How to set custom spawn points on a workshop map?

[narpuppy]

Title says it all. I'm making a custom deathmatch server on the map called gm_bigisland off of the workshop. The problem is that 85% of the time a player spawns in the "spawn area" which gets camped by snipers. If you know how I can fix this please help me.

Thanks in advance.

[narpuppy]

I finally got Garry's gma extractor to work so I have the actual map file, but I'm not sure where to go from there.

[Mossman1223]

hook.Add( "PlayerSpawn", "SomeUniqueName", function(ply)
    SetPos( ply.SpawnPoint )
end)

Note that ply.SpawnPoint is a variable you'll have to define.

You don't need to do anything specific to the map itself (Except define your spawn positions, but you knew that).

[narpuppy]

[QUOTE=Mossman1223;42027241]

hook.Add( "PlayerSpawn", "SomeUniqueName", function(ply)
    SetPos( ply.SpawnPoint )
end)

Note that ply.SpawnPoint is a variable you'll have to define.

You don't need to do anything specific to the map itself (Except define your spawn positions, but you knew that).[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry, but can you explain a little more please. I want to spawn off of x,y,z coordinates.
example: (Vector(-5560.655762, -2297.068848, 823.798035)

[crazyscouter]

[lua]
hook.Add( "PlayerSpawn", "SomeUniqueName", function(ply)
ply:SetPos( Vector(-5560.655762, -2297.068848, 823.798035) )
end)
[/lua]

[Bletotum]

ply.spawnpoint is a variable called spawnpoint attached to the player entity.

it would have been defined in a way such as ply.spawnpoint = Vector(number,number,number) at some earlier time. You can simply use ply:SetPos(Vector(x,y,z)) inside the playerspawn hook. If you do not understand hooks you should say so.

[Acecool]

There's actually a better hook for this that PlayerSpawn. that's actually meant to do this. This controls where players spawn. I made mine so that if a point doesn't exist, it creates it ( a POINT entity ), then it selects a random spawn point on the map ( controlled by my map config system which stores spawn points based on teams, etc around the map ), then it sets the spawn point entity to the random position / angle, then it returns that point entity. The player then spawns at that location.

[url]http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/GM/PlayerSelectSpawn[/url]

[narpuppy]

[QUOTE=crazyscouter;42028125][lua]
hook.Add( "PlayerSpawn", "SomeUniqueName", function(ply)
ply:SetPos( Vector(-5560.655762, -2297.068848, 823.798035) )
end)
[/lua][/QUOTE]

This is working, I'll just get a bunch of different positions and use math.random to call a certain position. Thanks for the help everyone, much appreciated!