OldGrandad

If you get what I mean. The Picture. My map is all about me and my buddies (as Resistance) fighting off hordes of Russians in towns and ultimately to the finale defeating the big bad general. The Deal. I know about respawning at base etc. but what I have in mind is the ability to respawn at a recently cleared town and use that as another base before going onward to the next town to clear out the enemy and adding that to a base respawn etc, etc. My Ideals. I start off with my merry men at the main resistance base and proceed to a town for a firefight. Can it be done that when a town is cleared of east troops you get to the flag (it changes from the hammer and sickle to a resistance flag) and THAT becomes another respawn point for the resistance? I would like for any of my groups players to be able to make the flag ours (as long as east is not present) and add it to our respawn bases and not just the leader. I have tried all sorts of bodged scripts that have failed dismally and proves that I am totally useless at scripting. Â All the secondary objectives can be done in any order ( a free roaming map) with only the final objective being able to be completed when the secondary objectives are completed. Have I made myself clear? I have searched high and low for anything similar but the closest I got was for a respawn moving with waypoints which I do not want as I want a freeform map making for different ways of completing it. Please, please do not ignore this as I am so close to getting this right except for my poor knowledge of scripting. Ideas will be gratefully acknowledged and accepted. Â P.S. Many thanks to the many script writers out there that have been a godsend.

Could you be more specific? I searched for "KaRRiLLioN" and all I got was regarding RTS mods. UnPBOing one of his missions didn't reveal anything I wanted. Are there more of his(her?) missions around? *cross fingers*

Thanks for the replies but as yet have to test them  *edit* found a solution of sorts.

Firstly I have searched high an low (believe me!) for an answer and it is currently evading me. A simple solution but I am not getting it right I have "civ7" triggered to jump on his motorbike when the russkies arrive in one town. He rides off and gets to his "GETOUT" waypoint where I need him to say "the russians *whatever here*" when the resistance arrive. What I want though is for no globalchat to appear until my civ7 has arrived. This is the scenario I want; civ7 present + res present = globalchat res present + no civ7 present = no globalchat I have played over the past few hours with different combinations of triggers/switches that I have obviously missed the obvious solution. I just need a break from my insanity P.S. This post is mirrored at OFPEC so apologies to those that visit both and who think I am spamming. I just want to ask a wider audience.

All I want is a script that will be triggered that will move a crew into a tank (or multiple crews into multiple tanks) and then move on to a particular marker and patrol. Firstly is my poor attempt to script (never done it before) <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_c1 moveincommander _tank1 _c2 moveingunner _tank1 _c3 moveindriver _tank1 ~1 _tank1 move getmarkerpos "tank1move" ~2 _c4 moveincommander _tank2 _c5 moveingunner _tank2 _c6 moveindriver _tank2 ~1 _tank2 move getmarkerpos "tank2move" exit 2 tanks and 2 sets of crew already waiting. The trigger gets activated and my crews jump into their tanks and rush off to investigate, well that's my intention. I have spent a few fruitless hours mucking around without any joy. Please help an old frustrated wannabe OPF scripter.

Thank you all for responding with thoughts and ideas for workarounds. I have now resolved the issue after overlooking the most obvious and looking for the most complicated answer. Please do not laugh, I use "dummies" as spawn group references and when I checked them they were indeed "west" units. Even though they were triggered to delete themselves they obviously had an effect on the spawned "east" units. I changed them to "east dummies" and there is no in house fighting. Boy oh boy, sometimes you do not see what is in front of you

I did try your example and even though it worked a treat it did not stop them being targeted by the spawned troops.

I have placed "this setcaptive true" into the crews and tanks init lines but all I get then is the troops getting massacred by the tanks then. My issues do not lie with getting my tanks to roll now but the in house fighting, what gives??? noundo, thanks for your assistance but it is the fighting each other that is puzzling me. My trigger operates when Resistance enters the area and execs a script. I will try your alternate solution but will it stop them fighting each other?

No, all units on the map are exclusively "east" with no sign of an "enemy" unit.

Thank you it worked but, I now have another problem which I find rather strange. The tanks and crew were already on the map ready to roll but at the same time the tanks are triggered so is a spawn trigger spawning 8 troops. Trouble is the troops start taking on the tanks and they are all "east"!!! How or why is this happening? I can't believe I get over one issue only to be faced with another.

Well commandmove got them into the tanks, but they refused to go anywhere after starting the tanks up In the on activation field in the trigger I had <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">[tank1,tank2] exec "tanksupport.sqs" with 2 invisible "H"s named tank1move and tank2move respectively. Um, any more ideas? Many thanks for your help so far Â

I am currently creating an MP mission and stop to see my handiwork every now and then. My problem is that spawned troops start engaging troops that are already on the map. Now that is not too strange except, that they are all on the east side!!! Am I doing something wrong here? I put myself onto the map as a civilian and get a resistance fighter to trip the spawn trigger so I can see if the seeing distances are ok. But as soon as the trigger is tripped the spawned east troops start firing on the already patrolling east soldiers (who don't fire back). Do I have to export it as MP as early as this to figure the problem out? surely not. I have gone into other maps to try the same thing out and there doesn't seem to be problems like mine in them. I have the Resistance down as not friendly to anyone, do I need to do anything else? And yes, I tried to find a solution via many different searches

Xenoms Nuclear Bomb

(name of A10) doFire (name of target) ie: A doFire B So you mean that is all that is required in the triggers on activation field to drop the atomic bomb? Dang, I was trying to use the bombs name in all sorts of ways to execute a drop over the target. Mind you I dePBO'ed the file and extracted the fired.sqs script and got the A-10 to "suicide" over the target!! A mighty impressive explosion Many thanks for your effort and reply.

WEST - A10 B61 bomb test Well something like that As I am replying, how do you specify what bomb to release over a target via trigger or waypoint. I am a noob at editing but I would like to see one of these babys dropped from a distance.

No, everything is purely east including static and empty objects. Are there undercover west units in the editor Any more thoughts?

I mean what the heck is going on? I have ready placed units doing their business who hopefully would have been backed up by spawned (armour) units when the going gets tough. Then when the spawn gets actioned (this is all through the editor) the armour starts blasting away at both static structures and friendly armour/helos. This also happens when a spawned helo/crew/cargo happens at the airfield and the helos on site attack it immediately. But they are all east!!!!! I do not have an "enemy" at all on the map at the moment. Oh the friggin' headaches of mission building  Any ideas will be gratefully recieved. Â

Ok, my scenario is that I have spawn triggers that spawn groups as I want. That is ok but what I want is for that group then to patrol within the trigger area. I have found a random patrol script so I am guessing that somehow I need to implement it into the spawn script which is as follows: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"> ; *************************************** ; Operation Flashpoint Script ; *************************************** ; create units ; *************************************** ;------------------------------------------------------------- "OfficerE" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s25=this",1,"LIEUTENANT"] "SoldierEMG" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s26=this",0.8,"SERGEANT"] "SoldierEG" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s27=this",0.7,"CORPORAL"] "SoldierEG" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s28=this",0.7,"CORPORAL"] "SoldierELAW" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s29=this",0.6,"PRIVATE"] "SoldierEMedic" createunit [getMarkerPos "inf4",east5,"s30=this",0.6,"PRIVATE"] ~3 east5 move getmarkerpos "inf4move" ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;End of Soldiers and Beginning of Tanks ;---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _tank6 = "BMP2" createvehicle getmarkerpos "tank1" ~2 "SoldierECrew" createunit [getmarkerpos "inf4",armor6,"c18=this",0.8,"SERGEANT"] "SoldierECrew" createunit [getmarkerpos "inf4",armor6,"c19=this",0.8,"CORPORAL"] "SoldierECrew" createunit [getmarkerpos "inf4",armor6,"c20=this",0.8,"PRIVATE"] ~2 c18 moveincommander _tank6 c19 moveingunner _tank6 c20 moveindriver _tank6 ~2 armor6 move getmarkerpos "tank1move" ;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- exit If someone can point a noob in the right direction I would be grateful. YES. I have tried as of yet unsuccessful search for an answer to my query Â

Shame, unfortunately both those examples did not work. I am still trying to find something to work.

Well yes when it comes to the editing and modding side. I have only just got back into OPF and I am now starting my first MP mission, for purely self satisfaction. But I too would like to know EXACTLY what to do from saving the images to installing them ready for use in OPF. I am a noob but I sure am not ashamed of it. P.S. I have spent 30mins + trying to find an adequate description on how to use custom faces and I thought the most logical place to find a reply would from this thread.

I have just down loaded and opened the zip with no problem. Try downloading again?

Another tool to use with zipped files is Winrar. I find it invaluable for unzipping multiple zips at once.

I must admit I "cheated" on this mission. I crawled around so I was opposite the broken wall through which the soldiers are talking, hid in bushes about 50m away and put the time onto X4 so the patrols were whizzing around. That allowed me to guage the best time to crawl to the wall and get inside to hear the convo before sneaking back out and return for completion. Sneaky eh

Before I get flamed for not searching, I have spent the last 30 minutes trying to find any clues as to whether to use the addon folder in Resistance or the original OPF addon folder. I see that some addons have stated that they are specific to Resistance (like the power glider), but others fail to state that they can work in either. I would just like to clarify this little problem, as OPF is crashing more regularly now that I have Resistance. I have only added one addon into the Resistance addon folder (the glider).

Hmm, when I crested the hill to the west of the base in Occupation I saw a group of soldiers standing close together and one round from the RPG sent them all to hell and back