monstermaker Class Reference

Server-Entity: Monster Spawner. More...

Inheritance diagram for monstermaker:

Public Member Functions
void	monstermaker (void)
virtual void	Save (float)
	Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle. More...
virtual void	Restore (string, string)
	Similar to NSIO::SpawnKey but for save-game fields. More...
virtual void	SpawnKey (string, string)
	This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load. More...
virtual void	Respawn (void)
	Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state. More...
virtual void	Trigger (entity, triggermode_t)
	Called whenever we're legacy triggered by another object or function. More...
nonvirtual void	Spawner (void)
nonvirtual void	TurnOn (void)
nonvirtual void	TurnOff (void)

Detailed Description

Server-Entity: Monster Spawner.

QUAKED monstermaker (1 0 0) (-8 -8 -8) (8 8 8) MMF_STARTON x MMF_NONTOGGLE MMF_MONSTERCLIP

OVERVIEW

The monster maker is the end-all solution to timed/controlled spawning of monster entities.

KEYS

• "targetname" : Name
• "target" : Target when triggered.
• "killtarget" : Target to kill when triggered.
• "monstertype" : Type of monster to spawn, represents their entity classname.
• "monstercount" : Maximum amount of monsters you want spawned in total.
• "delay" : Delay between spawns in seconds.
• "child_name" : Applies this as a 'targetname' to spawned monsters.
• "child_alivemax" : Maximum amount of spawned monsters that are alive at a time.

SPAWNFLAGS

• MMF_STARTON (1) : Start on automatically.
• MMF_NONTOGGLE (2) : Spawn only one monster with each trigger.
• MMF_MONSTERCLIP (4) : Spawned monsters will be blocked by func_monsterclip entities.

TRIVIA

This entity was introduced in Half-Life (1998).

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

monstermaker()

void monstermaker::monstermaker

(

void

)

Member Function Documentation

Respawn()

void monstermaker::Respawn ( void  )

virtual

Server: Called when the entity first spawns or when game-logic requests the entity to return to its original spawn state.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Restore()

void monstermaker::Restore ( string  strKey, string  strValue  )

virtual

Similar to NSIO::SpawnKey but for save-game fields.

Whatever you write into file handles within your NSIO::Save() method needs to be read back in here.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Save()

void monstermaker::Save ( float  handle )

virtual

Handles saving a copy of this entity to a given filehandle.

Within you want to use the NSIO::SaveFloat() etc. methods to write the internal member attributes to the specified file handle.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Spawner()

void monstermaker::Spawner

(

void

)

SpawnKey()

void monstermaker::SpawnKey ( string  strKey, string  strValue  )

virtual

This method handles entity key/value pairs on map load.

You can easily convert the strValue parameter using the ReadFloat etc. methods that are part of NSIO.

Reimplemented from NSPointTrigger.

Trigger()

void monstermaker::Trigger ( entity  act, triggermode_t  state  )

virtual

Called whenever we're legacy triggered by another object or function.

Reimplemented from NSTrigger.

TurnOff()

void monstermaker::TurnOff

(

void

)

TurnOn()

void monstermaker::TurnOn

(

void

)

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• src/gs-entbase/server/monstermaker.qc