Targeting Civillians...

[keou]

Does anybody know of a way to make the enemy AI target Civillians?  Maybe something that can be done via a trigger?

[Kaliyuga]

either hack the mission.sqm and change their side to be an enemy ,

or..... group them with an squad leader from the opposing side.. and then either kill or deletevehicle the officer when the mission starts...

#2 will take over for the dead commander and him and everyone else in the group will think they are on the side of the commander .. whether this be east/west or resistance

[Iso_Marvel]

I have done like this (should works with triggerÂ's). LetÂ's say enemy AI is "Badguy" and civilian is "Dude".

Put to triggerÂ's init field: Badguy DoTarget Dude; Badguy DoFire Dude

OrderÂ's after ";" makeÂ's AI to kill civilian, if you like to make him real bad person.

This should do it even for any friendly unit   :beat:

[dmakatra]

I have done like this (should works with triggerÂ's). LetÂ's say enemy AI is "Badguy" and civilian is "Dude".

Put to triggerÂ's init field: Badguy DoTarget Dude; Badguy DoFire Dude

OrderÂ's after ";" makeÂ's AI to kill civilian, if you like to make him real bad person.

This should do it even for any friendly unit   :beat:

The problem with this is that is that you have to work and script and work and script and work really much too simulate a battlefield. I would have hacked the .sqm file as Kaliyuga says, but thatÂ's just because itÂ's must cooler to hack then to write in the init field ;D

[Iso_Marvel]

Yep, u gotta point Armstrong.

You can do it either way. ItÂ's all Â'bout what do you want from mission. If you hack .sqm file - enemy will kill any civilianÂ's who are hacked to opposite side, so thatÂ's why I write another example. My example workÂ's fine when you want only few civilian to die or you just want enemy to target (there is slight difference than shoot  ) civilian.

I agree that hacking mission file is way cooler ;D, but KaliÂ's example workÂ's only if you want massacre  :gunman:  :tomato:

[keou]

awesome.  thanks everyone.  i'll give it a go!