Spawn AI but stop them from taking off

[Cathnan]

Hi,

I want some AI planes (not statics) to spawn on mission start. But even if they have no waypoints, they taxi to the runway and take off. Is there a way to have them spawn and simply stay on the ramp until a trigger is activated or something? I know there is late activation, but I want them to actually spawn on mission start and just stand there. And not have them spawn in later.

[toutenglisse]

@Cathnan you can use this option :

UNCONTROLLED. When setting an AI group to a “Takeoff from Ramp” (cold start) waypoint, the Uncontrolled check box can be used to have the AI group appear at their starting location on the ramp, but not begin the spool up sequence until initiated by an AI TASK trigger as set by the START Command in the Triggered Actions of the group. In this case, the group aircraft will appear in the mission in parked configuration and remain as such until triggered to “come alive”.

[Nealius]

Watch out for the slight bug where adding waypoints to an uncontrolled group deselects the uncontrolled option. That has caught me a number of times.

[Cathnan]

This sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. But am I understanding that correctly? I have to add a condition to, for example to autogenerated waypoint actions. Like I set time is more 08:10 to the CAP Waypoint action, and it'll come alive at 08:10 local mission time. Is that correct?

I found it. I didn't realize triggered actions are their own tab. Never payed attention to that before. Thank you

Edited July 31, 2022 by Cathnan

[Mistermann]

On 7/31/2022 at 9:35 AM, toutenglisse said:

UNCONTROLLED. When setting an AI group to a “Takeoff from Ramp” (cold start) waypoint, the Uncontrolled check box can be used to have the AI group appear at their starting location on the ramp, but not begin the spool up sequence until initiated by an AI TASK trigger as set by the START Command in the Triggered Actions of the group. In this case, the group aircraft will appear in the mission in parked configuration and remain as such until triggered to “come alive”.

@toutenglisse - I hereby nominate you for DCS Forum All-Star award!  Sir, you are absolutely one of our most helpful members.  Thanks for being awesome!  I was just looking for how to do this very task in the ME.  Thanks to this thread, I have it working in 5 minutes instead of the hours it would have taken to figure out the UNCONTROLLED check-box.

[toutenglisse]

Thanks @Mistermann