Making AI aircraft drop flares

[weedman 10]

Hey all

just a quick one, does anyone know how to make an ai aircraft drop flares and if so can you increase the intervals of the drop?.

Kind regards

[weedman 10]

sorry to bump my thread, did countless hours of searching and no luck, please someone help me with this i am at a loose end here.

Edited January 11, 2011 by weedman

[nikita320106 0]

_hely action [""useWeapon"", _hely, driver _hely, 0];

[weedman 10]

thankyou ever so much nikita320106, however throws me a error "missing ]". Before you ask yes i did rename my c130 to _hely but no luck, can you improvise a bit and can you increase the flare count?

Edited January 11, 2011 by weedman

[PELHAM 10]

I think it's this:

_hely action ["useWeapon", _hely, driver _hely, 0];

too many quote marks.

Add flares to the AH64D

Weapon Class(1) = CMFlareLauncher

Magazine Class(1) = 60Rnd_CMFlareMagazine

See if the usual addMagazine / addMagazineTurret works?

Not tried it meself.

edit - I notice the AH1Z has a 120Rnd_CMFlareMagazine

Edited January 14, 2011 by PELHAM

[CarlGustaffa 4]

You might have to use a logic to "perform" the action. What I use in a script:

_firelogic action ["useWeapon", _chopper, driver _chopper, 0];

where _firelogic refers to a game logic. Not sure if required, I just did it this way.

[PELHAM 10]

This works well in a trigger:

heli1 action ["useWeapon", heli1, driver heli1, 0];

just name the helicopter heli1.

Can anyone advise a loop to make it do it every 5 seconds - I cant get an sqf loop to work with this:

while {alive _heli1} do {
_heli1 action ["useWeapon", _heli1, driver _heli1, 0];
sleep 5;
};

edit: Is the above a loop? I can find many in sqs but no good examples for sqf - which should I be using?

Edited January 16, 2011 by PELHAM
additional info

[PELHAM 10]

Cracked it - Xeno you're my Hero! He mentions this infinite loop here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=79556&highlight=infinite+loop

AH64D

To load extra flares:

{this addMagazineTurret ["60Rnd_CMFlareMagazine",[-1]];} forEach [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8];

This gives 13.5mins / 810 seconds flying time with flares for the script below.

30 pairs flares x 3 seconds x 9 magazines = 810

Name helicopter h2

To eject a pair of flares every 3 seconds:

BlaBla = {
   while {alive h2} do {
       sleep 3;
       h2 action ["useWeapon", h2, driver h2, 0];
   };
};
call BlaBla;

CAUTION: you need a sleep in a loop or the game crashes - too many CPU cycles.

Looks cool against a night / dusk / early morning sky.

I have seen video of older Apaches without the modern missile launch detection system using this constant flare ejection over high threat areas. Nice to be able to replicate it.

edit:The launcher on the AH64D will take the 120Rnd_CMFlare_Chaff_Magazine from the F35B. So to add chaff and flares to the AH64D do:

this removeMagazineTurret ["60Rnd_CMFlareMagazine",[-1]]; {this addMagazineTurret ["120Rnd_CMFlare_Chaff_Magazine",[-1]];} forEach [1,2,3];

Edited January 17, 2011 by PELHAM

[darkxess 60]

Pelham is there an update for this as its no longer running on my updated ArmA2/OA these days.

Thanks