Want to make a smokeshell follow chopper need help

[Rexxenexx 0]

I tried getting the position from the chooper with getPos AND position (same result) it doesnt get the y then I tried selecting the 0, 1, 2 of the getPos and adding to the Y to raise it and it still trails the ground. well heres the script after molesting it for a while:

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_campos = position chin1

_x = _campos select 0

_z = _campos select 1

_y = _campos select 2

_smoke = "SmokeShell" camCreate [_x,_z,_y]

#loop

_campos = position chin1

_x = _campos select 0

_z = _campos select 1

_y = _campos select 2

_smoke setpos [_x,_z,_y]

goto "loop"

;? (_height > 10) : goto "loop"

;_smoke setpos [10,10,0]

exit<span id='postcolor'>

Right now I just want it to work forever while Im testing it as you can see by the marked out lines. Again, why doesnt it get the y position all it does is trail the ground??? This has to be because its a camera right??? So its relative to the ground, i dunno....

[Balschoiw 0]

this is not exactly what you asked for, but it can be modified to your wishes:

http://home.arcor.de/vektorboson/downloads/smoke_trail.zip

It will generate a smoke trail attached to planes.

[RED 0]

The script should look more like:

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_smoke = "SmokeShell" camCreate [_x,_z,_y]

#loop

0.1

_smoke setpos [getpos chopper select 0,getpos chopper select 1, getpos chopper select 2]

goto "loop"

exit

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I don't have the time to play around with it at the moment, but a smoke shell doesn't make a good trail, just patches of smoke if I remember.

RED

[bn880 5]

You should use the drop command for smoke in Resistance.

Search this forum, people are already playing around with fire and smoke using drop.

Once you get that, just do not run the fire.sqs.

[RED 0]

Yeah thats the best method, but he may not have Resistance

RED

[Rexxenexx 0]

Thanks guys I knew you could help!!

I didn't know about that drop command, way cool! This is what I came up with, still needs some tweaking to look real.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_darka = [0, 0, 0, 0.3]

_darkb = [0, 0, 0, 0]

_reda = [0.8,0.3, 0, 0.7]

_redb = [1, 0.5, 0, 0]

_chopperpos = getpos chin1

_height = _chopperpos select 2

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 8, [0, -5, 1], [0, 0, 9], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [3, 14],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 7, [0, -5, 1], [0, 0, 8], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [3, 12],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 6, [0, -5, 1], [0, 0, 7], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [3, 8],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 5, [0, -5, 1], [0, 0, 6], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [2, 5],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 4, [0, -5, 1], [0, 0, 5], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [1, 3],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

#loop

_chopperpos = getpos chin1

_height = _chopperpos select 2

~0.01

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 3, [1, -5, 0.7], [0, 0, 5], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [1, 5],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 1, [1, -5, 0.7], [0, 1, 1], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [1, 5],[_darka,_darkb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

drop ["cl_basic", "", "Billboard", 1, 2, [1, -5, 0.7], [0, 0, 5], 1, 1, 0.85, 0, [1, 0.1],[_reda,_redb],[0],0.01,0.01,"","",chin1]

? (_height < 1) : goto "end"

goto "loop"

#end

exit<span id='postcolor'>

Thanks again all