A way to stop vehicles from moving after they reach a waypoint?

[rcmw 10]

I'm looking for a way to stop APC and other vehicles from driving off after they reach a waypoint in combat, but still able to move to a waypoint when given one. At the moment they travel to the waypoint fine but have a habit of driving off in a random direction to do, only the AI knows what, running over my infantry and generally causing havoc in my mission.

I'm using the high commander module so changing the kind of way point given is not an option, it gives out move waypoints, also I can't use DisableAI as I need them able to move to waypoint when the high commander gives them. What I don't want is them doing random things on there own initiative. Is there a way to turn this off?

I'm hopping someone knows what part of the AI makes them do thins and has a way to turn it off, or another idea. Thank you.

[dscha 147]

setFuel 0? ;)

[rcmw 10]

setFuel 0? ;)

er same problem as DisableAI :) I still need them able to move, just not running all over my infantry the second someone fires a gun.

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humm I think if I can force them to stay in AWARE state it would fix it. I suspect its the combat IA behaviour that is the problem. Is there a way to force a unit to stay in AWARE even when being shot at and still fire back?

[inlesco 233]

I know none scripts or commands to halt a vehicle, except some workarounds like removing the

driver of a vehicle (in that case, driver should never be the commander of the veh), adding him demand and joining him to the group relative to a veh.

Already tried this? Ofc, if your groups are mechanized infantry-type, you'd need more modifications to units of a group you aim to modify, so the other units don't try get into as drivers, etc.

Also, try smth like 'driver vehicle a1 doStop true' or similar.

[rcmw 10]

Problem is I never know when I need the vehicle to move again as it is commanded with the high commander module, so anything that completely stops the vehicle and needs another script to start it moving again will not work. If I wanted to do that simply disableAI "move"; on the driver would do the job easy. I need something that just stops its random roaming. It never did this in Arma 2, APCs and tanks would move and engage at the waypoint without going all-over the place, so its something new they added in Arma 3.

For example this is what currently happens at the moment. Three APCs move on a hill and stop with a support infantry squad and two rifle squads approaching a town from the left. Then a few shots are fired, the infantry moves into cover and returns fire (this is good), the APC do not behave so well. One APC drives 400 meters in a random direction away from the combat, another accelerates towards the town at full speed running over any infantry in its patch and gets blown up, the last APC drivers round in circles running over the rest of the infantry, its chaos!

The more I think about it I think its the COMBAT state AI, I need a way to force a group to remain in AWARE when being shot at. I will start a new thread about that in a day or so since the title of this one dose not ask that question.

[Larrow 2820]

I'm using the high commander module so changing the kind of way point given is not an option, it gives out move waypoints,

It is possible to change a waypoints information - type, combat mode etc (limit somewhat) in HC via right clicking the waypoints via the map. Maybe not how you want to do it but thought i would point that out.

It should from a quick look be possible to add to this menu by overwriting BIS_HC_path_menu to point to your own menu, see A3\modules_f\HC\data\scripts\HC_GUI_menu.sqf and maybe creating your own menu to go with, would need further investigation.

Edited July 19, 2015 by Larrow

[R3vo 2654]

What about https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/doStop ?

[Diealotus 0]

you also could try lockWP

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lockWP

[Kingsley1997 39]

You could do this with a waitUntil if you just set a variable to false, then sleep for X amount of seconds, then when that variable is true, the waitUntil can then proceed to the code that lets the vehicle move.

[3l0ckad3 17]

I found syncing a further way point even if it is a troop heading across the map out of the mission area  helps.
Been looking for a good fix too..

[3l0ckad3 17]

Does anyone know if you can use an empty vehicle and have the driver grouped to no one, but just have the commander and gunner grouped ?
Then you could run the driver in careless and the gunner and commander in combat ? And just spawn them via moveIn command ?
I'm going to try this later to see if it can be a dirty workaround.

[Vasily.B 529]

There is also good option in modules :
Modules > Object modificators > specify AI mode ( i use diferent language, it may be writed diferent) - 100% works!

[killzone_kid 1330]

Why not simply use

 

tank stop true;

tank stop false;

[inlesco 233]

Why not simply use

 

tank stop true;

tank stop false;

This simply works! Tested many times.

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

Be careful about the "stop" command, since it will also prevent the unit from firing or watching any targets.

Using

groupname enableAttack false;
{dostop _x} foreach units groupname;

should prevent the group leader from giving any move commands to individual units, so they'll stay in place but still able to track targets/fire at them.

 

Cheers

[Vasily.B 529]

On module i writed about you can choose what synchronized units will and what they wouldn't.