Another trigger question

[snak]

Thanks for reading this and helping

 

I would like to make an enemy vehicle appear after some other vehicles have been destroyed. At that point I would JTAC to be able to see it and provide target coordinates. Any idea?

[nomdeplume]

To make the vehicle appear:

 

1. Create a new group with the vehicle in it at the location you want it to appear. If you want it to move, create the appropriate waypoints. If you want it to be stationary, then no additional waypoints are needed.
   
2. Set the "start time" in the first waypoint of this group to a time well after the mission starts, that won't be reached naturally (I usually use 9 days after the mission start time; the time is in the format hh mm ss dd).
   

Use the triggers dialog to create a new trigger with the condition(s) "group dead" and/or "unit dead", tied to the appropriate units or groups you want the player to kill. The action for this trigger will be "group activate", tied to the group you created in step 1 above.

 

Creating the unit should be sufficient for a JTAC who has visibility of the unit to be able to detect it. Alternatively, you could use a trigger action on your JTAC unit to direct an attack on that particular unit, and trigger that action at the same time as you activate the group.

 

Do you already have the JTAC functioning in the mission? Getting it to work how you want it to can be quite tricky, so if you haven't already done that I'd suggest doing that first: place the target unit and your JTAC unit, and make sure it can provide the tasking you want. Once you've got that working, delaying the activation of the target unit is easy.

[snak]

thats a great explanation, thanks, the first time i did it it worked. I was almost right but got the condition wrong

I have 2 other questions

 

I managed to get AFAC - predator working as jtac but cant get an apc hmmwv to work when I call him he says nothing. he has line of site

This is what i put

 

EPLRS(true) -a

FAC

set callsign ("axeman 1")

set frequency (131)

invisible(true)

 

My second question is can you stop the afac from call details until you ask

[nomdeplume]

Is the FAC task a "Perform task" one or an "enroute task"? If it's "Perform task" then the processing of the commands stops until the command is completed. Which means, the callsign and frequency would not be set. So, I'd try moving those options up, i.e. assign the group a callsign and frequency before asking it to provide FAC services.

 

I don't understand the second part, "can you stop the afac from call details until you ask".

[snak]

Thanks i got the fac working