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Tirpitz' Advanced Urban rappelling

@frost, what is the error, any chance you could report it on the GitHub with error message and maybe screenshot

Climb up seems to no longer work, I get an error and the detach prompt gets stuck in your scroll wheel forever.

underrated.

you should have it so you can toss the rope over the edge. iv spent hours trying to finagle the rope over a ledge .

I have added the suggestions to the github issue you created, when I do another update I will integrate these

Thanks for the suggestions

Hi Tirpitz,

Thanks for the mod, it is truly excellent. I am hoping to make use of your rappelling mod in a scenario I'll be running for a group, however I have been having difficulty getting the rappelling to work as precisely as needed.

The most notable difficulties are

- Rope bunching up at the player's feet while attempting to place rappel points
- Initial rope is too long, leading to a large swing at the start of the rappel.

I've been tweaking the code and testing, and have made a couple of changes that have greatly increased the reliability of the rope placement and rappel. They also have the effect of reducing clipping through the floor / walls when rappelling off buildings. However as these small tweaks didn't seem worthy of a whole mod branch, so I thought I would share them in the hope that they will make it into the official mod.

To fix the bunching issue, I altered the placement of the leader endpoint so that it is placed slightly in front of the hand holding the rappel point:

In file "fn_AUR_Place_Rappel_Point_Action.sqf", changed line:

(AUR_GET_ENDPOINT_LEADER(_player)) setPosASL ((getPosASL _player);

To:

(AUR_GET_ENDPOINT_LEADER(_player)) setPosATL ((_player modeltoWorld (_player selectionPosition "lefthand")) vectorAdd ((vectorDir _player) vectorMultiply 0.15));

This allows for very precise placement of the top rappel point by the player, allowing for more complex rappels.

To ensure that the main body of the rope goes over the edge properly, and doesn't bunch at the player's feet, I added a small offset to the endpoint

In file "fn_AUR_Place_Rappel_Point_Action.sqf", changed line:

_endpointTop setPosASL (getPosASL AUR_GET_ENDPOINT_LEADER(_player));

To:

_endpointTop setPosASL ((getPosASL AUR_GET_ENDPOINT_LEADER(_player)) vectorAdd (vectorDir _player));

With these changes, I am able to reliably place a rope over the edge of a building, even when that building has a large parapet etc.

With regards to the long swing when the player starts rappelling, in "fn_AUR_Rappel.sqf", where the initial rope length is set:

_bottomRopeStartLength = _ropeLength - 2;
_topRopeStartLength = 2;

I got much nicer results using a value of 0.75 or 1, rather than 2. This makes it easier to rappel into potentially hostile buildings, as you don't accidentally swing down past a window that might be dangerous.

I hope this has been at least somewhat helpful and I look forward to future updates of this mod :)

Please forgive the split message.