UAV trouble (crew?)

[matte54 10]

Im trying to make a (enemy) high alltitude patroling UAV to spot enemy forces that respawns after killed.

and im having hell trying to find figure out how to spawn a UAV and put a crew in it and still have the vehicle variable and have them all in a group.

Have tried bis_fnc_spawnvehicle wich seemed like the logical choice but uav instantly crashes wich dosent seem to get any crew (even if i have an enemy unit already on the map).

Have tried just to spawn the uav at alltitude and then just createunit 2 crew or helipilots to moveindriver and gunner , uav still instantly crashes.

Looked thru the cfgvehicles to get a hint of what controls it, seems like there is something called "O_UAV_AI" tried spawning it and adding it as a driver, no dice.

The only thing that works and adds a crew and makes the uav fly is createVehicleCrew, but i cant really figure out how to make the crew into a group for later use in the script.

Help anyone?

[Varanon 892]

The UAV can be created with createVehicle, and the crew added with addVehcileCrew:

_pos = [getMarkerPos "spawnpoint" select 0, getMarkerPost "spawnpoint" select 1, 200];
_uav = [b]createVehicle[/b] [i]["[/i]B_UAV_02_F"[i], _pos, [], 0, "FLY"];
createVehcileCrew _uaw;
[/i]

I don't think the crew can be grouped, though.

[matte54 10]

I don't think the crew can be grouped, though.

That's the main thing i want to do here.

I can't see how i can make a vehicle follow a waypoint without adding it to a group i can control.

After 4 hours of medling i finaly managed to solve my own problem.

posting the code if anyones intrested.

_uav = "O_UAV_02_F" createVehicle [_trueStart select 0,_trueStart select 1,600];
waitUntil{!isNull _uav};
createVehicleCrew _uav;
{[_x] joinSilent _uavGroup} forEach units _uav;

Edited October 14, 2013 by Matte54

[Varanon 892]

I can't see how i can make a vehicle follow a waypoint without adding it to a group i can control.

Couldn't you take the uav crew's group directly ? I don't think any unit can exist without being in a group of it's own to begin with, so if you createVehicleCrew, it should have a crew to begin with ?

so

_grp = group _uav; _grp addWaypoint [getMarkerPos "markTarget", 0];

allows you to set a waypoint. No need to create another group. Even joining that group works (with the player, for example)