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- In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to create a helicopter insertion and extraction for use in your ARMA 3 missions.
The only string of script used is simply a moveincargo command to load troops before the start of the mission and the !alive command used on the oppfor unit for use with the switch trigger, the rest is done with waypoints.
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Nice to see the scripting commands haven't changed much from ARMA 2. Was afraid I would have to re-learn a bunch of stuff from scratch. Good tutorial.
Benjamin Cardoza Yeah for the most part the functions/commands have remained the same, there are a few that seem to have become broken but I'd say at least 90% still work as they did in Arma 2. The largest difference I'd suppose would have to be that most classnames have changed.
Benjamin Cardoza You may find this of some use - community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_New_Scripting_Commands_List Should give you an idea of some of the scripting additions that have been made.
pickinthatbanjo Thanks, man. Yeah I used to scour the wiki for many hours back in the day. Looks like I'll be doing it again.
Very helpful, thanks very much for sharing. BTW, at the end of all of your videos can you say, "We'll keep the light on for ya!"
I'm glad I found a Kronk showing me how to script
How do you get the heli to hover when dropping units off instead of landing?
Thanks!
HI IVE SET UP ALIVE AND ITS ALL WORKING, but the only thing is, i cannot get in the transport chopper, theres not even an option to get it, but the interact word is blacked out
u just made this to flaunt! just kdding =P good job
Izio Shaba Thanks
Just a tip if you put: {_x moveInCargo Heli1} forEach Units Group this; in the group leader's init field it will put the whole squad in the cargo instead of having to manually put each one in.
Thanks for the tip, this is an old habit I have that I just never seem to break.
any way to extract units without having to kill an opfor unit ... like getting to an LZ waypoint or certain area? i was thinking like if they're in this area, it'll trigger the helicopter to extract them.
you just set a switch trigger connected to the idle waypoint and connected to the waypoint of the lz and once you reach the lz it will trigger the helicopter to come
thankyou
This is probably a good place to mention that AI pilots like to land on a helipad, otherwise where they land can be a bit random like landing in the middle of some trees and damaging the main rotor. If you put down an invisible helipad (objects-signs -helipad (invisible)) they will land where you put it provided it's not obstructed by units.
That's true although the problem is not as bad as it once was, but it still is a large problem is maps like Stratis which is all slopes. Another option would be to use the attachTo command and attach the pad to the player which would create a mobile helipad, I'll go over the options when I throw together an example of an AI transport script.
Alky Lee that's the way I "almost solved" in some way a little heli evac script I'm studying (just learning)...where when I call the evac (with an addAction or radio call) the heli is spawned at a certain distance from the caller and in the meantime a invisible helipad is spawned near the player. This way the heli lands right near the player. The only problem is when the player calls the heli while being in cover (i.e. in a forest)....in that case the heli would land in the forest thus breaking itself apart. I'm looking for some functions that allow me to check for any obstacles inside a certain range (I mean not only "editor added" objects, but also "map" obstacles like trees and rocks).
Francesco Manini That is a pretty good question, there are commands to detect nearby objects like the nearObject function though I'm not sure how or if they detect trees.
Often just about anything in the map itself has a unique ID and it may be possible that the ID can be used with the nearObject function though I'll need to look into that.
How i can do troops landing with heli in engaged ? its condition or script in trigger? or ( H Invisible ) . I do all that things but my heli run away after shooting him :/
+Przemek Sok If you still in to it in the transport unload waypoint you need to set the behaviour on Careless
Hello banjo I did all this but the problem is in the extraction, the helicopter arrives but never goes down to pick up my AI troops and myself, I don't know what's going on?
Ernesto Reyes Try the same setup but place an invisible heli-pad on the location you wish for the helicopter to land, sometimes the AI will just refuse to land on particular locations. If the same issue persists than location can be ruled out as the cause.
can this be done with a trigger of a troop entering an area for instance troops land move to an objective then move out of the area and the trigger fires when they at a certain point then the helis come in and extract?
Yes, the setup would be the same as the example in the video but use bluefor present for the trigger condition of the switch trigger tied to the extraction waypoints and setup the axis size as desired.
Thanks for info =)
No problem
I need my morphine !i need arma 3! N my sp/coop next mission is incoming:D
glad to hear it
Is there any way to hide the waypoints so you don't see the MOVE icon through the entire mission? I've been desperately trying to figure it out and have spent at least 5 hours trying to make it invisible (unfortunately that's not a joke or exaggeration), but I can't do it. I found the following: [grp, 2] setWaypointVisible false; but I have no idea where to put it in the editor and everywhere I try it just gives me an error and doesn't work, yet other people have said it works fine, so I don't understand. It's the only waypoint on the map for the player, as I just want to use it for extract to make the end of the mission realistic. Do I need to change grp and the number 2 to anything different? If so, what do those represent and how do I modify them to work? Any light you could shed is appreciated.
Elliot Meme Difficulty settings will determine if waypoint info is displayed for players, disable this setting by using either a custom difficulty with the setting disabled or raise the difficulty setting and the info will be removed.
Well I think it would be a bit unfair to force anyone who plays the mission to set their difficulty to whatever makes it disappear. Surely there must be another way, otherwise there wouldn't be a setWaypointVisible false; syntax. I guess I'll just have to keep trying to figure it out. Thanks for the response anyway, I've enjoyed your videos.
+Elliot Meme custom settings in the menus will allow you to keep easy settings as for combat and all other good stuff, yet hide HUD. I do that and it makes it better to my setup.
When I do exactly the same thing that you show in the video , my helicopter is landing , but I want it does not touch the ground (as in video) . Thanks for your help
+GuerrierDlaguerrelol Try placing an invisible helipad in the location you wish for it to land, at times the AI can have difficult with certain locations and that tends to sort them out.
+pickinthatbanjo Thank you, but my helicopter always touch the ground, my helicopter do this: www.dropbox.com/s/xhp05uyi4qki78z/2015-09-27_00001.jpg?dl=0 but i want this: www.dropbox.com/s/wlfivlhdxvds2vq/What%20I%20Want.PNG?dl=0 (sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language)
***** It work thank you :D
Bro, I am having issues with a helicopter insertion. I plan to have a mission where an opposing QRF responds in a helicopter. But the helicopter does NOT go to the waypoints at all, it just goes somewhere random to drop off it's passengers.
Have you tried setting a move waypoint next the transport unload waypoint? This will force the helicopter to start the unloading waypoint immediately after reaching the move waypoint.
The only other issue I could think of that may cause this would be the alertness status of the pilot, if on alert or danger the pilot will likely start evasive maneuvers and land else ware if fired upon.
Nah, I figured it out. I had to create invisible helipads for it to work for some reason. Otherwise, he was just making the entire QRF walk the plank from fifty feet up.
what about that trigger at the opfor area?
+elpelux That trigger gives oppfor a task to guard that area so they don't stand around while being shot in the example. Not needed for the actual insertion/extraction.
I had a problem with bringing the heli back after defeating the enemies. I went and made a really small version of this where you kill one guy and the heli comes back but I cant do it when there were 6 guys. I named them man1, man2... so on and did the command (!alive man1 && !alive man2....) and it didn't work but when I did it with the single one, it responded properly.
Old post, but i'll try to help. Use the trigger and set it on OPFOR Not Present. Remember to resize it to enough area that it covers all enimies and the possible location they will go to. Then do the same linking.
+Atharva Singh thanks for the help but I fixed it already months back. Honestly forgot I posted this
+Crazysniperslyr Haha knew something alike would have happened, I was dumb enough to reply anyway 😂
its all good
this is crazysniperslyr btw forgot to swtich accounts
My camera is defaulted to the heli pilot. Anyone know how to change this? I'm using this on my intro with 3den by the way.
I have this same issue.
How long would the heli be able to loiter for? Till it ran out of fuel?
Back in arma 2 I was working out something in a mission and had one hovering for over a half hour, not sure about arma 3.
This should give unlimited fuel
nul = this spawn { while {alive _this} do { _this setFuel 1; sleep 60 } };
Instead of a loiter waypoint, you could give it a move waypoint and in the on act field of the waypoint put heli1 land "land"; It will then land and shut down. At extract it will have to spool up and take off. It helps to avoid it running out of fuel if it is a long mission.
That's true though this was more to simulate going into an orbit while the ground forces hit a small target like in the example and then moving on to the next objective.
I usually use the land command when I'm being dropped off for more than 20 min since they can just come back once it's all finished.
sir i initialization:this movingcargo name of my chopper but says missing ; ?
help me anyone?
Your initialization seems to have a slight error, you have:
this movingcargo vehiclename;
It should be:
this moveInCargo vehiclename;
Let me know how that works out for you.
I'm trying to make a oblr scenario (osama bin laden raid) and I've followed the steps from this video but when I go to play it and kill the enemy I go back to the 'load' marker I made for my guy to load onto the helicopter (I also made a 'load' marker for the helicopter at the same location) and when I go to that marker the helicopter flies over to me but doesn't land and flies off.
I wish I knew how to solve this problem aswell.
I figured it out actually, but I had to have the heli stay at the landing point rather than have it drop off, fly away, then come back.
did you try to set waypoint activation?
Killer Kitten I deleted that scenario, I actually created more and people are starting to love them.
And how I made the helicopter land was simply place the Load waypoint on the ground (which I totally forgot to do in the first place) and I forgot there was a difference between the Transport Unload and Unload waypoints.
i am very confused of the trigger and and?? what is the letter or symbol pls help me
You can either type "and" or use the symbol "&&". They mean the same.
Hey dude what is you're pc specs? I'd love to run A3 some day
+Mint Rose At the time this was recorded I was running an I7 980x, GTX 570, 6Gb 1300mhz DDR3, and it was installed on a Hard drive rather than SSD. These days it's a 750TI and 12Gb 1600mhz DDR3. It shouldn't take too much to run Arma 3, a good processor really goes a long way and naturally the better your video card the better you will be able to set the graphical options.
How much did it cost you to build it?
well that processor alone cost $1200 at that time, the rest was cheap enough though. I'd imagine today to build a decent gaming PC using average parts you'd probably end up spending about $800-$1000 or so. That is in Canadian Dollars so it may be cheaper if you live somewhere else.
I live in Australia and the Canadian dollar is kinda the same, so i can presume we both feel the pain of buying things in foreign currency, especially USD. :(
Bit late but I need help. Now there is a huge arrow on my screen ._.
Is there a way to have soldiers follow a waypoint after they’re dropped off?
any units that are inside a helicopter should follow any waypoints they have been given once they are ejected from the helicopter
pickinthatbanjo thx
the green smoke grenade is only for scenics?
Francesco Manini Yes it has nothing really to do with the extraction itself, although there are some ways to setup scripts that require smoke to mark the landing zone but they are fairly complex.
yes I already played those scripts in Arma 2, and I believed maybe they were integrated into arma 3 (because I couldn't make helis land wherever I wanted besides helipads)...so maybe that was the solution.. ;) thanks for clarification
It only kicks me out now my AI squad mates. Whys that happening?
It's just how the AI are handled in ARMA, same thing happens in the video as seen when I order the squad to dismount. With some extra scripting using an eject command it's possible to have the entire group ejected all at one time. Baically using this command either in a trigger or on activation of a waypoint would eject the group with a group name of group1 from the aircraft titled heli1:
name the group using this command on the group leader -
group1 = group this;
than use this to eject the group -
{unAssignVehicle _x;_x action ["eject",heli1]} forEach units group1;
I'll have to find some time to test this out myself since I'm not at home but this command worked in arma 2 and should still work in arma 3.
I followed the steps but the chopper just kicks me out and Not the AI team I'm leading, any advice for that?
This is a result of the AI teammates, also why in the video I order them to disembark from the helicopter. The only way around that I am aware of would be to execute scripting functions such as unassignVehicle and the eject action. An example would be to add this to a script:
unassignvehicle _x;
_x action ["EJECT", _vehicle];
sleep 0.5;
} foreach units _group;
+pickinthatbanjo Thank You for the help :-)
If you want to move large groups into vehicles add the following into the squad leader's init field: {_x moveInCargo _vehicle} foreach units group this;
For all the people whose squad won't disembark, add the following into the waypoint where you want them to get out of the vehicle: Replace the _SQUADLEADER with the leader's name of the unit you want to disembark.
{unassignVehicle _x} forEach units group _SQUADLEADER;
***** Good tips
Everything works great until I need extraction - At the load point it hovers above the LZ.
Josh Read Have you synchronized the aircrafts "load" waypoint to the infantry groups "get in" waypoint?
+Hoswakison did you try throwing a smoke grenade?
I seem to be having a problem dying on the transport unload with all the choppers except the hummingbird. I'm the only one that dies
Joseph Thomson This was known to happen when unloading from a moving aircraft such as when jumping from mid-air, I've never heard of the issue happening on the ground though. So the problem happens after the helicopter lands and starts unloading the occupants?
Correct with the exception of the hummingbird all of the helicopters kill me on dismount
On the ground
Joseph Thomson I've messed around with different aircraft and couldn't seem to replicate the issue, I also dug around and couldn't really find much on it either. I'm curious as to which mods (if any) you are running while attempting this? I'd suggest disabling any mods and seeing if the problem persists.
pickinthatbanjo you right thanks. It was the advanced movements Mod. Once I disabled it I wouldn't drop dead after dismounting. Thanks.
ok so with me, my chopper doesnt land, and im the only one who gets kicked from the cargo from mid flight
koolerpure Squad leads must order any infantry to disembark. In regards to the aircraft not landing, whenever the helicopter does not want to land just place an invisible helipad on the location you wish for the helicopter to land and it should sort out the issue.
pickinthatbanjo ah ok, ill try that, thanks
moveincargo not (ng)
2:26 - Extraction
my squad wont get out of the choppa
It's likely cuz their thugs. Otherwise, make sure you're a higher rank. Also consider a landing pad.
set get out waypoint and syc with transport unload
tell them to
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