Team Spawns. How do those work?

[Hilman170499]

As most of us know, spawn points now have a team-based segregation in every map.
Alright, I've taken a quick look at some new maps. From what I saw, there are green and yellow spawns in two general areas surrounded by other spawn points. Can someone please clarify how this works? Thanks in advance.

[Thunderono]

Adding team spawns is pretty simple.  All you need to do is place the spawns in the map, and the game will automatically use them instead of the standard deathmatch spawns when the proper server setting is enabled.  Those green and yellow spawns are the Cossack and King team spawns; if you want Light and Wily team spawns, you'll have to make things with type numbers 5080 and 5081 (you can reference CTF maps to find them pretty easily).

Similar to standard deathmatch spawns, you're expected to have a minimum of each type.  It goes:
Deathmatch: 32
Light team: 16
Wily team: 16
Cossack team: 8
King team: 8

These numbers are just minimums; you can place however many you like as long as you meet this base requirement.  Hope this helps!

[Hilman170499]

It's been a while, huh?
Anyway, I'm just dropping by to ask about something else. Last time I worked on a Deathmatch map, I put in the team spawns. Unfortunately, I could not test the map with DoomBuilder because it causes an error, forcing me to manually run a test via the launcher. Does anyone happen to know what settings I should use to rectify this issue? Thanks in advance.

[Rozark]

What's the error message that pops up?

[Hilman170499]

It opens the console and gives this message:

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NO PLAYER 1 START

[Rozark]

Place either a regular deathmatch spawn or a player 1 spawn somewhere within the map's playable boundaries. Having only teamspawns isn't going to cut it.

[Hilman170499]

Alas, there are indeed Deathmatch spawn points in that map.

[Thunderono]

You can avoid having to place player 1 starts if you plop "-deathmatch" without quotes in your testing parameters.  For whatever asinine reason, zandronum boots in coop now, so having that line in boots it to deathmatch instead.  If you don't have any player 1 starts in your map, it'll throw that error at you whenever you try to boot up the map in coop.