Jet auto landing carriers

[gc8 970]

Hi

Today I discovered that the jets can auto land to aircraft carrier. This is super cool, though in some circumstances the landing fails to a crash. My question is how do you use the setAirportSide command?

I placed the carrier in the editor and gave it name "tc" then I have this script line:

 

tc setAirportSide east;

 

But it doesn't seem to work as "airportSide tc" returns "UNKNOWN"

 

So how do you properly use that command, or is it broken?

 

I tried to change the carrier side east because I am playing as west and wanted to prevent the landing on that carrier.

 

Also does anyone know a good way to get the index of the airfields? (used in another form of setAirportSide)

 

thx!

[sarogahtyp 1104]

2 minutes ago, gc8 said:

Also does anyone know a good way to get the index of the airfields?

 

allAirports

 

Quote

Return Value:

Array - in format [staticAirports, dynamicAirports], where:

staticAirports Array of Numbers - static airports IDs

dynamicAirports Array of Objects - dynamic airports objects (such as aircraft carrier)

 

[gc8 970]

2 minutes ago, sarogahtyp said:

allAirports

 

Yeah I meant what index/number is which airport index on the map?

[gc8 970]

To answer part of my own question it looks like you have to get the carrier object from allAirports in order for it to work

 

(allAirports # 1 # 1) setAirportSide east

 

[gc8 970]

Another question. Why does the jet still auto land on carrier which side I set to east? (Jet is side west)

[sarogahtyp 1104]

I guess it just lands where you told it to with the landAt command.

setAirportSide/airportSide is just to set/identify who owns the airfield. what the mission designer does with that information  is his own choice.

[gc8 970]

Is the static (map) airport configs somewhere ? I have been looking but haven't yet found where all the map stuff is defined, maybe there's airport IDs there

[sarogahtyp 1104]

I don't get what u r missing. allAirports should give u all those IDs

[gc8 970]

3 minutes ago, sarogahtyp said:

I don't get what u r missing. allAirports should give u all those IDs

 

yes but where are the airports located at?

[gc8 970]

Found the answer to my question.

The "main" airport's location is in "ilsPosition" of the world cfg

 

So in altis its:

 

configfile >> "CfgWorlds" >> "Altis" >> "ilsPosition"

 

And the "secondary" airports are in:

 

configfile >> "CfgWorlds" >> "Altis" >> "SecondaryAirports"

 

 

More info: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dynamic_Airport_Configuration

[gc8 970]

Made this little function to get the nearest AF ID. Useful when you want to use landAt etc commands:

 

 

getNearestAirfieldId =
{
 params ["_nearTo"];
 private _world = configfile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldname;
 private _index = 0;
 private _closestDist = 1000000;
 private _closestIndex = -1;
 
 _checkAF =
 {
  params ["_ilspos"];
  private _p = getArray _ilspos;
  private _dist = _p distance2D _nearTo;
  if(_dist < _closestDist) then
  {
  _closestIndex = _index;
  _closestDist = _dist;
  };
  _index = _index + 1;
 };
 
 (_world >> "ilsPosition") call _checkAF;
 
 _sec = _world >> "SecondaryAirports";
 
 for "_i" from 0 to (count _sec - 1) do
 {
  _ap = _sec select _i;
  (_ap >> "ilsPosition") call _checkAF;
 };
 
 _closestIndex
};