How do I get enemy artillery?

[JibbyJones 10]

I want an opfor podnos group to engage a bluefor group once a bluefor helicopter dies. I don't know much about scipting.

The helicopter is named heli1. I made a trigger with axes (0,0), activation bluefor (I also tried none) , condition !alive heli1;

I then gave the podnos a destroy waypoint where I want it to attack. I linked that waypoint to the trigger.

I then went in the game and made sure the podnos were within the correct range to attack that target.

But nothing.

[tflarsen1 10]

Instead of

!alive heli1;

as the trigger condition, try

!canMove heli1;

Not sure if that's where the problem is, but I've had similiar problems with detecting the destruction of a helicopter.

/Teddy

[JibbyJones 10]

I thought that same thing so I put a music effect and a bomb scipt for a car on the trigger and both work right when the chopper dies. I've tried synching an artillery module to the podnos group leader and that didnt work either.

[Gekkibi 11]

Instead of giving them destroy -waypoint, try using doFire -command. Can't test atm, I'm at work right now.

[JibbyJones 10]

I just tried the doFire command. I named my 3 podnos units arty 1, arty 2, arty 3. I then named a unit that I wanted to get targeted _Sniper. Then in the trigger on Act: arty 1 doTarget _Sniper; arty 1 doFire _Sniper; arty 2 doTarget...etc for all 3 podnos.

Still nothing. Maybe the podnos can't target the Sniper because hes 2000m away and they don't know where he's at?

[Gekkibi 11]

Still nothing. Maybe the podnos can't target the Sniper because hes 2000m away and they don't know where he's at?

Can't test this either (I'm not home), but how about reveal-command?

[JibbyJones 10]

Can't test this either (I'm not home), but how about reveal-command?

I tested the reveal command by being one of the podnods guys and the sniper would appear as target for about 1 sec then disappear. I realized my trigger was set for once, so I changed that to repeatedly. But they still lose track of him immediately.

I thought I would setup a marker on the map and try to get them to fire at the marker, seeings how that is always visible, but I dont think thats the way doTarget and doFire work.

[JibbyJones 10]

Well I found my answer. Someone wrote a nice script on another thread. Its actually weird how close their question was to mine but I swear I searched for a long time before asking. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=86016&highlight=mortar

I appreciate the help though!