ai respawn script question

[snakejknight]

ok, so i know the ai respawn script and decided to use it in my newish mod

when i compiled it, the ai spawned perfectly... but then they kept spawnin... over and over... forever

i even use the script generator app... compiled that script and the same problem occurred

why is this happening?

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   (sleep_until (<= (ai_living_count S_E_P) 5) 5) 
   (ai_place S_E_P) 

[neodos]

What script type are you using?

Continuous ?

Try this:

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(sleep_until (<= (ai_living_count S_E_P) 5) 5)
(ai_place S_E_P)
(sleep_forever)

[Choking Victim]

What script type are you using?

Continuous ?

Try this:

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(sleep_until (<= (ai_living_count S_E_P) 5) 5)
(ai_place S_E_P)
(sleep_forever)

couldn't you just use the startup script type?

[neodos]

No because his script is waiting until something happens ( sleep_until) so it needs to be continous, but the sleep forever should fix that.

[snakejknight]

so the sleep forever will reset the script?

howecome this is in none of the tutorials?? haha

thanks... i'm gonna try that

[neodos]

you want it to restart?

Well i don't know what exactly does your script as i have never worked with Ai, i guess it's waiting to count if there is 5 ai alive it will place S_E_P, yes,no?

Sleep forever will stop the script.

[snakejknight]

thats what i thought it would do, and it did

i've had a similar problem before with a gravity script

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(script continuous gravity_button
(begin
(physics_set_gravity 1)
(if(player_action_test_melee)
(physics_set_gravity 0)
(player_action_test_reset))
)
)

this script was supposed to be 0 gravity while holding "B" but all it did was set gravity to 0 and kept it at 0, what happened was my "if" statement did not contain a "then" statement within the same brackets. To fix that i changed the brackets

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(script continuous gravity_button
(begin
(physics_set_gravity 1)
(if(player_action_test_melee)
(physics_set_gravity 0))
(player_action_test_reset)
)
)

a sleep statement is more than likely different in that it has no if/then attitude, rather it is a command..

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(script continuous ai_respawner_maybe
(begin
(sleep_until (<=(ai_living_count pop)5)150) -- this has 3 opening brackets, and three closing brackets
(ai_place pop)-- separate command
)
)

i think what is happening is that the script stays dormant "Until" the ai living count is under 5, then the script activates and is read after the "sleep" void command

i'm not sure this is the case, but it is the best thing i can come up with

i think i'm going to try to use an if statement instead of a sleep untill...
sound good?