Making certain Ai's playable via a trigger.

[frankiie 10]

I was kinda wanting to lock the player into a position for a beggining of a mission, sort of a scene since I set up the Ai to do everything, and it's like a ambush and stuff like that.

and I was wondering if you could make Ai playble on a trigger? So you can switch to them after the scene is over and stuff. :) Anything is helpful.

[froggyluv 2136]

Hi, take a look here http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/enableTeamSwitch

Probably pretty easy to add to your Activation field once your trigger is fired.

[frankiie 10]

Thanks, so what I put into the trigger that is supposed to let Ai playable was "enableTeamSwitch enable".

Didn't seem to work. I suck at this, am I putting in the right thing, or missing something?

[froggyluv 2136]

This works:

addSwitchableUnit 'UnitName'

without the actual '' s. Just name the unit you want to be switchable and add it after addSwitchable in the Trigger Activation box. Example: addSwitchable Fred

Edited June 5, 2013 by froggyluv

[froggyluv 2136]

^^^ Did you get this to work?

[frankiie 10]

After trying to figure it out for an hour I finally got it.

thanks for helping :)

[Magirot 14]

So is it best to use both setPlayable and addSwitchableUnit?

[frankiie 10]

So is it best to use both setPlayable and addSwitchableUnit?

just use "addSwitchableUnit unitname" in the trigger activation. Simple and it works awesome

[Magirot 14]

Yeah, it seems to work. I'm still wondering what's the difference between them... I remember that I tried setPlayable in Arma 2, when I didn't know of addSwitchableUnit, but it didn't work for me back then. Does setPlayable maybe add the unit as selectable when you join the server, but doesn't make it respawnable when you die in-game, while addSwitchableUnit does the opposite? I have to try to test them, I guess.

[frankiie 10]

Yeah, it seems to work. I'm still wondering what's the difference between them... I remember that I tried setPlayable in Arma 2, when I didn't know of addSwitchableUnit, but it didn't work for me back then. Does setPlayable maybe add the unit as selectable when you join the server, but doesn't make it respawnable when you die in-game, while addSwitchableUnit does the opposite? I have to try to test them, I guess.

Not really sure.. Although be aware that I tested if "addSwitchableUnit" works in MP LAN. And it does not work, only in Scenarios and Editor.

[froggyluv 2136]

Yeah there is no Teamswitch in MP but I have seen hack around scripts for Arma2 that had it working.