Its just a really simple language, once you've got the basic terminology and a little knowledge of computer logic its fairly easy. Good news its once you know one you can probably pick up another easily.
Sorry about the choppy editing at around 5mins I directly uploaded in from Movie Studio and some weird stuff that wasen't present in the previews shows up on utube lesson learned, I'll do it manually next time. Leave suggestions for scripting / editor topics you'd like to see me make a vid on here or on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Arma3SSG/
Whenever I do ({alive _x'} count playableUnits) == ({_x in heli1;} count switchableUnits) at 12:50 in the video, an error box pops up saying "Condition:"
Hey great videos... im trying to build a mission myself.... BUT If i have a team...on the ground...and i place a single move merker for them.... you see the marker.... and when preview they walk to the waypoint.... but if i board a helicopter right next to it and i get out again {not taking off}...the waypoint is gone ...... what am i doing wrong? Vinz
I know this has been a few years since you made this video but I had a question regarding the Condition for taking off once every one is in on extraction. In Singleplayer mode you said ({alive _x;}) count switchableUnits) == ({_x in heli1;} count switchableUnits) but in Multiplayer mode you change that to playableUnits" Does that mean it changes to ({alive _x;}) count playableUnits) == ({_x in heli1;} count playableUnits) or just the first one ({alive _x;}) count playableUnits) == ({_x in heli1;} count switchableUnits)
Loved playing this mod. It was years ago I first started, lots of fun was had! Coincidentally, many years later, I ran into the dev on an ARMA server and he instigates team killing, shoots at friendlies, abuses vote kick, changes friendly squads name to random insults, etc. I wroite it off as a new player or one-off, but a quick search of his name reveals a spotted history of this exact behavoir in other games as well. Real bummer to cross paths like that with someone who made something cool and worth while, only to find they are a rotten on the battlefield and at a personal level within ARMA itself.
my heli never leaves in extraction... and this is not first extraction possibility that is not working for me. I guess some of my mods are messing up variables or something.
Looks great, and I'll try it out really soon, however, one thing is that I don't want it to count all "switchable" or "playable" units during the extraction. I want it to check to see if a number of AI (only) controlled units are either alive, or in the chopper. Is that a different code?
+Something Something Games Yes it works, I got it right in the first place. But it only works with the littlebird. All the other helos just fly upwards. Any suggestions? Thanks anyways.
+Something Something Games With your instructions, I can create a fully working heli extraction but it will only work with the littlebird. If I copy+paste your extraction it still only works with the littlebird. So as soon as I use other helo than littlebird, it won't work.
+Joona Suortti That cant be true. But just to be sure I tried it out anyway for you and it works fine I used the demo mission provided and simply changed the helicopter from a litte bird to a ghost hawlk and it works fine! What your probably doing is not setting its variable name or your variable name conflicts with another variable name (no two can be the same without one bee overridden). steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=646172312 make sure you set the variable name in the init or the variable name feild and that you are not conflicting it. Also make sure if you are testing this mission in a MP game that you change this trigger condition: images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/288601066172735483/E09AFA445C773F560FA59D1B3458911C817A36BC/ from switchableUnits to playableUnits (confirm my spelling is correct on the wiki for those commands also).
i have to go to another video because this was too choppy and the big mistake at 8:18 with the random added waypoint by the cycle was poorly explained and led to my whole waypoint and activation cycle F up. LITERALLY wasted 3 hrs trying to do tthis on a video and i'm really pissed off. fyi, not everybody is a expert at writing coding, so please break it down better and more simpler or slower for ppl just new to this game. it's not going to be me cause I'm going to another video commentary... CONFUSING AF at midpoint. thx
what is that? lol im trying to make a mission where the helicopter lands on a roof and loads the team and takes off with us. it keeps leaving before the whole team is in
2 Questions: 1: How to add in that after a player activates the action, he needs to click on the map to then create the landing point there? 2: How to add an "Call extract" to one player slot to basically call the helo with the GET IN function, and how does the helo know when everybody is in?
my god i have been searching for this for 4 hours straight now. everyone kept saying there is only this thing with the load/get in waypoints but that shit didnt work for me at all! thanks man
The only issue I'm having is where the heli won't stay for troops to load up. I entered the condition for the trigger for it to leave as above at 12:40 but it still leaves right after touching down.
How do I (the inserted soldier and my squad) get waypoints after insertion coz after we get dropped off all the move waypoints disappear- for example getting inserted on the hills and then doing a seek and destroy mission in the town?
Just as I thought another Arma game made without actually fixing the damn helicopter Insert/Extract so people can actually add it to their mission. It was hair pulling difficult to do in Arma2 and was a 50/50 thing sometimes it worked sometimes it sucked and didnt work at all. Idk how many hours I spent doing the same fucking bullshit in Arma 2 to have it come to where we were and just hover over the waypoint or just not even hover and leave as quickly as it got there. RIDICULOUS. Its an Army game they should have added a fucking module for this so many struggle to make missions because of this very issue. Evidently your method still didnt work for some which is telling me its back to the old searching the forums for hours trying many different things to get the damn thing to land.
Hey Mate, unsure if you still comment here but do need some help for the insertion. I've used this with multiplayer in mind and it has worked fine until it lands at the LZ. At which point its wheels barely skid the ground then immediately takes off, I tried to delay it in the way point so it didn't move for 10 seconds but that didn't work, do you have any advice? Much appreciated, thanks
im sure the video is very good for someone who understands what hes doing with the script, but I cant make heads or tails of what im doing to get the script wrong so non of my actions work in game, please list the script in the show more
hey with the last examples you gave, you had 2 squads spawning in 2 differnt helicopters. I successfully did one but the second squad refuses to work. It's the exact same code (except for the helicopter variable name). Any help?
there is an evac command, shouldnt we use that for an extraction also my helo doesnt land on unload transport bit, really though im having issues extracting because my helo will just fly in and hover in place instead of landing and waiting for all living group members to be in the helo before taking off again
I'm having a problem with the land. In land "land" or "get in" modes, the chopper just touches the ground and stay hovering at 50m from ground. Any ideas?? This is driving me nuts!
+Cigs4 The waypoints have been broken since the 1.54 update sadly. The LAND waypoint used to work perfectly and then you could force the helicopter to stay on the ground until you loaded up and then cycle it to the next waypoint. Now the LAND and LOAD waypoints don't seem to work properly. My suggestion is to ghetto rig it and give the helicopter a TRANSPORT UNLOAD waypoint where you want the extraction to be (yes I realize the helicopter will be "empty") and then force it to stay on the ground with the _helicoptername flyInHeight 0; command in the On Activation field of the TRANSPORT UNLOAD waypoint. After that stick a simple MOVE waypoint right next to the TU waypoint. Then create a trigger that checks if all of the units you want to extract are in the helicopter (for example you could use the command in the Condition field: player in _helicoptername;), and once they are, have that complete the MOVE waypoint you stuck right next to the TU waypoint, and in the On Activation portion of that trigger, place something like _helicoptername flyInHeight 50; any number above say 10 will work, all that command does (if you're not already familiar) is try and force the pilots to maintain that altitude in meters. I must add as a disclaimer I have not tested the above method in anything other than single player; I don't personally make publically released coop or multiplayer missions so I have never needed to test it in that mode.
I have a heli landing on a LZ with its engine on. I want 3 AI to get into the chopper. I already know how the helicopter will leave when the 3 AI are in it, but how do I get 3 AI into this helicopter. If someone knows please help me out.
For some reason everytime my heli returned it wouldnt stop it would just land then fly off again. I went back through your video and checked everything was correct.
Hi I tried to get this to work and the option for heli go works and it takes off fine but then when it comes to land all it does is circle the set area at a high altitude. How do I fix that?
@2:38 "safest place'... Well unless there is a random wall or fence in the field. in that case heli goes there! Right on top Arma AI gotta love it, Since OPF i have a love/hate relationship with it. Sometimes it does amazingly clever tricks the other times... It's behaves as a mentally challenged blind person on LSD (watching this vid because, i didn't find arma3 stable enough in the beginning . Now a days it's much more workable but not yet familiar with the new editor)
Some of the code works...some doesn't (for me). At 14:55 , I cant get the heli to lift off. Something wrong with the trigger...I renamed the group (i think) and copied the code exactly, set the way points and triggers (including linking the trigger to way point). Any Ideas?
Sorry for the late response for some reason I just gotta few notifications for this video, what you'd want to do is name the group first so in any of the groups unit init box do this: GroupName = group this; In your trigger or script when you go to delete group the code you use is: {deleteVehicle _x} forEach units GroupName; You've probably figured it out by now but if not hope that helps.
Broooo! So thats what the invisible helipad is for. Big thanks for that tip!!! I didn't even know that the helo's will try to search for the nearest helipad, with this method like you said you can get pin point accuracy on where you want it to land. Thank you again, this is going to vastly improve my missions.
I have the main issue of allowing multiple AI squads enter the same helicopter with the standard waypoints. I figure these scripts solve that, but any hints for default waypointing?
Um...I have a mission going, with one team (player controlled) it works fine, but with an all AI group, once they have to get in the helo, they wander off
Yeah sorry dropbox deletes stuff if its not DL'd for sometime. I've been trying to rember where the EHD I backed this stuff upto is.. can't find it lol.. I'll let ya know if I find it.
I would not do it that way, add some sorta addaction for the player to use instead: this addAction ["Go, Go, Go",{_x leaveVehicle vehicle _x;} forEach (fullCrew vehicle player);}]; No idea if that will work as I just wrote it off my head without looking at the wiki.. but something for you to build on.
If your been serious and don't actually know all desktops pcs are coustom (even the prebuilt ones you can buy). Look at the steam page for a game for system requirements of any game your intresrted in: store.steampowered.com/app/107410/Arma_3/ I can't tell you what to buy as I don't know how much money you have or what other games you might want to play. If you have the money then get something with the recomended System Requirements or BETTER. If you dont have the money for that then something with the Miniumum System requirements is what you might want to buy. Buying the compenents and building the computer yourself will generally save you money. Building a computer is fairly simple, however your going to have to do the reasearch into what parts you need to buy which can be harder. Maybe google PC Build Guides for gameing pcs 2020, I know sites like PC gamer do alot of diffrent guides for diffrent budgets. Arma requires a decent processor (CPU) alot other games require a good graphics card so keep that in mind if you want to play things other than Arma as Arma3 will run on very cheap graphics cards just fine (many other games will not).
+112 224 448 You can google most things like this. But since I am a kind and generous god.. you need the folder it comes in or create a new one postfixed with ".Altis", then it goes in this location: C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\big_wilk\missions You'll See other missions in this folder. You can then open it up normally in 3DEN. (The .sqm file needs to go into the folder you've create / dl'd)
Hi, it really helped. How can we do this with ground vehicles? what command can be used at the drop of waypoint in that case. Like here we used 'this land "get out";'. What can i use instead for a ground vehicle at drop off point and the last way point??
The heli works just fine.. I copied the same process on a ground vehicle but for some reason when I command it to move it does not move to the waypoints!!
these are the commands i am using: Trigger - DR_ContactMove; (also on repeat) Vehicle - this addAction ["Contact Move!", {DR_ContactMove = TRUE; publicVariable "DR_ContactMove";}]; Drop WP - no command and its transport unload type Last WP - if (isServer) then {DR_ContactMove = false; publicVariable 'DR_ContactMove'; };
So I have a question for you about way points and the cycle way point. I've set up a loop with some vehicles and units using the cycle to go back to the beginning. One of the way points is trigger activated. It works the first time(vehicles wait for trigger) but after it cycles it ignores to wait until triggered because it has already been activated. How do i make it so it resets and and waits to be triggered again? Thank you so much, awesome vid!
Thank you for the reply. So i setup a new scenario that was a simple mrap cycle route. the first way point was trigger activated. I tried both 'true' and 'this' for the trigger's condition as well as repeatable. It still won't wait the 2nd time going by the way point.
Finally got it to work a different way. I don't think its possible that way, but I'm pretty new at this. I used a hold way point instead of move. That got the car to stop every time no matter what. I then activated that with a skip way point trigger.
What is the best way to make an AI group move after it spawns on the map? ie... A Group spawns on the NW area of the Map and after they spawn, you want them to automatically advance to a position on the map. (where the battle is).... What I am trying to do is have the troops replenish themselves.... In a real battle, troops do not re-spawn in the action.... they have to travel from the insertion point. (NO TELEPORTING) actual travel is involved from a point at the edge of a map. It does not matter what transportation mode they choose (Heli, truck etc).. but they do have to start from a certain point (NW area of Map) and travel to the designated battle area.
The heli extract at the end is exactly the same concept I think you're aiming for. I assume by moving automatically you mean ONLY to replenish lost forces. Do that but apply it to another OPFOR force. So instead of calling in a heli extract just have it call a squad of OPFOR guys.
+BigDawg Cleveland Two things you can combine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-33cWZPP9qdo.html AND ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-61OJDgPTzSs.html ALSO look at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-letuH6KIQN8.html
Hi, I'm trying to do this but being the pilot and dropping blues to kill opfor. I can´t figure out how to do this. Think you can point me to some tutorial about it?
+Something Something Games I wasn't specific. I managed to kick out the blues on the waypoint, that much I can do, what I can't figure out is how to make them hit a target (destroy vehicle, kill leader, clear area, etc) and then have them ask me to extract on a secondary point and return home. I guess I must study this a bit more. I managed to use triggers to accomplish missions as a player, but not with AI. I think this requires programming which I don't really master at this point.
+João Pinto That's quite complex, too much for a utube comment. I do have a random helicopter transport mission system actually for a mod I'm making maybe I can look at making it into a mission, keep an eye out for videos, I dont think it will be too hard to convert.
+João Pinto Try doing the infiltration set up, but have a 10x10 waypoint that is activated by bluefor and make it activate a "get out" waypoint for the ai inside the helicopter
I am using this system (holding the take off with a variable) but I have had to resort to adding the action to the player instead of the helicopter as the way you've described in the video doesn't seem to work in multiplayer (the variable sync does thanks to using the publicVariable instruction, but the action on the helicopter menu does not). So my code is: uh80TakeOffActionId = player addAction ["Take off", uh80TakeOffSignal = true; publicVariable "uh80TakeOffSignal"; }]; Note I am using "player" instead of "this". I am saving the id so that I can remove the action once the helicopter has taken off. Could you please check out whether what you explained in the video works if you launch the mission in multiplayer mode? Thanks for your time and effort.
So just from looking at your code syntax is wrong for addaction it's missing a "{": player addAction ["Take off",{uh80TakeOffSignal = true; publicVariable "uh80TakeOffSignal"; }]; That might be why the code is not running though I'd be surpised if the addactions show up at all with that error. If this does not help send me your missing file I'll take a look over the weekend.
@@somethingsomethinggames9392 Sorry, I may not have expressed myself properly. The code showed is working (albeit I may have made some error when writting it here). But it's only working with "player addAction", not with "uh80 addAction". Nevertheless, I'll doublecheck the code in my mission, just in case :-)
@@somethingsomethinggames9392 Okay, so I found the issue. The code is the same, but I am executing it in the "On activation" field of a trigger, as getting inserted by helicopter is not the very first thing that happens in the mission. To be exact, my code is (in the "On activation" field of the trigger that activates when in proximity of the helicopter): uh80TakeOffActionId = player addAction [ "Take off", { uh80TakeOffSignal = true; publicVariable "uh80TakeOffSignal"; }]; So if I change the "player" into "uh80", which is the variable name of the helicopter, it also works, at least in single player mode. Not sure why it was not working when I last tested, probably my fault. I am now going to try in multiplayer mode when I have the chace and get back to you. Thanks!
Its not actually auto fill, its just explains the basic format of the input each command expects (so you dont have to go to the wiki every time you need a command). I don't even think its possible to turn it off it should be on automatically its been there since arma2. If you want predictive text: www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8680 use that its really good.
in the condition box, (haven't tested this but theorizing based on other examples that are similar) you add target1 and target2 and so on for the squad. The target name is the variable name given to the squad, so that can vary. The basis was that it was either or variables were killed. Meaning that target1 or target593 dies, the outcome is the same.
+Slayer John Yeah i figured it out like an hour after watching the video and i think i used the same method but thanks for helping anyway i will be sure to use it in the future.
Thanks for the quick reply, i have qot another question. If I play a character who is in the helicopter I am able to run the 'heli go'. But if I play a character which starts on the other side of the map i am not. Shouldnt the file be a PBO file?
Ah, your that new to mission making :). No, its a mission editor file place it here: C:\Users\YourWindowsUserName\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\YourArmaProfileName\missions Then open it in your Eden mission editor.
