Captives Options

[lyaoz]

Hello to all,
I am constructing a prision that is being held by the US. is it possible to have a group of OpFor captives in an area that will not be shot by the guards, but when they have left a certain area, the prision compound for example, they will be shot...
the only way i can keep opfor troops near blufor ones at the moment is by grouping them to a blufor troop and then setting their probability of appearance to zero, if there is any easy way to do these two things, could you please let me know...

If I can get these right i might post it with an "escape" mission thrown in, so im hoping i can sort this out...

Cheers,
Lyaoz

[D@V£]

The setcaptive command exists for this very reason!

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This setcaptive true

Will make a soldier a "captive", they won't be engaged by enemies. While

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This setcaptive false

Will make them a valid target again.

My advice for what you're trying to do, would be to group each captive (name them something like C1, C2, C3 etc.) to their own trigger. On the init field of each captive, put this:

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Removeallweapons this; This setcaptive true

then set the trigger to: this vehicle, not present
On the "on activation" field, put this:

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C1 setcaptive false

(Replace C1 with the name of unit grouped to the trigger)

[lyaoz]

ahhh, yes,
and when they leave the trigger area they are targeted, i have tried this and very much appreciate your help, but there is one slight problem, about 5 seconds after i start the preveiw of the mission the captives will all run around madly, is there any way i can stop them from moving?

thanks,
Lyaoz

[D@V£]

Try

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this setbehaviour "careless"

If that doesn't work, try simply disabling the movement AI:

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This disableAI "move"

You can re-enable it like this:

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This enableAI "move"

[lyaoz]

yeah, works like a charm

Thanks again,
Lyaoz