Multiple bomb drops

[FireflyPL]

Today, I ve been watching some videos and something came to my mind. Is there any addon (I dont have any knowlege of such) or is it possible to make multiple bombs drops from an aircraft? I would like to see some addon, where it would be possible to drop more than 1 bomb i very close period (like a second or so) and how to make it? Maybe some script would work for already made addons? Any ideas?

[Miles Teg]

There are ways you can simulate it by using the "camcreate" function that creates bombs next to an aircraft. I used this on an "ARC LIGHT" B-52 strike using an old B-52 addon.
I used a getpos script to put the B-52 at a fairly high altitude flying along a waypoint set to "careless" and with ammo set to empty. When the bomber hit a trigger the carpet bombing script would run. It actually worked fairly well except for the problem that I can't figure out how to camcreate the bombs about 3 meters below the bomber so that the plane doesn't collide with the bombs. So sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't without the bomber colliding into the bombs and blowing up. But when it works it looks fairly spectacular seeing lines of explosions.
If someone can help me with that collision problem I'll make a nice demo carpet bombing mission for people to use as a template and modify with whatever bomber they want.
This way aircraft won't do the usual dive bombing. Seeing a B-52 divebombing is interesting but not very realistic.

Chris G.
aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[FireflyPL]

Ok but then if I make this by camcreate command then will bombs fall stright down or would they have parabolic flightpath like when you drop them from aircraft?

Oh and one more thing Miles, why are you not putting any newer missions on your web site? I can see only very old missions without good looking addons. Please put on some even if you make them just for yourself (havnt found that Arc Light mission there)

[Grizzlie]

Maybe u can combine camcreate with setvelocity? It will be some recalculating to get proper data from "getdir" and "speed" of dropping plane but u will have initial data for setvelocity of bomb.

[FireflyPL]

Maybe u can combine camcreate with setvelocity? It will be some recalculating to get proper data from "getdir" and "speed" of dropping plane but u will have initial data for setvelocity of bomb.

Well yea but then there is another problem. If I make it with camcreate command then players wont be able to cal for CAS mission and randomly choose their target. So is there really no other way to do it? I ve seen it is possible on VBS but then it should be possible in OFP dont you think?

[Mr_Tea]

With the WGL mod it is possible to call for CAS via radio.

[FireflyPL]

With the WGL mod it is possible to call for CAS via radio.

Yes I m aware of it. But I would like to combine this things, multiple bombs drops and CAS, or rather being able to drop multiple bombs from aircaft at any mission and any target i want, even without such hard coding like triggers+camcreate

[Grizzlie]

Hmm...
And what about using evenhandlers?
For instance plane is dropping bomb, and u r creating some more ones? It should be "AI friendly".
It can be a little unrealistic (count bombs dropped by one plane), but u can remove some before flight (i hope so).
I&#39;m not scripter, so it is only "wishfull thinking" that it can work...

[BraTTy]

If the target is within the limits of the ammos range and you config the reload times,planes should drop multiple bombs.

The F4U addon did this,I set the reload time so AI wouldn&#39;t drop all their load.They also were wasting rockets.You surely can config your addon to drop multiple bombs as long as target is still within range

[FireflyPL]

Ok thanx mate for advice. I ll dl this F4U and see how it is done