So I was trying to rewrite tankslayer using stages. For the most part works. But one big problem is if I kill() a tank for being too far away, the stage doesn't advance.

That's not a big deal, as I can ForceNextStage(), but if I do that and make the next stage a STAGE_TANK, I can see the stage begins, but,no tank spawns and never will so the stage never advances. Occasionally a map loading a script may kick it back on, but rarely.

The only way I could get around it was creating a point_hurt, setting the tank's health to 1, and then moving it to the tank to kill it. Though it takes a second or two, I'm guessing the tank has some damage modifier when it comes to that.

One tangent, the other problem is while sometimes the spawns are comparable to my stealing SI methods, often he is far away. Any variables, convars to control that?

Thanks

A question on TryGetPathableLocationWithin( )

Does it have any specific preference? Or just return a random location anywhere within that? It seems random. So If I call it with 8000, I still may get one very close, or not, and in an arbitrary flow position relative.

It would be to have a little more control as opposed to flow.

Something like

TryGetSpawnPositionFromPlayer(player, mindist, maxdist,spawn_preference)

ex:

TryGetSpawnPositionFromPlayer(player, 1000, 1500,SPAWN_ABOVE_SURVIVORS)


It would also be nice if EmitSoundOnClient would work with waves like EmitSoundOn, that or an equivelant of _level_sounds for a mutation

FYI, GiveAmmo won't give ammo until the first clip is exhausted.

Awesome. Thanks Kerry!

There is the "TANK_ONLY" attribute, not sure if you can set it manually though. Also might not compute flow through it

The findoffset threw me, I've done nothing with server side stuff. As far as the entities being created once, not sure if that's always the case, or at least not the references. In TankSlayer at first, I wanted to keep score, not by name, but by some so of unique identifier, lacking that, I was using the vscript entity reference. Most of the time it worked fine, but sometimes after wiping, etc, the bots would spawn as a different reference (player 5) instead of (player 2) or whatever. Whether or not first_spawn happened again, I don't "think" so, but hard to remember.

I'm going to guess no, though while I have an idea of what's going on in that code, I'm not 100% ;) Is it trying to determine the offset from a prop to another entity?

You're right about most events, you are passively receiving them. Not all events are in modevent.res btw, those are just the custom L4D2 ones. When in doubt, use display_game_events 1. spawn and first_spawn definitely work. I use both in Tank Slayer,

You can hook player_spawn, and also player_first_spawn. As far as usable props, most of the stuff that's new so far works in both regular campaigns and mutations, but in my tests, it "seems", not CanPickupObject(). Though you can just hook player_use and manage it that way.

Internet is spotty right now, but will do!

It would definitely be very useful. Was just pointing out a work around for that particular situation.