I want to STOP my AI pilots from ejecting...

[LargePiece]

Does anyone know how to stop AI pilots ejecting from a damaged chopper? I would like my two buddies pilot1 and pilot2 to go down WITH their chopper and not just bail because it's about to crash...

The whole idea that someone can eject from a chopper that's spining madly and in the process of crashing is just plain silly!!  Not to mention the fact that I've never seen anyone in a helicopter carrying a parachute to start with (I'm drawing my conclusions here from popular movies, the basis for any good education).

Putting aside my concerns about realism in the mission in question, I simply don't have room for two AI chopper pilots running around on the ground and mucking up the delicate balance of my mission.

Knut Erik suggested in another post that I lock the door of the chopper to stop them from ejecting, but unfortunatley the chopper pilots seem to have magical door unlocking skills and despite my adding the line: slick1 lock TRUE. they still seem able to eject.

Does anyone out there know of any other solutions to my problem?  Is no one else bothered by chopper pilots having parachutes!!!!! I mean HONESTLY....

I really need to get out more...

 :-\

[laulau]

well just an idea to solve your problem:
make your pilots dying when your chopper gets a certain ammount of dammage before they jump out of the chopper.

so use a script like this one:

_Unit1= _this select 0
_Unit2= _this select 1
_Chopper= _this select 2

#check
?(_Chopper getDammage > 0.7) : goto "dying"
goto "check"

#dying
_Unit1 setDammage 1
_Unit2 setDammage 1
exit

use a trigger as big as the area where you chopper's flying and in the "On Activation" field type:

[pil1, pil2, helo] exec "dying.sqs"

"pil1" is the name of the first pilote, "pil2" is the name of the second one and "helo" the name of the chopper. "dying.sqs" is the name of your script.
i didn't try it but it should work. Adjust this line ?(_Chopper getDammage > 0.7) : goto "dying" to put the right value of dammage (0=no dammage, 1=maximum dammage)

hope this help...

[Ottie]

Maybe you can force the pilots to stay in there position with the fleeing command, for infantry there is this command allowFleeing and if it is false the units will not flee even when in danger maybe this also works for chopper pilots ......

[Robinhansen]

I tried the script but I get an error message: Error Unknown operator getDammage What can I write instead?? Instead of using a chopper I use an A10 (I've got four of them, named Plane1, plane2 etc...) ;D

[KJAM]

have you tried locking the vehicle in the edit uitmenu.......im sure ive seen that work before

[Robinhansen]

Nope...stil the same error message...

[KJAM]

try locking the aircraft but DO NOT use the script see if that works

[LCD]

da script is good thing but deres 1 eror in it  

dis line

#check
?(_Chopper getDammage > 0.7) : goto "dying"
goto "check"

shud b like dat

Code: [Select]

#check
?(getDammage _Chopper > 0.7) : goto "dying"
~0.1
goto "check"
LCD OUT

[Robinhansen]

Well the script does'nt quite work for me. Here's the story: I used an ampty A10 and called it plane1- then I placed a pilot next to it - called him pilot1. In the pilots init field I used the "pilot1 moveindriver plane1" command. I used four planes and four pilots. Naming them from 1-4...BUT THE DAMN PILOTS ARE STILL EJECTING FORM THE BLODDY PLANE  Are the script totally wrong or am I a complete idiot (don't have to answer the last sentence )

[KJAM]

like i said, in the edit menu change the vehicle thing to LOCKED and it will work, they cant get out then

[KyleSarnik]

Or when you want to lock it use this in an
 activation feild:

Code: [Select]

plane1 lock true
 :oAnd then they are trapped in the when it goes down plane.... lol  ;D