Need help with setting up air extract\insertion

[wawa 10]

Hi, so this issue I am having is for creating multiple markers on the Mission... using the name's of each marker and assigning two individual SQF files for either Extraction or Insertion. But long story short, I want to make a currently placed Black Hawk on the mission provide either Extraction or Insertion by Radio Commands. So, I set up a Black Hawk with the label "BH01". This was named in order to call the associated in-game object with a variable called _BH01 in a SQF file. So after doing this, I wanted to set a waypoint for _BH01 to go to a Marker named "BHWP1", which is stored into a variable called _BHWP1... and then I placed a trigger with Radio Alpha and in the INIT field, I carefully placed nul = [bH01] ExecVM "Scripts\Extract.sqf". But, I never could get the SQF code to compile without errors in the debug, so I thought I would drop by here and get some additional support. If anyone who understands the ArmA 2 script language, post me the accurate way of going about coding a Waypoint for an Existing unit in the game. It would be not only helpful to my mission, but educational for future reference in scripting. I have some experience with other scripting languages, Unreal Script v1.0... Quake... C++ and some HTML\CSS.

//Object = vehicle "unitName" <-- ???

_start = getMarkerPos "BHWP1"; // Find the Marker, can be used for extraction\insertion

_end = getMarkerPos "BHWP2"; // location of drop off.

_BH01 = vehicle "BH01";

_BH01 setBehaviour "CARELESS";

_BHWP1 addWaypoint [_start, 0];

_BHWP1 setwaypointtype "TR Unload";

/*

waitUntil{{_x in transporthelo} count units group _unit == 0};

Sleep 3;

_BHWP2 = _bhGroup addWaypoint [_end, 0];

_BHWP2 setwaypointtype "MOVE";

_BHWP2 setwaypointstatements ["True", ""];

*/

I know I've jumped on the boat a little late here, but I want to get a little experienced with A2 Code so I can possible start producing some Weapons and other mods into ArmA.

Edited August 18, 2013 by wawa

[forzajuve 21]

could be a workaround by not using scripts. for your situation I'd use 2 helicopters or alternatively, you could make the helicopter do an insertion then land somewhere else and hold 'engineoff' with radio triggers, then place more waypoints after for extraction.

[xxanimusxx 2]

unitName could be misleading in case that you looked the command "vehicle" up in BIKI - it doesn't mean the string representation of the unit, but the reference to it.

In you're case you don't even need to use vehicle because you already have a variable with a reference to your blackhawk: BH01.

The name you assign your vehicles in the editor are actually global variables pointing to that vehicle (you even used that variable upon calling extract.sqf as a parameter).

//Object = _this select 0; <-- ???
_start = getMarkerPos "BHWP1"; // Find the Marker, can be used for extraction\insertion
_end = getMarkerPos "BHWP2"; // location of drop off.
BH01 setBehaviour "CARELESS";
BH01 addWaypoint [_end, 0];
BH01 setwaypointtype "TR Unload";

This piece of code should instruct your blackhawk to fly to the marker BHWP2 and unload every passenger not in the same group as the pilot/copilot.

What you tried to do was assigning a new waypoint to a string :D

_BHWP1/2 are just strings, and you can't assign anything to strings.

[wawa 10]

could be a workaround by not using scripts. for your situation I'd use 2 helicopters or alternatively, you could make the helicopter do an insertion then land somewhere else and hold 'engineoff' with radio triggers, then place more waypoints after for extraction.

Yeah, I thought of this actually... it would work fine in a mission. I just figured the the idea of using Marker labels as waypoints could be a little more powerful... but I am still not getting the code right. Though, I was assuming the names\labels for the objects in the game were callable in the SQF. I think I had it all wrong xD

But still, I am looking for some reference to this... it would take days of trial and error if not.

---------- Post added at 19:10 ---------- Previous post was at 19:08 ----------

unitName could be misleading in case that you looked the command "vehicle" up in BIKI - it doesn't mean the string representation of the unit, but the reference to it.

In you're case you don't even need to use vehicle because you already have a variable with a reference to your blackhawk: BH01.

The name you assign your vehicles in the editor are actually global variables pointing to that vehicle (you even used that variable upon calling extract.sqf as a parameter).

//Object = _this select 0; <-- ???
_start = getMarkerPos "BHWP1"; // Find the Marker, can be used for extraction\insertion
_end = getMarkerPos "BHWP2"; // location of drop off.
BH01 setBehaviour "CARELESS";
BH01 addWaypoint [_end, 0];
BH01 setwaypointtype "TR Unload";

This piece of code should instruct your blackhawk to fly to the marker BHWP2 and unload every passenger not in the same group as the pilot/copilot.

What you tried to do was assigning a new waypoint to a string :D

_BHWP1/2 are just strings, and you can't assign anything to strings.

Thankyou for giving me some code :)

I have a Tutorial on ArmA SQF Script atm, but I am still using bad parameters and that takes basic index knowledge. It will come with experience!

[nimrod_z 8]

there is a transport script already made that uses marker waypoints. this is one of many im sure.

http://www.kylania.com/ex/?p=47

[wawa 10]

Ah yes, I used some of it as reference before... but then I thought to myself about just using an existing chopper with a name. Useful code though, it is basically what I am doing!