AI Animated until fired near or knowsabout player

[_sam 10]

Hello.

 

I'm making a nightime infiltration mission. Players have to assault a base, and I have placed AI in it. I want some AIs to be animated until they know about the players or if the players fire near them.

 

Any suggestions ?

 

BIS_fnc_ambientAnim plays the anim, but I don't know how to remove the anim from the AI if one of these conditions are triggered.

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Sam.

[inlesco 233]

Use firedNear EH: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#FiredNear

 

Depending to which units you assign the EH, here's some pseudocode (couldn't test, not at home):

  _firedUpon = _unit addEventHandler "firedNear"; // this should return true or false
  if( side _unit !== side player && _unit knowsAbout player > 3 || _firedUpon && _unit knowsAbout player > 2 ) {
    playerDetected = true;
    // stuff happens
  }

[Larrow 2822]

See this post for some info on cancelling ambient anims.

[_sam 10]

Thanks guys, got it working ;)

[Dreadleif 4]

Hey guys. I've also have a question about "knowsAbout".

 

I had a trigger with a condition of: "east knowsabout player == 2" with various effects when the player was discovered, and it worked great for my stealth mission. Then, suddenly, it stopped working. No matter how many times I type it in, or reproduce it in different missions, "knowsAbout" has no effect anywhere. Is my game broken or something?

 

I am not an idiot. I have worked on this for 6 hours now, repeating the process again and again.

 

Does anyone know what's wrong?

 

Thanks.

[Greenfist 1863]

knowabout varies from 0 to 4, so it might never be exactly 2.

So maybe: "east knowsabout player >= 2"

[R3vo 2654]

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

[Dreadleif 4]

knowabout varies from 0 to 4, so it might never be exactly 2.

So maybe: "east knowsabout player >= 2"

 

This worked!

 

TO ANYONE reading this thread in the future and trying to make a better secret ops mission, this is a good condition for whether the player has been discovered.

 

Two ways to check if the player has been spotted

 

Condition:

Whole side:              east knowsAbout player >=  2

Individual units:        behaviour unitname == "COMBAT"   (works best)

 

Timeout

3/3/3

 

Effect

Alarms etc.

[Dreadleif 4]

Can someone please tell me why this isn't working as a trigger condition:

behaviour one == "COMBAT" OR behaviour two == "COMBAT"

Why won't it accept these as conditions, and how can I fix it?

 

Also, I copied a script with permission which goes like this:

//setSkill for ai on map from editor
//AI Skill  
{
_x setUnitAbility 0.1;
_x setskill ["aimingAccuracy",0.2];
_x setskill ["aimingShake",0.4];
_x setskill ["aimingSpeed",0.5];
_x setskill ["Endurance",0.3];
_x setskill ["spotDistance",0.1];
_x setskill ["spotTime",0.4];
_x setskill ["courage",0.9];
_x setskill ["reloadSpeed",0.1];

_aA = _x skill "aimingAccuracy";
_aS = _x skill "aimingShake";
_aSp = _x skill "aimingSpeed";
_e = _x skill "Endurance";
_sD = _x skill "spotDistance";
_sT = _x skill "spotTime";
_c = _x skill "courage";
_rS =_x skill "reloadSpeed";

if (DebugDeep) then {
hint format [
                "unit: %1\naimingAccuracy: %2\naimingShake: %3
                \naimingSpeed: %4\nEndurance: %5\nspotDistance: %6
                \nspotTime: %7\ncourage: %8\nreloadSpeed: %9"
                
                ,_x,_aA,_aS,_aSp,_e,_sD,_sT,_c,_rS];
//sleep 0.1;
};
} forEach allunits;

How can I change it so it only gets applied to the units that I call the script from, in the editor, and not all units?

 

Thanks!

[R3vo 2654]

((behaviour one) == "COMBAT") OR ((behaviour two) == "COMBAT")

Perhaps this works.

 

 

How can I change it so it only gets applied to the units that I call the script from, in the editor, and not all units?

 

 

 

Remove the foreach and replace _x with _unit

 

At the top of the script add:

_unit = param [0,objNull];

You can then transfer the unit to the script by doing this:

 

[unit] execVM "script.sqf";

_x setskill ["Endurance",0.3];

This line is obsolete, since the Endurance parameter has no influence on AI.

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/AI_Sub-skills#endurance

[Dreadleif 4]

((behaviour one) == "COMBAT") OR ((behaviour two) == "COMBAT")

Perhaps this works.

 

 

 

 

Remove the foreach and replace _x with _unit

 

At the top of the script add:

_unit = param [0,objNull];

You can then transfer the unit to the script by doing this:

 

[unit] execVM "script.sqf";

_x setskill ["Endurance",0.3];

This line is obsolete, since the Endurance parameter has no influence on AI.

 

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/AI_Sub-skills#endurance

 

 

Thank you so much. Final settings:

 

Unit init:

nul = [this] execVM "aiskillelite.sqf";

aiskillelite.sqf:

//setSkill for ai on map from editor
//AI Skill  
_unit = param [0,objNull];

_unit setUnitAbility 0.1;
_unit setskill ["aimingAccuracy",0.7];
_unit setskill ["aimingShake",0.8];
_unit setskill ["aimingSpeed",0.9];
_unit setskill ["Endurance",0.7];
_unit setskill ["spotDistance",0.5];
_unit setskill ["spotTime",0.7];
_unit setskill ["courage",0.9];
_unit setskill ["reloadSpeed",0.9];

_aA = _unit skill "aimingAccuracy";
_aS = _unit skill "aimingShake";
_aSp = _unit skill "aimingSpeed";
_e = _unit skill "Endurance";
_sD = _unit skill "spotDistance";
_sT = _unit skill "spotTime";
_c = _unit skill "courage";
_rS = _unit skill "reloadSpeed";

//sleep 0.1;
};

Then I made various similar scripts like "aiskillrecruit.sqf" etc.

 

 

 

This thread pretty much explains how to set up a perfect stealth mission. I know there are easier ways, but to someone with limited skills, this combined with the detection trigger is a life saver for stealth missions.