[Release] GOM - Ambient AA V1.2.1

[katdogfizzow 13]

getting undefined variable in expression _posiiton

 

maybe you have a mission example? awesome looking script.

 

nvmd. added xyz and works. way cool!

 

[ShiftyFR 14]

Same here, can't get them firing, error line 42

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

Changed the script so if no position is handed to the function it will use a random position near the first AA vehicle instead.

 

Cheers

[ShiftyFR 14]

41 minutes ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Changed the script so if no position is handed to the function it will use a random position near the first AA vehicle instead.

 

Cheers

 

Nice ! Working now !

I have a question : Is it possible to set some azimut (in exemple, i want my AA gun to shoot between 270° and 360°) or we need to create position ? If it needed(to create vitual position), can you explain a little more how to this ?

 

Thanks :)

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

1 hour ago, Shifty.FR said:

 

Nice ! Working now !

I have a question : Is it possible to set some azimut (in exemple, i want my AA gun to shoot between 270° and 360°) or we need to create position ? If it needed(to create vitual position), can you explain a little more how to this ?

 

Thanks :)

 

You can take one of the AA guns as reference, likely AA1:

_rndDistance = random [250,500,1000]; //picks a random number between 250,500 and 1000, with most times being near 500 (gauss distribution)
_direction = random 360;

_pos = AA1 getRelPos [_rndDistance, _direction]; //will return a position relative to AA1 at the set distance and direction

 

Cheers

[ShiftyFR 14]

Did I put it in the GOM_fnc_ambientAA.sqf ?

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

No, just use the _pos variable from my example inside the positions array when calling the function.

Take a look at the parameters section in the first post, all explained there.

 

Cheers

[Jnr4817 215]

Say I wanted the AA to fire at a flying helo that is carrying players as the beginning of a mission without doing any damage, as I have a script for that already? Once the helo "crashes" your AA script stops.

 

Thanks

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

10 hours ago, Jnr4817 said:

Say I wanted the AA to fire at a flying helo that is carrying players as the beginning of a mission without doing any damage, as I have a script for that already? Once the helo "crashes" your AA script stops.

 

Thanks

 

This script only simulates flying objects that AA guns are firing at.

If you want regular AA units to fire at a halo that's vanilla functionality.

 

Cheers

[Jnr4817 215]

15 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

 

This script only simulates flying objects that AA guns are firing at.

If you want regular AA units to fire at a halo that's vanilla functionality.

 

Cheers

Excellent work by the way, thank you for the clarification.

[orcinus 121]

Nice script, many thanks for sharing :)

[Guest]

Seems I missed an update.
New version frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

 

GOM - Ambient AA v1.1.3

[Coolie 0]

Super cool scrip! Any chance you could add an example mission to go with it?

 

 

Thanks for this awesome mod sir!

[sarogahtyp 1108]

Hey Grumpy,

I m using ur Carpet Bomb Script at my domination server and I ll try to combine it with ur ambient AA now.
Maybe you could implement those possibilty in future to make it easy to combine both scripts to get an ambient bomb carpet attack together with ur ambient AA?
Just a suggestion.

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

You could easily declare a position for the AA to fire at, and call the carpet bombing script on the same position.

Just use both functions at once on the same position, note that ambient AA requires an array of positions.

 

Cheers

[Tomas Scarle 2]

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You can also add and array of positions (ASL) to make the guns fire at them randomly.

Im sorry for being stupid, but can you explain this? I have no idea what these are. I can do everything else no problem but I have no idea what an array of positions is or how to implement them.

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

33 minutes ago, Tomas Scarle said:

Im sorry for being stupid, but can you explain this? I have no idea what these are. I can do everything else no problem but I have no idea what an array of positions is or how to implement them.

 

It's entirely optional, the guns will automatically fire at random positions.

If you want them to fire at your own set of positions, probably to simulate an airborne threat coming from a specific direction you could hand your own positions array to the script, so the guns will aim at a random position out of your array.

 

You could place a few markers on the map, name them AAtarget1, AAtarget2, AAtarget3 etc. then call this:

 

GOM_fnc_markerToASL = {

params ["_markers","_minAltitude","_height"];

_positionsASL = [];

_markers apply {

_pos = getmarkerpos _x;
_pos set [2,_minAltitude + random _height];
_positionsASL pushback _pos;
};
_positionsASL
};
markertest = [["AAtarget1","AAtarget2","AAtarget3"],250,100] call GOM_fnc_markerToASL;
copytoclipboard str markertest;

Will generate ASL positions above your markers, with a minimum above sea level (ASL) altitude of 250 and randomly add 100m to that altitude.

You can now paste the clipboard content to the positions array where you call the script, the guns will now fire at positions in the air above those markers.

The markers can be deleted afterwards and are not needed inside the mission.

 

Cheers

[Tomas Scarle 2]

Im sorry I am still not following this. Is there any chance of an example mission?

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

3 hours ago, Tomas Scarle said:

Im sorry I am still not following this. Is there any chance of an example mission?

 

I don't see the point, still added an example mission of the bare minimum you need to do to get this running.

It's a simple copy paste and create one file.

Won't get any easier than that.

 

Cheers

[Coolie 0]

Hi, the SP Demo Mission link is broken ;(

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

8 hours ago, Coolie said:

Hi, the SP Demo Mission link is broken ;(

Should be working now.

 

Cheers

[Coolie 0]

Oh man! this is awesome!

[diehardfc 41]

Grumpy, this is another fantastic script. It really brings the area of operation to life. I am wondering: is there a best practice for setting up multiple groups of AA? For example, say I have a long coastline, such as Bornholm, and I want some AA in the southeast but also in the northwest, with a couple of kilometers between them. If I put them in the same array, it won't work because they'll all fire at a target somewhere in the middle, right? Could I make discreet clumps of them firing at overhead targets? Would it be as simple as renaming the script and calling that or would two instances interfere with one another? Thanks in advance if you can suggest a workaround!

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

1 hour ago, diehardfc said:

Grumpy, this is another fantastic script. It really brings the area of operation to life. I am wondering: is there a best practice for setting up multiple groups of AA? For example, say I have a long coastline, such as Bornholm, and I want some AA in the southeast but also in the northwest, with a couple of kilometers between them. If I put them in the same array, it won't work because they'll all fire at a target somewhere in the middle, right? Could I make discreet clumps of them firing at overhead targets? Would it be as simple as renaming the script and calling that or would two instances interfere with one another? Thanks in advance if you can suggest a workaround!

 

Simply execute the function multiple times with different guns:

//place 4 AA guns on north coast and name them northAA1-northAA4
_northGuns = [northAA1,northAA2,northAA3,northAA4];
_northAA = [_northGuns,5] execVM "GOM_fnc_ambientAA.sqf";
//do the same for south coast
_southGuns = [southAA1,southAA2,southAA3,southAA4];
_southAA = [_southGuns,5] execVM "GOM_fnc_ambientAA.sqf";
//etc

Don't see why it shouldn't work.

 

Cheers

[diehardfc 41]

This worked great - thanks very much!