Reinforcements are arriving, sir...

[General BlackDragon]

Try using that StartAudio3d, one of those plays the audio attached to a handle. That one should make it localized to the dropship so its only heard nearby.

try: StartAudio3D("filename.wav", dropshiphandle, AUDIO_CAT_ENGINE);

[Red Spot]

My original idea for this involved multile phases.

1. You see the dropship fly in at a altitude of x, basically using APC class, so it can fly over hills
2. The dropship lands
3. The dropship gets replaced by a building, that has the deploy animation
a. My original idea for this was making 30+ odf and XSIs that the dll loops through. The only difference between the XSIs is the position of the doors and the collision. Basically simulating animated collision boxes for the opening doors.
4. While the doors are still opening, the payload is spawned along with MITs mines to hold them in place. Just like the first ISDF mission.
5. Once the doors fully open, the units drive out of the dropship
6. After a few seconds, to ensure all units are out, the doors close back up
7. The dropship gets replaced, and the "APC" dropship undeploys
8. It flies away leaving the map

I doubt this can be done seemlessly. Would be nice if we had an odf flag that says, OnlyDeployOnFlatTerrain = 0/1. Basically only allowing the unit to deploy on flat terrain. Also using a flag DeployInCenterOfGrid = 0/1. Basically meaning the unit will deploy as if placed in the editor with the alignment option enabled. I guess this can be worked around by giving the building OwnsTerrain=0, or ReplacesTerrain=0, whatever the jammer uses.

I have a somewhat similar approach, though I use a few stagepoints where the dll selects the one closest to the commander.
Honestly said, I never got it working though and moved on to things that soaked up less time.
Still really love the idea of having true apc's in game.

[Red Devil]

per commando's wishlist, the next item will be an apc that flies in and drops off reinforcements on your head so that you can see your doom coming; the current one just drops off a rec and escorts. currently working on item 2.

[Commando]

I think the APC would be better suited for attacking remote pools. Kind of like brooders did in FleshStorm.

[Red Devil]

i know, just kidding ;-p

[TheJamsh]

Love this, always wanted to do more with the dropships. Always remember that iconic first mission

Is this for stock or G66 or something else?

[Red Devil]

something else, but will probably add it to fe, g66, and other mods as a shell option.

[AI_Unit]

Another reason I need to study C++! I want to do stuff like that. Problem I need help with is, how do you get the units to spawn in the dropship and not on it? I'm having that trouble.

[General BlackDragon]

Vector or matrix positions?

[Red Devil]

the landed dropships are replaced with dropships that are buildings after they land and "timing is everything" applies.

[TheJamsh]

I always struggled to line up the anims/audio with the old school BZ2 DLL Scriptor, to be fair, I don't think the sounds ever lined up in stock campaign either :p

[Red Devil]

got distracted by stock SP and FE SP fixes, so i'm working on this again.

i'll post a zip when i'm finished.

[Nielk1]

My 1.5 year old LUA Mission Script DLL is being worked on again and is functioning. It has a lot of issues though. I'd love it if someone could find some LUA or C coders who don't mind helping out.

I can port stuff like this thing here into LUA to test the bindings and see what changes are needed.

[Red Devil]

sounds good; just got back from trip, so need a little time first.