Discovery about Capture/Control regions

[Idren]

In attempting to figure out how to allow for vehicles to spawn outside a base's control region, I've figured out (using the stock Bespin: Platforms map), that for any CP, the CAPTURE region is the region that defines where units must stand to both take AND keep a base - and the CONTROL region is the region that defines the "area" that the base controls - i.e. where the vehicles can spawn and not explode if left alone.  So if you need vehicles to spawn over a large area, just make that control region huge - and you don't have to worry about that base being really hard to capture.

In the various tutorials on adding bases/vehicles and the regions concerning them, it is (unintentionally) made to seem like the control region is for where units need to stand in order to keep a base under their control.

I'm fairly certain that probably everybody already knows about this, and it's only new to me but if not, then I'm glad to have helped somebody out!

[Phobos]

In attempting to figure out how to allow for vehicles to spawn outside a base's control region, I've figured out (using the stock Bespin: Platforms map), that for any CP, the CAPTURE region is the region that defines where units must stand to both take AND keep a base - and the CONTROL region is the region that defines the "area" that the base controls - i.e. where the vehicles can spawn and not explode if left alone.  So if you need vehicles to spawn over a large area, just make that control region huge - and you don't have to worry about that base being really hard to capture.

In the various tutorials on adding bases/vehicles and the regions concerning them, it is (unintentionally) made to seem like the control region is for where units need to stand in order to keep a base under their control.

I'm fairly certain that probably everybody already knows about this, and it's only new to me but if not, then I'm glad to have helped somebody out!

Yeah this also confused me when I first started modding. Basically CAPTURE regions define the CP zone and CONTROL regions are used for vehicles. ControlRegions are used for placing com_inf_vehiclespawn which defines vehicle properties such as factions and respawn timer. All the stock game vehicles are set up like this. I think it's also possible in ZeroEditor to use region groups to have several smaller regions for vehicle respawns assigned to a specific CP.

However for modders who want a vehicle to only spawn once, you would place the vehicle ODF in the map directly instead of using com_inf_vehiclespawn. Vehicles that don't respawn don't have to be placed in a controlregion, these can go anywhere on the map, and by default are not assigned to any teams. I think the WLD file can be edited in notepad++ to assign team ownership if needed.