HeliControl

Don't think that error's related to HeliControl. Not sure what to tell you, sorry.

 

Thats 100% not HeliControl related...Any other plugin is trying to load an image file, which returns in an error...diable any GUI plugins showing anything related to Heli inbounds, and i'm sure no one will be kicked then.

 

I tracked it down to SignArtist, sorry for the confusion.

 

Hey everyone, not sure if this has been answered in the past. Is it possible to have a helicopter patrol a certain area?

 

Code:

{
  "Cooldowns": {
    "Cooldown.0": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.1": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.2": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.3": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.4": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.5": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.6": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.7": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.8": 86400.0,
    "Cooldown.9": 86400.0
  },
  "Damage - Global damage multiplier": 1.0,
  "Gibs - Health of gibs": 500.0,
  "Gibs - Time until gibs can be harvested in seconds": 480.0,
  "Health - Base Helicopter health": 10000.0,
  "Health - Main rotor health": 750.0,
  "Health - Tail rotor health": 375.0,
  "Limits": {
    "Limit.0": 5,
    "Limit.1": 5,
    "Limit.2": 5,
    "Limit.3": 5,
    "Limit.4": 5,
    "Limit.5": 5,
    "Limit.6": 5,
    "Limit.7": 5,
    "Limit.8": 5,
    "Limit.9": 5
  },
  "Loot - Max Crates to drop": 4,
  "Loot - Time before unlocking crates": -1.0,
  "Loot - Use Custom loot spawns": false,
  "Misc - Helicopter can shoot while dying": true,
  "Misc - Helicopter speed": 25.0,
  "Misc - Helicopter startup length in seconds": 0.0,
  "Misc - Helicopter startup speed": 25.0,
  "Misc - Maximum helicopter life time in minutes": 15,
  "Misc - Water required to extinguish napalm flames": 10000,
  "Rockets - Blunt damage to deal": 175.0,
  "Rockets - Explosion damage to deal": 100.0,
  "Rockets - Explosion radius": 6.0,
  "Rockets - Max helicopter rockets": 12,
  "Rockets - Time between each rocket in seconds": 0.2,
  "Spawning - Automatically call helicopter after this many seconds": 1200.0,
  "Spawning - Automatically call helicopter if one is already flying": true,
  "Spawning - Disable Helicopter": false,
  "Spawning - Disable helicopter gibs": false,
  "Spawning - Disable helicopter napalm": false,
  "Spawning - Disable Rust's default spawns": true,
  "Spawning - Max active helicopters": -1,
  "Spawning - Use custom helicopter spawns": false,
  "Turrets - Helicopter bullet accuracy": 2.0,
  "Turrets - Helicopter bullet damage": 20.0,
  "Turrets - Helicopter bullet speed": 250,
  "Turrets - Max range": 300.0,
  "Turrets - Time between turret bursts in seconds": 3.0,
  "Turrets - Turret burst length in seconds": 3.0,
  "Turrets - Turret fire rate in seconds": 0.125
}

Lads that my config, i'd assume that a heli would spawn every 20 mins and last for 15 mins.
But 0 heli's are spawning at all.

 

I've also been told by players on my server that the heli's aren't holding aggro on the targets, and are flying off mid fight even if the fighters haven't died/lost aggro.

 

Not really. You can set the Helicopter to fly to a specific location using /helidest, but aside from that, you can't keep it in specifically one spot.

Are you certain no Helicopter is spawning? Is it maybe just taking a really long time to fly into the actual map? That config looks perfectly fine, so I'm not sure what the problem would be.

This plugin doesn't touch the Helicopter's targeting, except if the option to have it shoot while it's dying is set to false,but that has nothing to do with what you explained... As such, it's most likely just a Rust issue.

 

I turned on rust spawns, reloaded and manually called 1 heli, seems to be working as intended now.

 

Since Dec 1 update, the timer for heli spawn does not work anymore. Sometime we even see multiple heli on map, when it is set to not spawn if there is already a heli on map.
Any others having this issue? I tried reloading plugin, refreshing config, and still the same.

 

Nothing has changed in regards to it automatically spawning the Helicopter, so I'm not sure why that would happen. You can also force a maximum amount of Helicopters to be active from *any* source by setting config option "Spawning - Max active helicopters" to whatever value you want.

 

Plugin was dead today with current version, interfering with planes and heli spawn, removed.

 

I suppose it will have to stay removed until you can give more useful information.

I'm 99% sure there is no way it could touch the planes spawning, so please describe your issue(s) more in-depth.

 

Sounds bit like nonsense...

 

Any chance of integrating a real time timer?

 

Yeah, I'm sorry, it was a bad day for me. Re-implemented, and I'll look at the server log, probably another plugin interfering.

 

Are you getting heli's/planes spawning, cause my just are not. I can call one manually, but the auto-gen of these events is just not happening.

 

It'll likely be included with the next version.

Even when it's set in the config to spawn, one does not spawn? I've said this many times to people, but I always try to cover all surfaces; you are waiting long enough for the Helicopter to fly into the island, right? They generally spawn pretty far out, so it can be a few minutes before they are even visible/audible on the map.

 

I was informed by some of my players today that the heli isn't smoking. It's supposed to start smoking as it takes damage....I looked in the cfg file but I didn't see anything turning smoke on or off. Is the plugin making it not smoke or what?

 

I don't think it's related to the plugin, though if you've modified the Helicopter's health any, it may smoke at different times or not at all, but I'm not sure.

 

Helicopter without the loot!
located in /oxide/data/HeliControlData.json
I am calling with the command /callheli

My Setting : "Loot - Use Custom loot spawns": true,

What should I do?