Lasertargeting with East units

[KaRRiLLioN 0]

I've been searching for this for a while and I thought that it surely would have been asked or answered by now.

When I use the laser designator with an East unit, then the LT always comes up as "Unknown", and the SU-25 LGB jets will ignore it.

I opened up LaserGuided.pbo and looked around. In CfgVehicle there are definitions for the vehicles that comprise the LT as follows:

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class LaserTarget:All

{

reversed=0;

hasDriver=0;

icon="Unknown_object";

displayName="$STR_DN_LASER_TARGET";

nameSound="target";

accuracy=0.005;

model="laserTgt.p3d";

picture="ivojak";

weapons[]={"MachineGun12_7"};

magazines[]={};

type="VArmor";

threat[]={0.2,0.5,1.0};

maxSpeed=0;

simulation="laserTarget";

laserTarget=1;

irTarget=0;

destrType="DestructNo";

side=3;

cost=1000000;

armor=500;

};

class LaserTargetBase:LaserTarget

{

};

class LaserTargetCBase:LaserTargetBase

{

scope=1;

side=3;

};

class LaserTargetWBase:LaserTargetBase

{

scope=1;

side=0;

};

class LaserTargetEBase:LaserTargetBase

{

scope=1;

side=1;

};

class LaserTargetW:LaserTargetWBase

{

accuracy=1000;

weapons[]={};

magazines[]={};

};

class LaserTargetE:LaserTargetEBase

{

accuracy=1000;

weapons[]={};

magazines[]={};

};

};

From what I can tell, the LaserTargetE vehicle is set up correctly. The side is west, so it should show up as an enemy.

I'm assuming that when the LD is "fired" there is code which createvehicle's the LaserTargetE wherever the LD is being aimed. If so, then the LaserTargetE should show up as an enemy LaserTarget. It works fine for west, but for east it doesn't and I have no idea why.

I noticed that the Base define for the LaserTarget vehicles uses the Civilian side of 3. Could this affect it?

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT:

After more testing, here's what I've found. No east air vehicles will identify the LT. West air vehicles like A10's cobra's etc. will immedately ID it, even if they are a member of an east group.

I took an east pilot and put him into an A10 and he immedately ID'd the LT as well. Is there something in the west vehicles cfg that might allow this? I also took an empty Cobra, had a regular east soldier get into it, and right after he did, he ID'd a LT 1000 meters away.

[kegetys 2]

Is there something in the west vehicles cfg that might allow this?

Well, at least the A10, cobra and apache have a "laserScanner = true" value in the config. Dunno what it does though but sounds like it is what you need...

[KaRRiLLioN 0]

That did it. I was looking in the Laserguided.pbo for something. I should have scanned the ofp .hpp files for laser.

Thanks!