Don't take off, heli!

[Doolittle 0]

I feel embarrassed asking this. It seems like such a simple thing. I've looked on OFPEC and can't seem to find anything. What I was wondering is, how do I place a helicopter on the map with a MOVE or whatever waypoint, and then set that waypoint so that it's Trigger Switched or something? Er, what I want is the helicopter to stay on the ground (with the pilots still inside) and then when I detect a player with a trigger, the helicopter will take off and MOVE to a set spot.

I've tried stuff like Helicopter -> Hold -> Move where the Hold has a switch on it so that heli goes to Move when enemy found, but of course the heli takes off and then just hovers in the air at Hold. Yes, I know you can do a GET OUT, and then on the trigger switch activation do a GET IN and MOVE, but...I don't want to do that because what I'd like is to have a Helicopter on the ground, and have 3 different groups board it, then have the helicopter just sit there, then after some event it takes off and lands somewhere else and all 3 groups disembark and go off by themselves while the helicopter takes off and goes back to base.

How would I do this?? Thank you! (Most of the stuff I read about has the helicopter already flying and landing to pick people up or some such, never just sitting on H and THEN taking off)

Doolittle

[Doolittle 0]

Found something...strange solution though. http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....70;st=0

Doolittle

[Bart.Jan 0]

Use :

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heli setBehaviour "careless";heli lockWP true;heli land "land"

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But you must have move wp near landing H and you must acticvate the code before heli reach that move wp.

To make heli continue its wps execute :

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heli setBehaviour "aware";heli lockWP false

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[Mujahedeen 0]

The way I do this is to have the chopper start with no fuel, and then in the trigger's activation field put:

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choppername is ofcourse the name of your heli!  

that should work...

[Harnu 0]

Set chopper fuel to 0

Trigger

Activation : anybody

Activate: once

Condition: Whatever condition you want for when the chopper will take off

Onactivation: choppername setfuel 1

Place in a remote corner of your map to avoid accidental activation.

[Doolittle 0]

Yes, I am using the setFuel approach and that works quite nicely. I had forgotten about the lockWP command, but I won't need it here.

Thanks for the help guys!

Doolittle