Send all spawned zombies at one person.

[KevinnTCG]

Been working at this for a while...with lots of errors - I am not very experienced in Lua so expect some stupid things in my code =) What I am trying to do is send all spawned zombies at one random player every 60 seconds, for testing purposes i lowered it to 20. I am no longer getting errors, but the zombies don't move at all. I had re-noded the map with the nodegraph editor, so im certain it's not because of the map nodes.

[lua] for i = 0, math.random( 10, 18 ) do
local zombies = #ents.FindByClass( "npc_zombie" )
local fzombies = #ents.FindByClass( "npc_poisonzombie" )
if ( zombies + fzombies > 18 ) then break end
local pos = Vector( math.random( -6000, 6000 ), math.random( -6000, 6000 ), 1800 )
local tr = util.TraceLine( {
start = pos, endpos = pos - Vector( 0, 0, 9999 )
} )

if ( tr.HitWorld ) then
timer.Destroy( "SendZombies" )
local class = "npc_zombie"
if ( math.random( 0, 100 ) < 25 ) then class = "npc_poisonzombie" end
local zombie = ents.Create( class )
zombie:SetPos( tr.HitPos + Vector( 0, 0, 64 ) )
zombie:SetHealth( 128 )
zombie:SetNWString( "Owner", "World" )
zombie:SetKeyValue( "spawnflags", "1280" )
zombie:SetKeyValue( "squadname", "zombie" )
zombie:Spawn()
zombie:Fire( "Wake" )
zombie:Activate()

table.insert( Zombies, zombie )

local ourEnemy = player.GetByID( math.random( 1, #player.GetAll() ) )
if ( IsValid( ourEnemy ) ) then
zombie:SetEnemy( ourEnemy )
zombie:SetLastPosition( ourEnemy:GetPos() )
zombie:SetSchedule( SCHED_FORCED_GO )

end
end

end
end
end )
timer.Create( "SendZombies", 20, 0, function() ZombieAttack() end )
end [/lua]

[lua] function ZombieAttack()
if( ( #ents.FindByClass( "npc_zombie" ) ) + ( #ents.FindByClass( "npc_poisonzombie" ) ) > 0 ) then
local ourEnemy = player.GetByID( math.random( 1, #player.GetAll() ) )
PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTTALK, "The zombies are targeting " .. ourEnemy:Nick() .. "!" )
if ( IsValid( ourEnemy ) ) then
for k, v in pairs ( Zombies ) do
v:SetLastPosition( ourEnemy:GetPos() )
v:SetEnemy(ourEnemy)
v:UpdateEnemyMemory( ourEnemy, ourEnemy:GetPos() )
v:SetSchedule( SCHED_CHASE_ENEMY )
end
else
return end
end
end [/lua]

The majority of the zombie spawning script, mostly everything except the timer and a couple values are originated from the Stranded gamemode, not me.

Another issue I am having is the timer failing, and ending, if someone is noclipped (the GetPos() breaks i am assuming), any insight into how to fix that as well would be appreciated.

[editline]7th November 2013[/editline]

Those are just two chunks of the entire script, should have all of the needed variables to explain what is going on.

Last question, on the top of the script I just have Zombies = {} there, is that the proper way to set up a table for use in this? Never done it before.

[BFG9000]

Your best bet would be ent_fire.

you would call this by doing (assuming var "zombie" is the npc) the LUA call for ent_fire, which is

Entity:Fire( string input, string param, number delay )

now, the input will probably be something like settarget or selecttarget or something; I'm not so sure what the input is and if it even exists, and I'm unable to get to gmod for now but this is probably the most viable solution.

[KevinnTCG]

[QUOTE=BFG9000;42785063]Your best bet would be ent_fire.

you would call this by doing (assuming var "zombie" is the npc)

the LUA call for ent_fire is

Entity:Fire( string input, string param, number delay )

now, the input will probably be something like settarget or selecttarget or something; I'm not so sure what the input is and if it even exists, and I'm unable to get to gmod for now but this is probably the most viable solution.[/QUOTE]

Alright, I'll try that in the morning, getting tired and it takes too long for it to become nighttime in Stranded (zombies spawn at night).

[BFG9000]

I should note that in order to discover the ent_fire inputs, you should spawn a zombie, ent_setname it to something like mylittlezombie, then type:

ent_fire mylittlezombie 

at which point a long list of suggestions will pop up. scroll through the list using the arrow keys until you find anything that looks remotely related to what you're doing.

[Calikid92]

[QUOTE=BFG9000;42785323]I should note that in order to discover the ent_fire inputs, you should spawn a zombie, ent_setname it to something like mylittlezombie.[/QUOTE]

Very Helpful, I had no idea how Fire() worked.

[BFG9000]

Bumping to see if you were able to find any inputs?

[KevinnTCG]

I ended up coding a NextBot zombie =p Much better AI and more customization.

[BFG9000]

Ah, nice.