Drop bomb script

[lanmancz]

Hello,

I'd like to know if its possible to make a script or trigger that will spawn bombs under a certain plane. I'm making this mustang intercept mission where player will have to takeoff and intercept "bombers" (An-26Bs) before they reach a trigger zone. When they do I want them to start bombing the zone. So far I only discovered that I can make a continuous action trigger with condition "unit bomber inside zone x" with action "explosion in zone x" but that's not very good because the explosion is still in one place - in the center of the trigger zone - this means I'd have to make a lot of small trigger zones in the path of each bomber to make it look as a carpet bombing. It would be much easier if there was a way to spawn bombs under the plane once it's in the one big trigger zone. Is it possible ?

 

edit : there is a "DO SCRIPT" action in the trigger action list - maybe it would be possible to write here a script for the bomber that would spawn bombs under it ?

 

edit2 : I tried creating a workaround - creating a moving zone, assigning it to the bomber unit and making the explosions in the center of this moving zone. The trouble is that the moving zone works only as a condition - the coordinates of the moving zone defined in the mission editor don't actually change - this means that the explosions are still static in the place where I put this moving zone in the editor.

 

So basically what would solve my problem is either creating this bomb droping script or making a script that would move the moving zone coordinates under the bomber. Third option is, as I mentioned before, to create dozens of small zones in the path of the bomber and make explosions in these but I don't really want to do this (too much work :)) - there must be a better solution. Any ideas are welcome.

Edited December 16, 2012 by lanmancz

[Speed]

Hello,

I'd like to know if its possible to make a script or trigger that will spawn bombs under a certain plane. I'm making this mustang intercept mission where player will have to takeoff and intercept "bombers" (An-26Bs) before they reach a trigger zone. When they do I want them to start bombing the zone. So far I only discovered that I can make a continuous action trigger with condition "unit bomber inside zone x" with action "explosion in zone x" but that's not very good because the explosion is still in one place - in the center of the trigger zone - this means I'd have to make a lot of small trigger zones in the path of each bomber to make it look as a carpet bombing. It would be much easier if there was a way to spawn bombs under the plane once it's in the one big trigger zone. Is it possible ?

 

edit : there is a "DO SCRIPT" action in the trigger action list - maybe it would be possible to write here a script for the bomber that would spawn bombs under it ?

 

 

Please see the simulator scripting engine guide http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/Simulator_Scripting_Engine_(DCS:_World_1.2.1)

 

There is no way to spawn bombs.

 

You can, however, create explosions where ever you want them in 3D space, see this:

 

edit2 : I tried creating a workaround - creating a moving zone, assigning it to the bomber unit and making the explosions in the center of this moving zone. The trouble is that the moving zone works only as a condition - the coordinates of the moving zone defined in the mission editor don't actually change - this means that the explosions are still static in the place where I put this moving zone in the editor.

 

So basically what would solve my problem is either creating this bomb droping script or making a script that would move the moving zone coordinates under the bomber. Third option is, as I mentioned before, to create dozens of small zones in the path of the bomber and make explosions in these but I don't really want to do this (too much work :)) - there must be a better solution. Any ideas are welcome.

 

You could use the scripting engine to generate explosions, true. See the Mist thread where I give an example.

 

There is another possibility that MIGHT work. You could get the CLSID of a full B-52 bomb bay by extracting a .miz file that contains a B-52 with a full bomb bay. Place that CLSID into the loadout slot of like, a Tu-95, from a different extracted .miz file. Rezip it back up, and now you have a bomb-carrying Tu-95. The Tu-95 is propellor driven, and you could just set its waypoint speeds to be fairly slow. However, in game, the Tu-95 is not allowed to carry bombs for some reason :huh:

 

Anyway, now you would have a bomb-carrying Tu-95, you can try to force it onto a bombing task with Controller.pushTask (see the scripting engine guide, part 2, where it tells about Controller objects and the AI task types).

 

There is a possibility it could crash the game, there is a possibility it just might do nothing, but there is also a possibility it might work. You can do some pretty unusual stuff with Controller objects, like force AI aircraft to shoot down friendly aircraft.

Edited December 16, 2012 by Speed

[lanmancz]

Cool, thanks for the tip - I'll check it out.