Random place where to be

[Hartza]

Okay, this is what I am looking for.

I have a rescue mission where my team have to rescue a pilot  who has been shut down and captured by east.
Pilot is held and guarded on one building in the city.

To make it more interesting I want that this pilots helding place changes randomly between 3-4 places. So, when mission stars I don't know where he excactly is and I have to find him out.

How to set pilots position randomly ?

[Tomb]

The easy way is to use "Placement radius" option.

Look at the bottom of the unit window when you create the guy  

[LCD]

@ tomb - he want it 2 b random in 3-4 places he already specified

use da next script (activate it in a init of som1  )

_ran = random 4
~1
? _ran >= 0 nd _ran < 1 : unitname setpos getpos gspot
? _ran >= 1 nd _ran < 2 : unitname setpos getpos gspot1
? _ran >= 2 nd _ran < 3 : unitname setpos getpos gspot2
? _ran >= 3 nd _ran =< 4 : unitname setpos getpos gspot3

exit


LCD OUT

[Tomb]

Ah yes, so he does, so he does...   my coffee is too thin, this danish morning  

[Hartza]

heh heh this supposet to be answer to Tombs post ...

hhhmmm...

but I don't want himt to wanderer around, but been held in certain position, actually certain room, with guards  

Guards can be on that room anyway with or with out pilot, so I dont have to move them, and they can be on Guard mode anyway. But my pilot should appear to one of these 3-4 rooms.

[LCD]

coffe ?    :-X didnt u drink beer ? here is da reason y u r so fuuzy go nd drink 1 now :cheers:  ;D  

LCD OUT

[Tomb]

howsabout grouping him to a number of "empty" ( = hidden) markers  


If his "special" field is set to "IN FORMATION", he'd have to be close to one of those  

This should add some randomness, I assume

[LCD]

u can group som1 2 triger but he wil b close 2 da leader nd always in da sam place ? right dats wat hapen wid reg groups  

LCD OUT

[Tomb]

g-spots (gamelogics) & markers are good for this kinda stuff, lsd. try it for size, m8s  

[Hartza]

Your are right LCD, who drinks coffee  :-X

Sun is shining and with in an hour I and my fellow workers are about to start nice lake cruising with lots of beer  :cheers:

LCD, it seems to be samekind of idea than those "random waypoin" things ...

Thanks LCD and others !

[LCD]

Sun is shining and with in an hour I and my fellow workers are about to start nice lake cruising with lots of beer  :cheers:

LCD, it seems to be samekind of idea than those "random waypoin" things ...

lots of beer - good    ;D

donno bout dat random wps but u can it wid da random thing  

but check it nd c if dere is a eror  ;D

LCD OUT

[Bremmer]

The simplest way to do this is place empty markers in the locations you want the unit to appear, and then group the markers to the unit. Make sure the unit starts in formation. It will now appear at any of the marker locations, or at the location where you actually placed the unit.

This is the method BIS used to generate semi-random positions in their 'Steal the car'  mission.

Cheers

[Hartza]

Thanks Bremmer, that seems to do the job.

Guy is starting different positions when starting game.

 :thumbsup: