Making AI Land

[5./JG27.Farber]

Does anyone know the trick to making the AI land? On some bases they will land but go off the end of the runway and crash. Othertimes they just circle the runway forever... Is it just a case of some runways will allow AI to land and others wont or what?

If anyone has an example of this working consistantly could you send me the mission please.

Thanks.

[FG28_Kodiak]

the problem it the task of the airgroup. If the airgroup task is RETURN, the aircrafts often circle around their destination airfield, till running out of fuel. The task will become RETURN if a Aircraft is damaged or low on fuel. There is no way to change the RETURN-State into LANDING, so you must take care that all Aircrafts get Home before they 'decide' to do it automatically.

Here you will find a script example
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...29&postcount=3
take a look on OnTickGame, i send the Airgroup home at a Fuellevel at 150 (Bf109 has a value of 300 on 100% Fuel so it's the half).

Lets hope this behavior is fixed in one of the next patches

[5./JG27.Farber]

Hmm Im not even talking about anything so complicated. I just want them to go to the last way point and land. Like in old IL2.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Nevermind - I got it. This is how I did it.

Place a normal flight at 500m's altitutde near the airfield. Place a landing way point on the plane icon on the airstrip. Ensure the landing waypoints speed is 0.

Larger aircraft like He111 will try and park in the small blast pens but will not explode.

[FG28_Kodiak]

By my tests this works not very often, unfortunately. If the Task is RETURN all waypoints except the last are ignored, so the problem still exist. But i will make more tests, may be you find the holy grail of waypoint handling

[hc_wolf]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

By my tests this works not very often, unfortunately. If the Task is RETURN all waypoints except the last are ignored, so the problem still exist. But i will make more tests, may be you find the holy grail of waypoint handling

Never fails for me.
Set normal fly waypoint then
Set waypoint landing not to far from runnway.
Set altitude between 0 and 300
Set speed to 0 but it will default back to 169

They hit the landing waypoint and the first peels off to half circle and land, the others fly on a little circle behind first and all follow in.

I get no fly rounds like kodiak says. I did get that in scripting a while ago and fixed it.

[salmo]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

the problem it the task of the airgroup. If the airgroup task is RETURN, the aircrafts often circle around their destination airfield, till running out of fuel. The task will become RETURN if a Aircraft is damaged or low on fuel. There is no way to change the RETURN-State into LANDING, so you must take care that all Aircrafts get Home before they 'decide' to do it automatically.

Here you will find a script example
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...29&postcount=3
take a look on OnTickGame, i send the Airgroup home at a Fuellevel at 150 (Bf109 has a value of 300 on 100% Fuel so it's the half).

Lets hope this behavior is fixed in one of the next patches

After more testing, if this is indeed the case, then we probably need to report it as a bug becuase damaged or out of fuel aircraft should not just 'RETURN', they should RETURN - then LAND at their HB, or attempt to land at nearest friendly airfield if they can't make their HB.

[Osprey]

Indeed, please raise it. And also, if they are the leader then another member of the flight continue the mission. Presently they follow the leader even when he is massively damaged.

But, they are working on AI, perhaps better to see what is produced?

[FG28_Kodiak]

Yep, i waiting for the next patch, if the problem still exist i make a bug track.
I made test with script defined Waypoints and without, in both cases the error occur if one of the planes was damaged or running out of fuel. The plane did not land and circled around the airfield until fuel was empty. May be only my game is affected

[41Sqn_Banks]

AI is really a mess. I'm not talking about air combat stuff but take-off, landing and player interaction is really a mess.