Emp vehicle spawner

Description

This entity is used in combination with emp_vehicle_preset give mappers the ability to spawn vehicles on demand. When the SpawnVehicle input is triggered, this entity will search for the specified emp_vehicle_preset and create a vehicle with the current location, orientation, and velocity.

Parameters

• Name

  Given name so other entities can refer to this

• Parent

  Entity to which this entity's movements are tied.

• Angles

  Orientation of the current entity (transfers to spawned vehicles)

Inputs

• SpawnVehicle <string>

  Searches for an map entity with the name specified in the parameter. If the entity is an emp_vehicle_preset, it will read the configuration, and spawn a vehicle.

Outputs

None

How to Use

There has been some confusion about how to actually make this work. The key part is specifying a parameter override for SpawnVehicle containing the preset entity's name.

Step 1 - Create a vehicle preset

Step 2 - Create a vehicle spawner

Step 3 - Create a trigger

In this case, a trigger_multiple brush-based entity is used.