Why won't they fire?

[Jabani]

Alright, I've got a short firing squad movie, and the soldiers won't shoot at the civilian (with the dofire command). So I changed the civvy to a resistance militia with no weapons and set the soldiers to careless (so they wouldn't fire). Then in the script I set them to aware, but they won't take their weapons out. What gives with all this?

[Kaliyuga]

 Do this...  

make a group leader for those civs.. and make sure he's an enemy... when the mission starts.. all the civs in the group will think they are whatever side their commander is on ...

you can do one of three things with that group leader..

1) let him live
2) kill him with setdammage
3) use deletevehicle  ... or is it deleteunit ? ;D

[Wolfrug]

let me guess...to keep them from hitting the ground, you gave them a 'setunitpos "UP"' command? well, this has the unfortunate side effect of not allowing people (AI) to unsling their weapons, maybe because it's built into their code to hit the ground automatically...or something.

so, either let them stand with their weapons unslinged, and use the "setcaptive" command (info on how to use in comref), or somehow work it into the script to set their unitpos to "AUTO", let them unsling, and then do a "UP" again. Or somesuch.

right, g'luck. And happy new year

Wolfrug out.

[vulcan]

hmmmm

first set :  soldier dotarget civie

then either:  soldier dofire m16

or

soldier dofire civie   i forgot which

then just open the mission sqm file and switch the civilains side to "east"  

[Jabani]

Wolfrug you about have it. I'll try all this stuff- thanks all.