Players making civilian AI hostages

[Arma Llama 1]

Hi all

 

I am trying to make a pvp scenario in which opfor will need to take civilian AI Hostage during the mission, and part of blufors mission will be to free those hostages. 

 

I am very confused as to how to make this work as I have no experience with scripting. Any help is appreciated, 

 

Thanks

[EO 11277]

Googling thread topic plus arma 3 returns a plentiful list of options...

 

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk000IJtYK44o39mD4NoC-yWf-6Au7g%3A1589471453892&ei=3Wi9XqmMNviFhbIPiOiSyAc&q=Players+making+civilian+AI+hostages+arma+3&oq=Players+making+civilian+AI+hostages+arma+3&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECCMQJzoECAAQR1CbDlipFmC5GWgAcAF4AIABO4gBiAOSAQE3mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjp7o7L2rPpAhX4QkEAHQi0BHkQ4dUDCAw&uact=5

 

[Arma Llama 1]

33 minutes ago, EO said:

Googling thread topic plus arma 3 returns a plentiful list of options...

 

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk000IJtYK44o39mD4NoC-yWf-6Au7g%3A1589471453892&ei=3Wi9XqmMNviFhbIPiOiSyAc&q=Players+making+civilian+AI+hostages+arma+3&oq=Players+making+civilian+AI+hostages+arma+3&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECCMQJzoECAAQR1CbDlipFmC5GWgAcAF4AIABO4gBiAOSAQE3mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjp7o7L2rPpAhX4QkEAHQi0BHkQ4dUDCAw&uact=5

 

 

As far as I was aware none of these explained how to make players be able to turn civilian AI into hostages during the game as everything I found, the civilians start as hostages and are rescued

[Rich_R 1087]

Do you mean make AI prisoners? I guess that's what a hostage essentially is. The easiest way is with ACE, but if you don't want to do that, maybe something like this?

 

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/221744-hvt-capture-and-hostage-rescue-scripts/

[wogz187 1086]

@Arma Llama,

Here's a simple method for creating a group of hostages for the player to rescue,

Paste this into any one of the hostage group unit's init field,

hostage_grp=group this;
{
	_x allowDamage false;
	removeAllWeapons _x;
	removeHeadgear _x;
	_x unlinkItem "NVGoggles";
	removeAllItems _x;
	_x setcaptive true;
	_x disableAI "ALL";
	_x switchMove "Acts_AidlPsitMstpSsurWnonDnon04"; 
	_x setvariable ["you_isHOSTAGE", 1];
} forEach units hostage_grp;

and give player this action (init.sqf or init properties dialog),

rescueAction=[ player, "Rescue", 
"\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", 
"\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa", 
"(player distance cursorTarget) <4 && (cursorTarget getvariable ""you_isHOSTAGE"") >0", "isNull objectParent player && alive cursorTarget", {}, {}, {
	cursorTarget enableAI "ALL";
	cursorTarget setcaptive false;
	cursorTarget switchMove ""; 
	[cursorTarget] join (group player);
	systemChat "Hostage Rescued";
	cursorTarget setVariable ["you_isHOSTAGE", 0];
}, {}, [], 2, 0, false, true] call BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd;

Have fun!
 

[Arma Llama 1]

1 hour ago, wogz187 said:

@Arma Llama,

Here's a simple method for creating a group of hostages for the player to rescue,
 

Hi, thanks for the help that was really kind. However, is there any way i can change this in order to allow the player to make the civ a hostage first (allowing a different side to rescue them)?

Thanks again

[Arma Llama 1]

1 hour ago, Rich_R said:

Do you mean make AI prisoners?

Yes! That is what I mean, apologies for not being clearer.

[Arma Llama 1]

1 hour ago, Rich_R said:

The easiest way is with ACE, but if you don't want to do that, maybe something like this?

 

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/221744-hvt-capture-and-hostage-rescue-scripts/

I have tried ACE before but found it a bit too much for friends and I with regards to having to apply tq's etc. It is a grand mod though.

[Rich_R 1087]

The link I gave is to another script besides ACE, is that something that will work?

[Arma Llama 1]

On 5/14/2020 at 8:10 PM, Rich_R said:

The link I gave is to another script besides ACE, is that something that will work?

 

I'll give it a go now, thanks

[Arma Llama 1]

On 5/14/2020 at 8:10 PM, Rich_R said:

The link I gave is to another script besides ACE, is that something that will work?

To make what is described in the link work, do I literally just need to put: 

//prepare HVT and hostage 

obj_hostage execvm "Hostage_setup.sqf"; 

obj_HVT execvm "Hvt_setup.sqf";

in the hostage units init box in the editor?

Thanks

[Arma Llama 1]

I am quite confused as to how I use the script, I have downloaded the dropbox file but am unsure what to do next