Teleport to roof?

[SRBuckey5266 3]

If there is a building that has no stairs in it, but I want to teleport to the roof....how would I go about getting the correct height? I know how to write the script, but is there a way to make the script detect the correct height to put the player at? I don't want to spawn to high and die, or spawn to low and be stuck in the building.

[MissileMoose 10]

I'm unaware of any command to automate this, so would recommend you place a unit down in the editor and try to find the correct height manually. setPosATL works in meters, it shouldn't be too difficult. A command that snaps the height to the object collision box would be great.

[xxanimusxx 2]

Yeah getting the collision box would ease the things considerably, but you could try to use something similar: boundingBox

Please note that the building needs to have a flat roof, if there are towers or something else sticking out of it, the boundingBox will be respectively higher and you'd fall from midair and crush your bones ^^

There another command named buildingPos which you could loop through and take the position with the highest Z-value, but thats more of a gamble though, since having a building position on the roof isn't mandatory.

Both ways are too unreliable and could cause more harm than good... I can remember to have read a thread about positioning AI on rooftops in this forum and I can remember that there was a script floating around for that... but I can't remember the thread name ^^

Edited June 23, 2013 by XxAnimusxX

[miscology 10]

No, I searched for this before and couldn't find it. The closest you can get is BoundingBox which is always a lot higher than the building, and not really useful at getting a rooftop height. I ended up just making array of all the building heights I needed.

As a workaround you can do something like this

_boundsMin = boundingBox model select 0;
_boundsMax = boundingBox model select 1;
_buildingATL = GetPosATL _building select 2;

_boxHeight = (_boundsMax select 2)-(_boundsMin select 2);


Player allowdamage false;
//set the player's position to the boundingbox height
Player setPosATL [Position _building select 0,Position _building select 1,(Position _building select 2) +_boxHeight];
sleep 2; //wait for him to fall to the rooftop before enabling damage again.

Player allowdamage true;

[f2k sel 164]

I use trigger for positioning objects on roofs such as static weapons and sandbags.

trig cond true

on act obj_name setpos getopos thistrigger

The advantage is that it is invisible and you can move it around and don't have to keep adjusting the height .