Pook ARTY Pack

hcpookie · May 29, 2004

Released! Both Vanilla and CUP versions are published to Steam, and my onedrive link here: https://onedrive.live.com/?id=5B54FC51A7917265!156668&cid=5B54FC51A7917265

CUP version is available separately!

I've been playing with the different artillery selections so their max ranges should be accurately simulated. Up to 300km range on the SCUD so it should work on even the big-huge maps out there.

Arty Fire Mission

Spoiler

/********* pook_ARTY Artillery Fire Mission Function *********************************************************************

Initiates player-requested artillery fire mission for friendly AI-controlled arty units. This can be scripted for
mission-driven artillery support fire missions by "real" units on the map. The use of in-mission active AI
artillery units makes the counter-artillery strike mission a real possibility. Enemy guns can be eliminated;
friendly artillery has the potential to be destroyed. Consider a scripted mission with enemy AI calling in
artillery strikes and you and your SF squad is tasked with finding and neutralizing the artillery units!

The function can be assigned to a forward observer, spotter, or other "control" unit, and enemy artillery may
become active by careful use of triggers or condition scripts to dynamically change mission parameters.

All these possibilities exist due to "real" units on the map making use of this function, which turns artillery
into a dynamic aspect for any SP or MP mission!

This function currently supports:
- POOK_ARTY: 2S19, 2S1, 2S3, 2S5, A-222, 9K58, TOS-1A
- POOK_AFV: Pandur M-121 Mortar carrier
- CUP: M270, BM-21, M1129 mortar carrier, 2B14 mortar, D30, M119
- VME_PLA: PLZ-05, PLZ-07, PL-96 (aka Type 86 - D30 copy), PP87 82mm mortar, PHZ-10, PHZ-81, PHL-03, PLL-05
- RHS: M119, D30, M109, 2S3, M252 mortar, 2B14 mortar, BM-21, M142 (HIMARS)
- BIS vanilla artillery

SRBM and SCUD fire missions are provided in their respective functions contained in the pook_Arty pack.

Please comment in the BIS forum topic if other units should be considered for addition to this list.

Author: hcpookie

Arguments:
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   0: The player calling the mission
   1: TYPE: The artillery ammo type being requested (default = "HE")
       "HE", "SMOKE", "SPOT", "ILLUM", and "CBU" types are available.
   2: OPTIONAL: Range (in km) to check for friendly launchers (default = 20km)
   3: OPTIONAL: Map grid coordinates. Uses standard coordinate format (ex. [0,0,0]).

USAGE:
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1. Place an AI artillery unit via editor, or spawn within mission.

2. Add the function to any forward observer, fire controller, recon vehicle, specops radio, etc. depending on your
   mission needs. The Fire Controller should be a Commander/Spotter/Radio operator, etc. or a forward observer
   vehicle operator. The controller could even be a scout plane, helicopter, etc. that would be in a position
   to request the artillery missions.

The controller assignment is added either via "addAction" or via a trigger/script to assign the desired ammo
type to an Artillery Fire Controller.

Note that the ammo type values are CASE-SENSITIVE! Supported types are: "HE","SMOKE","ILLUM","CBU". The
function will default to "HE" if no value is passed:

        this addAction ["Arty Mission", {[player] spawn pook_ARTY_FNC_ARTYMISSION},"",1,false,true];
           - or -
       _arty = [this] spawn pook_ARTY_FNC_ARTYMISSION;

   ----
   HE:
   ----
   Using the HE value will launch a conventional high explosive arty fire mission. You may replace "player" with
   the object's "Variable Name" (in the editor) depending on your scripting needs:

this addAction ["Arty Mission", {[player, "HE", 20] spawn pook_ARTY_FNC_ARTYMISSION},"",1,false,true];