Keep enemy unit on map (don't despawn/virtualize unit)

[SgtKrunch]

I'm trying to keep a SAM system on the map, but part of it got initialized by H&M and will now only spawn back in if someone is within the city range. How do I keep specific units from being initialized into the system? (If possible)

[SgtKrunch]

What I've tried so far to no success is changing the side of the SAM/Radar to independent (current enemy faction is opfor), and assigning the following variables to them:

this setVariable ["acex_headless_blacklist", true]; this setVariable ["no_cache", true];

[SgtKrunch]

this setVariable ["no_cache", true];

I would expect this to work Do you apply it to the group?

Since it's technically a drone, i'm not sure how to apply it to it's group. I was hoping applying it to the object would work. i'll look into how to apply things to a drone's group

[Vdauphin]

(group driver this) setVariable ["no_cache", true]; ?

[SgtKrunch]

Now I'm really confused. I've got it working on one map, but not another. Both maps/missions are pretty much identical except for the param.hpp file and the map itself. The one that is working for me currently is Lythium, the one that isn't working is Altis. I've made sure to test both maps on a dedicated server, and the result is the same. Altis, for whatever reason, does not want to work. This is the code that I've set in the init of the radar:

[radar_01] joinSilent (createGroup [independent, true]);

radar_01 setVariable ["no_cache", ["1", true], owner driver radar_01];
radar_01 setVariable ["acex_headless_blacklist", ["1", true], owner driver radar_01];

I've also set it to respawn, using the vehicle respawn module with a similar expression, just with radar_01 = _this select 0; at the start.

This works on Lythium, but not for Altis. Same exact setup. Only difference, other than location, is how many zones overlap the assets. On Lythium, only 2 zones overlap the radar. on Altis, it's more like 3 or 4 zones. Idk if the amount of zones overlapping has anything to do with it or not.

[Vdauphin]

Just use this in the init field:

(group this) setVariable ["no_cache", true];

[Vdauphin]

Please don't use Lythium, it is a broken map, more than a half of city have spawn radius under 100 and even 15 meter spawn radius
#753

[SgtKrunch]

Just use this in the init field:

(group this) setVariable ["no_cache", true];

It worked lol XD, I don't know why I couldn't find that solution sooner, i wasted so many hours of my life trying to fix that lol.

Please don't use Lythium, it is a broken map, more than a half of city have spawn radius under 100 and even 15 meter spawn radius #753

We just finished a HAM campaign on it, didn't really give us any issues. Did crank the radius offset by like 800, but still worked pretty well.

[Vdauphin]

This only change how far player activate city not how H&M populate city which depend on the radius gave by the map author
Low spawn radius decrease a lot the number of enemies and civi because H&M don't find houses and city looks dead