AI landing

[Fenrir 10]

Hi :)

Is there anyway of getting an AI jet to land without giving them a getout command?

Cause i want my AI jets to take off once a trigger has been activated, give air support, land, rearm, then take off again. So i dont really want the pilots getting out afterwards :p

Are there any other commands i can use ? or will i just have to tell them to get back in again then cycle?

[nuxil 2]

maybe.

vehicle unit action ["Land", vehicle unit] ;

and a eventhandler with

LandedTouchDown

and or

LandedStopped

thouse are other commands to use for landing. and checking which airport landed at..

[Fenrir 10]

Thanks :)

pssst....what do you mean by event handler ? :p Im not too good on scripting part etc yet :rolleyes:

[ProfTournesol 956]

BI wiki about event handlers

[Fenrir 10]

Sorry to be a pain but....that didnt really hel pme to understand much :rolleyes: Do i make a script for these? or add them on a waypoint ?

[Fenrir 10]

Please can someone explain how to use these event hadlers :o

And is there a way of forcing AI to stay in the vehicle, even with the engine off? Because if i use get out, once they pass through the rearm point, the engine shuts off while it's refueling and then they get out again. And because it's now inside the rearm point, whenever they get back in they jump straight out again :p

[ProfTournesol 956]

Well, an eventhandler is a way to launch script based on some events. They are added with the addeventhandler command, and suppressed by the removeeventhandler one (astounding, no ?).

For example, if you wanna delete the body of a soldier killed, you can just :

name_of_soldier addenventhandler ["killed","deletevehicle _this select 0"]

Additionnaly, the eventhandler may return some values that can be used into the script : for example the above eventhandler returns an array (named _this) composed by : [the unit killed,the killer] that can be reached with the "select command".

For example try :

name_of_soldier addEventHandler ["killed", "hint format["Unit killed : %1, Killed by %2",_this select 0,_this select 1]"]

The list of all event handlers in ArmA are posted in my post above (you should look at it !) :

About your trouble, i dunno how the provide the pilot of the given landed plane from getting out of it (unless the moveindriver command as soon as he gets out with an getout event handler for example).

[nuxil 2]

try mess a bit with this.. its not perfect. you need to add more code to it..

like put a reloade function in it..

place 2,3 planes in editor not in group. name the plane example plane1 so on. and a marker named goto

i have not tested this on utes tho.

// names on init of planes in editor..
_planes = [plane1,plane2,plane3];
land = {
_unit = _this;
deleteWaypoint [group _unit, 1];
vehicle _unit action ["Land", vehicle _unit] ;
//	hint "ai take land fnc";
};
takeoff = 
{
      _unit = _this select 0;
vehicle _unit setfuel 1;
_pos = getMarkerPos "goto";
_grp = group _unit;
_wp = _grp addWaypoint [[_pos select 0,_pos select 1,1],1];
[_grp, 1] setWaypointCompletionRadius 400;
[_grp, 0] setWaypointBehaviour "CARELESS";
[_grp, 1] setWaypointBehaviour "CARELESS";
[_grp, 0] setWaypointCombatMode "BLUE";
[_grp, 1] setWaypointCombatMode "BLUE";
[_grp, 1] setWPPos [_pos select 0,_pos select 1,1];
[_grp, 1] setWaypointType "MOVE";
[_grp, 1] setWaypointTimeout [0,0,0];
[_grp, 1] setWaypointStatements ["true", "this call land;"];
//	hint "ai take off";
};

you should also change the behaviour of the modes. or even add in 1 more waypoint.

{ 
vehicle _x setfuel 0;
sleep 3;
_x addEventHandler ["LandedStopped", "_this call takeoff;"];
[_x] call takeoff;
} foreach _planes;

call this script by a radio trigger to test with

by adjustin [_grp, 1] setWaypointTimeout [0,0,0];

you can change how long before you call land on you planes. example if you use DESTROY mode

you want them to do a couple if runs around the zone.. "let the ai use its weapons.." so they may be need 2-3 min"

remember the ai will taxi on the airport.

problem i think is it will land on closest airport.. so you could add in gotoAirport function.. which set a wp close to your airport with a marker. before you call the land function or mess with the landAt command. but you need to know the airport id then.,2nd array of LandedStopped should give you that.

Edited September 1, 2009 by nuxil

[gc8 977]

can anyone tell how to make the plane stop?

i have this code but the plane touches runaway and takes off again:

_plane addeventhandler ["LandedTouchDown", "_plane stop true; hint 'stopping'; "];

to make it land i used this code:

_plane landat 3;

_plane action ["Land", _plane] ;

where _plane is the plane placed in editor. should it rather be the pilot?

Edited October 27, 2011 by rrr44

[f2k sel 164]

_plane addeventhandler ["LandedTouchDown", "_plane setfuel 0; hint 'stopping'; "];

[gc8 977]

_plane addeventhandler ["LandedTouchDown", "_plane setfuel 0; hint 'stopping'; "];

Hmm i tried with setfuel 0 but no difference.....

[f2k sel 164]

Did you get the hint message appear "stopping", if it didn't show then EVH didn't fire.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/oonelu

[gc8 977]

yup sure did wrote that line my self.

[gc8 977]

nm i got working. the _plane variable didnt exist in that scope