AI boarding helicopters

[chris3270 0]

I searched the forums to see if this had been posted and I could not find anything. If I am mistaken I appologize.

Here goes, I want to create a mission where several units board a chopper and then the choper lifts off to thier insertion point. My dilema is that the choppers engines spin up and then it lifts off before all the units can get in it. It then lands again boards the rest of the units and then takes off agian. How can I get it to stay on the ground with the engines running until all the units are in the chopper before it lifts off.

I tried triggers, waypoints, "flyinheight", and everyting short of scripting it. There has to be an easier way. Any ideas?

[Bracken 0]

This is just one way, probably not the best.

in the helicopters (named chop) init put this,

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

Add a trigger round it with activation by blue, and put something like this in the condition field of it:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">((!alive guy1) OR (guy1 in chop)) AND ((!alive guy2) OR (guy in chop)) AND ((!alive guy3) OR (guy3 in chop))

where guy1,2,3 are the names of the guys you want to wait on.

On the activation of that trigger put

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

chop dofollow chop

Now give the chopper a move waypoint (or however many you want) to the zone you want to land.

In that waypoints activation put:

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

And again do the same with the trigger exept this time add NOT in, something like this

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">((!alive guy1) OR NOT (guy1 in chop)) AND ((!alive guy2) OR NOT (guy2 in chop))

and again on the activation: chop dofollow chop.

Atleast I think that should work... thats the only way I know of to get it happening without using extrenal scripts.... apart from just syncing a load waypoint and a getin waypoint, but I take it that didn't work?(sometimes it goes all funny for me as well:))

Hope I didn't stuff anything up there with the not bit and it works, guessing you got a 50/50 shot anyway, good luck

P.s wrong forum section

[W0lle 1050]

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