Trigger zone on top of a static building thinks it's on the ground UNDER the building.

[Elphaba]

as title says.

This sucks for helo landing on rooves of buildings. 
 

[shagrat]

vor 5 Stunden schrieb Elphaba:

as title says.

This sucks for helo landing on rooves of buildings. 
 

A circular trigger zone is a cylinder from the ground to infinity. This is because it is a flight(!) simulator and zones check for aircraft in Zone, not at a specific height.

You need to check height AGL and speed to determine if a helicopter has landed(!)  AND if he is in the zone to determine he is in the correct place. 

[skypickle]

I wonder if i have a trigger to spawn a unit at that zone puts it inside the building? And invulnerable?

[Elphaba]

3 hours ago, Presidium said:

This is not a bug. A trigger zone it's an area. It's not in the ground or in the air, it's a zone that could be used for several things, ie: detecting when something is inside/outside...etc

If you want to detect if an helicopter lands on top of a building, you have to use the trigger zone and at least two additional conditions:

"UNIT SPEED LOWER THAN 1"
"UNIT AGLS ALTITUDE IS LOWER THAN..." (height of the building)

What you are doing with this is checking that the helo is inside of the zone, at 0 speed, and that is lower than the height of the building (well, lower than the roof would be impossible, so you will have to add a couple of meters to the height or the condition will not work).

Hope that helps

Unit height? No I need it at GROUP or even COALITION level. Not creating checks and ors for dozens and dozens of units. 

[Elphaba]

Besides, how do I even get the height of a roof of a building in DCS?

16 hours ago, shagrat said:

A circular trigger zone is a cylinder from the ground to infinity. This is because it is a flight(!) simulator and zones check for aircraft in Zone, not at a specific height.

You need to check height AGL and speed to determine if a helicopter has landed(!)  AND if he is in the zone to determine he is in the correct place. 

Can't do that when I don't know the height of the building. There's no way to find that out in DCS ME

[Flappie]

10 hours ago, Elphaba said:

Besides, how do I even get the height of a roof of a building in DCS?

I did that already.

1. Place a unit on top of the building (A), and another one next to the building (B).
2. Run your mission.
3. Press F7 to read each unit's altitude. The building height equals A minus B.

[Wrecking Crew]

On 12/10/2022 at 7:35 AM, Elphaba said:

Besides, how do I even get the height of a roof of a building in DCS?

Can't do that when I don't know the height of the building. There's no way to find that out in DCS ME

 

On 12/9/2022 at 5:30 PM, Elphaba said:

Unit height? No I need it at GROUP or even COALITION level. Not creating checks and ors for dozens and dozens of units. 

Hi Elphaba.  Check out MIST for DCS.  It offers many options for checking zones including Group & Coalition.

https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/Mission_Scripting_Tools_Documentation