ok, so say I have these two respawning squads, 'gold' and 'stealth' in the same encounter. (one is gold elites one is stealth.) and there are three command lists: 'defend', 'advance1' and 'advancestealth'.
when the game starts, gold is assigned defend, and stealth is assigned advancestealth. Every so often i want stealth to switch to the defend command list, and gold to switch to the advance1 command list (and vise versa after another little while).
So far Ive got:

(script continuous switchattackers
(sleep 100)
(ai_command_list stealth defend)
(ai_command_list gold advance1)
(sleep 100)
(ai_command_list stealth advancestealth)
(ai_command_list gold defend)
)

There is an error when I try to compile the script in Sapien:

"this is not a valid AI encounter or squad.: stealth defend)"

I do get another error or two, but i figure its just that above line which is the problem.
help?

PS; To try and pin the problem down, Ive typed this line:

"ai_command_list stealth defend"

into sapien's command input thing, with the same error. I think the problem is syntax.
Edited by Hickle Stine on Oct 11, 2007 at 05:52 AM

try the enconter name instead of the squad name.. lol, any time I need to target something refered to as <AI> in hs_doc.txt, I always put enconters in there, and besides.. im preaty sure thats how SP levels are aswell..

hey it worked! the thing that bugs me though is that it says in the "halo_scripting_bible" (hosted on this site) that it applies to 'group of actors' which i thought could be a squad...anyways, thanks for the help!