Dual Artillery.

[Coinkidoink 10]

Hello everyone,

No amount of searching, wikireading or general exploring has gotten me any closer to a solution so im just gonna post here and ask.

I have a little testing grounds mission where i am just prodding around to get better at the editor, and i am trying to fire off a MLRS barrage at a target and then illuminate it with a mortar barrage, pref at about the same time.

I have physical batteries on the map that both do these things coordinated through triggers and the SOM Module, however i can only do one of them and then the other is locked out.

Is there a way around this? Possibly putting the mortar barrage in a different category or something? I could just refill the support with a script, but the thing is that i want just one mortar barrage and one MLRS barrage, not multiple.

Hope this makes some sense.

[riouken 15]

I think you can re-add support with a script, but in your case I would just drop the som module alltogether. I would just send both batterys a fire mission. You can find the code on the arty module wiki

It can be done in just a trigger. When I get home I can post an example if needed.

[demonized 20]

maybe just do it outside SOM module, with a seperate radio trigger or a addaction.

[Coinkidoink 10]

I think you can re-add support with a script, but in your case I would just drop the som module alltogether. I would just send both batterys a fire mission. You can find the code on the arty module wiki

It can be done in just a trigger. When I get home I can post an example if needed.

That would be great Riouken, i'm still a bit unclear on it all and people who google their way to this thread might also benefit from it.

[Coinkidoink 10]

I think you can re-add support with a script, but in your case I would just drop the som module alltogether. I would just send both batterys a fire mission. You can find the code on the arty module wiki

It can be done in just a trigger. When I get home I can post an example if needed.

That would be nice Riouken, would be nice to see it in action and maybe it would help out anyone who googles themselves to this page in the future.

[riouken 15]

Most of this code is in the arty wiki just check it out or ask questions if your not sure about anything.

Just execute this on the server and provide the names of your arty battery's to the corresponding(_mymlrsBattery,_myd30Battery).

// Create the Fire mission templates
_heTemplate = ["IMMEDIATE", "HE", 0, 15];
_illumTemplate = ["IMMEDIATE", “ILLUMâ€, 10, 15];

// Get pos of the target above sea level.
_targetPos = getPosASL _targetUnit;

// Execute the fire missions.
[_mymlrsBattery, _targetPos, _heTemplate] call BIS_ARTY_F_ExecuteTemplateMission;

[_myd30Battery, _targetPos, _illumTemplate] call BIS_ARTY_F_ExecuteTemplateMission;

[Coinkidoink 10]

That just gives me a "Local variable in global space" error, in front of _targetpos and _heTemplate at the "Execute firemissions" paragraph, im sure there is something very basic i am missing here.

Edit: Figured it out, the underscore meant that it was up to me to name those variables and then i had to add a radiotrigger to activate it, thank you!

Edited June 25, 2011 by Coinkidoink

[riouken 15]

@Coinkidoink

Arma will not accept local variables in triggers,and init fields.

_MyVariable = "I now understand local/global variables"; //  <---- This is a local Variable
MyVariable = "I now understand local/global variables"; //    <---- This is a global Variable