Ai seeing at night not fixed

[bravo409 13]

I'm running Bcombat AI MOD and made simple test,this test was a test of AI seeing without nvgs. So made opfor without nvgs with a lottier waypoint and had my AI team with me with silenced weapons and we came around the corner and saw AI moving our way and then the enemy AI opened up on us. Now I had cloudy skys with rain and dark as hell and they still saw me in the pitch black. Now I'm just pissed cause seems like stealth missions will not happen. Anyone on here have any ideas or mods that fix this thanks.

[semiconductor 309]

As far as I know you can tune AI's ability to spot enemies via setSkill command.

Not sure how it will affect Bcombat AI mod though.

[kerodan 25]

Sure its fixed. If you set up the AI properly they are not able to see anything at night. Just use setSkill, as Semiconductor already suggested, and set spottingDistance/spottingTime to something like 0.2 and you are fine.

[Greenfist 1863]

Maybe it's the bcombat or too high skill level on AI? Because I just tried this and I could run towards 3 ungrouped enemies without nvgs on an open airfield and they had no clue I was right in front of them until I was under 30m away. Even then it took a while before they opened fire. I could take them all out one by one with headshots without them reacting.

Perhaps the 30m is a bit unrealistic and too much for good stealth missions on a pitch black rainy night, but it's not totally broken.

[bravo409 13]

Maybe it's the bcombat or too high skill level on AI? Because I just tried this and I could run towards 3 ungrouped enemies without nvgs on an open airfield and they had no clue I was right in front of them until I was under 30m away. Even then it took a while before they opened fire. I could take them all out one by one with headshots without them reacting.

Perhaps the 30m is a bit unrealistic and too much for good stealth missions on a pitch black rainy night, but it's not totally broken.

Ok so how do I write this code not privy with scripting could you show me what I would have to write sorry thank you? Also does this skillset go in the Ai init or is it sqf only?

Edited November 8, 2014 by bravo409

[Greenfist 1863]

Ok so how do I write this code not privy with scripting could you show me what I would have to write sorry thank you? Also does this skillset go in the Ai init or is it sqf only?

No code needed. I just had the AI level at normal in the game difficulty settings and AI units' general skill slider at the middle default value.

You can fine tune the sub-skills with the setskill command if you want.

In the AI init field: this setskill ["spotDistance",x]; where x is a value from 0 to 1. 1 being the highest spot distance. The current value depends on your game difficulty settings and the AI skill slider.

[giorgygr 61]

I confirm with bcombat the AI sees better than day (without NVG of course)

[semiconductor 309]

Another quick solution in addition to Greenfist's: put this code into mission's init.sqf, it will change "spotting skills" of each and every AI uint:

{
   _x setSkill["spotDistance", 0.1];
   _x setSkill["spotTime", 0.1];
} foreach allUnits;

Since it's hard to guess correct skill, feel free to play around with values (they can be between 0 and 1, bigger value means better skill) until desireable effect is achieved. :)

[Greenfist 1863]

Or if you want just the enemies to be blind (in SP): :)

{ 
   if (side player != side _x) then {
   _x setSkill["spotDistance", 0.1];
   _x setSkill["spotTime", 0.1];
   };
} foreach allUnits;

[semiconductor 309]

Nice remark Greenfist, I'm totally forgot about friendly AI.

Edited November 8, 2014 by Semiconductor

[bravo409 13]

thanks everyone for helping me out.

[Tyl3r99 41]

the thing is... we shouldnt really have to use the setskill command

[Greenfist 1863]

the thing is... we shouldnt really have to use the setskill command

And the good thing is we don't have to use it. :)