Thats great dude i wish i had the pacience to code

If you get into it, its a good way to build an enjoyabe carrier, and one that makes decent money quickly, 50k+ after the first few professional years up to and over the 100k as you become a pro.

But it is not for everyone. I find that starting with script engine coding is a good way to get a feel if the puzzle solving of coding is for you and if you find enjoyment in it besides the cash.

OK. The respawn work, but I must be doing something wrong, because my abmbient sounds won't play until a weapon respawns...

main()
{
	maps\mp\_load::main();
	weaponrespawner("weapons", 5);

}

 
	weaponrespawner(targetname, defaultrespawndelay)

{

	weapons = getentarray(targetname, "targetname");

	if(weapons.size > 0)

{

	for(i=0; i < weapons.size; i++) 

{

	if(!isdefined(weapons[i].script_timescale))

	weapons[i].script_timescale = defaultrespawndelay;

 

// kick off a thread to listen for when the item gets picked up

	weapons[i] thread weapon_think(weapons[i].script_timescale);

}

}

}

 

// self = weapon reference

	weapon_think(delaytime)

{

// capture important weapon data first to allow us to respawn them

	classname = self.classname;

	model = self.model;

	count = self.count;
	
	org = self.origin;

	angles = self.angles;

 

	targetname = self.targetname;

 

// Wait till the weapon gets picked up

	self waittill("trigger");

 

// Wait the delay before respawn

	wait delaytime;

 

// respawn the weapon

	weapon = spawn(classname, org);

	weapon.angles = angles;

	weapon.count = count;

	weapon setmodel(model); 

	weapon.script_timescale = delaytime;
	
	weapon.targetname = targetname;

 

// Kick off a new thread with the new weapon and kill the old one

	weapon thread weapon_think(delaytime);

	ambientPlay("ambient_mp_gobhouse");
	
	game["allies"] = "american";
	game["axis"] = "german";
	game["attackers"] = "allies";
	game["defenders"] = "axis";
	game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
	game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";

        // Set some cvars
        setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity0","1");
	setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity1","1");
	setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".5");

}

You need to keep the lines for ambient play and others in the main function. Not add the to the subroutines that get called for each spawned weapon.

See the corrected code I posted.

I also modified the call to weaponrespawner a little by creating a calling the function with a new thread, that is a parallel job that runs intependent from the one you called it from. Without the word thread before a function call, all lines after that in the main function wait till the function is totally complete.

In your case you want to immediately after you tell the computer to start thinking and monitoring for respawn weapons to continue with next playing the ambient sound.

Threads are the way that you can make the cod2 engine run two sections or more at the same time.

main()
{
	maps\mp\_load::main();

	level thread weaponrespawner("weapons", 5);

	ambientPlay("ambient_mp_gobhouse");
	
	game["allies"] = "american";
	game["axis"] = "german";
	game["attackers"] = "allies";
	game["defenders"] = "axis";
	game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
	game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";

                // Set some cvars
                setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity0","1");
	setcvar("r_glowbloomintensity1","1");
	setcvar("r_glowskybleedintensity0",".5");
}

weaponrespawner(targetname, defaultrespawndelay)
{
weapons = getentarray(targetname, "targetname");
if(weapons.size > 0)
{
	for(i=0; i < weapons.size; i++) 
{
if(!isdefined(weapons[i].script_timescale))
weapons[i].script_timescale = defaultrespawndelay;

// kick off a thread to listen for when the item gets picked up
	weapons[i] thread weapon_think(weapons[i].script_timescale);
}
}
}

 

// self = weapon reference
weapon_think(delaytime)
{

// capture important weapon data first to allow us to respawn them

	classname = self.classname;
	model = self.model;
	count = self.count;
	org = self.origin;
	angles = self.angles;
	targetname = self.targetname;

// Wait till the weapon gets picked up
	self waittill("trigger");

// Wait the delay before respawn
	wait delaytime;

// respawn the weapon
	weapon = spawn(classname, org);
	weapon.angles = angles;
	weapon.count = count;
	weapon setmodel(model); 
	weapon.script_timescale = delaytime;
	weapon.targetname = targetname;
// Kick off a new thread with the new weapon and kill the old one
	weapon thread weapon_think(delaytime);
}

worked like a charm.. Thanks a million.

sentchy u r the man! Thanks for the great post, Im attempting to use it now. I really like the way you explained this subject, and made it fairly newbproof. I hope if you get some time you can make some tutorials for us newbs!Thanks again.. u rock

nice script but i had two problems with it:

1. weapon spawned upside down
2. there wasn't a delay between respawn (perhaps cause i used the script in a seperate gsc file?):

maps\mp\_load::main();
level thread maps\mp\_respawn_weapons::main("respawn_weapon","5");
___________________________________________________
_respawn_weapons.gsc:

main(targetname, defaultrespawndelay)
{ ... }

weapon_think(delaytime)
{ ... }

Do you know if this script will work with a smoke nade cause I can't seem to make it work I set targetname to weapons and copy the script to my gsc file try to run it and it won't respawn maybe you just cant make smoke nades respawn. Any help will be much appreciated.