Trigger spawns?

Unfortunately, spawn points, along with everything under the "Spawning" category of the Forge Object menu, cannot be despawned - via Scripting or otherwise.

I've heard "rumours" of certain Respawn Zones working with the Scripting, but my own testing has suggested otherwise - that just like with everything else under "Spawning", they're always spawned onto the map.

You'll either have to stick with blocking them (I'm sure, if you set it up just right, you could block them in such a way that it's barely visible/noticeable on the map). Alternatively you can use Teleporters - which can be spawned/despawned with Scripting - but then you'd lose the normal Spawning mechanics like "weighting" and all that jazz.

 

What Buddha said... we found that out on our map, and it was painful.

 

I know using a teleporter system creates team weighting. SKB and myself have been testing it a little bit. We will put the spawns in a box with one sender node. Then we place receiver nodes where we want people to spawn. You can hide them by merging them into the ground. We tested 1v1's and there were completely random spawns. When we tested with teams the teammate always came through a teleporter closest to their teammate. I am unsure of being able to produce random spawns yet though. I still have some more testing to do.

 

Interesting, I didn't realise the teleporters were that "clever". *Wanders off with a new puzzle idea*

 

I wanna test the team thing more but, SKB was pretty confident about it.

 

So the verdict is out that they can't despawn? Damn... Having scripted spawns seemed to have some effect on Orion, guess I was mistaken. Oh well, that frees up a **** ton of piece count for me then.

 

To test whether Respawn Zones could be spawned/despawned I did the following:

The way I tested it was with the Force Respawn Zones, because I could easily check whether those were really working. I basically placed two sets of respawn points on the map, then I placed a Force Respawn Zone over each set. I then setup the Scripting so that only one respawn zone would be active at a time, with the ability to toggle them on a switch. When I toggled those Force Respawn Zones, it just always respawned me on the same set of respawn points, which I'm assuming was just the set inside the first Force Respawn Zone that the game decided it was going to adhere to - since having two active Force Respawn Zones are going to cause a conflict.

It seemed pretty conclusive to me...

 

this is interesting. i don't know about respawn zones myself but my understanding of spawn points worked was that it wouldn't necessarily depsawn them but remove them from being influenced by weighting and when spawned back in apply weighting to the respawn point but if needed you could still spawn on a 'despawned' respawn point.

 

I did something similar to pretty much the same effect. Strangely enough though, in a more complicated test environment (on Orion), the results seemed to clash. It just didn't make sense to me that testing spawns on Orion in a controlled environment yielded different results before and after I implemented scripted spawns on the map. Weird.

 

I have not done anything with switches but can you turn teleporters on and off with them?

 

You can spawn/despawn them, which is essentially turning them on and off.

 

YESSSSS.