Ambient Life

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:08 pm

I noticed when I was perusing the "oldmombasa" map file that there was a tag called "crea" and that it had a title of "Creature". I went to the "scen" tag to check it out if it was being spawned through the scenario and sure enough there it was. My main question I guess would be if anybody knows whether this would work in multiplayer, and whether they would show up over systemlink. I don't need them to sync but just show up...

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:09 pm

They do, but if you spawn them the right way, they require you to be running the AI enabler in Yelo.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:15 pm

uh huh... and if your not they just won't appear right?

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:18 pm

Correct. I think

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JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:19 pm

That works for me... would they sync though if you had AI enabled? Just curios...

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:45 pm

Hummm... I cant seem to get them to appear even w/ Yelo AI enabled...
I just extract from map using recursive and parsed then build it into the map I want them in, clone the creature spawning pallet from the map and add it to the scenario of new map then fix spawns riiight?

Or did I miss something?

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:47 pm

You need to spawn them through a specific area, I don't remember where though. Ask Shade45 or Trulife.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:50 pm

You mean you do not use the creature spawning pallet to spawn them?

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:51 pm

I don't remember. I do remember shade45 doing this successfully though, so you might try asking him.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:53 pm

I'll look for that topic...
EDIT: That didn't help...Just them patting themselves on the back...

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:11 pm

So...........ASK SHADE45 MBMBMBMB!?!?!?!?!

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:14 pm

I did... Geeze!

DarkShallFall · Post by **DarkShallFall** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:16 pm

JacksonCougAr wrote:I did... Geeze!

LOL!

T Beezie · Post by **T Beezie** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:19 pm

You must first build the [creat] tag into your map,
then transfer over the "creature spawning" reflexive in the scnr.

After you have everything in your map,
find a set of co-ords within your map to spawn your creatures.

Then open the [scnr] tag of your map in Entity's meta editor.

Scroll way down until you find the "Creature Spawning" reflexive.
(located directly below the "Fog Pallete" reflexive)

Now input the co-ords you got from your map,
you may also want to adjust the yaw, pitch, and roll.
But, the "Quadwings" have quite an eratic flight pattern,
so the Y,P, & R don't really matter much.

Now just adjust the number of creatures you want to spawn.

And dont forget to enable AI with YELO.
Hope that helps

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:25 pm

So I'm guessing it could be a problem with me trying to spawn a seagull instead of a quad-wing?

Because I did what you said T Beezie and it didn't work...

Trulife8342 · Post by **Trulife8342** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:11 pm

it should work with all creatures, I remember I while back I got all the creatures in halo 2 and put them in a map, good times....

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 6:31 pm

Still aint working and I'm stumped so I'll put that on the back-burner for now...

XBC-Requiem · Post by **XBC-Requiem** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:15 pm

Beautiful.

Well, I dunno how to get the gulls it, but I'd recommend using the Quads and spawning them far off in the distance. They seem a little more Halo-ish, unless you're going for an Earth-based map...

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Tue May 01, 2007 7:41 pm

Earth based... I'll try doing them in a clean map because I suspect they might be...whats the name for it... too much crap in the ma so they don't spawn?

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:17 am

highcharity has seagulls