Random Vehicle Spawn Script. How to?

[sgtelis 11]

So I'm trying to make survival mission for me and my friends and I want empty vehicles to spawn randomly along the roads, mainly civ vehicles but also a few military ones.

 

I've tried to search around but I suck at searching for arma editing stuff, I don't know why xD

 

I ofcourse want it to be as nice on the fps as possible, aka only spawn vehicles close to the player, maybe 2.5km away?

I know that you can use "createVehicle" and how to make it choose a vehicle randomly from an array but I don't know how to make them spawn along the road in a good fashion.

 

Thanks

[twisted 127]

hope this helps

 

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/109214-how-to-find-a-road/

 

especially this post by celery https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/109214-how-to-find-a-road/?p=1813348

 

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

[rakowozz 14]

There's always SHK_pos, if you want something more automated. Could be a bit of an overkill, depending on what you want, but it's a nice script: https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/153382-shk-pos/

[Joe98 90]

Place a soldier on the map and name him blue 1

 

Place a trigger on the map. Set it so that blu1e will fire the trigger.

 

Place a small item on the map like a watch.Name it watch1. Make it invisible.

 

Place it in such a way that it starts at a random location every time. You might set it's radius to say 300 meters and or you might use markers to achieve random placement.

 

Place a car on the map and name it car1.

 

In the On Act of your trigger type:  car1 setps (getpos watch1)

 

When the trigger fires the car will be teleported to the watch. From the player's point of view a car appears at random and appears in a random location!.