using PLA but now civ are not friendly

I'm trying to create a mission using the PLA as the OPFOR since they were created as "Independant" I lose civilian being friendly to blufor.

How can I get around this?

The reason is, I am trying to have a Ural civilian driver, and i want to put blufor troops in cargo. but the driver keeps getting out and laying on the ground.

I have tried setting driver as this setcaptive true, but still happens. I don't want to have to make all the blufor units captive.

My reason for doing this is that I want to see if the civ truck can sneak in the blufor troops without the OPFOR shooting at them.

Other than tyring captives, I want all civilians to be friendly but Independants not.

Any ideas? thanks

Aren't the civilians always neutral to anybody unless you start killing them?

In any case a possible solution (although quite tedious since you need to modify every group) would be to make Independents friendly to everyone and add an OPFOR group leader to every PLA group. The group leader should have "false" in his condition field so that he does not appear once the mission starts, but all the subordinates of that group will automatically be OPFOR.

It would be nice to be able to change the side of units or groups in the editor when you add them so that you can create scenarios with anyone verse anyone...

Alwarren, I thought civilians were always neutral too, but when I put myself as player in the civilian Ural, to see whythe drivers were getting out, all of the OPFOR units changing from red to green, showing they were allies..

However, I got it slightly working by using an empty Ural, then having a civilian driver enter, and I also had my BLUFOR units "this moveincargo" and the driver drove off, but then none of the soldiers got out at the waypoint.

I like that idea of giving them the OPFOR leader. I usually hand pick most of the groups anyway, so that can be helpful in other situations too. thanks

It does kind of suck that the PLA are independent. I don't see using them against most OPFOR. Maybe they should put the PLA under both categories for options. Cause I want to also use the UN troops in other missions, but I guess I'll have to use the leader thing. thanks

You could open the mission.sqm and change the side of every unit manually, could be a lot of work depending on how many PLA units you use, ive done it in the past and it works no problem, should have mentioned it in first post :)

When having set "Independents" as friendly to "nobody" in the editor I found this problem with the civilians as well. I solved that by creating an init.sqf and using the setSide command to set the relations as appropriate, i.e. the civilian side friendly to everybody. I think that's probably the cleanest/easiest fix.