Campaign Making ... help request ...

[mortyfero99 10]

Hi

I'm making a campaign located in Vietnam but I need lot of help with scripting, hope you have good suggestion for me ...

1) I have 4 men on a pbr, need the pbr get to shore, disembark my men and go on to the next waypoint. Since making this with editor waypoint is not precise at all I would like to script the whole thing. Can you provide a simple script for this ??

2) I have my 4 men squad, I need to perform a tactical column, so I need man nr.2 to watch at 3 o'clock of my advance direction, man nr.3 watch at 9 and man nr.4 watch at 12. I would like this to be automatic (if possible) when I select the column formation, otherwise (if not possible) I would have an action command that say them to assume tactical watch direction.

Thanks for your help

[tom3kb 15]

1. Read about assignascargo and moveincargo for that, add that comends in script for all 4 soldiers.

And you need put waypoint unload transport on beach wenn 4 men squad it not in the same group with boat.

2. Maybe check dowatch and setdir for that.

[rejenorst 18]

Also try {unassignvehicle _x} foreach units groupname

Where groupname is the name of the group of the units whom you want to disembark. to name a group, click on the squad leader and type in his init: groupname = group this.

[mortyfero99 10]

Not problem with disembarking ... my trouble is the waypoint script ... i want something like this:

pbr getposmarker marker1;

pbr domove marker1;

?? here the condition (pbr has reached marker1) = true ??

pbr getposmarker marker2;

pbr domove marker2;

?? here the condition (wait until my squad is disembarked) = true ??

pbr getposmarker marker3;

pbr domove marker3;

deletevehicle pbr

[igneous01 19]

easiest way to do boat insertion is

make your boat, name it something (ex ins_boat)

then in groupleader init type in:

{_x assignascargo ins_boat; _x moveincargo ins_boat} foreach units (group this)

this assigns and moves all units in group into the insertion boat

then make a transport unload waypoint for the boat

if that is not working (if the player is squad leader) then at the transport unload waypoint type in:

{_x leavevehicle ins_boat} foreach units (group player)

this unassigns them from the vehicle, and forces the units to get out.

if this still doesnt work, you need to use:

{_x action ["getOut", ins_boat]} foreach units (group player)

this code forces all units (including the player) to get out as the action is being used (player has no choice but to get out)

---------- Post added at 11:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:38 PM ----------

Not problem with disembarking ... my trouble is the waypoint script ... i want something like this:

doMove can be checked using unitReady

so for condition use:

if (unitReady Thisguy) then {
doMove

[Zipper5 74]

Speaking from experience I don't think you should be attempting to make a campaign right now, especially if you're asking such basic scripting questions as these.

Start off small, make a SP mission or two, maybe a MP coop if you're feeling confident enough, and once you're more knowledgeable in the workings of mission making and scripting in ARMA 2, give making this campaign a try again. If you jump straight into campaign making at this stage in your mission making adventures I'm afraid I can only see you either getting stuck, demotivated, or disappointed with the final product (assuming you don't take 2 years to make it and learn everything there is to know about making it while doing so). Also, be aware that it takes a significant amount of time and effort to make a decent campaign. Just some friendly advice.

Also, this is more of a scripting topic so it should have been posted in the Editing section. Moving now.

[mortyfero99 10]

Tnx for help mates !!

I've almost done 1st mission ... I'm looking over mission creation since long time (I feel i know lot about that)... my only trouble as i said are the scripts ... They are totally alien for me :confused: and cause of my job i don't have enough time to study them ...

But i have many community script to use :D so i just need a couple new and no more ...

Btw I've solved the waypoint problem using triggers and simples public variables ...

Now have only the problem of the "mysquad facedirection".

[demonized 20]

Now have only the problem of the "mysquad facedirection".

setFormDir

[mortyfero99 10]

I've wrote a script for it, but I'm sure it's a total crap ... :j:

Here it is ...

_degree = FormationDirection player;

_format = formation group player;

if ( _format == "column")

then

{

"man1" setDir (_degree + 90);

"man2" setDir (_degree + 270);

"man3" setDir (_degree + 180);

};

else

{

"man1" setDir _degree;

"man2" setDir _degree;

"man3" setDir _degree;

};

Still have no time to test it ... Do you think it could work ??

[mortyfero99 10]

Not working bucause

SetFormDir change the direction of my whole formation and

SetDir change the direction of every separate man but after 1 second they return back watching in the original direction ... :mad:

[demonized 20]

this has obvious non dynamic issues but it gives an effect:

doWatch

[mortyfero99 10]

Already tried also dowatch but I need to give a target and not a direction, so it doesn't work ...

[demonized 20]

just find or create a position in the direction you want to watch and watch that.