Recurring Drone

[H60MTI]

Does anyone know of a way to have a recurring drone? With the QF-4E now in the game, I'm trying to think of a way to have that drone just go from waypoint to waypoint and if it gets shot down, it just basically respawns at WP0 and keeps going. Can use it to test out different planes with different missiles, radar techniques etc...I know I can probably have 13 different drone all with triggers to activate the next on death but there has to be an easier way. I also don't want immortal because I want to see it go down in flames as well Lol

[Tobias00723]

I believe you might wanna see -> https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/MIST_respawnGroup
with a bit of code you should be able to achieve this, so you dont need to have 100 times of the same group encase the previous one dies
that function should produce infinitely of the same group 

[d0ppler]

No need for MIST. Just add a repetetive trigger -> Do Script:

local function spawnPlane(plane, speedKTS, altitudeFT)
    local startXCoord = -289193  -- start X pos CCS format
    local startYCoord = 587118   -- start Y pos CCS format
    local endXCoord = -290020  -- endpos X pos CCS format
    local endYCoord = 682460   -- endpos Y pos CCS format
    if not id then id = 0 end
    
    if altitudeFT < 0 then altitudeFT = 1000 end
    local altitudeMTR = altitudeFT / 3.28

    local speedMS = speedKTS / 1.94
    id = id + 1
    theDrone = "SpawnedDrone-" .. id
    local groupData = {
        ["units"] = {
            [1] = {
                ["type"] = plane, 
                ["y"] = startYCoord,
                ["x"] = startXCoord,
                ["name"] = theDrone, 
            },
        },
        ["y"] = startYCoord,
        ["x"] = startXCoord,
        ["name"] = "SpawnedDroneGroup-" .. id, 
        ["route"] = {
            ["points"] = {
            [1] = {
                ["alt"] = altitudeMTR,
                ["type"] = "Turning Point",
                ["ETA"] = 0,
                ["alt_type"] = "BARO",
                ["formation_template"] = "",
                ["y"] = startYCoord,
                ["x"] = startXCoord,
                ["ETA_locked"] = true,
                ["speed"] = speedMS, -- meter pr second
                ["action"] = "line abreast",
                ["task"] = {
                ["id"] = "ComboTask",
                ["params"] = {
                    ["tasks"] = {},
                },
                },
                ["speed_locked"] = true,
            },
            [2] = {
                ["alt"] = altitudeMTR,
                ["type"] = "Turning Point",
                ["ETA"] = 200,
                ["alt_type"] = "BARO",
                ["formation_template"] = "",
                ["y"] = endYCoord,
                ["x"] = endXCoord,
                ["ETA_locked"] = false,
                ["speed"] = speedMS,
                ["action"] = "line abreast",
                ["task"] = {
                ["id"] = "ComboTask",
                ["params"] = {
                    ["tasks"] = {},
                },
                },
                ["speed_locked"] = true,
            },
            },
        },
        }

   
    coalition.addGroup(country.id.RUSSIA, Group.Category.AIRPLANE, groupData)
end


local plane = "QF-4E"
local speedKTS = 500
local altitudeFT = 10000

if not theDrone then theDrone = "foobar" end

local check = Unit.getByName(theDrone)
if not check then
    spawnPlane(plane, speedKTS, altitudeFT)
end

Play with the X,Y coords (native CCS format)

 

This will spawn a new QF-4E every time it dies. You can ofcourse change the unit type from QF-4E to something else, the speed and the altitude

Edited Tuesday at 03:25 AM by d0ppler

[kira_mikamy]

after you had create the drone in mission editor and named it as example "DRONE_TEMPLATE" (the GROUP name) you can use MOOSE and declare

just remember that moose ad a #001 at the end of the group name after the spawn, this function will check every 5 minutes (300seconds) if a group named SPAWNED_DRONE#001 exist.
if exist, nothing happen.
if not exist (destroyed or not yet spawned) it will spawn one. the drone will spawn in the place where its placed in missione editor and follow his waypoint every time

 

 

function IS_DRONE_ALIVE()

if not Group.getByName("SPAWNED_DRONE#001") then
DRONE_SPAWN = SPAWN:NewWithAlias("DRONE_TEMPLATE", "SPAWNED_DRONE"):Spawn()
end
end

local timer_DRONE = TIMER:New(IS_DRONE_ALIVE):Start(300, 300)

Edited yesterday at 12:07 AM by kira_mikamy