OK, so i want a group of elites to come on a spectre, but they come to early. they spawn when there not supposed to, but i wanted them to spawn after the shade encounter dies, but they are there when the shade encounter is still alive. 4 is the spectre vehicle,
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(script startup spectre
(sleep_until (= (ai_living_count shade) 0))
(object_create 4)
(ai_place spectre)
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Edited by KingNick220 on Nov 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM

The reason why your script doesn't work, is because the encounter is probably not initially created. That would mean that the startup script would execute immediately, at the beginning of the level.

gamma, both spectre and shade encounters are not initially created. I just checked, and i don't understand why it won't work, i always have troubles with script sleep scripts.

It doesn't work because if they're not initially created, then they begin with a living count of 0. Your script waits until the living count is 0. See the problem?

Or use a boolean like I told you to on xfire :]
That requires the least rewriting of scripts. Dormant scripts require moving the entire chunk above the initial script.