respawn late activated units...

[ENO]

Eh guys- quick question...

 

I'm setting up a target range so guys can practice on SAMs / AAA etc and units are activated via the F10 radio menu (I hope). I have it set up (I think) so that when guys go into the radio menu and select a certain radio item, values are established for certain flags and the aircraft they've chosen appears.

 

I'm curious... if you "respawn" a unit that has been destroyed- will it respawn in a fashion that would be available again as late activated by radio menu? Ie: Does it respawn as the late activated unit or respawn as the live version of the unit that just got destroyed?

 

 

Maybe a clone group would be better- with the task delay being a group dead of some sort?

 

 

mist.scheduleFunction(mist.cloneGroup, {'groupName', true})

 

I suppose I can just use the group dead condition for the respawn script to happen... and if I use "switched condition" I could probably have that just keep reloading as desired?

Edited July 6, 2014 by ENO

[ENO]

Okay so I went and tried to take charge of my own question and while muddling with the ME through TV9 I tried late activating a unit after the respawn script dialogue and then blew up the unit. Nothing happened. Well, no respawn anyway.

 

( if not Group.getByName('1') then

mist.respawnGroup('1', true)

end

 

Strangely I'm not getting any errors in my log either- usually I have something pop up.

 

I can only see the map- so the unit may actually have respawned but I can't see it- but I don't think so.

 

Anyway- if anyone has some insights I'd appreciate it.

[eekz]

I did it like that.

I have a unit with late activation.

Something happens in a mission and the unit has been activated and destroyed.

Then I do:

 

switched > if group '1' dead > flag x in on

switched > time since flag x = y (y should be more than 1 sec*) > 'if not Group.getByName('1') then mist.respawnGroup('1', true) end' + flag x is off + flag y is on

switched > time since flag y = 1 > activate group '1' + flag y off

 

*- I've noticed that there should be 'time since flag' more than 1 second (3-4 should be fine) to make the group respawned by the script correctly in 100% of cases. I used time since flag 1 second and many times I've got my group not spawned. I use 10 sec to make sure.

Edited July 7, 2014 by eekz

[Xeno426]

I did it like that.

I have a unit with late activation.

Something happens in a mission and the unit has been activated and destroyed.

Then I do:

 

switched > if group '1' dead > flag x in on

switched > time since flag x = y (y should be more than 1 sec*) > 'if not Group.getByName('1') then mist.respawnGroup('1', true) end' + flag x is off + flag y is on

switched > time since flag y = 1 > activate group '1' + flag y off

 

*- I've noticed that there should be 'time since flag' more than 1 second (3-4 should be fine) to make the group respawned by the script correctly in 100% of cases. I used time since flag 1 second and many times I've got my group not spawned. I use 10 sec to make sure.

So I assume you're using an external script and not just the ingame triggers. How would I go about doing this? I'm just trying to get four different air groups to cycle through respawning.

[danielzambaux]

On 7/11/2014 at 1:50 AM, Xeno426 said:

So I assume you're using an external script and not just the ingame triggers. How would I go about doing this? I'm just trying to get four different air groups to cycle through respawning.

You would have too place down four separate groups, and set a trigger for once each groups dead a second spawns in, with the first activated at mission start and the second, third etc on late activation, ps, he is using MIST