Spawn Points on Custom Map

[Xeonyx]

As you may know, I released a map of New Denver to the Community; http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/12110-new-denver-bc-v106/

I spent many a month building the town, but now I've hit a snag; I've been trying to figure out how to add spawn points to New Denver, but I can't figure out how and where to start.  I checked Thuztor's mapping guide and video tutorials, but still can't figure it out.  I open MainCreationMethods.lua from the Zomboid folder.  I bring up:

BaseGameCharacterDetails.DoSpawnPoint = function()end

Its the only one in the list, and does not have any of the additional lines that Thuztor's video tutorial does.  I'm not sure what the problem is, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to spawn in New Denver (The long Haul gets tiresome for me and "me")

[EasyPickins]

There's a spawn point tool in WorldEd.  It looks like a diamond.  Left-click to place a spawn point or select an existing one.  Right-click to delete a  spawn point.  Use the window that pops up to choose which professions can spawn at each point (or select "all" to allow any profession can spawn there.)

 

Then in the File menu, choose "Write Spawn Points" to create the spawnpoints.lua file in the map directory.

[Xeonyx]

That easy eh? Thanks! I'mma get on it

[Xeonyx]

So I placed spawn points under the profession all so that any profession would spawn the player in any of the spawn points.  I finished placing them and clicked "write spawn points" and selected the folder to write the lua in, but the lua only writes:

function SpawnPoints()return {}end 

What foolish mistake have I made? is the name of the profession supposed to be all, or "all"? I'm kinda rookie at this
 

[Dr_Cox1911]

I wrote some spawnfiles manually. I used blindcoders map to get the coords and simple wrote the lua file myself. Kinda pain in the a** but worked like a charm.

[Xeonyx]

Gotta do whatcha gotta do I guess, thanks, might as well get started

[Xeonyx]

sorry to drag this topic out, but I need to ask one more question;  Now that I finished writing out the coordinates for the spawn points, how would I add New Denver to the list of towns to start in? I couldn't find anything on it so I figured I'd extend the topic a little longer. 

[Dr_Cox1911]

Don´t know how it´s done with singleplayer, only MP. You could look at Bedford Falls though, RingoDs setup is kinda what you want or am I wrong?

[Xeonyx]

Yea I copied the way its done with the map.info, thumb.png, spawnpoints.lua, and description files; New Denver appears on the list on when I start a new game, but when I try to start, the system runs into an error and I am forced back to the main menu.

 

function SpawnPoints()

return {

all = {

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 37, posX = 238, posY = 204, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 37, posX = 71, posY = 267, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 37, posX = 195, posY = 271, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 37, posX = 200, posY = 67, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 37, posX = 137, posY = 255, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 37, posX = 86, posY = 185, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 37, posX = 2, posY = 175, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 37, posX = 18, posY = 270, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 12, posY = 162, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 53, posY = 256, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 99, posY = 261, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 130, posY = 258, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 159, posY = 291, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 174, posY = 296, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 29, worldY = 37, posX = 97, posY = 100, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 38, posX = 226, posY = 139, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 38, posX = 281, posY = 227, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 15, posY = 60, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 69, posY = 114, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 8, posY = 183, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 136, posY = 270, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 161, posY = 183, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 99, posY = 92, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 163, posY = 45, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 247, posY = 122, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 38, posX = 287, posY = 25, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 38, posX = 23, posY = 144, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 38, posX = 40, posY = 274, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 38, posX = 139, posY = 235, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 38, posX = 71, posY = 128, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 38, posX = 77, posY = 35, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 39, posX = 134, posY = 185, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 39, posX = 238, posY = 193, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 39, posX = 234, posY = 99, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 39, posX = 71, posY = 225, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 39, posX = 72, posY = 102, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 39, posX = 141, posY = 223, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 39, posX = 134, posY = 102, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 39, posX = 243, posY = 135, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 39, posX = 27, posY = 57, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 28, worldY = 39, posX = 126, posY = 66, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 40, posX = 260, posY = 295, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 26, worldY = 40, posX = 282, posY = 192, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 73, posY = 295, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 7, posY = 140, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 16, posY = 73, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 161, posY = 296, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 107, posY = 149, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 40, posX = 140, posY = 96, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 41, posX = 6, posY = 73, posZ = 0 },

{ worldX = 27, worldY = 41, posX = 100, posY = 63, posZ = 0 },

}

}

end

 

This is the spawnpoint.lua file in case the mistake is in there

[EasyPickins]

Change "all" to "unemployed".  Sorry, I don't know why the spawnpoints tool isn't working for you.

[Xeonyx]

It's no problem, instead of" all", I set all the professions to have the same spawn points; dirty, but effective