AS Systems

Systems for building COOP missions in the World Editor, made by Arma Serbia. Requires COALITION Lobby (downloaded automatically); also works in other game modes and on dedicated servers.

MAP MARKERS (placed in the World Editor)
- AS_MapMarker: icon with a description on hover or always shown below it, or a briefing panel with text and images (e.g. objectives).
- AS_TextMarker: text on the map, with color, outline, box and rotation along roads.
- AS_UnitMarker: NATO unit symbol chosen from drop-down menus: unit size, unit type, frame shape, suspected and color.
- AS_ShapeMarker: circle or rectangle with border, fill and rotation; Reversed fills everything outside it.
- AS_MapOutsideMask: solid color over everything outside the terrain.
- Markers can be shown to everyone or only to chosen factions, and hidden in chosen game mode states.

ZONES
- AS_PolyZone: area of any shape drawn on the map (fill and border, or border only as a line).

AI SPAWN TRIGGER (Prefabs/AI/AS_AISpawnTrigger.et)
- AI groups, vehicle crews and static weapon crews placed under the trigger do not exist until a player enters its area (sphere or rotated box), which saves server performance.
- Soldiers and groups spawn one after another within the active AI limit.
- Filters: activating factions, ignore Game Masters, ignore aircraft, activation delay, skip groups near players. COALITION spectators never activate it.
- Hint: a message to all players when every AI of the trigger is dead.
- World Editor: the area is drawn, groups and vehicles are linked by dragging them under the trigger.

AI GROUPS AND VEHICLE CREWS
- AS_VehicleCrewComponent: fills vehicles and static weapons with AI by Crew Config: groups, seats, soldier prefabs, waypoints and faction. Gunners can stay in their turret and leave it only when an enemy is closer than a set distance.
- AS Keep Placed Position: soldiers stay exactly where they were placed (bunker floors, towers, roofs) instead of being moved to the nearest navmesh point, and never end up below the terrain.
- AS Group Merge: an AI group placed under another group spawns its soldiers at its own positions and hands them to the top group.
- AI soldiers and AI-only vehicles have no name tags.

ENTITY DELETER (Prefabs/Systems/AS_EntityDeleter.et)
- Removes terrain objects (buildings, trees, walls) inside a sphere, cylinder or box at mission start, on the server and every player.
- Never removes mission entities, soldiers or vehicles. Prefab filter to delete only (or all except) chosen objects.
- World Editor preview: the objects are hidden while you edit.
- The in-game map and AI navigation still show the original terrain.

MISSION INTRO (Prefabs/Systems/AS_MissionIntro.et)
- Each player sees the intro once, when they first get their character (also after slotting in the COALITION lobby). Not repeated on respawn.
- Built from screens: Title Screen (logo, label, title), Briefing Screen (heading, emblem, text, order, picture, caption) and Custom Screen. Five text styles per intro, typewriter with sound, overlays across several screens, a different intro per faction.
- Background color or image with a slow zoom, music that fades out at the end or on skip; terrain music and game sounds can be muted.
- Skip with SPACE (gamepad A), blur into the game, and an info card after the intro: operation, date and time, location, army, unit and player name.
- With COALITION Lobby the card shows the army from the side's gearscript and the squad name, and an option hides the safe start display while safe start itself still works.
- The mission title sound is COALITION Lobby's cinematic boom (CoalitionArma, Arma Public License).

COALITION LOBBY ADDITIONS
- Time of day stands still during the briefing and slotting and starts when the mission begins.
- Gear scripts fill vests, pants and jackets before the backpack, so large items fit; attachments from the gear script replace the weapon's factory attachments.
- Without CVON, roles get vanilla radios by role (leaders, RTO and spotter also a short-range radio); the radio goes into the vest.
- Slot groups always keep their callsign, a start spawn point can belong to one group, and custom player names are shown on the COALITION screens.
- Ctrl+Insert shows or hides the whole COALITION Squad Interface HUD (hidden at start).

ACE MEDICAL
- With ACE Medical loaded, the Second Chance protection lasts 60 s instead of 1 s. Without ACE it does nothing; ACE is not required.

WORLD EDITOR HELPERS (Workbench only, not in the game)
- Eden-style icons on mission entities in faction colors: group markers, soldier circles, object squares, lines from merged groups to their leader.
- Shape marker and zone areas drawn in 3D, and text marker text drawn on the terrain at its map size.
- Terrain Minimap: dots for mission entities and marker outlines, and the world's map picture copied for "Set Temporary Background Image".