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call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« on: 04 Feb 2003, 15:46:06 »
How do you call 3 a-10s that will come in and give airsupport? They could come in and take out some tanks or so. ???

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #1 on: 04 Feb 2003, 16:21:15 »
I recomend that you use a radio trigger and on activation you camcreate flying A10

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #2 on: 04 Feb 2003, 18:37:50 »
 :-[whats the command and where do you use and how do you do it?

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #3 on: 04 Feb 2003, 18:56:54 »
OK, lets simplify things a bit.    First, create a group of A10s well away from the area of the mission.     Make sure their special field is set to "flying".    

Now give them a Hold waypoint near where they are inserted.   Depending on what kind of airstrike you want, set a Seek and Destroy WP or Destroy WPs on the targets.   Lastly, give them a Hold WP somewhere far away, which they can go to when their job is finished.

Now make 2 triggers.     Set the first one up for when you want the radio message to appear - say when the player gets to a certain area.    

on activation:  1 setRadioMessage "A10s Weapons Free"

You may want to add some chatter between you and the pilot at this stage, use the sidechat command.

Now the second trigger.    

activation:   Radio Alpha
type switch

Syncro it with the A10s first hold WP.

So what happens is this.     The A10s just circle around their hold wp.    The player gets into the correct area and the radio option appears.  (make sure you tell him he can order air support)    When the player uses the radio the A10s are "switched" into their next WP (Seek and Destroy) so in they come.  

And that's it.     Make it work like that before you look into the camcreate command.   It's  good because it helps the game run faster - you don't have the A10s going all the time.

(Check my syntax in the Command Reference in the Ed Depot.)

Hope that all makes sense :)







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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #4 on: 04 Feb 2003, 19:00:55 »
Big thx! I'll try that and see if it works.
Can I add you on icq mcguba? :)

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #5 on: 04 Feb 2003, 19:05:15 »
What?! You stole my line!  ;D

I do recomend that you learn yourself camcreate though, itÂ's of vital importance.

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #6 on: 04 Feb 2003, 20:13:26 »
lol I'm very flattered  :) but I don't really use ICQ .... anyway I'm here most days.

The real Armstrong, you should read Johan Gustafsson's scripting tutorial, if you haven't already.    Ed Depot - Tutorials - References.    I think Devilchaser's guide has some scripting stuff too.    If you study those you will rapidly become a scripting guru and I'll be asking you questions.      When I was learning I found the unofficial command reference guide quite helpful too.     Wellk done on getting your script to work, btw.  Glad I was able to help.

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #7 on: 04 Feb 2003, 20:26:23 »
Ohhh! ThatÂ's what reference means! IÂ've never checked that section cause I donÂ't know what references means ::) :-[

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #8 on: 04 Feb 2003, 20:30:31 »
Yippie! I have impressed on macuba:

I am from Sweden and Johan Gustavsson is from sweden too.
I know a guy called Johan (Carlsson).
Macuba likes Gutavssons script tortorial.

Tadaa! IÂ'm the best!

( ;D)

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #9 on: 04 Feb 2003, 21:03:30 »
Hahaha im from sweden to or partly..
I didn't get it to work and when I inserted the 1 msgs thing the trigger got some error messages when i hit the ok button... :-\
Help plz!

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #10 on: 04 Feb 2003, 21:33:21 »
When I got to the Advancing chapter I skipped cause it seem to be nothin important, and then there were camera scripting, and I know how to do that.

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #11 on: 05 Feb 2003, 01:15:44 »
 :'(  I'm not from Sweden ......

but at least I've been there  :)

(but only Stockholm)



Tell us the problem more specifically, Commando.   If you get an error when you hit ok it usually means that OFP can't make sense of what you have written.    
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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #12 on: 05 Feb 2003, 08:06:34 »
Stockholm = Shitholm. If yer gonna visit a swedish city it have to be Malmö.

Does this counts as spam?

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Re:call for 3 a-10s to do a airstrike
« Reply #13 on: 05 Feb 2003, 15:00:16 »
It's getting pretty damn close, laddie ;D

Nah you're ok. But lets not get too far off topic, huh? ::)