camcreate smoke/flare?

[Muddy Waters]

i want a smoke shell ot be on the ground where my airborne troops land, to make it look like pathfinders have been there.

how do i do this? do i camcreate it? ive been looking at the comref thing, but i must be doing something wrong, HELP!

[Nemesis6]

place a game logic  at the place you want the smokeshell to be at. Now, name the game logic something... let's call it GL1, so when you want the smoke to appear, do this -

smoke = "smokeshell" createVehicle (getpos GL1)

[Muddy Waters]

thanks mate, i forgot to name the gamelogic and the "setpos" command, thats what i did wrong. thanks

[Muddy Waters]

how about flares then? i tried putting flare in the int. field but i didnt work, do i need to give it a height or something?

[C0LDSt33L]

Flares have to be above a certain height and they also with between dusk and dawn to shine.

[Muddy Waters]

where do i put in the flares hieght in the trigger activation field? can you give me an example? many thanks

[C0LDSt33L]

I have no idea. If I were you I'd just have a bloke on the ground and put in his init field:

removeallweapons this; this addmagazine "Flare"; this addweapon "M16GrenadeLauncher"

Then in your trigger have:

flaredude fire ["M203Muzzle","Flare"]

Then you can setpos him to [0,0,0] with another trigger

This should make him fire the flare then disappear before you are close enough to see him


I suppose you could create the flare in the area using a script like:

_pointx = getpos GL1 select 0
_pointy = getpos GL1 select 1
_pointz = getpos GL1 select 2

then create the flare at position [_pointx,_pointy,_pointz+200]

Thats probably closer to what you're using now

[macguba]

flare1 = "flare" camCreate [getpos GL1 select 0, getpos GL1 select 1, 50]

Not guaranteed.   Change the 50 to whatever works.

[Muddy Waters]

ok, cheers mate!