Problematic Scripts Museum presents an exhibit: Angry Spartan

nul = [turrets,targets,range,arc,dispersion,unlimited ammo,delay,fire mode,debug] execVM "AS\ASInit.sqf";

1. Turrets (vehicles) to be controlled by AS (array of AI vehicles). 
2. Array of targets - units, that will be considered as hostile by turrets.
3. Distance of engagement - number in meters. More distant targets will be ignored.
4. Arc of fire. Eg for value of 80 turret will engage targets located up to 40 degrees left/right relative to the main turret axis. Number from 0 to 360.
5. Dispersion. Number from 0 to 1. Each 0.1 means 1m of dispersion range (3D) on 100 meters distance (value changes proportional to distance). Values above 0.1 mean poor to tragic efficiency.
6. Unlimited ammo - boolean.
7. Additonal delay between shots. Positive number in seconds. Final interval is equal to delay + (random (delay/2)). Eg for 10, delay will be each time randomized from 10 to 15 seconds.
8. "Termopile" mode switch - boolean. In normal mode turret will aim, then shoot. In "Termopile" mode turret will shoot and aim simultanously. 
9. Debug mode (3D markers for guns, targets and targeting spots. 

this setVariable ["RYD_AS_Aegis",[i]number[/i]];

 RYD_AS_Active = false;

 RYD_AS_Pause = true;

RYD_AS_Pause = false;

[i] turret[/i] getVariable ["RYD_AS_Mobile",[i]true/false[/i]]

[i]turret[/i] setVariable ["RYD_AS_Termopile",[i]true/false[/i]];

This exhibition has been prepared by courtesy of: Problematic Scripts Museum. Exhibits so far:

DRUNKEN MARATHONER

ANGRY SPARTAN

HECTIC MUSE

Script you can freely modify, copy, "cannibalize", to use in your projects. It is released under APL-SA license. I'll be grateful for notification about each such usage.

Thanks for informing us of the release :cool:

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Angry Spartan

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Thanks a lot my bad, i'll try it asap, and your topic titles make me laugh each time :D

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BTW I would be happy seeing regular scripting command of at least such variety of settings and control possibilities working for all vehicles and men as well.

Very cool again! Immediately reminded me of Alien II, too bad there are no aliens in Arma (yet)... :D

Yeah, Aliens 2, I remember. :)

Wanted better moving objects targeting, and improve overall handling for other turret-like vehicles (tested with autonomous .50 HMG, Stomper and Cheetah). Current goal was, when without applied dispersion, decent effectiveness against objects of speed up to 100 m/s. I'm happy with current results in 80%, that's low for me, I feel, that my formulas are still imperfect, too many makeshifts, so probably I'll work more with this.

Improved also overall behavior. Noted, that for some vehicles, like Stomper, doWath or LookAt commands sets barrel in such position, so turret is still not aimedAt, but are targeting a bit higher than should be to hit, while for other there isn't such effect. Failed to find common reason, so was forced to add amendement if needed by individual classes.

Also have an idea for future - would be nice, if turret will be able to adjust targetting parameters dynamically by kind of short-term self-learning. Let's say turret few times missed same target in short amount of time, one shot by one. In such circumstance there is good chance, that problem is imperfect targeting calculations. So AI could to measure parameters of these misses, take the average, and try to self-apply proper changes to the coefficients to compensate for next shots... But for now:

1.1 released.

Changelog:

- improved targeting of fast objects;

- improved overall script behavior;

- two additional demos to show new features;

- additional control possibilities.

I also want to thank Hypnomatic for his projectile path tracing script, was invaluable during