Spawning / DeSpawning Question

[Aurastin]

I am still learning to use the XMLSpawner and I have a question regarding it's capabilities.

Is it possible to set an XMLSpawner to spawn and despawn at specific times of day and / or for specific time limit periods?

A few examples:
Example 1: Spawn 5 Lizardmen at 4 pm everyday, and despawn them at 11pm everyday (unless already killed)

Example 2: Spawn 5 Lizardmen for 1 hr every day at 8am, 12pm, 4pm, and 8pm and so on. (and if not killed after 1 hour they would despawn)

Example 3: Spawn a specific Vendor or other townsfolk only at specific times of day or even days of the week.

This may seem a simple thing to many of you, but I honestly have no idea and I'm here to learn.

Thanks

 

[Norman Lancaster]

Aurastin, I'm right there with you. XMLSpawner is a huge system and I'm not sure what exactly it can do. Have you had a look at our tutorials section for XMLSpawner?

 

[Aurastin]

Aurastin, I'm right there with you. XMLSpawner is a huge system and I'm not sure what exactly it can do. Have you had a look at our tutorials section for XMLSpawner?

I have. I just started going through the tutorials yesterday. It's part of what sparked this idea of specific spawn and despawn times and criteria.
And you are absolutely right XMLSpawner is a huge system and it seems to have a lot of potential. It is much more robust than the Premium Spawner system that I am used to using.

 

[Lokai]

Found an excellent reference on UO Renaissance. They basically backed up the defunct xmlspawner.forumer.com site, and compiled the pages as MS Word documents. Here is the link to the site:

http://uorforum.com/threads/compendium-of-xml-spawner-resources.5548/

This link is the post which deals with Time of Day spawns:

http://uorforum.com/threads/compendium-of-xml-spawner-resources.5548/#post-42304

And here is the link to the document they reference:

http://uorenaissance.com/images2/de...ting up Time of Day (TOD) limited spawns .doc

 

[Aurastin]

Found an excellent reference on UO Renaissance. They basically backed up the defunct xmlspawner.forumer.com site, and compiled the pages as MS Word documents. Here is the link to the site:

http://uorforum.com/threads/compendium-of-xml-spawner-resources.5548/

This link is the post which deals with Time of Day spawns:

http://uorforum.com/threads/compendium-of-xml-spawner-resources.5548/#post-42304

And here is the link to the document they reference:

http://uorenaissance.com/images2/dev/XmlSpawner/Guide/Spawn/How To_XML SpawnerFan_Setting up Time of Day (TOD) limited spawns .doc

@Lokai , this is an excellent find, and looks to be exactly what I am looking for. I will take a look at it closer over the weekend when I have free time.
This should be made into a Tutorial here on ServUO.

 

[Norman Lancaster]

Freakin awesome find! The folks over at UO:R do a lot of good work.