Radio question

[RAMBO 0]

I'm making a mission in which the Russians invade a town, and the civilians run for protection in the next town which is guarded by US trroops.

Now My problem is, that when I set AI commander I need him to call for radio support when he sees, for example, more then 20 enemy troops. Then I also want him able to make a radio call on a certain waypoint or trigger.

What is the command to make him use RADIO ALPHA or BRAVO or .........

and how can I make him detect certain number of enemy?

N.B. there will be about 5 enemy squads around.

Thanks

[RAMBO 0]

WELL??

NO ONE KNOWS?

Can't anyone help me?

[LauryThorn 0]

About that "count detected enemies" thing..

Do you have any ideas yourself?

I was thinking, that maybe you could solve your problem like

this..

Name those enemy squads, and the AI commander.

Then make a script in which you check how many soldiers

of those squads have the cmdr spotted

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;; How many enemies can ai_cmdr spot without making

;; a call for support

_limit = 20

;; The time that the script should sleep between the

;; calculations

_sleep_time = 5

#loop

~_sleep_time

;; Count how many units of squad 1 has ai_cmdr spotted

_s_1 = "ai_cmdr knowsAbout _x" count units enemy_squad_1

_s_2 = "ai_cmdr knowsAbout _x" count units enemy_squad_2

_s_3 = "ai_cmdr knowsAbout _x" count units enemy_squad_3

.

.

.

;; sum all the spotted enemies

_total_enemies_spotted = _s1 + _s2 + _s3 + ...

;; if condition not met, continue looping.

?( _total_enemies_spotted < _limit ) : goto "loop"

;; Set a global variable true, make a trigger to do the

;; actual call for support

ai_call_for_support = true

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Notice that this is just an idea, but I hope it helps..

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Why do you want him to use radio?

AI can't "use" radio.

When player uses Radio Alpha for example, it just makes

some variable come true, and that generates some

events, like reinforcement squad moving, radio message playing..

What exactly do you want to achieve with that radio call?

[RAMBO 0]

Well, ok then I'll make it with a trrigger, that when they detect enemy the variable becomes true and the waypoint were they wait to be called I'll make it expected.

But 1 thing, in MP mode I want the Allies Leader to use radio, now if I use radioo for MP in the Waypoints of the support I need to make ( for example gogo==1 ) , should I make another trigger (like the RADIO ALPHA , in which there's GOGO=1 ,in activation ) as EAST DETECTED by WEST and on Activation I make GOGO=1 ?

[Chris Death 0]

Hi Rambo, tell me by using the messenger what

time of day (and what timezone you live in) you are

online. I'll tell ya on icq something more about

how to solve it.

~S~ CD

[beno_83au 1369]

Well, for the radio, what you do is this;

Say the commanders name is cmd. In the triggers/waypoints initialization type:

cmd sidechat "Hey, I need some help.";

or whatever. I think there's other chat commands but I dunno, that one works for me. I think the "" gotta be there too. Hope that's what you were looking for.

[RAMBO 0]

Hey out there, Can no one give me an exact script to put in Trigger to count the enemy??

[Chris Death 0]

Rambo - if you remember, what we discussed earlier,

TriggerA: east detected by west - once - don't forget to name the trigger

TriggerB: condition field: count list TriggerA == 20

I've just tried it and the triggerB becomes active, as soon

as 20 units were detected inside Trigger A's area

~S~ CD

:edit: off course, if you want to have more than 20 units

to be detected, to activate the trigger, then you need:

count list triggerA == 21