spawn a monster

[ajay]

I'd like to spawn a monster, in front of the player, I'm dumb, thick and stoopid.

Please can someone completely, and with no other details that what's above, write the neccessary code.

Or failing that politley push me vaguely in the right direction.

I blame me age, me long work hours and well, me idiocy.

[Dr. Shadowborg]

That which you seek lies within the forest of Hipnotic Scourges. Once, there, see thee the mysteries buried within HIPSPAWN.QC. From there, take what you find, and apply it to the knowledge of thine ID created weapon, W_FireAxe.

[DarkSnow]

Or.. Simply combine some relevant spawning stuff from weapons.qc - like spawning a rocket when firing rocketlauncher etc.

Then give it all the ai stuff as th_pain, th_stand as you find in the respective monster's qc file under its spawning void "monster_army()" etc.


I am not 100% sure, but atleast you are pushed in a direction

[Gilgamesh]

You need to move the precache stuff to another place, like in weapons.qc (at the top) or world.qc

[Dr. Shadowborg]

Which is the beauty of the Hipnotic method. Namely, you don't have to redefine yet another monster spawn, and you don't clog up the global precache with stuff you might or might not use. Plus, you can write a single function to spawn just about any monster you've previously made spawn functions for, for a fraction of the code size needed if you did it the other way.

[Gilgamesh]

Hmmm very nice....
I like the random monster spawning from the dpmod, it's very good too

[Wazat]

[andy]

[Sajt]