# MQ2SpawnMaster

### Description

**MQ2SpawnMaster** \[By Cr4zyb4rd]

Those of you already familiar with the Digitalxero's SpawnAlert plugin will notice a lot of that functionality here (though hopefully without the crashing and other oddities) though the intended use of this plugin starts where that one leaves off.

/spawnmaster by itself will give you a short help, the commands so far are fairly simple, but will probably become complex as development moves forward. Search strings are stored per-zone in an INI file. Two search types are currently supported, case-sensitive exact match (the type created by calling '/spawnmaster add' with a spawn targetted) and a case-insensitive sub-string match (created with "/spawnmaster add "search string", although prefacing the string with a

## will indicate an exact-match type). Both currently only check against the name EQ displays, although future versions

will support for exact matches against Some\_Mob\_00 and so on.

The plugin currently stores the mob's x/y/z location, the system and in-game time of spawn, and SpawnID#, though not all of this information is made available in-game. When a mob dies or depops a system and in-game timestamp are also added.

Anything set in the OnSpawnCommand key in the Settings section of the INI fille will be executed as a command when the spawn is first matched so that for example "/speak ${SpawnMaster.LastMatch} just spawned!" will give you a nice spawn alert if using the MQ2Speech plugin.

You can find the latest version of MQ2 [here](https://macroquest2.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=50\&t=9853\&hilit=mq2spawnmaster).

### Commands

/spawnmaster commands

`on|off - Toggles SpawnMaster plugin on or off`\
`add \"spawn name\" - Add spawn name to watch list (or target if no name given`\
`delete \"spawn name\" - Delete spawn name from watch list (or target if no name given`\
`list - Display watch list for zone`\
`case [off|on] - Control whether to use exact case matching in any compare. Omit on or off to toggle.`\
`uplist - Display any mobs on watch list that are currently up`\
`downlist - Display any watched mobs that have died or despawned`\
`load - Load spawns from INI`

### See Also

* [Plugins](broken://pages/-Me4I94WGlOtA0pQ_0oB)


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