Spawning now

This call makes a spawner spawn once, right away.

Spawners spawn once, now

TriggerNow(id) asks a spawner to spawn once, right away. It returns true when the game says it spawned.

public static class Spawners
{
    public static bool TriggerNow(string id);
}

Method	Returns	What it does
TriggerNow(id)	bool	Asks the spawner to spawn once. true when the game says it spawned.

Things to know

• TriggerNow(id) asks the spawner to spawn once and gives you the game’s answer. (it calls Spawner.TrySpawn() once and returns its result.)
• The chance still applies. If the spawner’s chance is below 1, a miss returns false. To be sure it spawns, set the chance to 1 first.

Limits

• TriggerNow returns false for an unknown id, or while a save is loading or being written.
• A spawner with set locations does not spawn while the player is close to them. If the player is inside the spawner’s distance, the spawn is skipped and TriggerNow returns false. The spawner then waits, and spawns on the next map change. A spawner with no locations does not do this check. (the check is playerDistance. The spawner sets readyToSpawn. A TriggerNow on a spawner with locations while the player is near also re-subscribes its respawn timer, in addition to a scene reload.)
• TriggerNow can return true even though nothing new appeared. A spawner can say it spawned when an object already sits at that spot. A character spawner can also skip the spawn after the chance roll, when a character with that name is already in the scene or all its characters have been used. (the object case is a non-removing spawner, which returns true and spawns nothing when an object already sits at the location. TrySpawn returns true after the chance roll. CharacterSpawner’s authored character and spawn-point arrays are private, so they are not listed.)