Flares and Parachutes

[lilmat]

Hello All
Just wondering the best way of attaching a flare/smokeshell
to an empty parachute. I'm still a bit behind in this type
of scripting. I know you need to create a loop. But I have
had no luck! The flare drops to earth on it's own!
thanks in advance

[Rodd]

LCD has created a simple parachute script:
lcdpara.sqs-

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; Parachute script by LCD

_para = _this select 0
_veh = _this select 1

#loop
_parapos= getpos _para;
_parapos= [_parapos select 0, _parapos select 1, (_parapos select 2) - 2.00]
_veh setpos _parapos
? getdammage _para > 0 : _para setdammage 0
? getpos _para select 2 < 2.70 : exit
~0.001
goto "loop"
 I don't know how to get it to work with a flare (it just won't show up) but I can get it to work with a smokeshell, so maybe you can figure out the rest and tell me  .
 I add an empty parachute called mypara and do this

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myflare = "SmokeShellRed" camCreate getpos mypara
[mypara, myflare] exec "lcdpara.sqs"

[LCD]

  didnt know i caled it LCDpara  

nd not dat i had da

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; Parachute script by LCD
in da start of it  

but if u have 2 use my name do it in caps  ;D

LCD OUT

[Rodd]

ups, sorry. I mean LCD wrote a script that can be used.

The ; Parachute script by LCD is probably just the result of some corruption during transmission, don't pay attention to that.  ;D

[LCD]

dis damned transmision erors  

should report em 2 a mod  ;D

LCD OUT

[lilmat]

Hey! guys thanks for that
I used a similar script for the flare, but it just fell to earth
by itself??WHen trying to attach the flare, I did notice something strange, at nite the flare looked like a bad 2dimentional image with a blue circle around it. And in the day I was able to see a line being created from the para position to where the flare was falling!!  Weird!!!
Anyway I will give this a go and then I can add the smiley
face to the post.
Cheers!!