Helicopter pickup with smoke signal

[JonHye 0]

I would like to make a good old fashioned "call the chopper by radio and then mark the lz when it flyes overhead"-trick.

The calling of the chopper by radio isn't so much the problem.

It's the placement of the waypoint where the chopper will land. I don't know how exactly to move the waypoint. I could try and call the players position and then move a waypoint there somehow, but then I won't have the invisible H for the chopper to land on. Is there a way to have the invisible H move to where I throw a coloured smoke? Or even to move the H to the player position when a coloured smoke is thrown?

I guess my problem is making the smoke a "condition" for some kind of trigger or something.

Thanx in advance

[<COPPERHEAD) => 0]

Not sure about smoke, but you could use a radio call.  You should be able to create a helipad (using the createunit command or whatever it's called) and as you said, to first make the game get your position, and then tell the game to create a helipad at that position when you make the radio call. I think there is a command for finding out if a unit fired a certain weapon, but I'm not sure what it is.

[JonHye 0]

A command to check whether a unit has fired a specific weapon would be just what I need. But what is it?

[Humvee 0]

I hope you'r good at scripting!!!

here we go:

Type the following in a .txt file (notepad)

_thrower=_this select 0

_heli = _this select 1

@_thrower distance_heli < = 500

_thrower dowatch _heli

Smoke = "smokeshell" camcreate [getpos _thrower + 5, getpos _thrower +5]

exit;

When you'r done do "save as" and type scriptname.sqs

Call syntax: [soldier, rescuechopper] exec "scriptname.sqs"

I set the distance between chopper and soldier to 500 so the smoke has some time to appear.

Have fun

[JonHye 0]

Well..... That will just make some smoke appear when the chopper is getting near. That will of course work fairly well, though what I was hoping for was for the player to manually throw a smokeshell, and then move an invisible H to the location of that smokeshell ( or just to the location of the player ). + I don't want the chopper to land before it is able to see the smoke ie. a few seconds after the smoke has been thrown.

thanx though Humvee, your suggestion might be the only thing possible.

[Intruder 0]

Theres a script that calls in a chopper by throwing a smoke shell here: Medium - Launch Detection Script (by Sefe)

[JonHye 0]

Thanx Indtruder!

I think I've got exactly what I need now. I just gotta work it into the mission, which of course will take some time... but that's the fun of it!

Over and Out!