DAC3 initialisation tutorial (for DAC beginners)

[strike0277]

It's not something basic like you copy & pasted the zone trigger, but didn't double-check the zone name is it?

Nope, But I checked several times lol. Either trigger will function only if it's triggered first. I have the following

1st trigger

Named: z1
blurfor
Once
Present
Condition field: this
Activation field: fun = ["z1",[1,0,0],[3,3,20,6],[],[],[],[0,0,0,0,1]] spawn DAC_Zone




2nd Trigger

Named z2
blurfor
Once
Present
Condition field: this
Activation field: fun = ["z2",[1,0,0],[3,3,20,6],[],[],[],[0,0,0,0,1]] spawn DAC_Zone

[zigzag]

Named z2
Gamelogic
Repeatedly
Present
Condition field: time > 1
Activation field: fun = ["z2",[1,1,0],[3,3,20,6],[],[],[],[0,0,0,0,1]] spawn DAC_Zone

The red 1 in the activation field will make the zone not spawn any units. Then use

[z2] call DAC_Activate

in a trigger or something to activate the zone, you can also use

[z1] call DAC_Deactivate

to turn off a zone, if you want to activate or deactivate multiple zones use [z1,z2,z3] DAC_Activate.

[strike0277]

Named z2
Gamelogic
Repeatedly
Present
Condition field: time > 1
Activation field: fun = ["z2",[1,1,0],[3,3,20,6],[],[],[],[0,0,0,0,1]] spawn DAC_Zone

The red 1 in the activation field will make the zone not spawn any units. Then use

[z2] call DAC_Activate

in a trigger or something to activate the zone, you can also use

[z1] call DAC_Deactivate

to turn off a zone, if you want to activate or deactivate multiple zones use [z1,z2,z3] DAC_Activate.

Ahh GOT IT ! Works like a charm ! Thanks sooo much !

[Mosh]

Thanks for this DMarkwick. I messed around with DAC awhile back and really got nowhere. I'll read this thread and give it another try.

[twisted]

this is a great useful tut. one question, is it possible to halt all action/units until all waypoints and units are generated? for example if i have a bunch of normal blufor units attacking dac space how can i make everything wait until all dac processing is complete?

[Parrotnut]

Thank you very much for this tutorial DMarkwick ( And of course Silola and BIS for the tools they provided to make this happen )
Yesterday I made my first mission with a “DAC zone” full of enemy infantry over Zargabad. I’ve played the mission a couple of times and its just awesome to play.
It’s a bit scary to go into the city because you know there are enemies but you don’t know where and exactly how many, and every time you play the mission they are somewhere else.
I just copy and paste the line ( null=[“z1”,[1,0,0].............. ) and changed some numbers with the help of your guide, and now I have a mission I can play multiple times and is never the same, so thank you very much.

[DMarkwick]

Thank you very much for this tutorial DMarkwick ( And of course Silola and BIS for the tools they provided to make this happen )
Yesterday I made my first mission with a “DAC zone” full of enemy infantry over Zargabad. I’ve played the mission a couple of times and its just awesome to play.
It’s a bit scary to go into the city because you know there are enemies but you don’t know where and exactly how many, and every time you play the mission they are somewhere else.
I just copy and paste the line ( null=[“z1”,[1,0,0].............. ) and changed some numbers with the help of your guide, and now I have a mission I can play multiple times and is never the same, so thank you very much.

No problems, I'm glad it's helping people out.

One of the things I like to do is increase the randomisation even more, by randomising how many groups will spawn. So the code snippet:

[10,1,10,5]

will produce 10 patrols each time.

But if you change it with the random command to look like this:

[(ceil (random 10)+8),1,10,5]

Then you will get a random number of patrols, anything from 9 to 18.

[Parrotnut]

One of the things I like to do is increase the randomisation even more, by randomising how many groups will spawn.

I just tried what you suggested and it worked. I started the mission two times, the first time the DAC initialization screen said 12 Patrols ( or something like that ) and the next time it was 20 Patrols ( have some unarmored cars also ).
Now I’ve to find a way to force myself not to look at the DAC initialization screen so I don’t know how many patrols there are.
So, thanks again for the help

[tpw]

I started playing around with DAC3 yesterday, many thanks to Silola and DMarkWick. Thanks to the excellent documentation and this thread I was able to get some really nice things happening almost straight away.

One thing I really like is to use DAC to spawn civilian vehicles which drive around/between towns. It really adds to the immersion and makes towns feel more alive. It's much less CPU intensive and more effective than the ambient civilian vehicles module.

Next step is to move beyond the defaults and start defining my own units for islands like lingor.

Thanks again to all involved with this.

[Pepper2k]

Hi!

I love DAC 3, but I'm having trouble playing with Russian Insurgents. (Unit config 6) They just kill each other at the start of the mission. My DAC trigger zone looks like this:

fun=["z1",[1,0,0],[20,3,50,8],[],[3,1,10,10],[],[0,6,0,0]] spawn DAC_Zone;

For 20 groups of infantry, 3 tanks.

I also have a spawn camp which looks like this:

fun=["z1_1",[3,0,0],[],[],[],[1,2,50,0,100,50],[0,6,0,0]] spawn DAC_Zone;

Everything else works great.

Anyone else has this problem or has a solution?