Scenario #1: Deathmatch

Here's an interesting one. I'm building a Deathmatch mode (dubbed Combat Training) on the Xbox. The code basically forces everyone onto team 1 an has no AI spawn. When the first player spawns the first time they're assigned to team 1, the second person team 2, the third team 3, etc. The team # is stored in a variable on a per-player basis. When they die, they're reassigned to team 1, they respawn, then are reassigned to their stored team. I don't have any LUA code yet, just pseudo code to understand the process.

Now, here's the issue - assigning Victory. My thought was once the assigned number of points are reached the winner is assigned to team 1 while all losers are assigned to team 2. Here's the problem: if a losing player is on team 1 and we assign the winner to team 1 how do we move the loser while keeping the winner on the winning team?




Scenario #2: Bounty Hunters

Simple enough -- this is a wave-based mode, but different bounties have different "credit" (point) values. Some waves have multiple. Each bounty is marked with MapAddEntityMarker(). The question is this: what are the different valid colors that can be used? Anyone know? I'd like to use about a half a dozen different point values.


More to come.

For the first, it wouldn't be as simple as instead putting the winner on team 2 and the losers on team 1, would it? Because until the end nobody is on team 2 but dead people are on team 1? And the team variables have nothing to do with "teams" as the battlefront engine knows them, right?

1) Won't work, I've tried that. The PC game can't handle that many real or fake teams (it crashes to desktop). I assume the XBox can't do it too. The best option I came up with was putting everyone on a team that was an enemy of itself.
2) The game only uses YELLOW. You can try other values and/or change the marker size and icons. The MapXXX methods have a lot of parameters.

For quick reference:
MapAddClassMarker
MapAddEntityMarker
MapAddRegionMarker
MapRemoveClassMarker
MapRemoveEntityMarker
MapRemoveRegionMarker

I know the game uses BLUE and RED also. I don't think there are anymore than those 3.

Don't hold me to it, but I think GREEN works too.

THEWULFMAN wrote:Don't hold me to it, but I think GREEN works too.

green works, I believe its in the dark times 2 V.I.P mode. I know it works, anyhow.