Question about Spawnspot

[Kappes Buur]

I had made a simple example pwad with mapspots and scripts to utilize SpawnSpot.

I didn't notice this at first, but giving the actor the same ID as a mapspot causes whatever is to be spawned to spawn at the mapspots and where the actor was fragged. In this case the actors are Former Human.

So, my question is, is that correct behaviour for spawning?

example pwad

[Gez]

There is nothing special about a map spot. Functions like SpawnSpot don't work on the premise that they're going to look for map spots, and only map spots. The map spot actors are simply convenient because they don't do anything else; and TID-based functions look at all actors with that TID, regardless of what they are. You could replace map spots with pools of blood, for example, it'd work the same way.

Note that if you use SpawnSpotForced, you'll also be able to spawn actors at TIDed zombiemen that aren't killed. With non-forced spawns it fails because there's a check made to see if they have enough room to spawn.

[Kappes Buur]

Thank you for the clarification.

It seems a bit counter intuitive, though.
I just have to remember that.

[Enjay]

Without it, a lot of things wouldn't be possible (at least not as easily) - for example, spawning a key at an actor's location when he dies.

[ibm5155]

With spawn function you can do everything without mapspots ^^
Just take the x,y,z position in doom builder and it´s done =D

[Enjay]

And then when you move your map in the editor, all your spawns are in the wrong place.