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  3. Posted

    I used this code to drop an ammo crate from a plane via an action, Im sure you can adapt it to do it at a preset time

    _gen = _this select 0;
_caller = _this select 1;
_id = _this select 2;



_ammoBox = "USVehicleBox" createVehicle [0,0,0];
_parachute = "ParachuteMediumWest" createVehicle getPos _gen;

_vector = velocity _gen;
_vectorLength = (sqrt (((_vector select 0) * (_vector select 0)) + ((_vector select 1) * (_vector select 1))));
_unitVector = [(_vector select 0) / _vectorLength, (_vector select 1) / _vectorLength, (_vector select 2) / _vectorLength];

_parachute setPos [(getPos _gen select 0) - (10 * (_unitVector select 0)),(getPos _gen select 1) - (10 * (_unitVector select 1)), (getPos _gen select 2) - (10 * (_unitVector select 2))];

_parachute setVelocity (velocity _gen);

sleep 0.1;

_ammoBox attachTo [_parachute, [0,0,0]];

waitUntil { getPos _parachute select 2 < 6 };

detach _ammoBox;

_ammoBox setPos [getPos _ammoBox select 0, getPos _ammoBox select 1, 0];

sleep 5;

deleteVehicle _parachute;

  5. Posted

    Looking at that code you posted previously... there is a lot of undefined variables. It'd really help reading your code if you put

    _blah = _this select 4

    and used that through out your code (obviously changing blah to something descriptive).

    Im going about trying to mimic the results of that code in a different manner but have came across a hiccup... need the typeOf for every russian soldier. "Man" gets every soldier, anyone know what will return only russian soldiers?

  13. Posted · Edited by Bellicosity

    I think you're splitting hairs if the check in the waitUntil is a relatively easy operation

    I'd imagine that a sleep has the game checking every frame if time > (oldTime + sleepTime) then going its merry way whereas a waitUntil of someBool == someOtherBool or a waitUntil of someNumber < anotherNumber is going to be doing the same damn thing (as sleeping) every frame.

  16. Posted

    Save the a10's into an array, something like this (NOT TESTED):

    if (isServer) then
{
count = 0;
while { count < 5 } do
{
	A10s = [];
	_grp = createGroup west;
	_wp = _grp addWaypoint [getPos Armor1, 0];
	[_grp, 0] setWaypointType "SAD";
	[_grp, 0] setWaypointCompletionRadius 200;
	for [{_x = 0}, {_x <= 2}, {_x = _x + 1}] do
	{
		_a10 = "A10" createVehicle [(getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn" select 0), (getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn" select 1), 250];
		_a10 setPos [(getPos _a10 select 0) + (_x * 40), getPos _a10 select 1, 250];
		_a10 engineOn true;
		_a10 setDir 290;
		_dir = 290;
		_speed = 500;
		_a10 setVelocity [(sin _dir * _speed),(cos _dir * _speed), 0];

		"USMC_Soldier_Pilot" createUnit [getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn", _grp];
		(units _grp select _x) moveInDriver _a10;
		(units _grp select _x) setSkill 1;
		(units _grp select _x) flyInHeight 250;

		A10s = A10s + [_a10];			
	};

	waitUntil { {alive _x } count A10s == 0 };
	count = count + 1;
};
};

  17. Posted · Edited by Bellicosity

    here is the code I used in an older mission to spawn 3 flying a10's

    _grp = createGroup west;
_wp = _grp addWaypoint [getPos Armor1, 0];
[_grp, 0] setWaypointType "SAD";
[_grp, 0] setWaypointCompletionRadius 200;
for [{_x = 0}, {_x <= 2}, {_x = _x + 1}] do
{
	_a10 = "A10" createVehicle [(getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn" select 0), (getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn" select 1), 250];
	_a10 setPos [(getPos _a10 select 0) + (_x * 40), getPos _a10 select 1, 250];
	_a10 engineOn true;
	_a10 setDir 290;
	_dir = 290;
	_speed = 500;
	_a10 setVelocity [(sin _dir * _speed),(cos _dir * _speed), 0];

	"USMC_Soldier_Pilot" createUnit [getMarkerPos "PlaneSpawn", _grp];
	(units _grp select _x) moveInDriver _a10;
	(units _grp select _x) setSkill 1;
	(units _grp select _x) flyInHeight 250;
};

    Been tested and works

    If someone wants to clean it up from the magic numbers and add parameters to it for a sqf function like, be my guest.

  23. Posted

    It took me some time to figure out what was causing this so I hope this post will help someone in the future. Every SECOND time I would preview a certain mission ARMA2 would crash on me. I deleted portions of the mission at a time trying to narrow down what was causing it.

    I finally found it. It was a game logic with a deleteCollection being ran on a nearby static object. It worked the first preview through but the second one crashed the game.

    Very annoying to say the least. Hope someone else doesnt spend a chunk of their time trying to figure out the same thing.

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