civilians, friendly - unfriendly

[andromedagalaxe 10]

Newbie here that's still experimenting with the editor.

I was attempting to create a "Resistance" like mission with the player as a civilian who has to steal some Russian equipment and attack Russian patrols after US airpower comes in.

Problem is that whatever settings I put for "independent" doesn't seem to matter. After I start shooting the Russian troops, they don't pay any attention to me, whether I'm listed as friendly or unfriendly.

Same thing with shooting US troops, they don't return fire.

Do I have to script this somehow?

Thanks

[resistance-rat 10]

Open "mission.sqm" and change player side from "CIV" to "GUER".

[zigzag 0]

put a west unit as the leader of your team and turn the probability of presence slider to 0

[andromedagalaxe 10]

Ok I will try these. Basically I want the RU units to behave neutrally to the player until they see he is taking equipment or shooting at them.

[zigzag 0]

ok, both solutions will make the civ change side at the start of the mission.

[andromedagalaxe 10]

But I could set up a trigger that accomplishes this as the civ arms himself, could I not?

[nazer1290 10]

You could use the doFire command, though not very efficient.

[Nicolai 10]

the "setcaptive" command might work if you use it in combination with the beforementioned solutions. In the trigger you could say

player setcaptive false

just an idea, lot's of possibilities here

Nicolai

[andromedagalaxe 10]

tried to do these and also tried the side, faction and sideEnemy scripts without much luck.

I need to get much more familiar with sqf syntax. I couldn't tell what I was doing wrong.

[Fuzzy Bandit 10]

You could try the following code:

WEST setFriend [CIVILIAN, 0];
EAST setFriend [CIVILIAN, 0];
GUER setFriend [CIVILIAN, 0];

That should make everybody an enemy to Civilians.

Or you could try:

//NAME is the name of your civilian character
NAME addRating -2000;

Those might work...

[andromedagalaxe 10]

thanks, fuzzy. Will try