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I have been recently scripting a mission for a map I made, and I was wondering if there was a way to keep vehicles form spawning at the begining of a mission but then spawn at a later time, like the Geonosis mission. I read the campaign script for the Geonosis mission but could not figure out how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

I'd think you could kill the vehicle spawn at the start of the map and respawn it when you wanted vehicles to be available.

For example
Then when you wanted it back

I tried that already and it didn't work. Any other suggestions?

The easiest way to do it is tie your vehicles to a control region of a command post, kill that command post at the beginning of the mission, and then respawn your command post later. KillObject and RespawnObject don't work on every object, but they do work on CPs.

I can't really do that. The control region is tied to a CP that I need.
Is there any other way?

Create an invisible CP and associate the control region and vehicle spawns with it, then use Mav's method above.

StarkillerMarek wrote:I can't really do that. The control region is tied to a CP that I need.
Is there any other way?

Make a second CP? You can always force spawn a vehicle using CreateEntity, but that is not the best solution. What is the exact circumstance you're trying to make happen?

Okay I don't want to reveal to much, but the first objective requires the team to defend a certain area for a certain amount of time, then after the timer(and the objective) the vehicles will spawn.

The problem I have with creating a second CP is that my new mode reads the conquest layer(which is where the vehicles and CPs are) and if I change the control zone then the other team during conquest mode cannot stop the other teams vehicles from spawning.

All you need to do is make a new CP in your layer for spawning units (instead of using that specific CP from conquest). Once you're ready to use the conquest-layer CP, kill the one you've been using and respawn the conquest one. Then you'll be able to spawn units from the objective-mode-only CP before the event and after the event you spawn units from the conquest-CP.

I tried what Mav said and it did not work. The CP was changed but the vehicle were still there.

StarkillerMarek wrote:I tried what Mav said and it did not work. The CP was changed but the vehicle were still there.

Then show us your lua, please, as there's a chance you made an error.

But I don't want to reveal the whole mission to everyone, I would rather have vehicles where their not supposed to be then that.

then give us the unit part

That doesn't have anything to do with it, does it?

yes it does, but if you have anything wrong with the script part you need to give us the entire lua

I figured out a workaround that worked, so I'm good.