CTLD & Formation

[Ironwulf]

Hi

 

The CTLD script is quite powerful and over the last few days I have been making good use of it. Well done, Ciribob!

 

I note however that all troops unloaded appear to be in a line formation. Is there a way to make them change formation once they arrive at a wpZone?... as arriving in a nice straight line makes them good machine gun fodder ;)

 

I was thinking about modifying the script myself but thought I would ask here in case there is a feature/configurable. I have missed.

 

Specifically for the mission I am doing, I am deploying enemy troops from a helo, so its all AI, and no human tactical commander or anything like that.

 

Side note: In the course of making this mission I did also find an issue with loading troops into a particular (AI) helicopter type - it would only load up to ctld.numberOfTroops irrespective of the actual capacity of the chopper, if that was specified in ctld.unitLoadLimits.

 

In function ctld.loadTroops, I changed the code

 

   --number doesnt apply to vehicles
   if _numberOrTemplate == nil  or (type(_numberOrTemplate) ~= "table" and type(_numberOrTemplate) ~= "number")  then
       _numberOrTemplate = ctld.numberOfTroops
   end 

to

 

   --number doesnt apply to vehicles
   if _numberOrTemplate == nil  or (type(_numberOrTemplate) ~= "table" and type(_numberOrTemplate) ~= "number")  then
      _numberOrTemplate = ctld.getTransportLimit(_heli:getTypeName())
   end

Which then allowed the relevant type-specific overrides in ctld.unitLoadLimits to work. This was important to my mission where the AI operated both Mi-8 Hip and CH-47 transport aircraft.

 

But I digress... any help on the formation issue, would be much appreciated!

 

Leigh

[Pikey]

Somewhere in CTLD is the 'template' for infantry spawns. Formation is an entry at the GROUP level. If you can find the infantry template (maybe do a find on "Formation") then you should be able to swap it out for another one.