Post subject: INSTANT RESPAWN FIGURED OUTPosted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 12:22 pm

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short tutorial:
(if doing this with steam cache:
turn off steam
back up your team fortress 2 content.gcf file
use GCFScape to extract the map BSP from team fortress 2 content.gcf to anywhere)
(if doing this with HLDS, the map file will already be in your maps folder, just back it up first)

open the map with ented
use search tool to find the entity you want to edit, edit it, save map when done

i'll post more detailed instructions later. questions in this thread please.

i did some diff's on different maps' entities and i found some interesting entries. after hours of experimentation i narrowed it down to these - they have to go in logic_auto:

Code:
"OnMultiNewRound" "tf_gamerules,setblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnMultiNewRound" "tf_gamerules,setredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnMultiNewMap" "tf_gamerules,setblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnMultiNewMap" "tf_gamerules,setredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnMapSpawn" "tf_gamerules,setblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnMapSpawn" "tf_gamerules,setredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"


and these have to go in team_round_timer entity on maps with multiple phases:

Code:
"On4MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"On3MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"On2MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"On4MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"On3MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"On2MinRemain" "tf_gamerules,addredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnRoundStart" "tf_gamerules,setredteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"
"OnRoundStart" "tf_gamerules,setblueteamrespawnwavetime,0,0,-1"


there's a lot of other things you can change too:

health packs (small, medium, full are sizes)
Code:
{
"origin" "x y z"
"classname" "item_healthkit_small"
}

ammo packs (small, medium, full are sizes)
Code:
{
"origin" "x y z"
"classname" "item_ammopack_small"
}


lighting, doorways, timers (round duration, bonus added for cap, sudden death duration, setup duration), and a few other things. but most important is the respawn timers can now be set to zero!

There is a auto balance thing for clans, or atleast tags. I've seen it while I was looking for the RTV thing but I'm not sure what it was a part of. Either Meta Mod or Source Mod, I'm not sure but I'll look when I get home from work later.

Blah, that means I gotta ented the maps, upload them to my site, and dump them back onto the TF2 server - that's gotta be like 50-100mb per map (if my TF2 access is working, will see.)

As for autobalance - I think the only autobalance built into TF2 simply keeps the number of persons per team even - it doesn't take into account how many kills anyone has SFAIK. :/
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Also, I looked into editing the spawn timer and this is what I was able to come up with.