Splendid. Thank you very much, this little change helps a lot. My unit makes use of many UAVs that are not from our own side.

We're mercenaries and love to steal things. This will also no doubt be appreciated by Antistasi players.

I have released a new version V1.2.2.

The fix was even easier. The createVehicleCrew command has an optional parameter for the side. Now the AI will be replaced with the side of the player connected to the UAV.

Oh yeah good point. I've never thought about the UAVHacker trait.

An issue I have encountered is that if I attempt to replace the AI of a craft to fix issues, if that craft was hacked, or if its original side isn't what the player's side is, the player will lose access to the drone.

This is because when the AI is replaced, it is replaced with an original version of the AI, unaltered, based on whatever vehicle it is.

This is a problem if I have an OPFOR drone under my control while playing BLUFOR. The drone reverts to OPFOR from BLUFOR.

A solution to this would be code that does a check of the user's current side when replacing AI, and after the replacement takes place, if the side of the replaced AI is not the same, set the side of the AI to match the user.

Yeah that is currently an issue with the UI scaling video setting. I simply haven't come around fixing it yet.

I have a problem in the uav terminal. The altitude options are stacked and breaks the UI

Hmmm they worked fine for me last time I tested. But I'll check again if something broke recently.

I've got a big issue with this mod lately: Plane drones (Yabhon,UCAV ecc. ecc.) do not respond to AGL heights, only the Helicopter one (AR-2, Falcon ecc. ecc.) variants work. Can you fix this?

Issue has been fixed. When upgrading to the modern HEMTT build system I had accidentally added ACE as a mod dependency. Sorry!

oh damn I forgot about that. Should be fixed in a bit.

I don't know what you updated, but the mod broke the game. It gives an error related to "script.macros". But, if you turn on ACE, everything works.

I have updated the mod. The list of available heights is now configurable in the CBA Addon menu.

I'll take a look. Adding / changing the altitudes should be easily doable. For custom heights I'll have to see how much effort it is.

Hiya, any chance higher altitudes could be added? I usually run a drone at least 5-7km up or even just a box so that I can throw in a custom height? Thanks for the consideration.

You can even combine the two: E.g.: At least 300m AGL but also at least 500m ASL. This way the drone will simply "ignore" any hill less than 200m and not climb higher over it.

The original idea for the mod was that if you have a lot of hills in the area the drone will constantly climb and decent to stay at a specific ground level height. That can get annoying. With the sea level altitude setting the camera usually is a lot more stable.

If I set a ground level altitude, let's say 300m for example, the AI will climb and fall as the terrain altitude increases and lowers correct? If so, then what's the use case for sea level altitude? Wouldn't that just be redundant, since the ground level altitude should adjust on its own?

I just tested it it's a UI scaling problem, at small and very small sizes they're fine but at normal Big and very Big they're squished together

I've originally made this mod while I was using a 1920x1080 monitor.
Maybe something with UI scale? Once I can find some time I'll take a look at making it monitor and scaling independent.

So 21:9 is normal? Or 16:9 normal? I'm using a 16:9 full screen window

Because I originally programmed this mod with only 16:9 displays in mind and never bothered to fix it. On my 21:9 display they are stretched out for example.

May I ask why my buttons are squished together?
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Ponezun/screenshot/2029487745573315141/

It just deletes the old crew from the drone and fills all slots it with a set of brand new crew again. No custom AI or anything. I originally wrote that to fix drones that weren't properly following commands anymore.

{vehicle _x deleteVehicleCrew _x} forEach crew _target;
createVehicleCrew _target;

This really helped with the mochila raven. Without being able to set a ASL height limitation it would descend too fast when trying to keep to it's set height and it would end up going too fast to be able to pull up.I have a question though, Where it says "replace ai in the uav with brand new ai", is that an ai that is coded differently or just the objects in the drones "seats".

There should be no other steps required. You only have to have the CBA dependency installed and look in the controls --> configure addons --> addon dropdown section. This should list 4 keybinds which are changeable by normal CBA means.

Found this mod & love the idea but can't get any keybinds in set in the controls section to work. Am I missing a step to get this mod working?

Controls-->Configure Addons-->UAV Keybinds

I have not tested it, but I don't see why not. It changes nothing about the actual UAVs.

Does this work with Anastasi?

Does anybody know if this helps with Exile and getting the UAVs to communicate with the UAV controller?

Yes that is normal. In order to join a server with mods, the server needs to enable / allow it.

So I don't know if this my fault/ misunderstanding or just a bug, I can't join public servers with the mod aktive.

thats fine as long as its known

Yeah it's sadly a known issue. I didn't have time to fix it so far. Sorry.

problem with mod, all the extra options on the map get bunched up if you are on ant user interface size other then small.

Don't worry. I added that comment after you asked the question.

oh, sorry I should have checked the comments. but clientside, damn this is a nice mod.

This mod works 100% clientside. There is no advantage to installing it on the server.

Oyu - I asked the same question just a few lines below yours. Answer is there, too.

Can this work client side or needs to be on the server aswell?

Yeah that is an issue if one is not playing at a 1080p resolution. I will look into fixing it.

I'm having trouble, the UI in the terminal is crowded and is over the menu to the left

yeah, pretty much the same for me. being able to finally use UAVs somewhat reliably without them going to narnia and having to bother the zeus for a swap every few dozen minutes

Dude, this may be exactly what I was looking for to solve a whole slew of UAV issues, not least the altitude AMSL and the UCAV / Greyhawk buggering off in a straight line after they've landed, rearmed and taken off again. Fingers crossed!

Awesome. Thank you! (Surprised, as I would assume AI management was server-side only, but I know nothing about how that actually works...)

Sorry for the late response. Yes this mod is run client side only. Adding it to a server does nothing.

Can this run client side, or is it necessary to run on the server?
(Guessing the latter, but ... hope springs eternal)

Replace AI removes the AI and then runs the createVehicleCrew command, effectively replacing the old crew.
The fix AI resets their behaviour to careless, their combatmode to "never fire" and disables 3 of their AI modes: autocombat, suppression and aimingerror.
This "fix uav" usually helps against the drone randomly spinning and not following orders.

Nice Mod. What does Replace AI exactly do? And what's the purpose of Fix AI?

1. Select Configure -> Controls from the Main Menu.
2. Click the Configure Addons button in the lower right of the dialog.
3. Select the name of the addon you'd like to configure from the drop-down menu.
4. Double click any action to change the key assigned to it.

CBA keybinds menu