Spawning my enemies

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Apr 21 2002, 2:54 pm
Been thinking for awhile and drawing bad ideas. =/ I want my creatures to respawn without overpopulating and filling the area up. Can anyone get me started with how I would do this (code not necessary, just need an idea)?
Apr 21 2002, 2:58 pm
Look up Repop().
Apr 21 2002, 3:02 pm
In response to Super16
I don't want everything in the world to reappear at once, though.
Apr 21 2002, 3:04 pm
In response to Gynax
Repop doesn't remake everything. Just obj mapped that have been destroyed so it is controlled.
Apr 21 2002, 3:06 pm
In response to Super16
Yes, but I'm thinking it would be a bit heavy if everything dead were to respawn at once - pound you flat. Its not as controlled as I'd like it to be, unfortunately.
Apr 21 2002, 3:09 pm
In response to Gynax
Then try something like this.

mob/Monster
var
startx
starty
startz
New()
..()
src.startx=src.x
src.starty=src.y
src.startz=src.z
proc
DeathCheck()//I make a monster spawn in deathcheck
if(src.health<=0)
new/mob/Monster(locate(src.startx,src.starty,src.startz))
del(src)
Apr 21 2002, 3:32 pm
In response to Gynax
You might like to look at [link]
Apr 22 2002, 12:41 am
In response to Super16
Here's how I would do it:

turf/spawnpad
tickwait = 30
sofar = 0
mob/monster
world
Tick()
..()
for(spawnpad in world)
if(tickwait==sofar)
if(!mob in view())
/var/mob/monster/m = new(src)
sofar = 0
else
sofar += 1

of course, you'd probably set the tickwait to a bit higher, or maybe randomize it for each pad in New().

eg.

turf/spawnpad
New()
..()
tickwait = rand(15,45)
Apr 22 2002, 5:13 am (Edited on Apr 22 2002, 5:18 am)
In response to Shadowdarke
I had always assumed that you couldn't do it that way because when you delete something it terminates all of its procs. I had done it using world.Remake(startloc) and used it in the same way you did.

That seems to have been a bad assumption :)

Anyway, I guess this boils down to a misunderstanding of how exactly spawn() works. I understand how to use spawn() but could you give a brief description of what exactly happens when spawn is called? Is it a special world proc so it will still be called even if the object it was called from is deleted?

[Edit]

I just noticed that Remake was a global proc (oops). So does this mean global procs are not terminated when the caller is deleted? Too many assumptions :p
Apr 22 2002, 5:39 am
In response to English
Right, all procs that belong to a datum are halted when it is deleted, even if they are spawned. You can prevent that by setting src = null before you call the proc, but I don't like to do that because it tends to confuse things when I look back over it.

Global procs however, are not halted because they belong to the world and not the caller. That's why I made Remake() a global proc. ;)
Apr 22 2002, 7:30 am
In response to Shadowdarke
That makes sense, thanks for the clarification :)