This is my first script and is very, very basic but I'm not sure I did it right. I made it using a piece of a campaign script. It should play a sound looping 2 seconds after start on a single player map. and end it 50 seconds after it plays.

(script playbegin
(sleep 3 )(sound_looping_start "nightmare3" none 1 )
(sleep 50)(sound_looping_end "nightmare3" none 1 ))

Note: nightmare3 is a sound_looping file in tags.

Also what is the script command to spawn a player without playing a cut scene in singleplayer?

If you have a script your not sure about, just try it. The worst case that could happen is that Halo crashes and you have to rewrite it and try again. But I do see one problem with your script, when using the sleep command, you specify the number of ticks not seconds. A tick is an in-game measure of time that Halo uses. I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think that 30 ticks are equal to 1 second.

About the second question, you don't need a script for that, just place a spawn point in your scenario with all of the game type boxes set to none.

Hope this helps.

yes, it does. But what about single player map spawning? I'm pretty sure if you don't script a spawning thing in it freezes at a camera.

Edit: Yes it does. can't spawn. also I don't think my script compiled. it's in mylevel\scripts
named mylevel.hsc but when i use compile scripts and save, then reload the scenario in sapien, no scripts are listed.
Edited by ptowery on Mar 18, 2011 at 04:37 PM

did you try changing the name from mylevel.hsc to script.hsc?

No I didn't but it still won't compile.

It won't even show up under scripts in Guerilla.

in notepad

in explorer

in sapien

in guerilla

ingame

that would explain everything.. :D

Edit: Yep Sapien gave me script errors, which is a win to me.

Edit2: Fixed the errors! now I just have to figure out why I can't spawn. How do you spawn without adding a cutscene in Single player maps?
Edited by ptowery on Mar 18, 2011 at 07:16 PM

you should just be able to put down a spawn point and not change any options on it, that should work

I always get this:

I have 1 player starting points set to all games
and I have 1 Starting Profile named "begin"

Thanks again worked flawlessly!