I'm trying to change AUM's splitscreen shooter example, so when some of the players die, they don't need to restart whole level, dead player will just randomly respawn on some of predefined places on the level and an other one will keep playing.
So here are two questions:
1 --> How can I define places for players to respawn, so when one of the players die, he will respawn on the most far place from the second player.
2 --> How can I respawn (recreate) players? Do I need to remove them completely with their pointers (player1 and player2)?
Any ideas will be great (and some code examples will be just excellent).

Try it like this;

ent_create(Model_mdl,vector(random(200),random(200),0),move);

Orange;
Create youre model

Purple;
The Vector

Red;
The randomly setting

Blue;
The function.

1. The easiest way, you do define a position like:

var random_var = random(360);
my.x = cos(random_var) * distance_to_player;
my.y = sin(random_var) * distance_to_player;

And then make a scan on that point, if there isn't something in the way, create the player there, if not, try again.


2. I would make a function without global pointers you can create players with.
It's a bunch of work, but the most comfortable solution, because
you don't have to take attention, when you have to create and remove the player.
(something like that is the best way to create enemies too)

this is quite simple:
1.) define an array of respawn-points (vectors of the xyz-coordinates)
2.) take the position of player 2 and calculate the distance to all respawn-coordinates (using vec_dist, look in the manual)
3.) choose the respawn-point with the highest distance

Random dude, but that will create player randomly for 200 quants from the nullvector))) But thank you for such detailed explanation I appreciate it.

hopfel I got your idea with 'no pointers', that a good and simple solution, why I didn't even think about it myself?
But what you think about weapons and cameras (weapon 1 and weapon2 and as well camera1 and camera2)?

Tempelbauer, I thought about using 'vec_dist' too, but I've faced problem with choosing the highest result... Any ideas how can I do that?

Maby like this;

function respawn()
{
var i=integer(random(3));
switch(i)
{
case 0:
ent_create(Model_mdl,vector(200,200,0),move));
case 1:
ent_create(Model_mdl,vector(400,400,0),move));
case 2:
ent_create(Model_mdl,vector(800,800,0),move));
}
wait(1);
}

So when a player dies should it respaw in one of those two cases.
Of course you can make more cases.

And again randomly

you could use 2 vars for the result to determine the target:


var index=-1, highest = 0

for(iterate throu respawnpoints-array)
{
if(vec_dist(player2.x, respawnpoints[i])>highest)
{
index = i
highest = vec_dist(player2.x, respawnpoints[i])
}
}

if(index>=0)
{
most_far_respawnpoint = respawnpoints[index]
}


hopfels idea is good if you dont want to have fixed respawn points.
after calculating the respawn point, you can re-create or re-translate the player to this position and adjust the camera using the player´s coordinates.
but beware: if you have a non planar bottom or a more complex level (like a multi-floor building) you should calculate also the z-coordinate (by using c_trace from the random-generated-z-value to the ground). but i would use (many) fixed respawn points instead a free random position, because if you choose the random-values wrong, your player could respawn at a bad position (like outside the level)


disagree. he will respawn everytime at vector(800,800,0) and sometimes on more places

I know. That's why I need fixed respawn points

Tell me more about recreating, cause I defined health, and while loop (for each of players) determinate itself when players health under zero, I can't just re-translate player to new position, cause he is dead Do I need to set dead player's pointer to NULL and then recreate it again and define pointer to it again?

Tell me more about this part in your script:
Cause I never used to work with 'FOR'...

Random, dude, as I see, function 'random()' is one of your favorites

you dont need to REMOVE a player when you kill him, just play a death animation and remove player controls, that way you can still move him wherever by coide

You can set a var on the Entitypointer in his function, then you can access your playerentity with another function.
Something like:



Oh, and I would put the weapencode in the playerfunction too.
Or like:




Then you dont have to worry about health etc. because they're away too, just remove the entity and terminate all his functions. ^^