recruitable survivors in sandbox

[gique13]

I would be cool, in sandbox, to put some survivors in safehouse to recruit
so far I have managed to snowflake in "sandbox special" mission inside mission.txt but they dissapear when you bring them to the safehouse

[chuck]

i want this too, maybe with recruitable rebecca

[Rich246]

I think a recruitable Chuck would be neat

[truentity]

Pls. can someone make this happen?

i just want the random survivors that fill the map in story mode, except they can be recruited in sandbox mode.

anyone know if this is possible?

[truentity]

update: i managed to make the survivors in sandbox mode to stop attacking you by editing datafile.big so they dont attack me but the problem is they dont follow me.

anyone know the string or line in the mission txt to change in order for them to follow you?

thanks.

[djlarryt]

Oct 28, 2011 0:07:16 GMT -5 truentity said:

update: i managed to make the survivors in sandbox mode to stop attacking you by editing datafile.big so they dont attack me but the problem is they dont follow me.

anyone know the string or line in the mission txt to change in order for them to follow you?

thanks.

Well, in DR2 you did it in the character's items.txt file. CanFollow = "true", plus change AssistType = "0".

But they never attacked you in DR2 so I'm not sure how this will affect them in Sandbox mode.

[truentity]

tried editing items.txt..... but still the survivor doesnt follow me...

survivor (or gordon for example, since hes the first youll meet in sandbox)
doesnt attack me, i fixd that already, but he doesnt follow....

i still need the string or line to edit to make him follow me or join me.

but thanks for your post djlarryt for giving me some ideas....

anymore ould be appreciated.

[truentity]

gique13, what line exactly did you edit in "sandbox special" inside mission txt?

[gique13]

Under cMissionDefinition Sandbox_Special there are several cMissionLevelReady functions.
if you paste a survivor inside one of these functions with proper coordinates for the given location, they show up in that sandbox loaction

[gique13]

for example I pasted snowflake created by tommah here:
deadrising2mods.proboards.com/ind....526&page=5#4815
I pasted his snowflake code to items and then placed his spawn code:
cMissionSpawnNPC TigerPack1
{
DefaultBehaviour = "Idle"
NPCName = "srv_snowflake1"
Rotation = "-1.1"
SpawnPoint = "-6.8,-3,34"
cMissionDialogue TigerPack1D0
{
AutoStart = "true"
Dialogue0 = "65508"
JoinChuckAfter = "true"
LoopThisNode = "true"
}
}
to the fortune_exterior function inside of the sandbox function (I used different coordinates in spawnpoint than the ones shown to put snowflake in the tikki bar)
Snowflake shows up and joins, the annoying thing about snowflake is that once he joins you can't make him "unjoin" you can't leave him behind, because he always appears next to you when you switch levels. Also, when you go to the safehouse, he is "rescued" and disappears. There is no code in sandbox to spawn rescued survivors

[truentity]

hmm... weird, if i put the missionspawnnpc under fortune exterior, all the zombies in the strip dissapear? :/
but i managed to have a survivor follow me...

but thanks for the input, it really helped alot,

im gonna experiment some more.....

[truentity]

could you put an example of the complete line in where you put snowflake?

like did you put it like this?

cMissionLevelReady Fortune_Exterior_Day2
{
LevelName = "LEVEL_FORTUNE_EXTERIOR"
cMissionSpawnNPC TigerPack1
{
DefaultBehaviour = "Idle"
NPCName = "srv_snowflake1"
Rotation = "-1.1"
SpawnPoint = "-6.8,-3,34"
cMissionDialogue TigerPack1D0
{
AutoStart = "true"
Dialogue0 = "65508"
JoinChuckAfter = "true"
LoopThisNode = "true"
}
}

like that, or something else?

because it crashes when i put it like this...