HALO jumps

[Obowo 10]

I used ti play OFP long time ago and was pretty good at mission editing, but this Arma 2 is so much more... How do I make a a HALO jump mission for insertion? Id rather have it tell us to get rdy to jump and when to jump in text if nothing else...

[shuko 59]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=73401

[Obowo 10]

ill give it a try thx

[Obowo 10]

nope doesnt really tell me how and cant get this to work

[kylania 568]

Umm.. yes it does.

Instead of "nope doesnt really tell me how" did you mean to type "I barely skimmed that thread but since I'm too lazy to read when I was confronted with discussion and the chance to learn something rather than a line of code I can mindlessly copy/paste I decided to claim it didn't help even though it told me character by character what to type on the example found on page four of the thread I was directed to."

If so, no worries, it's a common typo being made on these boards this week! :)

Type this into your trigger's onAct.. or run it as an action, or radio.. lots of choices.

[unitName, optionalHeight] exec "ca\air2\halo\data\Scripts\HALO_init.sqs"

As for telling you when to jump, it's the same Trigger mechanism that's been around since OFP.

You can even download a demo mission to see it in action!

[Obowo 10]

its been quite some time since Ive done this type of stuff, so yea im not up to par with the rest of you, but thanks for your smart@#$ remarks..

Edited September 12, 2009 by Obowo

[kylania 568]

You're welcome, and welcome back! Also, thanks for Searching Before Posting.

[Obowo 10]

well then, if I had time to read every post like you, then why dont we just lock all the posts so no one can ever post again and just tell em to search and spend hours trying to find it...

[kylania 568]

They should lock threads that ask common questions that a simple one word search could have found the answer to, great idea. :) Had you typed 'HALO' into search and clicked 'Search Now' you'd have found the thread you were directed to in this very thread.

Had you read that thread, or even skimmed it lightly, you'd have come across the phrase "This works, but thanks to BlackAlpha's help in another thread...this works even better:" and you'd have used the example displayed.

Instead you posted a brand new post, now adding another thread to the list of search results, instead of having found existing information yourself.

I appreciate that you're learning things again, I too went through the same process, but you really need to try finding information via search first then when you get stuck with something ask a specific question. Posting asked-and-answered questions just fills the forums with extra threads.

[Obowo 10]

I did, but could not get it to work hence the thread...