Help!

leifbj

<div class="IPBDescription">Aliens won't spawn!</div> I just finished my map, but when I test it on a LAN server, aliens can't join at all. It just goes to free roaming mode. Also, the scores won't show at all, and the commander can't select anything at all. Can anyone help me?

erendor

did you make spawns for the aliens? and set it to team 2? or did you just stick some nrear a hive and hope?

leifbj

There are 48 team 2 spawns near the hives.

Confused

also make sure the enitity they join with points to team 2 as well

leifbj

Yes, it points to teams 2 as well. Even when I go through the random door and end up on aliens, it won't let me spawn, just look around like I'm obersving the match.

BlackPanther

Are you sure you have a hive set up properly?
I had this problem before cuz my hive was fuxored.

BigD

I have this problem too. So in order to get into aliens I currently turn sv_cheats to 1 and only then I can join the alien team from the readyroom, but if I die, I still won't respawn again. (I should add "using" movement chambers does nothing too... hmm... but I can build hives and everything else works fine... odd)
Hive problems eh? Would you care to elaborate Black Panther? Like what did you change in the hives? I'm gonna go play around with them. (One of those things I was going to leave until before I was ready to playtest...)



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Ahh! I played around, and after realizing that my aliens spawn points weren't within the range of the hive (due to my messing around with my spawn point radius in the team_hive entitiy, probably when I was learning how to map this game... then just cut and pasting instead of creating new entities each time <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Yeah, the spawn radius was set to 128 units lol...)
BUT THEN the I noticed my team scores would not pop up when I hit tab. NO idea if this happened before or not... but I notice this now, AFTER fixing my non-spawning aliens. Odd. Anyway, I hope this gets you on the right track leifbj!!! FYI, the default spawn radius is 2000 units.
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leifbj

Ok, BigDXLT, the things you describe are EXACTLY what's happening to me. I can only join aliens with cheats, and movement chambers won't work at all. In addition, the commander sometimes is unable to click anything, and teh scores won't show. The way my map is set up, the three hives are all next to each other, (I copied and pasted), and I also copy and pasted 28 spawns underneath the hive. Does each hive have to have 16 individual spawn points within it's personal radius for it to work? because now I have the radius set to 500 I think, so some would overlap.

BigD

It ought to work. As long as their are no spawn points not covered I guess. If it still doesn't work, bump up the radius to 2000. All it does is randomly pick a spawn point within it's radius. No spawn point should belong to any particular hive I would think. (Or maps like pillbox, missilecommand and siege wouldn't work.)

Keep trying!


OH just remembered the commander thing! That's kind of unrelated I think! It is a weird bug that if your map is in the middle (height wise) the comm can't build for some reason. Take your whole map and move up or down a good 512 units and you should be good for that!

leifbj

Thank you very much BigDXLT, you've fixed every problem on my map. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

I think maybe some of these things should go into the Mapping Forum FAQ, especially the commander mode bug.

BigD

No problemo! I was going to have to figure out the first bit sooner or later anyhoo.

And I do second that. That's one of those things that has to be made clear to the mappers. Although I have a feeling it's being fixed for 1.1 anyway!