Gettingtroops of a certain team engage a target

[mcnools 62]

well, I'm thinking about doing a little mission where your'e stuck behind enemy lines, and I would like to do it so that when your'e discovered, lots of enemy units move to your position and engage you. Is there any way to do this? It would be best if notall of the enemies engage you, just those within a 1000 metres or something, is this possible?

[plasman 0]

Well try a small script like this one (which might work) :

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_patr=_this select 0

#patrol

? (put a condition here): goto "spotted"

~5

goto "patrol"

; In the above loop the soldier just wait until the “spotted player†condition goes true.

#spotted

_patr setbehaviour "DANGER"

_patr commandmove getpos (player)

?(_patr distance player<50) : _patr DoFire player

? (not alive (_patr)): exit

~2

goto "spotted"

; In the above loop the soldier will go into combat mode and move where the player is and will continue to follow him, until the distance between he and the player is below 50 meters. Once he’s below 50 he will fire at the player.

In the init field of the soldier type [name of the soldier] exec name of the script.sqs

[mcnools 62]

Thanks I'll try that later.

is it possible to just type something in a trigger to get a certain group to move to a specific unit?

[charonos 0]

Yes,

you can put something like in the condition of the trigger:

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{_x knowsabout player > 2} count ENEMYGROUP !=0

with ENEMYGROUP being the group to potentially be able to detect the player,

the action upon true condition could be either a real waypoint

given to that group or the command

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

ENEMYGROUP move getpos player

Concerning Plasman's code : There is no behaviour of the type "DANGER", you probably meant "COMBAT". A single patrol would probably rather call for backup than go after a spotted enemy, the script should check a whole enemygroup like McNools was having in mind.

[mcnools 62]

This is a bit embarrasing, but how do I define a groupname?

[HulkingUnicorn 0]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">groupname = group this in leaders initfield should do the trick.

[mcnools 62]

It worked! thank you.