spawning ai planes

[Nac33]

hi,

i'm doing a mission for online and i wanted to know, is....can i set up a plane as client....but if no one uses it, have it spawn with a ai instead? and how is it done?.....thanks in advance....Nac

Edited December 31, 2014 by Nac33

[9.JG52 Ziegler]

I don't think so. You would need to assign a wingman to a client plane (2of 2).

[dooom]

Try a trigger such as the following: place to units - one ai (a)and one client (b)... Set (a) to late activation

 

Continuous action->unit (b) alive -> flag 1 on

Continuous action->flag 1 false->activate unit(a)

 

That might work?

[pdmarsh]

@Nac33 -- Please feel free to have a look at a mission I recently posted which does exactly what you are looking to do. It's fairly straight forward, though. You will need to create both the client and AI as separate aircraft. Set the AI to late start, then use flags as dooom noted above. However, if you don't want AI aircraft to spawn during the mission should the client aircraft die, you will need to create a trigger to stop that as well.

 

I initially used the presence of client aircraft in a theater-sized trigger zone to preclude their AI counterpart from spawning. However, if the client aircraft dies during the mission, its AI counterpart then spawns, which is not something you would necessarily want to happen. My approach was to create a "crew chief" for any given client aircraft that gets used in the mission. These crew chiefs are safely tucked away at the home airfield. It their associated client aircraft gets shot down, they remain in the mission to preclude the AI aircraft from spawning. There could be much better ways to do this--I'm still somewhat new at mission scripting.

 

If you want, have a look at the triggers in the mission I mentioned above:

 

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/1101978/

 

Hope this helps.

 

Paul