How to change unit setcaptive status when it gets near certain moving units?

[CaptainBravo 0]

I have a mission where player is settocaptive true. However that changes to setcaptive false when he gets within 10 meters from specific enemy patrol units that are moving. I thought about attaching a trigger to each enemy moving patrol unit but that seems not so optimized. Is there a better smoother way of doing it?

Thanks.

[Charles Darwin 10]

attach trigger to the captive..when activated by enemy forces..setcaptive false?

OOh specific patrols..is there a way you could put a specific unit in each of the moving patrols?

IE enemy in trigger area..checks if it iskindof "enemygrenadier"

if it is not grenadier nothing happens..if it is grenadier it will setcaptive false

[CaptainBravo 0]

attach trigger to the captive..when activated by enemy forces..setcaptive false?

OOh specific patrols..is there a way you could put a specific unit in each of the moving patrols?

IE enemy in trigger area..checks if it iskindof "enemygrenadier"

if it is not grenadier nothing happens..if it is grenadier it will setcaptive false

This is a good idea. Actually each of the enemy patrols have a dog. So just place dog classname in iskindof "dogclassname" should work? WIll have to test.

OK, tested quick and did not work. Not sure why.

Have trigger with this in activation: This iskindof "Pastor"

Attached trigger to player "radio1 attachTo [warlord,[0,0,0]];" but when he moves to dog nothing happens. Any ideas?

Edited February 2, 2012 by CaptainBravo

[Charles Darwin 10]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2:_CfgVehicles

[CaptainBravo 0]

Thanks Charles. I updated post after you posted. Even with classname, trigger is not activating. What am I missing?

[Charles Darwin 10]

{(_x iskindof "classname") count thislist > 0} in the activation field of the trigger should do it

Oh I don't know if atachto works for triggers lemme see what I can find

ok 30 seconds on google seems to say it can work the way you are doing it..let me know

Edited February 2, 2012 by Charles Darwin

[CaptainBravo 0]

You can attach a trigger and it will activate By Blue/Russian side present. However trying to activate it by animal class name does not seem to work.

I am using in condition: {!(_x iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;

A bit confusing as it should work ... so what is missing?

[Charles Darwin 10]

set it to be activated by anybody and see what that does.

might be this as well

{!(_x iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;

try:

{(_x !iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;

[CaptainBravo 0]

set it to be activated by anybody and see what that does.

might be this as well

{!(_x iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;

try:

{(_x !iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;

I get a syntax error with {(_x !iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0

Does attach trigger work with class names?

[Charles Darwin 10]

no reason it shouldn't try it with the trigger set to anybody(as apposed to blufor-opfor). If not Im not sure you could attach an object to every one of the dogs and then hide them.

[CaptainBravo 0]

I have set the trigger to activate with anybody present with condition "{!(_x iskindof "Fin")} count thislist > 0;" Problem is it activates right away since player is inside trigger even though the dogs are not inside trigger yet. It seems as the trigger is ignoring that condition and activating right away.

I am not sure what step is missed here. Any ideas?

Attaching trigger to dogs is the other possibility, but dogs will be spawned later and I am not sure how about to attach a trigger t each spawning dog.:confused:

Edited February 2, 2012 by CaptainBravo

[Charles Darwin 10]

and you tried with just {(_x iskindof "Fin")} correct?

[CaptainBravo 0]

and you tried with just {(_x iskindof "Fin")} correct?

I have tried that and got a syntax error. I have almost given up on the trigger solution as it seems more complicated that I thought. Any other ideas? :rage:

[Rydygier 1309]

specific enemy patrol units that are moving.

How much specific? If this may be unit with certain name, it is easy:

1. Set not attached to anybody trigger.

2. It's conditions (without "this"): ((player distance NameOfUnitWithCertainName) <= 10)

3. It's act field: player setCaptive false;

If it is about only unit of certain kind with any name, then there will be more complex condition:

((player distance ((getPos player) nearestObject "HereInputChosenKindOfUnit")) <= 10);

If BIKI description is accurate, this will work for radius up to 50 meters if you want to set it wider.

Edited February 3, 2012 by Rydygier

[demonized 20]

you can also use the count check as condition if its to check for player distance to any members of multiple groups...

({({player distance _x <= 10} count units _x) != 0} count [groupname1,groupname2,groupname3]) != 0

[CaptainBravo 0]

Thanks guys, all the soloutions you proposed are working prefect! I have more than one way to do it now. I appreciate it. Thanks again.