Direction of a spawned vehicle or item?

[Kydoimos 915]

Hi all! Is there a way to set the direction a spawned vehicle or item is facing? What's the script for this? I've tried this setdirection 90, etc. but no success!

[Beerkan 71]

Point the marker where the vehicle spawns in the direction you want the spawned vehicle to face.

[Kydoimos 915]

Thanks, but that's not what I mean. I mean, how do you select the direction of a 'scripted' spawn vehicle or item. For instance, if you spawn a weapon on the ground, or if you spawn a vehicle or building using a script, how do you set the azimuth?

[kylania 567]

Use setDir setDirection is for map locations not objects.

[Kydoimos 915]

I'm using an invisible helipad with the script:

wreck = "Land_Wreck_Offroad_F" createVehicle position this; deleteVehicle this;

But I can't set the azimuth, not even by rotating the original helipad object marker...

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That's fantastic Kylania - thanks again, works perfectly.

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I wonder if there's a similar command to set the elevation? I've had a look on the Arma3 scripting list and couldn't see anything obvious.

[kylania 567]

Elevation is a bit tricky. It's gotten easier in the editor for scripting you have to do it the long way:

An object's location has 3 elements, X, Y and Z. The Z is the elevation. X and Y are it's coordinates. So you'll setPos it to it's same location only with a higher Z.

this setPosATL [getPosATL this select 0, getPosATL this select 1, 200];

So that example keeps the object in it's same X,Y location but puts it 200 meters up on the Z axis, 200 meters "up".

I used setPosATL (above terrain level) since it's spectacularly faster than normal setPos. Also you usually only care about above terrain but sometimes you care about sea level so use setPosASL for that or be lazy and slow and use setPos. :)

[Kydoimos 915]

You genius! Thanks so much! Works like a gem! Going to have some fun now I can place objects and control their direction and elevation etc. Cheers!