Spawnnign groups of mobs

[Ememjr]

i am trying to spawn 4 groups of 2 oakmyst spiders, i get them spawned, but for the life of me i cant figure out how to make them linked to gether so when you target one the other has circle around it as well, i thought it had to do with the combine command, but that just combine every mob in the zone with a group id of 0 together

[Jabantiz]

Are you spawning through a script or just placing in the world? Placing in the world you just need to use the /spawn group command to link them together. If it is through a script there is currently no way to group them through the script.

If spawning through a script there may be a workaround but I have never tried it, basically place them in the world where they would spawn and group them, then set the percent to spawn to 0 so they never show in the world. In the spawn script spawn them by location id and it may be possible that they will be linked.

[Ememjr]

spawning directly in the world, i can not find details in the wiki for spawn group command

[Ememjr]

ok got it figured outby looking through the code for spawn group commands, for those that would like to know how i did it here goes

spawned to oakmyst spiders with the spawn 1950014 (twice)
/spawn add new "spider" on both
/reload spawns ( this was important because next step did not work if i didnt do it first)
target the first spider
/spawn group create spider
you will get a message that you succesfully created a new spawn group with id xxxxx
remember the id for the later
target your second spider
/spawn group add xxxxxxx ( xxxxxxx= the spawn group id from above
/reload spawns
now when you target one they will both have target rings

[Cynnar]

That sounds about right. Look under Spawn Group Associations on the wiki. That should have all the steps needed

[Ememjr]

thanks cynnar, i had seen that post before and could not find it again

[Cynnar]

NP. It seems to be hidden in the World Developer/Content Design Section. It seems information gets overlooked here often. Hell even I can't find some things, and I reworked it once already.

I'm not much for designing stuff, so if you have ideas about the wiki throw up a post and tell me your ideas. I'll look them over and then try to convince you to be the wiki guy.

[Ememjr]

i am the same way, when i was in the remolding business i would tell people to bring me a design and ill build you a beautiful kitchen,
but dont expect me to design you a beautiful kitchen

[John Adams]

FYI, there is also a /spawn template command, though I do not think it templatizes "group/association" set ups. But it could be handy if you're manually popping similar configs around a zone.

http://eq2emulator.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2914

[Cynnar]

Thanks John! I love templates! I need to move that to the wiki someday as I don't think it's there yet. Like I said I loose stuff on the wiki all the time. I really need to find a better way to present what the wiki has.

Time for some research.