HeliControl

How do you change the frequency of heli spawns?

 

Yes, I reloaded it each time I made changes.

 

I love this Mode, but when I use Better Loot, the loot for the Chopper changes from great defualt loot into garbage.

I have tried to use a modified list but I seem to be screwing it up.

A little help if you please, I would like a random M249 not 100% more like 25%, a Few rockets, maybe 3 of each, a few guns 2 or 3 different ones, some C4 2 -4 and a few other odd goodies like a scope silencer and so on.

The chopper is still dropping mostly junk.

TY SquareSarah

Llathrum

 

How do I use custom loot? I have some players farming the heli for C4. I have made the chopper super uber with 4x damage and 30K health but 4 guys with a rock base and some walls can take it down. so if I change the loot table it will make it not worth it.

Ideally want to define what can spawn or just what CAN'T spawn like no C4

 

Me too, but I know you can change the loot in the json, and change the custom loot from false to true. My issue is nothing I have changed ever seems to work, it still drops garbage due to the better loot mod

 

Wow, I'm not sure when or why I was unsubscribed to this thread, but I was. I'll try to help you guys out and/or update this plugin a bit, since I'm friends with Koenrad and he's basically told me he's abandoned this.

 

Thanks Shady757 it's a great mod, it allows Admins to hold chopper events. everything works as far as I know, but when I use better loot with this mod the chopper loot becomes crap. I have tried to alter the loot via the json but Im not a programmer and Im not that good at fooling with them without clear instructions.

I am sure everyone is looking forward to the changes

 

You can quickly fix BetterLoot from overriding helis by opening the plugin in a text editor, and finding the line: "private Regex crateEx = new Regex" and replacing it with this line:

Code:

 private Regex crateEx = new Regex(@"crate_normal"); //_normal prevents heli crates from being detected

 

hmm i cant seem to find that line inside the plugin to change the line.
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Edit nvrmind found it. xD

 

Here's a quick update by me, all the changes listed below:


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EDIT: Plugin was officially updated

 

Shady757 updated HeliControl with a new update entry:

1.0.15

 

OK forgive my ignorance, but am I supposed to replace the text above or the file above with the old? Im rather confused

 

Haha, sorry about that, just download the official file from the plugin's main page. The one I uploaded in a reply was just a bit before I got ownership transferred to me.

 

ok and then the chopper loot will not be effected by better loot? I ask because I read the post about the added line of text, but I do not know where it goes
So for now I will DL the new Heli file and see what I get I love shooting that thing down

Ok so I took it down, and the crates are still full of garbage. Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but where does that text line go to fix the loot from the chopper so better loot does not over ride the crates.

Also the whole time I fought with the chopper it never shot rockets at me. I noticed the changes from the original doc "ModifyDamageToHeli" true and everything is 1.0, everything else seems to be standard 0.2 for rocket times 12 rockets to fire etc.

 

Unless you have the option to disable rockets enabled, it should be firing them. However, I think without using the console command provided by rust (heli.strafe) it will only strafe/shoot rockets if you're hiding inside a base.

Also, inside of the "BetterLoot.cs" plugin file, you search for:

Code:

private Regex crateEx

and replace the entire line with:

Code:

 private Regex crateEx = new Regex(@"crate_normal"); //_normal prevents heli crates from being detected

 

OK Shady, that worked great, I tested it out and the loot was right on, Thank you young sir

Llathrum

 

Hey guys is there any way to set the duration the helicopter stays for because as someone said before on larger maps it only goes to 2 spots and then leaves.

Update..

Never mind found it lol in console commands

 

so, when i type callheli (in rusty) or /callheli (in-game) it says "Helicopter spawned" but nothing happens. whats up with that ?

 

I believe it takes a bit longer for a Helicopter to show up when you don't call it on someone. Try waiting a few minutes and see if it comes around, or try calling it on your name and see if it still works.




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For reference to those of you who want to change how long the heli sticks around, it's a console command already. I'll add it into the config for the next update, just for ease of access. The command is "heli.lifetimeminutes", default is 15.

 

Very good plugin, but i didn't find in it how to spawn blueprints in crates. Therefore i modified plugin to be able spawn blueprints (works in my server). If somebody needs this modded plugin, i can upload it.

About garbage in heli crates with using BetterLoot, my advise is try to use modded unofficial BetterLoot plugin follow by this link BetterLoot | Page 37 | Oxide . The description for this mod you can find on the previous page.