How to make characters appear randomly in a mission/scenario?

The only way that I can think of to do something like that (without the source code) is to make an app that would generate scenarios with this random element.

You would have to create a bunch of them ahead of your game session though.

He means in scenarios.

In Worldcraft of course it is easy to put somewhat random enemy spawn points but can't be done in a "scripted" scenario.   At best like I said an app can be created for scenarios that makes the spawn points random based upon the cells.   If you rendered a bunch of scenarios before going into the game they would seem random to players.

An updated scenario editor would be a good project for someone in Python or Visual Studio.

After thinking about this for a bit the easiest way to do this is an app that would load in an existing scenario that defines all the possible characters that you want to be able to use and then randomize the final number. It would output variations of the same scenario but you would never know how many suspects/hostages there would be.

Why not just use Swat 3's built in Random mission feature? I guess the purpose is to have appropriate characters as chosen by you and with the gear you have chosen for each map setting?  for example: you wouldn't want doctors down in the sewer map.

Ya, I would say the easiest way to do it would be to create a scenario with the maximum amount of suspects and hostages. This would then act as a sort of template.

With a custom app you could then load that template and it would generate many different random versions of this scenario. The only difference between each scenario would be the random number of suspects/hostages.


I may be able to talk my son into making a Python app that does this. He sounded interested when I mentioned it the other day. Just let me know if you want it done.