Stage Builder: Item spawning?

[SOJ]

I think Kirbykid had a good post a while back on the smashblog about how items need to have spawn points and not just appear randomly out of the sky wherever they please. It certainly would be better for everyone, giving players the opportunity to build strategies based on what items spawn where.

Well Sakurai just released a new mode yesterday called Stage Builder, and I've been pondering something; how will items spawn on this stage? Will it be like any stage where they spawn randomly all over the stage, or will you have options within the stage builder to set spawn points for certain items (kind of like Forge in Halo 3).

I mean there has got to be a way to set characters' starting points for when the match begins (unless it randomly selects a flat surface for characters to start on...but that would be lame). So why not add in where you want items to spawn? That could definitely give your stage more depth.

For example, you could build a small "cage" that's blocked off by walls on 3 sides, but doesn't have a ceiling so you can jump into it, although it's very high up and hard to reach. In this "cage" you could set a hammer spawn so anyone lucky to get in there would get a hammer.

There is definitely a lot of potential for this...

 

[coolfufuman]

good idea- i hope its in

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I think the items are spawned at random in random locations

 

[Tbacksha]

They'll have to have item spawn points, but most likely it would be so simplistic that all items you set 'on' in the map would spawn from them.

 

[SOJ]

They'll have to have item spawn points, but most likely it would be so simplistic that all items you set 'on' in the map would spawn from them.

Yea that's a good idea too.

I think not having this in would be bad because if you build a funky stage with not many platforms, items could just spawn in the wrong places and fall to their death, which would be totally useless.

 

[Homelessvagrant]

Nicely intelligent post. There are so many things that can be done with this mode. What if Sakurai is using this mode for the target tests and some SSE stages. This would help make the stages much more easier to make and more room for more stages. Oops off on a tangent.

 

[poncho_mcshoe]

Item spawn points aren't something I'd like to worry about placing on maps. I'm hoping that item spawns will be attached to platforms you place that are suitable for items to fall on.

Edit: That is to say, I'd like the editor to be kept simple so that making a map isn't a chore. Item spawn customization wouldn't be bad as long as default locations are placed automatically.

 

[Onion Knight]

What about character spawning? Was that confirmed?