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Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 3:59 pm**

Im making a space map and i need help figuring out how to make the star fighters spawn in while in space. What im talking about is, when you drift of away from your mothership enemy and friendly ships just come from nowhere.
I know they do this in every stock map and some modded maps, but i just need help figuring it out

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:37 pm**

I don't know what causes the bug that makes fighter magically appear out of nowhere at the map edges but regarding space spawn your possibilities are limited.
Unfortunately you can't spawn vehicles via lua (well, technically you can but they're not usable in that case) so what you have left is either pre-placing them in ZE (means, no respawn) or using a regular vehicle spawn.

When using a vehicle spawn, I assume you want your vehicles do sth. in space and not just standing around. The simplest solution here is to change the pilot type of your fighter to "vehicleself". It can be entered by soldiers but the fighter also acts on its own. But be aware that adding this behavior will break your map for MP. The second possibility would be forcing an AI player into the fighter.

This is some working code I was using for the Stargate mod map:

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[code]if ScriptCB_InMultiplayer() then

            print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: Setup Multiplayer")

            if not wrt_dest_1_manned then

               print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: Destroyer alive")

               OnCharacterSpawn( 

                  function(character)

                     print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: OnCharacterSpawn")

                     if not IsCharacterHuman(character) and GetCharacterTeam(character) == 2  and not wrt_dest_1_manned then

                        print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: OnCharacterSpawn: Enter Vehicle")

                        EnterVehicle(character, "wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                        EntityFlyerTakeOff("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                        EntityFlyerInitAsFlying("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                        wrt_dest_1_manned = true

                     end

                  end

               )

            end           

         else

            print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: Setup Singleplayer")

            SetClassProperty("wrt_fly_destroyer", "PilotType", "vehicleself")

            --SetProperty("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1", "PilotType", "vehicleself")  --log error: EntityClass not found

            print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: Property set to vehicleself")

         end[/code]

Note that in this example the spawned vehicle can stay idle for some time in case we don't have a character spawn immediately after the vehicle spawn.
I am currently trying to find a workaround but it's not working properly:

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[code]local pilot_found = false

         local i = 1

         while not pilot_found and i < 32 do 

            pilot = GetTeamMember(2, i)

            wurm = GetCharacterVehicle(pilot)

            --search for a "free" character

            if pilot and not IsCharacterHuman(pilot) and not wrt_dest_1_manned then  --and GetCharacterVehicle(pilot) == nil

               print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: OnCharacterSpawn: AI into frigate")

               EnterVehicle(pilot, "wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

               EntityFlyerTakeOff("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

               EntityFlyerInitAsFlying("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

               wrt_dest_1_manned = true

               pilot_found = true

            end

            i = i+1               

         end         

         --force-grab a character that is busy

         if not pilot_found then

            print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: Bad. No AI found")

            i = 0

            while not pilot_found and i < 32 do

               pilot = GetTeamMember(2, i)

               if GetCharacterVehicle(pilot) ~= nil then

                  print("SG1: SpawnWrtDest1: Timer2 expired: ssssgate")

                  ExitVehicle(pilot)

                  EnterVehicle(pilot, "wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                  EntityFlyerTakeOff("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                  EntityFlyerInitAsFlying("wrt_vehspawn_destroyer1")

                  wrt_dest_1_manned = true

                  pilot_found = true

                  --SpawnCharacter(characterindex, GetPathPoint("wrt_cp2_spawn", 0))

               end

               i = i + 1

            end

         end [/code]

Hope that helps a bit, though I'm currently also looking for a solution and would also be glad about help^^

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:30 pm**

Okay thanks locutus
I never saw the ships coming from nowhere as a bug, rather a fix for a lack of star fighters. Maybe a fix that the game designers never shiped to modtools after final testing. (Along with the correct color for the geonosis dirt, and tantive 4 walls with panels). but thank you for the explanation and different methods I can try

Also I would like to help you with your workaround, however I know little to nothing about programming and by the look of your script you probably know alot more that I do. I'm just a 15 year old that picked up modding battlefront 2

.For now I only know as much Lua as I need but, one day when I learn more about programing in LUA I would be glad help you with your workaround.

Thanks again.

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