AI Shipping Trigger??

[tmansteve]

I have search the forum with no luck but hope to find an answer to my problem.

I have 3 cargo ships in port with weapons on board that will make a run for open water when Part of my Group enter a Trigger Zone. I have tried so many ways with no luck. I have tried everything but they just sit there.

The only things that work are Late Activation visible and non.

AI group activate, On etc. Adding Flags, nothing seems to work. Any pointers would be great as calculating time can be a chore.

Cheers

[razo+r]

Upload your mission so we can see if you made a mistake and where the mistake is. 

[jonsky7]

15 minutes ago, tmansteve said:

I have search the forum with no luck but hope to find an answer to my problem.

I have 3 cargo ships in port with weapons on board that will make a run for open water when Part of my Group enter a Trigger Zone. I have tried so many ways with no luck. I have tried everything but they just sit there.

The only things that work are Late Activation visible and non.

AI group activate, On etc. Adding Flags, nothing seems to work. Any pointers would be great as calculating time can be a chore.

Cheers

Do the ships move without setting up any flags etc, just with standard waypoints?

[tmansteve]

Hi Jonsky7

Yes, off they go. And when i set late activation they start up.

Could it be a speed setting, but I think I tried that one.

Razo+r, I only started making it so deleted it in frustration. Will try again and if the problem is still there, I will upload it.

I have a couple of ideas and will report back.

Edited August 25, 2024 by tmansteve

[jonsky7]

So you've set them to Late activation, and visible before activation
then you're trigger would be

Once -- Unit enters zone (player)  --  Group Activate and Group AI on? (I think you need both)

 

or at least that worked for me

Edited August 25, 2024 by jonsky7

[tmansteve]

OK Jonsky7

I will try that right now. Hope that works

 

Many thanks

[AKA_Clutter]

@tmansteve

 

Here is a simple mission that I think does what you want it to do.  

 

Hope it helps

Simple Test of Ship Activation.miz

[tmansteve]

Didn't get a chance to do any testing yesterday but will later today. Thanks for the mission AKA Clutter, that will be 1st on my list to look at.

I will report back.

Thanks for all the help

[tmansteve]

Loaded DCS after latest update and big problems with ME. So until they get on and fix it, I can't create any missions to test. Quite a few others with same problem. Hope it gets fixed quickly. 

[razo+r]

2 minutes ago, tmansteve said:

Loaded DCS after latest update and big problems with ME. So until they get on and fix it, I can't create any missions to test. Quite a few others with same problem. Hope it gets fixed quickly. 

What kind of problems are you talking about? 

[tmansteve]

I have nothing in the ME, just blue. I tried MT but it doesn't work well for me with stuttering and laggy. I will use it if I have to.

Edited August 26, 2024 by tmansteve

[AKA_Clutter]

Weird.  I assume you tried loading it several times? Did you try running a repair?

[tmansteve]

AKA, got it to go at last. Probably my mistake. I forgot to add tick in Late Activation. Thanks for this. I had to try it in MT but it's too stuttery and loading time is slow. Well, at least we got it to work.

Now all I need is a fix for ST. I ran a repair but no go.

 

Cheers

[razo+r]

1 minute ago, tmansteve said:

AKA, got it to go at last. Probably my mistake. I forgot to add tick in Late Activation. Thanks for this. I had to try it in MT but it's too stuttery and loading time is slow. Well, at least we got it to work.

Now all I need is a fix for ST. I ran a repair but no go.

 

Cheers

ST is slowly but surely put out of service so you will eventually have to go with MT. 

[tmansteve]

We will have to see how it goes.

[AKA_Clutter]

IIRC when they first came out with MT, there were issues with some older cpus with low core count.  Also, iirc I think the recommendation was to limit the number of cores to use with MT.

I initially had a i7 8700k when it first came and it worked fi e(point of reference).

Might be worth some research.

[tmansteve]

The shipping trigger mission that AKA_Clutter gave me works a treat as long as you only have 1 group of ships. I have tried to activate a 2nd group with no success. They just start off at mission start. I've tried adding a 2nd trigger zone for the other group of ships but no go.

Is it only for 1 group or is there another way like Hold and late activation?

Cheers

[AKA_Clutter]

Shouldn't be.  I'll try when I get home later today.

[AKA_Clutter]

12 hours ago, tmansteve said:

The shipping trigger mission that AKA_Clutter gave me works a treat as long as you only have 1 group of ships. I have tried to activate a 2nd group with no success. They just start off at mission start. I've tried adding a 2nd trigger zone for the other group of ships but no go.

Is it only for 1 group or is there another way like Hold and late activation?

Cheers

If the ship you added start at the start of the mission then it is probably not set to Late Activation.  (Screen shot 1 below)>

I added a second group of 1 ship to the first trigger (second screen shot) and then added a third ship with a second set of logic (See 3rd screen shot)>

I've also uploaded an update mission with three ships.  I also added a visual (Green circle) to the f10 map so you can see when the F-16 flies into the activation trigger zone.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

Simple Test of Ship Activation_02.miz

[tmansteve]

Many thanks for your reply AKA_Clutter. I realised my mistake last night and too knackered to reply. This has been a life saver for my missions. I will save the images so I won't forget and the mission as well.

All my stuff got deleted by accident from my tablet and its a job getting all the mods and files.

Cheers for your help

 

Edited September 23, 2024 by tmansteve