In the current campaign I am making, I want the special infected spawn rate to be increased along with a tank spawn probability reduction.

What is the best way to go on around with this? All I can find is vscripts actions triggered from in-game via a trigger brush entity which triggers the info_director and yaddy yadda.

I've tried Vscripts, it just doesn't work. At all. I read some of the very few step-by-steps to go on about this without any luck; I keep getting "script (scriptname) not found".

Is this even legit? Does it even work - has anyone ever had it working in the L4D 2 mapping history? I tried placing the stupid .nut file everywhere; in the direct folders (scripts/vscripts) and inside the campaign VPK. It never worked.

Anyway here's the script for this:



These values are for testing purposes, but yeah, tanks/witches still spawns, and there's nothing new to report.

-Signed, someone who's about to go f'in .nuts.

Thank you very much.

Are you using an "logic_auto" to trigger the "info_director" and fire the script?

Here's an example from c5m1_waterfront:

What this is doing, is when the map spawns (is loaded) the director gets called to begin a script. Make sure the "info_director" is named "director", and your VScript .nut file(s) are in the vscripts folder.

It should work for you, but if it doesn't, let me know.

Thanks for the reply,

But no. I noticed my info_director was named "Director" with a capital 'D', I changed it to a lowercase 'd', and specifically put that logic_auto and linked it properly with the info_director. When I go in-game, I can see in the console, it clearly states "script (scriptname) not found". I hexa-checked again, it's clearly in the right folder pattern: left4dead2/scripts/vscripts/.

Hmm I see. Can you upload the actual .nut file you're trying to use? And perhaps PM me the map you're testing it on as well? Don't worry, I don't redistribute or steal anything when I look at other people's files. I give you my word on that. I just want to see if there's anything I can do to resolve this issue for you.

Hey,

It was the file extension. Even though I saved it to .nut, the thing kept putting a "hidden" .txt at the end, making the extention look like .nut.txt no matter what I did to it. Now it finally works, I have one last question..

I am a little familiar with generic scripting, what I want to do however is probably going to require 1 week of compiling and wasted time effort. So I was thinking I could put what I have in mind and someone would re-format it to working script language?




I know I am pretty close to how it should look, I am just not sure how I need to do it.

Thanks.

Welcome to the forum Here is one link that explains the squirrel language, and another link that explains Valve's port of the VM.

First, you're going to end up using the following function:

I'm not sure what you are trying to do with the if statement. You can set the bounds from 0,20 and do a bitwise shift, and compare that value with a flag you set to check whether or not you want a tank to spawn.


Because the two probability functions are linear, you can just do 1-x to get your fractional spawn rate. For example, local someValue = RandomInt(0,20) and using that with the expression (100 - someVal)/100 would equal your special infected spawn rate as a fraction of 1. You can possibly scale that fraction and use them with infected limits and respawn intervals.

If you wanted to change the director options when a tank is in play, you can possibly use IsTankInPlay() and make necessary changes.


Time spent on the coding side is never wasted I know the above may not be of much use to you, but what you are asking to do can be achieved in many ways (if I understood your request).

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I wish not to learn much about Squirrel, I'd rather stick with Java and other authentic programming languages. With that said, it is only if I really was in a spot where I felt the necessity of learning such language, which I am not; the director options are all listed in one of the links you posted and they fully accomplish what I was wanting to do as far as it goes with Special Infected control.

Back to my question/request:

All I want to do is have a tank spawn restriction based on a probability. I already know "TankLimit = 0" means there will be no tank(s). With that said, I'd have another variable which would have a generated Integer in it ranging from 1 to 100. In other words, a percentage; probability. This variable would be named 'TankProbability' and if the generated integer to it is higher than a specific number, the following will be read in the script:

TankLimit = 0

I hope this is clearer now. Thank you.

Ahh, straight to the point.

Thank you very much, I'll make sure to credit you (also Rayman1103) in my campaign once I release it.

I haven't tested that script yet, so let me know if there are any compiler errors.

Don't worry about the credits.