HALO jump with gear?

[dulix11 10]

I'm making a mission in which a bunch of guys parachute down from a helicopter.

So far I've used the "guy1 action ["eject", heli1"]; for the units to jump, but I have a problem:

The units cannot carry a backpack and a parachute, so the amount of supplies they can bring is limited. Is there a way to spawn a crate or something and have that drop down with them?

[Jona33 50]

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=23114

You can use this guys script, usefully for you it means that the units backpack will be attached to the front of the unit on the way down.

[lightspeed_aust 654]

If this is for coop there is another script

[iceman77 14]

Quick and dirty:

if ( isDedicated ) exitWith {};
waitUntil { !( isNull player ) && { ( isTouchingGround player ) } };
removeBackPackGlobal player;
player addBackpackGlobal "B_AssaultPack_khk";

Or maybe just give your units the desired backpacks, name a group member guy1, the helo myHelo and..

INIT.SQF

// IF THE GROUP'S NOT ALREADY ASSIGNED AS (IN)CARGO (GROUPED IN THE EDITOR)
{
_x assignAsCargo myHelo;
_x moveIncargo myHelo;
} foreach units (group guy1);

PARADROP.SQF

/*
- STORE THE ORIGINAL ASSIGNED CARGO COUNT (NUMBER)
- ITERATE THROUGH THE VEHICLE'S ASSIGNED CARGO, UNASSIGN AND EJECT EACH IN ONE SECOND INTERVALS
- CREATE A PARACHUTE ALONG WITH EACH UNIT AND ATTACH IT TO THE UNIT. DETATCH AND MOVE THE UNIT INTO THE PARACHUTE ("DRIVER")
- CREATE A CRATE AND PARACHUTE TO PARACHUTE DOWN IF THE MAGIC _FOREACHINDEX VARIABLE EQUALS THE ORIGINAL CARGO COUNT (NUMBER)
*/

_cargoCount = count ( assignedCargo ( vehicle guy1 ) );

{
private ["_chute"];
_x disableCollisionWith ( vehicle _x );
unAssignVehicle _x; 
_x action ["eject", vehicle _x]; 
_chute = createVehicle ["Steerable_Parachute_F", getPos _x, [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_chute attachTo [_x,[0,0,0]];
detach _chute;
_x moveIndriver _chute;
 sleep 1;
if (_forEachIndex == _cargoCount - 1) then {
	private ["_chute", "_crate"];
	_chute = createVehicle ["B_Parachute_02_F", getPos _x, [], 0, "NONE"];
	_crate = createVehicle ["Box_NATO_Wps_F", getPos _chute, [], 0, "NONE"];
	_crate attachTo [_chute, [0, 0, -1.3]];
	 waitUntil { ( getPos _crate select 2 ) < 0.5 || { ( isNull _chute ) } };
       detach _crate;
};
} forEach assignedCargo ( vehicle guy1 );

Edited October 20, 2014 by Iceman77

[Beerkan 66]

Or just do it the easy way...

Stick this in your init.sqf*

waituntil {!(IsNull (findDisplay 46))};  _keyDown = (findDisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown", "if (_this select 1 == 57) then {
if (!(isTouchingGround player) and (vehicle player == player)) then {
[] spawn {player switchCamera 'EXTERNAL';Player SwitchMove 'AswmPercMrunSnonWnonDf_AswmPercMstpSnonWnonDnon';addCamShake [4, 2, 20];sleep 0.7;playSound3D ['@SCS\Sound\Parachute.ogg', Player, false, GetPosASL Player,5, 1, 250];titleText ['', 'White IN', 0.6];addCamShake [2, 2, 10];chute = createVehicle ['Steerable_Parachute_F', position Player,[],0,'Fly'];chute setPos position player;player moveIndriver chute; chute allowDamage false;};   
};
}"];

Basically what this does is for ANY player that is not touching the ground and THAT player is NOT in a vehicle, switch to the freefall animation. When the player presses the space bar, spawn a parachute, at the player, and move player into it.

He keeps his backpack etc. When he lands parchute is replaced by the original backpack he jumped with. Simples..

For the ammocrate create a radio trigger activation once and sync it to a player. Put this in the ON ACT:

hint "Cargo Deployed";cargo = "B_supplyCrate_F" createVehicle getpos player;cargo setPos [getPos player select 0, getPos [player select 1, 200];[objnull, cargo] call BIS_fnc_curatorobjectedited;

This will allow the player synchronised to the radio trigger, to call in an ammodrop on his location once. You can change the Supply crate to the type you need.

*Credit for the stupidly brilliant and simple halodrop goes to ThunderBolt91 from ArmaHolic forums.

[iceman77 14]

Easy? looks like it added a ton! Holy smokes! Cheers :D

[Beerkan 66]

I could have posted a link to my own simple paradrop script but I was just blown away the stupidly simple example posted by ThunderBolt91.

[iceman77 14]

Ya I was just giving you hell. ;)

Pretty nifty little doo dad there! How does it coordinate with the Ai paradropping?. Ahh nvm, player variable.

---------- Post added at 11:30 ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 ----------

Be cool to see one this simple for AIs / mp! Atm the ai's like "Where's my space bar at!?" LOL.

Edited October 20, 2014 by Iceman77

[Beerkan 66]

BTW Iceman, in your example I'd stick in a

_chute allowdamage false;

Something to do with exploding parachutes. (See my Simple ParaDrop thread for further details)

[iceman77 14]

Okay will do. Exploding parachutes doesn't sound too good.

[Beerkan 66]

Okay will do. Exploding parachutes doesn't sound too good.

See this post.

Very cool, quick question, I was testing this and noticed sometimes units explode upon hitting the ground, like artillery. See this screenshot.

Any way to fix this? Has pretty high priority for me!