[2020] zombies in pois not rendering after certain distance

Originally posted by jynx: Some zombie appearances only happen when you reach a "trigger point", regardless of whether you should see them or not. An example would be the zombies on the hospital roof.

There are no trigger points per se. The sleeper zombies are grouped within volumes, and they spawn when you get within a set distance of that volume. The level designers do their best to place the zombies so they’re spawned by the time you have a line of sight to them, but there are some weirdly shaped rooms, and they can’t stop you from busting through some random wall to open up a new line of sight.

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by Crater Creator:
There are no trigger points per se. The sleeper zombies are grouped within volumes, and they spawn when you get within a set distance of that volume. The level designers do their best to place the zombies so they’re spawned by the time you have a line of sight to them, but there are some weirdly shaped rooms, and they can’t stop you from busting through some random wall to open up a new line of sight.

I'm going to have to disagree with you again on this... Unless maybe we can agree on a better term than "trigger point" to include specific distance and direction used to spawn a sleeper volume.

I can find no block or entity you could place to tell the game to spawn in some sleepers when the player is at this specific location. The only mechanism I could find was the sleeper volume itself. My conclusion was that the sleepers in the volume spawn in when the player gets within a hard coded distance of the sleeper volume, regardless of direction.