Mapping player movements and coordinates?

Like always, I was doing one of the showcase missions and ended it immediately, why? In the "Commanding Showcase" the littlebird flies you into an LZ like a player would, it was flying nice and low and landed like it would in a hot zone. So It came to mind that they must have mapped a player flying that helicopter and had the ai replicate it. So I opened the PBO file for the showcase and found "LittleBird.SQF", which was a script of strictly coordinates that had to be recorded by some kind of software in the game but I have never heard of that, Im still new to editing though. Any Idea on how to do this?

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Right now the AI pilots dont fly well when under any kind of fire plus they land so slowly, Plus they crash into the terrain too often. This technique would make my missions a lot better and more realistic, Like simulating a crash or something.

Thank You

You can use .sqf files to put into your missions folder in your documents and determine certain things.

It should be doable to plot a specific set of waypoints for AI using .sqf files or even the Initialisation panel in the editor. I'll get in touch with one of our lads who uses .sqf files a lot and may be able to help you.

Are you possibly looking for UnitCapture / UnitPlay script commands? These two would, IIRC, do exactly what you want (introduced in A2 OA, intended exactly for that and used by BIS in their own A2 OA campaign for heli insertions). See this forum thread or google UnitCapture UnitPlay.

After reading the above post and watching a youtube video on unitcapture, I have found the the capture part records a lot of data using BIS_fnc_unitCapture, but I havent been able to get it to playback. And I think that is because you need a function module, which I cannot find in Arma 3 Beta. I havent been able to get it to playback using BIS_fnc_unitPlay. So if anyone know of a way to get it working would be nice.

You no longer need a function module in Arma3 it is initialised automatically.

Place a unit down for the player and an empty helicopter named heli1.

create a radio trigger alpha and place

rec = [heli1,200,30] spawn BIS_fnc_unitCapture;

in the OnAct.

create a radio trigger bravo and place

handle = [heli1, recpath, [] ,true, true] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlay;

Preview the mission, get in the helicopter and press 0-0-1 to start recording, fly a few hundred meters and land, press escape and escape again then F1.

Create a new file in the mission folder called mypath.sqf, place

recpath = 

in it then immediately paste in the information that is on the clipboard from recording. (should look something like )

recpath = [[0,[1868.3,5749.42,5.57866],[-0.0871298,-0.996182,-0.00541656 /*snip

.

create a init.sqf with

call compile preprocessFile "mypath.sqf";

preview the mission again, do not get in the helicopter but do 0-0-2 to start playback and watch the helicopter repeat what you recorded.

test mission

Other things to note is this only captures the position of vehicles it does not capture things like the engine being turned on etc. To make it not look like the helicopter is flying without the rotors turning you will need to turn on the engines in the radio trigger bravo before you call the play back using

heli1 engineOn true;

Thanks for the info! :)

Could you also be able to do so it captures when im firing rockets and so?

Thanks for the info! :)

Could you also be able to do so it captures when im firing rockets and so?

Look in the function viewer under scenes there are a few unitCapture/unitPlay type functions that can enable the capturing of firing , should not be too much different from the above to setup just read their comments in the function viewer to see what you have to do.

Got it working with firing now. After some lookaround on internet i found one guide and combined it with some testing. Now, theres some more testing! ;)

Share the link to the guide?

In the comments of this one

http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=ryB20wQhSr0

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For fire data in the record trigger:

rec = [Heli1,200] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitCapture; rec = [Heli1,200] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitCaptureFiring;

Path.sqf need to be :

Path1 =;

Fire1 =;

[Heli1, Path1] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlay;

[Heli1, Fire1] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlayFiring;

Thats it!! Just missed a few lines.

"

BIS_fncUnitCapture will also capture the firing data as well (saves you running two recording scripts).

Parameters:
Unit			- Unit to capture movement data from
Duration		- Duration to capture for
OPT:FPS			- OPTIONAL: Frames recorded Per Second (default 20). Limit is 1 - 100
OPT:Firing		- OPTIONAL: If true, will record the input unit's weapon fire data as well
OPT:StartTime	- OPTIONAL: Starting time offset for the frame time

Then when you press escape escape press F1 to copy move data and paste it into your file then go back to your game and press F2 to copy firing data.

You still need to play them separately as FortuN has shown above.

I would like to have two different helicopters use separate paths. what do I have to change to make them be recognized as unique?

ave,

the_Demongod

Does anyone know if its possible to end UnitPlay early? I.e terminate it mid way through

Cheers

Pomigit

So, what's the command to replay the firing?

I manage to record and play the movement, not the firing.

Any help please?

I am trying to replicate this function/script and get the following problem(s).

1. as soon as the trigger and function active the time goes to night, so I got to switch on night vision. No problem really.

2. The right side says that the unit capture as completed with 0 frames, 0 seconds, 0 etc etc.

3. paste from clipboards results in []

So the function starts and stops instantly and does not record any motion.

Any idea's for help?

Thanks in Advance

Passing by to remind everyone unitPlay does not currently function properly on dedicated.

http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=15919

At least the last I checked...

Hi folks, im trying to set this up also. I need to work out how to record my ghost hawks flight as well as have their guns firing but I just can't get my head round it. I've got my Flight recorded & i've just managed to play it back if I'm not in the helicopter but how can record me shooting? Many many thanks in advance

Hello everyone!

I'm using the command rec = [heli2 .30 .600] spawn BIS_fnc_unitCapture; for recording, and heli1 engineOn true; handle = [heli1, recpath, [], true, true] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlay; to play

I'm having problems with the helicopters when landing, I can't make the engines shut down.

Anyone know tell me how should I proceed?

Execute

this engineon false;

after landing

Execute

this engineon false;

after landing

I used this command in space (On Dea) and it didn't work!

I used; heli1 engineOn false;

can you put an example please ?

Thanks

Make a trigger and set the condition to this:

(velocity heli1) select 2 > -0.2 && (getPosATL heli1) select 2 < 0.5

Then in the on act field put:

Heli1 engineOn false;

You gotta make sure the engineon false is executed after the unit has landed (as in: the BIS_fnc_Unitplay is complete). As BIS_fnc_Unitplay is spawned in a separate thread (= spawn command), you need to wait for it to be done.

Which should be possible using a script like this:

heli1 engineOn true;
_handle = handle = [heli1, recpath, [], true, true] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlay;
waitUntil {scriptDone _handle};
heli1 engineOn false;

However, sometimes the AI is stupid and still wants to immediately restart the engines. You can "cheat" a bit and use

heli1 setFuel 0;

If there's no fuel, the AI can't start the engine :) .

I'd guess this won't work using init fields and triggers, instead you have to use "proper" scripting (sqf files).

However, sometimes the AI is stupid and still wants to immediately restart the engines. You can "cheat" a bit and use

heli1 setFuel 0;

If there's no fuel, the AI can't start the engine :) .

You can unassign the driver to stop this "properly"

unassignVehicle (driver _heli)

:)

You gotta make sure the engineon false is executed after the unit has landed (as in: the BIS_fnc_Unitplay is complete). As BIS_fnc_Unitplay is spawned in a separate thread (= spawn command), you need to wait for it to be done.

Which should be possible using a script like this:

heli1 engineOn true;
_handle = handle = [heli1, recpath, [], true, true] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlay;
waitUntil {scriptDone _handle};
heli1 engineOn false;

However, sometimes the AI is stupid and still wants to immediately restart the engines. You can "cheat" a bit and use

heli1 setFuel 0;

If there's no fuel, the AI can't start the engine :) .

I'd guess this won't work using init fields and triggers, instead you have to use "proper" scripting (sqf files).

Thank you!

I will try and post here the result!

Cheers