Spawn Order in Invasion

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I’ve been working on an invasion map here and there and I pretty much have my geometry finished. So now I’m getting on with the setting up the map for Invasion… setting up certain items to appear during a certain round and disappear during a certain round…

What I’m confused by is how the spawn order works. I went to Boneyard in Invasion Forge Editing and left with more questions than answers. I basically get how to label certain items, but I don’t understand how the spawn order works and I can’t figure out exactly what Bungie did to create spawn/respawn zones.

Any help would be appreciated.

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I’m working on an Invasion map, so I’ve got this stuff down.

Inv_Weapon - the item will spawn at the beginning of the specified phase.

ex.
Spawn sequence 2
Inv_weapon

The item will spawn at the beginning of phase 2.

Inv_Vehicle - Same as above, except with a waypoint over it after spawn.

Inv_gates - The item will spawn at the beginning of the game, and disappear after the specified phase.
ex.
Spawn sequence 1
Inv_gates

The item will spawn at the beginning of the game, then disappear when phase one is completed.

That’s all I can remember right now. Oh, and this stuff is under object options > advanced options. It does apply to spawn points.

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Yeah, I’ve been fiddling with it too. Due to a total lack of anyone who has a clue, I’ve managed to figure these bits out myself.

The Spawn Order affects several things. If you have a bunch of respawns, the spawn order makes it more likely you’ll spawn there rather than elsewhere, seems to be random when theres a lot of SP’s rther than say just two. The lowest number is the most likely here.

You can modify it by using the res_zone tags and the order - in invasion the respawn order is the stage the SP is active in, so if you want a certain team to spawn in a certain place on the first stage, when the goal is being attacked only, set inv_res_zone true and spawn order to 1 and set the team. You dont HAVE to set teams for SPs, but if you want to use the inv_res_zone tags its helpful. I think thats which way round it is, the res_zone and res_zone_away tags in Assault work like that, res_zone_away makes the spawn more likely when the bomb is NOT planted…

There are also inv_res_p# tags, these seem to work like the res_zone_away tags to control what SPs are used in which stage of the game…

I hope that helps, the other poster who replied filled in the rest.

Take care dude

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Thanks, that does help.

Have you guys figured out how to set an area so that players can choose their respawn? I didn’t see Bungie use Respawn zones in Boneyard so I wondered about this. Thanks for the help though.

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I believe you need to use an spawn camera, then fiddle around with the options.

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Hmm… that makes some sense. I’ll have to check that out. I’ve seen it before but assumed it was meant for something else.