How can you add drones into your map? Ive looked in the _drones.gsc and found nothing but mindless code to make em work. I saw though that i think they must be spawned from a script_model. The rest im clueless. CAn anyone help? Thnx.

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To answer your question, drones are just AI, there are tutorials on how to add AI to your map. Like the "AI Spawning" tutorial.

Drones are AI? Uhhh...... i dont think so. I know what drones are. They are completely scripted AI that take up less resources and allow you to have more than the normal 32 max AI at each given moment. Max amount of drones is 9999 according to the _drones.gsc. Bascially im saying drones arent JUST ai. So, you need to spawn em like normal AI? That makes things easier but how do u do it? Is it a certain Key/Value? or a spawnflag?.

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As far as I can tell from the spawn functions in the _drones.gsc file, you can spawn drones from anything..

drone_allies_spawngroup(spawnpoint, qFakeDeath, spawnSize, qSightTrace)
{
	spawncount = spawnpoint.size;
	if (isdefined(spawnSize))
	{
		spawncount = spawnSize;
		spawnpoint = array_randomize(spawnpoint);
	}
	
	for (i=0;i<spawncount;i++)
		spawnpoint[i] thread drone_allies_spawn(qFakeDeath, qSightTrace);
}

So set the array of spawnpoints for your drones (this can be any entity for as far as I can tell) and a spawnsize and you should be good to go..

Thnx, ill give this code a try

Do i have to like, give it a certain targetname or some form of name to the array?
How do i set a spawnsize? (lol stupid questions)
Finally, what makes them spawn? A trigger, script?

edited on Aug. 5, 2007 02:07 pm by Boltriflemaster

No, you don't need to nake the spawnpoints something particular, as long as you use it as an argument to call the spawn fuction.
Spoawnsize is just a number. 25 for instance.
Whatever you want to use. You've got to call the spawn function from a script.. so most likely you'll have a trigger in your map somewhere, which. when triggered, causes the script to run the spawn function.

However, to be honest, I've not seen this function being used in any of the stock maps.