arma3_scripting

[granite sky]

We have some code that does this for continuous medic animations. Works fine:

private _animHandler = _medic addEventHandler ["AnimDone",
{
    private _medic = _this select 0;
    _medic playMoveNow selectRandom medicAnims;
}];

[past wagon]

ohh

hmm

I tried "AnimChanged"

yeah it's not working

the player is getting stuck on the animation

params ["_vehicle", "_caller", "_actionID"];

_caller setVariable ["repairing", true];

private _repairTime = 20;
private _repairDistance = _caller distance _vehicle;

[_vehicle, _caller, _repairDistance] spawn {
    params ["_vehicle", "_caller", "_repairDistance"];
    waitUntil { !(_caller getVariable "repairing")  || { _caller distance _vehicle > (_repairDistance + 2) || { _caller distance _vehicle > 5 || { !(alive _caller) } } } };
    _caller setVariable ["repairing", false];
};

_caller playMoveNow "AinvPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_medic_1";
_caller addEventHandler ["AnimDone", {
    _caller = _this select 0;
    if !(_caller getVariable "repairing") exitWith {
        _caller removeEventHandler ["AnimDone", _thisEventHandler];
    };
    _caller playMoveNow "AinvPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_medic_1";
}];

for "_i" from 1 to 100 do {
    if !(_caller getVariable "repairing") exitWith {
        hintSilent "Repair Failed";
        _caller switchMove (switch (currentWeapon _caller) do {
            case "": {"AmovPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon"};
            case primaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWrflDnon"};
            case secondaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWlnrDnon"};
            case handgunWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWpstDnon"};
            case binocular _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSoptWbinDnon"};
        });
    };
    hintSilent ("Repairing: " + str _i + "%");
    sleep (_repairTime / 100);
    if (_i == 100) exitWith {
        _vehicle setDamage 0;
        hintSilent "Repair Finished";
        _caller switchMove (switch (currentWeapon _caller) do {
            case "": {"AmovPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon"};
            case primaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWrflDnon"};
            case secondaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWlnrDnon"};
            case handgunWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWpstDnon"};
            case binocular _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSoptWbinDnon"};
        });
    };
};

_caller setVariable ["repairing", false];

player playMoveNow "AinvPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_medic_1";
 
player addEventHandler ["AnimDone", {
    player playMoveNow "AinvPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_medic_1"; 
}];
```This code just doesnt work. The player gets stuck when the animation is over.

[granite sky]

Aren't you running a finish animation on them at the end?

[past wagon]

no...?

[past wagon]

        _caller switchMove (switch (currentWeapon _caller) do {
            case "": {"AmovPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon"};
            case primaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWrflDnon"};
            case secondaryWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWlnrDnon"};
            case handgunWeapon _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSrasWpstDnon"};
            case binocular _caller: {"AmovPknlMstpSoptWbinDnon"};
        });

``` you mean this?

[granite sky]

I don't know. I don't know of an animation reference. In our case we inherited the animation names from the old code so it wasn't a problem.

[past wagon]

ok

[granite sky]

You might wanna check Leopard's comment on the bottom here:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/switchMove

[past wagon]

yep, that fixed it. thanks

[winter panther]

what would be the best way to allow both respawn at custom position and take control of AI teammate at the same time? Currently, in my mission, when the player dies, the map is shown, and he can select a spawn point. But I don't know how to also allow taking control of an AI teammate when you die, since you can't set two respawn methods at the same time. Any ideas?

[granite sky]

You'd probably need to make your own respawn UI.

[mighty jackal]

Anybody know how i could edit the firewill ECM script to where you can't keep clicking the useraction when its active cause people can make like infinite ecms run at the same time

new ECM System
each aircraft has own ECM capability. default value is 50
ECM POD gives more ECM values.

 */

private _heli = _this select 0;
private _helitype = typeOf _heli;
private _ecm = "";
private _ecm_type = "internal";
private _jammer_c = 0;
private _ex_time = 120;
private _ex_cool = 60;
private _ex_value = 0;
private _ex_ecm_stat = 0;
private _ex_ecm_stat_stack = 0;
private _stat = getNumber (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _helitype >> "AWS_ECM_STAT");

if(_stat == 0) then
{
    _stat = 50;
};

_heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","no",true];

_pylon = GetPylonMagazines _heli;
_pylon_count = count _pylon;

    for "_i" from 0 to _pylon_count-1 do
    {
    _mag = _pylon select _i;
    _ecm = getNumber (configFile >> "CfgMagazines" >> _mag >> "AWS_ECMJAMMER");

        if (_ecm == 1) then
        {
            _ecm_type = "external";
            _jammer_c = _jammer_c + 1;
            _ex_ecm_stat = getNumber (configFile >> "CfgMagazines" >> _mag >> "AWS_ECM_STAT");
            _ex_ecm_stat_stack = _ex_ecm_stat_stack + _ex_ecm_stat;
        };
    }; 
    
private _ecm_vehicle_type = getText (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _helitype >> "FIR_AWS_ECM");    

if (_ecm_vehicle_type == "External") then
{
        _ecm_type = "external";
        private _ecm_vehicle_count = getNumber (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _helitype >> "FIR_AWS_ECM_Count");        
        private _ecm_vehicle_stat = getNumber (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _helitype >> "FIR_AWS_ECM_STAT");        
        _jammer_c = _ecm_vehicle_count;
        _ex_ecm_stat_stack = _ex_ecm_stat_stack + (_ecm_vehicle_stat * _ecm_vehicle_count);        
};

if (_stat > 90) then 
{
    _stat = 90;
};
_heli setVariable ["AWS_ECM_STAT",_stat,true];    
_heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM : ECM JAMMER ON";

_ecmhandle = _heli addEventHandler ["incomingMissile", {[_this] execVM "\uh60\scripts\ECM.sqf"}];

if (_ecm_type == "external") then
{
    _heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM : EXTERNAL ECM SYSTEM";
    _ex_time = _ex_time + (10 *_jammer_c);
    sleep _ex_time;
}
else
{    
    _heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM : INTERNAL ECM SYSTEM";
    sleep 60;
};

_heli removeEventHandler ["incomingMissile", _ecmhandle];

if (_ecm_type == "external") then
{
    _ex_cool = _ex_cool - (7 * _jammer_c);
    _heli vehiclechat  format ["SYSTEM : ECM IS OFF. STANDBY FOR RECHARGING in %1SEC",_ex_cool];
    sleep _ex_cool;
}
else
{    
    _heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM : ECM IS OFF. STANDBY FOR RECHARGING in 40SEC";
    sleep 40;
};

_heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","yes",true];
_heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM : ECM IS STANDBY.";```

i had to split it in half cause it was over 2000 characters

[meager granite]

Use pastebin for bigger scripts

https://pastebin.pl/ or something (pastebin.com sucks now)

And you didn't post code that makes this one run, one that uses useraction

[drowsy token]

Very new to scripting here., just started learning yesterday. I'm trying to create a script that will edit a marker so that the text will read the minutes data from the systemTimeUTC array. This is what I have so far, hoping for someone to point me in the right direction.

_minutesUTC = (_timeUTC select 4);

if (triggerActivated cocaineField_markerTrigger) then 
    {
    "marker_2" setMarkerText str(_minutesUTC);
    "marker_2" setMarkerAlpha 1;
    };```

[rough summit]

Im executing in server side script, which checks players count, but hc is also included in 'allPlayers'. How can i remove hc from this array?

[warm hedge]

Probably by checking typeOf. HC should have its own special class am I right?

[rough summit]

allUsers select {(getUserInfo _x select 7) == false}

[warm hedge]

Oh, completely forgot about it, wise

[cedar cape]

small problem, im using this script here ```[blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;

["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;
[{isTouchingGround player}, {
showCinemaBorder false;
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;
}] call CBA_fnc_waitUntilAndExecute;``` however when the player hits the ground the cinema borders are still there and i cant move

[rough summit]

[blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI; 
 
["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;  
waitUntil { isTouchingGround player};
showCinemaBorder false;  
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;  

and why u using ace function?

[cedar cape]

wdym

so i can get the player to rappel

its for a mission

heli flys over a certian zone, player gets rappeled, when they touch the ground ace interact should be re-enabled again and the cinema borders should dissapear

[tough abyss]

@drowsy token looks fine to me

@cedar cape code above should work fine

[cedar cape]

it doesent

the player rappels

but cinema borders dont go away

[tough abyss]

Is that the only thing that isn't working?

Just the cinema border?

[cedar cape]

yeah

so like when i finish rappeling i still cant move

[tough abyss]

So it's not just the border then it's the input too

Try using Schaer's version of the code if you aren't already

Also tell where you're running the code from

[cedar cape]

alr

[cedar cape]

a trigger

also how do i make it wait before the trigger happens

so when the player is inside the area it waits like 3 seconds before the code executes

[tough abyss]

Put a sleep 3; at the beginning of the trigger code

[cedar cape]

alr thanks

[tough abyss]

Also report back if the new code works

[cedar cape]

im doing it now

[tough abyss]

The code is fairly simple so if it's still not working there's a good chance it's something else set up wrong and not the trigger code itself

[cedar cape]

yeah

just getting a bit fed up with arma 3 as ive spent so long on this one bit lol

i still have the rest of the mission to do, like putting down enemies and objectives

ok so

the rappeling works

but

sleep doesent, as it says that sleep isnt allowed in this context and the cinema borders still didnt disapear

[tough abyss]

Ah right forgot that trigger code is unscheduled

That would also explain why your waitUntil isn't working

[cedar cape]

ah i see

[tough abyss]

Wrap the whole thing in [] spawn {} and it should work

With the code in the {}

[cedar cape]

the old one the people on the ace discord gave me worked on its own with no other waypoints and no cutscene at the start but as soon as the cutscene was there it stopped working

[cedar cape]

which one, my code or the one schear gave me

[tough abyss]

Either but I'd go with schaer's as it doesn't use the unnecessary cba function

[cedar cape]

ah

[tough abyss]

No reason to use a cba function for waitUntil when its built in to begin with

[cedar cape]

 
["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;  
waitUntil { isTouchingGround player};
showCinemaBorder false;  
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; }``` would this be it?

@tough abyss

i put { at the start and the end

[cedar cape]

wdym

like where

[tough abyss]

[] spawn {

sleep 3;

[blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI; 
 
["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;  
waitUntil { isTouchingGround player };
showCinemaBorder false;  
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;
};

On mobile so you'll have to forgive the lack of formatting

[cedar cape]

ah

[cedar cape]

wdym

[tough abyss]

As in the code probably doesn't look pretty since I edited it on mobile

Won't matter though

[cedar cape]

doesent work

i cant even press ok

it just says on activation:

[tough abyss]

You can't just paste it in like before?

[cedar cape]

no

wont let me

https://imgur.com/sEVzNm1

i put it in and thats what it says

[tough abyss]

Looks like it didn't copy the closing }

[cedar cape]

Ah my bad I missed it

I’ll try it when I get home as I’m going out now

Thanks for the help btw

[tough abyss]

I'm going to bed so I may not be available when you do

It should work now though

No problem

[cedar cape]

Hopefully

Yeah bye

[pulsar bluff]

whats up with the weird use of https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/collisionDisabledWith

seems not feasible to find collision state between any two vehicles

you put in the target vehicle as an argument and it returns a single other vehicle

was hoping for something like _v1 collisionDisabledWith _v2

was midway thru writing nice script for this command, and realized how limited it is 😂

_v1 disableCollisionWith _v3;

_result = collisionDisabledWith _v1;
// return: [_v3,true]
// what happened to _v2?```

[distant oyster]

Each object can contain only 1 reference to the object it disabled collision with. Thus trying to disable collisions with multiple objects will overwrite object previously set for disable collision
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableCollisionWith

[pulsar bluff]

dang i didnt see that , been awhile since checking that page

[slim verge]

stack overflow is down, this means coding worldwide is now on hold

[winter rose]

we even lost sqfbin 😢

[little raptor]

it is?
it works for me

[tough abyss]

Stack overflow's stack finally overflowed

[cedar cape]

bruh

it doesent work

the code u gave me @tough abyss

[cedar cape]

this one

[agile pumice]

Does anyone know off the top of their head how to return the ACE cargo for a box?

getVariable of some sort maybe?

[distant egret]

What do you mean with return? You want to know how much cargo is possible/available? Or want to know what is in the cargo?

[agile pumice]

I got it nevermind

cursortarget getvariable "ace_arsenal_virtualitems"

used allVariables to find it

unfortunately I'm not sure how to return the ace arsenal object the player is interacting with

[cedar cape]

anyone able to help?

[opal zephyr]

Im having some issues with playing a sound in game. I'm defining the sound in cfgSounds and then testing it with playSound, with the end goal being using it in ace ambient sounds module. No matter how I define it in cfgSounds in the description.ext nothing plays in game. I know the sound file is good becuase It plays when I use playSound3d and reference the entire path. Here is the description:

class CfgSounds
{
 sounds[] = {};
 class AngryCrowd
 {
 name = "AngryCrowd";
 sound[] = {"\sound\AngryCrowd.ogg", 0,1};
 titles[] = {};
 };

 class HorrorSound
 {
 name = "HorrorSound";
 sound[] = {"\sound\HorrorSound.ogg", 0,1};
 titles[] = {};
 };
 
 class Test1
 {
    name = "coords";
    sound[] = {"\sound\invalidCoords.ogg", 0,1};
    titles[] = {};
 };
 
};

[winter rose]

have you heard of our lord and saviour the wiki? 👼
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#CfgSounds

// filename, volume, pitch, distance (optional)

[opal zephyr]

if you're referencing the 0, it doesnt work if I put any number for volume. And yes ive read that wiki page lol

[winter rose]

try 1, save the file, save the mission, then try again

(try removing the starting \ too perhaps)

[opal zephyr]

Nothin

Folder structure has the "sound" Folder inside the mission root, with the sounds in it

[winter rose]

aaand which one do you try to play, and how do you try to play it?

[opal zephyr]

I've tried all 3, for the 3rd one I tried both the class name and "name". Im just executing it in the Extended Debug Console that comes up when you press esc. That code looks like this

playSound "AngryCrowd";```

[winter rose]

try asking in ACE Discord perhaps

[cedar cape]

i have already and the script i was given didnt work, so someone on here adapted it so it should work and it still doesent

[winter rose]

classname it should be

[winter rose]

then wait or try and error more by yourself 🤷‍♂️

[cedar cape]

its also not a problem with ace its something else, what is supposed to happen is ace interact gets disabled, player rappels, as soon as they touch the ground cinema borders go away and ace interact re enables

but it doesent and the cinema borders and ace interact get disabled

[winter rose]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

IDK anything about ACE
ACE Discord should know better
unless you run an obsolete version of ACE ofc

[copper raven]

isTouchingGround can be buggy sometimes

[cedar cape]

they told me only to ask ace related questions and nothing to do with scripting

[winter rose]

try ```sqf
0 spawn {
sleep 0.5;
playSound "AngryCrowd";
};

[cedar cape]

is there anything i can use instead

[winter rose]

waitUntil { getPos player select 2 < 1 };

[opal zephyr]

Try checking if atl is less than like 0.5

Or that

Ill try that in a sec Lou, thanks

[cedar cape]

where would i put this in the script i have already

[open fractal]

shouldn't need to add a sleep for playSound

[winter rose]

instead of the isTouchingGround, no?

[cedar cape]

ill give it a go

[winter rose]

no, but I fear some Debug Console issue or whatever
just in case

[cedar cape]

 
[blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;  
  
["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;   
waitUntil { getPos player select 2 < 1 }; 
showCinemaBorder false;   
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; 
};``` so this?

[opal zephyr]

Frazzle where are you putting this code?

[winter rose]

[] spawn {
  [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;  
  ["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;   
  waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPos player select 2 < 1 }; 
  showCinemaBorder false;   
  ["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; 
};
```yeah

[open fractal]

if it's leopard's or CBA's, playSound on its own is a reliable test for me, can't speak for anything else though

[cedar cape]

alr

nope still didnt work

still cant move when i hit the ground

[agile pumice]

how can I make this code work?

            _display closeDisplay 1;
            sleep 0.5;
            (findDisplay 46) createDisplay "_display";

do I need waituntil displayclosed trickery?

[copper raven]

is _display an actual resource name?

or are you just trying to "reopen" the display you closed?

[agile pumice]

reopen the display I closed

[copper raven]

well, you have to create it the same way you created it originally, what you're trying will not work

i guess you can maybe fade it's controls if that's a possible alternative for you instead of closing it

[agile pumice]

#1127001 is the display code

[copper raven]

use the actual resource name you opened it with

[agile pumice]

Its the ace arsenal display. I'm removing contents and want to "refresh" the display

I'm not opening the display with the script

[tough abyss]

@cedar cape try getPosATL instead of getPos

If it still doesn't work after that it must be ACE being weird because all of that code other than the ACE stuff is stupidly simple

[cedar cape]

alr

the ace stuff should be simple aswell

its just disabling user interactions so they cant cut the ropes mid rappel

[tough abyss]

Relatively to the other stuff it is not simple

Especially as it has a lot more going on in the background than, say, a simple waitUntil call

[little raptor]

then you should find the display name from the config (or ACE repo on github)

[agile pumice]

its fine, I just did

            _display closeDisplay 1;
            sleep 0.1;
            [_box, player] call ace_arsenal_fnc_openBox;

[opal zephyr]

Nothin

[little raptor]

remove the leading \

[copper raven]

you can probably look more in depth into their source, i'm sure you could find some "refresh" functions, reopening entire arsenal might not be the best, all you though

[cedar cape]

nope still doesent work

[opal zephyr]

doesnt help :(

[little raptor]

you've set the volume to 0 :\

[opal zephyr]

changed that aswell

currently looks like this

class CfgSounds
{
 sounds[] = {};
 class AngryCrowd
 {
 name = "AngryCrowd";
 sound[] = {"sound\AngryCrowd.ogg", 1,1};
 titles[] = {};
 };

 class HorrorSound
 {
 name = "HorrorSound";
 sound[] = {"sound\HorrorSound.ogg", 1,1};
 titles[] = {};
 };
 
 class Test1
 {
    name = "coords";
    sound[] = {"sound\invalidCoords.ogg", 1,1};
    titles[] = {};
 };
 
};

[little raptor]

say3D doesn't work either right?

[opal zephyr]

Ill try it now

nah didnt work when I used the player as the object

[little raptor]

have you closed the mission after updating description.ext?

[opal zephyr]

This problem was handed off to me by a friend who was having the same issues, I cant figure it out

I have starting it again, ill try going back to the main menu

[agile pumice]

which eventhandler triggers for creating groundholders on the ground? I thought put would work?

[copper raven]

put should work

[opal zephyr]

Restarting mission didnt work either, the debug console says "NOID <no shape>" When I execute playSound "Test1";

[tough abyss]

@cedar cape Alright time to figure out if this is just ACE being stupid or not

[cedar cape]

ive asked on ace discord, still waiting for a response

lets try and figure it out here for now though

[copper raven]

that function just switches disableUserInput on and off, error is probably elsewhere

[opal zephyr]

Frazzle can you explain what exactly you want to happen?

[cedar cape]

bassicly

[hallow mortar]

Are the sound files actually in a folder called sound inside the mission folder?

[tough abyss]

[] spawn {
  [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;  
  ["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;   
  waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 }; 
hint "waitUntil finished successfully";
  showCinemaBorder false;   
  ["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; 
};

Try that

[opal zephyr]

yes

[tough abyss]

If we don't see the hint then it's something with the condition

Otherwise something else is wrong, most likely with ACE

@copper raven Indeed I agree

Though going to make absolutely sure regardless

[hallow mortar]

and they are really .ogg files, that were definitely properly converted to .ogg and not just by changing the file extension manually?

[opal zephyr]

yup, one of the ones I was testing is right from the arma files

[cedar cape]

player gets to waypoint, ace interact is disabled, player rappels out of heli, when rappeling is finished and they are on the ground cinema border from the starting cutscene dissapears and ace interact is re-enabled and they can play the mission

[cedar cape]

alr

[agile pumice]

https://cbateam.github.io/CBA_A3/docs/files/common/fnc_removeWeaponCargo-sqf.html#CBA_fnc_removeWeaponCargo is broken?

[copper raven]

broken how?

[agile pumice]

it's not removing the item and is returning false

[cedar cape]

ill join one of the vcs and screenshare so you can see if im doing anything wrong

ooooooooooo

[tough abyss]

Cannot vc at the moment as I'm at work

[cedar cape]

ive had a response from ppl on ace3 discord

ah

https://imgur.com/WHRtnyq

thats what theyve said

[tough abyss]

Doubt but sure

As earlier versions of your code wouldn't have had that issue and still didn't work

[copper raven]

that's not the issue

[cedar cape]

yeah

[copper raven]

relational < has even lower precedence than select in that case 😄

[copper raven]

https://github.com/CBATeam/CBA_A3/blob/master/addons/common/fnc_removeWeaponCargo.sqf#L39-L59

something to look at

[tough abyss]

@cedar cape Best to just see if that hint works or not

[cedar cape]

I’m doing it now

[opal zephyr]

I think I figured out my sounds issue, thanks for the help everyone. I believe the sound files are broken and a little error on my part prevented me from seeing that during testing

[agile pumice]

would this not work for uniforms?

[distant egret]

No anything on units is not considered Cargo. Vehicles and ammo boxes are considered Cargo.

[cedar cape]

alr

so the hint plays

but the border wont go away

[copper raven]

check the rpt to see what it's outputting

[finite dirge]

It just came back

[cedar cape]

it works

@tough abyss what now

[tough abyss]

So then the issue is not the condition failing

So probably an issue with ACE

[agile pumice]

removeWeapon doesn't work either

[tough abyss]

One last thing you could try is putting a sleep 3; or something after the hint but it seems like a pretty cut-and-dry ACE issue to me

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/removeUniform / https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/removeItem

[agile pumice]

does this work for cargo containers?

parameter says unit

[cedar cape]

alr

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/clearItemCargoGlobal then

no wait nvm, it deletes everything

[agile pumice]

indeed it does

[copper raven]

https://github.com/CBATeam/CBA_A3/blob/master/addons/common/fnc_removeItemCargo.sqf this will work

ahh yeah i remember that, the only way to remove stuff like that seperately you literally have to remove everything and readd everything but what you want to "delete"

[agile pumice]

there's no mention of "uniform" in the removeItemCargo cba function

gonna relaunch arma and try it

[distant egret]

A uniform is an item when added to a cargo object.

What are you trying to achieve? Might make it easier to find the correct function for you.

[agile pumice]

ah I see

yeah that worked

[distant egret]

👍

[mighty jackal]

I need help editing firewills ECM script i want it to be where you click the action then it goes away runs the ECM process then after its over and recharges you get the useraction back instead of being able to click it infinite about of times with multiple ECMs running
https://pastebin.com/05un5y2Q

[meager granite]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

Check _condition

Do you do addAction on the vehicle or the unit?

[mighty jackal]

            {
                displayName = "<t color='#ffa500'>AN/AAR-47 ECM ON</t>";
                position = "pilotcontrol";
                radius = 2;
                condition = "alive this and (driver this == player or gunner this == player)";
                statement = "[this] execVM ""\uh60\scripts\ECM_ON.sqf"";";
                onlyforplayer = "False";
            };```

thats the useraction

[meager granite]

Is there an off action?

[mighty jackal]

there is not

but would the script support that?

[meager granite]

Probably not, just wondering

[mighty jackal]

i saw in the script theres this in the beginning and this at the end _heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","true",true]; and _heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","true",true];

[meager granite]

Is the script running itself again on incoming missile?

_ecmhandle = _heli addEventHandler ["incomingMissile", {[_this] execVM "\uh60\scripts\ECM.sqf"}];

[mighty jackal]

does one of those need to be a false?

[winter rose]

weeeeee 🥳

[mighty jackal]

here is the script that is called to run

[meager granite]

"yes" and "no"?

[mighty jackal]

private _heliarray = _this select 0;
private _heli = _heliarray select 0;
private _enemyweapon = _heliarray select 1;
private _enemy = _heliarray select 2;

if (not alive _heli) exitWith {};
/*
new ECM system based on SensorsManagerComponent

if enemy missile has Active/PassiveRadarComponent, Missile will be jammed. if not, missile will be not jammed and warn to player for drop the flares.

*/

private _r = floor random 100;
private _stat = _heli getVariable ["AWS_ECM_STAT",50];

private _missile_sensor_list = (configProperties [configFile >> "cfgammo" >> _enemyweapon >> "Components" >> "SensorsManagerComponent" >> "Components", "isClass _x"]) apply {gettext (_x >> "componentType")};
private _missile_sensor_act = _missile_sensor_list find "ActiveRadarSensorComponent";
private _missile_sensor_pas = _missile_sensor_list find "PassiveRadarSensorComponent";
if (_missile_sensor_act >= 0 or _missile_sensor_pas >= 0) then
{
    if (_r > _stat) exitWith {_heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM: JAMMING FAILED - DROP COUNTERMEASURE NOW!!";};
    _mssl = nearestobject [_enemy, _enemyweapon];

    waitUntil {_mssl distance _heli < 500};

    _ewdir = getdir _mssl;
    _ewdir = _ewdir - 180;
    _mssl setdir _ewdir;
    _heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM: MISSILE JAMMED";
    deletevehicle _mssl;
}
else
{
    _heli vehiclechat "SYSTEM: IR MSSL DETECTED - DROP COUNTERMEASURE NOW!!";
};

[meager granite]

Please move it to pastebin

Oh its different scripts, "ECM_ON.sqf" and "ECM.sqf"

[mighty jackal]

https://pastebin.com/h43yUuDq

[meager granite]

I think

condition = "alive this and (driver this == player or gunner this == player) and (this getVariable ['ECMJAMMER', 'yes'] == 'yes')";

will do the trick for you

in the UserActions

[mighty jackal]

but should i do an on and off?

i just want to stop it where a player can't spam turn on the jammer

like if they try to click it again like make it check and be like "ecm already running"

[meager granite]

This should have the action disappear when you press it

[mighty jackal]

what does the yes yes do in the condition if he has true true?

[meager granite]

There are delays in the script and once it reaches

_heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","yes",true];

line

Read
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVariable
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getVariable

it sets it to "yes" and "no" strings

true is MP broadcast flag

[mighty jackal]

so your saying i should change the first line of setvariable which is _heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","no",true]; to _heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","yes",true];

[meager granite]

this getVariable ['ECMJAMMER', 'yes'] == 'yes'
means to check if ECMJAMMER variable is equal to yes with yes being default if not set (script didn't run before)

No you shouldn't change anything, just try my condition

[mighty jackal]

_heli setVariable ["ECMJAMMER","yes",true]; is also at the end of the script

[meager granite]

Script sets this string flag already at the start and end of the script

"yes" probably means "yes, available"

bad idea to use strings for true/false flag, but I'm not offering to improve the script, just make it work as is

[mighty jackal]

what i'm saying is is it setup correctly in the script like the first one is no and the last variable check is yes

[meager granite]

Just use the condition I gave you, it should make it all work

Condition in the action config

[mighty jackal]

ok i'll test it

[stable dune]

And there you can add just

 ["ECHJAMMER",true,true]

and add in condition

this getVariable "ECHJAMMER"

And add that off

this
setVariable ["ECHJAMMER",false,true]

[meager granite]

Script itself already sets ECMJAMMER variable to no in the beginning and yes once its done

just check it in condition

[stable dune]

Okey

[mighty jackal]

thank you so much it worked

[meager granite]

👌

[mighty jackal]

so to do an off do i just do condition = "alive this and (driver this == player or gunner this == player) and (this getVariable ['ECMJAMMER', 'no'] == 'no')";

[meager granite]

No, script doesn't support it being turned off

[mighty jackal]

ok

[meager granite]

Won't work without modifying the script

[mighty jackal]

i'll atleast try to tell firewill to add the condition to his useraction for it because thats a real problem that you can spam it

[short anchor]

Is it possible to use _forEachIndex, or retrieve an index, with apply?

As apply is similar to JS map, or .NET LINQ Select, I'd like to use it to transform an array but also require the index.

Of course, I could use forEach. I'm just wondering if apply will also work in this case as it reads a bit less verbose.

[winter rose]

… use foreach 😄

[short anchor]

I was waiting for it 😂

Thank you

[timid torrent]

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to make a mod that keeps the player's view level with the horizon in helicopter flight, possibly by tilting and rolling against the helicopter. I think it might provide better kinesthetic sense at the extremes: precise hovering and high angle / high speed / high altitude maneuvers.

I'm starting to get the idea that the answer is 'not really'. The wiki seems to suggest that the camera object is only used in cutscenes where player input is dismissed. My guess is that it also won't preserve the HUD. Would anyone know if that's correct?

The other approach I can think of is modding the behavior at the level of the helicopter. This also seems unfeasible.

[meager granite]

Agreed, wish there was _applyIndex and _selectIndex, constantly finding myself needing the index when doing applys and selects

[past wagon]

private _milCarLocations = [
    [//Area/Location
        2.75, //Count modifier
        [[1703.59,5007.7,-0.000293255],216.15], //Position and direction
        [[1867.74,5571,-0.000293255],118.081],
        [[1909.58,5798.86,-0.000277996],92.4968],
        [[2026.64,5266.28,-0.000293255],282.165],
        [[2077.57,5489.16,-1.28746e-005],190.73],
        [[2103.14,5734.3,0.00021553],25.1],
        [[2115.67,5881.79,7.34329e-005],283.724],
        [[2147.01,5357.28,-0.000211716],193.983],
        [[2177.71,5723.84,-0.000293255],192.282],
        [[2265.93,5776.85,-8.44002e-005],101.199]
    ],
    [
        0.625,
        [[4342.61,3876.16,-0.000305176],282.69],
        [[4365.64,3751.7,0.00434875],140.78],
        [[4384.76,3818.31,0.00698853],357.376]
    ],
    [
        0.625,
        [[6407.38,5389.96,-0.000181675],220.869],
        [[6484.69,5358.4,-0.0099287],137.236],
        [[6592.03,5327.42,-0.000579834],65.1515]
    ],
];

private _milCars = [
    "B_LSV_01_unarmed_F", 2,
    "O_T_LSV_02_unarmed_black_F", 2,
    "B_Quadbike_01_F", 1
];

{
    _location = _x;
    for "_i" from 1 to (1 + (_location deleteAt 0)) do {
        _posAndDir = selectRandom _location;
        _location deleteAt (_location find _posAndDir);
        _posAndDir params ["_position", "_direction"];
        private _carType = selectRandomWeighted _milCars;
        private _car =  createVehicle [_carType, _position];
        _car setDir _direction;
    };
} forEach _milCarLocations;
```I'm trying to use this script to randomly spawn vehicles in some places, but no vehicles are being created. I'm not sure what the problem is, can anyone tell?

[copper raven]

    ],
];

[winter rose]

USE SQFBIN, IT'S BACK! 😄

[copper raven]

        _posAndDir = selectRandom _location;
        _location deleteAt (_location find _posAndDir);

why? generate a random number and use it in the deleteAt

[past wagon]

thanks, but that's actually not the issue. I trimmed the massive array that I had down to post in here.

[copper raven]

and your "count modifier" doesn't make a lot of sense, it won't round, so for the last two in your array, you are always looping once

[past wagon]

oh, I forgot to round. let me fix that

[past wagon]

_posAndDir = _location deleteAt (floor (random (count _location)));
```like this?

[copper raven]

use floor and remove the -1

[plain jackal]

Hey, im trying to get a car with a bunch of AI civilians driving around the mission AO while blasting some music on a loop
in a MP coop
what's the best way of making this happen?
i've been messing around with remoteExec'ing a while loop with say3D and sleep <song duration>
however there's some issues with the song looping again before its finished, resulting in two songs playing at the same time

the exact code is while { alive datsun1 } do { datsun1 say3D ["01bashar", 500, 1, false, 0];uiSleep 215;};

which is then remoteExec'd in a regular "civilian present" trigger

[copper raven]

if you're using it in a trigger, why remote exec?

don't make it server only

for the issue, you need to store a state if sound is playing right now or no, preferably, get/setVariable

[tough abyss]

Could also just use a sound source so it loops automatically

Then delete the sound source when the object dies

[plain jackal]

i tried using playSound3D but the sound didnt follow the car

[copper raven]

can your trigger be reactivated?

[plain jackal]

it's not set to be repeatable if that's what you mean

[copper raven]

then remove the remote exec and the issue should be fixed

[plain jackal]

ok, and i assume instead i'd just put the code into the init field of the trig?

[copper raven]

activation field you mean

[plain jackal]

yep yep, mbad

the activation field, yeah

[copper raven]

yes

[plain jackal]

alright i'll give it a go when i have the moment

thank you very much for the advice 🙂

appreciate it

[past wagon]

private _milCarLocations = [
    [//Location
        1 + round random 0.625, //Count modifier
        [[4342.61,3876.16,-0.000305176],282.69], //Position and direction
        [[4365.64,3751.7,0.00434875],140.78],
        [[4384.76,3818.31,0.00698853],357.376]
    ],
    [
        1 + round random 0.625,
        [[6407.38,5389.96,-0.000181675],220.869],
        [[6484.69,5358.4,-0.0099287],137.236],
        [[6592.03,5327.42,-0.000579834],65.1515]
    ],
    [
        1,
        [[4898.18,5888.98,0.0282898],18.8506],
        [[5022.66,5905.18,0.000427246],321.174]
    ],
    [
        1 + round random 0.625,
        [[3261.8,2907.89,-6.10352e-005],124.623],
        [[3283.09,2930.63,-0.000305176],332.484],
        [[3336.28,2896.5,-0.00233459],91.6926],
        [[3386.77,2995.05,0.0181274],253.161]
    ],
    [
        1,
        [[1920.55,3561.64,0.00286341],201.366],
        [[1971.29,3527.46,-0.000224829],89.3082]
    ],
    [
        1,
        [[2985.41,1871.83,-0.000335693],193.987]
    ],
];
private _milCars = [
    "B_LSV_01_unarmed_F", 2,
    "O_T_LSV_02_unarmed_black_F", 2,
    "B_Quadbike_01_F", 1
];
{
    _location = _x;
    for "_i" from 1 to (_location deleteAt 0) do {
        _posAndDir = _location deleteAt (floor (random (count _location)));
        _posAndDir params ["_position", "_direction"];
        private _carType = selectRandomWeighted _milCars;
        private _car =  createVehicle [_carType, _position];
        _car setDir _direction;
    };
} forEach _milCarLocations;
```Okay, so this is my updated code, and still no cars...

[tough abyss]

Oh my

I can say I certainly can't recommend selecting randomly using deleteAt whilst also iterating over the array you're deleting from

[winter rose]

also, https://sqfbin.com/ is still back

[copper raven]

it's not iterating over the array that's being deleted

[tough abyss]

No it's not but the sub arrays are being altered

[winter rose]

round random 0.625 what is this 😄

[copper raven]

the script most likely doesn't do anything afterwards, the _milCarLocations is always redefined when this is called, i see no issue here

[tough abyss]

Just bad practice, arrays should be immutable while iterating ideally

[copper raven]

it is though, the one that is actually "being iterated" over

the for loop is just randomly picking elements, not iterating over anything

[tough abyss]

Just don't think it's good to be deleting elements out of the sub-arrays even if the parent array is the one being iterated, feel free to disagree

It's not the core issue anyways

[copper raven]

if you didn't want to delete them out of subarrays, you either have to do a deep copy, or have something that tracks what has been selected so far, so it's a waste of perf

[little raptor]

I would say 12.5% chance for having 2 instead of 1

actually it's not 12.5% due to the distribution of the bell curve, but anyway it's something like that

anyway, I don't see anything wrong either

unless the positions are wrong

[tough abyss]

@copper raven Indeed, I meant moreso that I think there's a cleaner way to do it overall rather than maintaining the current structure without deleteAt

Curious that it isn't working though

[winter rose]

(there is no bell curve with this syntax?)

[tough abyss]

Pretty sure random follows bell curve regardless

[little raptor]

well whatever random uses then

[tough abyss]

But dunno what psuedoRNG system random is using

[copper raven]

the code should work, do player setPosATL getPosATL _car; after you create it, it should put you right next to it

[tough abyss]

Also keep in mind createVehicle with that syntax expects ATL positioning

[past wagon]

yeah

[past wagon]

is this the issue? Is it skipping anything?

[tough abyss]

No it's not the issue

[past wagon]

it was supposed to be a 25% chance of there being 2 instead of 1, but I realized it was incorrect and was too lazy to change it actually I think it's correct

oh my god

guess what guys

turns out I actually wasn't running the script

🤪

[tough abyss]

and no it's not a 25% chance

you want 0.666 for a 25% chance of getting 2

[winter rose]

or```sqf
selectRandom [1, 1, 1, 2];

[tough abyss]

yeah or that

[winter rose]

yeah, that 😄

[tough abyss]

Uhhhh

NaN

[distant oyster]

I have the following text:

/*
Description:
    This is the multiline
    description.

Includes:
    None

Included by:
    - TER_VASS\addons\3den\Cfg3den.hpp
*/
``` what is the correct regex to capture

This is the multiline
description.

(can be python regex or sqf regex)

discard, found the solution, will post shortly

(?<=Description:\n)(?:^\t.*$\n)+

i already know that \n is going to bite me in the ass with needing \r\n on Windows

[winter rose]

I had something like that yeah Description:(.*?)^[^\s]

[winter rose]

or you can regex all line returns to \n for the time being ^^

$input = preg_replace('/(\r\n|\r[^\n])$/m', "\n", $input);
```straight from SQF Highlighter

[distant oyster]

i am still wondering if regex will ever be replaced

this syntax is just horrible to read and understand

[winter rose]

it's lovely and everyone should know it ❤️

[winter rose]

(I removed the m modifier from it btw)

[tough abyss]

Not that it's particularly needed but this website is a godsend for working with and/or learning RegEx and I recommend it to everyone
https://regexr.com/

[winter rose]

I use regex101.com, but I encounter more regexr subscribers indeed!

[tough abyss]

It's just the first one I used (and continue to use) so it left an impression on me :P

[past wagon]

does anyone know why this might not be working?

player allowDamage false;

I have this in initPlayerLocal after waitUntil { !isNull player } and I am still taking fall damage

[winter rose]

mods

[past wagon]

nope

no mods

[winter rose]

other scripts then.

[past wagon]

I don't use allowDamage anywhere else

[winter rose]

you don't run the script once more then 🙃

[past wagon]

and this was working fine yesterday, I don't know what I changed

nah it's initPlayerLocal lol, the rest of it is running

[winter rose]

respawn on start

[past wagon]

nope

[winter rose]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[past wagon]

no respawn

[winter rose]

check it runs with a systemChat or something

[past wagon]

ok

[winter rose]

should be your first reflexxx

[past wagon]

[] spawn {
    sleep 5;
    systemChat str isDamageAllowed player;
};
``` This is printing "false" and I am still dying to fall damage

[winter rose]

don't fall then 😂

[leaden ibex]

Hey ya all, I am back for some questions, sadly not simple enough this time and. And maybe slightly offtopic, but can't think of a better channel for them.
This thing happened two weeks ago and this week again (it's a event played once every week).
The server crashed with simple Array index out of range in the server logs, even 4 times.
Any idea what could have caused it? It was pretty heavily modded, but I am not sure if to look into mods (sqf parts), extensions, mission file.
This did not happen last week, so there's one mod I am thinking about that was the same for those two and wasn't in last week, but I checked it and all "array ops" it does is with in, so I don't know where else to look, as it could be anywhere.

TLDR - Array index out of range in rpt of the server, where should I start looking for the culprit? What can cause this to be in the rpt?

[past wagon]

are aircraft carriers special or something?

[winter rose]

some event handler, other than that you'll have to check what you changed

[past wagon]

oh

yeah that would be it

[granite sky]

Since Arma 3 v1.56 arrays are limited to maximum of 9,999,999 (sometimes 10,000,000) elements

[leaden ibex]

Even with the 170 players there were two weeks ago, I highly doubt anything could have gone over 10mil.

[granite sky]

That's only ~1400 elements added per second :P

shrugs

[leaden ibex]

This week, it was around 110 iirc.
Also after server restart two weeks ago, we managed to finish the mission, only with slight (read really big) desync at the start.
This week, it crashed even faster (during 5 min warmup/freezetime) the second time (first time it crashed after like 8 minutes or so)

[granite sky]

hmm

This is with some sort of state persistence between restarts?

[winter rose]

Array index out of range
are you sure it is related to the crash and not just a script error?

[leaden ibex]

nope, it's one-life mission, so everything was as new as it get's

[leaden ibex]

all three times, this is one of the last things inside the rpt

[winter rose]

then #server_admins

[granite sky]

SQF array index out of range gives you a divide by zero anyway

so yeah, server issue

[past wagon]

player addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {
    params ["_player", "", "_damage", "_source"];
    switch (true) do {
        case ((vehicle _player) isKindOf "Car" && (isNull _source || _source isEqualTo _player)): { (_damage / 3) };
        case ((vehicle _player) isKindOf "Steerable_Parachute_F" && (isNull _source || _source isEqualTo _player)): { 0 };
    };
}];
```would this be what was causing the bug?

[past wagon]

^

[winter rose]

would this be what was causing the bug?
remove it and try?

[leaden ibex]

That's the thing, what if it was caused by an extension. Using ACE, TFAR, (really old) OCAP and custom stats addon (the whole extension is in try-catch, so I highly doubt it would be it).

[leaden ibex]

Main thing I wanted to try to find out here is where to look. Scripts, mods, or something else. If anyone knows what could cause Array index out of range to be inside the logs.

[granite sky]

Dedmen might but he probably won't tell you :P

[winter rose]

see https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/92506-array-index-out-of-range/ scripting-side

[leaden ibex]

Yeah, that would be really appreciated if he could. Makes me wanna join BI, take a look, fix it, leave

[copper raven]

if you said the mods might have extensions, it could be the extension crashing the game aswell

[leaden ibex]

I was mainly hoping to see, if someone experienced this before.
I am afraid I might need to start creating a big test-suite trying to figure out what could cause it

[leaden ibex]

Of that I am aware, hence why (my) stats plugin has the entire extension inside

try {
} catch (...) {
}

And the others, TFAR, ACE and OCAP were being used for a long time. (Mine for only ~two months), but this started to happen recently

[copper raven]

maybe it's related to the output size, are you aware of that?

an extension can only return a certain buffer length, if you write more than that, the game crashes, but i'm not sure if this is the same error, just guessing 😄

[leaden ibex]

For the extensions, into the output char*?

[copper raven]

yea

[leaden ibex]

I am just returning whatever it was called with. I am not checking it, but it is never longer than ~60 chars

[copper raven]

yeah, nvm then, that's fine

[granite sky]

Apparently trying to make a >10m entry array just throws Error Max array size would be reached

[leaden ibex]

into the RPT?

[granite sky]

sure, if you enabled logging.

Various wildly bad indexes just throw Error Zero divisor

[leaden ibex]

but no Array index out of bounds...
Sometimes, I miss C++ compiler errors (hope at least someone get's the joke)

[hallow mortar]

I'm not 100% on whether this is what's getting past allowDamage false, but this itself will not do what it's supposed to.
The _damage variable returned by handleDamage is the total damage state of the selection after the new damage is applied (if the original incoming damage isn't overridden in the EH). So let's say your player has 0.2 damage, then receives 0.3 damage. _damage would be 0.5. And that's what you're dividing by 3 in the EH. In that case, it would result in the player ending up with 0.17 damage - less than they started with!

If you want to reduce only the incoming damage, you need to getHit the affected selection to return the pre-impact state, and compare it to the new damage value to determine the delta (_damageAmount = _damage - _oldDamage), and then operate on that. (And then add your modified value back on to oldDamage before you return it)

Also when the other case returns 0, that means setting the selection's damage to 0, meaning a guaranteed full heal, not just blocking damage

[past wagon]

ohhhhh thank you

that is really helpful

I had no clue

[meager granite]

I have respawn timer hidden in my mission, but I can't find out how I did it

Anybody remembers how its done?

Talking about default respawn timer you see below the scoreboard when you die in MP

[tough abyss]

Could be the result of a COUNTER respawn template or setPlayerRespawnTime

[cedar cape]

anyone know why this script isnt working? ```[] spawn {
[blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;
["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;
waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 };
hint "hint";
["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;
showCinemaBorder false;
};

[open fractal]

vague

[cedar cape]

wdym

everything bellow the hint is broken

idk why

[tough abyss]

still stuck on that eh

[cedar cape]

yep

its pain

idk why its happeing

ima try the old script

[meager granite]

respawn=3;
respawnDelay=2e6;

Setting low\high setPlayerRespawnTime doesn't do anything, just displays minuses instead of time

Somehow I managed to hide the actual counter and I can't remember how

[cedar cape]

i feel like it works

i tried it in a test world

with only that and when im finished i can move

and use ace interact

i think its the cinema borders causing the problem

[tough abyss]

Why is your respawnDelay 2e6

[meager granite]

Gotta punish the player for dying somehow

Just kidding, I just manually trigger the respawn when needed with setPlayerRespawnTime 0 later

[tough abyss]

hm

@cedar cape Perhaps, why not just try a test without the borders?

I dug up the source code for that ace disable inputs function you're using

[cedar cape]

thats the thing

[tough abyss]

/* 
* Author: Glowbal * Disables the user input. Works stacked. *
* Arguments: 
* 0: id 
* 1: disable 
* * Return Value: 
* None 
* * Example: 
*["id", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus 
* * Public: Yes 
*/

params [["_id", "#", [""]], ["_disable", false, [false]]];
if (isNil QGVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION)) then { 
  GVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION) = []; 
}; 
if (_disable) then { 
  GVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION) pushBack _id; 
  [true] call FUNC(disableUserInput); 
} else { 
  GVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION) = GVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION) - [_id];
  if (GVAR(DISABLE_USER_INPUT_COLLECTION) isEqualTo []) then {
    [false] call FUNC(disableUserInput); 
  };
};

seems like it shouldn't be breaking

[cedar cape]

using the original script

with cinema borders true, they dont enable in the first place

like that script on its own

[tough abyss]

what I mean is just rip out the borders entirely

narrow the problem down to just the ace code

[] spawn { 
  [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;   
  ["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus;    
  waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 };  
  hint "hint"; 
  ["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; 
};

try just that ^

if it still doesn't work then something is going wrong with ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus

[cedar cape]

alr

[south swan]

seems like "Show respawn counter" flag in the attributes is that?

in the "Rulesets" list

[cedar cape]

nope it works fine

hint plays, ace interact is enabled again

its a problem with the cinema borders not ace i would say

[tough abyss]

Okay

[cedar cape]

what i could do is disable the cinema borders when the player is flying to the mission area

but if i did do that they could shoot out the heli and use keybinds

and break the mission and stuff

[tough abyss]

I don't see why you are so worried about using the cinema borders and the ace disable interact

borders themselves don't do anything to input it's entirely visual

[meager granite]

True, it must be some mission.sqm setting

[cedar cape]

true, but for ace interact they could cut the ropes mid rappel which would break the mission

[tough abyss]

Is that not blocked with ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus?

just having cinema borders wouldn't stop it either

[meager granite]

respawnDialog=0; probably

[cedar cape]

it is i think

so im not sure whats going on

[tough abyss]

alright how about this

[cedar cape]

this script here [] spawn { [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI; ["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 }; hint "hint"; ["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; }; works fine

so does the old one

[tough abyss]

ok

so what's the issue

[cedar cape]

idk

[tough abyss]

that you want the borders?

[cedar cape]

yeah

idk if this is the issue

but

the trigger goes all the way down to the ground so when the player has finished rappeling they are still inside the trigger zone

[tough abyss]

Is the trigger set to allow multiple activations?

[cedar cape]

whereas on all of the test missions the trigger doesent touch the ground and is only on the heli

no it isnt

[tough abyss]

shouldn't be an issue then

[cedar cape]

but it might be the issue, unlikley but thats the only thing that has changed

[tough abyss]

how about this

right where you're doing

showCinemaBorder true;

add

disableUserInput true;

afterwards

[south swan]

oh, how do i love the Eden "CustomAttributes" structure. It seems to include a string with value="Counter" when the counter is enabled 🤦‍♂️

[tough abyss]

and then change your trigger code to

[] spawn { 
  [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI;
  waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 };  
  hint "hint"; 
  disableUserInput false;
  showCinemaBorder false;
};

[cedar cape]

alr

[cedar cape]

this is already in the init, ill add disable user input

[meager granite]

Oh, so having nothing there disables it

[south swan]

Forces drawing of cinema borders when using custom camera camCreate.
does it even work without a custom camera? Doesn't seem to in my editor

[tough abyss]

Yes I meant add it after since it's already there

[south swan]

yep

[tough abyss]

honestly I'm not sure, that could frankly be the issue

@cedar cape have the borders ever worked?

[cedar cape]

ye

in the intro cutscene

they just dont go away when the player rappels

[tough abyss]

does that cutscene use a separate camera from when you rappel

[cedar cape]

wdym

[tough abyss]

does the cutscene use a custom camera

or is it all just player cam

[cedar cape]

starting one?

[tough abyss]

yes

[cedar cape]

dont think so

blackhawk engineOn true;
[blackhawk, parseSimpleArray loadFile "data.txt"] spawn BIS_fnc_unitPlay;

cutText ["","BLACK FADED"];

waitUntil {!isNull findDisplay 46};

cutText ["","BLACK IN"];

[0,0,false] spawn BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder;

player1 switchMove "Acts_welcomeOnHUB01_PlayerWalk_5";

_EH = player1 addEventHandler ["AnimStateChanged", {
    params ["_unit"];
    _unit switchMove "Acts_welcomeOnHUB01_PlayerWalk_5";
}];
while {player1 distance2D blackhawk >= 5} do {
    _dir = getPosWorld player1 vectorFromTo getPosWorld blackhawk;
    _dir set [2, 0];
    _dir = vectorNormalized _dir;
    player1 setVectorDirAndUp [_dir, [0,0,1]];
    sleep 0.1;
};
player1 removeEventHandler ["AnimStateChanged", _EH];
_cam = "camera" camCreate (blackhawk modelToWorld [5, 5, 0]);
_cam attachTo [player1, [0.2, 0, 0.05], "head", true];
player1 switchMove "GetInHelicopterCargoRfl";
player1 action ["GetInCargo", blackhawk];
while {!(player1 in blackhawk)} do {
    sleep 0.1;
};

switchCamera player1;
camDestroy _cam;```

thats the starting one

[tough abyss]

so the cutscene is using a custom camera

_cam = "camera" camCreate (blackhawk modelToWorld [5, 5, 0]);

^ that's a custom camera

[cedar cape]

oh ok

[tough abyss]

that's why the borders work

borders only work with a custom camera, not player cam, apparently

[cedar cape]

wut

it works with player cam at start tho

[tough abyss]

_cam is not the player's cam

[cedar cape]

thats getting into the heli

the walk animation at the start is the player cam

[south swan]

[0,0,false] spawn BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder; doesn't seem to have anything to do with showCinemaBorder, though

[tough abyss]

honestly I can't even tell what's going on because I never see _cam even being switched to now that I'm looking more closely

yeah you're also spawning BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder which is supposed to be called

which I don't get because you should just be using showCinemaBorder anyways

[south swan]

[0,0,false] spawn BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder; is disabled by [1,0,false] spawn BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder; 🤷‍♂️

[cedar cape]

the yt vid i was watching said to use spawn

[cedar cape]

ooooo

i can try that

[tough abyss]

Dunno, wiki says to use call so I'm relaying that

[south swan]

oh, wow, looks like hax. BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder does use showCinemaBorder but also manually creates the border with ("BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder" call BIS_fnc_rscLayer) cutRsc ["RscCinemaBorder", "PLAIN"]; (and destroys it with ("BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder" call BIS_fnc_rscLayer) cutText ["", "PLAIN"];) on top of other magic

[tough abyss]

Would explain why trying to disable it with normal showCinemaBorder doesn't work at least

[south swan]

yep

[cedar cape]

im gonna use [1,0,false] spawn BIS_fnc_cinemaBorder; instead and see if it works

[cedar cape]

ono

i cant close mission now

and return to eden

o shit

[tough abyss]

Just close the game and revert

don't need to do that method anymore

[cedar cape]

so i just use [] spawn { [blackHawk] call ace_fastroping_fnc_deployAI; ["cutscene", true] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; waitUntil { sleep 0.1; getPosATL player select 2 < 1 }; hint "waitUntil finished successfully"; showCinemaBorder false; ["cutscene", false] call ace_common_fnc_setDisableUserInputStatus; }; and replace the showcinemaborder with the other one?

LETS FUCKING GO

IT WORKED

LETS GO

WOWOWOWOOWEWSO=DW

POG

[warm hedge]

Let's not spam.

[cedar cape]

my bad

sorry ive been tryna do this for 3 days

[stiff isle]

What is the practical usage of if (isServer) then when I am doing a MP mission.

[warm hedge]

If you want to execute something that has to done only in server, that's the usage. Some script commands needs to be executed in server side

[stiff isle]

Do I have to use it if saying like, I am enabling an AI's simulation with a trigger?

[still forum]

Yes that would crash, but thats not a script error, thats a engine error which.. indeed will force crash itself after printing it

[still forum]

No thats wrong

[still forum]

Just report the crash with crash dumps on feedback tracker, like the Arma launcher already tells you if it detects a crash.

[still forum]

its not

[leaden ibex]

Will do once I get them. The server admin is on holidays and noone else has access to the files itself, only RPT through web interface.

But thank you for confirming my hunch, that this isn't normal and isn't something I can easily find and fix. Saved me some time and tears.

[tacit condor]

morning, stupid question if I want to group songs in 'folders' with my mod will this work?

class CfgMusic

{
    odd[] = 
    {
      title, oddOne,
    };

    veryOdd[] =
    {
      title1, title2,
    };

};
class CfgMusicClasses
{
    class songs

    {
        displayName = "some music";
    };
};

[winter rose]

no.

[tacit condor]

ehhh

[winter rose]

what is "group song in folders"?

[tacit condor]

group song in folder?

as in if I create a folder structure it will reflect on zeus GUI?

[winter rose]

I do not think you can
does Zeus have music directories?

[tacit condor]

ZEN has it...

haven't used vanilla zeus since like 2017...

[winter rose]

so, it seems you can

see https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/210308-problem-with-a-mod-scripting/

[tacit condor]

🤔 thanks!

Will report at some point if it works

[winter rose]

something like

class CfgMusicClasses
{
    class DirClassName { displayName = "Directory Display Name"; };
};
class CfgMusic  
{ 
    class MyMusic
    {
        name = "Music Display Name";
        sound[] = { "\music\path.ogg", 1, 1 };
        duration = "123";
        musicClass = "DirClassName";
    };

[winter rose]

appreciated!

and it is a mod thing indeed - there is no such thing in Vanilla (though I wished)

[tacit condor]

music player in Zeus?

[fading magnet]

enemyUnits = ["TK_INS_Soldier_EP1","TK_INS_Soldier_Sniper_EP1","TK_INS_Warlord_EP1","TK_INS_Soldier_4_EP1","TK_INS_Soldier_MG_EP1"];
enemySpawnPnt = ["marker_1","marker_2","marker_3","marker_4"];

_i = count enemyUnits;
_j = count enemySpawnPnt;
infantryNumbers = 0;

while{true} do {
  while{infantryNumbers < 15} do {
      enemyUnits[random _i] createUnit [getMarkerPos enemySpawnPnt[random _j], enemyGroup];
      infantryNumbers = infantryNumbers + 1;
    };

_wp = enemyGroup addWaypoint [getPos player, 10];

sleep 30;
};```

I keep getting "missing ;" error on line 11 :(( what im doing wrong?

enemyUnits[random _i] createUnit [getMarkerPos enemySpawnPnt[random _j], enemyGroup];

on this line 👆

[warm hedge]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

```sqf
// your code here
hint "good!";
```
↓

// your code here
hint "good!";

[warm hedge]

And urm, assume you're trying to get an element of those arrays?

Like... in js

[winter rose]

a sometimes wise man once said

[lyric schooner]

stop using 'setPos' for the love of god
Leopard20; Tuesday, 10 August 2021

[fading magnet]

Yes, I want to spawn randomly type of soldiers in an array

[winter rose]

enemySpawnPnt[random _j] is not how you select random 🙂

[fading magnet]

I used getPos 🥺

[lyric schooner]

[winter rose]

selectRandom enemySpawnPnt 😉

[fading magnet]

Doesn't random integer gives random number 🤔

[winter rose]

enemySpawnPnt[random _j] is not a syntax in SQF

here you are setting enemySpawnPnt then creating an array [random _j]

[warm hedge]

1. Use select to get an element of an array
2. Indeed as Lou says you'll just need to use selectRandom in order to get a random element of an array

[winter rose]

plus it would be floor random _i

[fading magnet]

Oooh I see, thanks :D

[warm hedge]

Also, try not to use global variable too often. Use _ prefix to make your variable alive only in your script

[winter rose]

wait, @fading magnet, A2OA or A3?

[warm hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Variables
Some references

[fading magnet]

Arma 2 oa

[warm hedge]

Ooh

[winter rose]

so no selectRandom for you

[warm hedge]

Isn't BIS_fnc_selectRandom a thing already there?

[fading magnet]

Array select random length works?

[warm hedge]

Speaking of, I don't really know how select behaves if I throw a number like 1.3

[fading magnet]

Random gives out an integer right?

[warm hedge]

*A number, there is no int or scalar but only number

Which is basically equivalent of scalar

[fading magnet]

:(

Is there a round function like round(1.4) = 1

[warm hedge]

Use floor, ceil or round to make it a natural number

[fading magnet]

Ohh thanks 😊

[winter rose]

private ["_group", "_classes", "_spawnPoints", "_i", "_j", "_amount"];
_group = createGroup east;
_classes = ["TK_INS_Soldier_EP1", "TK_INS_Soldier_Sniper_EP1", "TK_INS_Warlord_EP1", "TK_INS_Soldier_4_EP1", "TK_INS_Soldier_MG_EP1"];
_spawnPoints = ["marker_1", "marker_2", "marker_3", "marker_4"];

_i = count _classes;
_j = count _spawnPoints;
_amount = 15;

for "_i" from 0 to _amount -1 do
{
    _classes select floor random _i createUnit [getMarkerPos (_spawnPoints select floor random _j), _group];
};

[group player, _group, 30, 10] spawn BIS_fnc_stalk;
```@fading magnet 😉

[warm hedge]

If index has decimal places it gets rounded down for fractions less than or equal .5, otherwise it gets rounded up.
Hmm I barely remembered that

[fading magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/mochi-peachcat-mochi-peachcat-hug-pat-gif-19092449

[winter rose]

I like the "technical limitations" challenge sometimes 😉

[warm hedge]

B-but since you're a green gang why not just hit Dedmen up and forces him to implement something

[winter rose]

I am not sure I would be allowed near Dedmen again if I asked him to merge A3 into A2OA :x

[warm hedge]

dedmen executeTimeMachine [2001,6,22]

[quiet geyser]

What's a good way to remove an addAction from players upon death? I've set up a script that gives squad leaders the ability to drop a rally point from an addAction, but there's an issue where when they die other people can also access the action. I assume I can do this from onPlayerKilled.sqf but how would I actually write that?

[warm hedge]

You can setVariable getVariable to pass/reuse an action ID

[winter rose]

this ↑ is the best solution for this case 🙂

additionally

when they die other people can also access the action
that's weird, death should not impact the action's conditions.

are you sure the action is not already available when the unit is alive?
also - it means that the action is added globally (like in an init field) and not locally (as it should for a personal action)

[quiet geyser]

Ok, let me break down how I've got this set up currently. I'm applying it in onPlayerRespawn.sqf, so that it'll apply to players as required both on mission start (using respawnOnStart = 0) and when they respawn, so that dying doesn't take away their ability to drop it. The way I've got it set up currently:
if (player in [GERSL1,GERSL2]) then { player addAction ["Set Rally", {GER_spawn1 setPos screenToWorld[0.5,0.5]}]; };
Where GERSL1 (or 2) is the player using the action, and GER_spawn1 is the object which has a respawn marker attached to it through another script.

I'm terribad at scripting so if you guys have a better way of doing this, please enlighten me.

[winter rose]

😋

[lyric schooner]

stop using 'setPos' for the love of god
Leopard20; Tuesday, 10 August 2021

[winter rose]

well, onPlayerRespawn.sqf executes locally so this addAction should not be replicated anywhere else

[quiet geyser]

It's not that it's replicated per se, more that the action remains on the corpse of the first player unit.

[winter rose]

ah, if the player respawns he can access his own old action, right? this yes

[quiet geyser]

Yeah correct

So it means that they have both their own, current action, but can then also get at the one on their body, cluttering things.

[winter rose]

yep 🙂
well you could either use the condition parameter
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction
or indeed remove the action, that's neater

(I am of the lazy kind myself)

[quiet geyser]

How would I go about doing that? Like I said, I'm really bad at scripting. Most of what I've got so far is butchered out of other scripts.

[winter rose]

lemme du eet

A3, correct?

if (player in [GERSL1, GERSL2]) then
{
  private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", { GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5]; }];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};
```@quiet geyser

in human language:

• add the action and grab its ID
• set the ID as an object's variable
• add an event handler where on death, the action ID is obtained, the action is removed, and the event handler is removed

[quiet geyser]

Nice. Does it allow for those players to respawn and they'll still have their addAction available?

[winter rose]

the same as before, the safety included

[quiet geyser]

Awesome, thanks!

Btw, should I be running this from onPlayerRespawn.sqf?

[winter rose]

yes, just where you previous script was

no other changes required, keys in hand, windshield wiped and oil levels checked, good to go!

[tough abyss]

(but the brake cables are cut, muahuahua)

[winter rose]

hey that's the chef's surprise, don't spoil it!

[tough abyss]

pls no ban

[winter rose]

!burgerpan @tough abyss 0 revealing my dark plans

[quiet geyser]

@winter rose
Also, I assume that if I wanted this to work in several different places (ie having this action available for different characters and different spawn objects) I could do something like below:

if (player in [GERSL1, GERSL2]) then
{
  private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", { GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5]; }];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};
if (player in [USSL1, USSL2]) then
{
  private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", { US_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5]; }];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId2", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId2", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};```

[winter rose]

please

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

```sqf
// your code here
hint "good!";
```
↓

// your code here
hint "good!";

[winter rose]

yes (but name the vars better please :D)

[quiet geyser]

yeah that was really more for proof of concept lol

Thanks a bunch.

On the off chance this isn't a large-ish undertaking, is there an easy way to make it so that this also can't be used when OPFOR is within a certain distance?

[little raptor]

east countSide (_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land", "Ship"], 200]) == 0

[quiet geyser]

Where would I put that into the above script?

[winter rose]

as a condition in your action's code 🙂

if -the code above- then -moveStuff-

[little raptor]

player addAction ["Set Rally", {...}, nil,
    1.5,
    true,
    true,
    "",
    toString {east countSide (_this nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land", "Ship"], 200]) == 0}
];

the above will hide the action when enemies are nearby tho

so it's kind of like cheating

[little raptor]

you can do it like Lou said instead

[winter rose]

and kinda heavy on perfs, nooo? 😋

[little raptor]

yeah

[quiet geyser]

Sorry to keep bothering you for a spoonfeed, but where in the code should that go?

[winter rose]

around your move stuff code

if (leopardsCondition) then
{
  moveTheBase;
};

[slim venture]

Hey guys, does anyone have the python code with opencv to plot the Armas 3 boundingbox in the image (print)?

[quiet geyser]

if (player in [GERSL1, GERSL2]) then
{
  private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", if (east countSide (_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land", "Ship"], 200]) == 0) then
{ GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5]; }];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};

[quiet geyser]

like so?

[winter rose]

aaalmost

private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", {
    if (east countSide (_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land", "Ship"], 200]) == 0) then
    {
        GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
    };
}];

[quiet geyser]

if (player in [GERSL1, GERSL2]) then
{
  private _actionId = player addAction ["Set Rally", {
    if (east countSide (_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land", "Ship"], 200]) == 0) then
    {
        GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
    };
}];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId1", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};

?

[winter rose]

WTF is this indentation.

yes
I think

[tough abyss]

is there an easy way of seeing what types of objects you can sort through using nearentities?

[winter rose]

it accepts all the classes; see the doc for parent classes like "CAManBase", "Air", etc
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearEntities

[tough abyss]

where is the doc? im not familiar with bi wiki

[granite sky]

Of course the typeless syntax includes butterflies :P

[winter rose]

I just linked it

what do you want in that case?

[tough abyss]

a way to sort for a tree if that doesnt need config to be sorted

[granite sky]

Can't parse that.

[winter rose]

nearEntities are for living entities (+ vehicles) afaik

[little raptor]

it's for "normally" simulated objects
PhysX + units

[winter rose]

for trees, see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearestTerrainObjects

[tough abyss]

aaaaah ok

[quiet geyser]

Got the following script error upon trying to test out the addAction:
0:35:58 Error in expression < if (east countSide (_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "La> 0:35:58 Error position: <_caller nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "La> 0:35:58 Error Undefined variable in expression: _caller

[little raptor]

replace _caller with player

you haven't defined it

[quiet geyser]

Yep that fixed it up, cheers.

[meager granite]

If you ask me, merge should overwrite left operand keys with right operand keys

Sounds like a bug that it doesn't and it might be better to face it and fix it now

All my usages of merge needed left hashmap to be overwritten with right operand hashmap

[cedar cape]

how could i create a scripted checkpoint for an ai vehicle to pass through, so the ai will drive up to the checkpoint, and some other ai will walk around the vehicle checking it and then the gate will open, like in old man

[smoky rune]

I want to emit sound from some invisible object
"Logic" classname for some reason does not works for me
is there any classname that suits this need?

[winter rose]

yes, a logic (or any other thing like invisible helipad)
what did you try so far?

[smoky rune]

I copied Game Logic classname with Eden Enhanced tools (it outputted the "Logic" classname) and it didn't work
Oh, I forgot about invisible helipad, usually it worked, brb

[quiet geyser]

Completely unrelated to my last question; does anyone have a good script lying around for an addAction that just spawns a given classname of unit and then adds them to the player that used the action's group?

[smoky rune]

Yeah, it works
Thanks for suggestion again!

[tough abyss]

i just remembered why you dont use sleep in the debug console

[fair gulch]

Is there a way to open a link when player is kicked for missing mod?

[winter rose]

doable here

[winter rose]

no, AFAIK

[winter rose]

player addAction ["Add moar manpowah!", {
  group player createUnit ["B_Soldier_F", getPosATL player, [], 5, "NONE"];
}];

[cedar cape]

2 questions, first one, how can i created an ai checkpoint that will check an ai vehicle coming through and then open a gate to let it through, second question how can i create an optional stealth objective that fails when the enemy is alerted

[quiet geyser]

Think the first player up there is supposed to be this etc. but otherwise this works beautifully, thanks again!

[winter rose]

the group player below should also be replace by```sqf
params ["_target"];
group _target

[quiet geyser]

What does that change/improve?

[winter rose]

1/ plenty of animation setup, script management, exception handling (what if the vehicle moves, gets shot at by something else, etc)
2/ make it fail if enemy groups become alerted (check with behaviour)

[winter rose]

well, if you replace with this it makes the "add unit" target the action caller, not player

[cedar cape]

so a scripted checkpoint is pretty hard to do?

[winter rose]

yes

[cedar cape]

alr

[quiet geyser]

Like so?

GER_Rec1 addAction ["Recruit AI crewman", { 
  params ["_target"]; 
  group _target createUnit   ["B_NATOCENTAG_GER_Crewman_WDL_01", getPosATL player, [], 5, "NONE"]; 
}];

(GER_Rec1 is the var name of the object it'll be on)

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/yarp-hot-fuzz-gif-5789213

[cedar cape]

for behaviour would it be like behaviour combat; and then it fails

[winter rose]

no.

[cedar cape]

oh ok

[winter rose]

don't guess, read the doc instead 😉
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/behaviour

or combatBehaviour for a group, it seems

[cedar cape]

so like for set task state the condition would be combatBehaviour group1; //combat;

[winter rose]

actually I would use behaviour leader group1; instead

[winter rose]

and replace that last player with _target, I just realised 🤣

[quiet geyser]

GER_Rec1 addAction ["Recruit AI crewman", { 
  params ["_target"]; 
  group _target createUnit   ["B_NATOCENTAG_GER_Crewman_WDL_01", getPosATL _target, [], 5, "NONE"]; 
}];

[quiet geyser]

Good?

[winter rose]

yep, no more fixes 😛 until next notice!

[quiet geyser]

My man, you're an absolute hero

[cedar cape]

okie, another thing can i make it so if the hvt target gets shot at/alerted they would flee to a heli or a car and the mission fails when they get away without getting killed

[winter rose]

yes, yes you can
I shall allow it

[cedar cape]

lol

let me rephrase that, how would i do it

[winter rose]

I would:

• make a HVT waypoint 1m from its position
• lock this HVT with a trigger and in its condition behaviour HVT == "COMBAT" and type would be "sync" or something
• add other waypoints for fleeing
• in HVT's last fleeing waypoint, make a failure condition (e.g ["fail", false] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_endMission"];)

[cedar cape]

alr thanks

[quiet geyser]

Upon testing, for whatever reason, this doesn't seem to be working. Was working before with the previous version. Anything I buggered up in my formatting, or would reverting it be fine?

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/show-me-what-you-got-rick-and-morty-what-you-got-gif-14263667

[quiet geyser]

No script errors or anything, it's just not spawning anything.

[quiet geyser]

Have tried it with both:

US_Rec2 addAction ["Recruit AI Bradley crewman", { 
  params ["_target"]; 
group _target createUnit ["B_NATOCENTAG_US_Crewman_M2_WDL_01", getPosATL player, [], 5, "NONE"]; 
}];

as well as

US_Rec2 addAction ["Recruit AI Bradley crewman", { 
  params ["_target"]; 
group _target createUnit ["B_NATOCENTAG_US_Crewman_M2_WDL_01", getPosATL _target, [], 5, "NONE"]; 
}];

[little raptor]

where do you put the code?

[rough summit]

The idea came to me to try to do something like a scene where the camera would follow the fighter as if he had a Go Pro on his head. I have never worked with cameras, can anyone suggest an option how this can be make?

[winter rose]

I hope it's singleplayer, for PiP and remote units don't go well together

[rough summit]

This scene for small video, nothing more (:

[winter rose]

ok! then see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Camera_Tutorial, and perhaps attachTo as well 🙂

[rough summit]

tyvm

[quiet geyser]

Just in the init of the object which people are interacting with.

[little raptor]

then use this instead of the variable names

also is US_Rec2 a unit?

[quiet geyser]

No, it's the object on which the addAction is present. Normally I would use this but I've found there can be reliability issues on dedicated servers like that, var names on the other hand never seem to go wrong.

[little raptor]

objects don't have groups

that's why it's failing

[proven charm]

can you make a single player leave currently occupied slot in MP when he returns to the lobby, after mission end for example?

[quiet geyser]

... wouldn't the group being referenced here belong to the player initiating the addAction, rather than the object which it's activated from?

[little raptor]

use:

this addAction ["Recruit AI Bradley crewman", { 
  params ["_target", "_caller"]; 
group _caller createUnit ["B_NATOCENTAG_US_Crewman_M2_WDL_01", getPosATL _target, [], 5, "NONE"]; 
}];

[little raptor]

no. _target is who-/whatever you added the action to

[quiet geyser]

Cheers, that last snippet got it working. Was still able to use the var name instead of this at the start as well. Thanks

[little raptor]

there is no need

this works just fine

if you had issues with this before it was most likely a different problem (this acts like a local variable, and you probably tried it in a different scope)

[rancid lance]

aight homies im doin something wrong again here

if (player distance oryx < 4) then {hint "you are in range";
get1 = player addAction ["I want this one!", {player setPos getPos oryx_spawn; Vic1 = 1; player removeAction get1; }];
} else {
player removeAction get1;
};

im not getting any errors

its just not doing anything

is it because i cant check player distance from an object in an "if" statement?

how would i set a variable to true when the player is in range of the object?

[lethal turtle]

Hi guys, question about capturing unit's fire data
i am able to record and replay the movement and the fire data from the gunner of the vehicle but not from the pilot or the other gunners
im using: rec = [jet1, 180, 1] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitCaptureFiring; [jet1, 180, 1] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitCapture;
wp1 = <paste copied flight data here>;
[jet1, wp1] spawn BIS_fnc_Unitplay;
_capturedData = <paste copied firing data here>;
[ jet1, _capturedData, true ] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitPlayFiring;
On Activation: rec = [] spawn wp1;
The huey fires the rockets from the co-pilot but not the machine guns from the pilot's seat

[rancid lance]

would it be something like this?

player distance oryx <4 setVariable ["_oryxget",true,true];

[south swan]

you can

[rancid lance]

then why isnt it working? ;A;

[south swan]

it is working

straight up copying your code into empty mission with only player, "oryx" and "oryx_spawn" objects works 🤷‍♂️

[rancid lance]

ohhh

i wonder if the trigger i have near by is countering it

[south swan]

run the code near the "oryx" - action gets added. Run the code far from "oryx" - action gets deleted. Activate the action - player gets teleported and action gets deleted 🤷‍♂️

[rancid lance]

yea that is what its supposed to do

trying to remove triggers all together to learn more code x-x

[south swan]

🤷‍♂️ what are you trying to achieve and how are you running the code?

[little raptor]

the unitCapture function is so limited. it doesn't capture all firing turrets

[rancid lance]

mmmm i have a game logic down so the code is just going but because of its nature only activates if the "if" check clears

i have it working via triggers, mind if i send you the clip to show what im tryna do?

[south swan]

why not

[rancid lance]

sent

[tough abyss]

@winter rose is there something like nearterrainobjects so i can use that instead of nearestterrainobject?

[winter rose]

haaaaaah capitalisation haaaaaah

[tough abyss]

never!

[winter rose]

you have nearestTerrainObjects, plural, what more do you want?

[tough abyss]

is just that a command?

i must of removed the s on accident

wait no

it gives an array of objects

i want an object

wait no

what do i want?

[winter rose]

that's the question, innit 😄

https://tenor.com/view/what-is-it-you-really-desire-tom-ellis-lucifer-morningstar-lucifer-what-is-it-you-desire-gif-17390191

[tough abyss]

while {true} do {
    uisleep 2;
    _tree = nearestTerrainObjects [player, ["Tree"], 200];
    hint str _tree;
    _Ladder = "" createVehicle position _tree;
};

ok

from the start

[winter rose]

don't start from code then to logic, it's the other way around 😛

[tough abyss]

i basically want to recognize trees

then create a ladder to climb ontop of the tree

or into it (that can be done later with position commands)

[winter rose]

without a platform up there, thou and your idea shalt fall flat

[tough abyss]

thats where your wrong using enhanced movemant the mod i was able to climb ontop of a tree

i think the model is too large on the top

[winter rose]

cheater!

[tough abyss]

and can be walked on

i guess i would want a player so that players dont float

maybe an invisible one

[tough abyss]

(the hint and while true are for getting it working)

[winter rose]

that would create a latter every 2s 😄

[quiet geyser]

Now having a small issue with the earlier implementation of that addAction we put together:
2:50:33 Error in expression <hisEventHandler]; }]; }; if (player in [GERSL2]) then { private _actionId = play> 2:50:33 Error position: <GERSL2]) then { private _actionId = play> 2:50:33 Error Undefined variable in expression: gersl2

[tough abyss]

if it were a submarine then i would have no problem

[quiet geyser]

@winter rose

[winter rose]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

```sqf
// your code here
hint "good!";
```
↓

// your code here
hint "good!";

[quiet geyser]

That's from the .rpt, not a code segment

[winter rose]

oh, true xD

[quiet geyser]

I'm also (and I'm unsure if this is connected) having problems with the respawn_west markers being moved to their respective objects; seems like they're getting their wires crossed occasionally. I have:
4x objects with var names of
US_spawn1 US_spawn2 GER_spawn1 GER_spawn2
and then 4x markers named
respawn_west respawn_west1 respawn_west2 respawn_west3
which correspond to the respective objects above, and have marker text as appropriate.
I then have respawn.sqf, which consists of:

while {true} do
        {
            "respawn_west" setmarkerpos getpos GER_spawn1;
            "respawn_west1" setmarkerpos getpos GER_spawn2;
            "respawn_west2" setmarkerpos getpos US_spawn1;
            "respawn_west3" setmarkerpos getpos US_spawn2;
            sleep 10;
            };```

[winter rose]

I can't do anything without the code though

[quiet geyser]

This is called in initServer.sqf with:

[] execVM "respawn.sqf";```

[winter rose]

(use getPosWorld, it's the fastest)

why do you do this?

you can move the marker when the spawn point is moved, no loop needed

[quiet geyser]

Because I googled a mobile respawn script and out of several that I looked at, this is what all of them used. As I've said a bunch of times, I'm not a programmer/any good at this lol

[quiet geyser]

As for this it's the same as before, but for posterity:

if (player in [GERSL1]) then
    {
        private _actionId = player addAction ["Place Rally Point", {
            if (east countSide (player nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land"], 200]) == 0) then
            {
            GER_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
        };
}];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Ger1", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Ger1", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};
if (player in [GERSL2]) then
    {
        private _actionId = player addAction ["Place Rally Point", {
            if (east countSide (player nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land"], 200]) == 0) then
            {
            GER_spawn2 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
        };
}];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Ger2", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Ger2", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};
if (player in [USSL1]) then
    {
        private _actionId = player addAction ["Place Rally Point", {
            if (east countSide (player nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land"], 200]) == 0) then
            {
            US_spawn1 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
        };
}];```

  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Us1", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Us1", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};
if (player in [USSL2]) then
    {
        private _actionId = player addAction ["Place Rally Point", {
            if (east countSide (player nearEntities [["Man", "Air", "Land"], 200]) == 0) then
            {
            US_spawn2 setPosASL AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
        };
}];
  player setVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Us2", _actionId];
  player addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit"];
    private _actionId = _unit getVariable ["FUZ_rallyActionId_Us2", -1];
    _unit removeAction _actionId;
    _unit removeEventHandler ["Killed", _thisEventHandler];
  }];
};```

(non-Nitro havin' ass)

[tough abyss]

text file > nitro

[winter rose]

@quiet geyser havin' https://sqfbin.com/ though 😉

[quiet geyser]

True

https://sqfbin.com/ivivowirixakevepuqev

[winter rose]

if you, ahem, indented properly
you would see

I take the solution back, but I maintain this indentation's criticism 😂

[quiet geyser]

Yeah not a programmer in any way, I know that indentation is important and all that but it honestly goes pretty over my head. Regardless, can you see what the issue is bad formatting aside?

[south swan]

Undefined variable in expression: gersl2 does kinda sound self-explanatory, though? Are you sure you have a GERSL2 variable? If it's assigned to player slot then i'm pretty sure it wouldn't be defined if there's no one filling said slot

[winter rose]

did it 4 u
https://sqfbin.com/xotexudiwimayarivexa

and what artemoz said 🙂

[quiet geyser]

I've checked and those classnames are definitely present in the mission, however when I'm testing yeah not all of those slots are occupied.

[winter rose]

if they are not occupied, the unit is not created, right?

sooo the variable doesn't even exist 🙂

[quiet geyser]

Yeah that makes plenty of sense, I get you

Will give that a go and report back

Well, I got a script error, but weirdly enough it's working anyway:

 3:15:27 Error in expression <che\onPlayerRespawn.sqf"
if (player in [GERSL1]) then
{
private _actionId = play>
 3:15:27   Error position: <GERSL1]) then
{
private _actionId = play>
 3:15:27   Error Undefined variable in expression: gersl1

[south swan]

i wonder what would be the good solution for this, though. vehicleVarName player?

[winter rose]

try this @quiet geyser
https://sqfbin.com/ajotecabojikayedihay

so you can configure as many as you like

[quiet geyser]

Out of curiosity, what's the enemySide parameter for? All spawn points/playable units are BLUFOR.

(Cold War campaign, not WW2 :P)

[winter rose]

oh, OK! then no need

https://sqfbin.com/ekocomirafibuxazuxap here @quiet geyser

I believe the spawn points exist whatever happen
only units may not

[quiet geyser]

 3:32:06 Error in expression < 0) exitWith {};

private _rallyPoint = _unit getVariable "FUZ_rallyPoint";
_ral>
 3:32:06   Error position: <_unit getVariable "FUZ_rallyPoint";
_ral>
 3:32:06   Error Undefined variable in expression: _unit```
omg babe new error just dropped

This time the object doesn't get moved at all either

[winter rose]

ah yep, use _target

@quiet geyser

line 15

[quiet geyser]

instead of _unit?

[winter rose]

well yes

Undefined variable in expression: _unit
means that at this point, the script has no idea of this value

[south swan]

_target or _caller, though

[quiet geyser]

So is it specifically just in line 15, and that location of the script in the following versions? Change that to _target?

[winter rose]

_caller is not defined here

[winter rose]

yyyyyyup

[south swan]

script: String or Code
...
params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"];
target: Object - the object which the action is assigned to
caller: Object - the unit that activated the action
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

[winter rose]

yep
IF you use the whole line, which I didn't

otherwise, it's _this select 1

[south swan]

ah, sorry, it's just me brainfarting, the target and caller are the same when the action is on player himself

[quiet geyser]

Ok this worked, cheers. On to the next issue...

[winter rose]

nope, nopenopenope

[quiet geyser]

I'm sorry but this really is the last one probably

Just need to get these respawn_west markers behaving correctly. For whatever reason, they're not going where they're needed.

[winter rose]

move them in the action

when you setPosATL, setMarkerPos

[quiet geyser]

How and where would I put that into the version we've now got where we're defining parameters? I've got not clue with this version

[winter rose]

https://sqfbin.com/jovicigaxoyadorowifi

[quiet geyser]

 4:10:36 Error in expression < 0) exitWith {};

private _rallyPoint = _unit getVariable "FUZ_rallyPoint";
_ral>
 4:10:36   Error position: <_unit getVariable "FUZ_rallyPoint";
_ral>
 4:10:36   Error Undefined variable in expression: _unit

https://tenor.com/view/hes-back-gif-8275005

[winter rose]

ah yeah, well, same thing as before, I didn't fix

[open fractal]

sqfbin is back??

[quiet geyser]

Ok, it's all officially working, and you are officially the fucking man. Appreciate you answering my endless questions all night long, you've gotten a system in place I've wanted for an extremely long time. A per-player cooldown on the rally point system would be neat, but I think I'll have to leave that for another time as it's now extremely late (early?) and I'm about to pass out. Massive kudos again.

I did up a trailer for unit for this op actually, is there a channel which would be more appropriate to drop it in?

[little raptor]

#videos_arma

[quiet geyser]

ty

[winter rose]

the cooldown can be set quite easily, too ;-)

[quiet geyser]

if you have any easy ideas swing em at me with a tag, I can chuck them in and test in the morning. Again, really appreciate the help

[winter rose]

the idea would be to store the last usage time and wait for a big enough time difference in the action's condition

[past wagon]

does anyone know why using setVelocityTransformation on a vehicle might make it extremely wobbly/laggy/buggy for non-server players?

[winter rose]

are you calling it where the vehicle is local?

[past wagon]

it's on the server

yeah I was thinking it was a locality issue

do I need to remoteExec createVehicle??

[copper raven]

using that command remotely makes no sense

as in getting x client to tell y client to run setVelocityTransformation once

you want to remoteexec a function that does all the calling for the setVelocityTransformation, so it's nice and smooth

[past wagon]

ok

[past wagon]

so I just wanna put the setVelocityTransformation command inside a function and remoteExec that?

[copper raven]

i don't really know what exactly you're trying to do

but you can't calculate the interpolation server side(or whatever) and tell some other machine to setVelocityTransformation based on that, it will look laggy

[past wagon]

this is my code, which I'm running on the server: https://sqfbin.com/ifaxaqulemumefadanoy

currently, the plane only looks smooth for the server. all the other players see it wobbling up and down and stuff, which shouldn't happen at all because the setVelocityTransformation path is completely level

[little raptor]

show a video of this wobbling

[past wagon]

ok

https://youtu.be/nwmFJQgtYOY

I keep telling my players it's just turbulence but I think they're beginning to suspect something

[little raptor]

have you created an AI for it?

[tough abyss]

Yeah are you using an AI pilot

[little raptor]

which is most likely not local to the server

[tough abyss]

And is going to be fighting the code's movement

[little raptor]

tho then that means the plane is not local either

[past wagon]

I thought that might be the problem

but I deleted the pilot and same stuff

wait

maybe not lemme try again

[little raptor]

why delete the pilot? just don't create it in the first place

[tough abyss]

Just make sure nothing else is controlling it while you're moving it via sqf, they'll end up fighting each other

[past wagon]

yeah that's what I mean

I deleted it from my code

but yeah it is still happening with no pilot

but it seems to be MUCH less intense...

maybe that's just it's tendency to crash without a pilot?

[little raptor]

another theory is the sync rate

[tough abyss]

Also are you running setVelocityTransform where the vehicle is local?

You should be if not already

[past wagon]

how do I make the vehicle local if it's created on the server?

[copper raven]

setvelocity seems overkill here imo, you can for sure make an ai fly that straight path, disable their combat, set them to careless, etc

[little raptor]

the reason I say this is that afaik PhysX simulation is local
so even remote objects are simulated using PhysX

[tough abyss]

Then it's local to the server

[past wagon]

that would make them fly in a perfectly straight line?

[past wagon]

oh, then yes

[tough abyss]

Good

[past wagon]

but it isnt wobbly for the server

only for other players

[tough abyss]

That would be network sync

[little raptor]

then this is the problem

[tough abyss]

Not a ton you can do about that