2008 Sep. 24
Adding a single player spawn point
Adding a spoint point in Sandbox is far more brain twisting that classic Quake 3 engine games. It took me a little moment looking around various tutorials to figure out how it's handled. Here's the steps you need to follow to set a spawn up for your player :
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Adding a spawn is done via the RollupBar (displayed by default on the right part of the Editor screen). If you can't see it, just go in the View menu and click on Show RollupBar. Once you have it displayed, look in the Browser menu for the Others folder and pick the SpawnPoint entity. Drag the entity on the map then select it with your mouse to display the entity settings. The different spawn point settings will be available in the RollupBar. In the entity menu, look for a Flow Graph section and click on the Create button.
A new menu will show up giving you the ability to edit your flow. In the middle pane, right click to pick the Start node (right click, Add Node > Misc > Start) then right click again and pick Add Selected Entity. You should end up with 2 boxes that you now need to link together to create a logical flow. With your mouse, create a link between the Start entity Output and the SpawnPoint entity Spawn function. This means the game, upon starting, will assign this spawn point to the player.
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