Benbone 1 Posted January 31, 2012 Dear Experts, I searched a lot but without success for a solution to this problem: I have an empty vehicle on the map, let's say a chopper. Now a player of either east or west is taking over the vehicle by entering it as a driver. What I want now is, that the vehicle would appear on the rader in the propper colour according to the side of the player who is occupying it. E.g. if a western player is taking the controls of the vehicle, it should appear for all western players as green and for all eastern players as red on their radar. And vice versa, if an easten player gets into the vehicle, it shall appear green for all eastern players adn red for all BlueFor. Instead, it always appears relative to the vehicles "origin" in the basic cfg. So if the vehicle is a AH1Z, it will always appear green to all western players and red to all eastern players. This means, that a western player can not get a lock onto the target, even though the vehicle is controled by the other side. How can I get around this problem ? Have you ever had the same requirement ? I seached for keywords *** change side vehicle *** but no results. Thank you very much for your kind support ! Benbone, from UNA Clan - Eagle Squad Leader Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
demonized 20 Posted January 31, 2012 you cannot get around this, its a very known issue for those who love dogfights and uses "enemy" jets. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benbone 1 Posted February 1, 2012 Hello Demonized, thank you very much for your answer even though it was not what I wanted to hear :-) But this is not your fault. So if this is a known issue and there is no real solution to change the side of a vehicle, how do you walk around this problem ? Do you use propper vehicles for both sides, like west only A10 and east only frogfoot ? Is there any best practice to get at least as close as possible to a solution using a work around or "dirty" trick ? Any idea ? Thank you for your kind answer ! Benbone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benbone 1 Posted February 1, 2012 Thanks for your reply, Demonized, even though it was not what I wanted to hear, but this is not your fault :-) So if this is a standard problem and there is no propper solution for this, is there any workaround ? Is there a way to put the vehicle to a side that is enemy to everybody ? How can this be controlled if not using the side ? Is there any alternative way within the given framework of the game ? Thank you very much for your kind answers ! Benbone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
demonized 20 Posted February 2, 2012 the radars work via config files, detecting original side of vehicle instead of the crew, though this makes sense as a a-10 in the real world would most likely be viewed as a western vehicle and migs a eastern. the only workaround, is to create a mod/addon, and switch the side of the vehicle or add multiple sides of it. you cannot script it or anything else atm, mod or addon is needed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benbone 1 Posted February 16, 2012 Thanks a lot for your answers, Demonized. Now I know that what I intented to do is not possible as such. Sorry for asking twice more or less the same thing, I just did not expect a thing like that to be quite impossible, but the explanation you gave is conclusive. Maybe in the next ArmA game they will untie a bit the relation between a vehicle and the side. Thanks again ! Benbone - www.united-nations-army.eu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
