AI refuses to hover at 10m altitude (_this flyinhieght 10)

[Matthijs 40]

AI refuses to hover at lower altitudes between 5 and 60 meters. Everything below or above this bandwidth is quite ok.

Is there a workaround for this behaviour?  I would like to avoid setpos loops.

 

This works fine, for any altitude over 60, and SOMETIMES works for altitude 20:

 myHeli domove getpos player;
 myHeli flyinHeight 60;

The helicopter never responds to this, nor to and any other altitude between 10 and 20:

 myHeli domove getpos player;
 myHeli flyinHeight 10;

 

This works fine, for any altitude of 0 to 5:

 myHeli domove getpos player;
 myHeli flyinHeight 5;

Interestingly, the helicopter hovers at 5 meters altitude when I issue a flyInHeight between 5 and 10.

 

 

Is there any way to change this behaviour?

 

[theend3r 83]

Use this if you want your chopper to land. If you want for it to fly over sea at 5 meter altitude then that's probably impossible aside from manually setting position/velocity in a loop.

 

Edit: It usually doesn't work for me this simply and I have to spawn an invisible helipad and order the chopper to land at it for it to work.

[Matthijs 40]

Use this if you want your chopper to land. If you want for it to fly over sea at 5 meter altitude then that's probably impossible aside from manually setting position/velocity in a loop.

 

I just want it to hover,

for fastroping  from a cargo helicopter

and for attack helicopters to take station in CAS missions.

 

 

Edit: It usually doesn't work for me this simply and I have to spawn an invisible helipad and order the chopper to land at it for it to work.

 

Ooh, that's a possible solution! I'm going to spawn an invisible helipad in mid-air.  B)

I'll let you know if this works. Thanks!!

 

 

 

Edit:

Yes, that worked!

 

Spawn an invisible helipad MYHELIPAD mid-air (e.g. 15 meters altitude), and then:

air1 domove getpos MYHELIPAD;
air1 land "LAND";

Now, the helicopter starts hovering at the altitude of the invisible helipad. Good enough for fastroping. Not good enough for attack helicopters on station though. I guess you can't have everything; too bad, because flyInHeight worked just fine in OFP.