Help With Making A Rescue Mission For ARMA 2

[Phonix644 10]

Hey Guy,

Let me start of by saying I’m trying to find out how to do this in ARMA 2 Not ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead - I made a thread last week and someone replied with a really good link - but the example was for OA so ARMA 2 please.

I'm trying to make a mission where there is a hostage that needs to be rescued. I'm trying to make it so that he is guarded by enemy forces (OPFOR) but won’t get shoot unless he is recused (starts following the humans).

I don’t know how to make them not shoot the hostage unless he has been rescued can this be done with a trigger or something?

I would like it if when we come in range of the hostage he will follow us, if the enemies around the hostage are killed he will follow us or even better if a human can go up to the hostage and tell the hostage to follow. How would you do this?

Lastly how do you make a unit start moving on a waypoint after the hostage has been rescued or even better how would you make a unit start moving on a waypoint on a command like if I can press a button and a helicopter will come - and how would you make a helicopter land and take off when all the people are inside?

Thanks Highly Appreciate The Help! :D

[demonized 20]

read the guide in my sig by Mr Murray, its old, but it solves alot of the things you want.

and also it shows how to do many many things in many different ways.

[Phonix644 10]

read the guide in my sig by Mr Murray, its old, but it solves alot of the things you want.

and also it shows how to do many many things in many different ways.

uhh thanks mate for the quick response, but that really dosent answer any of my questions :/ though the flare thing is interesting

But other than that I still need help with the rest of the questions please

[kylania 568]

Ahh. I'll make A2 versions of those Hostage demos for you tomorrow. :)

[demonized 20]

you are obviously very new to editing arma, since you dont know about setCaptive.

search in the guide for captive and you find answer.

also search on forums for captive, hostage, rescue etc yields a ton of answers.

for the join part, use join, wich is also well described in the guide about groups.

also use triggers with opfor not present or other alive checks to make sure they are dead before joining, also well described in the guide.

and for taxi part, heli coming, there is alot of info in the guide about how to achive that too, but it has been released several taxi scripts on forums here aswell.

Again, use search function on forums, your answers have been answered many times before.

You need to put in a little effort as well, reading the guide to get a grasp on how scripting and editing works, doing some research, at least hit the search button a few times for good measure.

also this site has many different useful examples varying from easy to advanced.

http://www.kylania.com/ex/?page_id=72

if you dont want to bother with putting in some effort yourself, simply ask if someone can just make it for you because you are lazy. no offence :)

[Phonix644 10]

you are obviously very new to editing arma, since you dont know about setCaptive.

search in the guide for captive and you find answer.

also search on forums for captive, hostage, rescue etc yields a ton of answers.

for the join part, use join, wich is also well described in the guide about groups.

also use triggers with opfor not present or other alive checks to make sure they are dead before joining, also well described in the guide.

and for taxi part, heli coming, there is alot of info in the guide about how to achive that too, but it has been released several taxi scripts on forums here aswell.

Again, use search function on forums, your answers have been answered many times before.

You need to put in a little effort as well, reading the guide to get a grasp on how scripting and editing works, doing some research, at least hit the search button a few times for good measure.

also this site has many different useful examples varying from easy to advanced.

http://www.kylania.com/ex/?page_id=72

if you dont want to bother with putting in some effort yourself, simply ask if someone can just make it for you because you are lazy. no offence :)

Ok well let’s see, yes I am new to scripting - been doing a bit of editing but I have already searched a lot of the forums and there is not really much information at all on these topics except for making a helicopter move after something happened (trigger).

As for the link you gave me I have searched it and it gave me information for ARMA 2: OA!

So you stating that I am somehow 'lazy' by you Assuming that I have not searched is an invalid point, why else would I be posting on the forum?

Anyway you are the one who doesn’t know how to post properly seeing that you didn’t answer my question in anyway and just put links to posts that You made that are irrelevant, no offence :D.

---------- Post added at 08:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:18 AM ----------

Ahh. I'll make A2 versions of those Hostage demos for you tomorrow. :)

Cool thanks heaps mate - I saw you one on OA but only got ARMA 2 so this will help heaps

Edited August 9, 2011 by Phonix644

[demonized 20]

Fyi, links in my sig is permanent, you edit those in your profile, notice they are in every one of my posts, and has nothing to do at all with your questions.

Regarding the link to the sample site by kylania, btw thats the guy giving you A2 demo tomorrow, i said it had alot of useful stuff (since you being new and all).

you didn’t answer my question in anyway

answers to your question was given.

1: setCaptive.

2: join.

3: trigger usage.

4: tips on searching, and already done scripts.

And a final note, i didnt say you were lazy, or atleast didnt mean it like that, just said that IF you were just SAY so.

But i see you can percieve that as a rude comment, also since you actually didnt read the info/answers i gave :)

Anyway :)

[Phonix644 10]

Fyi, links in my sig is permanent, you edit those in your profile, notice they are in every one of my posts, and has nothing to do at all with your questions.

Regarding the link to the sample site by kylania, btw thats the guy giving you A2 demo tomorrow, i said it had alot of useful stuff (since you being new and all).

answers to your question was given.

1: setCaptive.

2: join.

3: trigger usage.

4: tips on searching, and already done scripts.

And a final note, i didnt say you were lazy, or atleast didnt mean it like that, just said that IF you were just SAY so.

But i see you can percieve that as a rude comment, also since you actually didnt read the info/answers i gave :)

Anyway :)

Ok then my apologies I didn’t realise that was not part of your message my bad :P

And I guess u weren’t trying to be mean (even though you sounded a bit like it) so sorry if I was a bit rude.

Anyway I understand you are trying to help with the above points, but like I’ve said I already tried searching couldn’t really find anything but it doesn’t really matter anymore since kylania said he would make a sample mission of one tomorrow so it’s all good ty :)

[galzohar 31]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setCaptive

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/joinSilent

and maybe also: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

(probably only the first 2 parameters of addAction are actually important for what you're trying to do)