helicopter support

[fighterman 10]

hi i was wondering if anyone knows how to get an apache, cobra or any other helicopter to come to a custom place and provide gunship support. :)

[rübe 118]

Spawn whatever you need (BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle comes in handy for example) and give it the needed waypoint. Done.

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

The noob way of doing it is placing the chopper then placing another waypoint very close which is sync'd to a trigger activated on Radio Alpha. Then place the other waypoints in the locations you want. It isn't as efficient as a script or anything but it works if you just want some (very) simple support.

[fighterman 10]

i know how to do it the noob way but how would i use a premade chopper to do it

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

Is your premade chopper flying already or is it on the airfield empty?

I would do it by having a script activated by a radio command that gave the chopper a search and destroy waypoint on either a mapclick or the placement of smoke etc. Assuming it didn't have anything better to do at the time it would just fly to that place and kill things.

[fighterman 10]

Is your premade chopper flying already or is it on the airfield empty?

I would do it by having a script activated by a radio command that gave the chopper a search and destroy waypoint on either a mapclick or the placement of smoke etc. Assuming it didn't have anything better to do at the time it would just fly to that place and kill things.

flying already

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

So.

Use a script that would move a marker or invisible H to where you want the chopper to go, using onmapclick and then have the chopper assigned a SAD waypoint on that marker/h .

The following should work, you'll need a visible marker called "helowaypointmarker" that shows you where the chopper should be going on the map and an invisible H called "hwp1". Replace NAME with either the groupname of the helo pilot or the unit name of the chopper if you've placed a piloted one with the editor.

sethelowaypoint=true;
titleText ["Click on map to set waypoint","plain down"];
onMapSingleClick "hwp1 setPos _pos; sethelowaypoint=false";
@!sethelowaypoint;
"helowaypointmarker" setmarkerpos getPos hwp1;
onMapSingleClick "";
titleText ["", "plain down"];

Chopperwaypoint1 = NAME addwaypoint [position hwp1, 20];
Chopperwaypoint1 NAME setwaypointtype "SAD";
Chopperwaypoint1 setwaypointspeed "Normal";

[fighterman 10]

how do i use this

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

Save it as somescriptname.sqf and call it in your mission. Put a trigger down that is activated by radio alpha or whatever and in the "on act" box type [] exec "somescriptname.sqf";

[fighterman 10]

cheers ill give it a go now

---------- Post added at 09:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:48 PM ----------

so i put the script on notepad and put that file in the mission folder

[kylania 546]

Yup, just make sure it's named somescript.sqf instead of somescript.sqf.txt

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

Yup, just make sure it's named somescript.sqf instead of somescript.sqf.txt

ROFL

Don't you hate notepad sometimes

[gossamersolid 150]

ROFL

Don't you hate notepad sometimes

In windows 7/vista, open a folder then click

Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View (Tab) -> Uncheck "Hide Extensions for Known File Types

That will prevent that from happening again