(Gmod) Moving Gunships & Bombing Helicopters in gm_bigcity

This is from my addon Enhanced Sandbox NPCs.
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It's been around for a while. I was just bored and wanted to make a video of these in action for some reason. I decided to publish this since there isn't much footage of the addon anyway.

[@hooligan9615]

You know, people could probably host races with like 3-5 of those flying around

[@dillspickles.3467]

2 fun facts about the gunship.
1: it cannot hear. As you look when he short the rpg missile it didn’t react to sound.
2: it can talk. Yes it talks. There just roars but I know. It’s animal instinct.meow to woof to grr to roar.they talk.
3 bonus.: it was a oceanic animal. Just look at itcould possibly be a whale.or even A Bug like a dragon fly but without the gun nose or the big hover tail it may of Been a tiny flie.

[@crimsonboi]

idk why im replying to a 10 month old coment, but it is most likely just another extradimensional life form that the combine conquered and added to their formations, just like the strider, dropships, hunters, crab synths

[@Final_SC]

​@@crimsonboiidk why im replying to a year old reply, but i agree

[@imnoteradicatoring]

I think gunship is orca, dragonfly, and turtle .

[@CadetGen]

holy shit this is great!

[@CodenameBolts]

Hi! Just joined the channel! Can I ask, what do you use to make your videos, like cuts and stuff? I'm trying to get into video making.

[@Blixibon]

I use Fraps for recording and Movie Studio Platinum 13.0 for editing. I usually upload videos unlisted before making them public so I could fill out their descriptions and make sure they works right.

[@Ruskah0307]

@@Blixibon are both of those free?

[@Blixibon]

Neither Fraps nor Movie Studio Platinum 13.0 are free. They both cost money.
However, I now mostly use OBS instead of Fraps, and OBS is free.

[@Ruskah0307]

@@Blixibon ok, thanks

[@mrhoundeye1064]

hey, if you know how to make a gunship move in gmod (hammer), can you teach me? i'm confused when decompiling gm_construct, and i see this mess with lua_codes or whatever. also yes, i know this is an addon (that i use) you showed there.

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Super late, but Gunships and Helicopters *only* move via path_tracks. In Hammer, it’s super easy to drop some path_tracks, connect them together, and assign the gunship/helicopter to the path after spawning them via console commands(as in, aim at the gunship/helicopter and type in “ent_fire !picker FlyToPathTrack [name of path_track]”). This will then let them fly along the path while pursuing enemies.
The way this addon works is by checking if the map is a supported map, then manually spawning path_tracks in set areas with set names and paths if it is. Since the path_tracks are all named, any spawned gunship or helicopter can then be easily told to connect to the path via LUA commands. From there, it’s just their AI allowing them to dynamically navigate the path.

[@TWRMM]

It’s cool like when they follow u and bomb u it’s a good mod

[@fortnite1958]

Works good, but unfortunately it doesn't keep with the player and it's too easy to lost the helicopter, and sometimes, it gets stuck in the buildings.

[@goozilla1998]

Because How To Improve The Hunter Chopper Moving And Dropping Helicopter Bomb And Gunship Moving???

[@jaihadgeppo150]

How do they work? Do they create path_tracks on the fly?

[@Blixibon]

A few different maps have their own dedicated files containing the entity data for several different path_track routes. These files were manually created and tailored specifically for these maps. Whenever a gunship, hunter-chopper, or dropship is first spawned, the addon will load the map's respective file if it has one. The path_tracks are then created based on the data in the file. They can be removed by admin cleanup, but they regenerate when another aircraft NPC is spawned. If the tracks were generated, the spawned gunship/hunter-chopper/dropship is automatically assigned to the nearest track upon spawning and their behavior depends on the mod's settings.

[@illex3051]

@@Blixibon Can you do something to where they don't sit still in the air?

[@Blixibon]

If you mean preventing them from idling on the tracks, try moving away from them or firing a rocket. You could also disable the "Pursuit Navigation" setting to make them randomly fly to different points on the track.

[@illex3051]

@@Blixibon Thanks, I disable player detection sometimes and I like watching them patrol or I may hide then they fly somewhere and idle until I, or an enemy gets close.

[@illex3051]

I'm going to make a server with a lot of other addons soon, you mind if I use yours?

[@yokono_bigaku4108]

Lol😂

[@08tjgoated]

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