

If I remember correctly, setting respawnOnStart to -1 will not bring up the Respawn Menu if you are using the MenuPosition template (which it sounds like you are). I'd go this route.

 

Regarding eternal respawn, I would just keep resetting the timer via setPlayerRespawnTime. This works for me in a scrapped together Spectator mode where I just set the timer every minute in a loop. 

[Alpine_gremlin 13]

That seems to work! Thank you for pointing out something so simple!