AI despawning

[Capn kamikaze]

I'm having some trouble with a multiplayer mission I'm making, I want to have a flight of player controlled Su-25T's, but if that slot is not filled at the start of a mission, a replacement AI flight is spawned, but if it is filled, the replacement flight doesn't spawn.

 

I can get the AI to spawn if the player flight isn't there, but if it is there it still spawns, is there any way to prevent that, or despawn it, I've tried setting a user flag based on if the player flight is in a zone of size 5,000,000 and then using the group deactivate command, but that doesn't seem to work, they still spawn/don't despawn.

 

Anyone know how to do this?

Edited March 5, 2019 by Cap'n kamikaze

[Pac-Man]

I'm having some trouble with a multiplayer mission I'm making, I want to have a flight of player controlled Su-25T's, but if that slot is not filled at the start of a mission, a replacement AI flight is spawned, but if it is filled, the replacement flight doesn't spawn.

 

I can get the AI to spawn if the player flight isn't there, but if it is there it still spawns, is there any way to prevent that, or despawn it, I've tried setting a user flag based on if the player flight is in a zone of size 5,000,000 and then using the group deactivate command, but that doesn't seem to work, they still spawn/don't despawn.

 

Anyone know how to do this?

 

I would try something like this. I'll get you better details later tonight if no one has responded

 

Once ---- Time is more 60 (provide time to join plane) ----Group Activate (AI)

-----------Time is less 120 (So AI doesnt spawn if player is shot down)

-----------Unit is Dead (Player aircraft)

 

So, if the time the server has been active is longer than 60 seconds and no one has joined the player aircraft, the AI will spawn. Also, as I mentioned above, by doing less than 120, it won't spawn later if your wingman has been lost in combat.

 

Then to get rid of it if a player joins the aircraft later on:

 

Once ----- Unit is Alive (Player aircraft) -------Group Deactivate(AI)

 

That should solve your problem. However, bare in mind that once the AI is Deactivated,

[Capn kamikaze]

Thanks, I'll give that a go and see if it works :)

[Delta99]

If you want to get into scripting Moose has functionality for this called AI_BALANCER