Teleporting main char

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SniperPotato

First time out of the vault
There is a way to teleport the main player if anyone is still struggling with this. Set the spawn and give it a tagname, then place a waypoint or something else over it and give it another tagname. When you need to move the main char to somewhere, move the spawn to that area and have the waypoint move to the spawn. It will then drag the character with it.
 
It doesn't work for me. Though I set up seperate triggers first to move the spawn (which also moved the player character) then I ran back to my switch an then moved the waypoint to the spawn but it didn't drag the main character with it. Most likely when you moved the spawn point you were moving the character directly, nothing to do with moving the waypoint to the spawn.

You can use spawns to give tagnames to entities, unfortunately they are still stripped when reloading a game after visiting the world map or using the goto mission command. Though you can probably get around that by using a different tagname for every map. But every entity that passes through that spawn will get the same tagname (all your squad members and vehicles) and when using the move unit command either to move the character or move an object to the character the spawn point is figured into the equation. If the tagname is given via the spawn point then the move unit command will move both the character and the spawn point*, but if an entity is being moved to the character it's as likely to be moved to the spawn point as the game has to decide between two targets. I'm not sure how that would affect the give item from npc to human command.

*If more entities than just the main character used that spawn, including vehicles, then there needs to be plenty of room around the target waypoint, to spawn everyone. Otherwise the game will randomly choose to move only some of your squad and or the spawnpoint.
 
All you've done in that map is use the spawn points to give the squads tagnames and then used the move unit command to move them as you would do with a npc in a singleplayer map. You haven't even got a trigger to move the waypoints to the spawns as you originally described.

Yes giving the player characters a tagname via the spawn point works in singlepayer as well, the problem lies with it'll give the same tagname to all the squad and it gets overwritten by the spawnpoint in the next map. Which can break triggers when reloading a saved game.
 
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