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Hello! This is pretty much as the title, I want to have an action the player takes spawn a monster, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do that.

Whether it be a dialogue choice, or jumping on a rock/using a lamp; whichever is the easiest route is good by me. Will someone assist me in finding how to do this?

Thanks. :)

It's a little hard to summarize what would be helpful for you without knowing your experience level with the editor. I am working on a tutorial to help demonstrate how you start from scratch to implement a basic quest. The fifth installment deals with using a dialog flag to trigger an item being given to a player, and that is essentially the same kind of paradigm you could use, just using different story calls.

In short you could:

• Create something in your level to serve as the spawn point, or place the monster in your level and set it off stage.
• Trigger an event using a dialogue flag or OnUse event from an item
• Catch that event in a story script and call a procedure to "spawn" the monster.

There is usually more than one way to do things and this is a bit of an open ended question but perhaps this gives you some idea as to how to approach the issue.

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry for the lack of helpful details! I have watched your tutorials, and the twitch streams Caiden has done. Both have been very helpful. :)

What I am basically trying to do is create a gladiatorial arena. The players can go in, and trigger the combats repeatedly. In my ideal world, I'll have a variety of monsters that are randomly chosen, with a level mix of - and + a few levels of the player. I don't know if my skills are up to that however, so I am content to settle for one type, and manually creating a trigger for each level bracket I end up deciding on.

How that gets done, whether via dialogue or an item, is of no concern to me, I can write my story and dialogue around either option. I just can't figure out how to do it.

Some of the things in the editor are intuitive for me, and others are very far from it. The toolset reminds me a bit of both unreal and blender, and I've done some work with both of those. As soon as I am more comfortable with it I am likely to start trying to import models. But at the moment I'm sort of floundering around trying to figure out how to create a trigger that will spawn monsters every time it is triggered.