Spawning squads at a destroyable building

[RSharpe 0]

I was hoping to get some help on something that I'm trying to do.

I'm trying to have a building that keeps spawning a squad once the previous squad has been entirely destroyed. I want the building to keep spawning these groups until the building has been destroyed.

Does anyone know of an straightforward way to do this?

THanks in advance.

[demonized 20]

Save script below as buildingspawn.sqf and put in your mission folder.

info in the script on how to use.

i have higlighted some of the commands used, you can search for them here to understand more and learn to manipulate the script if you want.

/*
will spawn a group and make them guard the immediate area until all dead,
then spawn a new copy of same group if the building start object was set near is not destroyed.
place functions module on map in editor.

place this in a objects initline:
_null = this execVM "buildingspawn.sqf";
note object will be deleted after mission start, it can be any kind of object, for example the invicible H in empty objects.

optional, place this in init for using ID number of house in editor, find ID when pressing ID button and zooming in.
this setVariable ["house", 123456, true]; _null = this execVM "buildingspawn.sqf";

123456 is the idNumber found in editor.
*/


// set this below to true to show a marker on map on the building, and end hint.  true/false = on/off.
_debug = true;

// here we wait until the function module is ready, its needed for BIS_fnc_spawnGroup.
[b]waitUntil [/b]{ !isNil "BIS_fnc_init" };

// position of the building wich you can walk inside nearest to the object placed in editor.
_building = [b]nearestBuilding [/b][b]_this[/b];  // the building.
_pos = [b]getPos [/b]_building;  // the position of the building.

// here is the optional ID way of locating a house, useful for those houses wich you cannot walk inside.
_var = _this [b]getVariable [/b]["house", -666];
[b]if [/b](_var != -666) then {
_building = getPos _this [b]nearestObject [/b]_var;    // the building.
_pos = getPos _building;  // the position of the building.
};

// creating the marker if debug is true.
_mName = [b]format[/b]["%1",([b]vehicleVarName [/b]_this)];
_marker = [b]createMarker[/b][_mName,_pos];
_marker [b]setMarkerShape [/b]"ICON";
_marker [b]setMarkerType [/b]"DOT";

// here we delete the object used to start the script.
[b]deleteVehicle [/b]_this;

// a loop running while the building i still up.
[b]while [/b]{[b]alive [/b]_building OR ([b]getDammage [/b]_building) < 1} do {

// here we create a group with 2 units in on the building position, note they will spawn randomly at available positions near and in the building.
_group = [_pos, EAST, ["TK_INS_Bonesetter_EP1", "TK_INS_Soldier_2_EP1"],[],[],[],[],[],180] call [b]BIS_fnc_spawnGroup[/b];

// here we create a random patrol around the house.
_patrol = [_group, _pos, 100] call [b]bis_fnc_taskPatrol[/b];

// here we wait until all are dead in the group.
[b]waitUntil [/b]{({alive _x} [b]count [/b][b]units [/b]_[b]group[/b]) == 0};

// at this point after the waitUntil check, all units in group is dead, what happens now is that if the building is still alive or have not been 
// completely destroyed, we go to the top, and repeat the creation of the group, otherwise we exit the loop here to show the hint below.
};
if (_debug) then {hint "building destroyed, exiting script"};

[RSharpe 0]

Excellent. THanks so much! I'll give this a try tonight.

[RSharpe 0]

Thanks for the script. It works quite well...

However, is there any way for me to specify a task for the spawned groups? I would like for each spawned group to attack a position on the map.

Thanks

[demonized 20]

Thanks for the script. It works quite well...

However, is there any way for me to specify a task for the spawned groups? I would like for each spawned group to attack a position on the map.

Thanks

instead of this highlighted line:

// here we create a random patrol around the house.
[b]_patrol = [_group, _pos, 100] call bis_fnc_taskPatrol;[/b]

you can create waypoints or use another script on them like UPS by kronzky, example waypoints:

_wp = _group addWaypoint [getMarkerPos "attackBase", 0];
_wp setWaypointBehaviour "AWARE";
_wp setWaypointType "SAD";  // search and destroy waypoint.

here is info on addWaypoint:

here is kronzkys great patroling script: