UE2 - UT2kX Playerstarts, Zoneinfos and Spawning

madspacemarinemustdie said:

The respawn spots are determined by the Zoneinfo number, IIRC

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I never heard that before and I never mapped accordingly but my playerstarts still work, so I'd advise you to just forget about that and place enough playerstarts in different enough locations so the game can pick an appropriate one.

Actually they are influencing the spawn locations afaik. Just place both enough zones and enough playerstarts, but I dont think you will ever be able to completely eliminate this problem.

Your zoning should be optimal for optimization, not optimal for the playerstarts...

I think it simply picks any other zone, randomly, but the one you died in. I dont think you can ever distribute the spawnings perfectly. What if you die right next to a portal? You may respawn just 300 units from that location and still spawn in a different zone.

12 sounds fine but it depends more on how well they are spread out than on the raw number. Speaking of the raw number, if it is at all possible you should put in some more just in case some crazy folks want to attempt bigger matches on it.

Also, I just wanted to say I don't believe it is based on the numbers of the zoneinfos because a) that makes no sense in terms of gameplay. You want to spawn new players as far away from living players as possible. Who cares about the number of the zoneinfo? And b) if it was based on it somehow you could change it more easily.

If it is just a 2-4 player map I assume it isn't that big so spawning relatively close to someone or relatively close to where you died is not uncommon. Unless it is excessive just don't worry about it.

Playerstarts aren't determined by zones, and looking at the code it doesn't look like it puts too much thought into choosing a location.