Prefer not to spawn within 20 meters of enemy

[fvnkhead]

I noticed the IsSpawnpointValid function checks for nearby projectiles, but not enemy players. Spawning next to enemies is common enough with a high player count, so this should alleviate the issue. I ran this for about 2 weeks before taking a break from hosting, and during that time, nearby enemy spawns would only occur when running out of valid spawns (eg. on Colony with a high player count, or on LF maps).

Also parameterized the minimum distance into minEnemyDist, which is used for checking both projectile and enemy distances, and this has been increased from 600 to 1000 (which is about 20 meters by my calculations?)

Formatting is screwed, I don't know what settings to use for squirrel with vim and they vary across files.

[Erlite]

Pretty sure the projectile check isn't very robust either. I can't tell how many times I've spawned inside a cluster missile or killed people that way.

Awesome PR though!

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

Btw some of the spawn issues that happen are due to that spectator mod, there is a bug with it that spawns you at an enemy team's spawn. Unsure who made the mod though

[fvnkhead]

Btw some of the spawn issues that happen are due to that spectator mod, there is a bug with it that spawns you at an enemy team's spawn. Unsure who made the mod though

I didn't have that issue but I had spectate-after-killcam disabled, whereas V3X had it enabled, and the bad spawns occured there a lot more often.
It's faky's mod I think

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

Btw some of the spawn issues that happen are due to that spectator mod, there is a bug with it that spawns you at an enemy team's spawn. Unsure who made the mod though

I didn't have that issue but I had spectate-after-killcam disabled, whereas V3X had it enabled, and the bad spawns occured there a lot more often. It's faky's mod I think

On the V3X server I can consistently spawn in the enemy spawn, the bug is 100% reproduceable, I'll talk to faky

[Erlite]

Eh, even on Vanilla servers. An example would by Drydock, the little bridge part where the evac ship can spawn sometimes. I've had people spawn behind me a split second after spawning.

There really shouldn't be a specific spawn location for teams, it should just rate them all and find the safest one. Maybe go for spawns near teammates that aren't too close to enemies primarily.

[fvnkhead]

Maybe go for spawns near teammates

I did something like that on my pvp server, if I get back to hosting I can experiment more.

[uniboi]

yes

[uniboi]

mfw I clicked the wrong box

[uniboi]

should also fix spawning near projectiles but I can't test

[fvnkhead]

Btw what are the two TEAM_ANY -parameters? I'm wondering if one could just return enemy ents directly and checking for len(), instead of doing a loop.

[uniboi]

I don't think there's a way to do that? Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this can get merged either way

[x3Karma]

Btw what are the two TEAM_ANY -parameters? I'm wondering if one could just return enemy ents directly and checking for len(), instead of doing a loop.

checking some other code, as far as i can tell, the second TEAM_ANY can be replaced with the player's team so it would automatically sort by enemies like this:

 int team = player.GetTeam()
 array<entity> nearbyEnemies = GetPlayerArrayEx( "any", TEAM_ANY, team, origin, radius )

My guess is that the first TEAM_ANY would include a list of all entities from this team, which is any team, and the second team would be the exception, which means the array will exclude entities from team.

However, this assumption doesn't seem quite right if you use
array<entity> nearbyEnemies = GetPlayerArrayEx( "any", TEAM_ANY, TEAM_ANY, origin, radius )
as it should exclude every single entity from every single team?

[F1F7Y]

Code looks good. Didnt test in-game

[flifloa]

Some kid on the northstar chat screamed for this months ago and started an argument over the spawn mechanic.

[ASpoonPlaysGames]

Code looks good, can't hurt