units & light

[Pingo]

Hi there..

Well.

If i have a unit "mg" and it's dark, the unit turns on his lights.. how can i get the unit to turn off the light.. have the same prob with uaz's.. ?!

[JackDVS]

You can put his behavior on stealth

[Pingo]

Yeah..

tryed that.. does'nt work here.. ?!

[Mattheus]

Hi...

For a car or a vehicle, JackDVS is right. Setting behaviour on stealth works fine.

For a machinegun post. It's a bit different. I've used the command action "light off". The problem is that the machine gun automatically turns on its light just after switched it off.
So I don't know how to solve this problem.

Look at the test mission. I've made a stupid script wich, with a smart loop, turns off the ligth of the mg. It works, but I think there's a more easy way to do it. It's not a good solution, because a such loop take too much memory.

Ask to advanced scripters...

[Pingo]

As you said JackDVS with the car it was right...

But it's the mg witch is the prob...  

I'll try to look at the test mission..

Thx m8

[GI-YO]

If you set the gun to COMBAT then the light will be off.

GI-YO

[Pingo]

Well it's does'nt work.. ?!


Im getting a AI to moveingunner on the mg.. I've tryed this out..


this moveingunner mg1; this setbehaviour "stealth";

this moveingunner mg1; this setbehaviour "combat";

[Grizzlie]

I have been fighting with it for some time.
And in the end i have finished with writting a small add-on - config only, where i have created new MG, based on M2, but with removed whole class Reflectors.
Now i have 2 types of MG - with and without lights

[Mr.Peanut]

MG lights are a sharp stabbing bleeding pain in the arse.  If you are going for an element of surprise, your only choice is not to man the MG until players are within close range.

[456820]

how about "mg lightoff" then make a loop so it will stay off but the loop must bee something with a small gap in

[macguba]

Somebody solved this perennial tricky one some time ago ... I think it was a fast looping script but I'm not sure.     Use the forum search function and keep beating it over the head until you find it.