Waypoints

[pazuzu]

I'm having a little trouble with planes that seem to wander from their waypoints. I'm making an air map & I have all enemy aircraft with about 5 "Move" waypoints & ending with a "Cycle" waypoint. In the first WP of each aircraft I have the settings "Openfire/engage at will" & "Combat".

Looking at some other missions I see that sometimes the author will not use a "Cycle" WP but instead just delete the WP thats over the unit & click another WP over it linking it to the last "Move" WP so that there are only "Move" WP's all linked together & no "Cycle" WP.

I was wondering what the difference is?

Is one more reliable than the other?

I've looked at alot of tuts on waypoints...just wondered if you guys had any advice?

Thanks.

[THobson]

You need to have a Cycle waypoint to make them repeat their route.  Planes and helicopters do seem to have a mind of their own.  In fact they have an aversion to high ground.  I suggest you look at what they are doing in your case and see if that could be your problem.

[macguba]

Planes in particular sometimes have trouble hitting a waypoint:   they circle round and try again, miss, try again, etc, etc..    Try moving the waypoints a little.

Also, waypoints too far apart can cause problems.      The solution is just to experiment.

[Sui]

Be warned that an aircraft must be within 500m of a waypoint to activate it. That includes vertically, so if your aircraft are flying above that they won't hit any waypoints

[pazuzu]

That's news to me...

I have a C130 flying around the map with just 4 WPs & at an altitude of 2000 meters & it doesn't have much trouble eccept for circling sometimes. The C130 never dissapears like the SU27 seem to & they fly at 1000m.

Thanks for the reply.