[Release] GOM - Ambient AA V1.2.1

[dystopian 25]

Sweet script thanks.  

Can't get it to work with the Faces of War Flak 36 but the Flak 30's fire fine.  

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

14 hours ago, dystopian said:

Sweet script thanks.  

Can't get it to work with the Faces of War Flak 36 but the Flak 30's fire fine.  

 

Check if the position operating the flak36 gun is a gunner position. If it's a commander it might not work, could add a check for this in the future if that's the case.

 

Cheers

[canadian1337 17]

Hey man, great script! I was wondering if it is possible to make AAA shoot in longer bursts (about 50 rounds and more). Wanted to make the new Praetorian (Phalanx CIWS) create a carrier defense ambience.

[Zer0cool 0]

Hi,

 

great Script looks realy nice

 

but i run in too some troubbles in my mission the AA guns will be destroyed and every time a plane destroys one i get this error

 

RPT Snapshot:

Error in expression <turret (assignedvehiclerole gunner _gun select 1);
_shotsleep = getNumber (confi>
Error position: <select 1);
_shotsleep = getNumber (confi>
Error Zero divisor
File C:\Users\*deleted*\Documents\Arma 3\missions\randommission.Tanoa\Ambient-AA\GOM_fnc_ambientAA.sqf, line 52

 

[AZCoder 921]

@Grumpy Old Man Very nice ambient script, I found one bug, same as reported before me. I believe there are instances where the crew bails out which causes the 'assignedvehiclerole gunner _gun' array to be empty, so select 1 throws an error. I added the below line before it and I stopped seeing the error. Thanks.

 

if (assignedvehiclerole gunner _gun isEqualTo []) exitWith { true };

[churrofighter 25]

Since the DLC tanks the script is no longer working 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

15 hours ago, churrofighter said:

Since the DLC tanks the script is no longer working 

Interesting,

gonna look into it.

 

Cheers

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Updated to 1.2 with fixes as mentioned above and added parameter for custom rounds per salvo.

 

Cheers

[Guest]

The Armaholic mirror has been updated with the new version:

 

GOM - Ambient AA v1.2

[Frenki 21]

Grumpy Old Boi i am currently working on a mission with your script, but both with it updated or with older version, i cant make ZSU39, Cheetah or Nyx to fire, they just turn the turret in right direction. I did tried with lot of other vechiles from CUP and RHS, no problem with them, can you assume what is the problem?

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

46 minutes ago, Frenki said:

Grumpy Old Boi i am currently working on a mission with your script, but both with it updated or with older version, i cant make ZSU39, Cheetah or Nyx to fire, they just turn the turret in right direction. I did tried with lot of other vechiles from CUP and RHS, no problem with them, can you assume what is the problem?

ZSU39 and Cheetah should work fine, Nyx has the missiles selected by default, that might be causing the issue.

 

V1.2.1:

• Fixed: Vehicles that had missiles selected as default would not fire

 

Let me know if you run into anything.

 

Cheers

 

[Frenki 21]

I was using 20mm Nyx withouth rockets, but just like other two, he rises his gun towards sky but aint shooting. I will test it again today with 1.2.1 and will report back.

[Guest]

The Armaholic mirror has been updated with the new version:

 

GOM - Ambient AA v1.2.1

[Ketzl 0]

I can see that theres some code in there to determine the firerate, but i'm an idiot and can't work out how to alter it? How would I do so?

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

9 hours ago, Ketzl said:

I can see that theres some code in there to determine the firerate, but i'm an idiot and can't work out how to alter it? How would I do so?

Something like this will do:

 

test addEventhandler ["Fired",{
	params ["_unit", "_weapon", "_muzzle", "_mode", "_ammo", "_magazine", "_projectile", "_gunner"];
	_reloadTime = _unit getVariable ["TAG_fnc_fireRate",1];
     _unit setWeaponReloadingTime [_gunner, _muzzle, _reloadTime];
}];


test setVariable ["TAG_fnc_fireRate",0.75];

Where the value (0.75 as example) stands for seconds between rounds.

 

Cheers

[NeisAEL 0]

Hey man, sorry to bother but I'm having a real headache here.

I created 5 AA guns and named them accordingly in the init field of the object.

this setVariable ["GOM_fnc_ambientAABatteryID","AABattery01",true];

The name "AABattery01" increases for each gun, so "AABattery02", "AABattery03" etc.
I created a trigger in my mission for present players with this in the "On Activation"-field

 

_battery = [AABattery01,AABattery02,AABattery03,AABattery04,AABattery05];
_AA = ["_battery",5] execVM GOM_fnc_ambientAA;

But everytime the trigger fires, it says "You need to specify AA guns through the object init field."
I checked the ambientAA.sqf myself and found out that if the _guns array returns empty, it says this.
If I try to put

_battery = [AABattery01,AABattery02,AABattery03,AABattery04,AABattery05];
_AA = [_battery,5] execVM GOM_fnc_ambientAA;

in the "On Activation"-field it says "Local variable in global space" and I cant save the trigger.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I'm not very good at scripting. Some help would be really appreciated, thank you!

[pierremgi 4737]

local variable: _battery , _AA

global one : battery, AA (no underscore)

 

In a trigger, use global ones or spawn/call the code.

Examples:
call {_battery = [AABattery01,AABattery02,AABattery03,AABattery04,AABattery05]; _AA = [_battery,5] execVM GOM_fnc_ambientAA; }

or

[] spawn {_battery = [AABattery01,AABattery02,AABattery03,AABattery04,AABattery05]; _AA = [_battery,5] execVM GOM_fnc_ambientAA; }

[NeisAEL 0]

Now its giving me undefined variable in expression "aabattery01"? I haven't changed anything in the obj init field?? And I straight up copied your examples, tried both of them.

Edit:
The "call" example is giving me an "generic error in expression" near the execVM order.

Edit2:
The "spawn" example is giving the undefined variable in expression "aabattery01". I didnt copy the other function in correctly. So neither of them is working unfortunately.

Edited September 17, 2021 by NeisAEL

[barreto.alexandre 0]

Where can I download the script? Any location?

[Harzach 2505]

19 minutes ago, barreto.alexandre said:

Any location?

 

The first post in this topic. You'll need to copy/paste the script directly (it's in a spoiler) as Armaholic is gone and the demo mission is no longer available.

[NeisAEL 0]

I'm still having a problem where the AA just fires parallel to the ground and not into the air. It's damaging everything at ground level. Is there a way to declare a target?

[sarogahtyp 1104]

usually the script fires at a random position somewhere in the air.

you can't declare a target but you could pass an array of ASL positions to the script by using the 4th parameter. The script will select one of those positions randomly.

 

I created a working example mission which shows that the script works flawlessly:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7spbwtcl1dj0y8/tempMissionMP.VR.zip?dl=0

It does not use those predefined positions array.