A flaw in my mission

[-RIP-Tyson 10]

can anyone help me as this is driving me mad.... as always I have searched (for over 2 hours) and cannot find an answer this time.....

Basically my (first ever real) MP coop mission involves a patrol searching and destroying ammo caches and eventually killing an enemy leader ( I know its not massively original but I'm trying to learn this first).

I want the patrol to have air cover and I want the objectives to be completed in a set order and this is where the problem lays..

How do I prevent a stray bomb killing the enemy leader whilst the ground troops complete objectives 1 and 2?

I've thought about spawning him in after the 2nd objective is complete but cant find a way of spawning in a named unit with an !alive trigger attached to him...

I also thought about making him invulnerable until obj2 is complete but cant work out how to do it.

So can anyone help me please?

[galzohar 31]

When you spawn the unit you can just place that unit into a global variable and then in the mission ending script have a waitUntil {!isNil leaderName}; waitUntil {!alive leaderName}; instead of using a trigger. Or of course you could use setVehicleVarName.

For invulnerability: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/allowDamage (needs to run on all machines to take effect properly)

[-RIP-Tyson 10]

Thanks for answering although being honest your answer is beyond me as I'm still very new to this...

The killing of the enemy leader isn't the last objective as the mission ends when the squad return to base so I'm not sure if your way will work....and in any case I'm not really sure how to do it.

Is there a simple script which will spawn in my target with the name and if so could you show me? Also will the !alive trigger fire if the enemy is not present or just when he is and he has been killed?

Sorry to be a pain but this is my first real attempt at doing anything more complicated than a simple mission...

[f2k sel 164]

westgroup = createGroup WEST;
leadername = westgroup createUnit ["USMC_Soldier_Pilot",getpos glogic, [], 0, "FORM"];

that should let you spawn a unit. place it in a trigger or script.

as for the trigger you can set it up as normal as it doesn't throw up any problems.

Oh glogic is the name of a game logic placed where you want him to spawn

If you don't use a trigger this would work placed in a script, just add the code for what you want it to do after the leader is dead.

waitUntil {!isNil "leaderName"}; 
waitUntil {!alive leaderName};
// rest of code here

Edited June 3, 2010 by F2k Sel

[galzohar 31]

If you want things to happen in a certain order, just place in a script executed from your init.sqf:

if (!isServer) then
{
"end1" addPublicVariableEventHandler
{
	if (dialog) then
	{
		closeDialog 0;
	};
	endMission "END1";
};
};

backToBase=false;
cache2 allowDamage false;
cache3 allowDamage false;
waitUntil {!alive cache1};
cache2 allowDamage true;
waitUntil {!alive cache2};
cache3 allowDamage true;
waitUntil {!alive cache3};

if (isServer) then
{
_westgroup = createGroup WEST;
_leader = _westgroup createUnit ["USMC_Soldier_Pilot",getpos glogic, [], 0, "FORM"];
waituntil {!alive _leader};
waitUntil {backToBase}; // this is set to true by the trigger in the base area

end1=true;
publicVariable "end1";
sleep 5;
endMission "END1";
};

Of course proper hints/messages can be added accordingly.

Edited June 4, 2010 by galzohar

[-RIP-Tyson 10]

Brilliant advice from both of you thanks very much... Flaw sorted & mission development back in progress again.