Issues with unassignVehicle

[Wisp 10]

My mission begins with a squad placed inside a truck, using moveInCargo. I later want them to board a helo, so I use leaveVehicle to have them disembark the truck. According to the BIS Wiki, this also unassigns them from the vehicle.

The script I'm using to have them board the helo uses assignAsCargo and orderGetIn to have them board. I know the script works fine because I tested it without the squad previously inside the truck and it works fine. Only when they have been assigned to another vehicle before does it not work. So this means leaveVehicle must not be unassigning them. I did also try the UnassignVehicle command, but it made no difference.

What am I doing wrong here? How do I unassign the group from the vehicle so they can later be assigned to another vehicle?

[f2k sel 164]

This seems to work for me

{
_x leaveVehicle vehicle _x ;
_x assignAsCargo heli;
} foreach units  red;
[red] orderGetIn true;

red being the group

red=group this 

placed in leaders init

[Wisp 10]

Unfortunately, the squad still does not acknowledge the orderGetIn command.

[weparo 10]

You could try doing it with the GET IN, UNLOAD CARGO, LOAD CARGO and GET OUT Waypoints, or just use

{
unassignVehicle _x ;
_x assignAsCargo heli;
[_x] orderGetIn true;
} foreach units  red;

Hope that helps,

Weparo

[Wisp 10]

Still no luck. :/

This is very strange.

[f2k sel 164]

Where are you placing the code and have you made the group as mentioned above.

Both versions work for me.

[Wisp 10]

I placed your code (and later Weparo's) in the activation of the transport unload waypoint of the truck.

Then I have a trigger that detects if a smoke grenade is thrown within a 1000m of a marker. This executes a script that creates a helipad at the location of the smoke grenade, tells the helo to move to that position, and then land.

Everything works fine as long as the squad doesn't have moveInCargo truck in their initialization. The helo lands, the squad gets in. But if they were previously in the truck, they never get in the helo.

Here's the script:

_smokeArray = [];
_smokeArray = (position smoke) nearObjects ["SmokeShellGreen",1000
];
_smoke = _smokearray select 0;
_smokePos = position _smoke;

_extractPos = createVehicle ["Land_HelipadEmpty_F", _smokePos, [], 0, "NONE"];

_wp = group_attack7 addWaypoint [position _extractPos, 0];
_wp setWayPointType "MOVE";
helo1 land "GET IN";

[player1,player2,player3,player4,player5] orderGetIn true;

Edited March 30, 2014 by Wisp

[igneous01 19]

I placed your code (and later Weparo's) in the activation of the transport unload waypoint of the truck.

thats your issue - transport unload auto assigns whatever is inside a vehicle's cargo and force them to leave the vehicle, but it doesn't unassign them from the vehicle. Also, having this code in the activation of a transport unload will only complicate matters, because while the waypoint is fiddling around with cargo, so are you. Best to replace the transport unload with a move waypoint and it should work then.

[weparo 10]

thats your issue - transport unload auto assigns whatever is inside a vehicle's cargo and force them to leave the vehicle, but it doesn't unassign them from the vehicle. Also, having this code in the activation of a transport unload will only complicate matters, because while the waypoint is fiddling around with cargo, so are you. Best to replace the transport unload with a move waypoint and it should work then.

agreed. It could also be done with a trigger, but it's nicer to have it done with a waypoint activation.

[igneous01 19]

you can still do it with waypoint activation - but use move instead of Transport Unload

[weparo 10]

@OP: Question - Why don't you do it with waypoints only? Load troops in the truck via moveInCargo and use a TRANSPORT UNLOAD waypoint syncronized to a GET OUT waypoint and then a GET IN and LOAD waypoint (also syncronized).

Here, I've made you a pic to clarify

http://imgur.com/KOt4Qg5

[Wisp 10]

@OP: Question - Why don't you do it with waypoints only? Load troops in the truck via moveInCargo and use a TRANSPORT UNLOAD waypoint syncronized to a GET OUT waypoint and then a GET IN and LOAD waypoint (also syncronized).

Here, I've made you a pic to clarify

http://imgur.com/KOt4Qg5

http://imgur.com/KOt4Qg5

Because the script I'm using is designed to have the helicopter pick up not at a specific point, but wherever the player throws smoke. The orderGetIn command works best for that, so the units need to be assigned to proper vehicle.

The previous poster's suggestion of using move instead of transport unload worked though.

[weparo 10]

Because the script I'm using is designed to have the helicopter pick up not at a specific point, but wherever the player throws smoke. The orderGetIn command works best for that, so the units need to be assigned to proper vehicle.

The previous poster's suggestion of using move instead of transport unload worked though.

Glad you got it working then! :)

I suppose you could have made my version work with setWaypointPosition too