After doing some reading at this fine web site on spawning{the hardest part I deal with when making maps} I still have a few Questions 1. Is a spawn Zone something that spawns you into the area designated. Or must i also place spwan points. 2. Would it be best to place Team respawn points or Neutral points. I just dont understand the difference between spawn points and spawn zone and how they should be used on the map to make 1 map a multi game type map. Thanks ZaZz 3. What does "spawn weight", "weight" stand for?
spawn points are required, zones are not. zones set to a team, sets all neutral points in that zone to that team. weak and anti zones all effect weight of spawns (advanced) if you want to get DEEEEP with your spawn system. on 99% of my maps I dont use zones at all. 2- both. in team games only team spawns are used (unless you dnot put spawns for that team, then neutrals are used) in FFA games only neutral spawns are used. 3- weight effects how likely a player is to spawn in a certain area, depeding on how you used the "zones" and other in game influences, such as enemies nearby, friendlies nearby, where your teams flag is etc etc. its all very confusing and this is all unconfirmed theories as to how it works.
This isn't quite said right. zones apply weights not set assignments. I am editing this post with links to articles I wrote, because I didn't want to rewrite it all here and not leave out things. See... about spawn points about spawn zones I am updating the article on zones, but it will get the idea across as it is now.