Adding Repair Ability to Soldier?

[Uziyahu--IDF 0]

Is it possible to add the ability to repair things to a soldier, maybe via an init script?

Or does it require an addon to be made?

[dr_eyeball 16]

You don't require an addon. You can add a rough repair concept with a few scripts and inits.

A few simple ideas:

1) You could add a Repair action to all vehicles, which executes a repair script. The repair script could check if the caller (player) is an engineer or has some particular equipment, for example, before repairing (setDamage value).

2) You could add a Repair action to specific players, like Engineers. When they select the action, it fixes the nearest vehicle(s) within a given radius.

[Uziyahu--IDF 0]

Oh, the Engineer class has the ability to repair like a repair truck?

[Zenshin 0]

No, not by default, but you can do it by script as i did in our mission. There we have a complex repair system for the engineer with several extra features.

[Uziyahu--IDF 0]

Sounds cool! What's the name of the mission? Got a link to it?

[Pillage 0]

I second the request for that link...

edit: this thread should have been in ArmA - Mission Editing & Scripting.