How to use bird / animal spawner
This is a simple one. If you want to have crows or pidgeons in your map which fly away as soon as you are getting too close, or if you want to have generic animals running around in a specific area, go with the following steps:
1. Create a new layer, call it whatever you want (example: "birds"). Activate the layer with a double click.
2. Right click on the ground, chose Graphics -> Add Bird manager. Change the following properties:
CNode / Tags = birds_manager0
birdsSpawnPointsTag = birds1
birdType = crow / pigeon (whichever you want to have)
3. Right click on the ground again, chose Graphics -> Add Bird spawnpoint and change CNode Tags to birds1
4. Right click again and chose Graphics -> Add Birds reaction area. This is our reaction area. Resize it as you wish. If the player steps into it, the birds will fly away. Also, change:
CBirdsArea / birdsManagerTag = birds_manager0
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The same works with animal spawner for pigs, goose, etc. with the difference that you find the manager and spawner entities under engine/templates/editor/ in the Asset Browser (animal_area, animal_manager and animal_spawnpoint). I don't know why they aren't in the context menu.
Of course you can name the tags as you wish, the ones I took are just for testing. If you did everything correct (can't do much wrong here), then birds should appear on the defined spawn points, fly away as soon as you enter the reaction area and come back if you exit the area. The area marker for the animal_manager is keeping the animals close to that area, so the animals won't run away just because you walk into the trigger.
/Edit: A little more polished version can be found in the wiki now.
This is a simple one. If you want to have crows or pidgeons in your map which fly away as soon as you are getting too close, or if you want to have generic animals running around in a specific area, go with the following steps:
1. Create a new layer, call it whatever you want (example: "birds"). Activate the layer with a double click.
2. Right click on the ground, chose Graphics -> Add Bird manager. Change the following properties:
CNode / Tags = birds_manager0
birdsSpawnPointsTag = birds1
birdType = crow / pigeon (whichever you want to have)
3. Right click on the ground again, chose Graphics -> Add Bird spawnpoint and change CNode Tags to birds1
4. Right click again and chose Graphics -> Add Birds reaction area. This is our reaction area. Resize it as you wish. If the player steps into it, the birds will fly away. Also, change:
CBirdsArea / birdsManagerTag = birds_manager0
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The same works with animal spawner for pigs, goose, etc. with the difference that you find the manager and spawner entities under engine/templates/editor/ in the Asset Browser (animal_area, animal_manager and animal_spawnpoint). I don't know why they aren't in the context menu.
Of course you can name the tags as you wish, the ones I took are just for testing. If you did everything correct (can't do much wrong here), then birds should appear on the defined spawn points, fly away as soon as you enter the reaction area and come back if you exit the area. The area marker for the animal_manager is keeping the animals close to that area, so the animals won't run away just because you walk into the trigger.
/Edit: A little more polished version can be found in the wiki now.
The animals I spawn are always walking in one particular direction until the reach something they collide with. Do you know how to make them stop?
Did you tagged the zones and all correctly? I've seen such behavior only if I spawned the animal meshs / entities directly, without the spawn managers. With the zones and everything, the animals walk around randomly in the box and a little bit outside. After a while, they always return back inside the zone.
I did it exactly like the tutorial. It worked perfectly finde for some crows, but the other animals like to walk out of their zone altough I tagged everything like it should be.
Not really a fix, but make their area really small. As small as the dog. Then they don't wander around too far.
The animals I spawn walk in a single file line to the edge of the path_area, no matter how big or small or separate or overlapping my animal_area is. Deer will stay put, but then they suddenly disappeared.
Why is this so hard?? I even tried spawning them in a fresh World. Same problems.