How to make Russians target and kill Insurgent ai?

[mrjingo 10]

I'm working on a mission where there is a low ranking insurgent named 'spy' grouped with a high ranking BLUFOR with presence set to 0%. I have a conversation with the titletext command and a gamelogic take place when the player approaches. At the end of the conversation I want the spy to walk away and then have some OPFOR approach him and kill him.

The problem I have is that the OPFOR won't kill him. I thought that grouping a low ranked OPFOR with a high ranked BLUFOR with presence set to 0% would basically turn them into a BLUFOR, but apparently not. I tried using the unit addrating -10000 command in the init of the spy, and I tried using the doTarget and doFire commands on the OPFOR's but those didn't work either. The closest I came was the OPFORS would target him, but they never fired.

This seems like something that would be easy to do but I'm pretty new at this so i'm stumped. I came across a hunter script but, I couldn't get that to work either. Can anyone help me out?

thx

[kylania 567]

Search for "setFriend".

[mrjingo 10]

Doesn't the setFriend command turn the whole side friend or enemy? Or can you use it on a single unit? Also, why doesn't grouping them with a BLUFOR work?

[kylania 567]

Yeah, it's the entire side. I just skimmed the title of this posted before searched thread. Sorry. :)

In that case ditch the hidden blufor guy and search for "setCaptive".

Use doTarget and doFire when you wanna take the guy down.

[mrjingo 10]

Hmm... The OPFOR get in extremely close range to the spy, a perfect scene for an execution, but they still don't fire. I have the doTarget and the doFire command in each of the OPFOR's init. Is that the correct way to do it?

EDIT: Hey I got it to work! I made a 3m wide trigger with the dofire command on activation over the spy's last waypoint. Thanks for your help!

Edited September 19, 2009 by mrjingo

[kylania 567]

Nope, not in the init, that's why it didn't work I bet. So it's one insurgent and multiple OPFOR right? What makes them shoot? A trigger or something? Are all the OPFOR in the same group? Is the player BLUFOR or OPFOR?

This code in a trigger would get the whole squad to shoot the guy. First name him spy or whatever. In your OPFOR group leader's init put fs = group this; then this code in the trigger onAct:

{_x doFire spy;} foreach units fs;

Edited September 19, 2009 by kylania