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Attack of the Killer Spiders!
If you've been messing around with costumes of npc groups, then you probably know how to do this. If not, here is how to make mobs of killer spiders.
I hope it's useful to someone.
http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/sto-ugc-tutorial/video-tutorial-attack-of-the-killer-spiders/
If you've been messing around with costumes of npc groups, then you probably know how to do this. If not, here is how to make mobs of killer spiders.
I hope it's useful to someone.
http://starbaseugc.com/index.php/sto-ugc-tutorial/video-tutorial-attack-of-the-killer-spiders/
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You can make this seem a little more like an ambush if you put a "reach marker" objective in the hallway (without a waypoint) before the "kill" objective. Enemies won't spawn or appear on the minimap until the player gets an objective to kill them, so you can in effect make the spiders spawn right on top of the player when they step into the marker volume.
EDIT: I'll also have to try Mapolis' suggestion whenever Foundry comes back up.
Good to know... I was trying to figure out how to get enemies to spawn when I wanted them.
A very good tip.
Hey Mapolis, can we get some tribble costumes for Attack of the Killer Tribbles?
super cool thanks. Between you and Darren you've provided such a wealth of help and info. I bow to you both. thanks so much for all the work you do. I know it is greatly appreciated by everyone.
Cool Thanks for the post. I'm still learning the tools, so hopefully my mistakes and oversights in the tutorials don't lead people astray, lol.
Example, I was working on a story where the player comes into a battle much like the battle of Wolf 359. Unfortunately, the current Borg in the game are pathetically weak, sad post Captain Janeway.
I messed around with the different Federation Squadrons to see what will consistently spawn weaker ships that a single Borg Cube can kick the TRIBBLE out of, but if you use even the Weak Starfleet Squad it may endup spawning a large enough ship that will kick the TRIBBLE out of a Borg Cube. (Anticlimatic to say the least)
The Fighter Squad seemed to be the only consistent random NPC generator that created ships that the Borg could easily destroy...but a bunch of fighters is just too much Star Wars for me. A little disappointing when you want to create a theme of a desperate fight against the borg, but I digress...
Anyways, looks like you had the same thought process, long story short, I came up with a bunch of costumes, for Galaxies, Excelsiors, Mirandas, etc and gave the "fighter actors" these costumes, and specific ship names.
Now you spawn into the mission with federation ships of all classes getting popped like Balloons (like they should be) and the fight feels a little more desperate.
This is what makes Foundry so exciting,"the work arounds" I'm sure given enough time, players will use these tools in ways the Dev's never imagined.
that's a freakin awesome idea. I totally want to do something like this. Here's my question, how do you get opposing NPCs to fight each other? Will they automatically fight?
As a side note Actor #1 always appears to spawn the strongest ship in a Squadron, so in this case Borg #1will be the Cube or Tactical Cube, samething works for the Federation spawns, at least what I have seen so far.
When the devs add the ability to "delete" extra Actors from Squadrons, and or make it so we can HARD script what actually spawns and its appropriate level, then this will be alot easier.
PS Dont forget to put the Fed squadron with wander true and adjust their wander speed, or they will just sit there shooting the cube without moving, I put the Cube wander on False, and the Federation Ships on wander around 25-30 so they streak around the cube much like you see in all the Trek Shows.