I'm making a duel mode for my map which involves the player and 2 enemies spawning on my map. I'm wondering if there's a simple way to use the math.random command without loading a different ScriptInit for every unit.

So both sides have a basic, sniper, engineer, heavy and flamethrower trooper - I want to make it so that both sides will randomly have the same type of trooper, preferably without having 5 seperate ScriptInits to load from. Also, if its possible, I would like to have the player spawn automatically, without any options appearing - I have already got them forced onto team one, but how would i force them to spawn as the first unit in the selection list / the one available unit?

EDIT:
I just tried adding this function to my lua, but the map now crashes I also added this under ScriptPostLoad I think the crash is occuring because no units are being loaded, but I'm not exactly sure why that would be....Can someone help me with this?

Lua : Bfront2.log I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with the side itself, as i have identical units working perfectly in a different mode...

Your Classes have no units associated:
I don't think you can leave them empty if I remember correctly. That would, at least, fit your error.

So should i fill them but set their unit count to 0, then using addunitclass change their unitcount? Or is that not possible for some reason?

EDIT: Just tested setting all unitcounts to 0 and changing it with the above function, which has the intended effect of making the ai all one class, however all unit classes are still available to the player - is there any better way to achieve what I'd like?

I would integrate the setup of the teams into the math aswell and leave the AddUnit stuff out.

It would look something like this:
or you could just delete the team setups and use AddUnit instead

Strangely, just using AddUnitClass doesn't introduce new classes into my side - it just raises the unit count for classes already defined in my team - or at least that's all it did when i used it in a function separate to Script Init.... I'll try your suggestion with adding the whole section into the separate function, but I'm not sure if that'll work - don't the sides have to be defined in ScriptInit? How can unit classes be called for before they are even defined?

Yes, I would call the function in ScriptInit. Eighter that or do the whole math within ScriptInit without a function.

Hmm....I tried doing that but it hasn't really solved anything - inserting the function into ScriptInit (can you even place one function inside another?) just resulted in my map crashing when the loading bar completed with no munge errors and no relevant bfront2.log errors. Thanks for the help so far TK...

Lua Bfront2.log Also, what do you mean by "do the whole math within ScriptInit without a function"? Do you mean just remove the "function units() line" and the "end"? Because if that's so, I've just tried it without the function line and the end and it still crashes with no errors.....

If anyone else can help me with this I'd really appreciate it. It doesn't seem like a particularly hard thing to achieve, but i have a very limited knowledge of scripting.....

EDIT: Just tried a different method after searching the forums -
Lua: But i get this error in the log Do i have to change anything outside my lua (ie. my side req etc.) in order to get unitrep and unitcis to work?

It's really frustrating not knowing what to do or what I did wrong

Alright, I just tried it myself, heres my lua:
And it worked.

Hmm......

Is this line important? Cause i didn't add it to mine.....

Nope that's not necessary. I simply tried to do the whole randomunit stuff within a seperate script.

Thanks heaps for that TK! I copied it out like yours and its working perfectly now! I thought i had to contain it within a function to run, and i think that might have been what was making it not work properly. I'm really grateful that you've helped me with this - hopefully I'll learn to script a bit better in future.

EDIT: So there's definitely no way to add randomness to multiplayer maps?

Depending on how you implement it, it will ctd, or clients will be like WTF? and the script Possibly not using resources efficiently. So no good way, no.