Help with zoning and spawning via script?

Game Modding | Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 | Scripting

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Thread By: CrossScissors
Hey everyone, I hope I'm clear on what I'm saying but I made a working portal script for my map but I tried to make it that when you warp to the new zone, all the zombies dies in the last zone you were in and respawns to the location you're in right now.



Problem is, when I teleport, every zombies dies (like it should) but instead of respawning them to my location, it skips the round like if a player killed them and when the round begins, the zombies only spawns in the first zone but still dies there so the round keeps skipping and no zombies spawns in the new zone :/



I know that the new zone is activated because I don't hear the Samantha laugh when I'm there and I'm not dying...

I also know that the first zone remains activated because when I noclip there, I can't hear the laugh either.



I'm using

init_zones[0] = "city_zone";

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Reply By: natesmithzombies
I wouldn't go about it the way you are. I would do something along these lines (at least at first thought):



1) Check to see if player is touching a trigger_box defined as the zone for the teleporter

2) Player SetOrigin(new_origin); then at this point the zombies will go to the last known origin of the player

3) Then check if the zombies are touching that same trigger zom ForceTeleport(new_origin);



You introduce a new level of difficulty by killing the zombies. There is a way to way to stop the subtraction of the zombies by doing level.zombie_total++; before you kill them though.



As for the zones, I would need to look into this a bit more. From a glimpse it appears level.zones[zone_name].is_enabled = false or level.zones[zone_name].is_active = false might solve your problem, but I would have to look into it more to really understand. At some point I will be looking at a teleportation system like SOE or Revelations, but for now I am focused on AI. Check out _zm_zonemgr.gsc to see the syntax they use for zones.

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Reply By: CrossScissors

natesmithzombiesI wouldn't go about it the way you are. I would do something along these lines (at least at first thought):



1) Check to see if player is touching a trigger_box defined as the zone for the teleporter

2) Player SetOrigin(new_origin); then at this point the zombies will go to the last known origin of the player

3) Then check if the zombies are touching that same trigger zom ForceTeleport(new_origin);



You introduce a new level of difficulty by killing the zombies. There is a way to way to stop the subtraction of the zombies by doing level.zombie_total++; before you kill them though.



As for the zones, I would need to look into this a bit more. From a glimpse it appears level.zones[zone_name].is_enabled = false or level.zones[zone_name].is_active = false might solve your problem, but I would have to look into it more to really understand. At some point I will be looking at a teleportation system like SOE or Revelations, but for now I am focused on AI. Check out _zm_zonemgr.gsc to see the syntax they use for zones.

tele_1 waittill("trigger", player);   //check if player is touching the trigger
		
		if(level.teleporting == 0)        //if 0 players are teleporting
		{
		
		  level.teleporting++;    //tell the game that +1 player is tping
		 
		  player DisableWeapons();
		  player DisableOffhandWeapons();
		
		  wait(0.2);

		  player FreezeControls(true);                       //teleport player to black box + disables controls and weapons
	          player SetOrigin(intermission.origin);  
	   	  player setplayerangles(intermission.angles);
		  
		  level.main_zone_population++;
		  level.teleporter_zone_population--;
		  
		  thread enable_city();        //enables city_zone
                  thread check_population();        //check how many players are in the zones
		
		  player playsound("teleport_start");	
		  wait(2.41);

		  player FreezeControls(false);         //teleport player to outpout portal + enables controls and weapons
	          player SetOrigin(nachtport.origin);
		  player setplayerangles(nachtport.angles);
		
		  player playsound("teleport_end");
		  wait(0.8);
		
		  player EnableWeapons();
		  player EnableOffhandWeapons();
	
		  level.teleporting--;	   //tell game that player is no longer tping

		  thread teleporting_done();          //debug message
		}

function enable_city()
{
	while(1)
	{
		self waittill(level.teleporter_zone_population >= 1); //check if the city_zone is populated by at least 1 player

		if(level.teleporter_zone_population >= 1) //same as above
		{
			IPrintLn("city zone enabled");                   //Debug message
			level flag::init( "death_spawn" );               //Flags for the trigger_hurt
			level flag::init( "death_city" );
			level flag::init( "no_death_city" );
			level flag::init( "no_death_spawn" );
			level flag::set("death_spawn");
			level flag::set("no_death_city");
			level flag::delete( "death_city_set" );
			level flag::delete( "no_death_spawn_set" );
	        init_zones[0] = "city_zone";                             //enables the zones
	        init_zones[1] = "start_zone";
	        level thread zm_zonemgr::manage_zones( init_zones );
	        level flag::init( "always_on" );
	        level flag::set( "always_on" );
		}

		break;
	}
}

function check_population()       //opposite of above
{
	while(1)
	{
		self waittill(level.teleporter_zone_population <= 0); //check if city_zone has 0 players

		if(level.teleporter_zone_population <= 0) //same as above
		{
			IPrintLn("city zone disabled");      //message
			level flag::init( "death_spawn" );              //trigger_hurt flags
			level flag::init( "death_city" );
			level flag::init( "no_death_city" );
			level flag::init( "no_death_spawn" );
			level flag::set("no_death_spawn");
			level flag::set("death_city");
			level flag::delete( "no_death_city_set" );
			level flag::delete( "death_spawn_set" );
	        init_zones[0] = "start_zone";                           //zoning
	        init_zones[1] = "city_zone";
	        level thread zm_zonemgr::manage_zones( init_zones );
	    	level flag::init( "always_on" );
	        level flag::set( "always_on" );
		}

		break;
	}
}

tele_1 waittill("trigger", zom);

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Reply By: natesmithzombies
Its alright man. Its kind of hard to interpret whats going on with what you have coded. But to answer a few of your questions:

zoms = GetAISpeciesArray("axis"); // Gets an array of all of the zombies 

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Reply By: CrossScissors

natesmithzombiesIts alright man. Its kind of hard to interpret whats going on with what you have coded. But to answer a few of your questions:

zoms = GetAISpeciesArray("axis"); // Gets an array of all of the zombies 

"zom" in my example above was just an example to show you to run the function on the zombie and yeah the zombies will go to the last known player origin if the player teleports. If you dont quite feel comfortable making sense of treyarch code you might want to give the scripting wiki I wrote a read through. It will clarify a lot of things that might seem confusing. You can find that here.

zoms = GetAISpeciesArray("axis");

baddies = GetAISpeciesArray("axis");

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Reply By: natesmithzombies
Hmm that is interesting because in my Kino Teleporter Script they always went to the last known origin of the player. If that isnt the case for you, use this function on the zombies to set their new goal position:

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Reply By: CrossScissors

natesmithzombiesHmm that is interesting because in my Kino Teleporter Script they always went to the last known origin of the player. If that isnt the case for you, use this function on the zombies to set their new goal position:

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Reply By: natesmithzombies

CrossScissorsOkay, I will try this tonight, Thanks for the help! :)