Airlock only?

[Canalien 0]

Hi there,

Is there a way to lock onto flying air targets only, and prevent the weapon from locking ground targets as well?

i tried

airLock = true;

irLock = false;

but irLock seems to override airLock and when false prevents ANY locking.

[.kju 3245]

AFAIK there is no way.

you could make (all) grounds units not lockable at all ... but thats not really an option i guess  

[Canalien 0]

Might have to settle for second best...

Is there a way to prevent AI from attacking ground vehicles, ie they only target aircraft?

[.kju 3245]

well if its only for AI, this should be possible by altering the threat values.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">threat[]={0.700000,0.500000,0.300000};

Inf, Vehicles, Air

1 = ATTACK this unit

0 = "ignore" this unit

yet you better double check this. its been a long time since i was into this.

note that this works the other way round - these values are to be set in the attacked unit and not in the attacking unit !

[Canalien 0]

so there's no way to have 'Unit X' ignore ALL ground vehicles, but 'Unit Y' attack them as normal...

suppose I should point out what I'm trying to do is have an AI manned SAM launcher, but it keeps attacking tanks. i only want it to attack air units.

[.kju 3245]

maybe the cost value could help you here.

it tells the AI when its worthy to attack a vehicle and i think cost is based on the attackers weapon and not the attacked unit (cant check right now).