Respawning at place of coredump?(Split from "Tutorials!")

[Light]

Z-Man, in the new tutorial I see that when you die, you are instantly respawned in the same location you died while the area still gets the blast. I was wondering if this was able to be done with settings or if it was just an added feature for the tutorial. I would like to try this in a server if it's possible.

Server Version: 0.2.9-sty+ct_alpha_r757 unix dedicated

[Z-Man]

Those uber-instant respawns can't be configured, but if you activate the respawn hack (CXXFLAGS=-DRESPAWN_HACK at configure time), something similar is possible on 0.2.8 based servers.

[compguygene]

Alternatively, if you are running a sty+ct build, RESPAWN_TIME .1 will achieve a similar effect.

[Light]

Alternatively, if you are running a sty+ct build, RESPAWN_TIME .1 will achieve a similar effect.

Setting respawn time to 0 works too, if you wanted the instant, and -1 is off, but what I don't know how to do is get it to respawn where you died instead of where you spawned.

[Light]

If it's not possible I wouldn't really mind, but could ya let me know one way or the other? I would really like to try it out.

Spawning where you die.

[Jip]

If it's not possible I wouldn't really mind, but could ya let me know one way or the other? I would really like to try it out.

Spawning where you die.

It is possible with a ladderlog parser script and sty+ct.
You get the position with:

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PLAYER_GRIDPOS <name> <xpos> <ypos> <xdir> <ydir> <team name> 

and can respawn with:

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RESPAWN_PLAYER <playername> <messageflag> <posx> <posy> <dirx> <diry>

Look here for more info.

Maybe some mod can split this?

[Light]

Ahh you're right. I kind'a ignored the idea of it because the death position ain't logged, but if I keep an array of current locations (within the second) upon death I can respawn there and it will be close to perfect.

Will try it out.

[Light]

It works!

Thanks for pointin' me in the right direction.

If anyone's curious to see how it turned out, it's up on server "Light's Free For All Brawl".