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Hell-Heli : Altis Autorotation Practice

Practice Autorotations, featuring Instant Helicopter Switching, Quick Repair/Respawn, Customizable Randomized or Manual Engine Failures, Persistant Date, Weather and Settings

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A: Don't give up! The 'Advanced' flight model in Arma is extremely touchy; you probably don't want to learn in this mode unless you're a masochist. Try the 'Standard' model, no one will judge you. No, really.

Dropping collective *immediately* is critical to keeping your rotor speed up, and you'll need forward momentum but not too fast. You only want to add collective again at the last possible moment and you'll have to judge this on your own: are you slamming into the ground? or did you lose rotor speed and plummet?

Tail strikes and excessive sliding are also common causes of instadeath. Try adding a little rotation and flare to the side, instead of straight in - this will set you down faster, as you can pitch more steeply while the tail is up off to the side.

Watch Dslyecxi's Art of Flight videos. Religiously.

A: Hell-Heli is a single-player mission, and after subscribing should be found in Scenarios at the main menu of the game. Sometimes this requires a game restart.

Sometimes Steam is just weird, and it won't show up. Occasionally something will be corrupted, and it will require you to find the cached missions and delete them manually - you'll need to research the latest way this is accomplished, as steam can always change the folder structure.

A: Make sure the timeout input text fields have numbers only, and no errant spaces or other non-numeric characters. Sometimes hitting ESC, and restarting the mission will get it working again.

A: The script should auto-detect most helicopter mods if they are set up correctly. Some CUP helicopters have been known in the past to have broken hitpoints, which is necessary for the script to kill the engine. The current status of these is unknown, but i'd like to hear of successes and failures.

A: I only have personal time to support and add the 'stock' maps that Arma 3 offers, including official DLC. I would consider a 3rd party map only if there were considerable demand for it.

The plus side: it is pretty easy to do it yourself! The process is pretty simple: put a unit on your new map, and copy some files. Head to the forum link at the bottom and download the mission zip.

In more detail, you'll need to first create a new mission on the map you'd like to play. Place any single unit on the map, and hit save. Find this mission folder in your Documents/Arma 3 [other profiles]/[profile name]/mission/[missionName.mapName]. Copy all the files from Hell-Heli mission folder *except* for the mission.sqm into your new mission. Thats it!

A: No. There is no easy port of this, and I honestly don't have the time.

I do have a separate demo script that implements failures and repairs in a copilot-as-trainer type scenario, and that is multiplayer. The catch is that its intended to be implemented in your own missions, but the demo should work for a quick game. The code is unrestricted open-source. See the Arma Forums thread linked at the bottom to learn more.

A: As much as I'd love the credit, I didn't make the video(s) you saw. A number of gamers have referenced this script on youtube, etc, in their helicopter training videos, and some players have gotten the impression that I'm the same person; I'm not, but I am glad you made it here anyway. Any questions or praise should be directed to the authors

A: Magic. And yes!

Check out the forum link at the bottom; there you can download the mission folder, and see the code for yourself. I apologize for current condition and formatting of the code. The code is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This means you can do what you'd like, as long as you retain the credit.


http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?152165-SP-Hell-Heli-Simple-Randomized-Autorotation-Practice