target the jet

[armymanbronson]

hi, my problem is im doing a mission where 2 jets are dog fighting over nogova, and i want the player to have the yellow target box on the russian jet untill its destroyed. for some reason it stays for a few seconds but the dissapears. i hope this made sense.
brons ;D

[LAPD]

I'm not quite sure about this:

Make a waypoint, in the waypoint screen you can select between "never show", "show in cadet mode" and "always show".

Maybe you can try putting the waypoint over the enemy plane as "destroy" (or "seek and destroy", don't know) and making it Always Show.

It Might Work  (I hope)

[Gameer_77]

That won't work LAPD, that just shows the waypoiints on the map. It may depend if you are using Cadet or Veteran mode to play the game, but i think with OFP you can only see the waypoint if you are a group leader, on foot, and in cadet mode. Dunno though... :-X

  PEACE

[El-Mariachi]

this may be just a bug in the game but im not sure, i've always found that the yellow boxes and waypoint markers during the game will only show up for me if i start one of the single player missions for a moment, exit then go back into the editor.

[Messiah]

the yellow target boxes are only added by the group leader - as in your leader tells you to target the unit - and will only dissapear till you are assigned a new target or the target is destroyed.

now if you are the leader then it doesnt work

and if you the 'dotarget' the same applies.

[RedKnyte]

Yeah, got that same prob too, think it is a bug, but brons probably wasn't talking about waypoints, he's talking about that yellow box target which works in anything, whether your in cadet mode, veteran, on foot or whatever else, when you click on an enemy, the target box will always be there.....

[macguba]

I'm not a yelllow box expert, but my impression is that it makes a big difference what bits you have enabled in "Options".      That is, as a mission designer you don't have much influence on what appears - its the player who really decides.

Returning to the original question I'd put a destroy waypoint on the jet and hope for the best .... that is certainly your best bet.  If you make the schmuck who has to shoot it down the group leader that probably helps.

If you make destroying the jet an objective then its up to the player to make sure he does it.   Assuming you give him sufficient info on the jet's flight plan etc then it's up to him HOW he does it.    If it's not an objective then it's up to the player whether he wants to bother or not.