Sample: huey troop pickup/dropoff via radio command

[Deck]

159th_Falcon:

 

I didn't make this to be a general purpose solution; it's just a fun mission that shows the possibilities for the Huey.

 

I haven't tested any of these things, but I believe you can move and resize the trigger zones, as long as you don't change their names. You can probably change the Hueys to Russian, as long as you don't change the unit names (HueyPilot1, HueyPilot2, etc).

 

Dropping different units absolutely requires modifying the script.

[EagleEye]

Nice to see you again Deck! Any chance that you already working on new things?

(Can`t thank you enough, we still playing youre original mission and modified)

[159th_Falcon]

Ok, thank's for the help Deck.

 

Ill start whit trying RUS huey's and new locations for the trigger zone's

If that all works i might give the code another look.

 

(could it be as simple as renaming all M4 entries to AK47 and all M249 to RPG?)

[Mazinger]

Congratulations, very good mission

thank you very much for sharing

[Newspeedy]

just flown this mission with 2 others.

 

all 4 area cleared, droped all the troops back to Fob, landed at home farp.

but we didn't get a mission complete message? did we do something wrong or isn't this edited in the mission?

 

for the rest we loved the script, so great work on that.. :thumbup:

[Fuby]

I think DECK just threw this together to show what is possible as a sample mission.. and it caught like fire... You can always adjust to make a mission ending with triggers..

 

Now I am waiting for ths sample mission by DECK that just uses a zone and capable for both red and blue sides to take off pickup drop off and evac or move as needed without insurgent interference.. with count of boots on the ground for each side..

 

I guess just one giant zone could have us picking up and droping off anyplace we please..I actually tried to adjust the script for both sides..but got lost in the process..sigh..

 

Im sure he wouldn't mind throwing a script like that together for us... if we say "Please"...

 

PLEASE...

[Newspeedy]

being playing and editing your mission for a few days now, loved it :D

 

just one question if you could add something...

 

could you add that our backdoors need to be open to be able to pick or drop troops?

 

so rear doors closed = no troops can be picket or dropped.

rear doors open = troops can be dropped or picket up.

[sorcer3r]

Hi Deck,

 

thanks for your script :)

 

I have no idea about lua stuff.

 

But I would like to drop troops if my huey is about for example 3 feet over the ground.

Is it possible to do this?

 

Do I have do change something there (?):

 

function UnitInZone(unit, zone)
   if unit:inAir() then
       return false

appreciate any help.. ;)

[pakfront]

Good guess. :

 

function UnitInZone(unit, zone)
   local unitpos = unit:getPoint()
   -- note that getLand uses y for East West instead of z
   -- IIRC height will be in meters, 
   -- when landed, Huey height is about 1.5 units.
   local height = unitpos.y - land.getHeight({x = unitpos.x, y = unitpos.z})

   if unit:inAir() and height > 3 then
       return false
   end
   
   local triggerZone = trigger.misc.getZone(zone.ZoneName)
   local group = unit:getGroup()
   local groupid = group:getID()
   local xDiff = unitpos.x - triggerZone.point.x
   local yDiff = unitpos.z - triggerZone.point.z
   local dist = math.sqrt(xDiff * xDiff + yDiff * yDiff)
   
   if dist > triggerZone.radius then
       return false
   end
   
   return true
end

as an aside, I did not find any docs on unit:getPoint(). Is it documented or is it an addon from a custom library? Seems really useful shortcut for getPosition. Or is this only available here because the unit is passed from an event?

Edited June 8, 2013 by pakfront
fixed example to account for huey min height of 1.5

[sorcer3r]

Good guess. I did not actually run this myself, but it should be something like:

[...]

 

Thanks for your quick answer :thumbup:

 

Unfortunatley it didnt work for me. (Also if I am on the ground it says that I am not in a droppoff/pickupzone)

But maybe I did something wrong and someone else can test it?

[Midnight]

This really is good script, thing I want to edit is the smoke, where can I turn it off in the script?

 

Thanks

Mid

[pakfront]

sorcer3r, I will try to test this myself this weekend, but meanwhile, try changing to 1 to a much larger number 10, 100, or 1000, and see if that works. Also, try printing the value of height to the log with env.info() and see if the value is reasonable.

 

\edit : yes, min height for the huey when landed is 1.5, so testing against 1 was always false. I fixed the example.

Edited June 8, 2013 by pakfront

[RIPTIDE]

I think DECK just threw this together to show what is possible as a sample mission.. and it caught like fire... You can always adjust to make a mission ending with triggers..

 

Now I am waiting for ths sample mission by DECK that just uses a zone and capable for both red and blue sides to take off pickup drop off and evac or move as needed without insurgent interference.. with count of boots on the ground for each side..

 

I guess just one giant zone could have us picking up and droping off anyplace we please..I actually tried to adjust the script for both sides..but got lost in the process..sigh..

 

Im sure he wouldn't mind throwing a script like that together for us... if we say "Please"...

 

PLEASE...

Same. Really look forward to putting something like this together for blue and red side.

[sorcer3r]

\edit : yes, min height for the huey when landed is 1.5, so testing against 1 was always false. I fixed the example.

 

Thanks a lot. I'll try it asap. :)

[Paganus]

What about adding weight to the aircraft when loading troops and removing it when un-loading?

[jib]

I played this mission last night until 3.00am!

it is such a cool little training mission I love it.

 

One thing that bugs me though is that my troops rarely fire on the insurgents and often just get slaughtered without firing a shot. I can see in the .lua that they are set to Excellent, or we sure this is "sticking" becasue to me they seem very Average.

I have tried turning the insurgents down to average which help a little but they still seem to outrange my troops sensor range.

 

There should be a link to this thread stickied in the main Huey thread, people are missing out on all the fun!

[sorcer3r]

What about adding weight to the aircraft when loading troops and removing it when un-loading?

 

+1

 

Also some improvements would be that you can pickup troops again after you already dropped them somewhere.

(maybe this would be an other script where every huey has its own 11 soldiers and can drop and pick up them as often the pilot wants.)

 

Would it be also possible to set the droppoffzones as moving zones (sticked to the hueys) and then they could dropp them off everywhere? :D

[BIGNEWY]

I am writing a mission at the moment incorporating this script ( as well as others ) thanks for sharing it. great work

[Paganus]

set internal cargo ()

 

The number in the () is in kg

 

What would 11 troopers and gear weigh in kg?

[shelt]

What would 11 troopers and gear weigh in kg?

 

Figuring about 200 pound average per troop would be 998 kg

[jib]

I finally completed this mission and killed all of the insurgents, although I did load up my chopper with weapons (I think it is realistic that a Huey would be armed when making an assault drop on a town) I used the weapons only to soften up some of the groups. I made about 5 drops of troops, sometimes the best tactic seemed to be to drop them right onto the smoke and they would jump out and cause havoc (the ai seemed to be distracted by a flanking group of soldiers)

 

I still have trouble with troops not engaging on green mode but staying still on red mode and generally dying a lot without firing back.

[daribouca]

+1

 

Also some improvements would be that you can pickup troops again after you already dropped them somewhere.

(maybe this would be an other script where every huey has its own 11 soldiers and can drop and pick up them as often the pilot wants.)

 

Would it be also possible to set the droppoffzones as moving zones (sticked to the hueys) and then they could dropp them off everywhere? :D

 

 

I did just that =)

 

See this thread: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=107946

[sorcer3r]

I finally completed this mission and killed all of the insurgents, although I did load up my chopper with weapons (I think it is realistic that a Huey would be armed when making an assault drop on a town) ...

 

If the Huey carry 11 soldiers the Huey can really carry minigun and rockets too?

 

 

@ daribouca

thanks :)

Edited June 12, 2013 by sorcer3r

[TimeKilla]

If the Huey carry 11 soldiers the Huey can really carry minigun and rockets too?

 

 

@ daribouca

thanks :)

 

Good point. :thumbup:

[EagleEye]

If the Huey carry 11 soldiers the Huey can really carry minigun and rockets too?

@ daribouca

thanks :)

He doesn`t wrote that he had troops AND guns/rockets loaded at the same time.;) Aren`t there also gunship slots in the mission(could be that I have flown a modified version though)?

I´m not sure, is weight added to the chopper (via trigger) when loading troops?