custom coding: force open parachute upon vehicle exit
 

I know it is possible to force open parachute at spawn, like in market garden or radio controlled ju52/c-47.

I'd like to know if it possible to do it when you exit a vehicle, say a Stuka. I want the game force you to open parachute immediately after exiting the plane.

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hehe, I already said this in the other thread, but you might as well hear it again: There is somewhere a script that forces the "in air inhibitations" on a soldier who is falling for a certain amount of time or who reaches a certain speed (whichever one doesnt matter to me) -basically that means you loose ability to shoot, walk and so-on, but gain the ability to open chute... look for this code. It may be in the commonSoldierData.inc in your objects/soldiers/common folder.

I dont know, even if you do find this script, that you will be able to test your work, since I have found that changing soldier code on custom maps causes bugs ... strange bugs... you would have to edit the code and repack the entire objects folder, which will really mess up your chances at playing online, and could cause other problems if the packing utility crashes (as it always did for me all those years ago, when I first started modding). I dont have any files in front of me at the moment (at work) so until I am home, I probably won't be able to look.

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What does this line mean: ObjectTemplate.setParachuteDrag 24.00Is there a way at least to delay the parachute? I mean I want it to open 2 seconds after you hit 9.

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Check the C-47 in SW, it has a line that forces parachute opening after someone leaves it... It's been a long time since 1942, so i dont remember which was, thought... :p

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????????You mean the radio controlled c-47 or the piloted c-47? What do you mean with SW??

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the old dice addon, secret weapons :P

And I had no idea that it had something like that!

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Crap, really?? I don't have secret weapons. What can I do then??

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go buy it... should be cheap :P

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cheap... maby in the USA but not here:cool:

Gotta think about something else :p , someone who owns it to do the job for me since I can't download such a large file as objects.rfa

Re: custom coding: force open parachute upon vehicle exit
 

The C-47 in SW doesn't make you open the parachute on exit, does it?

*runs off to play Mimoyecques*

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No it doesn't, unless not in SinglePlayer.

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I've been checking a list of commands and haven't found anything.

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lol here is a suggestion: for a minimod designed just to force the parachutes to open at a specific height. by the way, this suggestion would not work in a real world situation. only in pretend fantasy world that is the place that I live in. and even then, it might not work. but i dont know and may never know.

I am thinking that we could code an entirely new collision group that only reacts when it comes in contact with a soldier's collision (skeleton bah, whatever). and we code it so that the effect template for such a collision is a parachute.

then... you have to make an object that is invisible with the collision mesh having the material id that you coded (the collision group that you coded above) and finally it would have to be big enough to cover at least the area where your paras are going to be jumping...

the problem might be that you would have to make it certain that nobody would fly below this level, so maybe code the c47s to only have control over panning left and right, a-la those kit spawned planes' engines, though you would have players controlling them. hahahahaha! im insane this might work.

in theory it might work. but have you ever coded an entire collision group? its not fun. and it might not eve work so coding a new col group for perhaps nothing at all ... really not fun.. I know! IT sucks!

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How about changing the model of C-47 collision to have additional area outisde the door. Giving it material that would allow soldiers to pass and make them open parachutes would work alot better than having to worry if people wouldn't fly below the material level.

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hahaha, god, that would be so much easier! I am laughing so freaking hard at myself! hehahahaea! you are brilliant!

"Thought of in times of idiocy" -I knew I wrote that on my avatar for a reason. Yes, Allens way would be alot more logical. :)