Green Coyote

Perfect. This is actually pretty close to what I was thinking the right steps were after I nuked my scenario. I appreciate both you people clearing this all up for idiots like me. EDIT: works great on demo!! Also, do you guys have suggestions for creating a task and trigger for this?

Thanks Honger for the quick reply. So make sure I got this straight, your saying I should 1. Create a scenario 2. Place my player and my npc badguy on the map. 3. Name the badguy "obj_HVT" 4. save and exit 5. Put HVT_setup.sqf (found on the dropbox) into the same folder that my mission.sqm file is in 6. Use notepad to create a .sqf file that says: //prepare HVT and hostage obj_hostage execvm "Hostage_setup.sqf"; obj_HVT execvm "Hvt_setup.sqf"; 7. Put created sqf file in folder with mission & HVT_setup.sqf 8. Load and test? I guess I have questions steps 6 and 7? What should I name the sqf file? Does it matter? and what lines are irrelevant or should be removed?

im an idiot, total noob. How does this work? i want to catch a badguy. i named him "obj_HVT" then i typed in the script you have posted above. i get an error: "invalid number in expression". no idea what to do here. i got desperate and i saw the dropbox link with the "SQF files. i think that i need to put the files in my mission folder. i put them in and boot it up and now my mission is gone, replaced by the sample mission you made. how do i make this work on my mission? what went wrong? im a moron can you break this down Barny style? like step-by-step? is there a way to recover the mission i was working on, because now i cant get it to load.