Need Some Help.

BigD

<div class="IPBDescription">Can't get my aliens to "work."</div> Just started testing my map so far. Well, it's just a ready room and some prototype hallways but I'm just playing around with ideas so far. Here's the problem. Okay, I leave my ready room, as a marine. I spawn. No problem. Go back to ready room, I go to join the alien team and it sends me to spectator mode, only I can't hit f4 and I'm basically stuck. I have the hull file in place, I have the info-mapinfo, aliens set as team two (the join team and the start point), all sorts of that kind of stuff. (Followed chromeangles quick start guide)

Can any help me as to what I'm doing wrong here? I am open to any suggestions, as I have been fiddling around with it for the last hour or two and have made no progress yet.

crode

it sounds you dont have an spawn player entity set to team 2. possibly?

ChromeAngel

Prehaps it's looking for a hive to spawn you at. There is no hive so it waits for your teammates to build one.

BigD

Twas what I thought at first, but I have one spawn for marines, one for aliens. And 3 hives!

[edit]Okay, I wasn't seeing it before (due to background colour) but a message also appears saying something about no valid target (barely able to make it out in the hall of mirrors effect of the void - but should be enough) so some how it isn't linking itself to the spawn? Well, I'm tired. I'm gonna play with it tomorrow or something. Would love to hear more suggestions if ya's got'em.[/edit]

Greedo

Make absolutely certain that the info_team_start has 'team two' selected in its drop down menu.

BigD

I can spawn as alien! Just have to set sv_cheats 1 though. And when I go into the alien entrance, voila! Is this normal for single player of ns? Seems quite odd, but I dunno.
Past that "hurdle" for now. Now I recently found out a fairly major school project (a lexical analyzer for a compiler) is due in two weeks so I no longer have time to map. Looking forward to having it ready in time for NS v1.3 though! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Thanks to those with suggestions! (Even if they never helped I am thankful anyway!)

Ollj

I bet its not sv_cheats 1.
I bet one of your info_team_start entities for team 2 is stuck in a wall border and one is ok.
it just brings you to one random entity and you had luck with the latest start.

map - entity report ... - point entities.

BigD

Nope. Lots of room around the spawn point. I even switched the setting of the two (Team 1 to 2, and 2 to 1 etc). Goes to the correct one when I do that too. It works properly everytime with sv_cheats 1 as well. On the other hand, if I don't do sv_cheats 1, it doesn't work at all and sends me off to a buggy version of spectator land. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> I dunno. I'll be redoing most of that from scratch at a later point, so I'll see then. (Number one way to fix something that doesn't work: Redo it from scratch)

Rabid_Llama

Hmm, try setting deathmatch and sv_lan both to 1 in console before loading the map if you're not already. That'll put NS in something closer to actual server mode, maybe it's a weird singleplayer bug.
That is, unless you're already running with those on...