Spawning AI using trigger

[Flingotravels 0]

I'm creating a zombie-based mission, and I would like to create the effect of an omnipresence of undead around the map. How can I spawn a group using a trigger?

[Pulverizer 1]

The problem with createUnit is that the unit must join an existing group upon its creation, otherwise it's simply not created. You don't want to use a trigger for this, it would get messy. With a script, you can use the same script for all units easily by having the units call the script from their init-lines and passing a reference to themselves as the parameter like:

this exec "myscript.sqs"

Now the script has a reference to the particular unit in its _this variable. Then you can do something like

@player distance _this < 600

{_x createUnit [getpos _this, group _this]} forEach ["SoldierEB", "SoldierEB", "SoldierEB", "SoldierELAW","SoldierEMG","SoldierEMedic"]

With this example you could cover a large area with lone officers all of which would spawn a group when the player gets closer than 600m.

There's also some ready scripting solutions for covering large areas with enemies, such as DAC.

[Kyle_K_ski 1]

Interesting script!

How would one go about setting up a maximum number of group respawns? Let's say you didn't want to exceed 5 respawns--what would it look like?

Or, better yet, just to add some more uncertainty, how would the entire script look if there was a randomly generated number of respawns assigned to a group, say, no more than 5 and no less than 1?

[Black Sphere 0]

Add on the beginning of the script a variable like

_spwn = _this select 0

and on the end of the script

_spwn = _spwn - 1

? _spwn == 0 : exit

To call a script

[5] exec "myscript.sqs"

The number means a number of spawns. If you need a bit of randomizing just add a prefix random infront of number (ain't quite sure if this will work thou, test it and you'll see).