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There are several applications where one might need to detect the height above the closest "walkable" surface at a position. One such application would be to create a "landing pad" for helicopters on top of another object. Using lineIntersectsSurfaces is not an option because it doesn't support the "roadWay" lod. The only solution at the moment is to: 1. Create a test vehicle 2. Transfer the test vehicle to the desired coordinates using setPosXXX 3. Using the (getPos _vehicle select 2) command to return the height above the surface. If there was a built in command that could return the same result without any need to create a unit, it would be more convenient and hopefully faster, because getPos has a relatively high execution time (~0.01-0.02 ms) which is even worse when combined with the whole process above.

There are times where one might need to detect the height above the closest "walkable" surface at a position. One such application would be to create a "landing pad" for helicopters on top of another object. Using lineIntersectsSurfaces is not an option because it doesn't support the "roadWay" lod. The only solution at the moment is to: 1. Create a test vehicle 2. Transfer the test vehicle to the desired coordinates using setPosXXX 3. Using the (getPos _vehicle select 2) command to return the height above the surface. If there was a built in command that could return the same result without any need to create a unit, it would be more convenient and hopefully faster, because getPos has a relatively high execution time (~0.01-0.02 ms) which is even worse when combined with the whole process above.

There are several applicationstimes where one might need to detect the height above the closest "walkable" surface at a position. One such application would be to create a "landing pad" for helicopters on top of another object. Using lineIntersectsSurfaces is not an option because it doesn't support the "roadWay" lod. The only solution at the moment is to: 1. Create a test vehicle 2. Transfer the test vehicle to the desired coordinates using setPosXXX 3. Using the (getPos _vehicle select 2) command to return the height above the surface. If there was a built in command that could return the same result without any need to create a unit, it would be more convenient and hopefully faster, because getPos has a relatively high execution time (~0.01-0.02 ms) which is even worse when combined with the whole process above.