Getting tanks to fire cannon at infantry

[tinter 184]

As it says in the title, it would be nice to know if there's some way to get tanks to fire main gun at infantry, even if it's just a looping script. As of now I haven't even been able to find a script that makes them fire their main gun at all, with or without a target.

[Lala14 135]

the fire command allows you to force an AI to fire a specific weapon and blah blah blah

--Edit

forceWeaponFire seems to be a better option

Edited July 14, 2014 by Lala14

[redarmy 420]

How do you get the classname of a main gun from a modded tank?

[SilentSpike 84]

Use the config viewer in the editor. You can also retrieve weapons dynamically via script if you know the config structure.

[asuseroako 17]

As it says in the title, it would be nice to know if there's some way to get tanks to fire main gun at infantry, even if it's just a looping script. As of now I haven't even been able to find a script that makes them fire their main gun at all, with or without a target.

Have you tried attaching an enemy car to the target unit then do a deleteCollection?

[Lala14 135]

isnt deleteCollection just hideObject?

anyway there was posted there on the foreWeaponFire page about dynamically getting the weapon by ffur2007slx2_5

_weapon = (weapons _veh) select 3;
_mode = (getarray (configfile >> "cfgweapons" >> _weapon >> "modes")) select 0;
if (_mode == "this") then {_mode = _weapon;};
(driver _veh) forceWeaponFire [_weapon, _mode];
//Force a CAS fire a rocket.

we could modify this with the "modded" tank value by doing

_veh = _this select 0; //or we could do a if (vehicle player != player) then { _veh = vehicle player;
_weapon = (weapons _veh) select 0; //select Cannon
_mode = (getarray (configfile >> "cfgweapons" >> _weapon >> "modes")) select 0;
if (_mode == "this") then {_mode = _weapon;};
(gunner _veh) forceWeaponFire [_weapon, _mode];
//Force cannon to fire which for tanks is usually the first weapon which would be 0.

Edited July 14, 2014 by Lala14