How to make AI fire over obstacles?

[Blanco]

Hi,

I did some tests in the editor to see how AI is able to fire over sandbags and such.
They can't    In fact, I've seen AI crouching behind sandbags in the campaign missions. it's just "eyecandy" it doesn't work that way.

In OFP you'll needed some fancy ROE changes to make a unit crouch permanently. However in Arma, things should be a lot easier because setunitpos works again and this time there's a "middle" option to make them crouch! Thank god, I was waiting f5 years for this option. Works great.
Thing is, they simply refuse to fire over the sandbags. In OFP, same thing happened but there was a solution. You had to setdammage 1 the sandbag and AI was able to fire over it. It's not an option in Arma because object simply dissappear when destroyed.
I also tried to setpos them deeper into the ground and that works a bit, but AI only fires upon the enemy when realy close. (about 30m). I had better results in OFP.

So my question stays, how can I make AI fire over sandbags?
There are a lot of usefull commands in Arma for the future like setunitpos, nearestobjects, findcover, weapondirection, enableAI, etc ... but as long as can't make them fire over it, I can't do anything.

Any suggestions?

 
 

[SaBrE]

I'll need this in the future some time so I'd also like to see some suggestions Maybe a very small addon which adds sandbags that don't disappear when destroyed- it could be a couple of kilobytes probably, so won't annoy people if they want missions without addons in.

[Blanco]

Yeah, that would be great but we don't know yet that destroying the sandbags will solve this problem.
I've found a few rocks in the desert that work, but that's all atm.
I don't know anything about addonmaking or configs, so it would be great if someone could make such an addon.

[ACF]

Might be worth trying SetDammage 0.9  - my dim recollection is that sandbags had to be damaged in OFP, not destroyed, to get AI to use them.

[SaBrE]

I just had a go at that and unfortunately it doesn't work :/

I did do THIS, however.

It looks pretty bad: I had to setpos 3 fences 33, 34 and 35 metres up then setdamage 1 them. This made them drop 30 or so metres to the floor after exploding  When they are on the ground as shown in picture, they are all squashed (hence I used 3) but the AI can fire over them. Why have them squash down in such a silly way if no one's going to see it since they sink? Silly bug.

If you don't mind it looking that awful, then do what I did :/