artillery script. in need of help

[sweguy96]

for you that have played the EW campaign/bonus mission, whatever, when you are flying into zelenogorsk to kill the general you can see artillery shells coming down without that it was me that called it, I have un-pbo it and found a gamelogic "symbol" (or what its called) and the name was "artillery" (without "") and I'm woundering how do I creat this script???


this is another good example of what i mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqB5oTAjPs

[cobra4v320]

Here is the artillery module. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Artillery_Module

[sweguy96]

but that page doesnt say me anything and what I want is the AI to fire on a secefic location and I'm NOT the one thats requesting the artillery

[kylania]

Actually, that page does tell you everything, including how to get AI to fire on a specific location even if you're not the one requesting it.

[Evil_Echo]

The documentation there does talk a lot about using ARTY with the SecOp module, which can confuse the new users of this. You don't have to use that for scripting artillery strikes, just build your batteries, and create your fire missions - as kylania mentioned.

There are some scripts to make this effort a bit easier floating around on this forum. Also I just released an addon to help in this very topic recently - ECHO fire director.

[sweguy96]

The documentation there does talk a lot about using ARTY with the SecOp module, which can confuse the new users of this. You don't have to use that for scripting artillery strikes, just build your batteries, and create your fire missions - as kylania mentioned.

There are some scripts to make this effort a bit easier floating around on this forum. Also I just released an addon to help in this very topic recently - ECHO fire director.

Ok thanks this will make it a lot easer for me b/c i'm a real noob at this

[kylania]

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=11755

[Evil_Echo]

Let me know about any thoughts or suggestions. Can't promise I can always help, but if you have a specific scenario in mind I might be able to give you step-by-step instructions.

[SteveJA360]

Ive played around with a lot of scripts, and although i cant say im a master im fairly used to simple scripts.

However this arty, AAHHH i have never been able to get working lol, when i say ive spent hours trying i mean hours. Ripping apart others scripts, going through the forums, thought the wiki. . . . only to end up with a great script that does'nt do what i need . All i am trying to do is:

Battery1
Select whatever ammo
Select 10 round salvo
Select dispertion
Target and fire at Target1

And il be happy

Also cheers for any help, i will be BFFE with anyone who can

[Evil_Echo]

How about this?

// Battery1 fires 10 rounds of HE at Target1, 15 mils of dispersion...
_results = [Battery1, getPosATL Target1, "HE", 10, 15.0] call ECHO_fnc_doFireMission;

ECHO_fnc_DoFireMission
 Description:
  Execute a fire mission if possible.
 Parameters:
   Battery - Artillery Module to fire.
   Position - Location ATL to fire at. [Pos3d]
   Ordnance Type - "HE", "SMOKE", "ILLUM", "WP", "SADARM", "LASER"
   Count - Number of rounds to fire. [Integer]
   Dispersion - Size of area to fire on, in milliradians.
 Returns:
  Status - status of mission.
   Values are.
     "good" - mission accepted and executed.
     "badammo" - battery cannot use this type of ordnance.
     "dead" - battery no longer functional.
     "busy" - battery busy with another mission.
     "range" - target not in the range or firing arc of this battery.