Random position and placing marker

[TERA_Forrest]

What I'm trying to do is have three different places that a hostage and his killers could be placed randomly.  When the player gets intel via "addaction" then a marker will be placed on the spot that the hostage is at.  How can I do this?

[macguba]

Create a marker at two locations and place the hostage at the third.   Make them type empty so that they are invisible.     Group (or is it Synchro?) the markers to the hostage, who will appear randomly at either his start position or one of the markers.

Create your little camp and guards anywhere.  Use setPos commands (relative to the hostage) to make them appear where the the hostage is.

When the marker is to appear on the map, setPos one of the markers  you have already used to the hostage's location and use setMarker commands to make it appear as you want.    (Set the text in the mission editor, it's invisible at the start so nobody can see it.)

[voodzia]

Group (or is it Synchro?) the markers to the hostage, who will appear randomly at either his start position or one of the markers.

It's group and it works great.

[CrashnBurn]

For anyone who has not grouped a marker to a unit: When you click the group button the markers disappear from view. It may be easiest to place the unit and marker next to each other, group them, then move them into position on the map. Otherwise you'll have to hunt for the invisible marker. Not hard to do on a mission in early stages of development, but things can get very crowded at later stages.

[456820]

what i do is put marker wherever you want it and the same with the unit and then press f6 so you can see the markers and put the cursorover it then press f2 and drag the line to the unit becuase you had the cursor in the right place it should still be

[TERA_Forrest]

works great, thanks