Wait Till Seen spawnflag Created 9 years ago2015-09-05 15:33:22 UTC by pwnalizer93

What is the effect of the Wait Till Seen spawnflag?

I'm assuming that the monster wouldn't spawn until it's entity is seen by the player? But, considering it doesn't look like it was implemented, that's only a speculation.

Based on one of the very, VERY, early Worldcraft tutorials, I believe enemies were intended to "roam" between info nodes before being engaged by the player.

It's a cool idea, but I can see how it would be a pain when trying to plan out gameplay, since the enemies would be in different places each time. This flag may have been to keep certain enemies in place until the player saw them.

I'm assuming that the monster wouldn't spawn until it's entity is seen by the player? But, considering it doesn't look like it was implemented, that's only a speculation.

They do this by default without the spawnflag but I guess this was it's function but like Urby said, it was used on old versions. Thanks for the help guys.

I used this flag when I mapped Justice, and I have seen the outcome in NPC behavior.

The NPC remains invisible until seeing the player, and engages the default AI the moment it sees the player.

The patrolling behavior needs to be specified, and it's not the default behavior to my knowledge.

I guess it was implemented in Source!

Little bump but I found this begin used in c2a1a (Power Up) and from what I remember about the behavior of the soldiers in that level, I guess it has the same effect satchmo said.

The NPC remains invisible until seeing the player, and engages the default AI the moment it sees the player.

In c2a1a, I think it's used to prevent the other human grunts from attacking, there are a total of 3 grunts squads in that map. The first squad doesn't use this flag but the other does.