making helicopters land in ME

[santiagojamesaea]

Good morning,

i've been remembering an excelent misson that appeared in ROF where you had to land your biplane in a field and "rescue" a downed pilot.I've been wondering if this would be possible to "copy" to the DCS list of games.My idea is to fly "escort" in a BS to a "rescue" helicopter who will land next to a "downed" helicopter after i have destroyed a series of AAA sites/vehicles.The "rescue"helicopter will stay on the ground for approx 10 seconds (picking up the pilot)and then fly home with me escorting.

As i cannot make head or toe at the moment of "triggers"in the ME can anyone guide me to a thread or a you tube video on triggers.Or if this mission has been done already to where it's been placed!

I do apologise for mentioning another flight simulator.

 

Thank you and happy new year!

[Jona33]

Create a rescue helicopter (Mi-8) and give it waypoints, make sure one is a decent way from the pickup point and another is the pickup point. On a waypoint some distance away go advanced waypoint actions, perform task, orbit. Put him in a slow circle.

 

Then at the waypoint next to the pickup go advanced waypoint actions, perform task, land, stop condition, Duration 10 seconds. Move the triangle that appears on the map to the desired landing point.

 

Next you need a triggered action, go to the triggered actions menu for the pickup helicopter, add, perform command, switch waypoint, and then select the waypoint after the orbit waypoint.

 

Now create a trigger, once-->Group dead "AA group." (make as many of these as you need-->AI task "Switch waypoint."

 

What will happen is the rescue helicopter will reach a waypoint some distance from the target and orbit. When you have killed the AA groups he will go to the next waypoint and follow those until he reaches the land waypoint. There he will land, wait ten seconds and leave.

 

I'll make an example mission. Here you go, a after two minutes the vulcan guarding the wreckage will explode on it's own and the Mi-8 should land.

Example.miz

Edited January 3, 2013 by Jona33

[santiagojamesaea]

BRILLIANT

thank you!! i'll be trying my hand with this!Did i understand that you will actualy do this too,as they say a picture paints a thousand words!?If you do here can i download it?

[santiagojamesaea]

that was a silly question as i hadn't seen the link!

can i just check,you havn't put any triggers in have you?

[Jona33]

I have, there's no other way. They're quite self-explanatory for the basic things. It literally forms a sentence, once this group is dead make the AI switch waypoint is what that one says. (There's another one there you won't need in you're mission. It's called ignore this.)

[MasterZelgadis]

Why not use the new "land" task for the helicopters?