Laying position for gun

[jaksa]

Hi lads
Is it possible to force You or AI to do this:
if soldier get in hands specific weapon, imediately go prone, and use it only in lying position?
I was asking similar thread some time ago, but...
I would like to make a light portable mortar, usable for AI, as a main weapon, and one can't fire mortar, while running

[THobson]

I know of no way to detect which weapon a guy has active - and I have tried hard to find out.  If you are okay with him going prone as soon as he picks up the weapon then try something like:

Trigger condition
"M16" in weapons unitname

Trigger Activation
unitname setUnitPos "Down"

[jaksa]

The idea is to create portable mortar - very useful and powerful support weapon on platoon level (platoon artilery ). I thing, it schould be operated by AI, so player could play more "spectacular" role. In a defence is no problem - static object. But in attack, must be easily movable. As i know, there is 3 ways:

Made in rpg class, and
1. Change the anim for rpg with the special one for mortar. The best effect, but incompatybile with any rpg any more Acceptable for early ww2 times, but this weapon is used in present as well.
2. Leave the rpg anim. Effect will be awefull (wepon on a ground, and hands up), but it will work properly (i hope so) and with all stuff. Maybe in OFP 2...

And 3rd:
Create/delete object- in my opinion not good way.

What do you think about it? Do we need such addon, or no? If yes, how to do it?

[Tyger]

Well, if the loon who's carrying the mortar has only the mortar in his weaponry, then you could use a simple script to detect what you're looking for:

Code: [Select]

goto "Init"

#Loop
? (_man hasWeapon "My_Mortar") && (speed _man > 1): goto "SwitchPos"
~1
goto "Loop"

#SwitchPos
_man switchMove "NameOfLayingDownAnim"
_man setUnitPos "DOWN"
_man doStop true
goto "Loop"

#Init
_man = _this select 0
goto "Loop"
Or something like that.

[jaksa]

Thanks a lot!
I'll try it in next few days.
One more question: Can AI open fire, when behaviour is set on "careless" (or whatever) or engine has change it to "combat" before? How to detect what behaviour is set up?

[macguba]

behaviour unit

Operand types:
unit: Object
Type of returned value:
String
Description:
Behaviour mode of given unit ("CARELESS","SAFE","AWARE","COMBAT","STEALTH")

Example:
behaviour player