arma3_scripting

[hallow mortar]

Not in a way where local vs global variables would break it

[languid tundra]

Is there a way to read profile settings in SQF?

[drowsy geyser]

I'm trying to attach a reflector light to the player and have it move according to the player's head movement doing it like this:

flashlight = "Reflector_Cone_01_narrow_white_F" createVehicle [0,0,0];
flashlight attachTo [player, [0,0,0], "head" , true];

but it is not accurate because the light is not centered when the player is crouch or prone so i want to do it like this but i cant get it work properly:

flashlight = "Reflector_Cone_01_narrow_white_F" createVehicle [0,0,0];
flashlight attachTo [player, [0,0,0], "head"];

addMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame",  
{ 
    flashlight setVectorDirAndUp  
    [ 
        (player selectionPosition "head") vectorFromTo 
        (player selectionPosition "head" vectorAdd (getCameraViewDirection player)), [0,0,1] 
    ];   
}];

[little raptor]

selectionPosition is in local coords

getCameraViewDirection is in world coords

attached object directions must also be local

it is not accurate because the light is not centered when the player is crouch or prone
your each frame one is not any better anyway. you're still attaching it
you need to move the light every frame too, using the position of the head bone in res LODs

imo first try your original code but try other bones instead

see if you can find one that better matches the head movement

such as neck or neck1

[fallow vector]

Hi guys, just wanted to quickly ask a simple question
ELI5 moment, but why do arma 3 linux servers not support uppercase letters? Sounds extremely silly to me, but surely there's a reason why

[granite sky]

Ok, consider what happens if a mod miscases a path. On Windows it works anyway. On Linux it doesn't. By forcing all file references to lower case on Linux you can at least make it work by lowercasing the filenames.

[hallow mortar]

To expand, that's because on Linux, file paths are case-sensitive and on Windows they are not, at an OS level

Also it's not a total ban on uppercase letters, you can use uppercase in scripting and other stuff, it's just file paths that are affected

[wanton tundra]

Hi!
Is there a way to get rid of all the terrain airport waypoints?
I am talking about the ilsPositon, ilsTaxIn, ilsTaxiOff
I was thinking about deleting classes like secondary airport class in my own mod config.cpp (not terrain config.cpp itself)
However there is no class defined for the main airport (ID=0). At least as far as i could understand/research.
Reason for that is i am trying to place dynamic airports on the existing airports. This would for example allow me to dynamically change the taxiOff paths.

[kindred zephyr]

can anyone confirm if

_agent setVelocityModelSpace [x, y, 3];

does NOT add to the Z velocity of an agent?
Do they perhaps have different physics compared to a normal unit?

Edit: animals cannot use this command, it works with human agents without issue

[wanton tundra]

I could achieve my planes landing from different approaching vector as it is hardcoded in the terrain but as soon as the plane is landed it will not follow the dynamicairport anymore and prioritise the hardcoded taxiOff path.

[winter rose]

did you try with the agent being off the ground?

[kindred zephyr]

no, but the behavior is consistent with anything else beside animal classnames. Animals just doesn't seem to like jumping right now.

[opal zephyr]

Could anyone help me with an object i've made, the engine doesnt consider it an entity as it does not appear when using "nearEntities" I have no idea why

[meager granite]

These near* command looks through different lists

Try nearestObjects

[opal zephyr]

It appears using this, but I need to get a bunch of the objects all across the map. I was intending to search for them using entities and the class name as the type

nearestObjects isnt very efficient compared to that...

[meager granite]

Look at https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/allObjects

[opal zephyr]

That uses object type as a defined number though does it not?

ya it wont take a string

Is there a way I could make "entities" work @meager granite ?

weird, the alternative syntax on the wiki talks about a string, but it errors in engine

[manic kettle]

You want all the objects on the map of one classname?

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

[opal zephyr]

I'll give that a try, thanks! Right now I managed to get the effect with nearestObjects and using the worldsize

I still dont get why "entities" wouldnt work though

[meager granite]

What object are you creating?

[opal zephyr]

I was an object I modded in, not one from base game. The object is spawned in 3den editor

[meager granite]

How it is spawned matters the most

[outer python]

Hello

I need help with something that is bothering me right now.

[warm hedge]

Then ask for help

Not ask to ask

[outer python]

I'm looking to make a system for an AI on my scenario but I can't do it at all. Or even understand or know how to do it.

Example, I have an AI that shoots MG, a GunnerCrew. I want this one once more ammo at all. Automatically receive ammunition so that he is not lost and can continue to fire. Until he dies.

I checked on a command with the "SetVehicleammo" but I did not understand everything, as well as whether to use an init.sqf or other.

[torpid mica]

is there a way to use double set in one command to set a subarray entry? e.g. I have an array with subarrays and i want to set a subarrayentry that is not at the first position. Would it work someting like: array set [2, set [3, "test"]]; Would that set the fourth subarrayentry in the third arrayentry to test?

the problem is that the script is called over and over again. at the Start the array is empty but it get populated more and more over time and the script should ony set some specific values and don´t touch the other entries

i can post my original code if that would help sole the problem

[south swan]

afaik arrays are handled by reference. So you can use _bigArray select 2 to get sub-array and use set on that 🤔

[torpid mica]

but that wont work when the array is empty right?

[south swan]

"i want to change a sub-array that may not exist yet" sounds kinda strange tbh 🤔

[torpid mica]

yeah. only in the first iteration the subarray does not exist. i gets created and populate by more then one script

[little raptor]

Note that it's very slow

So don't use it often

Also allObjects will support strings once v2.12 is available (you can try it on dev branch)

[little raptor]

You need to use a FiredMan event handler, then use setAmmo in it to set the ammo back to full

[torpid mica]

here is the code i use:

bluGroup = [[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]];
    opfGroup = [];
    _blueCounter = 0;
    _opfcounter = 0;
    while {true} do
    {
        {
            if (side _x == WEST) then
            {    
                _subarray = blugroup select _blueCounter;
                _grouptype = _x call getGroupType;
                //bluGroup append [_x,_grouptype,"", count _x,"",""]];
                //bluGroup deleteAt (find "null");
                _subarray set [0,_x];
                _subarray set [1,_grouptype];
                _blueCounter = _blueCounter +1;
            };
            if (side _x == EAST) then
            {

                _grouptype = _x call getGroupType;
                opfGroup set [_forEachIndex, [_x,_grouptype,"", count units _x,"",""]];
            };

        } forEach allGroups;

        hint format ["%1", bluGroup];

        sleep 10;
        _blueCounter = 0;

[little raptor]

Use resize

[torpid mica]

the problem is to make it work i need to set many empty subarrays (as seen above). But if i don´t do that the script wont work...

[torpid mica]

how do i have to do that?

[outer python]

And how do you make a firedman? Where can I find information about learning to do this for example? Because Youtube there is nothing. Bohemia on their site, there is what it takes but you have to know where to look.

[little raptor]

_arr = [];
_arr resize [100, []]

[torpid mica]

thanks mate

[little raptor]

Gives you 100 empty arrays

[little raptor]

Simply google arma firedman event handler...

[outer python]

thnk's 😉

[south swan]

private _allBluforGroups = groups blufor; only becomes available with 2.12

[torpid mica]

which versio ar ewe in right now?

[south swan]

2.10 with 2.12 being planned to release "soon"(tm)

[torpid mica]

yeah soon can mean half a year right?

[little raptor]

Oh is that what you're trying to do?
I didn't even read your script...

That script has so many problems...

[torpid mica]

i want to have an array which shows me all blufor groups and some attributs: ["name", "groupetype", "status", "transport", "traget"]; and i dont want empty entries in the main array. but the set thing should only set name and grouptype

[torpid mica]

but works... what are the problems? im just a hobby coder with not much expereience

[south swan]

inb4 hashMap-fueled caching system

[little raptor]

For one thing not being written properly
E.g. using foreachindex to set the opfor group thingy

Other being manual counter

[torpid mica]

if you want and had time we could go in a voice channel but im not native english

[little raptor]

Another being resizing the array when you don't even know how many you want

[torpid mica]

yeah im just working on the blufor site now opfor is just copy an paste then

[little raptor]

Don't copy paste. Use functions 😓

[little raptor]

I'm on mobile and I'm not even home...

[torpid mica]

no problem...

[torpid mica]

the problem with resizing is that the array can grow if groups are spawned mid game and it still will work so i would need to resize to howmany groups there are on each cycle

[south swan]

why even keep the array if it gets overwritten every cycle?

something like ```sqf
_fnc_grpStats = {
params ["_grp"];
[_grp call getGroupType, "", count units _grp, "", ""]
};

blueGroups = [];
redGroups = [];

while {true} do {
blueGroups = allGroups select {side _x == WEST} apply {[_x, _x call _fnc_grpStats]};
redGroups = allGroups select {side _x == EAST} apply {[_x, _x call _fnc_grpStats]};
sleep 10;
};``` 🤷‍♂️

[little raptor]

Here's a cleaner way of doing what you want

eastGroups = []; // same for west
_sideAttr = [eastGroups, westGroups];
{
 _sideid = [east, west] find side _x;
 _sideAttr#_sidrid pushBack [
 _x, _x call getType, blabla
]
} forEach allGroups

Forgive the type. I did it on mobile...

[torpid mica]

maybe you should join me in my project XD

[torpid mica]

this is a pretty decent way i have to admit and it seems like its working pretty good 🙂

but now every other entry in the subarray gets overwritten with the parameters in the function so i cant set any of them manually whilest with my code i can overwrite them at any time

[little raptor]

Set the parameters on the groups themselves

Use the array to simply get the groups faster

[torpid mica]

you think of setVariable?

[little raptor]

Yes

[south swan]

because ordering/count of groups can change and it would invalidate all the data that's set manually anyways

[little raptor]

If it's an array then use setVar once. Use getVar + set afterwards

[torpid mica]

i think i´m just to dumb. Would that change the subarray entry as well? how would i have to change the code to be able to do that?

[pulsar bluff]

we should not be using allGroups if we know the side sqf while {true} do { blueGroups = (groups west) apply {[_x, _x call _fnc_grpStats]}; redGroups = (groups east) apply {[_x, _x call _fnc_grpStats]}; sleep 10; };

[south swan]

2.12, though

[pulsar bluff]

2.12 isnt far ooff

[little raptor]

It's hard to type it
Simply do
_attr = _unit getVar ["mr_attr", [0,"other attr"]]; _attr set [1, "new attr"]; _unit setVar ["mr_attr", _attr]

If you init the attributes when the group is created you won't need the setVar anymore

[pulsar bluff]

too bad we dont have a "setVariableDefault" or "setVariableDefaultCall"

[south swan]

*get

[pulsar bluff]

yea

my bad, drunk & high lol

[little raptor]

A simple flag for getVar can do it

[pulsar bluff]

yea "getVariableDefaultCall" i have dreamed about for a couple months now

[little raptor]

If you don't manage to figure this out just ping me this afternoon and I'll explain it better

[torpid mica]

and how could i delete empty groups without leaving an epmty array entry?

is deleteGroupWhenEmpty on default true or false?

[granite sky]

Pretty sure it's false.

But you could check easily enough.

[winter rose]

I believe it's true by default in A3

[granite sky]

testGroup = createGroup west;
isGroupDeletedWhenEmpty testGroup

=> false

If you have a group in an array and something deletes it then you will have a grpNull in the array. If this is a possibility then you should account for it.

This is undocumented but I think there's a flag set on created groups which prevents their automatic deletion until a unit has been added to them.

[hallow mortar]

The wiki page for createGroup says this:

When the last unit leaves its group, the group usually gets immediately auto-deleted, regardless of its auto-deletion setting.
If that's true, I'm very curious about what the point of deleteGroupWhenEmpty even is - there are so many notes saying different variations of "it doesn't actually make any difference to what the game does" that it seems there are no circumstances where the command has any effect at all.

[granite sky]

There may be a distinction between emptying a group with join and emptying a group by units dying or being deleted.

Confirmed.

[winter rose]

tbh, I have no clear idea of the entirety of the groups management system
we'll have to explore, deduce and write

[granite sky]

deleteGroupWhenEmpty is quite resistant to testing. I'm not sure if it's very slow or very weird.

The delete on empty via join is instant though.

[winter rose]

like [onlyUnit] join objNull?

[granite sky]

yeah

Struggling to find a case where deleteGroupWhenEmpty deletes the group :P

[little raptor]

Yeah it never works 😅

[winter rose]

I believe it is a cycle like every 1, 5 or 10 minutes something

[little raptor]

But all empty groups do get deleted after 60s
At least as far as I remember when I was messing with that

[winter rose]

we could ask KK or Dedmen… 😏 I know KK worked on groups recently

[granite sky]

I do remember a 60s case but I can't replicate now.

There is also a timer where dead units get moved out of the group.

[winter rose]

this is when the leader report they're dead, also clearing identity (name, etc)

[granite sky]

hmm, maybe it needs a live leader to do that.

But then group is never going to be empty except via deletion or join.

[manic sigil]

Getting myself into the weeds here, probably came up with a dumb solution that unfortunately works well enough that I need to question it.

I couldnt get a while-do loop to function smoothly for what I wanted, and instead resorted to packing everything I wanted into a function that gets Spawned (requires a couple waitUntils and Sleeps), and then ends by Calling itself to keep looping.

While it works in the short term, am I just setting up a resource timebomb?

[torpid mica]

why is a task that is created via createSimpleTask not assigned to the unit it is created for?

and how i can assign the task with code to a unit?

[manic sigil]

Post the script you wrote regarding this command

[torpid mica]

_task = leader _grp createSimpleTask [_taskname];
_task setSimpleTaskDescription [_taskdescription, _taskdescription,""];
_task setSimpleTaskDestination _taskpos;

the Task is displayed on the map but no hints and non assigned

[granite sky]

@manic sigil I don't know the specifics for SQF, but a function indefinitely calling itself is going to run out of something in pretty much any language.

[winter rose]

Google: did you mean "recursion"?

[south swan]

endless recursion at that

[stable dune]

Hi, is it possible to get groups inside an array sort by alphabetically?

private _allGroupsWithPlayers = [];
{ 
    _allGroupsWithPlayers pushBackUnique group _x; 
} forEach units blufor;
_allGroupsWithPlayersAlphabetical = _allGroupsWithPlayers call BIS_fnc_sortAlphabetically;
_allGroupsWithPlayersAlphabetical_2 = _allGroupsWithPlayers;
_allGroupsWithPlayersAlphabetical_2 sort true;

_data = [_allGroupsWithPlayers,_allGroupsWithPlayersAlphabetical,_allGroupsWithPlayersAlphabetical_2];

copyToClipboard str _data;

return

[
[B Alpha 1-2,B Alpha 1-3,B Charlie 1-4,B Bravo 1-5,B Alpha 1-1],
[B Alpha 1-2,B Alpha 1-3,B Charlie 1-4,B Bravo 1-5,B Alpha 1-1],
[B Alpha 1-2,B Alpha 1-3,B Charlie 1-4,B Bravo 1-5,B Alpha 1-1]
]

[winter rose]

yes, it is.

[south swan]

_attempt3 = [_allGroupWithPlayers, [], {str _x}, "ASCEND"] call BIS_fnc_sortBy; 🤷‍♂️

[stable dune]

Oo, cant wait solution

[winter rose]

even though "str _x" is risky as if a group has a var name it will be "varname" 😬

[winter rose]

groupId?

[stable dune]

awesome, it works

[winter rose]

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

arrayOfStrings call (...)
👀

[_allGroupWithPlayers, [], { groupId _x }, "ASCEND"] call BIS_fnc_sortBy; // final v3.docx

[stable dune]

Nice , thanks a lot

[winter rose]

a lot 😁

[manic sigil]

S'why I asked, Im not certain myself - I know enough that that was my concern, but not if the script would terminate each run through. Logically, though, I suppose not. Sigh.

[south swan]

groupId may be better semantically, but it seems to be roughly equal performance-wise 🤔

[manic sigil]

I think the issue I was having was my while-do wasnt accepting the private variables I was trying to use. Back to the drawing board.

[stable dune]

Aa, yeh true. GroupID return is true, but it´s not in array in string. that's why that didn't work. Works if append str(group _x)

[torpid mica]

is there a way to test if an array entry is there ? so if i use select 2 and there is a third entry everything is fin but if not then i get an error.

[granite sky]

count _array >= 3

[torpid mica]

Ah thanks 😁

[winter rose]

depending on your case, you might be interested in params

private _array = ["element1", "element2"];
if (random 1 > 0.5) then { _array pushBack "element3" };

_array params ["_el1", "_el2", ["_el3", "novalue"]];
hint _el1; // element1
hint _el2; // element2
hint _el3; // element3 or novalue

[stable dune]

Can you use another cond to check?
I mean when i add groups and i have alpha-10 , which goes between Alpha-1 and Alpha-2?

And i want it to be 1st

[granite sky]

you can replace the { groupID _x } with some processing that results in something that would be sorted to your satisfaction.

In the end it's calling sort, so it'll only take strings, numbers or arrays containing strings and numbers.

[torpid mica]

_taskttrigger setTriggerStatements ["this", tostring { 
                                                    _subarray = thisTrigger getVariable "_subarray";
                                                    _taskname = thisTrigger getVariable "_taskname";
                                                    _grp = thisTrigger getVariable "_grp";
                                                    while {true} do
                                                    {
                                                        _unitcount = {alive _x && _x inArea thistrigger} count units WEST;
                                                        //sleep 5;
                                                    
                                                        hint format ["%1, %2", _unitcount, count units _grp];
                                                        if (_unitcount > count units _grp ) then
                                                        {
                                                            [_taskname,"Succeeded", true] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState;
                                                            _subarray set [2,"idle"]; 
                                                            hint "task succeeded";
                                                            break;
                                                            
                                                            deletevehicle _x;
                                                    };};}, tostring {}];  

the while{true} loop is ist executed once and i don´t get why. The condition for the if is not meet but the while loop is stops after the first iteration. No error at all

[lucid monolith]

Are you sure it's not being met? Try using "greater than" instead, and ensuring it's the right way around: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Operators

[proven charm]

break; can exit the while loop

[torpid mica]

i´m 100% sure that the condition is not meet. Since when its meet i get the hint but therefor i have to be in the area before the trigger is activated

[torpid mica]

but only if the condition is meet right?

[proven charm]

the if (_unitcount > count units _grp ) then -- yes

[torpid mica]

but the condition is not meet 😦

[lucid monolith]

Take away the break and see if it still exits the loop. If it doesn't, then the issue is the if statement

[torpid mica]

still only executed once. I already tried that

[lucid monolith]

If its in a trigger then it might be related to their behaviour, I'm not sure if loops can be used in trigger fields

[proven charm]

what does this line do: "deletevehicle _x;" ? I cant see _x being defined

[torpid mica]

If i´m in the thirggerArea before the trigger activates then i have a big lagg and the if condition is also executet. If im not in the area at the moment the trigger is activated then the while tue should wait as long as i need to get there but when i do nothing happens

[torpid mica]

it should delete the trigger after successfull execution since it´s not longer needed

[proven charm]

oh I guess you need to use thisTrigger instead of _x then

[torpid mica]

ok thanks

[torpid mica]

theoretically i should get the hint format all the time since it should be displayed over and over agian, but it is only shown for a second until it get´s overwritten by another hint.

[lucid monolith]

Try something like that so that the sleep, deactivation code and loop condition are all moved to the trigger instead of a script inside the activation field

thisList already only counts units that fulfill the activation requirement so no need to count the side units separately

Though you could also flip it the other way and have the trigger only activate when there's too few units, instead of looping constantly until there's few enough.

[meager granite]

Are cruise missiles fired from UAV cruise missile launcher just for show?

Can't get them to fire at target no matter what it seems

setMissileTarget(Pos) don't work

ammo_Missile_Cruise_01

[copper raven]

alive takes an object, not an array, also BOOL >= SCALAR doesn't exist

[frank mango]

The VLS?

[meager granite]

Yes

[frank mango]

No.. it definitely works.

[meager granite]

Tried connecting terminal and ordering attack on an enemy vehicle - nothing

Tried doing setMissileTarget on the enemy vehicle, laser target, position (with pos command) - nothing

[frank mango]

I think it needs a laser (or etc) to lock onto. if doing it UAV

[meager granite]

(setMissileTarget on the missile after it is fired)

[meager granite]

Tried both, direct target vehicle, laser target, no luck

[frank mango]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2462234630&searchtext=VLS

[meager granite]

Close and visible, kilometers away, no difference

[copper raven]

setMissileTarget takes all the constraints into account, if you can't make it target normally, then the command will also fail

you must ensure that the laser is datalinked/vehicle is hot etcetc

(depending on the munition)

[meager granite]

Vehicle was turned on (engineOn), I also did it reportRemoteTarget on it

[meager granite]

onActivation="call{west reportRemoteTarget [t1, 3000]; t1 confirmSensorTarget [west, true]; g1 fireAtTarget [t1, ""weapon_vls_01""];}";

What it does

[frank mango]

idk if that helps you or not. I was (and am) hoping it does

[meager granite]

Works now, confirmSensorTarget is not even needed

What the hell is going on

Did exactly the same thing

[copper raven]

yea

btw setMissileTargetPos is not supported for that ammo type, so you can't use that, but the non pos one works fine

[lucid monolith]

Is it possible to retrieve custom lobby slot names in mission? Say if I wanted to list out what slot a specific player is in, and it's been given a custom name in the editor.

[copper raven]

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

[lucid monolith]

Thanks!

[velvet merlin]

is the a way to easily delete all (smoke/fire) FX sources?

or you need to build a list of emitting sources (destroyed vehicles, game logic to spawn FX, etc)

[copper raven]

i don't think there is any straight forward getter for it, so my guess is the latter

[tiny loom]

is there anyway to convert an old arma 2 mod to work with cba?

[hallow mortar]

It's likely to be possible, as A3 has typically expanded on what can be done rather than removing stuff. However...it's highly dependent on the specific mod. Some mods might need to be completely rewritten; some mods will probably work out of the box without a single change. And "work with CBA" is...well, what does it mean? I can't think of any mods that outright refuse to work with CBA. You can probably rewrite a mod to take advantage of CBA functions, but if it doesn't need CBA, it doesn't need CBA, and adding CBA stuff is an optional bonus.

In short, yes, but there's no one-size-fits-all process and you'll need to know what you're doing.

[tiny loom]

ok so here's kinda what im doing. there is this mod called gcam right its basically a camera mod for recording cinematics and everything. it works fine when its on its own but as soon as you add cba it gets stuttery and jittery

it appears do drop the fps whilest using the script like its being limited

keep in mind when im not using the script i get 75 frames plus on ultra while just playing arma

i can send you the pbo but it would mean the world if someone could help me fix this mod

im not good at coding but ill do whatever it takes

[velvet merlin]

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/151809-gcam-lets-fix-this-great-mod/

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909893746

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An744bPddhQ

sounds like this was all solved years ago

possible alternative based on your needs: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/216403-indicam-independent-camera-mod/

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is there a way to filter from allControls/controls without getting the reference with (findDisplay x) displayCtrl y ?

[tiny loom]

what does map update interval mean

also what do these mean

[still forum]

there is not enough context to give you any answer

[torpid mica]

can i delete Waypoints with deleteVehicle?

[still forum]

no

[torpid mica]

how can i delete Them?

[still forum]

isn't there a deleteWaypoint command?

[proven charm]

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

[torpid mica]

oh my god... i didn´t found it i must have misstyped at least 2 times... Thank you

[tiny loom]

does anyone know where this file pathway is

i cant find it

[south swan]

it's not file path. It's config path 🤷‍♂️

[torpid mica]

can someone tell me why this wont work?

_deleteactionId = leader _grp addAction ["PCA: Cancel Order", tostring {
                                                                        [_taskname,"Canceled", true] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState; 
                                                                        deleteWaypoint [_this select 3 select 0,1];
                                                                        _grp = _this select 3 select 0;
                                                                        _deleteactionId = _this select 3 select 1;
                                                                        hint str _deleteactionId;
                                                                        leader _grp removeAction _deleteactionId;
                                                                        }, [_grp, _deleteactionId], 99, false];

i get the error that _deleteactionID is not delcared but i did as the description told, i even passed them as params and got them with _this select 3 select 0

[south swan]

because it's not declared at the point it's used at 🤷‍♂️

you first try to create the action that uses it and then you actually store action's ID into that variable 🤷‍♂️

[torpid mica]

but i delcared it again with _this select... 😦

[south swan]

it doesn't exist at your last line yet. It's only declared and assigned after the action is created.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction action can access its own ID as _this select 2 from its code

[hallow mortar]

Everything inside the addAction right argument:

leader _grp addAction [ **HERE** ];```
...happens before the action ID is generated. Including the part where you try to pass arguments to the action script.

[south swan]

also, _taskname isn't define anywhere at all in the action's code

also, the action can take straight code as its second argument, no need to use toString

also, please consider not writing all the code outside the right boundary of the screen 😛 sqf leader _grp addAction [ "PCA: Cancel Order", //title { private _deleteactionId = _this select 2; private _grp = _this select 3 select 0; private _taskname = _this select 3 select 1; deleteWaypoint [_grp, 1]; [_taskname,"Canceled", true] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState; hint str _deleteactionId; leader _grp removeAction _deleteactionId; }, // script [_grp, _taskname], // arguments 99, // priority false // showWindow ];

[torpid mica]

thank you very much

and i have another problem. I want to know if my variable is empty or not
so i made an if statement if (transportgroup != "") then that works if the transportgroup is empty, but if it is filled then it holds an array but if can not compare an array to empty it gives out an error. how can i fix that?

[tacit swift]

Has anyone got a script I can run in an ongoing mission to reduce the revive time? For some reason it’s significantly longer than normal

[modern meteor]

How can I delete the current waypoint of a unit?

[hallow mortar]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/currentWaypoint
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/deleteWaypoint

[outer python]

Yo, Hi, I need help with this, what it is and how to do this for my own scenario. Because I want Units not to run out of ammo and have magazines of the type of weapon they have that spawn in their inventory once they run out. Could you help me to know how to do this? Is there a specific video for that?

Exemple : Call{"IAexemple" setVehicleAmmo 2; .... Etc

[hallow mortar]

I believe medical settings (for vanilla, no idea about ACE) are a config thing and can't be changed mid-mission.

[next kraken]

quick question. if i use tasks on a dedicated server, what would be the best idea to syncronize the tasks with JIP players. so far i use the initplayerlocal for adding a task and a trigger ingame to make it succeeded. the problem is, if people do JIP the task is not succeded anymore

[modern meteor]

Thank you

[hallow mortar]

"" is not an empty variable, it's an empty string. This is not a great way of checking this.
There are some options you can try:
isNull transportGroup - detects if the variable contains a grpNull, which would happen if it used to exist but has been deleted
isNil "transportGroup" - detects whether the group never existed at all and the variable is undefined

[little raptor]

plz don't type in bold
put this in the unit's init field

this addEventHandler ["FiredMan", {
  params ["_unit", "_weapon"];
  _unit setAmmo [_weapon, 1000];
}];

[outer python]

Ok sorry, so I have to put this in the "When Activation of the unit I choose? Can I put as much ammunition as I want??

[outer python]

I don't have an external .sqf or .ext type file to touch?

[little raptor]

when activation? what?

[little raptor]

no

[outer python]

Okay thnk's you very much 🙂

[little raptor]

just put that in the init field

[hallow mortar]

You can also use getVariable's default value system:

_group = missionNamespace getVariable ["transportGroup",grpNull]; // Returns the content of the variable. If the variable is undefined, return grpNull.
isNull _group; // Now returns true if the group was undefined OR if it was deleted```

[little raptor]

also use tags when naming your global vars

[outer python]

so I simply copy paste and replace "Unit" and "Ammo" with what you gave me, in the init, right?

[little raptor]

e.g. MR74_myVar

[little raptor]

don't touch anything

just copy paste it

[outer python]

okayOk, but how do I make this code only for the unit for example chosen of my choice in game

[little raptor]

just put it in its init field

do you know what init field is?

[outer python]

Ah Ah sorry, I'm learning, it's very complicated, I do my best to understand, especially since I'm not really English or savvy in all this

[outer python]

yes

I have

[little raptor]

well just double click on the unit
there's a text box that says "Init"

put the code in there

click ok

done

run the mission and test

[outer python]

Ok I will try and let you know if everything is good 🙂

[little raptor]

btw the unit won't reload when you use that code. it will have infinite ammo

[outer python]

Just to explain why I find it hard, because I came across an example of this type but I didn't understand everything and on the character in it there was "SetVehicleAmmo" etc...

this

Could you quickly explain to me what it is?

[little raptor]

setVehicleAmmo sets the unit loadout based on his config defined loadout

[outer python]

WoW Okay ... 😂

[little raptor]

it forces the unit to fire its weapon while aiming at the target

or even when not aiming

[outer python]

Ohh, Okay

thnk's you

[outer python]

I will try the code snippet you gave me.

[little raptor]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[torpid mica]

still puts out an Error 😦

[little raptor]

what is the error?

[little raptor]

use isNull not isNil

[outer python]

@little raptor Does this work for mortars? I would like the same command for the mortar should I put it on the "Dit" Driver or in the mortar? Because I don't know how to attach an "Ammo Crate" to an AI unit. And also I have another problem, I don't know why, but the mortar AIs don't fire at all as I see them turning and raising their "Cannon" mortar muzzles. I have no idea what caused it

[opal zephyr]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to check if a prop is hit. I know "HitPart" event handler will work, but its locality limitations make it tricky to work with for me. The prop is custom, Is there a way to make the engine think its an actual vehicle or something and has "health" so that I could use the standard "hit" event handler?

[torpid mica]

returns Null-Group everytime even when the Varaible is filled with my array 😦

[opal zephyr]

Are you using BIS_fnc_countdown?

[outer python]

I have a problem with enemy AI in my mortar scenario, it won't fire, it won't activate. How to do ?

[hallow mortar]

It can't, that's not how it works. It's likely the variable you're checking is not actually being filled - you may be checking or setting the wrong variable

[wanton tundra]

Hello!
Does anyone had experience with delete classname?

The wiki says: Within configs the delete classname keyword is available. It can be used to delete already existing classes. However, classes from which other classes derive cannot be deleted unless the child classes are deleted first.

question1: would a config be able to delete classnames of other configs?
question2: more specific: would a config be able to delete classnames inside the terrain config.cpp? Like Secondary_Airports class?
question3: would this permanently delete them or only as long as my mod containing this config.cpp (with the delte commands) is loaded in the Arma 3 launcher?

[hallow mortar]

That's probably more of an #arma3_config question

[granite sky]

I think it's 1. yes, 2. yes, 3. temporary (per launch), but yeah. Config makers would know better.

[wanton tundra]

thank you both. i hop to config_makers

[median nimbus]

make it a drone/uav

[true frigate]

Hey! Is there a way of making a moveable object bring the player (or any objects near the moving one) with it? We don't use the walkable moving objects mod but I wanted to make something similar.

I've tried doing something like this

_NearEntities = V1 nearObjects 100; 
{
    [_x, V1] call Bis_fnc_attachToRelative; 
} forEach _NearEntities;```

And whilst it works for objects, for players, they're locked and can't freelook or move around. 
If anyone knows of something that might be what I'm looking for, please let me know 🙂

[meager granite]

You can let players free look if you replace attachTo with setPos* each frame, but it won't let them move around

[true frigate]

Hmm, it's not a bad idea and it would help. I'll look more into it. Thanks anyway 🙂

[next kraken]

im trying to create some grouped goats, now i have the issue, i i call my script from the debug bar ingame (execute local) the goats do move, - if i call the script from initserver or from initplayerlocal the goats are frozen

any idea?

[meager granite]

Try calling with a delay?

0 spawn {sleep 1; /*Goats move code*/};

[next kraken]

goat is frozen if i call it via script. just standing there, i can shot it then its dead, but its frozen

what does execute locally do exactly that it works with that but not with a script call

delay did not work thx for the hint

[meager granite]

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

Try from other places like init.sqf?

Just guessing here, not much of an AI guy

[next kraken]

did not work also. maybe calling it other then [] execVM "animals.sqf"

?

[meager granite]

Make sure you even have your goats in your script, diag_log them and see if they're entites and not null or nil

diag_log ["mygoatvariable", mygoatvariable];

[next kraken]

thats beyond my scripting knowledge lol 😭

[meager granite]

Never late to learn and improve

From my testing I found out that map icons (rocks, churches, wrecks, etc.) show up if map scale is 0.08681 or less (ctrlMapScale return). I can't figure out where this number comes from. No matches for 0868 in the entire config, the number seem to stay the same with different UI sizes, not sure about resolution.

Talking about these map details

Any idea how this number is calculated or where it is defined?

[manic sigil]

What's the next scale up if you zoom out? Could be '<.1' or something

[meager granite]

They don't show at >= 0.08682

Didn't bother to find more digits, but I still wonder where the engine gets this number from

[manic sigil]

Ah, I getcha. Yeah, that's a weird cutoff.

[pliant stream]

wait FSM code blocks are atomic?

[next kraken]

so, i got my animals working with createagent command. now i have a new problem. if i call the script from initServer or Init the goats dont move like i said, the only way to get them to work is over the initplayerlocal file. now the issue is. the script creates 7 goats, now for each player who joins there are 7 goats more.

[fair drum]

I see no reason why the goats wouldn't move if the agents are created on the server. can you post your code?

[next kraken]

yea, thats the problem, they are frozen if i create them on the server, heres the code

sleep 10;

if (isDedicated) then
{
_goat1 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat2 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat3 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat4 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat5 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat6 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];
_goat7 = createAgent ["Goat_random_F", getPosATL goatpos1, [], 5, "NONE"];

while {true} do

{
_goat1 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat2 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat3 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat4 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat5 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat6 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;
_goat7 moveTo getPosATL goatpos1;

sleep 7;

};
};

the modules do not work correctly on the server, thats why i script it. they cant stay in position with the modules

[meager granite]

You're creating and moving them to same position

[next kraken]

but that should not be a problem, works fine if i call it over initplayerlocal

[meager granite]

Oh nevermind, there is random radius of 5

Where do you create them from right now and it doesn't work?

[next kraken]

i just call the script via [] execVM "animals.sqf"

if i do that via the init or initserver they are frozen

initplayerlocal works but then i get 7 more which each player

[meager granite]

And you run it on dedicated server?

[next kraken]

yep

[meager granite]

Why isDedicated instead of isServer?

[next kraken]

i allready tried that, same bad result

[meager granite]

What is goatpos1?

[stable dune]

Have you tried disable behavior?

Script
Simple example for a dog to follow the player:

// Spawn dog
_dog = createAgent ["Fin_random_F", getPosATL player, [], 5, "NONE"];

// Disable animal behaviour
_dog setVariable ["BIS_fnc_animalBehaviour_disable", true];

// Following loop
[_dog] spawn {
    params ["_dog"];

    // Force dog to sprint
    _dog playMove "Dog_Sprint";

    while { sleep 1; alive _dog } do
    {
        _dog moveTo getPosATL player;
    };
};

[meager granite]

Maybe it gets deleted on dedicated server or something

@next kraken Add some logging in different places to see what's going on:

diag_log ["goatpos1", goatpos1, getPosATL goatpos1];

when you do your moveTo commands then see what RPT says

Add some logging milestones like diag_log 1; and diag_log 2; to see which part of the code is reached correctly

Maybe it is indeed an issue of default animal behaviour, didn't deal much with it

[fair drum]

instead of moveTo use setDestination. I've seen it work better for agents sometimes

[next kraken]

yea ... they have the modules and all the stuff for animals but when it comes to server compatibility BIS really sucks. they dont care. i really hope Arma 4 provides better functionality for modules specially the atmosperhic ones

another try

i call the script via trigger, there you have the option to call it only on server, but instead of that id need it the other way around-because now it created 1 instance of 7 goats on the server who are stuck and another one of 7 goats who work

[opal zephyr]

I've run into a problem that im hoping yall might be able to help with,

I'm running a script from a module using "function" inside of the modules config. Inside of that script that it runs I was using _logic = param [0,objNull,[objNull]]; to get that module object, but thats suddenly stopped working.... Anyone have an idea why?

[next kraken]

is there no way to tell a trigger "execute that on local only

or is there no createunitlocal command, thought there was

[meager granite]

You can check if triggering entity is local: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Magic_Variables#thisList

[stable dune]

You should share the current script, without content it's hard to see where the problem is

[opal zephyr]

Thats the first line of the script

[next kraken]

mhh, sorry didnt unsterstand that. is there no way to execute a script only locally on the machine of the clients?

[opal zephyr]

try remoteExec

[fair drum]

you can remoteExec to clients using -2, or to a specific client as well using any client number

[stable dune]

And where it doesn't work, does it give error for that or later some point. Where you can see it doesn't get module object

[opal zephyr]

It doesnt work on the second line lol, gives an empty. Went back to an old almost identical script and it seems to work now. zero clue why it broke, thanks for the help though

[next kraken]

oh ok, but is it possible to use remoteExec to call a script ?

[opal zephyr]

I believe so

[warm hedge]

More like remoteExec is a way to execute a script

[next kraken]

how would i call a script, for example, my animalscript, via remoteexec to make it execute only on client machines not server ?

i read the wiki but cant find an example for scripts

[opal zephyr]

could look something like remoteExec [call animalScript, -2, true];

I'm not sure if the "call" will override the locality of it though

[stable dune]

#arma3_scripting message

There is how to do correct way .

Make function of your script and remoteexec that for clients (-2 , which means not executed on the server)

[next kraken]

thanks prisoner but this does nothing for some reason

remoteExec ["animals.sqf", 0, true]

does not create the animal agents

what do i do wrong=)

oh sorry

i did not read right

is there no way to remoteexec the script

i cant write functions=)

[stable dune]

You need make function,
So it should be something like

remoteExec ["SKF_fnc_animals,-2,true];

Structure to your function
description.ext

class CfgFunctions {

    class SKF { //Tag

        class animals { //category
            
            class animals{};
        };
    };
};

And your file in
MissionPAth\functions\animals\fn_animals.sqf

[next kraken]

thanks !

[gaunt tendon]

is there any way to reduce throwables cooldown via scripting?

[warm hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setWeaponReloadingTime
and
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#Fired

[gaunt tendon]

tyvm

[meager granite]

Functions can be done much easier than CfgFunctions.

myFunctionMadeFromFile = compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "my_script_that_will_be_a_function.sqf"
myFunctionDefinedRightHere = {
    // Stuff my function should be doing by only returns 123;
    123;
};
thisVariableWillBe123 = call myFunctionDefinedRightHere;

You need to make sure function is defined before you call it though, CfgFunctions gets read and initialized very early so it will be accessible from init.sqf for sure

[copper raven]

i wouldn't call that easier

CfgFunctions has many nice features, its also less stuff to type in the long run

[velvet merlin]

can you make structured text contain clickable text that executes code?
similar to execute for diary

[proven charm]

yes

<a href='https://addresshere.com'> click link </a>

i think you need to pass the string through parseText

[hallow mortar]

URLs and executing code aren't the same

[proven charm]

oh my bad I misread :/

[kindred zephyr]

Maybe someone with experience in FSM could clarify me a couple of things?
I have developed an AI for a type of unit im creating that works in the innermost part as an aggressive Agent.

The code behave as expected when run from within functions, however I've been told by a couple of persons that I would be better on making it an FSM to actually reduce performance cost while making it be much more responsive.

There is a couple of things that I do not have fully clear in FSM that are easily done in code, for example, suspension/waitUntil.
To be more specific, this are my doubts:

1- Conditional Links can be stopped undetermined time until the condition has been completed?
2- What does a pre-condition of a state/conditional link actually does?
3- What does a true conditional link does and how does it translate to code?
4- Conditional links that have an action defined default to that action and progress to the next state or the proggression is independant on the condition being true/false?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[lucid monolith]

I'm making a small mod and I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

I need to delay a script from starting until it can be suspended but none of the following have worked, all lead to errors about suspending not being allowed

waitUntil { getClientStateNumber >= 9 };
waitUntil { time > 0 };
waitUntil { hasInterface };
waitUntil { canSuspend };

The script is also ran via execVM so it shouldn't be an issue of it not being in a scheduled environment.

[kindred zephyr]

is this being done with the post-init attribute for auto start? Im guessing its not since you are using execVM probably for a file

[proven charm]

you cant use waitUntil or sleep in unscheduled environment

[kindred zephyr]

he is doing execVM though

[lucid monolith]

It is, I had a feeling it might not be working properly but as this is my first mod, I don't really know other ways to launch scripts.

Except maybe through eventhandlers, but the script doesn't really work that way since it's meant to be refreshing stuff from the start. Unless there's an eventhandler for like when the mission starts or something.

I've done scripts with missions plenty before, but this is my first actual mod

[kindred zephyr]

thats the issue. Post init happens asap after mission starts. This is one of those situations in where the context for suspending is not allowed

[lucid monolith]

Okay, so if this was just for a mission I'd just launch it from initPlayerLocal, but how would I do it here then

[kindred zephyr]

whats this binded to?

a player unit?

any unit?

a car?

[lucid monolith]

It's an automatically refreshing list of player groups in a briefing tab, so nothing really

[proven charm]

if canSuspend == false ... then you cannot use sleep or waituntil

[kindred zephyr]

maybe try doing a module.

Im sure there must be ways to make it happen after mission has started. Perhaps a mission event handler.

One "hacky" solution that comes to mind is to make it be a init class eventhandler for any man class entity that would fire the function once globally and then setting a variable globally to know that initialization had been done and prevent any other unit from doing it, since your function is indended to have a player list this does makes sense.

[lucid monolith]

I was just looking at the mission eventhandlers, PreloadFinished looks promising

[lucid monolith]

Now I'm wondering if it's impossible to add eventhandlers in postInit, since trying this leads to yet another error:

player addEventHandler ["PreloadFinished", { null = [] execVM "\x\ag\addons\SlottingSheet\AG_Slotting_handler.sqf"; }];

player addEventHandler ["PreloadFinished", { nu>
16:35:58   Error position: <addEventHandler ["PreloadFinished", { nu>
16:35:58   Error Foreign error: Unknown enum value: "PreloadFinished"
16:35:58 File x\ag\addons\SlottingSheet\XEH_postInit.sqf..., line 8```

[still forum]

You looked at mission eventhandlers, and then tried to add it to the player as a entity eventhandler, that indeed won't work

What do you actually want to wait for?
Its not "till scripts can suspend" because that doesn't make sense
And I'm pretty confident you don't want PreloadFinished either

[lucid monolith]

Yes, I'm unfamiliar

[still forum]

post briefing screen? initPlayerLocal

Ah inside mod.
preInit? maybe? 🤔 not sure if thats in briefing, otherwise just postInit then

[lucid monolith]

Mods can use initPlayerLocal?

[still forum]

nope

[lucid monolith]

I guess what I'm actually wanting to wait for is until playableUnits and createDiaryRecord work, the suspension I can probably get around with UnitJoined and UnitLeft eventhandlers if need be. Those I probably even know how to use, since they aren't mission eventhandlers.

[still forum]

waitUntil playableUnits is not empty ?

[hallow mortar]

Mission EHs are very easy to use, you just have to use the right command, addMissionEventHandler rather than addEventHandler [and don't specify a unit to add it to since it's added to the mission, not a specific unit]

[lucid monolith]

Well I can try that. But seeing how nothing else has worked with waitUntil, I'm not expecting much

[still forum]

how are you running your script? via postInit?

[lucid monolith]

Yes

[still forum]

postInit should run after all entities are initialised.
So you shouldn't need to wait at all

[lucid monolith]

Thing is, the script runs enough times to print out 20k "suspending not allowed" errors into the rpt in something like 15 seconds, and then just stops dead when the postinit is finalized. And with all that, it doesn't actually launch the one function it needs to in order to create diary entries.

I confirmed with systemchat messages that it goes through the whole script and doesn't reset at the uiSleep that's failing to suspend. But if I start the script manually after the briefing screen, it launches the function as intended.

[still forum]

That means its unscheduled

in unscheduled, you cannot suspend/pause

But postInit scripts are scheduled? If you use CfgFunctions.
So that shouldn't happen

Wrap your script in [] spawn {....}

[proven charm]

there's limit on how much and how fast the scheduled code can run, so that's the thing

[little raptor]

it's a matter of compromise
more schd = more delay
more unschd = more FPS drop

[granite sky]

From a performance perspective the best option is less code :P

I speak very broadly.

Scheduled code can't use more than some percentage of frame time (ignoring corner cases).

[still forum]

unscheduled code freezes the game while it runs.
scheduled code also does that, but it has a maximum 3ms per frame limit

All scripts have influence on server perf

[little raptor]

what degrades server perf over time is having too many remoteExecs and unnecessary remoteExecs in my experience (which pile up over time as new players join, etc.)

[still forum]

If you have lots of scheduled scripts (hundreds) then you get more impact there because the engine has to sort the scripts before it runs them

[granite sky]

Does that apply even the script is in a long sleep?

[little raptor]

yes

[still forum]

game sorts scripts to have the one that didn't execute for the longest time, come first

[granite sky]

Does it grind through every script handle from scratch each time it picks one to run though? Or is there some persistent ordering?

Let's consider a practical example. You have a dynamic mission where you want to clean up corpses after they've been there for an hour. If you fire up a spawn with a sleep 3600 on each one, is that going to add a substantial engine overhead each time it has to run a script?

[kindred zephyr]

^ bump

[granite sky]

And therefore should you write some complex and unreliable chunk of SQF to check less often but more smartly :P

[kindred zephyr]

I've found the hard way that doing smaller simpler checks in order to jumpstart complexer functions works best, taking this as an example

[winter rose]

what do you call, humm, conditional links? yellow diamonds?
1- yes, looped with e.g private _wantedTime = time + 10; and condition time > _wantedTime
2- don't worry about it, iirc
3- goes straight to it - it is usually the code with the smaller priority
4- what

[still forum]

it orders them all, once a frame

[granite sky]

Not multiple times per frame at least?

[still forum]

scheduled scripts are only executed once per frame

and before they are executed, it sorts once

[granite sky]

ah right, sleep 0.001 won't execute until next frame

On a related note, FSMs do appear to execute multiple times per frame...

At least it seems that way given how they spam errors when you screw up :P

[kindred zephyr]

4- Conditions that have an action defined inside themselves will progress independently of the condition being true/false executing the action according to result or would they wait for the condition to be fullfilled in order to progress if there is no other branch available?

[winter rose]

iirc they wait for the condition to then process that code
but by design, don't put anything in there unless absolutely required

read BI FSMs (e.g \modules_f\supports\fsms) for good examples

[kindred zephyr]

thanks

[kindred zephyr]

so for 3- its just basically a passthrough conditional block?

[heavy dew]

Is there a way to get SQF scripts to write data to a file?

[little raptor]

you need an extension

[heavy dew]

Such as?

[little raptor]

https://github.com/X39/extFileIO

[heavy dew]

Thanks

[winter rose]

it's an "if true"

e.g here in cas_heli.fsm
"yes" is isPlayer _this with a priority of 1
"no" is true with a priority of 0

given the higher priority, "yes" condition is evaluated first; if not true, evaluate the rest - "no" - which will go through

[kindred zephyr]

ah ok. The info in the wiki page for the fsm editor is a bit... ehem... scarce(?) and the only valid videos are 2 hour long 360p invisible texts. Sorry if this comes as annoying haha

[winter rose]

there is this one too
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/FSM

[south swan]

and https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Talk:FSM

[winter rose]

and https://www.ofpec.com/editors-depot/index.php?action=details&id=459&game=ArmA

[copper raven]

yes, that's why we always say to put sleep in loops, so you don't exhaust entire 3ms limit with a single script

[torpid mica]

how can i check if every alive unit of an squad is in (the same) vehicle? and would it be possible to put this code right into the condition of an trigger?

[torpid mica]

i created following function which does some funny things and also spawns a trigger and i want to set the Triggercondition to the if everyone is in the car...

["taskgroup","task postion", "Description", "Name", "condition", "Site", "Status", "Status when finished"] call taskcreate;

[proven charm]

count (units mygroup) == ({ _x in myVehicle } count (units mygroup)) something like that 😬

[torpid mica]

thank you. So i need the pass the vehicle as well... it´s going to be a long function XD

[south swan]

private _veh = vehicle leader _grp; 
-1 < ((units _grp) findIf {(vehicle _x) != _veh})``` 🤷‍♂️

[kindred zephyr]

i tried entering this page multiple times yesterday when home and for the love of god almighty it never loaded, now trying it again @ work im able to open it hahaha. thanks tough, im gonna get the file and have it ready. The only thing i fear is that the file published is rather old (2007) the fsm editor has stayed the same during this 16 years?

[winter rose]

the link was wrong, I fixed it in the meantime 🙂

and the FSM editor most likely didn't evolve lots

[torpid mica]

i would do it like that then?

["taskgroup","task postion", "Description", "Name", count (units _grp) == ({ _x in _vehicle } count (units _grp)), "Site", "Status", "Status when finished"] call taskcreate;

but the Trigger says that _condition is not delcared 😦

params ["_grp","_taskpos","_taskdescription","_taskname", "_condition", "_taskside", "_status", "_statusfinished"];
_taskttrigger setTriggerStatements [_condition, tostring { ...}, tostring {}];

i can show the whole fine if needed

[winter rose]

what is taskcreate?

[torpid mica]

my own function

[winter rose]

_condition is a boolean, as you did it

[proven charm]

your code needs to be inside the bracelets { ....... }

[torpid mica]

like that?

["taskgroup","task postion", "Description", "Name", {count (units _grp) == ({ _x in _vehicle } count (units _grp))}, "Site", "Status", "Status when finished"] call taskcreate;

[proven charm]

yep

[torpid mica]

i put a tostring infront, now it doesnt outputs an error but also wont work 😦

[proven charm]

u cant really evaluate string as condition....

why not keep it as code?

[torpid mica]

but if the tostring is missing then it says Error type code, expected string

[proven charm]

where?

[torpid mica]

for the condition

[south swan]

takes only strings

[proven charm]

well idk then

[winter rose]

toString _condition

[torpid mica]

is sqfbin still alive? cant find a working link

[winter rose]

seems to be down for a bit now

[torpid mica]

https://pastebin.com/MRKxmXCE

sorry if it is badly written but i can't do it any better

[proven charm]

maybe the trigger itself isn't working

you could put there some debug lines via hintSilent or whatever

[torpid mica]

it is if i just pass "this" then it works

[proven charm]

oh good

but the "_grp" doesnt exist when the condition is checked

[torpid mica]

im a bit confused... i have the one if condition if (str _transportGroup != "") then this also return true if the hint above says that transportgroup is ""

[proven charm]

u have to do in the condition what u did in the activation _grp = thisTrigger getVariable "_grp";

[torpid mica]

but can i put more then one command in the condition?

[proven charm]

sure

but the condition part has to be the last line

and dont forget the _vehicle

[torpid mica]

still not working but no error at all 😦 i should just quit XD

[cosmic lichen]

Why even use triggers if you script the whole thing?

[torpid mica]

how would I else do it?

[cosmic lichen]

spawn, waitUntil, while @torpid mica

sleep is not precise

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

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/time and server time might also be interesting

[opal zephyr]

Are there any wiki pages for the upcoming 2.12? I cant find anything on use of the actual functions

[cosmic lichen]

@opal zephyr https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Scripting_Commands:_Development_Branch

[proven charm]

U can debug it: https://pastebin.com/hwqSyGrC (and do define _grp and _vehicle there , I forgot)

[cosmic lichen]

Returns the time since last server restart, synced to all clients in MP. Th

It should not

[kindred zephyr]

Im missing a way to actually be able compare 2 direction vectors within a threshold, would this be the correct way to do it?

1- obtain the normalized vector using vectorFromTo and start aligning my object with it.
2- obtain the direction vector of an object that i want to align.
3- obtain the magnitude of the normalized vector.
4- obtain the magnitude of the vectorDiff between my direction vector and my normalized vector.
5- compare the magnitude of the vectorDiff to the magnitude of the normalized vector.
6- repeat steps 4-5 until threshold is close to 0 by substracting magnitudes.

Is this correct?

Im under the impresion that in this example, vectorDiff is just extra and that i can compare magnitudes as is?

Perhaps this is the incorrect approach, basically i want to apply a direction to object A to face towards object B. I know that relative directions should be enough but im already using velocity transformations and wanted to use the vectors already obtained :x.

[torpid mica]

now it works 🙂 thank you ver much but i still had to add the tostring to make it work 😉

[little raptor]

obtain the magnitude of the normalized vector.
normalized vectors have a magnitude of 1
Is this correct?
no
compare 2 direction vectors
idk what you said has anything to do with "comparing vectors within a threshold"

Im under the impresion that in this example, vectorDiff is just extra and that i can compare magnitudes as is?
no. magnitude alone is meaningless

if what you mean is you want the two vectors to be kinda pointing in the same direction, as in within a cone, use vectorCos

[south swan]

inb4 https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_slerp

and here i was about to replicate vectorCos manually with (vectorNormalized _vecA) vectorDotProduct (vectorNormalized _vecB)

[jade acorn]

not sure how to debug this without digging through someone's files, but I noticed that sometimes during cutscenes in Intro phase, when I'm in unit not a camera, I see the command crosshair like on screenshot - is there any way to get rid of it if I can't control the unit?

it bothers me a bit as I'm using a mod that slows down time when using the command menu, so cutscenes made that way are played in slow-mo.

[little raptor]

if it happens when you open the commanding menu try showCommandingMenu ""

[kindred zephyr]

yes, so the result of vectorCos returns the angle between vectors, but how do i retranslate that and apply it to the vector that needs to be rotated said angle?

[coarse dragon]

[ 
  ["Speaker 1","Subtitle1",0], 
  ["Speaker 2","Subtitle2",5], 
  ["Speaker 3","Subtitle3",10], 
  ["Speaker 4","Subtitle4",15] 
] spawn BIS_fnc_EXP_camp_playSubtitles;

Is there anyway to get that centered on the screen?

[little raptor]

if, according to what you said earlier, both vectors are normalized, then rotating the vector by that angle becomes the target vector. or am I misunderstanding you?

[kindred zephyr]

that is indeed correct.

According to wiki the vector direction is determined by the X plane taking as reference the north as "A unit facing North would return [0,1,0]"
so taking the degrees resulting from the vectorCos would mean that in order to rotate the object to its target vector i would do:

_vectorCos = _vector1 vectorCos _vector2; //Vector 1 is target, Vector 2 is object to rotate
_obtainedAngle = (_object getDir) - _vectorCos;

_object setVectorDir
[
    sin _obtainedAngle, 
    cos _obtainedAngle, 
    1
];

?

[little raptor]

it doesn't seem to have an option for that

but iirc Apex subtitles were already centered

[coarse dragon]

yaaa your back

[little raptor]

yeah 😅

[coarse dragon]

they show up in the bottom middle of the screen

abit hard to read em when ya have a squad members

[little raptor]

aren't they supposed to?
they're subtitles 😅

you can try other text things

[coarse dragon]

hmm caan the colour be changed on em?

[little raptor]

if they support structured text yes

[coarse dragon]

[little raptor]

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

an example of a command that supports structured text:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_textTiles

[little raptor]

no. why don't you just do _object setVectorUp [0,0,1]; _object setVectorDir _vector2?

oh _vector1 was target. so change it to _vector1...

anyway if that's not what you want, can you explain in detail what you're trying to do?

[south swan]

"rotate vector A towards vector B" still sounds like a https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_slerp job

[kindred zephyr]

im making an object rotate toward a target.
I already have the targeted vector and can make the vector rotate to the target.

However, i want to wait until for example, the angle between the 2 vectors is less than 10 degrees with reference of the targeted vector.

but i realized something, vectorCos is enough for what im trying to do

as you said earlier

[little raptor]

it's not

vectorCos gives the "absolute" angle

to face an object gradually you also need the "shortest angle"

if you're simply trying to rotate horizontally, getDir is enough to get the angle. the minimum angle is either _object getDir _target or 360 - _thatAngle in the opposite direction (getDir angle is always between 0 and 360)

another approach is combinations of vectorCos for angle and vectorCrossProduct for rotation dir (which is nonsense but in SQF I guess that would be fastest)

[kindred zephyr]

ah, so its the second syntax

[little raptor]

once you have the rotation angle you can just do _object setVectorDir (_object vectorModelToWorld [sin _angle, cos _angle, 0])

tho it would only be correct if the object is already horizontal

which in Arma would only correspond to infantry units (+ animals)

[little raptor]

_dir = vectorDir _obj; _dir set [2, 0]; [_dir, _angle] call BIS_fnc_rotateVector2D; _obj setVectorDir _dir would also work but I'm gonna guess it's slower, but at least works if obj is not horizontal (rotation will be horizontal nonetheless)

[kindred zephyr]

so in the end the result goes as

_object setVectorDir _vector;

[] spawn
{
  
  waitUntil {sleep 0.5; (_object getDir _target) < 10 && (_object getDir _target) > 350;};

//Do something
};

[little raptor]

no

[kindred zephyr]

and yes, object is horizontal in this case

[little raptor]

getDir returns an angle between 0 and 360 as I said earlier

what you wrote means the object is less than 10 degrees to the right

it won't cover left

[kindred zephyr]

hm

so the second check has to be > 350?

[little raptor]

yeah

[kindred zephyr]

so getDir second syntax acts as getRelDir?

[little raptor]

oh wait I meant getRelDir

or did I?
I don't remember 😅

[little raptor]

I guess it does

but not sure. test it

[kindred zephyr]

I will, thanks for your time.

[torpid mica]

how can i return a value from my function?

findGroup = {
params ["_grp", "_tgrp"];

{

    _temp = blugroup select _forEachIndex;
    if (_temp find _grp == 0) then
    {
        if (_tgrp != "") then
        {
            if (_tgrp != _temp) then
            {
                _subarray = _temp;
                _subarray;
                break;
            };
        }
        else 
        {
            _subarray = _temp;
            _subarray;
            break;
        };
    };
} foreach bluGroup;

};
``` I want to return the _subarray

[still forum]

breakWith _subArray

[kindred zephyr]

^

[still forum]

_temp = blugroup select _forEachIndex;
That is weird.
You already have the value in _x no need to use select to get it again

[torpid mica]

yeah youre right

[still forum]

Also there is no reason to have _subarray either.
just
breakWith _x

you could also do it with a findIf (returns the index) and a select

[torpid mica]

i have a problem with this code... _bluGroup is an array with many subarrays. first subarrayentry is the group. I want to find the corresponding subarray to a give group. How would i do that?

findGroup = {                                 // B Alpha 1-1    
params ["_grp", "_tgrp"];

{
_variable = _x find _grp;
hint str _variable;
if (_x find _grp == 1) then
    {
        if (str _tgrp != "") then
        {
            _tgrparray = [];
            {
                if (_x find _tgrp == 0) then
                {
                    _trgparray = _x;
                };
            }forEach bluGroup;
            
            if (_tgrparray select 0 != _x select 0) then
            {
                breakWith _x;

            };
        }
        else 
        {
            breakWith _x;
        };
    };
} foreach bluGroup;

};

[warm swallow]

Does the "Respawn" event handler trigger only for players respawning, or does it work with vehicle respawns as well. (Through vehicle respawn module)

[torpid mica]

and if the secon parameter is not empty then i want to find the corresponding subarray to the second param in dependence to the first param

[little raptor]

no

[still forum]

I don't understand your subarray specification. Can you list example of the array contents and what the input parameters are?

provide example inputs and desired outputs

[little raptor]

why didn't you just use getVariable like I suggested before?

[torpid mica]

this is the bluArray. my first param would be 'B Alpha 1-2' and the function shoud get my the whole subarray with the first entry 'B Alpha 1-2'

[torpid mica]

cause i wasnt able to 😭 😬

[still forum]

_index = bluGroup findIf {_x select 0 == _tgrp};
//if (_index == -1)  handle not found
_foundGroup = bluGroup select _index:

[little raptor]

it would've been faster and easier to use than constantly maintaining an array of parameters

plus it makes more sense too

[torpid mica]

😢 i´m not good with programming and i just did it this way once and now i just do it that way everytime and it was way easier for me to show the array everytime and then look at the changes

[little raptor]

_group setVariable ["someParameter", "infantry"];
_group setVariable ["otherParameter", "idl"];

and you can just fetch it:

_parameter = _group getVariable ["someParameter", "infantry"]; // attempt to get the someParameter variable. if it doesn't exist it automatically uses the default value "infantry"
_otherParameter = _group getVariable ["otherParameter", "idle"];

[torpid mica]

i think now i´m going to completely rewrite the whole script

[warm swallow]

so it triggers for vics as well?

[little raptor]

no

vehicles don't respawn like units

they get deleted and a new one is created instead, all done by the script that the module uses (respawn EH is triggered by the engine, not scripts)

it might have scripted event handlers for that though

[warm swallow]

thanks, maybe there's an EH for when an object gets deleted. Thanks!

found it. thanks

[tender fossil]

I was feeling weird so I made a simple script to filter log messages and to view them as color coded in Baretails by using keyword highlighting (https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/)

[torpid mica]

if every group now has a variable groupType and i want to find a group with groupType transport how would i do that the best way?

[opal zephyr]

Does anyone have experience with executing ace functions, like addaction globally? Like on all clients

^remoteExec not working

[tropic cipher]

Anybody wanna help me with a scripting riddle that i just cant figure out

Basically what i am trying to do is this,
an addAction that when the player interacts with;

1. fades out to black
2. teleports you to a place
3. plays a short sound
4. fades in
5. removes map and gps

all this is basically done to simulate rappelling into an underground facility via a manhole cover that you interact with

and so far i have the teleport bit figured out

[opal zephyr]

Looking those steps up individually on google should net results

[tropic cipher]

Thats what ive been trying but combining them into one solid addAction has just not been working out

[opal zephyr]

Do you have them all separate?

@tropic cipher ^

[leaden ibex]

Create a function that will do all these steps one by one, which should not be hard to do.
Then just call this function from the action

[meager granite]

@still forum What is the condition for showing/hiding map icons (rocks, churches, wrecks, gas stations, etc.) in the engine? From my testing I found the number 0.08681 of ctrlMapScale, if scale is <= 0.08681 then all icons show up, otherwise they don't.

class RscMapControl {
    ...
    class Rock {
        color[] = {0.1,0.1,0.1,0.8};
        icon = "\A3\ui_f\data\map\mapcontrol\rock_ca.paa";
        size = 12;
        importance = "0.5 * 12 * 0.05";
        coefMin = 0.25;
        coefMax = 4;
    };
```There is "importance" number in config that I thought was related, but other icons that show up at the same time with say rocks have different importance:

class Shipwreck
{
    icon = "\A3\ui_f\data\map\mapcontrol\Shipwreck_CA.paa";
    size = 24;
    importance = 1;
    coefMin = 0.85;
    coefMax = 1;
    color[] = {0,0,0,1};
};

```So its probably something else. I can't seem to figure out, there are no mentions of 0.08681 or 0868 in config anywhere, its either hardcoded or calculated somehow. Can I ask for your engine insight please?

[wary needle]

hey how would i make ai shoot all at once?

is there a command to do it?

[digital hollow]

If you mean controlling AI in your group, this is the wrong channel, but this may be what you're looking for https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2661374997

If you're looking for the relevant scripting command, it's https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setCombatMode

[wary needle]

im looking for a command to force ai too shoot on command

[digital hollow]

Scripting command or AI control menu command?

[wary needle]

scripting

for a bit of contex its for a musket operation

[digital hollow]

Ah, weaponState and forceWeaponFire works well

[wary needle]

if i wanted to force ai to shoot on a trigger how would i go about doing that?

im thinking about telling serveral ai to forceWeaponFire

but i dont want to list all of them out

[digital hollow]

forEach to loop through each unit, and either add the AIs to an array, or use trigger's thisList to get units in the trigger area

[stable dune]

Hello , there is command getOrDefault in hashmaps, how do i set default value to hashmap?

[warm hedge]

BIKI told you to set last arg true

[stable dune]

["_currentState", 0,true]

Like this?
So if is not set it takes 0?

i mean it set 0, and get 0 if i do not set before that anything there?

[warm hedge]

Yes

[manic kettle]

In this case, if _currentstate key exists then it will return whatever it is. If it doesn't exist and the third argument is true, then it returns 0

[stable dune]

Thanks guys

[still forum]

RemoteExec is the way, so find out what you're doing wrong there and fix it

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/book-of-boba-fett-the-mandalorian-this-is-the-way-the-book-of-boba-fett-mandalorian-gif-24825263

[still forum]

if (importance >= currentMapScaleX) DoDraw
That is for tree,smalltree,bush,rock
the others... oh.. the others also same thing, just not River, Building, RailWay, House, Fence, Wall, PowerLines

[meager granite]

What is currentMapScaleX in relation to ctrlMapScale? Rock has importance of 0.5 * 12 * 0.05 = 0.3, Shipwreck has importance of 1, yet both show up when ctrlMapScale is <= 0.08681 🤔

[still forum]

oh shipwreck is separate

shipwreck, church, chapel, fuelstation, hospital, ruin, tourism, power*
are buildings AND icons. Icon is only drawn same thing, importance and scaleX.
buildings are always visible i guess

but that means it should still be scale for the icons tho

ctrlMapScale returns scaleX, exactly what is used for these checks

[meager granite]

0.3 is nowhere close to 0.08681 🤔

Unless its some other importance and not that of RscMapControl

[still forum]

i searched for coefMax to find this.
And there is only one coefMax in all of engine

next to the importance

[tranquil jacinth]

I don't know where exactly to ask this question, but is it possible to launch Arma 3 with mods from .bat file?

[meager granite]

Alright, thanks for the explanation. I guess I'll just have to use that manually found value instead of trying to figure how engine calculates it.

[meager granite]

"-mod=@mod1;C:\FullPathToSomething\@mod2"

[still forum]

I don't have time to investigate more

[meager granite]

No worries, its not critical. Thanks for trying, thought it would be easier to figure out.

[tranquil jacinth]

Ty

[meager granite]

Here is my RHS mod client startup .bat file contents:

arma3_x64.exe -nopause -nosplash -world=none -skipIntro -noLauncher -useBE -ShowScriptErrors "-mod=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@RHSUSAF;C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@RHSAFRF;C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@RHSSAF;C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\!Workshop\@RHSGREF"

[tranquil jacinth]

Yes, it works, thanks friend!

[keen tusk]

Hello there
Im locking for a script or a tip for forcing ai controled drone to be a suecide dron (like vanilla predator) actuly i need the part that force the drone to dive on target

Any one have any idea?

[jade acorn]

I just typed "suicide drone" in Workshop, check if this works for you, I bet you can slap code on other UAVs https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2458395981&searchtext=suicide+drone

[keen tusk]

Actuly these are vtole drones and im trying to use the other type

[warm hedge]

A Darter is a helicopter not a VTOL

[keen tusk]

Yes my bad (helicopter and vtols)

[warm hedge]

And what do you mean by trying to use other type?

[keen tusk]

The type of dronse that are same as a plane and need a runway to take of (i cant remember the name that they called)

[warm hedge]

A VTOL is a plane, and plane is a plane

So I ain't sure what you mean

[keen tusk]

Like rq-1 predator

[warm hedge]

Then why not just fetch the script from the Workshop Item and apply it into an RQ-1 Predator and call it a day?

[keen tusk]

Bcz the rq 1 wont dive on target

[warm hedge]

A Darter doesn't either

[hallow mortar]

It seems clear enough to me that the script does something that works with the helicopter flight model or AI behaviour, but doesn't work with the plane flight model or AI behaviour. Exactly what that is, I can't say without looking at the script. I'll check it out later if no one else gets to it first.

[hallow mortar]

It looks like the Workshop script achieves its dive by forcing the drone to move towards the target's position, and then deleting the driver once it's inside a certain distance. I guess because of how copter drones work, this causes the drone to fall out of the sky.
Planes have a different flight model and will continue to glide rather than dropping like a rock. They also have much less precision in their movement and may not be able to fly directly at a man-sized target when under AI control. It may be possible to script something that gets the desired effect, but it's likely to be pretty complicated and I'm not going to try it.

[keen tusk]

So its not my answer . Im locking for the diving part of the scrript

[keen tusk]

Tnx

[velvet merlin]

CfgLocationTypes

[meager granite]

These seems to be names, I wonder about rocks icon

[velvet merlin]

class RockArea: Hill { name = "Rock Area"; color[] = {0,0,0,1}; size = 12; shadow = 0; importance = 2; texture = "\A3\ui_f\data\map\locationtypes\rockarea_ca.paa"; };

but might be also the engine has some hardcoded

---

what is the safest ways to create vehicles nowadays in the landscape to avoid PX skyrocketing?

still creating in a safe area first and then setPos/setVehiclePosition?

[quiet geyser]

Looking at using the below script to replace some buildings on Altis for a scenario; once I've made my adjustments to the arrays I'll basically just be removing the demountable military buildings and replacing them with older style barracks, watchtowers etc.
Main thing I want to double check: given that it's working with createVehicle and hideObjectGlobal, both of which are global, what would be the best file to execute this in assuming it's running on a dedicated server and will need to take effect for JIP players? Would executing it once in initServer.sqf work fine?

https://pastebin.com/yTAsCUcE

[little raptor]

You can use findIf for example
An alternative approach would be to keep an array of transport groups separately

[quiet geyser]

You mean initPlayerLocal.sqf or onPlayerRespawn.sqf; initClient isn't a thing I don't think

[little raptor]

As always wait until display exists
Also don't use visiblePosition

Either use unitAimPos or ASLtoAGL getPosWorldVisual

No

It takes AGL

[quiet geyser]

Just quickly throwing this one out there again re best place to execute this script

[meager granite]

createVehicle "CAN_COLLIDE" will create it exactly where you want it, 0 azimuth though

Maybe https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/awake can help after you rotate the vehicle if it starts its physics?

[torpid mica]

i have a problem... i´m calling a function which returns a group if it found one but should return something when it doesn´t found one.

findGroup = {
params ["_variable", "_search", "_status"];
{
    _temp = _x getVariable  _variable;
    _temp1 = _x getVariable ["groupStatus", "idle"];
    if (_temp == _search) then
    {
        if (_status != "") then
        {
            if (_temp1 == _status) then
            {
                breakWith _x;
            };

        }
        else 
        {            
            breakWith _x;
        };
    
    };
}forEach bluGroups;
};

// it´s called with:
_transportGroup = ["groupType","transport","idle"] call findGroup;

but if nothing is found i want to return something that my if statement can evaluate if a group was found or not. where do i have to put the return if nothing was found?

[south swan]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/grpNull can be checked with https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isNull and shouldn't trigger any type errors

[torpid mica]

But If I run that code and it doesn't find anything _transport group is not defined...

Even if I define it before

[south swan]

then make your findGroup return grpNull if it hasn't found anything by just slapping grpNull as its last line 🤷‍♂️

[velvet merlin]

thanks but i want the engine to find a safe spot. just not having too much success if you have dynamic positions

like there are some sqf command and functions, but none seem to work too reliably

i tend to rather clear the are from terrain objects to create a safe area..

[meager granite]

I guess the most reliable would be your own function with ray tracing and bounding box checking

[velvet merlin]

well that sounds a bit too expensive 🙂

[torpid mica]

but now it always returns grpNull

findGroup = {
params ["_variable", "_search", "_status"];
{
    _temp = _x getVariable  _variable;
    _temp1 = _x getVariable ["groupStatus", "idle"];
    if (_temp == _search) then
    {
        if (_status != "") then
        {
            if (_temp1 == _status) then
            {
                breakWith _x;
            };

        }
        else 
        {            
            breakWith _x;
        };
    
    };
}forEach bluGroups;
grpNull
};

[still forum]

put it above your }forEach bluGroups; line

your code is a total mess

[torpid mica]

im sorry 😦

[winter rose]

hi

[still forum]

MC_fnc_findGroup = {
params ["_variable", "_search", "_status"];

private _foundIndex = bluGroups findIf {
    _xName = _x getVariable _variable;
    _xStatus = _x getVariable ["groupStatus", "idle"];
    _xName  == _search && (_status == "" || _xStatus  == _status)
};

if (_foundIndex != -1) exitWith {bluGroups select _foundIndex;};
grpNull; // Not found
};

[winter rose]

typeOf?

[south swan]

and/or "CAManBase" (or whatever base class is)

typeOf returns a String

[winter rose]

yyyes, but please state your use case

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/typeOf
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isKindOf

myObject isKindOf "CAManBase"

as @south swan rightly got 😉

is every Man

typeOf = exact classname
isKindOf = does it inherit from this class

[torpid mica]

if i want to pass something to an if statement how would i do that? e.g.:

_condition = {_unitcount == count units _grp};


[_grp,_taskpos,_taskdescription,_taskname, _condition, _status, _statusfinished,_vehicle] spawn 
{
params ["_grp","_taskpos","_taskdescription","_taskname", "_condition", "_status", "_statusfinished","_vehicle"];

while {true} do
{
    _unitcount = {alive _x && _x inArea [_taskpos,10,10, 0,false, -1]} count units _grp;
    hint str _condition;
    sleep 5;
    if (_condition) then 
    {
        [_taskid,"Succeeded", true] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState;
        _grp setVariable ["groupStatus",_statusfinished];
        hint "task succeeded";
        leader _grp removeAction _deleteactionId;
        break;
    };


sleep 10;
};
};

[winter rose]

here, _condition is code, not a boolean

[torpid mica]

i know but how would i pass as boolean?

i can not let the {} away

[winter rose]

so either

private _condBool = alive player;
if (_condCode) then { /* ... */ };

private _condCode = { alive player }; // MUST return true/false
if (call _condCode) then { /* ... */ };

my ninja!

but in the condition you are using _grp, which is an internal variable - not gud to know variables from the outside

[torpid mica]

that doesn´t put out an error neither does it work 😦

[winter rose]

aaand what's your code/function call?

[torpid mica]

https://pastebin.com/mjHwg6hV

[torpid mica]

any idea whats wrong? except that the code is poorly written XD

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/okie-dokie-nervous-sign-of-the-cross-scared-gif-12642473

the indent is wrong

Dedmen I think the SQF parser should throw an exception for such code and refuse to run it

not touching that, sorry 😬

[torpid mica]

whats the indent?

i had it working before with a trigger but now that trigger had just refused to work 😦

[south swan]

inb4 indentation-driven SQpyFon

[torpid mica]

any idea how i could fix it?

[hallow mortar]

This is the indent: https://i.imgur.com/nabPTo5.png
It is not functionally wrong but it's very upsetting. Use one tab for each level, not 50.

[torpid mica]

ok get it but whats wrong with to code? why does the if not trigger?

[hallow mortar]

It's hard to say without knowing what the condition actually is

[torpid mica]

to my defence i thought it is clearer when all the code is under each other and with the corresponding statement (the tostring in this case)

[winter rose]

https://pastebin.com/3fseKCmn clearer here I believe

[torpid mica]

yeah you´re right

except the formatting you din´t change anything else right?

[still forum]

I don't see a problem with condition, looks ok to me.

_actionId is undefined in L44

_taskId is undefined in L41

[torpid mica]

damn i didn´t notice that...

[still forum]

L36 could be optimized with inAreaArray but doesn't matter much

That sleep on line 38 doesn't make sense to me.
You want to succeed the task when all units are in area.
You count units in area, then wait 5 seconds (enough for all of them to run out again) and then succeed the task even though they aren't in the area anymore

You could add diag_log's or systemChat's to your code to have some logging to see what's going on

[torpid mica]

right. used it for a hint thats not longer there. i definetly should clean my code more

[still forum]

I love this toString { on addAction, I haven't seen anyone use that before

[winter rose]

me! me! me!

all these "hint str [""hello there, """"%1"""""", name player]" got on my nerves 😄

[torpid mica]

but even with all the changes the if still isn´t triggered or i would see the hint "task succeeded"...

[meager granite]

I miss having something like isNull createHashMap to check if hashmap is empty\brand new or having null hashmap, count createHashMap == 0 is 2 operators and it triggers me.

Not a suggestion, just crazy ramblings

Love using hashmaps as objects and sometimes I want to return\have empty\null object

[meager granite]

When in doubt, diag_log\systemChat the hell out of it

[still forum]

add hint or diag_log to see what parts of your code run or don't

[still forum]

isEqualTo createHashMap 😄

[still forum]

3 commands, count, createHashMap and ==
_x isEqualTo createHashMap
is only 2 commands

[torpid mica]

nevermid... forgot its only refreshing after 10 secs

[meager granite]

newhashmap = createHashMap; [diag_codePerformance [{count newhashmap == 0}], diag_codePerformance [{newhashmap isEqualTo createHashMap}]]

[[0.00044,100000],[0.00045,100000]]

[still forum]

heresy

[meager granite]

Locations don't have C size, do they?

I guess I'll have to use triggers for area detection with inArea then

Wonder how much performance these eat up by simply existing compared to locations 🤔

[cosmic lichen]

What do you need a trigger for?

[meager granite]

Quickest way to check if entity is inside area, including height

I can do pos in location and then do additional z check, but i'd prefer using single command inArea

[cosmic lichen]

in area has C as height?

[meager granite]

It does when you provide an array

I guess parsing scripted array should be slower than providing trigger for its area

Gonna do performance tests soon

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/backpacks
Why have this when you can do it already with flatten([uniformContainer player, vestContainer player, backpackContainer player] apply {everyBackpack _x apply {typeOf _x}})? 🤔

Did somebody need to get array of all backpacks in all containers of all units on the map each frame so it required a dedicated command to save performance?

[queen cargo]

https://i.imgur.com/JMKX488.jpg

[meager granite]

flatten([uniformContainer player, vestContainer player, backpackContainer player] apply {everyBackpack _x}) apply {typeOf _x} tiny bit quicker

[lone glade]

Because at this point it's not an option

[meager granite]

Speaking about questionable commands, I'd love to know the story behind need for WFSideText, almost str side _x but not for all sides and capitalized instead of all caps.

[queen cargo]

its not an option for you

running both langs. in parallel for the next few month to year will give every mod enough time to upgrade

[lone glade]

It's not an option for BI either, how much money would they need to throw in ?

[queen cargo]

alt. a dev-build could be deployed with the new lang so that mods can upgrade

[winter rose]

oof, that was Arma 2 time yeah - and I never understood why either - maybe a "sure way" to have the expected result and to put Warfare into the game code itself
but tbh, I wish it didn't 🙂

[lone glade]

Too much work, better do it on a new release

[meager granite]

Did the test

    testpos = getPos player;
    testa = 100;
    testb = 100;
    testc = 100;
    testangle = 45;

    // 1
    loc = createLocation ["Name", testpos, testa, testb];
    loc setDirection testangle;
    testfnc1 = {
        if!(getPosWorld player in loc) exitWith {false};
        getPosWorld player select 2 < (position loc select 2) + testc;
    };

    // 2
    testfnc2 = {
        player inArea [testpos, testa, testb, testangle, false, testc];
    };

    // 3
    trig = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", testpos, false];
    trig setTriggerArea [testa, testb, testangle, false, testc];
    trig enableSimulation false;
    testfnc3 = {
        player inArea trig;
    };

    [
         call testfnc1
        ,diag_codePerformance [{call testfnc1}]
        ,call testfnc2
        ,diag_codePerformance [{call testfnc2}]
        ,call testfnc3
        ,diag_codePerformance [{call testfnc3}]
    ]
```=> `[true,[0.00194,100000],true,[0.00132,100000],true,[0.00064,100000]]`

Only need to check upper limit of area, but it would've been even slower if I checked down too in `testfnc1`

Guess I'm gonna switch to using triggers for area instead of locations now

[meager granite]

Might be something to do with localization, Arma 2 had issues with sending localized AI commands over network so you could instantly tell which language uses has because their commands were broadcasted in it.

[winter rose]

you mean the call RE; Multiplayer Framework?

[meager granite]

Engine-sent AI commands you see in the chat were localized to sender's language, my guess is that the command was related to localization issues

Now I wonder how it was used

[queen cargo]

wasnt there some new even OOP lang in dev for DayZ?

[winter rose]

don't go down that road, you know how it ends!

[meager granite]

_base = Call Compile Format["%1Base",WFSideText sideJoined];

[winter rose]

… gimme an L gimme an O gimme an L: L O L!

[hallow mortar]

It feels like something that should've been a function but someone got lazy

[meager granite]

Namespace getVariable Array Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead v1.60

[lone glade]

Dunno I don't follow DayZ

[digital hollow]

There is no EH for connectedToUAV, right?

[winter rose]

"PlayerViewChanged" mission EH?

[digital hollow]

not quite. I want to slew the uav camera while looking at the customInfo panel, so view is still on player unit.

[winter rose]

ah like "just" connected I get it

then I don't think so

[lone glade]

but it would make sense

[digital hollow]

thanks! then i'll just base it on inputactions that change the panels.

[winter rose]

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Code_Best_Practices for good advices 🙂
(and https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Code_Optimisation if you want)

[torpid mica]

thanks

[torpid mica]

why does a group with the "GETOUT" Waypoint does not get out of the Vehicle if they arrive at the waypoint destiantion?

[tough abyss]

It's called enscript I think

[winter rose]

no idea
mods?
wrong setup?
cursed computer?

[torpid mica]

but they do get in perfectly

[winter rose]

I didn't ask if they get in perfectly 🙃

[torpid mica]

yeah i have many mods

[winter rose]

try vanilla
if it works, you have your answer

[tough abyss]

More like C++ I believe

[torpid mica]

even in vanilla they don´t get out 😦

[tropic cipher]

You mean an sqf file with all the things listed one by one right?

[leaden ibex]

A sqf file, a function defined in CfgFunctions, or just a private function, all would work. But yes

[tropic cipher]

alright thanks

[tropic cipher]

I added this interaction to the object i interact with

this addAction ["Climb down ladder", {execVM "script.sqf"}];

and i added this as line 1 of "script.sqf"

{player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2)};

nothing happens

line 1 looked like this to begin with: [{player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2)}];

but i removed the square brackets hoping it would help

[little raptor]

remove the {}

[little raptor]

what kind of vehicle? and how many group members?

[torpid mica]

Vehicle is a Hemtt transport and the groupsize was 4 but even with more units it wont work. Vehicle is another group... I tried Unload, TR Unload, GETOUT

[tropic cipher]

Im going from a different angle and now im trying this, adding two actions that happen when someone interacts with the addAction, what im thinking is that i am incorrectly stringing it to one addaction

this addAction ["Rappel down the rope",{player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2)}, {Trigger_Con = true; publicVariable "Trigger_Con";}];

{player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2)} this teleports the player

{Trigger_Con = true; publicVariable "Trigger_Con";} while this triggers a trigger that plays effects to go alongside it

[little raptor]

Vehicle is another group
then use the unload transport waypoint

[torpid mica]

had no effect. already tried that

[little raptor]

if you use getOut you should use it on the original group

[torpid mica]

yeah set the transport group to tr unload and the original group to getOut. did not work

[little raptor]

manually unload them then

[torpid mica]

how?

[little raptor]

use the waypoint completion statement

to unload use leaveVehicle and allowGetIn

[tropic cipher]

this worked btw and i added my fade in and fade out script afterwards

cutText ["", "BLACK OUT", 1]; sleep 1; player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2); cutText ["", "BLACK FADED", 3]; sleep 3; cutText ["", "BLACK IN", 3];

this is what it looks like but all it does is, it tps you to the location, flickers for a split second waits a bit and then flickers 3 seconds after

my friend who gave me the fade script has no idea why it just flickers instead of doing the full fade in and fade out

[little raptor]

what about like this?

_layer = "Koylas_layer" call BIS_fnc_rscLayer;
_layer cutText ["", "BLACK OUT", 1];
sleep 1;
player setPosATL (getPosATL pad2);
_layer cutText ["", "BLACK FADED", 3];
sleep 3;
_layer cutText ["", "BLACK IN", 3];    

[tropic cipher]

what do the layers do? im trying your version out now but im just curious

[little raptor]

prevents conflict

[tropic cipher]

I WILL KISS YOU ON THE LIPS

it works hehe

and to add a sound effect in between that would i need to do any layer stuff aswell?

[little raptor]

you can use playSound, say3D, etc.

[torpid mica]

leaveVehicle did the job. Thank you

[stray flame]

Hello, I found this and I am looking for a way to make it only signal a message in chat when a civi is killed.

Anyone got any advice?

init.sqf

TAG_StartingRespawnDelay = 10;
addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
{
 params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
 if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = UAVControl vehicle _killer select 0}; // UAV/UGV player operated road kill
 if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = _killer}; // player driven vehicle road kill
 if ((side group _killed == civilian) && (isPlayer _instigator)) then { 
  if(isServer) then { [(side _instigator), -1] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets; };
  TAG_StartingRespawnDelay = TAG_StartingRespawnDelay + 10;
  setPlayerRespawnTime TAG_StartingRespawnDelay;
  systemChat format ["%1 killed a civilian. Ticket subtracted (%2), Respawn time added (%3).", name _instigator, [_instigator,nil,true] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets, TAG_StartingRespawnDelay];
 };
}];

[woeful kiln]

How would I have a script do stuff on initial spawn but then stop after that?

[lucid monolith]

Untested but should work.

if(isServer) then {
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        if (side group _killed == civilian) then { 
            "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
        };
    }];
};

[stray flame]

ima give it a try thank you

seems to work fine, thank you very much

not to ask for too much, but is there any way of making this send a message only after a sustain amount of killed civies, say 3?

[lucid monolith]

After like 3 are killed in a short amount of time, or so it only starts warning after 3 civilians have died in the whole mission? I can do the second one, but the first one would take a bit more thought and coding

[stray flame]

second one would be just fine

as long as I know how to change that number easily if it turns out to be too many or few

I just dont want a bad call artillery strike to spam chat

or a poorly thrown grenade

[lucid monolith]

Here's one that starts messaging after 3 civilians have already died

if(isServer) then {
    private _CivKillCounter = 0;
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        _CivKillCounter = _CivKillCounter + 1;
        if (side group _killed == civilian && _CivKillCounter > 3) then { 
            "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
        };
    }];
};

Here's one that should limit the messages to once every 3 seconds, the time can be adjusted with the uiSleep line

if(isServer) then {
    HAM_messageCooldown = false;
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        HAM_messageCooldown = true;
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        if ((side group _killed == civilian) && (HAM_messageCooldown = false)) then { 
            "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
        };
        uiSleep 3;
        HAM_messageCooldown = false;
    }];
};

The limit works so if several are killed in the 3 seconds, it just wont send a message about the additional ones at all so it might work better for what you were thinking of

Sorry I had a mistake in the cooldown code, I fixed it

[digital hollow]

shownUAVFeed and infoPanel update quite some time after the VehicleDisplay useractionEH fires. between 2 frames to 0.1 seconds. What would be a better way to check whether the player has switched to the uav feed?

[stray flame]

Thank you

this is very welcome

[stray flame]

I would like to ask, if I wanted this to repeat for when the next 3 has been killed, should I just duplicate this (while changing the number to 6)?

[lucid monolith]

If you add _CivKillCounter = 0; on a new line below the remoteExec line, it should reset the counter after sending the message

That's for the top one of the 2 scripts I sent

[stray flame]

if(isServer) then {
    private _CivKillCounter = 0;
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        _CivKillCounter = _CivKillCounter + 1;
        if (side group _killed == civilian && _CivKillCounter > 3) then { 
            "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
            _CivKillCounter = 0;
        };
    }];
};

[lucid monolith]

Yes

[stray flame]

Thank you

Honestly people should make standardized files for these kinds of things its so useful

My unit has a few of these I got with help form people here

** initPlayerLocal.sqf:**

//initPlayerLocal.sqf:

player addEventHandler ["Respawn",{ 

    params ["_newObject","_oldObject"];
    deleteVehicle _oldObject; 

}];

player addEventHandler ["Respawn",{ 
player switchMove "UnconsciousFaceDown"; player playmove "UnconsciousOutProne"; 
}];

onPlayerKilled.sqf

player setVariable ["Saved_Loadout",getUnitLoadout player];

onPlayerRespawn.sqf

player setUnitLoadout (player getVariable ["Saved_Loadout",[]]);

[little raptor]

this is wrong

_CivKillCounter is not visible to the EH

[little raptor]

change that var to global

[lucid monolith]

Oh yeah, I thought about that when writing the second one but forgot I did that for the first one

[little raptor]

your second one is wrong too

due to using uiSleep

in unschd environment

[lucid monolith]

Well shit, I always forget about that. This would work then?

if(isServer) then {
    HAM_civKillCounter = 0;
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        [_killed] spawn {
            HAM_civKillCounter = HAM_civKillCounter + 1;
            if (side group _killed == civilian && HAM_civKillCounter >= 3) then { 
                "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
                HAM_civKillCounter = 0;
            };
        };
    }];
};

Nevermind it was the second one that used uiSleep, not the first one

[stray flame]

wait

which one was non-functional?

the one where every 3 civies gives a warning or the one with a time cooldown

[stray flame]

Is this still correct?

[little raptor]

no

[stray flame]

what would be correct then?

[little raptor]

if(isServer) then {
    HAM_CivKillCounter = 0;
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityKilled", 
    {
        params ["_killed", "_killer", "_instigator"];
        HAM_CivKillCounter = HAM_CivKillCounter + 1;
        if (side group _killed == civilian && HAM_CivKillCounter > 3) then { 
            "A civilian was killed!" remoteExec ["systemChat"];
            HAM_CivKillCounter = 0;
        };
    }];
};

[stray flame]

Alright thanks

[little raptor]

idk what the reset is for tho

makes no sense to me

[stray flame]

Want it to give a warning for every 3 civies killed

instead of just doing that once

so 6 civies killed = 2 warnings

etc etc

[little raptor]

then it should say 3 civilians were killed

[stray flame]

hu?

[stray flame]

this would not do that?

[little raptor]

I mean the message it prints

[stray flame]

ah

I'll change it as fit, I just want a message I can edit to whatever

"Slaughtering civilians is a severe warcrime" for example

[cold pebble]

Need to remove private from the global HAM var 🙂

[little raptor]

yeah 😬

@stray flame ^

[unreal wind]

How can I make a turret shoot at enemies with no one using it and no npc in it on a vehicle im working on

[stray flame]

hu?

[cold pebble]

Leopard fixed the code snippet for you 🙂

[winter rose]

create an invisible AI (like UAV driver/gunner)
you can have an automatically-operated turret on every vehicle this way

[unreal wind]

Thank you

[vocal valley]

I had this script working awhile ago but cant seem to figure out what Im doing wrong now as it stopped working and Im not doing anything different. Its this one - https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/237644-ombra-random-minefield-scriptfunction/

Heres how I have it in my init.sqf - if (isServer) then { ["mines", 10, 30] execVM "randomMinefield.sqf"; };

Can someone help me get this figured out?

[vocal valley]

I hate scripts so freaking much

[fair drum]

learn to write your own then?

[vocal valley]

I just hate scripts in general, not just this one in particular.

I just constantly have issues with them and they drive me crazy

[fair drum]

learn how to script, and then only have problems you cause 🙂 instead of dealing with someone elses. luckily, minefields are relatively easy to script

[vocal valley]

well as I said - I had this one working just a few weeks ago, and now its not. So Im trying to figure this particular one out.

[fair drum]

do you have show errors turned on?

do you know where its failing?

[vocal valley]

Error missing ;

[fair drum]

come with a line number?

[vocal valley]

line 1

[fair drum]

in the script file or the init file?

should tell you what file as well

error missing ; on line 1 tells me you might have accidentally put a character on line 1 somewhere that isn't part of anything

[vocal valley]

Not sure how - I copied and pasted directly from the guy who made the script and changed the values to fit

if (isServer) then { ["Mines", 10, 30] execVM "randomMinefield.sqf"; };

is what I have

[fair drum]

is that the only thing in that file?

[vocal valley]

Yeah, I typically use more but Im trying to diagnose this one so thats the only line in the init

[fair drum]

so if there is only 1 line in the init and it contains that, its not in the init file. open up the randomMinefield.sqf and make absolutely sure there isn't an extra character on line one

[vocal valley]

Well not sure what I changed but that error stopped popping up. I am now getting no errors but no mines when loading into the mission

[fair drum]

post more errors

[vocal valley]

There are no errors showing up

[fair drum]

just, pm me your mission folder. might have to zip it

[vocal valley]

Messaged you - thanks for your help

[manic kettle]

How do i call a function into unscheduled environment so I can suspend?

[stable dune]

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

[stable dune]

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

[manic kettle]

Yes I've followed what that says on isNil{ call tag_fnc_name} but I'm still unable to suspend inside that function

[tough abyss]

I am not recruiting scripters. But how much do you guys think mod projects usually cost/are worth?

Specifically script mods, mods with a lot of scripts and scripting functionality, AI stuff, gameplay mechanics

[fair drum]

you can't suspend in the unscheduled environment. you can change over to scheduled using spawn

[] spawn ztrac_fnc_myFunction

[manic kettle]

ah i had it backwards in my mind, righto thanks

[stable dune]

Wo params

or if there are no parameters, one can simply do this:

isNil MY_fnc_Function

Or like hypoxic says

[fair drum]

so i saw your reddit post... you are willing to pay 800-1000 for an arma project? either you have way too much expendable income or your priorities are in the wrong place.

in the mean time, take this conversation over to #creators_recruiting

[tough abyss]

I was just in the middle of replying to you!

[tough abyss]

I'm not recruiting any developers though at the moment, and discussion isn't allowed there...

Where should I be putting my priorities then?

[fair drum]

alright. well this is a passion project for most of us. I guess it would depend on the scale of the project you want to do down the line. A huge thing? yeah that could be costly unless you convince the community to help out together. small scale stuff is like, beer money or something

are you intending on getting money back after getting the project that you want?

[tough abyss]

No