civilian [SOLVED] Prevent the civilian parachuter, when landing, from walking in a crouch

[thy_ 164]

When I create blufor units in the air, and make them use parachutes to touch the ground safely, everything runs fine, but if I do the same with civilians, the civilian units get panic (guess)!

The same happens if I use ZEUS to throw the civilian in the air. Their parachute is opened and, when they touch the ground, they're crouched.

 

What I want:

That civilian parachuters when on land, walk normally, in the "UP" position. 

 

 

My snippet:

Right before the CIVILIAN unit is created in the air, falling down from 1km altitude with a parachute bag:

_grp setBehaviourStrong "CARELESS";
_grp allowFleeing 0;
{
    _x setBehaviour "CARELESS";
    _x disableAI "FSM";
  
} forEach units _grp;

After landing:

{
    // Wait the own unit (_x) touch the ground if not yet:
    waitUntil { sleep 3; (getPos _x select 2) < 0.2 || !alive _x };
    sleep 2;
    _x enableAI "FSM";
    _x switchmove "";
    _x setUnitPos "UP";
    //_x setUnitPosWeak "UP"; 
  
} forEach units _grp;

 

The bad result: always the civilian units are walking in a crouch, even if there's no opfor, blufor, or independent on the map.

 

 

Commands I'm using:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setBehaviourStrong

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/allowFleeing

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableAI

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitPosWeak

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitPos

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/switchAction

 

 

[JCataclisma 80]

Maybe it could make any difference if you disable civilians' damage until they reach the ground... ?
Let´s say use " _x allowDammage false; " in the first part and " _x allowDammage true; " inside the "waitUntil" part.

I was also thinking about using 'setCaptive true", but then remembered that civilians are already recognized as captives by default.

And you have probably already tried using "setCombatBehaviour" instead...

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EDIT: by the way, recently someone has posted in a thread regarding to avoid AI to go prone while inside buildings. Maybe you can find something for your case there as well (they used _x setUnitPos "UP";  https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setUnitPos ):

 

[Play3r 147]

how about using the

_x setUnitPos "UP"; 
Command in the ForEach loop

Edited October 11, 2023 by Play3r
Typo

[thy_ 164]

21 minutes ago, Play3r said:

how about using the

_x setUnitPos "UP"; 
Command in the ForEach loop

 

The unit just ignores the setUnitPos and the setUnitPosWeak. Super wierd but I understand the civilian gets panic when is falling down. Even with Zeus in vanilla if you trow the civilian, the behavior is the same.

[JCataclisma 80]

I don't know whether "human" units can have their simulation disabled. If yes, you could try to do that and then something like " sleep 0.25; enableSimulation true;" after they touch ground.

EDIT: oh, but with simulation disabled, they would probably NOT fall down and just hang locked mid-flight.... 😑

[thy_ 164]

Solution:

 

Before to landing: nothing!

//_grp setBehaviourStrong "CARELESS";  <<----------------- Not needed!
//_grp allowFleeing 0;  <<-------------------------------- Not needed!
//{
    //_x setBehaviour "CARELESS";  << -------------------- Not needed!
    //_x disableAI "FSM";  <<----------------------------- Not needed!
  
//} forEach units _grp;

 

Right after landing:

{ 
  // Wait the own unit (_x) touch the ground if not yet:
  waitUntil { sleep 3; (getPos _x select 2) < 0.2 || !alive _x };
  // Restart the unit animation, forcing them to be "UP":
  _x switchmove "";

} forEach units _grp;

 

It works well even civilian parachuter is under fire.

😉