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Help scripting a sequence of events. (Solved!)

Hello everyone! I have good news and bad. The good news is that I'm working on a few new missions. The bad news is that the editor has shot down almost every good idea I've tried to implement so far. Things like having AI vessels dropping cargo overboard when triggered by the player, are utterly impossible as far as I can tell. Further, scripting sequences of events is a complete nightmare!

So here is what I'm trying to do:
Stage 1:
Ship A (player) approaches Ship B (AI)
Ship B runs away at flank speed at the first sight of Ship A
Stage 2:
After a few minutes Ship B has engine trouble and comes to a stop
Ship A receives orders to position a helo within a few hundred yards of Ship B for 5 to 10 minutes.
Stage 3:
Once the player does this, Ship A gets orders to recover the helo.

Right now I have the key units down and some triggers and scripts for stage 1 and 2 only. The way I have tried to do it is causing the game to crash just a few seconds after stage 1

Here is the mission file so you can see for yourself. Let the mission run for about 10 minutes, it should crash right after the first radio message is received. Using truth, watch the behavior of the small neutral boat also.

EDIT: Fixed! https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y3pss27jn...rt%201.mu?dl=0

I'll try to help you with the scripting after 10-12 hrs when I'm back home, but need to have the DW running. It was a problem I have described here couple of months ago. I'll try with different installation pakage, so let's hope..

According the 3: I can't remember, but I think the AI (not player controlled) units caused troubles with the triggers. In that order not sure tha thask for the Hello is possible.

Got it working in the office. Have your file dounloaded and will take a look..

Just opened the mission in the editor for a quick review. Noticed you made the helo player controlled, not realy sure in that order the helo can execute the orders. I prefere to leave it as inflight aircraf and then give him orders to move at specified possition. Also, it is a good idea to add some randomness to the both starting locations and do not give to shortes ranges in the triggers. Ill try to write it later, if you wish, find me on the Facebook: Mick First.

Best regards!

Ok thanks for the help. I really should remove the in-flight helo and see if the mission still crashes.

Everything is so close together because it is for testing. I must get everything working before I move the units to their final positions and add randomness.

EDIT: I might have found the solution. It seems that triggers and scripts may not have the same name. Stage 2 of the sequence starts correctly now... except it seems 0.01% fuel is all that small speedboat needs to cross the Atlantic! :O

Well I had too much coffee and finished the whole sequence of events. I'm going to add more objectives and dynamic starting locations for all the key units before I call this a mission. For now it is simply a proof of concept for testing purposes. Notice how the helo is able to deploy rescue swimmers and save everyone in only 2 minutes:O:. I do hope it's not too confusing to understand as I didn't leave much comments as clues to what everything does.

Anyway, enjoy picking through it and hopefully it might even help someone out!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y3pss27jn...rt%201.mu?dl=0

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After 3 days of seakness I'm back on duty. Also managed the DW to work proper at my home PC. It was a simple sollution, just installed the latest NVIDIA drivers and ooops:salute:
I will take a look on your mission later today. I'm also planing a small camaign placed in the Black Sea region, hope i will prepare it in a week. I will create couple controllable units and will try to put the missions time for about 2 hrs, which will make it co-op MP playable. In the past being GNSF member bot missions has been limited to 2 hrs to prevent crashes and boring.

Best Regards!

I finished the mission which prompted this post asking for help. Despite what I wrote in the description, it can be completed in under 3 hours and will be a failure after about 4 hours since that's how long it takes the smugglers to get to shore.

The thread is here where you can download the completed mission:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=227799