Does anyone have a good idea of how I could create a quest script that would spawn several enemies at an X Marker every 10 seconds? I'm not so good with timer scripts so any help I get will be much appreciated.

Thanks

float Timerfloat fQuestDelayTimeBegin GameMode	set fQuestDelayTime to .001	If Timer < 10		set Timer to ( Timer + GetSecondsPassed )	Else		;spawn enemies		set Timer to 0	EndIfEnd

For ;spawn enemies, this is where you either use moveto on persistent refs to place your enemies, or use placeatme to spawn new ones. If this script will only be running for a short period of time, such as part of a battle or something, then you would be best off placing your enemies in a dummy cell, making them persistent, and then using moveto to move them to your xmarker. If you plan on letting this run a long time, it might be better to use placeatme, and use deletereference to clean up the unneeded refs later. Search the CS Wiki for more info on that.

Thank you very much. That was a huge help!!

Quite welcome. Good luck with your project!

If the script is not going to do anything else inbetween the spawning, it could be simplified quite much. No need for a timer then, just set fQuestDelayTime to 10, and the script will only run once every 10 seconds.

float fQuestDelayTimeBegin GameMode	set fQuestDelayTime to 10	;spawn enemiesEnd

Hey, I never thought of that. Will doing it this way still allow it to start and stop with any precise timing? :blush:

The wiki says that with deletereference the reference can not be an actor. Would createfullactorcopy with deletefullactorcopy not work?

Yes. Though, deletereference will work fine on creatures, and using it on an actor from the console seems to work fine (at least, it did last week). But yes, either way, the above will work for sure.

Well this is good to know. Does DeleteFullActorCopy take care of save game bloat the same way deletereference does?

Aye.