Sling Load

[Larrow 2828]

I have been messing around experimenting with Eden addons workflow and thought i would share a little test addon for Eden.
Enables an attribute in all AIR vehicles where you can add the name of a vehicle to sling load.
Also available if you right click an AIR vehicle and choose Connect > Sling Load and it will automatically name and move the chosen vehicle close to its carrier.
 
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Just a test piece more than anything.

 

Update download to make it compatible with 1.60 as it was causing config errors.

[R3vo 2654]

So you got it working? Great, gonna test this right away ;)

 

Okay tested it:

 

Unfortunately is giving me an error message =/

19:35:06 Error in expression < !( isnil '_veh' ) then {                                    _heli seLARs_SlingLoadlingLoad _veh;                                };>
19:35:06   Error position: <seLARs_SlingLoadlingLoad _veh;                                };>
19:35:06   Error Missing ;
19:35:06 Error in expression < !( isnil '_veh' ) then {                                    _heli seLARs_SlingLoadlingLoad _veh;                                };>
19:35:06   Error position: <seLARs_SlingLoadlingLoad _veh;                                };>
19:35:06   Error Missing ;

and is this supposed to be in the customisation category?

 

btw: the right click feature is just awesome, you should release that definitely.

 

 

Edit: Another issue, I seems that helicopters won't start their engines once an object is sling loaded.

[Larrow 2828]

Hmm try re downloading R3vo as that looks corrupted and i was in the middle of updating around the time you replied.

 

and is this supposed to be in the customisation category?

It should be at the bottom with Object Specific values. Yes where the object skin is but this is not a customisation specific area but an area for attributes from vehicle configs which is were this is placed.

I would of liked to have put it in its own section but then you need to rely on the attribute condition and there are not enough option to get this to only appear for AIR vehicles.

It would be nice if we were able to have a scripted condition then i could make the option show only for those vehicles that are capable of sling loading. As it is CfgVehicles AIR seem like a good compromise.

 

Another issue, I seems that helicopters won't start their engines once an object is sling loaded.

Does not happen all the time and i believe it is a general Eden problem as i have seen it mentioned else where on the forums but yes i have seen this happen my self on occasion.

 

the right click feature is just awesome, you should release that definitely.

I liked the idea of having a line while you are selecting so as to give some feedback.

I was unable to make custom connections work so have used a mission EH to draw a line from your selection to the mouse cursor world position.

Unfortunately this breaks when your mouse hovers at angle where you are not over terrain. Although able to find the invisible map control i have yet to figure out a way to reliably get either your first mouse click position or a reliable position relating to the object transposed to the map ctrl to be able to draw a map line.

As i said test piece and still looking, reading and thinking about it :)

[R3vo 2654]

I found the source of the scripting errors. It seems that attribute expressions are not saved correctly in the mission.sqm in the current dev version. So sorry for the trouble ;)