Shoot the damn vehicle!

[Dubieman]

In my mission when the player gets in a car (jeep, jeep w/MG, 5ton truck) and drives around, none of my enemy forces will shoot him or the vehicle.

Its been a big problem in beta testing.  
Is there a decent fix or some little trick? :-\

[DBR_ONIX]

Err, you've not setcaptived it or anything stupid like that?  
If you stop infront of an enemy, do they shoot you? it might be they can't hit a moving target.. :hmm:
- Ben

[Dubieman]

Me not stupid that like...

Nope, I did not setcaptive these vehicles. I'm pretty sure they can shoot a moving target, I was playtesting it myself and I took the jeep and went driving around for fun and got my tires blown out by M16s and then I jumped out and a fat 203 round killed me. ;D

I dunno why they are being so crappy though. The vehicels placed there have no scripts or triggers applied to them. They are just empty and placed there....
Nothing special.  

Maybe the in formation, flying, in cargo, none affects them....

thanks for answering

[Dubieman]

Sorry to bring this back from the second page but I really need something resolved here. Its a major glitch in my mission. You can drive around or that's what happened in two beta test, and not get shot at.

I really do not know what's going on here.

Could it be solved by a script that checks if the player is in any one of the three vehicles and if he is, the leaders of a few groups dofire him? :-\

[macguba]

Start the empty vehicles as enemy vehicles and delete the driver.   Might help.

[Dubieman]

Enemy vehicles?  Could you give a little explanation?

I'd like to keep the west vehicles there as its a west camp.
Like movindriver or something?

 

[macguba]

Currently you are placing Empty vehicles in the Mission Editor, right?    What I'm suggesting is that instead of empty you place vehicles of the appropriate side so that they get shot at in the right way.     Name each vehicle, and in its init field write something like this

deleteVehicle truck1D

[Dubieman]

Okay but the problem with that is that this a west camp with appropiate west vehicles and the east guy can steal them if he wants.

I wish your idea would work but I don't like the look of URALs in a west camp, plus they may be shot to sh!t before you get there and why would destroyed vehicles be there?  

Maybe a few more LAW guys or something.....

[NoMaD]

greets.
dam im such a noob at editing i dunno if i should even suggest this.
Errr  how about inserting a triger placing truck in it (small activation area) and  using the not present  activation, to get the west units to target it?
as in westunits target Vehicle name?. dunno if thats possible just a thought.

[Dubieman]

dam im such a noob at editing i dunno if i should even suggest this.
Errr  how about inserting a triger placing truck in it (small activation area) and  using the not present  activation, to get the west units to target it?
as in westunits target Vehicle name?. dunno if thats possible just a thought

Oh my gawd I'm so daft!
That looks like exactly what I needed! Now just to get the names of the leaders/groups to dofire the trucks/cars...

thanks a bunch man. ;D

[Dubieman]

Well that put the wind out of my sails.  

I want to use Nomad's idea but I need an array of all west units or a simple command like "west dofire c1".
Then I could have a trigger for each car....

But the way I wanted to do it now is filled with holes. If that group or leader dies then its no use or the vehicle may already be out of the area...

Anyone else have a solution?
thanks