Flare from Supply Drop

[DMRocks 1]

Hey all,

In my mission, I want a supply crate to drop from a Blackfish and then fire a flare so that players can see the drop.

To do this, I have a trigger that is activated when the pilot flies over. Here is the on activation code:

_success = objNull setVehicleCargo supplyDrop;
flrpos = supplyDrop modelToWorld [0,0,100];
flrObj = createVehicle ["F_20mm_Red", flrpos, [], 0,"NONE"];
flrObj setVelocity [0,0,-10];

The supply drop works just fine, but no matter how much I fiddle with the code, the flare never spawns. Please let me know if there is a way to fix the code or if there is another way of doing this.
 

 

[JCataclisma 78]

Try ant take a look at this recent video from Gunter.
I think it will give you exactly what is missing. 😎
 

I would also change your createVehicle line into something like this:

flrObj = "F_20mm_Red" createvehicle ((flrpos) ModelToWorld [0,0,50]);

There also this topic from a few hours ago, where I put the code I use to spawn/create flares relative to the player's position when they use an action, so you can use the "createvehicle ((player) ModelToWorld" from there:

 

[JCataclisma 78]

Finally, there are also Pierre-MGI's modules, which handle that subjects as well:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1682280809

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Edit/Note
This is what I use to create a smoke on vehicles at the point where I disembark them from boats (by using "attachTo" in scripts)
 

					_charge_9 = createVehicle ["SmokeShellYellow",[0,0,0]];
					_charge_9 setPosATL (_object modelToWorldVisual [0,0,0]);
					_charge_9 setVectorDirAndUp [(_object modelToWorld [0,0,0]) vectorFromTo (_object modelToWorld [0,0,0]),[0,0,2]];
					_charge_9 setDamage [1,TRUE];

 

[DMRocks 1]

Thank you so much! I got it working. The "attachTo" was also a nice touch so that I didn't have to match velocity. Thanks again!

[DutchPriide 3]

    This is Config>>>>
    
itsDutch_DropCrateHaveSmoke = true;
itsDutch_DropCrateHaveFlare = true;

itsDutch_DropSmokesVector = [                            // Classname of the smoke you want to spawn, the color spawn random.
                        "SmokeShellRed",
                        "SmokeShellGreen",
                        "SmokeShellPurple",
                        "SmokeShellBlue",
                        "SmokeShellOrange"
                    ];
itsDutch_DropFlaresVector = [                            // Classname of the smoke you want to spawn, the color spawn random.
                        "FlareWhite_F",
                        "FlareGreen_F",
                        "FlareRed_F",
                        "FlareYellow_F"
                    ];
                    
                    
    put this on crate >>>>
                    
                    if !(_isVehicle) then
                    {
                        if (itsDutch_DropCrateHaveSmoke) then
                        {
                            private _Smoke = (_dropObj getVariable ["itsDutch_DropCrateSmoke", selectRandom itsDutch_DropSmokesVector]) createVehicle getPosATL _dropObj;
                            _Smoke attachTo [_dropObj,[0,0,0]];
                        };
                        if (itsDutch_DropCrateHaveFlare) then
                        {
                            private _Flare = (_dropObj getVariable ["itsDutch_DropCrateFlare", selectRandom itsDutch_DropFlaresVector]) createVehicle getPosATL _dropObj;
                            _Flare attachTo [_dropObj,[0,0,0]];
                        };
                    };

[DutchPriide 3]

check this post for random color and stuff