Spawning a monster depending on sector height?

[bowserknight]

So I have a script in my map that, after entering a room, prints a message and at the same time, spawns a monster via SpawnSpot. But I want the monster to only appear when a certain sector has reached a specific height or higher.

Like, let's say sector 50 has a height of 8 and there are mechanisms in the map that raise this sector. If you enter this one room and the height of sector 50 hasn't been changed, only the text message will appear. If the sector has reached a height of at least 32, the script will also spawn a monster. How do I do that? I know you have to do it with the "if()" expression somehow but I don't know exactly what you have to type in. Is it even possible to do stuff like this? Or alternatively, is it possible to do the same depending on the position of the player? Like, the monster only spawns if you're in a specific sector. What exactly do you have to type, the tag of the sector or just its number?

[gwHero]

Do you use ACS or ZScript?

I'll give you an example of the first case you mention, which is not too difficult.
Assuming you use ACS for scripting, you can retrieve the height of the sector in this way:

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int floorz = GetSectorFloorZ(1, getactorX(2),getactorY(2)) >> 16;
int ceilz = GetSectorCeilingZ(1, getactorX(2),getactorY(2)) >> 16;
int height = ceilz - floorz;
if (height >= 32)
    //.. do something
else
   // .. do something else

GetSectorFloorZ as well as GetSectorCeilingZ need X and Y coordinates; in this example, the sector has tag 1, and tag 2 is the tid of a mapspot. Now you do not necessarily need a mapspot; instead you could specify the x,y coordinates hard coded, but using a mapspot is better, because if you would move the sectors around in the editor, your code would still work.

[Edit]: acs functions mostly need tags, never sector numbers.