Way to send enemy units to attack you when detected

[colosseum 34]

All,

I'm working on a downed pilot game set on Lingor. I've got patrolling An-2s and UH-1Hs, and I want to create a trigger so that a squad of motorized infantry in Land Rovers are sent to attack the player at their current location when the OPFOR aircraft detect them. Is this as simple as giving the OPFOR ground team a Seek and destroy waypoint that gets activated by a BLUFOR detected by OPFOR trigger or is there more to it?

Thanks very much,

Ian

[froggyluv 2130]

You could give the enemy a Hold waypoint synced to a blufor detected trigger. Make sure you set the trigger to "Switch". This will then release them from the Hold and send them to their next waypoint aka..Seek/Destroy; Move etc...

[Lolsagna 10]

On this subject does anyone know what scripting is needed to create a new waypoint at the groups current position? Thanks

[twirly 11]

Like this mate..... with addWaypoint

_wp = _squad addWaypoint [getpos (leader squad), 0];

[_squad, 1] setWaypointCompletionRadius 10;
[_squad, 1] setWaypointType "MOVE";
[_squad, 1] setWaypointBehaviour "AWARE";
[_squad, 1] setWaypointCombatMode "RED";
[_squad, 1] setWaypointSpeed "FULL";
[_squad, 1] setWaypointFormation "LINE";
[_squad, 1] setWaypointTimeOut [30,120,60];
[_squad, 1] setWaypointStatements ["true", ""];

This would be a good place to bookmark... The Scripting Commands.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands

[Lolsagna 10]

thanks mate, helps alot:)

[colosseum 34]

My problem is that the player could be in any number of areas, and the enemy ground team needs to be sent to the area where they are detected.

ArmA2 doesn't seem to have an editor dynamic for "Ground team, this is Air Team, enemy spotted at grid 052101", with the ground team then heading there to attack.

Any ideas?

[twirly 11]

No... you have to create something like that yourself with one of the various methods of outputting text to the screen. There was a thread on hints recently.

You have to give the enemy ground team a name.... lets say... enemy_grp1

You can do this by adding this code to the Init of the leader of the enemy group:-

enemy_grp1 = group this;

In the trigger that detects your player... you add something like this to the OnAct:-

wp = enemy_grp1 addWaypoint [getpos player, 0];

Not too sure about the addWaypoint bit. Whether the waypoint will kick in.... that depends on if they have other waypoints to complete first. But give it a try. It's heading you in the right direction anyway :)

Edited October 6, 2011 by twirly

[wiggum2 31]

You could also try my script i posted here:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=125487

Not sure if it is exactly what you want but...

[colosseum 34]

Thanks guys. I will try both.

Is there a script like removeWaypoint? I figure if I make the BLUFOR detected by OPFOR trigger set to activate repeatedly, the script will need to remove all of the ground team's previous waypoints and then give them the new waypoint at the player's position.

[st_dux 26]

setCurrentWaypoint is what you need.