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Preferred Respawn - Experimental

Since survivors can respawn-cycle (choose a spawn location by repeatedly F11-ing), why not automate the process in a fair and elegant way? While waiting for their preferred respawn, players could use that precious time to grab a coffee, stretch, or do whatever they feel like.

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• This is not a traditional "spawn select" mod. This one attempts to maintain the vanilla time a player takes to get a specific spawn location.
  
• The option to select a location only appears at respawns (not at spawns).
  
• Minimalistic vanilla UI change.
  
• Fewer F11s around the spawn areas, resulting in less clutter and improved FPS.
  
• Extra: the mod can be configured to work as a "traditional spawn select".

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If a survivor opt-in for a preferred respawn location in the countdown screen (as seen in the screenshot at the top), its character won't respawn until the selected location is drawn by the default/vanilla algorithm. That means that the respawn routine is launched again every time an undesired location is drawn and thus players have to wait for the vanilla countdown time (e.g. 15s) for every new draw.

If the survivor does not opt-in (default setting), it respawns after the first countdown time at a random location just as vanilla. It is also worth mentioning that players are free to choose a new location in between draws.

Optionally, It is possible to add an extra time to the countdown with the purpose of taking into account the time that a player spend F11-ing. This extra time takes effect only from the second draw onward, as players don't have to F11 when they get the desired location on the first draw.

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The mod automatically generates a default configuration for Sakhal, Chernarous, Livonia, Namalsk, and Deer Isle. Therefore, no additional action is needed when installing the mod for these maps, provided that the cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml is similar to the unmodified/vanilla version. If there are significant differences, adjustments are necessary.

If changing the default configuration or creating a new one for a different map is desired, the server should be run once after installing the mod. This will generate the config files, which can then be used as a reference for editing. These files are located in the <profile\config directory>\PreferredRespawnTest.

Please note that that the coordinates in .SpawnZones.json do not replace the spawn points found in cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml. Instead, each location entry in .SpawnZones.json represents a general area of the map and corresponds to an option in the "preferred respawn location" selector on the countdown screen.

A valid scenario would involve having a single location entry representing a village in .SpawnZones.json, with two or more spawn points for that same village in cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml. This way, when a player selects to respawn in that village, any of the spawn points near the selected location coordinates will be taken as a valid respawn position for the village selection.

Although the settings in the files mentioned above do not represent the exact same concepts (locations vs. spawn points), they should remain coherent with each other; typically, a location should represent either a cluster of neighboring spawn points or a single spawn point.

When noRedraws is set to true in .Settings.json, the vanilla mechanism for the selection of spawn points is replaced, and players spawn instantly in the selected location after the first countdown reaches zero in the countdown screen. In this mode, the settings in cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml are ignored for respawns, and players originate within 30m (~= 100ft) radius from some point specified in the .SpawnZones.json.

Additionally, when this mode is enabled, it is possible to append extra points to each location in the .SpawnZones.json. This means that when a player selects a location in the countdown screen, one of the points from the selected location is randomized as the final one where the player will respawn.

Example of a .SpawnZones.json with two locations and three spawn points for each:
Location_1 spawn points: <1100.0, 1100.0>, <1200.0, 1200.0>, <1300.0, 1300.0>;
Location_2 spawn points: <2100.0, 2100.0>, <2200.0, 2200.0>, <2300.0, 2300.0>;

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