how to use spawn order ?

[jonsilva]

hello
iam trying to spawn all enemies groups at 0
but i cant get the order working..sometimes it works others it doesnt ?

iam using the noscpos script to make all entities spawn in the same place...and using ghost enemies to seperate the groups
ghost1 has 5 lifespan
ghost2 has 10
ghost3 has 15
ghost4 has 20

this is an example of the level.txt

#---------------------////--------------------------

group 1 1
at    0

spawn  ghost4
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  ghost3
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

#---------------------////--------------------------

group 2 2
at    0

spawn  ghost2
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  slay
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    1
flip    1
health  230
coords  360 250 155
at      0


spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  vigo
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    1
flip    1
health  160
coords  360 250 180
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  vigo
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    2
item    cheese
health  160
coords  360 250 180
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  psycho
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    1
item    ring
flip    1
health  190
coords  355 250 145
at      0

#-----------------------
group 1 1
at    0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

#-----------------------

group 3 3
at    0

spawn  samuel
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    1
flip    1
health  190
coords  355 255 135
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0


spawn  slay
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    2
flip    1
item    food3
health  230
coords  360 250 155
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0


spawn  samuel
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    2
flip    1
health  190
coords  355 255 135
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  mrwhite
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    1
flip    1
item    money1
health  270
coords  355 250 135
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0


spawn  vigo
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    3
flip    1
item    apple
health  160
coords  360 250 180
at      0

spawn  ghost1
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos.c
coords  360 255 10
at      0

spawn  psycho
spawnscript data/scripts/noscpos2.c
map    3
health  190
coords  355 250 145
at      0

#-----------------------

i cant uderstand whats happening sometimes the enemies spawn well with a diference of 5 seconds between them
but sometimes when i use group 3 3 they all seem to spawn at the same time no matter how many ghosts i put between them...

anyone knows how the group order works... if i want to spawn all groups at 0... ???

 

[Bloodbane]

You should delay entity instead, Read Tricks n Tutorials on how to make one.

As for your problem, I don't quite get on how you want the enemies to appear especially when group 3 3 is activated. What is exacly your plan?

BTW since ghost enemies you have are invisible, you don't need noscpos.c. You can just spawn them in middle of screen and noone would notice

 

[jonsilva]

ive already got it working !!!

iam spawning all the enemies with an altitude 140/180 using a follow10 animation (its like they are coming from a hole in the ceiling)

****---noscpos2

// Removes scroll pos effect
void main()
{
    void self = getlocalvar("self"); //Get calling entity.
    int x = getentityproperty(self,"x"); //Get character's x coordinate
    int XPos = openborvariant("xpos");
    changeentityproperty(self, "position", x - XPos);
    performattack(getlocalvar("self"), openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW10"));
}

the level has wall from 0 to 200 with a 5000 heigh to prevent entities from moving out of the playing area and to prevent the player from spawning out of the area....

when the noscpos.c script finds a wall in front of it the entities die cause they spawn inside the wall...for example if you set them to spawn in coords 300 255, they have to move from 0 to 300 and when they find a wall in front they die

so ive set all entities to subject_to_wall 0
and made this script for follow10 and spawn anim

void subwall(int wall)
{// Set's subject to wall
    void self = getlocalvar("self");
    changeentityproperty(self, "subject_to_wall", wall);
}

but in the ghosts spawn animtion ive use it like this

anim spawn
loop 0
delay 3
offset 40 60
bbox 0 0 0 0
@cmd subwall 1                        <-------subject_to_wall 1
frame data/chars/misc/food/empty.gif
frame data/chars/misc/food/empty.gif

this was making the ghosts die when i moved 50 pixels foward in the level
but all the enemies were spawning fine and couting in groups...

the problem was in the ghost spawn anim the @cmd subwall 1 was activated very fast on top of all frames this made the wall kill the ghosts
ive change it 1 frame below...

loop 0
delay 3
offset 40 60
bbox 0 0 0 0
frame data/chars/misc/food/empty.gif
@cmd subwall 1                        <-------subject_to_wall 1
frame data/chars/misc/food/empty.gif

now its working
iam using this ghosts in previous levels so i whanted to make them subjecto_to_wall 1 has fast has possible so whem they spawned on top of walls they wouldnt fall down...


 

 

[aL BeasTie]

As he mentioned bloodbane has an easier way using delay entity

here's the tutorial link - http://www.chronocrash.com/forum/index.php?topic=55.msg286#msg286

 

[O Ilusionista]

iam spawning all the enemies with an altitude 140/180 using a follow10 animation (its like they are coming from a hole in the ceiling)

hum, I liked that idea. So I can use this to make multiple spawn animations?

 

[jonsilva]

thanks beatie
that delay looks good you can set the health has time in spawn level

hum, I liked that idea. So I can use this to make multiple spawn animations?

yes this is a way utunnels mentioned
you can use it in the level txt and set whatever anim follow you whant

spawn  MrX
@script void main() {
  performattack(getlocalvar("self"), openborconstant("ANI_FOLLOW10"));
} @end_script
flip    1
map    1
item    food4
health  550
coords  -1480 470 71
at      1010

 

[O Ilusionista]

Sweet, thanks for the info!

 

[aL BeasTie]

Nice tip, I was asking how to do this a while back. Cheers