Making a single bullet appear

[OFP_f3d3]

[savedbygrace]

The beauty of Hollywood is not limited to the big screen.
Simply set the damage of the President to 1 and he'll drop instantly. You then play a distant shot to symbolize a muzzle blast. No one will see the sniper before he strikes anyways and this will give you complete control over when the kill occurs.

[RKurtzDmitriyev]

For what it's worth, it may be possible to "catch" a bullet using a fired eventhandler after a shooter is forced to fire (using the fire command), then use setPos and setVelocity to send the bullet on a perfect trajectory toward the target.

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;call this as a .sqf FUNCTION in a fired eventhandler from a sniper

_bullet = nearestObject [_this select 0, _this select 4];

_bullet setpos location;
_bullet setVelocity [blah, blah, blah];

One will have to use trigonometry and other higher math (or lots of trial and error) to determine correct values for location and blah blah blah, however.

SBG's suggestion is probably the way to go.

PS. Congratulations on making missions depot staff.

[Walter_E_Kurtz]

The issue with using setDammage 1 is that all body parts take on their wounded texture, which isn't the (Hollywood) calling card of a masterful assassin.

You could try RKurtz's enhanced sniper method. It would look great in slo-mo with views of the sniper firing.

My suggestion would be to spawn a bullet and hit the target with it. The following should give a puff of blood on impact whereupon the victim falls dead, but I wouldn't rely 100% on it - check half a second later that the target is dead and, if not, then use setDammage on him:

A very simple scenario: the target is on the ground, facing South and is named patsy. The script is as follows

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_bullet = "BulletSniper" camCreate [ (getPos patsy select 0), (getPos patsy select 1) - 1 , 1.2 ]
_bullet setVelocity [ 0 , 200 , 0]