L63H_ACM_Compat

Fast-roping for L63_HeliAI's AI helicopters, using ACM Flight CORE's RIDE system.

With this addon, an L63_HeliAI transport that reaches a rope point (an RP route mark) hovers low and lowers its ropes. AI troops in the cabin rope down by themselves, three to a rope, and defend the point. Players in the cabin take Rappel Down (Left/Right). The helicopter waits until everyone is down, cuts its ropes and flies on. Without this addon, L63_HeliAI flies rope points as landings.

What it adds
- RIDE rope stations on all 15 vanilla L63H AI helicopters: two ropes, left and right, on the UH-1H family (transport, armed, gunship and civilian) and one at the port door on the Mi-8 family. They are added to L63_HeliAI's own helicopter prefabs, so missions that already use those prefabs get ropes with no edits.
- The link between the two mods: L63_HeliAI decides when to rope, hold and leave; RIDE does the roping.
- Rope safety, together with L63_HeliAI: over trees or water the rope moves to the nearest clear spot within 60 m. If the helicopter has to leave with someone still on a rope, every rider is first put on the ground below him.

Requirements
- L63_HeliAI 0.0.75 or later. An older L63_HeliAI does not compile with this addon.
- ACM Flight CORE (1.0.46 or later).
Both are dependencies and download automatically.

For server admins
- Update L63_HeliAI first, then add this addon.
- Remove BFS-F.R.I.E.S Reforged and Physics Rope if you ran them for L63_HeliAI. A helicopter cannot carry two rope systems, and this addon refuses to rope on one that does.
- The server log prints "L63H_RopeAdapter: rope backend - ACM RIDE." once. That line confirms the ropes are in use.
- Removing this addon is safe: L63_HeliAI then flies rope points as landings.

For mission makers
- Nothing to set up: use L63_HeliAI's L63H helicopter prefabs and RP marks as usual.
- AI troops rope by default. To keep them aboard, untick AI Cargo Insertion on L63_HeliAI's route coordinator.
- Only the 15 vanilla L63H AI helicopters get ropes from this addon.

Known limits
- A Game Master deleting a helicopter also deletes the riders on its ropes, as vanilla's Delete does with a vehicle's passengers.
- A destroyed helicopter's explosion can still kill riders right below it.
- Two helicopters roping within 45 m of each other: a forced drop by one also puts the other's riders down.

Credits and permission
- ACM Flight CORE and its RIDE system are the work of Achilles Modding. This addon contains none of their files: it depends on their mod and uses RIDE's own functions.
- Made with Achilles Modding's permission (29 SEP 2026).
- This is an independent addon. It is not made, supported or endorsed by Achilles Modding; please report problems with it to me (Discord - Landz65), not to them.
- All ACM helicopters will be added to a registry within this mod to allow scenario makers to pick and choose which choppers are available with mod auto-detection.