Conditions of presence

[Fenris 0]

Howdy ppl,

Got a really simple question that I'm mildly embarrassed to ask (it's been a year since I did any mission creating and I've forgotten everything!! ). Still, after seeing some of the questions that ppl are getting away with, I don't feel so bad

I need to have units created when a certain event happens. My idea was something like having some F-14's fly in and take out some soviet choppers when you radio for help. I can't really have them take off, of just circle so I wanted a radio trigger to actually create the units off the coast somewhere.

I thought a trigger with

planecall = true

in the "on activation" field and in the "condition of presence" field of the plane just put

planecall

would work. But doesn't seem to. i appreciate it could just be me using my variables wrongly, like i said it's been a while! As a continuation of that idea, is there anyway to put in a delay, e.g. after the trigger is activated there is a 20 second wait before the planes are created? Some thing like (in the "on activation" field):

wait 20; planecall = true;

Cheers peeps.

It's really good to come back to Flashpoint and see how well it's coming on. Mine was out of action for ages, and coming back to the Resistance addon and some really top quality user created addons (e.g. SelectThis' Kawasaki 250 and Kegetys's Russian Weapons pack) has made me a v happy wolfman!  

[Fenris 0]

C'mon you feckers!! Only a teeny ickle question!!!

[RED 0]

You have to put 'planecall' in the condition field (above the activation field)

RED

[Fenris 0]

That's what I did. In the "condition" part of the edit/insert unit screen you mean?

[RED 0]

Oh thats what you want to do, sorry you had me confused.

You can't do it the way you want, but you can use the create vehicle command and combine it with the setvelocity command.

Search the froum for both of them and you will find your answer.

RED

[Fenris 0]

Couldn't find anything readily. Could someone just give me a brief rundown on how to create a vehicle by using a trigger? I'd be really appreciative

[ralphwiggum 6]

how about

planecall == true

instead of planecall = true

[Fenris 0]

== checks to see if two valuables are the same, I need to define planecall to true. I guess planecall == true in the condition box might work, but usually just putting the variable in should work. It won't activate until the variable is set to true.

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Fenris @ Nov. 09 2002,18:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Couldn't find anything readily. Could someone just give me a brief rundown on how to create a vehicle by using a trigger? I'd be really appreciative  <span id='postcolor'>

you need to search better

here

and here

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Fenris @ Nov. 09 2002,18:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">== checks to see if two valuables are the same, I need to define planecall to true. I guess planecall == true in the condition box might work, but usually just putting the variable in should work. It won't activate until the variable is set to true.<span id='postcolor'>

usually, but for safe measure, initiallize it to false in the beginning of the game, like putting

varname=false

in init.sqs

[Fenris 0]

Checked those but still not hugely clear. It's a bit cop out, but I don't want to have to start writing scripts for it because I don't think it should be that tricky!  

[Chris Death 0]

Just for info,

planecall

is the only thing, you need as condition.

The trick with boolean conditions (true/false) is:

The condition exists (planecall=true),

or the condition doesn't exist (=false)

So having a condition: planecall

will become active once it has been set to true.

The "planecall == xxx" is just here, to compare the

variable "planecall" with anything else, shall it be a numeric

value, or another variable name. However, you don't need

to use "planecall == true". Just use "planecall" and all should be fine.

~S~ CD

[Fenris 0]

Right, went to OPEC and got some kind of a clue. I've set up a trigger with:

plane = "A10" createvehicle getpos planecall; plane setvelocity [0,200,0]; pilot1 moveindriver plane;

Which kind of works. It'd be nice to start the plane above ground level, but SetPos doesn't seem to be relative. What do I need to add to get it to start in the air? Also, how can I add waypoints for the plane once it's created? I need it to go S&D!!

[suma 8]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Fenris @ Nov. 09 2002,17:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I need to have units created when a certain event happens.

I thought a trigger with

planecall = true

in the "on activation" field and in the "condition of presence" field of the plane just put

planecall

would work. But doesn't seem to.<span id='postcolor'>

"Condition of presence" is evaluated only when mission starts. If it is met, unit is created. If not, unit is not created. It is not possible to use this for delayed unit creation. For this you need to use createUnit/createVehicle commands.

[BaronVonRed 0]

If you ever get this to work, could you post a "How I did it" - I'd be interested in doing something like this myself...

Thanks (I hope)!

[Doolittle 0]

"Condition of presence" for objects, I still don't get. Seems this is only useful if certain PARAMS passed from the mission assign screen are selected, like play mission for 30 min. or to score of 5, etc. I was hoping "Condition of presence" could have been used once init.sqs was run but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Doolittle