Drone leaflet drop scripting

[420memelordxDlmao 0]

I'm trying to create a scenario where some drones fly in and drop leaflets over a town before the invasion starts (literally an event that happens in the laws of war dlc). I'm copying the code here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Leaflets except changing "myDrone" to "this".

 

Drones init is:

this addWeapon "Bomb_Leaflets";  
this addMagazine "1Rnd_Leaflets_West_F";

The drone has a waypoint that it flies off to where I'd like it to drop leaflets. This is the on activation function for the waypoint:

this fire "Bomb_Leaflets";
hint "leaflets should have dropped...";

Which prints out "leaflets should have dropped..." as expected, but no leaflets.

 

Would really appreciate any help given, thank you.

[Harzach 2508]

It's counter-intuitive, but use addMagazine before addWeapon as shown in the wiki page you linked:

myDrone addMagazine "1Rnd_Leaflets_West_F";
myDrone addWeapon "Bomb_Leaflets";

This is a general rule, not leaflet-specific.

[420memelordxDlmao 0]

1 hour ago, Harzach said:

It's counter-intuitive, but use addMagazine before addWeapon as shown in the wiki page you linked:

myDrone addMagazine "1Rnd_Leaflets_West_F";
myDrone addWeapon "Bomb_Leaflets";

This is a general rule, not leaflet-specific.

 

Should have mentioned that I tried that first.

[420memelordxDlmao 0]

I think I figured it out, solution:

 

In your waypoint onActivation, you want to do:

(vehicle this) fire "Bomb_Leaflets";

You need (vehicle this) because `this` is the group leader that activated the trigger, not necessarily the vehicle. Appending vehicle before `this` will get the vehicle of that object if it exists (which in this case is the drone).

[Harzach 2508]

Oh, I missed that. 

 

thislist select 0 fire "Bomb_Leaflets"; 
hint "leaflets should have dropped...";

"This" isn't passed to OnAct, so it is meaningless. "Vehicle this" as well.

 

*edit* - And I should probably go to sleep. I'm talking about triggers, you are using the waypoint as an activator.

[Harzach 2508]

Tried it the way you are doing it,

vehicle this fire "Bomb_Leaflets";

works fine, no parentheses required.