Squad Leader as a respawn point. Solved!

[Spooner]

Rommel's does mostly the same as mine, but uses an continual loop rather than an event handler, so is less efficient. It also doesn't place the player behind the leader. Also, when there is no leader alive to spawn at, you will respawn out at sea ([0, 0, 0], the position of nullObject) rather than at base (all easy to add, but just so you know ).

Does have the advantage that moving the spawn-point means that you will automatically spawn in a safe place, rather than in a wall, which is a big boon. Well, at least I assume respawn is that clever.

Scripts could be merged though, to get the best of both worlds.

@Rommel:

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waituntil {
  "respawn_west" setMarkerPosLocal (getPos leader player);
  sleep 0.5;
  0 > 1
};
Is clearer as:

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while { true } do {
  "respawn_west" setMarkerPosLocal (getPos leader player);
  sleep 0.5;
};
Since waitUntil implies you are running once-per-frame. while is better for loops with sleep in.

[Rommel92]

Thanks for clearing that up for me, in any case, unfortunately respawn isn't that smart. 
It does try to make an effort but.

[Spooner]

Oh right. Still, plenty of other methods to ensure that the guy appears in a sensible place. You could spawn a local HeliH and see where it appears or use that BIS function I mentioned.

[Cellus]

Hello all.

I'm using a script to move respawn at random intervals to random people, but I have this problem:

Also, when there is no leader alive to spawn at, you will respawn out at sea ([0, 0, 0],

How would I overcome this?

And how do I move the marker behind, instead of onto a player? Or better yet, a certain distance from the player in the direction of original spawn?

[Spooner]

As I gave in examples above, it is best to keep the base marker in place and to only move the player from that position if there is a viable leader to move to. Saves continually moving the marker, too, so is more efficient.

If you need to move the marker, then:

Code: (place spawnpoint 5m behind the leader) [Select]

_spawnPos = getPos ((vehicle _leader) modelToWorld [0, -5, 0]);
"respawn_west" setMarkerPos _spawnPos;


[Kezei]

Sorry for bringing up an older thread, especially if there is one newer, but how would one go about modifying this script so that you would spawn on your respective squad leader if and only if he's alive. If he's dead, you instead spawn as a crow?