Units Sitting on Chairs and objects etc

[warpuppy]

Gents

Forgive of me for asking this question i have spent the last two weeks searching for this answer and looking up at opec site etc i have tried what has been suggested and to no avail does it work

Could someone please tell how di i get a unit to sit on a chiaor and to lean over a table, if any one could spare me a moment then that would be most appreciated thanks

[jackass888]

animations.. download the animation viewer and search for a ani that fits. then put in a persons init filed or elsewhere: dude switchmove "xxxxxxxx"

[warpuppy]

Thnaks for the response i have got the animation just that i cant get him to sit on the bloody chair lol!

[[SPA]LynxEye]

I think he wants to say you that you wont sit the soldier in the chair. Just you will 'simulate' it. 'Appearing' is not 'being'.

If your soldier is simulating the 'sit' movement... if you getting a chair, and putting it 'below' his 'kingbody'... with setPos... that chair will damage him till death. Soldier and chair will be 'crashing', as you 'ordered' the chair to be 'inside' the boundary of the soldier... you will be forcing to setPos, to kill your player, slowly or instantly, no idea.

If you getting OK that sit soldier in the real chair... just take us advice, and say us how was your main concept (i dont need the script, only the concept).

[JohnnyBoy]

I don't believe there are true smooth animations for sitting. However you can use vehicle cargo animations to place a sitting soldier on an object. The following code set this soldier shown in picture on a bench. I put this in a Talk waypoint on the soldier:

dostop this; this switchmove "Truck_Cargo02"; this setpos (bench modelToWorld [-.3,-.1,1.3]); this dowatch (this modelToWorld [0,100,3]);

The setpos command uses modelToWorld to place soldier in a position relative to an object. In this case a bench placed via editor (bench object available with addon EditorUpdate_v102). You have to experiment with the modelToWorld values until soldier sits in desired spot.

Also note that some objects (like the few chairs I tried, and barrels), don't seem to have enough surface for the sitting solder to stay on them. They either fall through, or slide off. But benches and ammoboxes work very well for sitting soldiers using cargo animations.

[[SPA]LynxEye]

Yeah, you got it! Nice pic!

[warpuppy]

Gentlemen

Thank you i finally got the bloke to sit on the ammo box it is a pity about the chairs though

had a bit of a laugh unitl i figured out that you had to call the ammo box "bench"

Anyway thank you all for the help

[JohnnyBoy]

Glad it helped. There are many cargo animations that work pretty well. Good to mix them up if sitting soldiers around for a cutscene.

Here's a few more good ones:

_dude switchmove "MH6_Cargo01"; -- weapon between legs, 02 good too.
_dude switchmove "MI17_Cargo02"; -- weapon between legs
_dude switchmove "Basic_Driver";
_dude switchmove "Truck_Cargo01"; -- good, hands in lap
_dude switchmove "Truck_Cargo02"; -- lean forward...thinker
_dude switchmove "Truck_Cargo03"; -- arm up
_dude switchmove "MH6_Cargo03"; -- gun between legs, moves around a little

[wika_woo]

hahaa some good ways for the soldier to relax after battle..

Just goes to show what this game has ..



I might try scripting that