Crouching.

[Pathy]

I understand its extremely difficult to force a unit to go into the crouch position. Am i right in thinking there is no command like there is for going prone or standing up.

Is there any other way you can make AI units crouch...and script it into units, but not including the player....maybe playmove, but, then doesnt that have some bad side effects, and what'd the command be anyway?

And i only want the units to be in this "crouch whilst stopped" mode when the player commands it, so the player can switch his team into a normal mode when its not appropriate, IE, you want them on bellies crawling....

[Zombie]

well, unitname switchmove "crouch" will make the unit crouch, I have never seen any issues with this command.  Getting them to crouch via radio commands is an exercise in frustration I have discovered tho

[Hawkins]

Hmm... Well you can make a unit crouch and stay crouched this way:

loon setbehaviour "combat"; loon setunitpos "up"; loon switchmove "combattocrouch"

If I remember right, that was the way to do it. You could make a script which checks the units behaviour and acts accordingly. Shouldn't be too hard.

Hawkins

[m21man]

And the crouching units will be able to target and fire at enemies?

[Pathy]

Cheers guys, M21man, looks like my idea could be possible  

Oh, would this then allow them to run, and if so, when they stopped moving would they go back to crouch, or would we have to execute the command again? or would we have to use a command to allow them to move again or something....

[m21man]

I'm worried that switchmoving them might prevent them from targeting and firing at enemies.

[Pathy]

Thats what i meant by any bad side effects to it. ;D

[General Barron]

Yes, units can still target and fire from being put in crouch.

[Pathy]

Excellant.