linking maps together

[darkcodemonkey]

[leileilol]

"Like the start map in Quake" is done by this - if a rune is posessed, the game starts you off in info_player_start2 instead. That's it. Unfortunately if you want to do ambitious cohesive cross-level linking with Quake, there's no clear and simple way to do that. Hexen II barely did it, Quake2 somewhat did it, and Half-Life had a very annoying way of doing it.

You say you're a noob, so I highly advise to start small. You can't make a Zelda on your first week.

[Spike]

I've never played Zelda, so I'll have to use other games as a point of reference...

If you want a hub system such as that found in HalfLife, Quake2, or Hexen2 where you can return to a previous map where all the ents are how you left them... forget about it. Without extensions it cannot be done.

What you can achieve is loading a previously visted map with entities that are spawned conditionally such that it appears to be a progression of the previous map. The serverflags global is persistant and can be used to decide the previously visited maps. This is the same global that holds the grabbed runes in Quake, and it is this field that spawns the various barriers on start.bsp. Spawn spot selection is also tweeked such that if you have any rune, it uses info_player_start2 instead of the regular start spot.
This only really works with maps which have no monsters, as they are likely to respawn without intervention.



Note that if you want a true hub system and are willing to stick to a single engine, FTE can support hub systems with a couple of changes to a mod. Simply add an extra optional string argument to changelevel, and the previous map will be archived in case you return. The extra argument is passed to the next map via a 'startspot' string global, and this can be used to choose the player's spawn spot on the new level.

[darkcodemonkey]

[darkcodemonkey]

[Spike]

[goldenboy]

[darkcodemonkey]

[frag.machine]

[darkcodemonkey]

i was mainly using that as an example of what I want to do. mostly because I want multiple maps interconnecting with each other.

but thanks, this information my come in handy for when I do towns. and I was wondering if something like that would be at all possible.

Thanks

[Baker]

[darkcodemonkey]

thanks, I'll try out the tutorial you wrote up on that post.

Thanks a lot.

[darkcodemonkey]

Well, I'll try it once I figure out why I can't even get the normal Quake source code to compile on my machine. Oh well, maybe here soon.

[gnounc]

[darkcodemonkey]