Helo Extraction

[evans d [16aa] 12]

Hello guys, another question here. Now I have searched around for the answer to this and I've gone over my previous threads about this but nothing pops up.

I need a helicopter (UH-60M) named "extractionHelo" to move to a waypoint, land, wait for some players to enter (it's a multiplayer mission) and then fly to another location and drop them off then return home.

Now, I have some waypoints made up:

0 - A Move waypoint situated very close to the chopper just so the engines start running before it is released so it doesn't fall into the sea (it starts on a destroyer)

1 - A Get In waypoint on an island. This is where the helo lands to let the troops embark.

2 - An Unload waypoint on the mainland that the troops get out on. It has the following code:

{_x in extractionhelo} count units group player == count units group player;

3 - Another Move waypoint back at the destroyer. I don't need it to land.

Now, as it's a multiplayer mission the problem might be that the groups are coded into that line above as "player".

In the inti lines of the group leaders in my 2 squads I have:

this moveInDriver boat2; FT2 = createGroup WEST; leader2 setGroupId ["FT2"]; nul = execVM "leaderLoadout.sqf";

NOTE: "FT2" and "boat2" can have the 2 exchanged with 1.

Ca anyone think of any way to rectify this and make it work? I've tried:

{_x in extractionhelo} count units group FT1 && FT2 == count units group FT1 &&FT2;

But it just doesn't seem to work.

Thanks all,

Bashkire

[demonized 16]

replace FT2 = createGroup WEST; leader2 setGroupId ["FT2"]; with:

groupname = group this;

now replace group player with groupname

condition can also be this to account for casuallties and unforseen actions.

({alive _x OR _x in extractionhelo} count units groupname) == ({alive _x} count units groupname)

maybe even a foreach condition will work as well:

{!alive _x OR _x in extractionhelo} foreach units groupname

Edited May 1, 2011 by Demonized

[evans d [16aa] 12]

Thanks, I'll give it a go and report back :)

[evans d [16aa] 12]

Hasn't worked. God this is getting anoying! Any other ideas?

[demonized 16]

well, this is how i did it on a MP mission on dedi server awhile ago, and it worked.

1: heli somewhere named heli1

2: pilot outside heli lying on stealth neverfire with a hold wp on his position.

3: a switch trigger wich triggers the hold wp and does this code:

pilot1 assignAsDriver heli1; pilot moveInDriver heli1;

4: another hold wp near a inv h where the pickup is going to happen.

and a switch trigger with condition:

({_x in heli1 OR !alive _x} count units groupname) == (count (units groupname))

5: a trigger was near the wp covering the area, in on act it had:

heli1 land "GET IN";

6: in init of leader of the player group i had

groupname = group this;

7: next wp of pilot was the transport unload near a inv h and another trigger near with heli1 land "GETOUT"; {if ((group _x) != groupname) then {unassignVehicle _x}} foreach crew heli1;

8: heli1 wp back to start and delete it.

Edit: im writing from memory and my coding was very virgin back then, but it worked, trial and error is the way to figure out if your script works or not.

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Edited May 2, 2011 by Demonized