How to make a soldier stand at ease with gun on his shoulder?

[dummy_01 10]

I am using the ArmA 2 editor and I want a soldier to start out standing carrying his gun on his shoulder.

To achieve this I put in his init field: this setBehaviour "safe";

...but it doesn't work. I also tried "careless".

I also tried using the Arma 1 animation where the soldier slings the gun on shoulder. That works, but only for 1 second. After playing the animation the soldier is back in his original stance with gun in hands. :(

Anyone knows how to make a soldier stand at ease or attention with gun on his shoulder?

Does setBehaviour not work in ArmA 2?

[Big Dawg KS 5]

There is no set of animations in ArmA 2 (or ArmA) for carrying slinged rifles. You can make them do it, but they won't be able to move like that.

[dummy_01 10]

That's OK. They don't have to move like that (as they could in OFP...).

I just want them to stand there, in line, in front of their commander.

Is that possible?

[Big Dawg KS 5]

atEase = this spawn {_this disableAI "ANIM"; _this playMove "AmovPercMstpWnonSnonDnon"}

[dummy_01 10]

Thank you!

Putting this in the soldiers init field worked:

atEase = this spawn {_this disableAI "ANIM"; _this playMove "AmovPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_Ease"}

[Big Dawg KS 5]

Cool, I didn't know about that anim. Also I can never remember whether the W or the S comes first... :rolleyes:

[dummy_01 10]

I want to bring the soldiers back to life when an enemy is detected.

For this I use a trigger with OPFOR detected by BLUEFOR as condition and as activation:

soldier_1 enableAI "ANIM" ;

This makes soldier_1 react to his surroundings again. Now, how to do this for the entire group?

soldier_1 and soldier_2 and ... soldier_n enableAI "ANIM"; I suppose, but I think it is possible to address the entire group. Anyone know how?

Yes, noob. Learning everyday. :)

[Big Dawg KS 5]

{_X enableAI "ANIM"} forEach (units group soldier_1)

Or alternatively, you can ditch the trigger entirely and implement this in the spawned code:

atEase = this spawn {_this setBehaviour "SAFE"; _this disableAI "ANIM"; _this playMove "AmovPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_Ease"; waitUntil{sleep 1; behaviour _this != "SAFE"}; _this enableAI "ANIM"};