Asw spawner

Template:As point It is used to spawn one or more aliens of a specified type, also used for hold out events and survival levels.

Keyvalues

Name

The name that other entities refer to this entity by. Essential to control the spawner, E.g. enabling and disabling the entity at specific interactions and events.

Allow spawn if marines are near

If set to True, the key 'Prevent spawn if marines are this close' must be adjusted accordingly. Useful for 'magic', non-burrowed spawns where it would look awkward if a player saw it.

Start Burrowed

If True then the spawning alien will play either it's default or a specific unburrow animation.

Unburrow Idle Activity

Idle animation the alien will play before unburrowing. Not necessary for standard spawns.

Unburrow Activity

If the spawning alien starts burrowed, it'll play this animation on spawn. By default burrowed aliens will climb out of a floor grate, in order to change this please view Swarm Animations

Prevent spawn if marines are this close

Used in conjunction with the 'Allow spawn if marines are near' key; if said key set to True then this value must be adjusted for it to work efficiently. If marines are in the specified radius, the spawner will temporarily stop until the set radius has been cleared.

Long sight range

If set to True, aliens from this spawner will be able to see and sense enemies twice as far away as normal. Useful for aliens spawned at a distance that are intended to track the marines. Handy for larger survival maps.

Alien Orders

Orders given to each alien spawned. This can be either of four choices: Spread and Hibernate, Move To (specific target), Move To Nearest Marine (being the closest to the ordered alien) and Move To Ignoring Marines.

Alien Orders Target Name

Name of the target object used by the 'Move To' order.

Name to give spawned aliens

Useful for controlling spawned aliens later on.

Note: When specifying the spawned aliens in another entity or Output the names of the spawned aliens are automatically given a numeric value after their name. ex. specified name is 'Drone' and the added value would make it 'Drone_1', so in order to specify all the spawned later on you must add a wildcard to the end of the target, thus becoming 'Drone*'

Check Spawn Point is Clear

Used to check whether the spawn point is clear of obstruction. E.g. Not blocked by props, marines, other aliens.

Min Skill Level

The minimum skill level for this spawner to function. Skill levels are: 1=easy 2=normal 3=hard 4=insane 0=nolimit

Max Skill Level

The maximum skill level for this spawner to function. Skill levels are: 1=easy 2=normal 3=hard 4=insane 0=nolimit

Max Num. Of Live Aliens

Maximum number of live aliens that can be present in the level from this spawner at any given time.

Num. aliens we can create

The number of aliens that can spawn before the spawner is exhausted.

Infinitely spawn aliens

If True then the spawner will constantly spawn aliens until disabled.

Spawn interval

Time in seconds between each alien spawning.

Spawn interval variation

Percentage variation applied randomly to the spawn interval each time an alien spawns. Value must be between 0 and 100. The default 25 will give a 25% variation to the spawn interval, so a 1 second spawn interval would actually be randomly between 0.75 seconds and 1.25 seconds.

Alien Class

Which class type of alien to produce from this spawner.

Alien Health scale

Multiplier of the alien's default health by this amount. Useful for increasing or decreasing the difficulty of your map. For example: 0.5=50%, 1=100%, 1.50=150%

Alien Speed Scale

Multiplier of the alien's default speed by this amount. Useful for increasing or decreasing the difficulty of your map. For example: 0.5=50%, 1=100%, 1.5=150%

Spawner State

Spawner's initial state. Whether it starts active, or requires an input before spawning aliens.

Flags

• Infinite even on Easy mode. Will forcibly spawn an infinite amount of aliens when the 'Infinitely spawn aliens' flag is set to True, while playing on easy difficulty.
• Don't Spawn Uber aliens here. Prevents spawning the stronger variation of drones.
• Spawned Aliens never sleep. Never idle into the sleeping state, prevents aliens from stopping, appropriate for hold outs.

Outputs

OnAllSpawned

Fired when the Spawner has Spawned it's max number of aliens.

OnAllSpawnedDead

Fired when the spawner has spawned it's max number of aliens AND they have all died.

OnSpawned

Fired Each time the Spawner Spawns an Alien.

OnUser1 - 4

Fired in response to the FireUser inputs; see User Inputs and Outputs.

Inputs

SpawnOneAlien

Ignores Max Alien count from this spawner and spawns one alien of the predefined type.

StartSpawning

Enables spawning.

StopSpawning

Disables spawning.

ToggleEnabled

Toggles active status.

ToggleSpawning

Toggle spawning status.

OnUser1 - 4

Fire the OnUser outputs; see User Inputs and Outputs.