Urban Patrol Script

[mikhail 10]

Hello

I was hoping I could get some help. (I'm not a coder so you might have to spell this out for me.)

What I'm trying to do:

I'm trying to created groups of AI that will spawn at certain locations, patrol, then re-spawn after they are killed. (ie like bandits/soldier ai in dayz epoch) I'm trying to use Kronzy's script with an ai re-spawn script that supposed to work with UPS (armaholic dot com/page.php?id=6540) (sorry can't post links yet)

Mission set up:

BlueFor/OpFor for players and independents as AI.

Issues

The respawn script says to post this in the group leader init:

nul = [this, 3, 10, "E_Spawn","East_Patrol"] execVM "AI_respawn_UPS\AI_respawn_UPS_init.sqf";

Kronzy's script says to post this in the group leader init:

nul=[this,"East_Patrol","NOWAIT","NOSLOW"] execVM "ups.sqf"

(yes I want to use the nowait and noslow commands, otherwise they stand around until enemy's come by)

So how do I go about doing this?

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.

[jcae2798 132]

This is awesome man, use it all the time and credits in my mission.

One bug i'm sure its probably been mentioned but if not:

The RANDOMDN script doesnt seem to work. It spawns the units outside of houses and has them do a regular portal just lke RANDOM does. This would be helpful if fixed so i dont have to place units inside house manually :)

[L3TUC3 32]

Just chiming in to say that the combat/aware thing is still happening. I have two patrols who instantly go into combat, but the others appear to work fine. I think they're spawned slightly too close to the enemy, but moving them further didn't seem to do anything.

I do have a mix of sides patrolling, if that's any help. Independent is friendly to everyone, OPFOR and BLUFOR are hostile.

[Mattnum 10]

Hey L3,

Is it possible to spawn your groups one at a time, and before the enemy enters their patrol marker area? I have this experienced this a lot and did some minor testing I posted about on Armaholic.

http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&p=155371#155371

[L3TUC3 32]

Hey L3,

Is it possible to spawn your groups one at a time, and before the enemy enters their patrol marker area? I have this experienced this a lot and did some minor testing I posted about on Armaholic.

http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&p=155371#155371

I could, but that's really more of a PITA than it's worth. No enemy enters the zone for a while.

I do have a couple of overlapping zones.

It looks like you have to make sure to put *every* unit that's in a zone to setBehaviour "SAFE" or make them a UPS patrol even if they're not intended to be patrolling. With a bit of creative "NOMOVE" things work out pretty well.

[bhyatt 10]

The script seems to not work when I use CAF Aggressors, is this just for me or does this script only work for CSAT forces?

[jandrews 116]

has anyone been able to use this with headless client?

[memphisbelle 99]

At first I want to say thanks Kronzky for this great script.

The script seems to not work when I use CAF Aggressors, is this just for me or does this script only work for CSAT forces?

I am using this with CAF Agressors 1.5 and it works actually quite well, only thing I am figuring is that cloned units dont recieve the same equipment as the parent unit. If I assign a NV Goggle to the original unit so the clones wont have some...how can I fix that?

EDIT:

in the script there´s the part where the clones are getting created (line 469 and around), but they dont recieve the NVGoggles although the actual unit get one. What do I have to do to become the clones equipped with NVGoggles as well?

I tried this but it doesnt work:

{
		_c=_c+1;
		if (_c>1) then {
			_newunit = _grp createUnit [typeof _x, getpos _x, [],0,"form"];
			KRON_cloneindex = KRON_cloneindex+1;
			_newunit setVehicleVarName format["%1%2",_nameprefix,KRON_cloneindex];
			call compile format["%1%2=_newunit",_nameprefix,KRON_cloneindex];
			_newunit setBehaviour _orgMode;
			_newunit setSpeedMode _orgSpeed;
			_newunit setSkill skill _x;
			[b][color="#FF0000"]_newunit addWeapon "NVGoggles"; [/color][/b] [color="#0000FF"]I also tried this: _newunit addWeapon {NVGoggles}; [/color]
			//_newunit setVehicleInit _initstr;
			[_newunit] join _grp;
		};

any advices in this matter?

Edited June 16, 2014 by MemphisBelle

[Beerkan 71]

NVGoggles are now a linked item, ie. you need to linkitem

e.g.

//Give Unit Essential items
{_newunit linkItem _x} forEach ["ItemWatch", "ItemGPS", "ItemRadio", "ItemCompass", "ItemMap", "NVGoggles"];_newunit addweapon "Binocular";

However, NVGoggles are also now side dependant.

where side = linkitem name

for

Opfor it's "NVGoggles_OPFOR"

Independant it's "NVGoggles_INDEP"

BluFor it's "NVGoggles"

therefore you'd need to add something like this.

N.B. This will remove NVGoggles if it's daylight hours and only assign them at night, or if night is approaching.

if ("NVGoggles" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles";_x removeitem "NVGoggles";};
if ("NVGoggles_OPFOR" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";_x removeitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";};
if ("NVGoggles_INDEP" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";_x removeitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";};
if ((date select 3) < 6 or (date select 3) > 18)
then {
	if (side _newunit == EAST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";};
	if (side _newunit == WEST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles";};
	if (side _newunit == RESISTANCE) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";};
	};

Edited July 10, 2014 by Beerkan

[memphisbelle 99]

....

Thanks for this, do I simply put this right into the code block like this?

{
_c=_c+1;
if (_c>1) then {
_newunit = _grp createUnit [typeof _x, getpos _x, [],0,"form"];
KRON_cloneindex = KRON_cloneindex+1;
_newunit setVehicleVarName format["%1%2",_nameprefix,KRON_cloneindex];
call compile format["%1%2=_newunit",_nameprefix,KRON_cloneindex];
_newunit setBehaviour _orgMode;
_newunit setSpeedMode _orgSpeed;
_newunit setSkill skill _x;
//Give Unit Essential items
       [color="#FF0000"]{_newunit linkItem _x} forEach["ItemWatch", "ItemGPS", "ItemRadio", "ItemCompass", "ItemMap", "NVGoggles"];
       _newunit addweapon "Binocular";  
       if (side _newunit == EAST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";};
       if (side _newunit == WEST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles";};
       if (side _newunit == INDEP) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";};  
[/color]//_newunit setVehicleInit _initstr;
[_newunit] join _grp;
		};

[Beerkan 71]

Well the following lines were just showing an example of how to use the new linkitems on a unit.

If you're going to add my suggestion into the code, then don't use these lines

{_newunit linkItem _x} forEach["ItemWatch", "ItemGPS", "ItemRadio", "ItemCompass", "ItemMap", "NVGoggles"];
_newunit addweapon "Binocular";

[memphisbelle 99]

Thanks, I am goin to try it

[Beerkan 71]

If you want to account for daylight hours, change the lines as below. With this change NVGoggles will now be assigned only during night time, or if night time is approaching. They will be removed during daylight hours.

Put this code in

if ("NVGoggles" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles";_x removeitem "NVGoggles";};
if ("NVGoggles_OPFOR" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";_x removeitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";};
if ("NVGoggles_INDEP" in assignedItems _x) then {_x unlinkitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";_x removeitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";};
if ((date select 3) < 6 or (date select 3) > 18)
then {
	if (side _newunit == EAST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_OPFOR";};
	if (side _newunit == WEST) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles";};
	if (side _newunit == RESISTANCE) then {_newunit linkitem "NVGoggles_INDEP";};
	};

Note the change of INDEP to RESISTANCE.

Edited July 10, 2014 by Beerkan

[DanBonehill 10]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use UPS in one of my missions.

All is going well, the units I want are patrolling the area, however as soon as I place an enemy unit they go out of "safe" mode and start acting like they are taking contact.

The enemy troops I am placing are over 1km away and through tree lines so there is no way they can be seen.

Any ideas or suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

I've made no amendments to the script and am using the below in the unit Init line

nul=[this,"Alpha"] execVM "ups.sqf"

The marker is name Alpha

Thanks

[Beerkan 71]

Are you using the latest UPS Script?

UPS v2.2.0 for ArmA3.zip

[Icaruk 14]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use UPS in one of my missions.

All is going well, the units I want are patrolling the area, however as soon as I place an enemy unit they go out of "safe" mode and start acting like they are taking contact.

The enemy troops I am placing are over 1km away and through tree lines so there is no way they can be seen.

Any ideas or suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

I've made no amendments to the script and am using the below in the unit Init line

nul=[this,"Alpha"] execVM "ups.sqf"

The marker is name Alpha

Thanks

I have the same problem.

Are you using the latest UPS Script?

UPS v2.2.0 for ArmA3.zip

Yes, the problem persists.

[Icaruk 14]

bump T_T

[DanBonehill 10]

Are you using the latest UPS Script?

UPS v2.2.0 for ArmA3.zip

Yeah I am using the latest version.

[usedragon 10]

I am also having that problem with the AI constant in combat when patrolling. When I delete all OPFOR from the map, it will worked fine. As soon as I put 1 bluefor person on the map doesn't matter where at. The AI will change to combat/weapons up while hes running.

[redarmy 422]

Hi Kronsky

Thanks for the script.

I have 3 questions actually.

1; im curious why this script is under user missions tab and not mission editing and scripting?wouldnt that be better?

2;Does this script interfere with bcombat or vice versa?

3;Is it ok to set patrolling groups to show/hide in the editor without any side effect?

Thanks again for extremely good tool for mission making

---------- Post added at 12:53 ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 ----------

Also having the problem with enemy in combat mode whenever other faction in map

[coldice4 10]

Is there way to use this script with the Spawn AI Module in the editor? (Modules/Misc/Spawn AI) I really would like to use this script with the module, but I just can't get the hang of it.

[dreadpirate 173]

Is there way to use this script with the Spawn AI Module in the editor? (Modules/Misc/Spawn AI) I really would like to use this script with the module, but I just can't get the hang of it.

There's an initialisation line in the module, you can call UPS from there.

(Not at my A3 PC, so I can't tell you in detail)

[Friedrich_Werner 10]

Was not able to identify this issue thrugh the 15 pages.

Really enjoy this script, and it has worked well for lan games. That being said, my friends are taking it to a new level with a server and this script is not working on our server atm. Thoughts?

[SAS_Raptor 30]

I have the combat mode issue too. Units patrol fine as long as they are on their own. But as soon as they see any other unit, be it friendly or civilian, they go into combat mode. However they don't react that way to the player or other UPS patrols. Makes this nice scripts quite useless :(

Edited January 12, 2015 by Raptor4223

[styxx42 0]

Kron, Thanks for this.

LOVED it in every iteration of Arma.

Thanks for this great work.