This guy gets it.

I'd like to be able to also use your addon to spawn entities aswell.

I just made a random entity spawner based on this software, I hope to release it when there are enough people who would want this :)

Hey guys, I've been absolutely swamped with work these past few weeks so I haven't been able to work on this little project...

@[CZ]Skyblade799 fantastic suggestions. Just the type of feedback I've been needing. Other people have posted about the hero options being lacking so I guess it's about time I got around to that. Top of my priority list.

@Peterwill sounds cool! Would you mind elaborating? If your changes seem good to me I can add you as a contributor and merge the two projects :)

Hey, the Chase Players mechanic's a little busted, because no matter what they will follow the players last known location, even if I've moved and now I'm beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of them. They walk to that location, even if I'm right next to them. How about instead they walk to that location UNTIL the player they're chasing or an NPC gets a certain distance close to them, then they go into default NPC attack stuff. So like the zombie is following the trail of my Scent, it's going...going... but then I move and get close to it. NOW IT ATTACKS RUB RUB RUBUR BURB. Boom, even better this distance can be modified and costimized to the admins desire. Huh? Huh? You like it? Ha ha, it's just a thought, cause I like the chase players function, it can be pretty scary some times. Oh, and when ever you step out of it's Attack Mode range, it goes back into Chase Mode.

Originally posted by moomoohk:

Hey guys, I've been absolutely swamped with work these past few weeks so I haven't been able to work on this little project...

@[CZ]Skyblade799 fantastic suggestions. Just the type of feedback I've been needing. Other people have posted about the hero options being lacking so I guess it's about time I got around to that. Top of my priority list.

@Peterwill sounds cool! Would you mind elaborating? If your changes seem good to me I can add you as a contributor and merge the two projects :)

Glad to hear it you think so! I'm also glad it's still being worked on; I'm certainly going to be watching out for any updates !

I only want one suggestion and that is a way to allow me to add weapons, npcs that I added from the workshop, like maybe have a soldier holding an ak-47 and not a hf2 soldier holding an hf2 smg.

allowing me to do this will be very greatful.

Originally posted by Dragonold103:

I only want one suggestion and that is a way to allow me to add weapons, npcs that I added from the workshop, like maybe have a soldier holding an ak-47 and not a hf2 soldier holding an hf2 smg.

allowing me to do this will be very greatful.

I think you can already, actually. You have to find the name of the weapon the npc uses, and try to use a give command to give it to yourself. If it gives the weapon to you (albeit It will probably have a lot of console errors on a player), you can then enter that weapon's console spawn name in the blank space below npc weapon in the spawn menu. (right click and copy to clipboard doesn't work for npc only weapons too well, but the console always does).

The same works with npcs from the workshop; right click the npc icon in the npc spawn menu and click copy to clipboard, or look in the console to see the full name of the npc spawned, and then paste that in the empty white textbox below chosen npc in the spawn menu. It will use that instead of what is in the drop down as well. Include all underscores and such.

I do know what you are asking though, as it doesn't show workshop weapons and npcs as it does in the context (c) menu's drop down as of right now, so you have to do the console and clipboard manual selection for the spawner menu. I agree it would be nice for it to use the same list instead of having to manually enter each.

Originally posted by CZSkyblade799:

Originally posted by Dragonold103:

I only want one suggestion and that is a way to allow me to add weapons, npcs that I added from the workshop, like maybe have a soldier holding an ak-47 and not a hf2 soldier holding an hf2 smg.

allowing me to do this will be very greatful.

I think you can already, actually. You have to find the name of the weapon the npc uses, and try to use a give command to give it to yourself. If it gives the weapon to you (albeit It will probably have a lot of console errors on a player), you can then enter that weapon's console spawn name in the blank space below npc weapon in the spawn menu. (right click and copy to clipboard doesn't work for npc only weapons too well, but the console always does).

The same works with npcs from the workshop; right click the npc icon in the npc spawn menu and click copy to clipboard, or look in the console to see the full name of the npc spawned, and then paste that in the empty white textbox below chosen npc in the spawn menu. It will use that instead of what is in the drop down as well. Include all underscores and such.

I do know what you are asking though, as it doesn't show workshop weapons and npcs as it does in the context (c) menu's drop down as of right now, so you have to do the console and clipboard manual selection for the spawner menu. I agree it would be nice for it to use the same list instead of having to manually enter each.

thank you, it was very helpful and the model had to be found in the spawnlist not the npc.

EVERYONE. YOU *CAN* SPAWN ENTITIES AND WEAPONS. You have to, for whatever reason, paste them from clipboard into all of the categories... not sure why, but it worked perfectly for me without any errors.

Originally posted by xSurvivor7x:

EVERYONE. YOU *CAN* SPAWN ENTITIES AND WEAPONS. You have to, for whatever reason, paste them from clipboard into all of the categories... not sure why, but it worked perfectly for me without any errors.

Huh.. I'll have to try that out later.

Originally posted by CZSkyblade799:

Originally posted by xSurvivor7x:

EVERYONE. YOU *CAN* SPAWN ENTITIES AND WEAPONS. You have to, for whatever reason, paste them from clipboard into all of the categories... not sure why, but it worked perfectly for me without any errors.

Huh.. I'll have to try that out later.

Apparently the new version of this mod removed that loophole. Unfortunate really. We had a lot of fun with it. It should still work on the older version though.

*ALSO PLEASE NOTE* Things like "npc_vj_nmrih_randz" spawn in random zombies. For some reason, these zombies are not taken into account with the NPC limit. Not a big deal, as the more specific ones are, like "npc_vj_nmrih_runmalez" <- THESE guys are taken into account. Not sure why the randoms aren't. I can only assume it is because it's spawning different class names or something like that?

As for the entities and weapons spawning alone. This at one point worked on the original ZINV pack, as stated above. I copied the LUA error that appears when I tried to spawn an AR-15 case.

( lua/autorun/server/init.lua:445: attempt to index global 'npc_info' (a nil value)
NPC list is table: 0x5fcfd648
Class name is cw_ws_ar15_case )

From what I gather, adding an entity or weapon spawn interface involves a few extra lines of code and adding or changing a variable or two. But hey, I'm only a novice so I could be tooting my own horn for no reason at all.

Originally posted by xSurvivor7x:

Originally posted by CZSkyblade799:

Huh.. I'll have to try that out later.

Apparently the new version of this mod removed that loophole. Unfortunate really. We had a lot of fun with it. It should still work on the older version though.

*ALSO PLEASE NOTE* Things like "npc_vj_nmrih_randz" spawn in random zombies. For some reason, these zombies are not taken into account with the NPC limit. Not a big deal, as the more specific ones are, like "npc_vj_nmrih_runmalez" <- THESE guys are taken into account. Not sure why the randoms aren't. I can only assume it is because it's spawning different class names or something like that?

As for the entities and weapons spawning alone. This at one point worked on the original ZINV pack, as stated above. I copied the LUA error that appears when I tried to spawn an AR-15 case.

( lua/autorun/server/init.lua:445: attempt to index global 'npc_info' (a nil value)
NPC list is table: 0x5fcfd648
Class name is cw_ws_ar15_case )

From what I gather, adding an entity or weapon spawn interface involves a few extra lines of code and adding or changing a variable or two. But hey, I'm only a novice so I could be tooting my own horn for no reason at all.

Sorry for my late reply everyone!

@xSurvivor7x you are right. Unfortunately I havent got much time to improve my version. Is there a place I can post the code so others can work on it too? Like a usual place for Garry's mod people to get unfinished (but working) addons)

Great addon! I love the challange of surviving with this turned on :D. I have one suggestion though: Could you put like a Default Weapon selection for the weapons. Like have the VJ Military npcs have their own weapons and the like. It'd be great to have that. :)

@Hero Seeker How did you get the profiles to open?

@VPG001 Like what do you mean? Is it giving you an error every time you try to open it?