new artillery strike

[minimilo]

im thinking of a new idea for an artillery strike, but i need to know how 1 trigger can make 1 explosion, the size of the explosion im not bothered about, so it could be a hand grenade or a satchel charge, but i would prefer a smaller one, any help is appreciated, cheers

[Blanco]

Create the explosion a few meters underground.

[minimilo]

i cud do that, but dont no how, can u tell me, thnx

[Mud_Spike]

"ammotype" camCreate <position>

I.e.,
"laserguidedbomb" camCreate GetMarkerPos "mrk_whoa"

[Mud_Spike]

I suggest you get one of the existing arty scripts (theres alot of them) and see how they did it, then take it from there.

[Dubieman]

Not sure if you want arty (lots of scripts for that) or one explosion, cause I made a script for that. Specify the object, ammo, height and there you go.

[minimilo]

all i want is to have an explosion at a trigger, then copy the trigger (ctrl+c) then paste it (ctrl+v) then put a min and max time, so i can have a basic but easy artillery strike

[Dubieman]

Its up to you but there are two way to do it.

1.) the trigger way, I've never used that before
bomb1= "laserguidebomb" camcreate (getpos marker1)

2.) Use a script like mine ( I hate advertsing my own script )

And use the triggers to call it multiple times and just use markers or something. Like a whole bunch of triggers calling the script and since mine is generic, you just put in the target, ammotype(prolly shell125), height (maybe some shells hit ground, others airburst?) and there you go but you'd need a bunch of "targets" like markers or something.

But its up to you unless someone has something else..

[minimilo]

ill try them, but im sure ive heard that its possible to create a 'thrown' hand greande sum where, in fact ill av a quick look

[Mud_Spike]

Thats the effect of "ammotype" camCreate <pos>, it creates the explosion for a certain ammo at defined position.
(As well as creates any unit/object/whatnot available in the game)

[minimilo]

could u tell me wot to write in what box please, and maybe some variables in italics, im sorry, im just no gud at this crap

[Dubieman]

Well what are you doing?

Many triggers or something?

[Trasher]

you can make a script called like BOOM.sqs and write in it

_AmmoType = "Heat120"
_Unit = _this select 0

_Explosion = GetPos _Unit

_cx = _Explosion select 0
_cy = _Explosion select 1
_cz = _Explosion select 2

_tempObj = _AmmoType camCreate[_cx, _cy, _cz]
~0.01
_tempobj = objNull

exit

and in your trigger just write this exec "BOOM.sqs";

that should do the trick