@narrowsoul I'm playing a mission right now where OPFOR (Assymetric with 4 simultaneous attack objs) has about 40 profiles synced to the Virtual AI module and they are moving just fine. You may want to remove some mods to see what is causing this.
Are you saying at 3+, all of them stop moving? Are they frozen in place when they spawn in the game world or just stuck when virtualized?
When I get home I'll post a screenshot of the operations view, one or two of the groups to the north seem to have a patrol set of waypoints, but then the group I want to go whoop ass has a waypoint line extending like a couple hundred meters southwest, as well as a couple of the other groups, which they don't act on at all.
They spawn in, the trucks that are in the group back up and turn just a bit, and then they just stand there in a big V formation, with the leader not giving any orders at all.
It even happened when I spawned in some ANA dudes down in the south that were synced to a different commander than my Marine commander.
I will remove some mods, I had planned on culling the mod list down for a suitable release on the Workshop anyway. Really hoping I don't have to get rid of Project Opfor but we'll see.
Hmm, hopped over to the Project OPFOR bistudio forum topic and someone has reported a module error with 64 bit, which I had seen myself but just brushed off before. Maybe that's the issue. Definitely going to try rebuilding without Project OPFOR, although that's really gonna limit my insurgent possibilities. Will report back.
I'm using Project OPFOR in the mission of mine I mentioned above.
Why not just make a quick and dirty vanilla (ALiVE/CBA only) mission first and see what's what, so you don't have to gut your mission before it's necessary?
Or if you want, I can link you one of mine to see if you can confirm the behavior. I've got a bunch that use Project OPFOR. And I know how much of a PITA it is to remove dependencies so I'll help you here if you need me too.
If you have the 3CB mods, all of the PO units in this mission are synced to Virtual AI: https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/192272-alive-spcoop-1-20-inshallah-insurgency/
If you don't have 3CB, but have Sangin (for Arma 2), all of the PO units in this mission are synced to Virtual AI: https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/201676-alive-spcoop-1-20-battle-of-sangin-insurgency/
Both mission's PO commanders are Assymetric, if that makes a difference. If you think it does, just change the Commander type and see if they execute orders.
Wait a second... Should I be making my Marine commander asymmetric as well? I had the Marine commander as invasion, and the insurgent as asymmetric. I did try setting the insurgent commander to occupation instead of asymmetric but that didn't seem to help.
Haha not unless you want Marines recruiting civs, setting up IED's and all in all, being terrorists. :)
Nah, leave them as Invasion or Occupation. Keep the insurgent commander as Assymetric.
If your mission is based around a group, I would manually assign it waypoints, there's no guarantee it will be assigned to attack.
Fuggin fug. Couldn't even get it to work with just ALiVE and CBA, they just stand there like morons as soon as I sync 4 BLUFOR groups to the commander.
I'm just gonna go with some manual waypoints, or maybe setting a placement module in the area of the player and they can just follow some random motorized group if they want. I'll report back with how that goes as well.
@narrowsoul Fuggin fug. Couldn't even get it to work with just ALiVE and CBA, they just stand there like morons as soon as I sync 4 BLUFOR groups to the commander.
Is that a typo or are you actually syncing the units to the Commander? They need to by synced to the Virtual AI module.
Typo; I had been syncing them to the Virtual AI module. Good call though, that would have been fucked if that were the problem this whole time lol.
Can you share this test CBA/ALiVE mission you made? Spyder made a very good point about the groups not necessarily getting an attack waypoint, especially if you're only using a couple groups. But the way you describe this, it's as if you can sync 30 or something units to the Virtual AI module and they'll all never move (which would not be normal!).
I'd like to take a peek, and look through the way you have your groups and modules set up.
You're using the Virtual AI dropdown option to virtualized synced units, right? The other option is to not have them profiled and in which case, what you're seeing would be normal. If so, switch the dropdown option.
Keep in mind orders can take time to be assigned.
I should have mentioned it was actually ALiVE/CBA/CUP Terrains and Maps because I wanted to place the TAORs in roughly the same place on Takistan.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3qy6tOzwzmZSy1VN1Y4YllrVnM
As far as waiting on orders, I've definitely given them time to propagate orders; on this vanilla mission I sat for a good 5 minutes making sure nothing happened and nothing did.
When you check on the Operations page, the group does seem to have a waypoint line extending southeast as I mentioned before, but they aren't acting on it.
I'll take a peek. What's the exact repro step? Is it just the groups manually synced to the Virtual AI module that aren't moving to Commander waypoints or is it all virtual units in general (such as those spawned by the mil/civ obj module)?
I don't think I've tried syncing some and adding some by AI placement at the same time, at least not on the same side. I synced several groups to the AI module and after 4 groups were synced they quit moving around.
Thanks. I'll take a look at the mission later and see if anything looks out of place.
@narrowsoul I should have mentioned it was actually ALiVE/CBA/CUP Terrains and Maps because I wanted to place the TAORs in roughly the same place on Takistan.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3qy6tOzwzmZSy1VN1Y4YllrVnM
As far as waiting on orders, I've definitely given them time to propagate orders; on this vanilla mission I sat for a good 5 minutes making sure nothing happened and nothing did.
When you check on the Operations page, the group does seem to have a waypoint line extending southeast as I mentioned before, but they aren't acting on it.
Ok I see what's going on here. When syncing a group to the Virtual AI module, you only sync the group leader. In the mission you linked, you synced all of the units within the group to the Virtual AI module. This is not the way you're supposed to do it. I deleted all of the sync lines except those of the team leaders of each of your groups, and the profiles are moving just fine.
Also, I don't believe you need to sync your player1 unit to Zeus. I'm not really a Zeus expert or anything, so take that part with a grain of salt, but I think if you just definine player1 as Zeus in the Game Master that would be enough. I never sync anything to Zeus in my missions (I use the #Adminlogged option) and it seems to work.
Excellent, glad to know it was something I was doing wrong that I could fix!
And yeah, I'm not so sure you need to sync Zeus either, but I still do it out of habit and it helps me keep track of which unit the module is associated with, especially with missions that have multiple Zeuses.
Thanks again, I had started to abandon my idea of a workshop mission but now I'm going to go back and do what I had planned.