Weapon on back, slung arms.

[Steaksauce1337 0]

Anyone know the command or syntax to make a unit walk with his weapon on his back as if he were marching.

SoldierOne action ["WEAPONONBACK", SoldierTwo]

tried this as a trigger and does not work.

[sakura_chan 9]

Apparently there is no simple command to do it, because the AI will always try to draw his weapon for some reason. You might have to try a looping script

[AZCoder 921]

There is a set of animations for doing that; this one walks forward with weapons on back:

dude playMove "AmovPercMwlkSnonWnonDf";

It works for about 3 secs at a time (approximately). I don't know what your goal is, but if you just want some AI to walk around like that in a scripted way, I suppose you could loop the animation.

[Steaksauce1337 0]

Thanks, how would I go about looping it? Other than copy / paste 1,000,000,000 times.

[das attorney 857]

Try this (untested)..

while {alive dude} do
{
    dude playMove "AmovPercMwlkSnonWnonDf";
    sleep 3;
};

EDIT: You will need to write an sqf for it as code with sleep won't work from the init line of a trigger. Call your sqf something like "marching.sqf" and call from a trigger: nul = [] execVM "marching.sqf";

Edited January 15, 2011 by Das Attorney

[Steaksauce1337 0]

nice it works perfectly.. now how do i get the guy to walk a path? like.. do an about face and walk back?

i pretty much just want the guy to walk back and forth like a sentry

(thanks for the help too!!!)

[AZCoder 921]

I really don't know. Can't use waypoints with this animation, and I haven't found an animation that reverses direction. Doesn't mean it's not out there. I always use Clayman's animation viewer to check these out: http://clayman.kilu.de/Games/ArmAII/CLAY_AnimationViewerOA_V13b.rar

Could use an unarmed soldier with a move waypoint and a cycle waypoint to simulate a sentry, but you obviously want to see the rifle on the back. And Arma AI loves to hold its guns

[Steaksauce1337 0]

Yeah that IS pretty weird. I remember in OFP I could set behavior to safe and they would sling arms.

Wasnt really that important but figured it would look good at a gate or something having a guard with arms slung giving a salute to people who come and go. Just for eye candy really. I guess "safe" now is when the gun is at the low ready.

[igneous01 19]

you could keep the looping animation script. and add this somewhere along the lines:

vehicleName setVelocity [x, z, y]

to make it move,

and maybe:

for "_i" 0 to 179 do {

unit setdir _i;

sleep 0.5;

};

dont assume the syntax is correct here, its just some quick pseudo code that might do the trick for rotating the unit and moving them with the animation in tact.