Attach LIFT CARGO waypoint to moving vehicle?

[l337acc 15]

I have a mission where an AI helicopter is going to drop off a vehicle and pick another one up. On the activation of the LIFT CARGO waypoint for the second vehicle I have:

truck1 = waypointAttachedVehicle [heli,6];

This WAS working, but since I moved the location of the AO to a new area everything is working except for this part of the mission. The AI helicopter moves over to the target vehicle and descends to pick it up, BUT it just moves down, bounces up, and just hovers over the area. How can I fix this?

 

Edit: I should mention that both vehicles are identical types, with the same mass.

[R3vo 2654]

Try https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setSlingLoad

[l337acc 15]

heli setSlingLoad truck1;

Gives me an error when putting it in the vehicle's init or on activation of the waypoint.

Type Bool, expected Nothing

[R3vo 2654]

This command returns a boolean, therefor it needs a script handle.

_cargoLoaded = HELINAME setSlingLoad CARGONAME;

If sling loading was successful, _cargoLoaded will return true, otherwise false.

[l337acc 15]

This command returns a boolean, therefor it needs a script handle.

_cargoLoaded = HELINAME setSlingLoad CARGONAME;

If sling loading was successful, _cargoLoaded will return true, otherwise false.

 

It isn't really working the way I need it to. I need the helicopter to go to the position of the truck, which will change based on where the AI gets out.

[R3vo 2654]

Maybe something like this:

heli moveTo getPos truck;
waitUntil{sleep 0.5; ((heli distance truck) < 20)};
_cargoLoaded = heli setSlingLoad truck;

[l337acc 15]

 

Maybe something like this:

heli moveTo getPos truck;
waitUntil{sleep 0.5; ((heli distance truck) < 20)};
_cargoLoaded = heli setSlingLoad truck;

 

I just gave that a try. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work either. I've made a demo mission just to be sure:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ytmat395f3w3pfs/CargoLiftTest.Altis.rar

 

Edit:

Here's another version with how your "supposed" to use the lift cargo waypoint (i.e. putting it directly on the vehicle). However, the problem is that the helicopter is moving to the previous truck position (beginning of where it starts) before actually picking up the truck. Even with setWaypoingPosition it keeps heading towards the truck but going back to the start position of the truck. I'm desperately trying to avoid this, because in the actual mission the truck starts off like 10km from the helicopter.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6m5ctc4lj7zi5gd/CargoLiftTest2.Altis.rar

[l337acc 15]

Anyone? Bueller?

[weaponsfree 46]

Anyone? Bueller?

 

Heya

Sorry to resurect this old thread, but you find a solution to this issue? I have the exact same problem. Specifically a moving object to lift. I'm hoping to avoid having to build a custom script for this.

[simicsko 4]

On 9/6/2015 at 5:55 PM, l337acc said:

 

I just gave that a try. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work either. I've made a demo mission just to be sure:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ytmat395f3w3pfs/CargoLiftTest.Altis.rar

 

Edit:

Here's another version with how your "supposed" to use the lift cargo waypoint (i.e. putting it directly on the vehicle). However, the problem is that the helicopter is moving to the previous truck position (beginning of where it starts) before actually picking up the truck. Even with setWaypoingPosition it keeps heading towards the truck but going back to the start position of the truck. I'm desperately trying to avoid this, because in the actual mission the truck starts off like 10km from the helicopter.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6m5ctc4lj7zi5gd/CargoLiftTest2.Altis.rar

 

The CargoLiftTest2 version working perfectly. Nice work! 😉