I would also like respawning weapons in multiplayer. I've been looking around and cant find anywhere that has the answer. key: wait and value: # do not work, and stock maps dont have respawning weapons

Has anyone got any information on this topic? I know it is possible because we played a map with weapons spawning the other day. What are the key values that need to be used?

markroy writes...Well then you could look at that map and see how it is done.

Isnt there a respawn checkbox in the enitity editor to make the weapons respawn?

Err i never actually read your whole first post. My mistake. Ill show myself out now.

edited on Jun. 15, 2006 11:21 pm by Juicy1366

Veef, If I had the original .map file for that map to look at, I could see how it is done. I don't have the source code, therefore I ask for help.

markroy writes...Sorry i should have mentioned you can get that info from the bsp you do not need the .map . If you are not sure how just let me know what map we are talking about and i will look into it.

The automatic respawn values do not work, you have to write your own script to monitor when an item gets picked up and replace it.

If you do it right you can actually make the respawn key/value pair actually work.

crossroads.gsc has an example of how to do panzerschrecks in sp, it can relatively easily be used to build one for a multiplayer respawn of a weapon. Obviously how have to delete the check for the single player tank still being alive and other stuff.

...
level thread panzerschrecks();
...

panzerschrecks()
{
	//get the panzers already placed.
	temp_panzer1 = getent ("panzer1", "targetname");
	
	temp_panzer2 = getent ("panzer2", "targetname");
	
	
	//get their origins
	panzer1_org = temp_panzer1 getorigin();
	
	panzer2_org = temp_panzer1 getorigin();
	
	//get their angles
	panzer1_angles = temp_panzer1.angles;
	
	panzer2_angles = temp_panzer1.angles;
	
	
	//delete the second panzer
	temp_panzer2 delete();
	
	level waittill ("commtank_spawned");
		
	//respawn panzers untill the tank is dead
	while (isalive (level.commTank) )
	{
		level.commTank endon ("death");
		
		temp_panzer1 waittill ("trigger");
		
		//spawn the other panzer
		panzer2 = spawn("weapon_panzerschreck", panzer2_org);
		panzer2.angles = panzer2_angles;
		
		panzer2 waittill ("trigger");
		
		//spawn the first panzer agian
		temp_panzer1 = spawn("weapon_panzerschreck", panzer1_org);
		temp_panzer1.angles = panzer1_angles;
		
		
	}	
}

Veef, I apologize, I was under the impression that you could not get information from a bsp. The map is mp_crazyhouse. It has guns (and bazookas!) hanging on the walls. I just looked at the bsp in notepad and did a search. You are right, there is a wealth of information in there. I can see the values, and will give them a try. Thanks.

I have redone a map i did for cod in cod2 which had a weapons room that everyone liked and they are requesting weapons in the cod2 version. I added turrets successfully.

sentchy, thanks for your post on the gsc file as well.

sentchy writes...Not exactly the answer people were hoping for, but i quess it will have to do since IW seems to have removed anything that was not nailed down.

I'll be on vacation for a week but when I get back from hiking I can write a custom respawn script that should allow for easy respawning weapons. I have already thought about the detailed code and it is not that bad.

The key/value pair needs to be something else than respawn since that value is not a default keys.txt value that the compiler exports to the bsp and is accessable in the script but there are plenty others from sp that can be used.