How To Make A Follow Me Jeep?

I searched for this but did not find a solution... I thought I'd seen something on it some time ago.

 

How to make a "Follow Me" jeep on the tarmac, such that when an aircraft taxis up behind it, the jeep will then move off along the taxi route to the runway, and if the aircraft stops following then the jeep will stop, until the jet starts to move forward again?

 

WC

Best I could think of quickly. Nothing fancy with spawning the follow me it's just sitting there. The Start/Stop Zone can be adjusted, it's set to 50.

Could also despawn it when you hit the active with another zone etc...

Follow_Me.miz

THIS mission was broken by an update but still can be used as an example for how the follow me vehicle has been used. The vehicle is named "follow"

Thanks guys.

 

I'll take a look at these examples.

 

Meanwhile, the Follow Me was simply implemented with a regular zone and Group AI ON.

 

WC

i haven't looked at the shared missions but i would presume you could create a moving zone and attach it to the jeep unit. The jeep Group AI would trigger ON when your AC hits ramp / spawns is etc. Then it would follow waypoints. and once your AC enters the moving zone, it would command you to follow it. if you fall behind (out of moving zone) then it will scold you and stop (GROUP AI off) ... using a switched condition it should continue its waypoints once you enter the moving zone again.

Yes...

 

I was thinking Advanced Waypoint Actions for the jeep of Hold and Hold -x.

 

This Group AI Off was news to me recently. I thought that was for things like extending and rotating a unit's radar, not for making a vehicle start and stop along its waypoints.

 

But another concern is that the mission that needed the Follow Me jeep has multiple AI a/c that are also taking off at about the same time. I can't have the jeep blocking the taxiway and preventing those a/c from taking off, while that jeep is waiting for the Client to follow it. If the Client were to pull out from behind the jeep and take another route, the jeep would sit there. I suppose *any* a/c could trigger the jeep to continue on, though. But that would mess up the Follow Me messaging to the Client.

 

WC

I tried it first with the AI On/Off actions, but the hummer kept going so I must have been doing something wrong with the trigger or it doesn't support starting/stopping the unit.

The way I wound up doing it was with an initial waypoint Hold until the AC enters the moving zone, then used 2 more continuous triggers, one for Group Hold when out of zone, and Group Resume when in the zone.

 

Not sure of the one I posted had it or not but I triggered to remove the unit when the aircraft got to the runway so it wouldn't be blocking anything.

On a related note, I set up one where it activates the hummer at the end of the runway on the taxiway when landing and will take you back to a parking spot.

Still learning the mission editor obviously but it was fun working on it.