Make enemy unit hostile only at certain distances

[yamajin82 10]

Hello, I am making a mission where you are patrolling from town to town and only want the enemy AI to engage if I am say within 50m of them or so. As of now I am getting essentially what I want with a trigger making me captive from the start, then when I enter their vicinity I have a trigger set to not captive, then once I have cleared out the enemy I have another trigger that sets me to captive again. This works to a certain extent but I was wondering if there is a more tidy and smart way of doing it? Thanks.

[yamajin82 10]

Nobody eh?

[lappihuan 178]

You could use:

disableAI "AUTOTARGET";

but i think your way is much simpler and does it's job. :)

E: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableAI

[gammadust 12]

you may also try to give a suitable waypoint type - Seek & Destroy mentions "A leader on foot will rarely search more than 50m from the waypoint".

Haven't actually tested to vouch for its reliability though.

[Tajin 348]

1. Put "player setCaptive true" somewhere in your init

2. Create a trigger and give it a name

3. Put "yourtrigger attachTo [player,[0,0,0]]" somewhere in your init

4. Set trigger to 50m and enemy presence.

5. Set trigger activation to "player setCaptive false"

6. Set trigger deactivation to "player setCaptive true"

Voila... as simple as that.

Using attachTo with triggers can be very very useful. (yet most people do not even know it's possible)

[yamajin82 10]

Thanks everyone! Tajin, your suggestion sounds promising. When I put

"yourtrigger attachTo [player,[0,0,0]]"

I get an error that says "Type String, expected nothing". I don't know much about scripting, any ideas?

[Tajin 348]

Yup, remove the quotes and replace "yourtrigger" with whatever name you gave your trigger.

[yamajin82 10]

aha! works brilliantly! Thanks for your time guys. Tajin, would this also work for each member of my squad if I just made triggers for each member and attached each trigger to them?