Hey folks,

So I have a blackhawk flying around my map (with the player in it), and I have it fly somewhere and then I tell it to unload all the passengers using heli notify("unload") .

Everything works fine except that I can't get the damn heli to stabilize. So the rope (and the ai, but they autocorrect when they move) is never aligned with the ground. Sometimes, the rope is too high off the ground, and sometimes, the rope is clipping with the ground. Take not this is without changing anything in the script! I just restart the level and wait until the heli unloads and I get a different result.

Anyone have experience with this? I'm sure there has to be some command (or set of commands) that tell helis to stop moving.

y dont u have the heli stop via radiant, theres a way. Ive used it on my map but its for ai's im pretty sure it will work for you as well. In your node where the heli is suppose to stop give it these key values

key: script_stopnode
Value: 1

key: script_unload
value: both

as for your height issue, try that and see if the heli auto does the height thing. if not i guess u have to adjust it. on script_unload the value of "both" is the one found in the _heliname.gsc if you look in them they have other ways of unloading. If you use the other term found in there _heliname.gsc im pretty sure they would unload another way. but i havent tested that out. _heliname.gsc is a sub for w/e ur helis name is.

edited on Sep. 13, 2009 01:09 pm by voidsource

Oh wow, that's awesome! It even auto-adjusts the height!

Thanks!

glad to see that worked. and are you doing th is for a new sp map :D :?

Yeah, lots of helicopter sequences! I'm still working on a proof-of-concept right now, which is why trying to learn all the helicopter functionality.

make 2 heli's crash with each other and make the player be in one of them and he has to jump out before it crashes, but player has to jump to a roof or something. XD at would be so cool. I already have something plan for my next map. hopefully it will be smaller than the one imma bout to release.