Problems with Mob Spawn

Hi everyone. After much frustration, TDN and forum browsing, I'm still not getting my spawn function to work correctly.

This level is my "tutorial" level, so I do not want to use the spawn behaviors as I only want spawns to occur after a certain point, and then I want the spawns to be of random different mobs whose data is configured inside their corresponding datablock.

Right now, I am just trying to establish an initial spawn of one mob. The code I am currenlty calling is at the bottom.

I receive no errors. I have tried calling both from console and from a GUI button, but neither place anything on the screen.

Can someone please help me. I want to randomly spawn a random creature from different locations that follow a datablock configuration.


This is the code I am using to do so.

//spawn.cs
//9-27-08, ASY
// this script holds all of the functions for creature spawns
// there are 3 spawn points, so 3 different functions that will call
// spawn location

// this function initializes spawn and creature.

function SpawnMobs()
{
//add random creature mob at later date.

%spawnMob = new t2dStaticSprite()
{
scenegraph = %this.scenegraph;
datablock = devilDatablock;
};

spawnPoint1(%spawnMob);
}


//spawnPoint1

function spawnPoint1(%this)
{
if (!isObject(%this))
{
echo("not an object");
return;
}

else
{
echo("establishing spawn data");

%this.setImageMap(devilImageMap);
%this.setSize(56.391,78.185);
%this.setPositionX(-159.449);
%this.setPositionY(-263.608);
%this.setLinearVelocityX(0);
%this.setLinearVelocityY(0);
%this.setLayer(16);
}

//spawn location is set
// %this.setPosition(-159.449, -263.608);
}