====== group_fauna ======

Function used in [[en:primitive:mission:start|mission creation]].

===== Properties =====

**name** : the symbolic name for the fauna group. Used only for level designer readability.

**autoSpawn** : if checked, the fauna creatures are automatically spawned when the group is spawn. Otherwise, there must be a state machine that spawns them explicitly.

**cycle** : used to optionally specify the spawn cycle between the different population defined inside this group. With no cycle, after a population is decimated or despawned, the next population is chosen randomly. By specifying a cycle, level designer can chose what population spawns in with order.

The cycle is a simple character string where each character represents a population with ‘a’ matching the first population, ‘b’ matching the second, etc. e.g. : **ababc** mean a spawn cycle of population 1, population 2, population 1, population 3, population 3 then restart at beginning.

**fauna_type** : no more used

**solidarity** : no more used.

**spawn_time** : here you specify 2 or 3 values space separated :
  * The 1st value is the SPAWN TIME **in seconds**. When the AIS starts, or when the whole group is killed/despawned, then the whole group will respawn. All the creature will spawn 1 by 1 during this spawn time (eg: if 50 seconds, and 10 creatures, then 1 creature will spawn every 5 seconds during 50 seconds)
  * The 2nd value is the CORPSE TIME **in seconds**. After a creature of this group has been killed, this is the time its corpse stay in game (but if looted, it despawns asap).
  * The optional 3rd value is the RESPAWN TIME **in seconds**. This is the delay before respawning a creature after it corpse has despawned. If not specified => 45 seconds.

**times** : Here you specify two value space separated.
  * The first value is the delay spent on the eat zone **in seconds**.
  * The second is the delay spent in the rest zone **in seconds**.

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