AI flying patrol with Player onboard

[schlonz75 1]

Hi everyone,

I’m just about to start learrning to build very simple missions with the editor in ARMA 3 Alpha, so I’m trying quite basic scenarios at first of course.

Now I wanted to set the following starting situation just out of interest:

The player should sit in the gunner/turret position in a helicopter that is already in the air, piloted by an AI pilot. The helicopter should fly certain waypoints, or at least one “loiter†waypoint.

I succeeded to get myself into the copilots’ seat

this moveInTurret [heli, [0]];

and the pilot at the controls

this moveInDriver heli;

But I can’t force the helicopter to fly certain waypoints as its an empty item (I assume thats the reason). I only can set waypoints for the pilot but he won’t fly them by himself. I always have to command him to fly to the next waypoint and even then the pilot doesn’t attack any enemy AI on the ground or in the air.

If I create a BLUEFOR helicopter I dont know how to get into it from the beginning. I always end up standing on the ground watching the chopper fly above me...

Is this too much ahead of me or can it be done quite easily even for me as a beginner?

I already searched for answers so far but didn’t find the proper ones. If I just overlooked them, just give me a link, I’m willing to learn by myself ;)

Thanks in advance.

Jens