Can't Get AI To Orbit

[feefifofum]

In my mission and yours the orbit is a racetrack pattern. That means the AI will orbit in a racetrack (oblong) pattern BETWEEN waypoint 1 and waypoint 2.

 

If the flight has an additional waypoint after the waypoint at which you add the orbit action, racetrack will automatically be selected. If you want a circular orbit exactly at the waypoint, edit the advanced waypoint action and select "circle" from the drop down menu.

[VAF [136] Striker]

OK, I get it now. In the old editor version the race track was a fixed distance for the most part and you only needed one waypoint for the orbit (unless I was using it wrong or not understanding the complete function). What you are saying is that now you can have the racetrack go between two waypoints.

 

So if you set the racetrack to go north and south between waypoint 1 and 2 and put them 5 miles apart the orbit will actually be between those points?

 

And are you also saying that you can orient the racetrack so if I put the waypoints oriented east to west it will honor that? And also does the distance extend or contract based on those distances?

Edited April 19, 2018 by 75th-VFS-Striker

[feefifofum]

They will orbit exactly along the distance/heading between the two waypoints. Been that way for as long as I've been building missions. :dunno:

 

This is how I set up, for example, a 25 mile East-West tanker track on our training server.

Edited April 20, 2018 by feefifofum

[VAF [136] Striker]

Was that changed? The only reason I'm asking is because in the past I didn't need to have two waypoints.

[feefifofum]

You can have a circular orbit at a single waypoint, but a racetrack has required two for the past 3 years at least. Can't speak to how it worked before then I hopped on board around 1.1/1.2

[VAF [136] Striker]

Thanks, I've been doing it wrong for years now and didn't realize it.

[Pikey]

@75th-VFS-Striker

No need to feel lonely, I just realised I had also been doing this wrong forever. And thanks to the thread discussion I learned something new!