adding Smoke Shells

[ukloadtoad]

Help... I've checked the forums, but none of the stuff on there helped.  I'm trying to add Red smokeshells to a pilot.  I've put the 'addweapon "smokeshellred"' & 'addmagazine "smokeshellred"' in the INIT field, but when I try the mission the smoke shells show up with 0.  I've tried adding the mag first so it loads automatically, but that doesn't help either.  
Does anyone have any advice?

[ACF]

Apologies if you can already suck eggs but:

this AddWeapon "SmokeShellRed"

. . . would be the correct syntax.  The 'this' is the unit whose init field you're putting the command in.  If the unit was named something you could use:

something AddWeapon "SmokeShellRed"

. . . as an init command or from anywhere else.

What you need to do first is remove an existing mag to make room for the smoke grenade.  Don't know what a pilot's loadout is off the top of my head, but to swap a frag for smoke you'd use:

this RemoveMagazine "HandGrenade"; this AddWeapon "SmokeShellRed"

You don't need to add a weapon as grenades are fired from a Throw.

Don't just rely on the forums, have a dig around in the Editor's Depot for scripting tutorials - it's how we all start. And grab yourself a copy of the BIS/Official Command Reference to start see what other things you can do.

[General Barron]

Correction:

this RemoveMagazine "HandGrenade"; this AddWeapon "SmokeShellRed"

Should be:

this RemoveMagazine "HandGrenade"; this AddMagazine "SmokeShellRed"

Grenades/smoke grenades/mines/satchel charges/etc are kinda unique when you give them to units. All units already have the "weapon" that use these items, so you just have to add them in like magazines.