riot

[MattE]

Let me set the scene.

Civs are rioting (Gimbals tossers) in St. Trinity. There are a few jeeps alight and bottle are flying everywhere. There is a BMP ont the road holding its fire. Next thing we know the BMP has opened up, civs are getting cut down and infantry come tearing over the hill all guns blazing. There is an absolute massacre with the survivors lined up against a wall and shot.

Before I start with the Qs I must state that I use 1.46. So please no res responses.

1. How can I get the civs to trow stuff at the BMP? They just stand there looking stupid.

2. How can I get the BMP to not rotate the entire body? I just want the turrent to rotate.

3. How can I get the civs to scatter in disarray? I would like some to stay and fight, others to hide and others to flee.

4. Is it possible to get troops to run and fire at the same time? And when stationary not really aiming but taking snap shots?

5. How can I simulate a bit of Hand to Hand combat between the civ and the soldiers?

I think that's all for now but stay tuned because there's bound to be more.

Cheers

[j-man]

1.

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unitname dotarget bmpname; unitname dofire bmpname
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2. Not really sure. I suppose you could place an empty BMP, put in the BMPs init field

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this setfuel 0, creat two soldiers, put in one soldiers init field

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this moveindriver bmpname, put in second soldiers init field

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this moveingunner bmpname. And if you want to let the BMP move, just put in a trigger, script

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bmpname setfuel 1.

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3. I'm sure there is a better way than my idea, but you could put

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unitname allowfleeing 0 for the civs who you want to stay and fight. And

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unitname allowfleeing 1 for the cives who you want to flee (this dosn't mean that they will flee, it just means that they can if they want too).

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4. No idea :-\

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5. OFP is horrible at 2 things, close quater battles and hand-to-hand combat. The closest thing to hand-to-hand combat is

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untiname playmove "StandStrokeFist" (must be put in a trigger of script).

[MattE]

Thank you for your help, but of course more help from all would be greatly appreciated.

[Planck]

Well, this isnt easy because I don't run 1.46, but:

Q2.......Just give the bmp a gunner......... no driver.  then only the turret will turn.
Q4.........I am unaware of any way of getting troops to run AND fire at the same time.  Maybe someone else knows different.


Planck

[macguba]

To make different civvies do different things, just give them different waypoints.   Control progress through the waypoints with switch triggers.   To make a scene like this look good the best thing to do is give almost every civvy his own set of waypoints.

For hand to hand you'll need to script instructions

#loop
civvy1 domove getpos loon1
loon1 domove getpos civvy1
? loon1 distance civvy1 < 2: goto "hit"
~1
goto "loop"

#hit
basically, getdir loon1 to civvy1 and vice versa
make them face each other
make them both use strokefist

[Pathy]

I see troops automatically running and firing all the time, but its mainly machine gunners. So make a squad full of machine gunners and put them on "aware"...oh also try maxing thier speed to thier waypoint.

As for a scripted solution to that, i dont know a way to make it definately happen.

[Black Ops 8]

Im no scripting genuis but...
basically, what your asking, isnt really possible in OFP(that is, unless you get script/animation addons and everything else) but if there are none of those, then... sry but, your screwed  

[PsyWarrior]

Greetings,

How about using the "fire" command to force units to discharge their weapons?

If you give them a move, maximum speed wp, and put
this setUnitPos "UP"
in each of their init lines, you should be able to execute a script which causes them to fire:

unit fire "AK74"

Unfortunately, I think that they will only fire one shot. If you repeat it fast enough, you can probably simulate auto fire.

Read about the command HERE

-Supreme Commander PsyWarrior
-Psychic Productions Studios

[SandVoss]

This whole scene would seem to sophisisticated. If u were able to set the side of the civies to "west", then you could order the BMP to first hold fire, and then to open fire on a certain command, ie. a specific unit moves into the place. Hand to hand combat is not possible in OFP, its not a CQB game engine.

[dmakatra]

Sandvoss m8, no offence but this thread is 2 months old...

:beat: *Gets Shot* :beat: