arma3_scripting

[sullen sigil]

roger just checking i dont need to do some fancy stuff

ok i added 10 but now im just frozen in midair ;-;

i also dont seem to be able to move my camera any further than just up or down

[tough abyss]

Yes because setVelocityTransform is constantly resetting your vectorDir

Which locks your horizontal rotation

[sullen sigil]

is there any way to stop it doing that

[tough abyss]

Could have it use vectorDir player for both vectorDir values

Then it'll just follow how you're already turned instead of resetting it

[sullen sigil]

cool beans yes thats what i want

now as for just getting suspended in midair

[tough abyss]

Show current code

[sullen sigil]

_velocity = (_playerPos vectorFromTo _entityPos) vectorMultiply 10;
_vectorDir = _playerPos vectorFromTo _entityPos;
_sideVector = _vectorDir vectorCrossProduct (vectorUp player);
_vectorUp = _sideVector vectorCrossProduct _vectorDir;
_interval = 0;
_playerPos = _playerPos vectorAdd [0,0,10];
  addMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame", { _thisArgs params ["_playerPos", "_entityPos", "_velocity", "_vectorDir", "_vectorUp", "_interval"];
    player setVelocityTransformation [_playerPos, _entityPos, _velocity, _velocity, (vectorDir player), (vectorDir player), _vectorUp, _vectorUp, _interval];
        _interval = _interval + diag_deltaTime/10;
        if (_interval >= 1) then {
          removeMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame", _thisEventHandler]};
        },
 [_playerPos, _entityPos, _velocity, _vectorDir, _vectorUp]];

will sqfbin the whole thing

https://sqfbin.com/eruhelikofuyutodurup

there

[tough abyss]

Also your velocity still doesn't match your interval update

You have the velocity at 10m/s with a total interval of 10s yet that'll only be accurate if the start and end positions are 100m apart

[granite sky]

Interval calc isn't persistent there anyway. You need to write it back to _thisArgs, like _thisArgs set [5, _interval]

[tough abyss]

^

[granite sky]

wait, you're not even passing it in :P

[tough abyss]

That above is your main issue

Another one is that your condition should be > 1 not >= 1

As you want it to be able to reach 1

[sullen sigil]

oh right

errrrrr

_thisArgs set [5, _interval] will set _interval to 5, right..?

[tough abyss]

No

[sullen sigil]

or am i being stupid

[tough abyss]

5 is the index of _interval in the _thisArgs array

[sullen sigil]

oh right

so i want to set that within _thisArgs array?

or after params or what

[tough abyss]

That command sets the value of _interval in the _thisArgs array to the current _interval value so it is saved for the next loop

You want to do it after you increase the value

[sullen sigil]

gotchu

[tough abyss]

Also like john said you need to actually pass interval to the code again

It's not in your arguments array at the end of the command

[sullen sigil]

ah

_interval = _interval + diag_deltaTime/10;
_thisArgs set [5, _interval];
    if (_interval > 1) then {
      removeMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame", _thisEventHandler]};
          }, [_playerPos, _entityPos, _velocity, _vectorDir, _vectorUp, _interval]];

like this right

[tough abyss]

That should be sufficient

[sullen sigil]

it seems to keep trying to move me after i actually get to the location

actually

i think im clipping into the roof

errrrrrrr

oh i'll just move _entityPos down a bit

[tough abyss]

Good idea

[sullen sigil]

think it may be due to my momentum too

hmmm

[tough abyss]

If you want to actually stop at the end the end velocity needs to be [0,0,0]

[sullen sigil]

ah

[tough abyss]

But keep in mind that'll have your velocity slowly drop to 0 over the course of the movement

[sullen sigil]

thats fine i want it to get slower as it gets shorter anyways

ok now the rope doesnt seem to be destroying

[tough abyss]

What is the code for destroying it?

[sullen sigil]

}, [_playerPos, _entityPos, _velocity, _vectorDir, _vectorUp, _interval]];
systemChat "hello i did a thing";
    waitUntil {_RopeLength = player distance _entityPos; _RopeLength < 3};
    sleep 0.5;
    detach _PoleBoi;
    ropeDestroy _daRope;
    deleteVehicle _PoleBoi;

first line there is the end of the EH bit

[tough abyss]

Did you offset entitypos only in the EH or everywhere

Seems like an issue with it only being offset in the EH

[sullen sigil]

everywhere

[tough abyss]

Hm

[sullen sigil]

 _entityPos = _entityPos vectorDiff [0,0,1];
                                    addMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame", {```

[tough abyss]

Wat

[sullen sigil]

thats where its offset

line above the EH

oh hold on

its not actually calculating vectors and stuff for the new values

i need to move this above the calculations i think

that doesnt fix it but it solves it looking a bit odd

[tough abyss]

Something is causing the player's distance from entityPos to NOT go below 3

[sullen sigil]

i'll turn it up to like 5 and see if that works

[granite sky]

That vectorDiff usage seems... wrong

[tough abyss]

It does doesn't it

But technically correct

[sullen sigil]

does it need to be -1

[granite sky]

I'm guessing that you want to move the entityPos 1m towards the player?

[sullen sigil]

1m downwards

so the player isnt moving towards a ceiling and getting stuck in it

[tough abyss]

I mean it's vec1 - vec2 so it's not wrong

[granite sky]

maybe not far enough though.

[sullen sigil]

it seems to be stopping my movement prematurely

i think

i took out the change for entitypos and didnt go into the roof

..which is where entitypos should be

maybe if i use _poleboi instead of player

nope

it seems to not be destroying when the final velocity is set to [0,0,0]

[tough abyss]

How about just put the destroy code in the condition in the EH

[sullen sigil]

setting it back to _velocity seems to work fine

especially as im no longer getting suck in the ceiling

[tough abyss]

I mean hey if it works how you want

[sullen sigil]

the player movement looks a little worse than i'd want but its nbd

so the interval thing should be fine in mp right

[tough abyss]

Your main concern for mp should be making your velocity match the actual interval you've set

So really your velocity should be the difference between the start and end points divided by the interval you're using

In this case 10 seconds

[sullen sigil]

ah right gotchu

no wait i dont gotchu

its set to multiply by 10 to get 10ms

do i just divide by 10 again?

[tough abyss]

No

Do

_velocity = (endPos vectorDiff startPos) vectorMultiply 1/10;

[sullen sigil]

roger doger

[dire plaza]

Hi. Trying to use DrawIcon3D. Here's what i got so far:
onEachFrame { drawIcon3D ["BombStrike.paa", [0.9,0,0,1], dir, 1, 1, 0, "Supplies inbound!", 0]; };
-BombStrike is a file in mission folder
-dir is a variable set by screenToWorld
-Intended for MP
Errors:

1. BombStrike.paa not found
2. How do i remove the drawIcon3D?

Please help.

[winter rose]

1. is the image in the mission's root?
   2.sqf onEachFrame {}

don't you also have an issue that there is no position provided (after the colour)?

oh
dir is a the position 😑

[dire plaza]

It's set by screenToWorld

...is it in mission's root
One sec let me check

[winter rose]

the naming is bad, just sayin' 😛

[dire plaza]

Huh? What naming?

[winter rose]

dir

it implies a direction, not a position

[dire plaza]

I see... Looks like i accidentally removed the .paa from the folder. i added it back and tested it and it didn't work with the error "Could not load texture"

[dire plaza]

oh, i see, so, onEachFrame is a command that always runs at the back, but without any arguments
and when we use it it just adds what to execute
and with that you remove what to execute

Worked, thank you;
the .paa still couldn't load for one reason or another. It's converted from a simple picture with background removed with the powers of 2 in place (256) fixed by using a basegame icon.

[sullen sigil]

always run your scripts scheduled my mellows

[tough abyss]

Except when you shouldn't 😉

[winter rose]

wrong advice :^)

[sullen sigil]

i am now having to reinstall my drivers 😎

right before i fucking kill my drivers again has anyone got any bright ideas on how to make the rope connecting the player and origin to appear taut

cutting its length down on each frame was NOT the move.

arma is also complaining about a circular reference for something with hashmap and memory leaks when (accidentally) saving the mission file -- i assume thats just due to the oneachframe eh and can be ignored?

oh nvm that only comes up when i accidentally exec twice

waitUntil {((getPos player) select 3) < 0.05 || sleep 5};
is this a valid way of waiting until the player is touching a floor or 5 seconds have passed?

[winter rose]

not at all

[winter rose]

private _time = time + 5;
waitUntil {sleep 0.1; isTouchingGround player || time >= _time };

[sullen sigil]

ah

thanks i knew i got the point across i just didnt know how to do it 😄

[winter rose]

your select 3 is wrong (select 2)
and || sleep 5 does not return a boolean

[sullen sigil]

isTouchingGround didnt come up when i searched the wiki

[winter rose]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[granite sky]

wiki search is... not good.

[sullen sigil]

yeah it seems to be that way

hm

it doesnt seem to actually do anything

like it never completes

[winter rose]

does it happen to be… unscheduled?

[sullen sigil]

i think this is outside of the scheduling bit probably 😅

is there any issue with just

scheduling my entire script

[granite sky]

(in which case you should really turn on script errors)

[sullen sigil]

i have them turned on

can i just schedule the entire thing

would save me a lot of pain

[winter rose]

I don't know your script so perhaps

[sullen sigil]

actually no this should be scheduled

i think

[winter rose]

you cannot wait in unscheduled

[sullen sigil]

https://sqfbin.com/ohoyobohesexoropopoz

thats the entire script

but

sleep 0.5;
ropeDestroy _daRope;
detach _PoleBoi;
deleteVehicle _PoleBoi;
private _time = time + 5;
waitUntil {sleep 0.1; isTouchingGround player || time >= _time };
player allowDamage true;
systemChat str (isDamageAllowed player);```

[winter rose]

if (_magazine isEqualTo "KJW_Grapple") then {
replace with
if (_magazine isNotEqualTo "KJW_Grapple") exitWith {};
and save a scope

[sullen sigil]

i set the sleep at the top for 5 seconds and it worked

[winter rose]

line 17, your indent is off by 1

line 20 and 21, too

[sullen sigil]

which way

im writing this all from ADT debug console so

[winter rose]

don't

how is it comfortable
how do you see all your code

so make an sqf file and edit it with VSCode, run it with execVM
this way you can remove/readd and it gets your updated code without restarting your mission

[sullen sigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332936363340988416/1007718325708669059/unknown.png

i cant read any smaller 😄

[open fractal]

I second VSCode

[sullen sigil]

I use atom atm

Probably will change to VSCode soon but im lazy

[winter rose]

don't

[open fractal]

I'd recommend defining functions for your handlers instead of making a big nested thing like that

[winter rose]

be ultra active for your own comfort
be lazy for your code (write the smartest)

[sullen sigil]

as lou can attest trying to get me to make a function is painful

[winter rose]

while I can get the lol part, I also have to say it is painful for people helping you as well

[sullen sigil]

i still dont know what i did wrong initially

[winter rose]

"excuse me, how can I prevent my wallpaper from falling, I add glue but it doesn't stick - also, how can I reduce the tapwater's temperature?"
"your house is on fire, just get out of here!"

[sullen sigil]

my main issue is i dont actually know when i would use functions in this instance or why its better than doing this

[winter rose]

1/ make an SQF file and/or a function
2/ use a proper editor
3/ set your game windowed

if just an sqf file used with execVM:
4/ temporarily setup your code to remove/readd the event handler on each execution, this way you can refresh easily

why its better than doing this
google Hadouken code style, you will see

[sullen sigil]

i get street fighter

[winter rose]

exactly

[sullen sigil]

is it bad i see nothing wrong with that

[hallow mortar]

It's functional (probably) but difficult to read or modify

[winter rose]

no, but with experience you will
we provide you a shortcut with our advice 🙂

[sullen sigil]

the thing is i usually create things in like one or two days so i never really forget things

[winter rose]

code as if the next person to inherit your code knows where you live and has a really big knife

[sullen sigil]

its simple enough isnt it

i prefer this over having to open like 5 windows for my functions 😅

[winter rose]

"oh, there is an issue in this aspect"
"okay, where does adding the event start, where does it stop… oh wait, this part is scheduled, ah but no my indent is wrong so it's still part of the EH"

nay

how does one eat an elephant?
piece by piece 😉

[sullen sigil]

i was taught intendation was just for appearance

[open fractal]

https://sqf.fini.dev/convert someone mentioned this site the other day

it'll automatically indent sqf

[sullen sigil]

yeah but that doesnt actually teach me anything innit

[ocean folio]

if you use VSCode with the SQF extension you can format with right click

[winter rose]

it doesn't have any impact on code execution
it is for visual comfort and easy reading/debug

[open fractal]

you can look side by side and decide which looks better

and then implement that indentation style in the future

[hallow mortar]

Indentation is purely for appearance, but if you have to use too much of it, you risk losing track of what level you're at and consequently where your }; should be, which is bad

[sullen sigil]

i think installing VSCode is probably the move

[winter rose]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Code_Best_Practices shows you

[sullen sigil]

ADT debug console is little more than atom with a quick click thingy

[ocean folio]

the thing for VSCode that did it for me was that I can have Ace and CBA functions

[sullen sigil]

oh word??

[winter rose]

no, don't use Word as an SQF editor

[ocean folio]

lmfaooooo

[sullen sigil]

watch me

[tough abyss]

I just use notepad++ syntax highlighting and having a biki tab constantly open for reference

The true programming experience

[sullen sigil]

i had like 20 biki tabs open this morning trying to figure everything out 😅

[ocean folio]

I never understood the devotion to notepad++

[tough abyss]

It's simple and not bloated

[winter rose]

it was excellent at one point; now I feel like it is lagging behind

[open fractal]

notepad++ doesn't phone home to microsoft

[winter rose]

still excellent for "simple" text edit with plenty of neat features, and xtra fast

[ocean folio]

im sure windows already phones home, so I'm not too worried about that lol

[tough abyss]

Fuck it maybe I should start writing my addons with HxD

Have it installed already

[ocean folio]

0_0

that is a terrifying concept lol

[sullen sigil]

write them with google slides

[open fractal]

all my homies make arma addons in scratch

[tough abyss]

I do all of my sqf debugging with outlook vbs scripts

[ocean folio]

catch me writing sqf functions in excel macros

[sullen sigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332936363340988416/1007723306960560228/unknown.png

@winter rose its quite obvious you wrote this page

[winter rose]

…I won't say anything without my lawyer

[tough abyss]

Arma 4 will only support a PnP abacus for math functions

[ocean folio]

hol up pause

there's a Vim plugin for SQF?

[tough abyss]

Good luck getting out of it

[ocean folio]

thats wild

[winter rose]

(wq iirc, right?)

[ocean folio]

should be

[tough abyss]

Think there's also +wq or something like that

Haven't touched vim in forever though

[ocean folio]

there are a lot of ways to get out of vim

[winter rose]

"Vim random text generator: get a N++ user on your PC and get him to try and quit Vim"

[sullen sigil]

i will now be writing my code all on the same line

[tough abyss]

Shoutout to my early programming days spent writing batch code in notepad

No syntax highlighting and a blinding white background

Just as god intended

[ocean folio]

yup, I remember doing that in high school

[sullen sigil]

i used to do retextures in ms paint

[ocean folio]

we always wrote batch files at school because for some reason we could execute them when everything else was locked down

[sullen sigil]

ok back to the original point i can get indentation i just dont understand why id make functions when im only really running most of this once

[winter rose]

SOLID concept: Single responsibility

one big chunk of code, it's tough
multiple small ones, well defined, you know where to debug

[tough abyss]

Because the point of functions isn't JUST to make something easier to repeat

^^

[sullen sigil]

i can get sticking the EH into a function too but beyond that its mostly just variables and shit

[ocean folio]

you can still have single responsibility in a full sqf file though? There's nothing stopping you from writing little sqf's with one job. Unless its just best practice to do so

[sullen sigil]

hang on the bit lou sent me seems to be working after doing the indentation

[ocean folio]

I underutilize functions in sqf though. I really should use them more, even just so I get comfortable with them

[sullen sigil]

i cant even manage to get a function compiled into an addon 💀

[winter rose]

that's another story

not sure I can 😄

[ocean folio]

from my one time compiling an addon, you need a fair bit more than just the function to do that

[sullen sigil]

i literally copy pasted the wiki example and substituted my bits in and it didnt work 😂

and i feel a lot more people would be complaining it if was the wiki example which was wrong so

[ocean folio]

did you try copy pasting it and not substituting your bits?

that's how I learned

[sullen sigil]

yup

still didnt work 🤷

i managed to get it working within a mission file though so

god knows

anyways does anyone know how to make a rope not break when its too short

[ocean folio]

I guess you would have to know what you want it to do instead of break

just reading the page on the wiki for when a rope breaks

const float maxRopeStretchLength = (desiredLength * maxRelLength) + maxExtraLength;
if (currentLength > maxRopeStretchLength) { /* breaks */ };

you might be able to make a check for the rope about to break, then have some kind of handling for it

but I wouldnt exactly know how to do that either. I've never messed with ropes before

[winter rose]

drawLine3D

[sullen sigil]

Aha searching maxropestretchlength brings up the page I was looking for

There's 2 pages named ropes on the wiki 😅

[sullen sigil]

is there a way to shove the rope texture onto that

from the look of it you can only do colours

[hallow mortar]

No, it's a "virtual" line, like the bounding boxes when you select something in the Editor. Ropes are real models.

[sullen sigil]

yeah i figured as such

[ocean folio]

I think drawLine3D might be useful for detecting if a rope will break. Though..... I dont know if there's a way to get the distance of it

[sullen sigil]

its just a cosmetic thing so wont bother with anything super complex just for making the rope appear taut while it pulls in the player

well

"pulls"

[ocean folio]

pretty sure you can properly pull a player with a rope if they are in ragdoll

[sullen sigil]

this is the second version of the script im doing ive got it working fine

im just on cosmetic bits now

one second i'll get a screenshot of what i mean

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332936363340988416/1007729781422428190/unknown.png

looks pretty crap for something which is meant to be pulling the player

[ocean folio]

if you want the rope to be taught, you could always just shorten the rope based on the distance between the player and the source

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

[sullen sigil]

i tried that and it broke my drivers

[ocean folio]

broke your.... drivers?

[sullen sigil]

to be fair i was running ropeCut on an oneachframe handler

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/605149433730170890/1007702203051540580/unknown.png

but yea drivers went poof

[ocean folio]

wtf lmao

[sullen sigil]

my thoughts exactly 😃

i could try get ropeunwind working to sync with the players speed but the players speed isnt meant to be constant so it looks more natural

[ocean folio]

nah nah, ropeunwind on a per frame event handler that shortens it to the distance between the player and the target. You can set the speed so it happens almost instantly

[sullen sigil]

nope, 20ms is the maximum

i was using ropecut so that it did it almost instantly

[ocean folio]

is the player going faster than 20 meters per second?

[sullen sigil]

yup

but the rope also stretches so it feels less than 20ms

[ocean folio]

holy fresh hell lmao thats faster than I was thinking

[sullen sigil]

yeah its an ascension cable

so somewhat fast

[brazen lagoon]

im trying to use cutText ["", "BLACK FADED", 0.001]; to have a black screen while i do some setup in onPlayerRespawn, but if you move a player out of a vehicle it breaks that. i tried putting another cutText call in right after the moveout command but it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

i just want a black screen that's persistent even if you get out of a vehicle

trying out BIS_fnc_blackIn rn

[torn elm]

function
https://sqfbin.com/hakitapinosetopixuba
Config
https://sqfbin.com/ritafefibutanolivuve

Cant seem to fix the bino disappear and the gun disappearing. its something with creating weapon holders

[sullen sigil]

relative on ropeUnwind seems to be broken... 🤔

unless im misunderstanding the wiki

which is quite possible

i think i am though its unclear so i cant be sure

yes i think i am

[winter rose]

therefore*

[sullen sigil]

i thought it meant resize as in just set the length to that

english being unclear

[winter rose]

true = "add/remove given length from existing rope"
false = "set rope's length"

examples are I hope clear enough

[sullen sigil]

yeah i get it now its just a fault of the english language being unclear as a whole

[winter rose]

can't fix that 😄

[sullen sigil]

yeah i know i dont have any suggestions on how to make it clearer either 😅

i think im done now its just messing with offsets

[tropic mirage]

Bro your GPU saw that line of code and went

"Nah bro, you got me all kinds of f***** up if you think I'm doing that"

[sullen sigil]

weird thing is its working fine now so i think i might've accidentally hit exec twice or something

[tropic mirage]

If I ever break a script to the point my drivers decide to retire, then I know my days with SQF are over

[sullen sigil]

i think it was probably as a result of it trying to do two things at once to the rope when it was trying to destroy it or smth

correct indentation seems to have fixed its scheduling for some reason so idk

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332936363340988416/1007737569305436171/allworking.mp4

just fooling with offsets and mp testing now

and detecting when it hits a unit

feels much nicer than the last version but thats probably because it uses maths which i dont understand properly 💀

[tough abyss]

Tl;dr the way it works is this

you give it a starting and ending value for position and rotation vectors

It computes the difference between the ending value and beginning value

Then adds a fraction of that difference to the starting value (based on the interval) to make the starting value smoothly transition to the ending value

Which all in all is referred to as linear interpolation aka lerp for short

[ember wing]

Is there a way to make Lambs a script for a mission instead of making it mod to download? Reason I ask is because I have VCOM AI as a script so it runs with my mission. ANY ideas?

[tough abyss]

I mean yeah

[sullen sigil]

oh i thought interpolation was a fancy extra bit

i understand this a bit more now

[tough abyss]

@ember wing Most of it should work fine without needing to change much so long as you copy all of the files over, main thing would be needing to fix any paths that refer to the mod's pathing

Which would mainly be in CfgFunctions if I had to guess

@sullen sigil glad it makes more sense

[sullen sigil]

idk where youre from so this may not make any sense to you but i did alevel maths and thats the absolute extent of my maths knowledge

[tough abyss]

Sounds like a europe thing and I am not a Europe person

[sullen sigil]

if youre american then its similar to AP but a bit more complicated content

idk what it is in other continents

[ember wing]

That’s very good to go thank you

[sullen sigil]

either way i only lightly touched on vectors in three dimensions

[tough abyss]

Vectors go from hilariously simple to mind meltingly complicated fairly quickly depending on what level of math you're working with

For the most part arma doesn't require any of the insanely difficult stuff though

The peak of arma's math difficulty is probably matrices

Which aren't even really that complicated for the few uses you'll ever have for them

[winter rose]

I survived so far without knowing what a matrix is

I am a happy ignorant
OFP:R made me understand sin & cos 😄 not school

[tough abyss]

They let you do some vector operations quicker but you never really need them in arma from what I've seen

Only thing I've ever used them for is adding quaternions

Because doing those without matrices is horrible

[drifting portal]

I want to set the skill of AI based on how many people are on the server
which one is better to use in this case?
PlayerConnected or OnUserConnected event handler?

also is the best way to count the players on the server in this case it to use count allplayers ?

[winter rose]

nope, as allPlayers also counts headless clients
see BIS_fnc_listPlayers (iirc)

(and yes, I know, allPlayers also listing headless clients)

[drifting portal]

Returns a list of currently played units

hmm

is there a way to return the number when the player haven't chosen a character from the lobby yet?

count allUsers?

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playableSlotsNumber https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playersNumber

[winter rose]

I did forget about these - thanks!

[fierce loom]

Is there some way to increase the capacity of a box in the editor?

something simple like "setObjectCapacity" in the init field would be my first guess but I don't know the actual syntax

[winter rose]

beware - playersNumber counts AI-filled slots

[drifting portal]

problem is, if they don't choose a slot yet they are not counted, isn't allUsers better here?

[copper raven]

playableSlotsNumber west - playersNumber west will give you the unoccupied slots

[drifting portal]

yeah that's true but my question is isn't it more direct to use allUsers to achieve finding how many players are on the server, with occupied or with no occupied slots?

[copper raven]

if you want to slow down your code, you can go for it 😄

[drifting portal]

oh so its slow?

alright thanks for telling me

[sullen sigil]

yeah i only ever really did stuff like 8i+5j+3k in maths

the most complicated it got was having to write them stacked on one another

i think i could attach the rope to the muzzle this time around though with the matrices function 🤔

[winter rose]

what the heck is that 😂
first time I see this!

[sullen sigil]

discovering the forbidden error messages

[winter rose]

maybe "zomg too much code in isNil", unsure

[sullen sigil]

there is literally nothing on google for error gif pre stack size violation

its not even written on a stackexchange or anything

wtf have you done

[winter rose]

…scripting (sorry!)

[sullen sigil]

not haram

[open fractal]

memory allocation flag?

[winter rose]

haram = bad
halal = good
I don't know if you did a double negative here ^^

[sullen sigil]

scripting is good 😃

[gritty parrot]

Use [] call cba_fnc_players

[sullen sigil]

...except for when i try do it

then its not halal

[gritty parrot]

Requires cba_a3

[atomic flint]

Hey I'm trying to make the base game taru bench able to be sat on like the transport variant, is there a certain code or something to be used?

[winter rose]

almost (because I am a feature creep) finished my choice dialog

[tough abyss]

Now what about an illusion of choice dialog

[winter rose]

ez, provide the same code in the exec arguments 😎
I'm quite happy with this one - the image ratio is automatically done, can be forced, the text is optional, yeah, so far it's pretty cool!

[tough abyss]

Pretty neat nice job

[manic sigil]

Damnit... I'm testing my local mod-mounted project, and every time I load in Mike Force with it running, the mission immediately 'Mission Failed' T_T

[manic sigil]

Okay, so it is my mod.

[ocean folio]

does anyone know of a way to get the dynamic loadout presets for an aircraft?

[warm hedge]

Do you mean what you can set in Eden Editor?

Located in configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf plane >> "Components" >> "TransportPylonsComponent" >> "Presets"

[ocean folio]

that.... would be exactly what I was looking for 😆

thank you!

[drifting portal]

is there a good way to move 3den camera below the terrain?
Tried this but it didn't work:

_pos = getpos get3DENCamera;
_pos set [2,-10];
move3DENCamera [_pos, false];

it lifts me back to the ground

[warm hedge]

You can't, Engine limitation

[drifting portal]

So what do you think is the best way to have an area where I have character being recorded by a PIP camera

with a bunch of objects around the character, and have the "studio" not be discovered by players

because there is a CAS player in the mission

[hallow mortar]

Just put it out of bounds at the other end of the map. CAS won't pay too much attention to the ground outside the AO and especially outside the map.

[drifting portal]

using Takistan, when you place it out of bounds the objects disappear for some reason

you can collide with them

but they are hidden

around -2000m they start doing weird stuff (phasing in and out of existence or straight up disappearing but the collision remains)

is this an engine limitation?

probably has to do with maximum bounds the map maker set or something?

https://streamable.com/eq2829

to explain what I mean

it is as if the building is only visible when the camera doesn't cross a certain barrier

regardless the in game preview (as a player) will have the building hidden with collision on (isHidden returns false)

[proven charm]

i guess it's not supposed to work out of the map area. In some maps also the terrain textures go bad

[manic sigil]

Alright, I've got all my functions lined up, packed into a PBO, and all of them tied into an executing function... now how do I have that function execute on a server?

It's currently preInit = 1'd, but I've had to manually call the function to get things kicked off. The article for addon making also mentions event handlers; am I correct in thinking it would be something like:

addMissionEventHandler ["PreloadFinished", {
call srd_fnc_MFAIOexecute;
}];

[proven charm]

are you making an addon? or mission

[manic sigil]

Addon

[proven charm]

ok

[manic sigil]

If I'm reading right, postInit = 1 should just call the function, once the mission begins, but I find I have to manually call it to have it activate ._.

[proven charm]

can you show the source code of the file/function?

[manic sigil]

https://sqfbin.com/baxapuhalumovupelixo

[proven charm]

hmm are you sure it doesn't run? because systemChat may not work at beginning of the mission. to debug things like this is better to use diag_log

[manic sigil]

Yeah, the functions it calls on have their own systemChats, which run when I boot up arma. And it doesn't spawn in the truck or helipads that it's supposed to.

But those functions are compiled, and if I call this function, it all kicks off fine.

[proven charm]

ok, then I'm not sure whats wrong

make sure your variables are defined such as MarkerUpdateCheck

[manic sigil]

Yeah, missed that one, but it hasn't caused a problem so far - just a backdoor 'oh shit this isn't working, gotta shut it down'. When called, it all runs properly.

[proven charm]

ok

[manic sigil]

... didn't I, though? Right before it, missionNameSpace setVariable?

[proven charm]

oh yeah looks like you did

not 100% sure though since this is addon and missionNameSpace is for running mission

[manic sigil]

Yeah, didnt work out.

[cyan dust]

Is there a command not to forceWalk player when unit load exceeds max?

[proven charm]

try enableFatigue or enableStamina

[cyan dust]

Yeah, that will work, but I want stamina to be enabled.

[proven charm]

maybe player setUnitTrait ["loadCoef", 0];

there is the https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/forceWalk command but i doupt it works to that direction....

@cyan dust

[cyan dust]

Yeah, that works too, but if your loadAbs exceeds 1000, you're forceWalked. And that's what my question is all about.

[frank mango]

anything within the first 2 map squares around a map border should work somewhat okay. anything more causes multiple issues.

[hallow mortar]

A quick investigation suggests that loadCoef should bypass this limit, but currently doesn't. I suggest raising a ticket on the feedback tracker (https://feedback.bistudio.com/)

[manic sigil]

I think preStart = 1; did the trick for me, but doing more testing to be sure.

[drifting portal]

setRandomLip doesn't work for agents?

[little raptor]

if you tried it and it didn't then it doesn't

(unless you had disableAI "ANIM")

[drifting portal]

no

sorry for ping by mistake

[dreamy kestrel]

I don't recall exactly, is there a way to tell if a POSITION is within the bounding box of an object, building, container, etc?
I see there is BIS_fnc_isInsideArea, which gets us lateral containment. But what about the vertical?

[winter rose]

inArea with boundingbox dimensions perhaps?

well, that wouldn't work with angled vehicles.

[dreamy kestrel]

perhaps getting direction from the object, and with the isRectangle c variant.

other than that maybe inPolygon, though I'm not sure what the polygon would be on a house or container model bounding box; the corners perhaps?.

[little raptor]

worldToModel

then simply check each coordinate component against bb one's

#define INRANGE(x, min, max) (x >= min && x <= max)

INRANGE(_pos#0, _bb#0#0, _bb#1#0) && ...

[dreamy kestrel]

how do you mean each coordinate? and does that account for rotation, azimuth?

[little raptor]

yes

[winter rose]

may I ask: why? (what is the use case?)

[dreamy kestrel]

I am a bit confused that it would account for rotation. Isn't the bounding box just that, the box it would take to contain the model? apart from rotation, etc.

[little raptor]

confused that it would account for rotation
you're doing worldToModel

everything is in the model coord

including the box

[dreamy kestrel]

need to determine if a unit is contained within an object such as a container, for instance; such as a Cargo_base_F base class.

[winter rose]

need to determine if a unit is contained within an object
that's what you are trying to do; but what is the use case?

[dreamy kestrel]

that's it. that is the use case. if the unit is already positioned there, then we do not need to reposition the unit.

so the driving condition is 'container contains unit'

[winter rose]

ah, OK! and thanks (I didn't get it as you meant at first)

[winter rose]

no need for that, just use [0,0,0]-based positions?

[dreamy kestrel]

huh okay; actually, that raises another question. we are compiling a hashmap of object bounding boxes, mainly for use with a safe radius. but there are instances such as this one that we may actually want an 'actual' bounding box, for cases like this.

[little raptor]

wdym? it is [0,0,0] based

[winter rose]

yes, then inArea works fine

[little raptor]

wat? there are only 2 values

it's a 1D range

[winter rose]

X, Y and Z no?

[dreamy kestrel]

and what I mean by that is, we create a temporary model in a ghost position to get the bounds and such, then delete it. but in this case we may want the actual object.

[little raptor]

yes. and you're just checking if X >= x_min and X <= x_max, etc.

you could do that via inArea but it's 10x more complex

[winter rose]

so _relativePosition inArea _areaDefinedByBBoxDimensions ?

[little raptor]

oh you mean inArea 3D?

[winter rose]

yes

[little raptor]

right I forgot that existed

[winter rose]

who knows if there are multiple containers etc

[dreamy kestrel]

we'll cross that bridge later 🤣 ✖️

perhaps one container per unit group, but anywho...

so inArea with Z comprehension would work then. without needing to 🐒 around with world or model coordinates?

[little raptor]

private _bbCenter = _bb#0 vectorAdd _bb#1 vectorMultiply 0.5;
private _bbSize = _bb#1 vectorDiff _bb#0 vectorMultiply 0.5;

(_obj worldToModel ASLtoAGL _pos) inArea ([_bbCenter, _bbSize#0, _bbSize#1, 0, true, _bbSize#2])

[little raptor]

it's not as clean as I thought it would be

[dreamy kestrel]

no worries, I'll pursue the inArea approach and experiment a little. thanks both of you.

[lapis ivy]

Hello. I use the trigger along the river, creating the sound of the river, since it is missing. I need it to work in multiplayer.

if !(player inArea _this) exitwith{};
while {player inArea_this}do
{
      playSound "River";
      sleep 90;
};
};```

The problem is that when I leave the trigger, the sound continues to play.

If I add this sound through the sound effects tab in the trigger, then the sound works for all players, even those who are not near or in the river and should not hear it.

[little raptor]

playSound is 2D

use say3D

[winter rose]

or createVehicle a CfgSFX

[lapis ivy]

That's right, I need 2d

[winter rose]

oh, disregard then

[little raptor]

then delete the sound

[winter rose]

that's a bit harsh 😄

[dreamy kestrel]

👀 curious, so river sounds would play when a unit is 1000m+ in the air but 'near' the river (in 2D)?

[winter rose]

not 2D in position sense, more in audio sense

[lapis ivy]

I experimented already with 3d sound, I did not like the result, since the sound is very much duplicated in two ears (the effect is not very pleasant).

[winter rose]

what exactly do you want to do:
a 2D sound will be playing however you are turned from the river, absolutely not related to its position - no left/right ear channel changes

[lapis ivy]

I don't know how to turn off the sound when I leave the trigger.

[little raptor]

thisTrigger spawn {
    if !(player inArea _this) exitwith {};
    private _obj = objNull;
    while {player inArea _this} do
    {
        if (isNull _obj) then {
            _obj = playSound "River";
        };
        sleep 1;
    };
    deleteVehicle _obj;
};

[lapis ivy]

Yes, I need it.

[dreamy kestrel]

hmm; function of two things, the quality of the source audio. but isn't 3D intended to be able to tell left from right also? IDK... just 💭

[lapis ivy]

True, intended, BUT
The river is small, it is not a huge shore, which is why it sounds not very beautiful in the vicinity, since there will be not 1 3D sound playback point, but several. And it so happens that 3-4 identical sounds are reproduced and it turns out "porridge".

[dreamy kestrel]

so to me seems like an audio quality issue; maybe simplify it or thin it a bit, like a light trickle water sound, for use with 3D. again 💭

[winter rose]

you could do calculations to have only one CfgSFX sound source that is placed regularly on the point in the river the closest to the player

buuut that's tricky ^^

[dreamy kestrel]

not having the audio file to gauge, bit difficult to meaningfully feedback. but it sounds interesting.

[lapis ivy]

Yes, light. But noisy...

[lapis ivy]

Thx, it's work!

[dreamy kestrel]

🏁 🏁 🐔

[drifting portal]

Update: Um, I think PIP is failing to load lip movement? because when I look at the character (character = agent) through a PIP camera, it doesn't move its mouth, but when I teleported next to it it did (it was running a set of animation so the issue is not with dynamic simulation or something)

[winter rose]

not PiP, most likely the LOD or lip system not wanting to waste animation from afar

try PiP while you are close to it

[drifting portal]

Alright hopefully tomorrow

[open fractal]

Is there a reliable way to make all doors of a building open and stay open for every player?

I tried the Edit Terrain Object module but doors stay closed for clients

[sharp grotto]

You can use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_doorNoHandleOpen

[_building, 'Door_1_rot'] call BIS_fnc_DoorNoHandleOpen;
[_building, 'Door_2_rot'] call BIS_fnc_DoorNoHandleOpen;
[_building, 'Door_3_rot'] call BIS_fnc_DoorNoHandleOpen;
//etc

[open fractal]

is this reliable for terrain objects in MP?

[sharp grotto]

yes, iam not aware of any problems

[open fractal]

you've used it in MP and have not had any problems?

[sharp grotto]

correct

[open fractal]

I'll give it a shot thanks

[sharp grotto]

You can also disable the doors actions by doing this

_building setVariable ["bis_disabled_Door_1",1,true];
_building setVariable ["bis_disabled_Door_2",1,true];
//etc

[versed belfry]

Question, is there any script I can use to make the Shikra texture/model hidden without it being actually hidden?
Example picture: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/740313787827224696/1008187920512987146/unknown.png

This is the furthest I was able to get with setObjectTexture and setting the texture to " ".

I', trying to have a completely invisible Shikra that can still be locked on but can not be seen.

[warm hedge]

No

[versed belfry]

Oh, ah welp gonna have to work with that :(

Thanks for the quick answer tho

[warm hedge]

If hideObject doesn't fit into, there's nothing

[versed belfry]

Yea sadly with hideObject you can't lock on the vehicle.

I'm trying to use a hidden plane to attach a cruise missile object to it and give the players the ability to shoot down the "cruise missile".

[smoky verge]

is there any way to edit the end mission statistic window?
the one that says "your kills" "casualties" etc

or rather, add onto the existing categories

[versed belfry]

This might help? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Debriefing

[smoky verge]

checked that, only seem to edit the initial screen

[warm hedge]

The screen that can be shown ingame not in debriefing am I right?

[smoky verge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/File:A3_debriefing_stats.jpg
this one

I guess one way to add the stuff I need is to manually create the casualties/kills

[warm hedge]

What's your goal?

[smoky verge]

I need 2500000 civilians added to the casualties list
just as a single line I don't want 2500000 individual names
and before you ask its not for a stupid overused joke
what if I named a blufor unit "2500000 civilians" and killed it
it should pop up right?

[manic sigil]

If it's type was 2500000 civilians, yeah

Or would that be Kind?

[smoky verge]

I did see first names in the list, so I assumed identity would work

https://i.imgur.com/tJh1PjM.png

mhm I can only see the type in the list I have no idea how to show names like in the link

[dreamy kestrel]

Back to my inArea question... re: bounding boxes... when we're talking angle, rotation angle, is that literally what getDir _target reports?

Also with regard to "Cargo_base_F" classes, I believe the editor (directional?) orientation is breadth-wise, if that makes sense, correct?

Just trying to orient bounding box XYZ elements appropriately re: a, b, angle, and c vectors, if that makes sense.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/inArea
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/boundingBoxReal

I can probably make some best guess estimates, but if someone happened to know...

Thanks...

[dreamy kestrel]

If I read the docs correctly, a is X, b is Y, c is optionally Z, rotation only, strictly speaking, not speaking of azimuth, i.e. when you rotations along XYZ axes. so hence the more detailed analysis involving world model coordinates, I imagine.

The container models themselves, the "width" axis in particular is also a bit tricky, I think; cause there is some buffer in the model allowing for opening of doors, so I want to reduce that width accordingly.

Bit difficult to see the model bounding box in the editor. But to give the sense of the bounding box. Best guess, 80% 90% of the model width of box is the actual model, not counting opening doors. Totally experimental.

https://pasteboard.co/O7wFyrILAD5Y.png

[winter rose]

I believe the box around the selected container is the bounding box

my best guess is, if it is a one-object thing use manually-provided measurements

[dreamy kestrel]

Yep, from some preliminary assessments, medium container re: player positions...

[medium distance player, getpos player, getpos medium, boundingboxreal medium]

Yields,

[4.50015,[14568.4,16119.3,0.00144386],[14571.8,16121.9,-3.43323e-005],[[-4.67598,-1.24,-1.32431],[4.67598,1.24,1.32431],5.00877]]

These are the raw, 'precise' numbers real gives us. Which includes some buffer for doors opening.

But I think with that, I can better work with this and make some educated guesses.

[fierce solar]

how to disable collision of an object with every player

[warm hedge]

You can't

An object can't disable its collision with more than one object

[little raptor]

Actually you can. It's not necessary that each pair of objects with disabled collision should only be disabled with each other

[warm hedge]

Hm, good to know. I must be misremembered then

[little raptor]

added a clearer description here
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableCollisionWith

[warm hedge]

☝️

[smoky rune]

is there any way to localize role description in the lobby screen?

[warm hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Stringtable.xml
You can check this out for the idea

[smoky rune]

yeah, I know about stringtable and already actively use it, but how to pass string key to role description in 3DEN Editor?

[exotic flax]

You can set a custom role description in Eden (Edit Object -> Object Control -> Role Description), however to localize it you will need to modify the mission file and replace the string with Stringtable variables.

[smoky rune]

Thanks for suggestion. Sad that there is no way to do this through the UI.

[exotic flax]

although it might work when setting the Stringtable string directly in Eden, never had to use it though

[smoky rune]

I tried to put $STR_ROLE_NAME/localize "STR_ROLE_NAME" there, it still treats it as ordinary string

[winter rose]

Try "@STR_Something"?

[smoky rune]

brb

[exotic flax]

if I recall correctly it should be

// object in mission.sqm
description = $STR_ROLE_NAME;

while adding it in Eden will always add quotes around it

[winter rose]

quotes ideally should be present around $STR

if it works without, it is the engine trying to be nice and understanding

you can actually try in a CfgSounds, name = My Sound;

(perhaps not spaced, but underscored - to be checked)

[exotic flax]

hmmm... KP-Liberation uses "@STR_ROLE_NAME" (ampersand instead of dollar sign) 🤔

although I guess they use some weird replace stuff

[smoky rune]

Yeah, putting @ before string key works
Once again - thanks

[exotic flax]

in the Biki:

In markers and other Eden Editor fields (e.g Mission Name), translation keys should be prefixed with @, without any quotes around - e.g @STR_myMarkerName. Casing does not matter here either.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Stringtable.xml#Editor

[hallow mortar]

Localisation keys can work without quotes in description.ext. I don't trust that trying a non-localisation key strings without quotes would work though.

[exotic flax]

decription.ext is a config file, mission .sqm is not 😉

at least not the same as regular config files

[hallow mortar]

CfgSounds (which is description.ext) was mentioned so I assumed there must be some degree of relevance

[proven charm]

when creating JIP calls is it called on client after client's init.sqf or some other point?

like: remoteexec ["jipTestFn", west, true]; When does jipTestFn get called on JIP client?

[willow hound]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Initialization_Order
Persistent functions are called is what you're looking for 🙂

[proven charm]

so init.sqf is not the right place to define the jipTestFn function?

[willow hound]

init.sqf is not the right place to define any function

[proven charm]

well that's what I use anyway 🙂

[willow hound]

But yes, the table says that in multiplayer, init.sqf runs after persistent functions are called, so you should not be able to persist a function call to a function you defined in init.sqf.

[proven charm]

ok

yeah init.sqf does not seem to work if there's any delay

so I have this for the JIP functions: sqf class CfgFunctions { class Teeeest { class InitFns { class JipTest { file = "jipFns.sqf"; preinit = 1; }; }; }; }; i guess that's the only way?

[hallow mortar]

You should define all your functions in CfgFunctions rather than init.sqf anyway

[proven charm]

I have so many functions it would take years to put them all there 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Arguably even more of a reason to do it

It's not difficult to do, just cut & paste each one to a new file and add 1 new line to cfgFunctions per function. Should take 15 seconds per function at most.

[proven charm]

i appreciate the feedback but seriously I have so many functions that Im choosing the lazy way and just create the all via init.sqf . Everything is organized in files though which are execVM'ed

[hallow mortar]

If you've already got them all in separate files then this isn't the lazy way, it's exactly as much work as cfgFunctions, but worse performance and less remoteExec-ability

[proven charm]

I mean lot of functions in one file

[hallow mortar]

Look, I can't make you do anything you don't want to, but please understand that you're deliberately choosing to make things worse in the long term in order to save a few seconds now. If you truly have so many functions that it'll take more than 10 minutes to convert them all, it's very likely that the performance difference will be noticeable.

[proven charm]

i appreciate the fact that you are trying to help me but you really can't guess how many functions I have 😄

btw i guess there's no way to run some function files in CfgFunctions in client and some in server? or do I just do that inside the file? (hasInterface etc)

[little raptor]

do I just do that inside the file? (hasInterface etc)
yes

[south swan]

or move server-only functions to servermod, i guess

[little raptor]

it used to be the same way for me like 3 yrs ago and I had hundreds of functions and it only took me an hour to get everything sorted out

and it was worth it

it saves you a lot of time in the future because whenever you want to add a function you just add a single class fnNmae and create a fn_fnName.sqf file and you're good to go

plus it makes mod <-> mission transition easy for me (I make my mods in missions)

[proven charm]

ok thx for all the help guys 🙂

[little raptor]

sounds like a "I won't do it anyway" 🤣

[proven charm]

lol

makes me wanna count how many functions there are to reason this further

[south swan]

the one thing i wish was possible with CfgFunctions is to have like 1-2 more levels of nesting

[little raptor]

why?

[south swan]

to have stuff a bit more structured, i guess. For, say, a "Vehicle respawn system" to contain a "Mission maker interface" , "Server respawn logic" and "Abandon detection" sub-systems 🤷‍♂️

[pseudo ridge]

After i set Pip to black and white, using example 4 here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setPiPEffect
How can i set color back again?
I tried"rtt" setPiPEffect [0]; but no color, still B&W.

[little raptor]

If Color Corrections effect has been used, going back to Normal will have no effect. In order to unset Color Corrections, set the 2nd param in it (enable) to 0.

[pseudo ridge]

Ah! Thanks!

[little raptor]

it probably goes the same for chromatic aberration and film grain

[pseudo ridge]

🙌

[stable dune]

You want your functions separated?
to in own folders in functions path

[pseudo ridge]

@little raptor when i change Pip quality (Low, Standart, High, Very High, Ultra) the Pip Effects i have set are lost. This is normal?

This don't happens with vanilla Arma 3 Pip's like the ones on vehicles.

[little raptor]

idk

[tender fossil]

Wouldn't it be possible to make a cheap implicit type system by creating a plugin in e.g. Visual Studio Code and forcing the variable types by the editor itself with naming conventions or do I have some critical error in my logic here?

[little raptor]

what do naming conventions have to do with types?

[tender fossil]

I began to think about it because my SQF mastermind friend developed relatively complex stuff back in the days by creating an implicit type system with naming conventions. But why not take it to the next level and write an editor plugin for it to both automate it (easing unnecessary cognitive load) and eliminate occasional errors caused by the manual method?

[tender fossil]

If you can determine the original variable type when it's created, you can keep the type intact during its lifetime even with a hacky and/or implicit solution such as that one

The naming conventions would just mostly signal the variable type

So in a twisted way I think that the very core of the concept would be the same than with TypeScript, just the means to get there would be different

[umbral patio]

`private _vehicle = [_this, 0, objNull, [objNull]] call BIS_fnc_param;
player reveal _vehicle;

hint "Votre vehicule est pret !";
life_draw_vehicle_icon = {
private _vehicle = _this select 0;
if (isNil "_vehicle" || {
isNull _vehicle
}) exitWith {};
if ((vehicle player) isEqualTo _vehicle) exitWith {};
private _distance = round(player distance _vehicle);
private _text = format["%1m.", _distance];
private _pos = getPosATLVisual _vehicle;
private _vehicleInfo = [typeOf _vehicle] call life_fnc_fetchVehInfo;
private _icon = _vehicleInfo select 2;
drawIcon3D[_icon, [1, 1, 1, 1], _pos, 1, 1, 0, _text, 2, 0.05, "PuristaMedium", "center", true];
};

private ehID = format["LIFE_ID_VEHSPAWN%1", (round random 999999)];
[_ehID, "onEachFrame", "life_draw_vehicle_icon", [_vehicle]] call BIS_fnc_addStackedEventHandler;
sleep 30;
[_ehID, "onEachFrame"] call BIS_fnc_removeStackedEventHandler;
`

where is my error ???

[granite sky]

Paste the error.

"life_draw_vehicle_icon" looks like an error to me.

should be just life_draw_vehicle_icon without the quotes. Function takes either code or stringified code.

[hallow mortar]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[granite sky]

Also BIS_fnc_param and BIS_fnc_addStackedEventHandler are obsolete in A3 and should be replaced with the engine commands.

[umbral patio]

the engine commands ?

[hallow mortar]

params and addMissionEventHandler

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/params
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addMissionEventHandler

[umbral patio]

Error in expression <]] call BIS_fnc_addStackedEventHandler; sleep 30; [_ehID, "onEachFrame"] call BI> 16:42:03 Error position: <sleep 30; [_ehID, "onEachFrame"] call BI> 16:42:03 Error Suspending not allowed in this context

my erorrs

[granite sky]

You need to run that code in scheduled context. Spawn or remoteExec.

[umbral patio]

F(life_fnc_unimpoundCallback,ANYONE) ?

or client ?

[granite sky]

I don't know your macros.

[umbral patio]

#define ANYONE 0
#define CLIENT 1
#define SERVER 2

[_vehicle] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_unimpoundCallback",_unit];

[granite sky]

remoteExecCall is unscheduled context. You need to use remoteExec, or add a spawn inside the function.

[umbral patio]

so like [_vehicle] remoteExec ["life_fnc_unimpoundCallback",_unit];

[granite sky]

Yes.

[umbral patio]

Works fine thanks !

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[drifting portal]

its exhibiting a weird behaviour
yes when you are far away from it, the lips in PIP won't move, and yes when you teleport next to the character the PIP will show lip momvents but:
If you teleport yourself away (after teleporting yourself close to the character) the lip movement will still work in PIP

Really weird

[sullen sigil]

Right I'm unsure if this should explicitly be in here as I think it's to do with maths, but with setVelocityTransformation, is there any way to stop the player from spinning around vertically etc when moving the camera? I'm currently using vectorDir player for both results but I think I want only one element of the player's vectorDir for this?

basically i want the player to turn like theyre on the ground with setveltransf

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/332936363340988416/1008402628671180880/funky_friday.mp4

Trying to avoid this level of weirdness

[granite sky]

Something like this maybe:

_pdir = vectorDir player;
_pdir set [2, 0];
_pdir = vectorNormalized _pdir;

Might want some tolerance on the z rather than a hard zero.

[sullen sigil]

roger i'll give that one a shot ty

not quite what im looking for i dont think but im not entirely sure what i need to change

let me experiment a bit

ya i dont think this is what im looking for because i still want the player to be able to move around just not move their entire body if that makes sense

like theyre on the ground or falling

[real tartan]

looking for function to do SUM of values in array

[granite sky]

There's no fast method. You just have to do something like

private _total = 0;
{ _total = _total + _x } forEach _array;

[copper raven]

_array accumulate [0, { _accumulator + _x }] when

[granite sky]

It's still running SQF per element, unless they add specific expression optimisations. Which they could, I guess.

[copper raven]

there is a very small case pool for having a specific command like that, so it having to run sqf is most optimal i think

[real tartan]

I wish

[sullen sigil]

anyone got any bright ideas for this as im utterly stumped

the maths for this is beyond my ability

[tough abyss]

@sullen sigil What's the vectorUp setting?

[sullen sigil]

_vectorDir = _playerPos vectorFromTo _entityPos;
_sideVector = _vectorDir vectorCrossProduct(vectorUp player);
_vectorUp = _sideVector vectorCrossProduct _vectorDir;```

[spare vector]

Does anyone have a script to add inventory items to random civilians...

[tough abyss]

And SVT is just using that?

[sullen sigil]

yup

player setVelocityTransformation[_playerPos, _entityPos, _velocity, _velocity, _playerDir, _playerDir, _vectorUp, _vectorUp, _interval];```

[sullen sigil]

_playerDir is this

[tough abyss]

Mm

And that vectorUp is only calculated at the start right

[sullen sigil]

affirm

before the mission EH

should I stick it within the mission EH

[real tartan]

whole gear or just add particular item to random civilians ?

[tough abyss]

Hm

[spare vector]

random items from a list ...

doing military patrol... interrogate ... arrest action...
so looking to randomly give contraban items to civilians spawned with COS

[tough abyss]

@sullen sigil Yeah alright watched your video... problem is that your vectorUp points away from the rope (hence why you are angled like you are) which was intentional

However as a result

Your vectorDir movement (which is unlocked) is to the sides perpendicular to that so you rotate weirdly like that

There's not a great way to fix it other than either being oriented differently or just not allowing rotation

[sullen sigil]

I think I understand what you're saying there?

Is there any way to stop X and Y rotation and only allow Z? Sort of makes sense within the use of the tool

[real tartan]

private _items = ["Chemlight_green", "Chemlight_blue"];
{
    _x addItem ( selectRandom _items );
} 
forEach ( allUnits select { side _x isEqualTo civilian } );

depends on type of item, change addItem to addMagazine

[spare vector]

cool thanks i will give it a try

[tough abyss]

@sullen sigil Yes, we can project the vector onto the plane of your movement, though I need to recall how to do so

One moment

[sullen sigil]

you're a legend btw thanks so much for the help 😅

[tough abyss]

No problem lol

Alright found it

As long as you're using a normalized vector (which you are) this should be sufficient

_vectorDir = _sideVector vectorCrossProduct (_playerDir vectorCrossProduct _sideVector);

Set that outside of the EH with _playerDir as vectorDir player

[sullen sigil]

legendary, i'll give that a punt now -- thanks for the help dude

Yup, that works perfectly, thanks man

[drifting portal]

how to do I approximate a number?
e.g: 3.25 = 3.3

[south swan]

for printing or for further math usage?

[drifting portal]

for printing

for example I don't want 3.3123km, 3.3km is enough

[hallow mortar]

toFixed

[drifting portal]

Nicely done 👍

[tough abyss]

@sullen sigil No problem, glad it worked out

[sullen sigil]

Yeah thanks dude 😄

[cobalt path]

I have a script that teleports you where you are aiming, is there a way to limit the teleportation distance to lets say 10m?

player addAction ["<t color='#000000'>Dash</t>",
{

params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"];

player setPos screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
player setPosASL [getPos player select 0, getPos player select 1,10000];
player setPosASL [getPos player select 0, getPos player select 1, (getPosASL player select 2)-(getPos player select 2)];

playSound3D ["A3\Sounds_F_Vehicles\air\noises\SL_rope_break_int.wss", _target, false, getPosASL _target, 5, 1.5, 0];

}];

[tough abyss]

Yes it's easy

though why are you doing

player setPos screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
player setPosASL [getPos player select 0, getPos player select 1,10000];
player setPosASL [getPos player select 0, getPos player select 1, (getPosASL player select 2)-(getPos player select 2)];

instead of just

player setPosASL (AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5]);

should do exactly the same thing

as for limiting the distance, you could do it like so:

player addAction ["<t color='#000000'>Dash</t>",
{

params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"];
private _playerPos = getPosASL player;
private _teleportPos = AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
if (_playerPos distance _teleportPos > 10) exitWith {};
player setPosASL _teleportPos;
playSound3D ["A3\Sounds_F_Vehicles\air\noises\SL_rope_break_int.wss", _target, false, getPosASL _target, 5, 1.5, 0];
}];

[little raptor]

if it's a "dash" you shouldn't use screenToWorld to begin with

[cobalt path]

doesnt seem to be doing anything

[tough abyss]

Are you pointing at a position less than 10m away?

[cobalt path]

Okay I see, is there a way to do it that even if you point further away it only teleports you 10m max?

[tough abyss]

Yes one moment

player addAction ["<t color='#000000'>Dash</t>",
{
params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"];
private _playerPos = getPosASL player;
private _teleportPos = AGLToASL screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5];
private _teleportDir = _playerPos vectorFromTo _teleportPos;
if (_playerPos distance _teleportPos > 10) then {
  _teleportPos = _playerPos vectorAdd (_teleportDir vectorMultiply 10);
};
player setPosASL _teleportPos;
playSound3D ["A3\Sounds_F_Vehicles\air\noises\SL_rope_break_int.wss", _target, false, getPosASL _target, 5, 1.5, 0];
}];

one way to do it

[dusky pier]

Good evening! Is it possible to get player's uid in main menu?
I have custom mod, but for some developer funcs access - i need to sort it somehow

[copper raven]

i don't think so, i guess you can hack the ui though, pretty sure you can get the uid from the profiles options

[spare vector]

Does anyone know of find the signal type of script? .. where your guys have to locate a transmission via signal strength or something

[willow hound]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Spectrum_Device

[lapis ivy]

Spectator problem. When a player dies and is resurrected, it happens that in spectator mode it shows his corpse, and not the resurrected player. There is a solution? I am using ACE.

[tough abyss]

is this place for editing addon scripts?

[opal zephyr]

any kind or arma script (sqf)

[tough abyss]

does cinecam count?

[opal zephyr]

What are you trying to do with cinecam?

[tough abyss]

re enable a feature and disable a feature

there's a feature which prevents you from zooming in

[opal zephyr]

Are you actually doing that through an sqf file though?

[tough abyss]

pbo :/

[opal zephyr]

Do you have permission to be editing the mod? It doesnt look like a license is mentioned on its steam page

[tough abyss]

the second feature is where you press right click hold or not it just forces you in first person ads

[tough abyss]

yeah issue with that in order to get permission I need to reach the guy

however he is banned

so there's no way to reaching him out

[opal zephyr]

He's banned in this discord?

[tough abyss]

nope in steam

idk if he uses this discord

Xorberax

[opal zephyr]

It looks like their profile is just private, their vac ban has nothing to do with you being able to reach them. You could try commenting on the page to see if they respond

[tough abyss]

can't comment got a community ban

[opal zephyr]

idk what to tell you 🤷‍♂️

[tough abyss]

he hasn't been working on the mod for 2 years either

then again this is just a custom version for me not something I will release

its for a video

[opal zephyr]

Check out the license page for arma and see if a default license is applied if none is specified. You might be able to edit it without redistributing it

[tough abyss]

where do I see the license page

[opal zephyr]

https://www.bohemia.net/community/licenses

[tough abyss]

I guess this is his license?
CineCam | Cinematic Third-Person Camera Replacement
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/220040-wip-cinecam-cinematic-third-person-camera-replacement/
Copyright (C) 2018 Zooloo75
REQUIRES: COMMUNITY BASE ADDONS

the code was originally made by Zooloo tho

nvm its the same guy

[opal zephyr]

it looks like that forum post has it under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
Which isnt an arma license, however assuming it is in compliance with arma 3's eula then it still stands.
Look into that license and see what you're allowed to do

[tough abyss]

looks like I don't have to comply with them

but my intentions aren't breaking any eula either

[opal zephyr]

What makes you not have to comply with it...?

[tough abyss]

don't have to Comply with any of the mentions that has to do with the Eula unless I gain profit or as in commercial advantage

[opal zephyr]

Ok then, what are you having trouble with script wise?

[tough abyss]

Im having issues understanding which code does what Im struggling to find the very code that is responsible for preventive third person aim and preventive camera zoom in

when I press right click it instantly goes to first person ADS no matter how I press it. hold or non hold it instantly goes to ADS First person

the mod also disables some of arma 3 vanilla zoom in features

which belongs to view

[opal zephyr]

Does the mod have a section in controls? It may be possible to just fix through that

[tough abyss]

It seemingly does but I can't share it due to how long it is

[hallow mortar]

https://sqfbin.com

[opal zephyr]

I mean in game controls, not in the code

[tough abyss]

yes Ive done that through mapping the right click key

to a something else in logitech

but it doesn't work as intended

I found a decent workaround to that bit but even if it works it still is janky while the camera zoom in vanilla being disabled haven't really found any work around on that part

or prevented somewhat that one is also a issue

there's no configurable option to turn this on or off unfortunately which is why im requesting for help

[spare vector]

thanks

[opal zephyr]

NoUserName, there really isnt a lot we can do to help without an actual code example

[tough abyss]

do you mind if I post it to you through dm or something?

[opal zephyr]

If you have a specific block you want help with. I don't have the time to sort through thousands of lines of code looking for a solution to a unspecific problem

[tough abyss]

Im just gonna assume

considering the offset settings that are configurable is obvious enough if I don't include them the text won't be as long as anticipated

[drifting portal]

Better start using sqfbin.com

[tough abyss]

?

[drifting portal]

That's a large block of code

[tough abyss]

yeah

[drifting portal]

Use sqfbin.com to make it easier for the chat

[tough abyss]

what does it do?

allow you to copy the text and turn it into a compressed folder?

[drifting portal]

It's a website where you can paste the code and it will have sqf syntax highlights

Plus makes it easier to read than a discord chat

That's what most people here use when sending large chunks of code

[tough abyss]

how do I make him read through the website tho I can't really post images

[drifting portal]

https://sqfbin.com/nohekasesubequnayada

[granite sky]

(it makes a link for you and you paste that here)

[tough abyss]

oh I see

thanks

[tough abyss]

https://sqfbin.com/iqihaficonupagagunisI assume it goes from here

[opal zephyr]

ya that sqfbin is empty

[tough abyss]

you have to copy the link and paste it manually

idk why discord doesn't directly respond

[opal zephyr]

nah, it just takes me to the default page. Anyway, it looks like they are adding keybinds with cba, what are the ingame binds that you see?

[tough abyss]

so far only toggle camera shoulder

idk if it could be this one that is responsible for thirdperson switching to first person when press right click if (vehicle ThirdPerson_FocusedUnit != ThirdPerson_FocusedUnit) then {
switchCamera ThirdPerson_FocusedUnit;
} else {
if (ThirdPerson_IsInFirstPerson) then {
if (ThirdPerson_IsAimingDownSightsFromThirdPerson) then {
ThirdPerson_FocusedUnit switchCamera "gunner";
} else {
switchCamera ThirdPerson_FocusedUnit;
}
} else {
switchCamera ThirdPerson_Camera;
};
};

second try hopefully this link will work https://sqfbin.com/yoritiqijeqemuxicazo

[tough abyss]

Ok so I solved that part with the right click

now its all left is the preventive zoom in

[winter rose]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[stable dune]

Good morning,
Is there guide / wiki page to add to my script ability to change options via addonn menu?
I mean in editor

Options - configure addOn options -

Override.
Server [x] client [x] mission [x]

Cannot send picture here , so if my question is not clear , let me know, so I will explain again 😁

[open fractal]

that's a CBA feature

refer to their docs

[stable dune]

Thanks , i will look from there

[tough abyss]

CBA_fnc_addSetting to be exact

[stable dune]

Nice, this helps me alot

[tough abyss]

glad I could help

[frank mango]

Can i rotate a spawned object?
Specifically I have a small script which spawns a missile but the missile is spawned at 90 degrees. Can it get it to spawn facing upwards?, if so how?

[tough abyss]

Yes, you can, by changing its vectorDir and vectorUp

i.e. doing something like

missile setVectorDirAndUp [[0, 0, 1], [1, 0, 0]];

should make it face upwards

[ocean folio]

is there any particular inefficiency in loading data from a config file?

I guess that's a bad question lmao

would it be faster to load data from memory than from a config file? I dont know if those get stored in memory like variables

I assume it would be better to load the data from the config once and store it in a variable to call on later, than load the data from the config file once every time you need it.

[tender fossil]

Does SQF have commands that have context sensitive output data types?

[tough abyss]

Explain in further detail what you mean

[tough abyss]

All config data is loaded into memory by the game on startup anyways. configFile just accesses that stored memory.

At least, everything I've ever seen seems to imply such. Don't believe it does any further disk reads seeing as configs are basically ROM as far as the game is concerned.

[ocean folio]

well that saves me a little bit of work 😄

instead of loading data and saving it all in vehicle namespaces lol

[tough abyss]

I would recommend a caching system if you're frequently needing to read the same data

otherwise don't worry about it

[ocean folio]

how frequently is frequently?

if someone wanted to, I suppose they could spam the scroll wheel action, but its only once per

[tough abyss]

For that sort of thing I wouldn't worry about it

this would be moreso if you're looping something that could be re-accessing the same info

[ocean folio]

neat

thanks!

[tough abyss]

no problem

[tender fossil]

How would one implement this in case of Arma? Like that it'd actually increase performance

[tough abyss]

Depends what kind of caching you need but in most cases I'd go with a hashmap

[tender fossil]

Does SQF have commands that can have varying data types as outputs based on which kind of data (types) you give them as parameter?

[tough abyss]

I mean, you can make commands that do that, yeah

[ocean folio]

that's what I'm planning on doing for the stuff I'm pulling from the profile namespace. Looks promising and exciting

[tough abyss]

SQF is loosely typed so

functions can return and take any type unless you explicitly forbid it

[tough abyss]

Yeah hashmaps are very useful

[tender fossil]

Ah, I just realized that the definition of cache includes software level solutions too 😅 (I'm a turd) 😛

[tough abyss]

I'm sure the engine itself does some caching in the background

I'm unsure of the details of any such caching, though

[tender fossil]

This is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I'm not speaking about functions btw, but actual script commands, like the built-in ones / API

[tough abyss]

Ah

as far as the commands go, IIRC almost all of them if not all of them have expected argument/return types

not so much dynamic

but some can have some variance depending on the type of params, yeah

[tender fossil]

Because if we pretend for a moment that I wrote a TypeSQF to SQF transpiler, context sensitive command outputs (they exist in SQF according to a friend who knows quite a lot about it, but he didn't specify it further) cause some headache but I guess it'd still be doable

[tough abyss]

I mean they exist to an extent

I guess what I'd say is this

all type-based behavior is pretty much done either using conditionals with
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/typeName
or specifying a required type for a parameter with params

[tender fossil]

Well, in some way they have to be deterministic, so I think it would be doable (as long as the functionality of the command isn't a black box)

Thanks for the examples btw!

[tough abyss]

i.e. at the beginning of a function I could have

params ["_arr", [], [[]]];

which forces _arr to be an array, otherwise an error will throw

or if an argument can be one of many types I'd use typeName conditionals to alter the behavior based on the type

that's pretty much the extent to which SQF does type-based behavior

[tender fossil]

Yes, and that's why I'm playing with the idea of TypeSQF with transpiler

[tough abyss]

Well I certainly think there could be some benefit from such a thing

I myself am not a big fan of loose typing, though to some extent it makes things easier

[tender fossil]

SQF taught me to have a deep hatred towards loose/dynamic typing 😅

I basically refuse to work with even JavaScript now

[tough abyss]

Fair enough lol

I'd think JS would make you hate it more than SQF

[tender fossil]

But at least the length of feedback loop is more tolerable with JS than with SQF... Thinks about the countless times when I had to spend minutes to notice a simple type error in my code

But I'm a weird programmer anyways... I like writing documentation and I love writing human readable code (when possible), I prefer (decent/good) UIs as the main method of interacting with program with command line as fallback method for more accurate control and such...

Hmm, after checking typeName and params the logic behind them is clear when it comes to types. As a follow-up question: are there any SQF commands with context sensitive output data types that work like a black box from the modder's/scripter's perspective?

[tough abyss]

I mean basically all of the commands are a black box to an extent since you can't easily see their internals

though the BIKI documents all of the expected input/output types

so not really a black box

[tender fossil]

Dynamic typing is like peeing with your clothes on in winter... Makes you feel warm in the short run, but even more miserable in the long run

[tender fossil]

Yeah. I'm sorry, I intended to limit the scope of the question to data types only but worded it badly 😅

[tough abyss]

No worries

tl;dr if a command has any sort of noteworthy type-based behavior it'll be noted on the BIKI (hopefully)

otherwise there's not much other way to know

[open hollow]

i made script to save and load map markers, but when i create them i cant delete it ( mp) how can solve this ?

i used the last parameter but it dont seem to work ( im testing it on editor MP)

createMarker [str [getPlayerUID player ,_foreachindex], _x select 0, 1, player ];

solved: need to add "_USER_DEFINED" in the marker name

[copper raven]

it is doable, there are a few commands that have multiple return types though, dynamic scoping makes it tricky aswell (call specifically), so you'd probably want to forbid it for easier typechecking

[tender fossil]

As long as the logic is deterministic and most importantly available or can be figured out by us modders, I think it could be doable. But if we ran regularly into the black box issue, it wouldn't necessarily increase my motivation 😅

[cobalt path]

Thanks a lot!

[tough abyss]

No problem

[tough abyss]

Made a funny video for a new mod I made that I figured I'd share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnl9foSNXmU

[ocean folio]

I’m guessing _asset is a specific unit

Not the group that it belongs to

Ah

Lemme google real quick to find the line I’m looking for

I think it’s group _asset which should return the group that _asset belongs to

But I gotta check

Yeah that’s it

In your setgroupOwner

[warm hedge]

A createVehicle'd thing won't belong to a group

What is _className you want to spawn?

[ocean folio]

Listen to this guy he knows more than me lol

Oh, if it’s a vehicle it shouldn’t belong to a group afaik

[warm hedge]

createVehicle'd object won't have an AI. Even if it is B_Soldier_F

In the first place, what exactly you wanted to do?

[ocean folio]

Oh, TIL. That’s good knowledge

[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]

Where is the _asset? 🤔

Also if you want to post entirely use sqfbin

And

In the first place, what exactly you wanted to do?

Also if you want to post entirely use sqfbin

https://sqfbin.com/
Use this

[frank mango]

how would I integrate this into the script I am using.

[[7071.01,5782.47,4.15596], "RHS_9M79B", car1, 180, false, [0,0,0.25]] spawn BIS_fnc_exp_camp_guidedProjectile;```

[warm hedge]

In the first place, what exactly you wanted to do?
Please answer this

Then relaunch Discord? 🤔

And what is the relevance with setGroupOwner?

What mapmarker?

[ocean folio]

If you want the map marker to be the colour of the player’s side, I think you are over complicating this tremendously

[winter rose]

marker setMarkerColorLocal format ["Color%1", side player];
```this?

[ocean folio]

That’s exactly what I was trying to get. Waiting for my PC to load to rip it out of one of my scripts

[winter rose]

[ocean folio]

If it was me, right after the vehicle spawns I would CreateMarker using the position of the vehicle (which I believe you had stored in _asset)

Then what Lou posted to set the colour of it

If I understood correctly what you were trying to do, setting the colour of the map marker, correct?

I wonder if it’s a scope thing

That is generally how code works lol

Context is important

But I see what it’s trying to do

So, what is the intended sequence of events for the player?

Scroll wheel action > open’s menu > select vehicle type from list > spawn vehicle?

[ocean folio]

so that line that was erroring

_asset setGroupOwner (owner player);

do you know what that's supposed to do?

I would see what happens if you remove it

so it just slaps a parachute on your position?

alive _asset

I mean, the else is a bit excessive

if (!alive _asset) {
give back money
};

just invert it using !

[manic sigil]

First step of my project has come together, if still needing some polishing, but its on to new additions.

Im trying to include a method of adjusting created building objects, particularly, the SOGPF Mike Force FOB buildings, so you can more fine-tune their position.

The idea being one player electing to take a supervisory role, and have a couple Fired EHs attached to them, such that if they have the SOGPF shovel equipped, they can addAction select between push, pull, lift, and lower, as well as a value to adjust by, and beat the object into place.

I can understand vectorAdd, and get the target to move in the cardinal directions, but the thing Im having trouble with is the idea of 'move object to a new position equal to its own position, plus/minus the adjustment value, in a direction the eventHandle'd player is looking,' which would narrow the necessary inputs some.

[hallow mortar]

It should be that you can use vectorDir to find the direction the player is looking, vectorMultiply that value to produce the adjustment interval, and then vectorAdd that to the object position to apply it

[cursive tundra]

Hey, if i use an addAction on say a vehicle, is there some way to "get" the player that is perfoming the addAction? I need to feed the position of the player perfoming the addAction into a separate script, but im not sure whats the best way to do that

[hallow mortar]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction
The caller is available as one of the variables which can be retrieved with params. You can then pass it to the script as an argument e.g [_caller] call your_fnc_function.

[winter rose]

@cursive tundra ↑

[ocean folio]

kind of a general question, but anyone have a good method of visualizing your data structures?

having trouble wrapping my head around the layers of data I'm trying to store

[winter rose]

as in… what?

[ocean folio]

Just trying to think about how my data stores

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/628379572395704352/1008763714121515069/IMG_7942.jpg

oh wow that embedded, wasnt expecting that lmao

drawing it out like that kinda worked. I was just curious if anyone had a way of doing it that they found really easy to understand

[winter rose]

nay 😄

[ocean folio]

lol guess I just gotta trust my hands to write the code that needs writing

[proven charm]

there's saying well designed code is 90% complete

[winter rose]

I cannot emphasise that more
write your logic in human language, translating it into code is 5% of the work

[ocean folio]

if you store a hash map using setVariable, does it get stored/retrieved as an array?

nvm, its my default value which is the array 😆

[little raptor]

btw for those who always hated doing systemChat, hint etc., the latest update of Advanced Developer Tools adds an in-game debugger!

[winter rose]

don't crosspost just kidding, do it, it's well deserved 🤯

[frank mango]

I googled/wiki'd these and I have no clue at all what im doing.

[copper raven]

how did you halt the game like that? 🤔

setAccTime?

[hallow mortar]

Well...those were intended for someone else's problem, and I don't know what you're trying to do with them, so I'm not sure I can help

[little raptor]

yes

setAccTime 0

[copper raven]

cool 😄

i can see that being very useful

[little raptor]

in unschd env the breakpoint hits in the next frame but doesn't pause the script (the breakpoints just keep accumulating until next frame)

in schd it pauses the script using waitUntil

[copper raven]

very nice 👍

[frank mango]

I see that now.
I misread your username.
plresumed that is was a reply to something I was asking about earlier

[tender fossil]

Wow! Congrats for the release! 👍

[winter rose]

oh didn't know he was constipated now

[open fractal]

quite rude to release it right after I finished working on a project honestly

[tender fossil]

Sending you a DM

[ocean folio]

this sounds like something I need in my life right about now