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Common waypoints for multiple AI planes

robinhutter

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Hi folks,

I have managed to get AI aircraft moving along the path I specify, but have not found a way to specify waypoints that several AI aircraft can use. (E.g. an approach path to a runway).

Does one of the cracks here know how to do it? And are you willing to share your wisdom?

Hope the question hasn't been answered before. I didn't find a thread here...

Robin <><
 
Robin, I'm not sure at the moment (quite some time since I did this last), but can't you assign waypoint-actions to more than one aircraft?
If this turns out to be impossible simply duplicate the action and assign it to the next AI aircraft.
This might even be easier to do outside OPT and in the XML directly. But don't forget to use unique GUIDs.
 
Horst18519 said:
Robin, I'm not sure at the moment (quite some time since I did this last), but can't you assign waypoint-actions to more than one aircraft?
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I don't see how, because every WaypointActivationAction has an ObjectReference. This, of course, can take several AI objects, but if I want to activate them at different times it won't be possible.

Horst18519 said:
If this turns out to be impossible simply duplicate the action and assign it to the next AI aircraft.
This might even be easier to do outside OPT and in the XML directly. But don't forget to use unique GUIDs.
Click to expand...

I did it that way now. I don't dare to think of what will happen, when I need to relocate one of the waypoints. :cool:
And: It's no problem to do it in OPT.

Thanks,
Robin <><
 
There are some reasons to work with the XML though.
I don't dare to think of what will happen, when I need to relocate one of the waypoints.
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This, for example, is much easier done in the XML. ;)
 
Copied waypoints share the same UID???

I'm really puzzled at what happened. :confused: I'll try my best to explain and I hope that someone can give me a clue... If you want to skip the details and read the questions first, scroll down to the "********" line :)

I added some AI waypoints by a ActivateWaypointsAction. Then I copied (like Horst18519 proposed) the Action and assigned another ObjectReference to the Action to use the same waypoints with another AI plane. Then I noticed that the following planes were behaving strangely. I saw that the Waypoints all were named "Waypoint 1", "Waypoint 2", etc. for all AI planes. So I decided to rename them. This didn't help and as I clicked through my OPT dialog, I noticed something very strange:

If I select "act_wp_ai1_wp1" (the ActivateWaypointsAction for AI plane 1) in the ACTION_OBJECTS, I see that under "References" there are some waypoints, but not the ones for AI1, but for AI4. The same for AI2 and AI3.

Then I checked the UIDs and found out that they are identical for all AI planes. I.e.: All "Waypoint 1" waypoints (regardless of how I named them) have the same UID, all "Waypoint 2" waypoints have the same UID (although different from the WP1 UID, of course)... :banghead:

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So here the questions: Is this so by design? I mean, I wanted common waypoints and thought it was not possible. Then I created (what I thought were) independent waypoints and got identical ones...

But how do I properly use them?

The waypoints fill lines and lines in the WAYPOINTS section - for each AI plane, but in fact the waypoints are the same... :confused: VERY confusing...

Can someone give me a clue?

Tia,
Robin <><
 
There are some small bugs in OPT regarding waypoints. For example clicking on wapoints it might happen that a wrong AI aircraft is linked to them - even it it's linked to another AI aircraft.
Anyway, just ignore those things and take a look at the mission as it runs: the waypoints should be linked to the aircraft you assigned in the first place.

A bit confusing, even now that I try to explain it... :D

Getting to the point: does the mission work as expected now?
 
:) I stopped copying and have separate waypoints for each AI plane.

And, yes, it works, except for: See new thread about effects. ;)

Robin <><
 
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