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Title: Stopping & continuing an uncontrolled group.
Post by: dematti on 05 Oct 2007, 19:40:36

Hi,

When groups get in a firefight they keep moving towards their waypoints.
Is it possible to halt a squad when contact is made, and resume when the firefight is over?
Without beeing the leader of the squad.
Hopefully a radio trigger can solve this?

Thanx

Title: Re: Stopping & continuing an uncontrolled group.
Post by: Wolfrug on 05 Oct 2007, 21:06:31

Well, you can stop a group by a large number of different commands.

One is simple enough:

disableAI "MOVE" (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=d#disableAI) + enableAI "MOVE" (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=d#enableAI)

another is unit STOP true (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=s#stop)

However the real question you want to ask is: "How do I know when contact is made?"  ;)

I don't know. Off the top of my head: a big trigger which is activated by "OPFOR spotted by BLUFOR" in the area that the group is moving in. Alternatively if you've got complicated set-ups, you can start messing around with i.e. nearTargets (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=n#nearTargets) and knowsAbout (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=h#knowsAbout).

Hope that gives some ideas.  :good:

Wolfrug out.

Title: Re: Stopping & continuing an uncontrolled group.
Post by: dematti on 05 Oct 2007, 21:15:53

ok got that working.
But how do i stop a squad then?

got it: stop false :clap:

thanks

Title: Re: Stopping & continuing an uncontrolled group.
Post by: D_P_ on 06 Oct 2007, 04:37:40

Quote

"How do I know when contact is made?"

... setting the trigger to detected by should activate the trigger when contact is made