doFire doesn't work?

[forzajuve 20]

I'm making a mission where there are a couple of AI shooting ranges. I used the doFire command on some vehicle wrecks and it worked fine but since a few days it has stopped working for no obvious reason. I can hardly get it to work at all and haven't found a good solution to force the AI to fire either. Could a recent update have broken doFire? 

[R3vo 2652]

Could be broken, though I doubt it.

 

You could however, use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/doSuppressiveFirein a loop to get the units firing.

[forzajuve 20]

With a bit of tweaking that seems to be working but it definitely seems like something has changed. They won't engage targets further than like 10-15m and not at all on the shooting positions at the firing range. I also can't get them to stop firing now

while {true} do {
    s4 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 3;
    s5 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 2;
    s6 doSuppressiveFire trg5; 
    sleep 2;
    s7 doSuppressiveFire trg5;
    sleep 3;
    };

is there a way to stop this? 

[R3vo 2652]

With a bit of tweaking that seems to be working but it definitely seems like something has changed. They won't engage targets further than like 10-15m and not at all on the shooting positions at the firing range. I also can't get them to stop firing now

while {true} do {
    s4 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 3;
    s5 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 2;
    s6 doSuppressiveFire trg5; 
    sleep 2;
    s7 doSuppressiveFire trg5;
    sleep 3;
    };

is there a way to stop this? 

 

Use a variable for the while loop and change it's value to be false once you want to end it.

[forzajuve 20]

like public variable? i am trying this but not working now

 

range1.sqf

while {rng1=true} do {
    s4 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 3;
    s5 doSuppressiveFire trg6; 
    sleep 2;
    s6 doSuppressiveFire trg5; 
    sleep 2;
    s7 doSuppressiveFire trg5;
    sleep 3;
    };

trigger 1

condition: true
on activation: rng1 = true; 
publicVariable "rng1";

trigger 2

condition: rng1 = true
on activation: abc = execVM "range1.sqf"; 

[R3vo 2652]

while {rng1=true} do { //That is incorrect, = means you set the value of a variable == means you check the value of a variable. In your case however, you can do it as follows:

while {rng1} do {

[forzajuve 20]

Ok I think I fixed it, I simply changed the targets from wrecks of vehicles to actual vehicles and it works now with just doFire. Looks weird but better than nothing. Strange that it stopped working on wrecks though.

[f2k sel 164]

Not strange really it's par for the course, BIS have never been keen on allowing the AI to fire at what they're told to fire at if it's not an actual enemy.

These commands have often been broken or not fully implemented.

There was at one point in Alpha testing invisible objects that the AI would target and  fire at without having to issue orders but of course on release they were removed..