Spawning Characters

**Moneybags14** · October 05, 2011, 04:52 PM

I have been trying to do this for some time now so I have my doubts on it's possibility but here it goes.

My question : Is it possible to spawn a character via script to the location of another character? Like the create_unit command.

This last hurdle is making me rage

**Withwnar** · October 06, 2011, 02:38 AM

Nope. spawn_character and spawn_army..character both take x,y coordinates as parameters, not character/settlement names.

Unfortunately TW modding is full of "last hurdles". So many great ideas abandoned due to the engine/language not providing one link in the chain. That's life.

**Gigantus** · October 06, 2011, 03:14 AM

Hurdles: I just found out I can't spawn slave navies (pirates). 'Named character' and 'general' works fine, just not 'admiral'.

Works:

Code:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
        spawn_army
        faction england
        character    random_name, admiral, age 33, x 111, y 147
                unit    carrack    exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
        end    
end_monitor

Doesn't work:

Code:

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
        spawn_army
        faction slave, sub_faction england
        character    random_name, admiral, age 33, x 111, y 147
                unit    carrack    exp 1 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
        end    
end_monitor

**Withwnar** · October 06, 2011, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

I just found out I can't spawn slave navies (pirates).

Ouch! I got one of those nice "Uh oh, not good" errors. I thought that it might be because carrack does not have slave ownership. But using "pirate ship" had the same result.

This works, using the spawn-from-hidden-faction method...

Code:

faction_emerge spawnpool spawnpool 1 85.0 100.0 1.2 town false spawnpool_leader1 spA 30
spawn_army
  faction spawnpool
  character  random_name, admiral, age 18, x 102 y 141
  unit pirate ship	exp 0 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0    
end      
give_everything_to_faction spawnpool slave false

...so long as the ship type belongs to the slave faction.