Landing Choppers on top of ...

[Hunted]

I really really really would like to find out how on this particular question.

I have tried the 'getPos' blah blah to raise the H or rather the Invisible H.  To match the height of the building.

I know that it is possible to land it there (human flying). But the AI seems to disgree with elevated cement.

Any suggestions? Ideas? solutions?

*Offering beer to the chosen few*   :cheers:

Hunted...

[Rimak]

Hello,

I did that this way:

Ordered a chopper to hover above the required building (using a lot of waypoints and set speed to LIMITED to prevent chopper gaining speed), then when it is above the building ordered it to 'flyInHeight' of the building roof + 1..3m, and finally when it is hovering about 1..3m from the roof, i ordered it to turn the engine off.

Also i tried to make a chopper pickup script that calls a chopper and picks up a soldier (player). I wanted to make the chopper able to pickup the player from the roof of any building he is standing. But game reports that the soldier height from the ground is 0 (when he is standing on the roof of the building that is 10 m. high) so i couldn't calculate the distance for 'flyInHeight' command correctly. Even 'distance' command reports wrong distance. See "Distance calculation between objects" topic.
:-\

[Hunted]

Thanks Rimak I will give that a try but this looks like yet another trial and error project


I suppose you can limit the speed of the Chopper by using a command/script can't you?

I thought I saw it somewhere...this setspeed or something similar...

[Rimak]

There is no such command 'setSpeed'  
or something similar in official command reference.

I used a lots of waypoints (5-8) close to landing target to prevent chopper gaining speed.

[Bomberman]

ive dont it with ai landing on roof perfectly and dropping spec ops off :DD

[Hunted]

There is no such command 'setSpeed'  
or something similar in official command reference.

No I'm sure there is something similar.
What was it called... setSpeedMove or something that started with 'setSpeed...'  
Also I wonder what the variables are for that command.
i.e. this setSpeedXXXX "Slow","1~4","1~100" etc

[Hunted]

ive dont it with ai landing on roof perfectly and dropping spec ops off :DD

Would you care to enlighten us with your success??? :hmm:

C'mon sport, sharing is caring... ;D

[KTottE]

group setSpeedMode mode
Operand types:
    group: Object or Group
    mode: String
Type of returned value:
    None
Description:
    Set group speed mode. Mode may be one of: "LIMITED" (half speed),"NORMAL" (full speed, maintain formation),"FULL" (do not wait for any other units in formation).

Example:
    groupOne setSpeedMode "LIMITED"

You can set either LIMITED, NORMAL or FULL. I.E the same options as you can set with waypoints.
There is no SetSpeedMove, or SetSpeed command, unfortunately.

I don't think BIS ever meant for us to get this involved in scripting ;D

Cheers, KTottE

[Hunted]

That's the one!

setSpeedMode

Thank you, KTottE.

[Bomberman]

ill put it up here as soon as i can. you will need the lil bird tho bacause its the only one that fits, and looks good. right now im going to bed. ;D

[toadlife]

FYI. Choppers are a pain in the butt, so let me throw out a few hints that will save you some trial and error.

setspeedmode ONLY takes effect after the chopper starts another waypoint. So if he is on his way to a way point and you do set speedmode "limited" from a script, the chopper will not slow down until it starts its next waypoint.

If want you create waypoints with a script, use the "move" command. - like: chopper1 move [234,6664,0]

setspeedmode will NOT work with the domove or commandmove commands. You need to use waypoints, hence the move command.  ;D