Object adapt to terrain

[PhonicStudios]

Hi all, i've got a problem.
I'm making a hostage rescue mission with alot of infantry inside the building (75), for the building I used MAP Editorupgrade (EU) mod so I have access to all objects in the editor, worked great, when i (manually) created 9 soldiers, i stored the rest of the coords (66 left) and so I wanted to test it with a friend, unfortunately he cannot join because he also requires the map editor upgrade mod, but I don't want people to download my mod, yet I want to keep the building, so instead of keeping that building, i replaced it with something small like a can, and then used this line: bld="Land_A_BuildingWIP" createvehicle (getposasl this);bld setdir (getdir this);, Now that I tested again, the building is there, but its straight. it didnt adapt to the terrain it was on, which was a small sort of hill, so the infantry were badly misplaced, and therefor i can say goodbye to my 75 manually made coords inside the building, I really hope that the only issue is the rotating/adapting of the building to the terrain and not coords.
so is there anyway i can create an object that adapts to the terrain it is put on or maybe another way of using this MAP EU mod while other people are not required to download it.
please help.

Thanks in advance, Martin

[Rydygier]

If I understood correctly the problem - you can try perhaps something like:

bld setVectorUP (surfaceNormal [(getPosATL bld) select 0,(getPosATL bld) select 1]); 

[PhonicStudios]

Haha, yeah.. i kinda explained this issue the wrong way, what i meant is that my object is not aligned to the ground its should be placed on, instead its just horizontally sunk into the ground. Let me test your suggestion.
edit: error; missing ) is what i get, i'll try to solve it myself, but any help'd be appreciated.
edit2: i just realized, this mission is made on arma 2, not OA, surfacenormal seems to be introduced in OA 1.60, i got OA though.. this mission is on Arma 2, due to my friends not having OA.

[F2k Sel]

You can use bld setVectorUP [0,0,0]; you will need to adjust the numbers to find the angle which can take a while as they're not really x,y,z.

You could use the pitch bank function which will make it a little easier

[object, pitch, bank]

 [bld,20,-2] call BIS_fnc_setPitchBank; 

You may need to place the function module on the map and if it still doesn't work try it from a trigger.

[Bospor]

this is what I use:

this setpos [getpos this select 0, getpos this select 1,((getpos this select 2) + 1)]; this setVectorUp [0,0,+1]

[Rydygier]

edit2: i just realized, this mission is made on arma 2, not OA, surfacenormal seems to be introduced in OA 1.60, i got OA though.. this mission is on Arma 2, due to my friends not having OA.

If you have OA, then you can also in OA use this:

diag_log format ["%1",(surfaceNormal [(getPosATL bld) select 0,(getPosATL bld) select 1])]; 

Now you have stored in yours RPT needed vectorUp values, so you can use for yours friends just this:

bld setVectorUp [val1,val2,val3]; 

where val1, 2 and 3 are these stored values. This give you same result as my first code.

[F2k Sel]

I just got chance to try surfaceNormal and it's really help full thanks Rydygier I'd missed that command completely.

The only problem I had was it wouldn't work until I realised I was changing the direction of the object after setting the vector undoing what the command was doing.

[PhonicStudios]

If you have OA, then you can also in OA use this:

diag_log format ["%1",(surfaceNormal [(getPosATL bld) select 0,(getPosATL bld) select 1])]; 

Now you have stored in yours RPT needed vectorUp values, so you can use for yours friends just this:

bld setVectorUp [val1,val2,val3]; 

where val1, 2 and 3 are these stored values. This give you same result as my first code.

i dont get where to put the first line, i made this mission on arma 2, going to play it on arma 2... what do i have to do?

[Rydygier]

If you have OA, like you said, launch yours game in CO mode (A2 + OA), open in editor yours mission, where you have building already placed, where should be, adapted to the surface, name it "bld", and add first line to yours init.sqf or init field of any object on map. Effects you will find in yours RPT file (copy these values somewhere perhaps in some other txt file). Exit game, and launch it again, this time in A2 only mode, in which you, as I pressume, make mission for yours friends. Here use second line and use values stored earlier.

[neokika]

If you have OA, like you said, launch yours game in CO mode (A2 + OA), open in editor yours mission, where you have building already placed, where should be, adapted to the surface, name it "bld", and add first line to yours init.sqf or init field of any object on map. Effects you will find in yours RPT file (copy these values somewhere perhaps in some other txt file). Exit game, and launch it again, this time in A2 only mode, in which you, as I pressume, make mission for yours friends. Here use second line and use values stored earlier.

Hi,

I thought setPos did just that? Setting the object pitch/bank depending on terrain.
Instead, setPosATL/setPosASL are quite (significantly) faster cause they ignore terrain elevation etc.