arma3_scripting

[ashen ridge]

Thanks a lot, POLPOX.

[ashen ridge]

This function only works in Eden Editor?

Attributes are available only within the Eden Editor workspace. You cannot access them in scenario preview or exported scenario!

[warm hedge]

Yes

This *command only works in Eden workspace

[crude egret]

im having a problem with my script atm...

I want to make a zone with ai spawning that hunts a player, i got the ai spawning etc set up and it works fine. player enters area, ai spawns, ai runs towards player.. i also made a max ai value so it doesnt infinitely spawns ai till the game/server crashes.

The only problem i have is.. im too stupid to make it so that if i kill enemies it removes the killed unit from the array (that array contains all the enemy units) so another one can spawn...

hopefully i explained it good enough bcs my english sucks xD Can any1 help me?

heres my script

[warm hedge]

deleteAt and find can achieve to remove a certain value from an array

[crude egret]

can u give me an example?

so
(missionNamespace getVariable "activeAI") - [this select 0]];
doesnt even work?

(in the "killed" event)

[warm hedge]

Haven't looked your script yet, but this partially work. The issue is you didn't save it

[crude egret]

uhh

so everytime i change it i need to save with "saveProfileNamespace;"?

[warm hedge]

Wait what?

How does it even matter?

[crude egret]

or "saveMissionProfileNamespace;"

What u mean?

i did this now:

_x addEventHandler ["Killed", {
                _tempGrp = (missionNamespace getVariable "activeAI");
                _tempGrp deleteAt (_tempGrp find (this select 0));
                missionNamespace setVariable ["activeAI", _tempGrp];
                saveMissionProfileNamespace;
                hint "AI Unit died! Removed from activeAI";
            }];```

But it doesnt work. i tried to fix it for like 2 hours now ._.

[warm hedge]

1. missionNamespace already is the default namespace
2. profileNamespace or any other namespaces shares nothing with it
3. saveMissionProfileNamespace doesn't exist

[crude egret]

so how do i fix my code? can u give me an example? the problem is just about removing the unit from the array when it dies

[warm hedge]

activeAI = activeAI deleteAt (activeAI find (_this#0))```

[crude egret]

uhh can u explain the "this#0" to me?^^

[warm hedge]

# is almost equivalent of select

[crude egret]

that was almost rude xD

[warm hedge]

?

[crude egret]

kk ty, im new to arma scripting so i might ask many stupid questions xD

but doesnt it select the first value in the array with "0"? How should i know where the unit is in the array?

[warm hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#Killed
As you can see the first element is the unit

[crude egret]

ah now i understand

kk ill try it out

[warm hedge]

You've already said you're rude or stupid or new to this, they are all don't matter as long as you can/want to learn and thank anyone who helps you

[crude egret]

i will thank everyone who helps me, but since i was trying to find a solution for more than 2 1/2 hours by now and tried like 20 different approaches, im kinda tired of spamming the google/biki search bar. at this point i just want a result, because even if i didnt found it myself, i still learn from it. for me its not about learning to code, its just about learning how to get something done in arma since its a whole lot different to java and other languages that i know.

[warm hedge]

SQF actually is not really a good language to learn programming 101, since this is about 20 years old and never updated the syntax or somewhat

[crude egret]

yea thats what im realising ^^

[warm hedge]

But you know what, this is the only language I can handle

[crude egret]

sqf just seems so confusing to me

[crude egret]

_tempGrp = _tempGrp - [_unit];
missionNamespace setVariable ["activeAI", _tempGrp];

works...

[warm hedge]

Again missionNamespace is the default namespace unless in a special case

[warm hedge]

So this is enough

[drowsy geyser]

what does this mean?
sleep (1 + random 4); sleep between 1-4 or sleep 1 + random from 1-4?

i need it the sleep between 1-4 but guess its the latter one right?

[warm hedge]

1 + random 4 is 1 to 5

[drowsy geyser]

thank you

[leaden ibex]

Hey there, can I spawn a "zeus" via script.

I got the game master module in the mission with #adminLogged as the owner, but let's say I need a second one for someone not logged in as admin, but he will have access to console.

Is there a way, to spawn a zeus for him, so when he presses "z" he will be transported into him, similary like the "admin's" one works?

[manic kettle]

Run as local to assign yourself as zeus
[player, allCurators#0] remoteExec ["assignCurator", 2]

[leaden ibex]

Copy that, will test it, thank you!

[leaden ibex]

Wait, this would "reassign" the one the admin has, no?

[gusty flame]

Hey, I'm pretty new to Arma scripting and got a few questions, anyone able to give me some help? (In PM or here if that's the norm I guess)

[drowsy geyser]

why does this throw an error msg?
drone1 flyInHeight [100, true];
error msg:
error flyInHeight: type array, expected number

the drone is an "C_IDAP_UAV_06_antimine_F"

[cosmic lichen]

That's why

[sullen sigil]

not released yet

[drowsy geyser]

haha my bad

[oblique spoke]

@gusty flame you're probably better off just asking your question(s) here and waiting for a reply.

[ashen ridge]

I found a nice way to generate a module and it parameters by script, you just need to set the module on Eden Editor the way you want, and then use the Convert to SQF option! Amazing!

😂

I made a line around

[gusty flame]

@oblique spoke Alright. Here goes: Is it possible to have a function-call as the condition in addAction? Something like this: http://pastebin.com/vv9scbEQ
I can't get it to work, if it's possible: What am I doing wrong?

[cosmic lichen]

Perfect

[oblique spoke]

my scriptfu is weak, but you have asked in the appropriate place. one of these goons will straighten you out i'm sure.

[kindred tide]

i havent opened A3 since 2020

has a lot changed?

[little raptor]

scripting wise yes there are many new commands
engine wise, kinda. the thermal imaging has changed. there were some mod-related stuff too
content wise no (apart from CDLCs)

[kindred tide]

back then i made a similar "find a hidden item by triangulating its location" mission for A3, but you were followed by invincible zombies rather than semi-friendly/helpful villagers

[sullen sigil]

that sounds like dayz

[kindred tide]

it's like a very lightweight dayz

just no survival mechanics, and ALL of it was pasted into 'init' field in a gameLogic object placed in editor

(i wrote the code in external file and pasted it back every time)

i'm having difficulty getting over A3 being 10 years old, for me it still came out yesterday

[ornate whale]

How to check, if player is prone? This does not work addUserActionEventHandler ["Prone", "Activate", { hint "Action!"; }];

[tulip ridge]

stance

[ornate whale]

Thanks, but how can I incporporate that in an event handler? I don't want to use some while-do cylce or something.

[hallow mortar]

This should work (assuming you're not only running it on the server or something)

[ornate whale]

I am just in the editor. It is in the player's init.

[hallow mortar]

Oh, try one for moveDown as well.

The prone (Prone Toggle) action is not bound in any of the default presets and it's likely you'll be using moveDown (Prone / Stand Up) instead

Note that this action is likely to trigger if the user presses the same action again to stop being prone, and won't trigger if they stop being prone because of a different action (i.e. crouching), so you'll probably need multiple handlers and some additional checks to cover every possible case

....and you'll want to monitor adjustUp and adjustDown as well, in case they get prone by cycling through all the intermediate stances

[little raptor]

animStateChanged is another EH you can use

[daring thunder]

I tried using
vehicle1 disableCollisionWith vehicle2;
to disabel collisions but it keeps telling me "Int: Missing ;" WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??? I typed it in correctly

[tulip ridge]

Can you show more of the actual code?
Can't really tell where the problem might be happening without it

[daring thunder]

helicopter attachTo [destroyer, 0,0,0]
helicopter disableCollisionsWith destroyer;

Im trying to make a goofy lil compisition

[tulip ridge]

No semicolon after [0, 0, 0]

[daring thunder]

but arma 3 doesnt want me to make it goofy

[tulip ridge]

Also I assume you're wanting helicopter attachTo [destroyer, [0, 0, 0]];?

[daring thunder]

Yeah

They attached just fine but the helicopter keeps exploding so I assume it was because the two are inside each other

[tulip ridge]

Try disabling the collision first, and then attaching

[daring thunder]

How do I disable collisions without scripts?

[tulip ridge]

Is this not a script here?
Just swap the lines:

helicopter disableCollisionWith destroyer;
helicopter attachTo [destroyer]; // offset defaults to [0, 0, 0]

[hallow mortar]

Make sure the helicopter isn't inside the destroyer when it's created.
attachTo will handle the position it ends up in, so the helicopter can be created anywhere...ideally somewhere with plenty of free space.

[daring thunder]

Im trying to find the screenshot but I can only steam screenshot in arma 3 gimmie a second

Doesnt work

[open fractal]

check spelling

that tends to give you the missing semicolon error

[granite sky]

collision not collisions

[daring thunder]

Im going to chuck my computer out a fucking window it worked

Now I cant fly the chopper anywhere

[hallow mortar]

Well, no, because it's attached to the destroyer

[tulip ridge]

Are you wanting the other way around?

[daring thunder]

Im trying to make it where the helcopter flies the destroyer around

[tulip ridge]

Swap helicopter and destroyer

[daring thunder]

Okay

And its not attaching

[tulip ridge]

destroyer attachTo [helicopter];

[daring thunder]

The codes in there

[hallow mortar]

Something to keep in mind is that destroyers aren't actually one object. They're made up of multiple sections in order to keep within the engine size limits. The object you see in the Editor is a dummy. So there is more complexity here if you want to do it this way around.

[daring thunder]

Damn

I give up

Thanks for the help anyways guys

[tulip ridge]

Ah yeah, I forget it's multipart, only messed with them once for a retexture

[daring thunder]

I might come back later for something else

Trying to make custom aliens in arma

[tulip ridge]

Odd question, but has someone written a quicksort (or any algorithm really) for sqf?
Need to sort an array of units based on the length of a variable in the unit. I tried modifying a quicksort algorithm I found on this website, but I was doing something wrong since it kept returning the array out of order.

[gusty flame]

Alright, great :) Thanks

[ornate whale]

Thanks all, it works now. Can I use this code, when I have more players in MP game, which can respawn or switch units, disconnect and reconnect?
{addUserActionEventHandler [...]; } forEach allPlayers; Or do I have to make onPlayerConnects event. I think I have answered my question. 😄

[tulip ridge]

You'd need an onPlayerConnects

[granite sky]

@tulip ridge You can use the engine sort to do it by making arrays with the target number as the first element, or BIS_fnc_sortBy will do the same thing for you.

sort is weirdly slow for an engine command but it's still going to be faster than anything you can do in SQF.

[candid sun]

malow that's incorrect code afaik

[tulip ridge]

Not sure I understand what you mean by "making arrays with the target number as the first element"

What "target number"?

[granite sky]

The one you want to sort by.

[granite haven]

is there like a CfgEmotes section somewhere? so that i can just get a huge array with emotes instead of adding one by one emotes to an array

[tulip ridge]

I wanted to sort them by array length:

_units = [...]; // something like player, unit1, unit2, etc. etc.
{
    _arrayVar = _x getVariable ["someArray", []];
} forEach _units;
// Unit with the longest `someArray` would be _units#0, second longest would be _units#1, etc. etc.

[granite sky]

_units2 = _units apply { [count (_x getVariable ["someArray", []]), _x] };
_units2 sort true;
_units = _units2 apply { _x#1 };

[tulip ridge]

I think looking BIS_fnc_sortBy again helped a lot
Appreciate it 👍

[candid sun]

why can't you just use the
'ACE_microDAGR' in (items _unit + assignedItems _unit)
bit from the function instead? tidy it up and have it as the condition

[gusty flame]

Because I'm planning on making the conditions more complex, checking if players has the DAGR, and if they're close enough to certain areas etc. It might be possible to add it all as one long line of conditions in the addAction call, but it would be so much better and easier if I could use a function for it I feel.

[tulip ridge]

"Oh nice, select already has a syntax for what I nee-"

[little raptor]

what do you need?

that syntax already works

the optional part is since 2.14

[tulip ridge]

Oh it's just optional in 2.14?

Oh nice

[little raptor]

if the command itself was since 2.14 you'd see the game version next to the syntax itself

[tulip ridge]

Gotcha
Makes sense looking back at it now, since the the syntax following it was 1.56

And also the big blue notice right under it...

[candid sun]

be careful, the condition is checked every frame if it's attached to the player

[jade acorn]

why does _unit lookAt getPos player make the AI turn itself to face that position but _unit lookAt player makes them either to not react, turn only a bit or just face a completely opposite way?

is it a bug or intentional? If they count glancing at player as looking at him then why looking at position doesn't do the same?

[gusty flame]

Is running script-code every frame on the client going to have any negative effects to performance? I come from using stuff like Unity etc. and there you could probably calculate PI in a script every frame without any affect on the performance for the client. I've read that in Arma you do need to be careful with executing too much script code, but will just a few extra conditions that are checked every frame actually make a noticeable performance impact even?

[little raptor]

iirc they look back and forth

did you use time acc?

[jade acorn]

nope, nothing touched

[little raptor]

also _unit lookAt getPos player is completely wrong

[little raptor]

well use time acc to see if they eventually look at player

[jade acorn]

the idea was to have the AI immediately turn facewards to player for a conversation and the 2nd script did that. But I hoped that with lookAt player AI would turn to face the player and keep looking at him, otherwise I have to loop that

[little raptor]

well like I said the first one is just wrong

it should be _unit lookAt unitAimPosition player

[jade acorn]

the getpos one worked so I guess it's not wrong at all? If I understand you the difference is that getpos returns a point at unit's feet while unitAimPosition is some memory point near the head

[little raptor]

getPos is also AGLS

the command needs AGL

and getPos is slow af

[candid sun]

i'm not schooled enough in programming to give you a good answer, but i know c# is way way way faster than sqf, and unfortunately sqf generally starts to look pretty ugly once you start doing complex stuff

http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-addaction-quirks-v2/

[pulsar pewter]

hey folks, how can I get an array of all classes in CfgVehicles>>UAV for use in scripts?
Specifically, I need this array so i can add a variable to each class, not necessarily with same value.

[candid sun]

i'm probably over stating the performance impact - i'm sure someone more clever than me will give you a good answer soon

[pulsar pewter]

nvm seems like what I want is BIS_fnc_getCfgSubClasses

[halcyon temple]

hey guys

any way to get objects on a dead unit, like the result of getUnitLoadout, but objects, I want the damn objects... 😉

[granite sky]

I feel like you have some very flawed assumptions here.

It doesn't create a load of objects just because a unit dies. Just one (or two?) for the dropped weapons.

[halcyon temple]

you are definitely right. what about assigned items?

[granite sky]

Fair question. Not sure.

[halcyon temple]

"dropped weapons", didn't these exist already ?

[granite sky]

I'd guess that they're still assigned to the body.

[halcyon temple]

so "any way to get objects on a dead unit"

[granite sky]

No, because weapons aren't objects. What it does is create a simulated weapon holder object and transfers the weapon item to that.

[halcyon temple]

dummyobject

[granite sky]

If you want to find the weapon holder with script then you'll either have to search for it or add a Put event handler to the unit before it dies.

There's no script-accessible link from corpse to weapon holder but there is one in the other direction: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getCorpse

[halcyon temple]

this is were I'm at, https://pastebin.com/B7CT2my4

following from

if (_x isKindOf "Man" && ! alive _x) then {
    diag_log format ["TGF_fnc_addTransferAction | _nearObjects: %1 is a dead man", _x];
    [_x, _target] call TGF_fnc_transferLoadoutToContainer;
}

the idea is to create all items on dead unit and respective contents/configuration in a target container

    _unitLoadout params [
        "_primary", "_secondary", "_handgun", "_uniform", "_vest",
        "_backpack", "_headgear", "_goggles", "_binoculars", "_assignedItems"
    ];

[gusty flame]

Alright, thanks for the info nonetheless :) It is however not possible then to use a function-call in the conditions-parameter of addAction? I'll just have to slam all the conditions in there in the parameter?

[flint sentinel]

Hello! Hopefully a quick question

I have a few .sqf files not being ran when on a dedicated server. They run fine on hosting, but nothing happens while uploaded to the server.

I'm new to scripting, so I think there's something I need to do, probably basic, to make scripts run on a server. Anyone have an idea?

incase it's relevant, code

[winter rose]

which sqf files, called from where? 🙂

[flint sentinel]

It's three to teleport to three different birds, I'm new enough to scripting that I didn't know that I needed to call them, I thought having them in the mpmissions folder would be enough

[winter rose]

well you say it works in SP

[flint sentinel]

I technically ran it as MP, just for clarification

but yeah it works fine on hosting. when uploaded to the server, it's like they're not being used at all

[hallow mortar]

Script files don't run themselves, apart from engine-recognised event scripts like init.sqf. You must be doing something (execVM, for example) to activate the scripts, even in self-hosting.

[flint sentinel]

I'm using an init box on a prop to call them, then

No init.sqf or anything

[hallow mortar]

What is the exact code you're using to call them?

[flint sentinel]

pulling it up now

basically a 'this addAction ["text", "code.sqf"]

each RGteleport is the same with the exception of changing which helo name they're using

[granite sky]

Have you checked that these sqf files are actually in the mission PBO?

[flint sentinel]

I have not, I'm not sure how to go about that.

My troubleshooting steps were ensuring it worked through Eden>host MP, and then uploading the entire mission file to my server's mpmission

I haven't attempted to get .sqf files working on a dedicated server before, so this is new to me

[hallow mortar]

There's nothing different about how .sqf files work on a server. There are differences in how some commands work, but that's not really important here.

• When you say uploaded the whole mission file, did you upload the unpacked mission folder, or did you export it as a PBO first and then upload that?
• When you say the scripts are "being ignored", do you mean the actions are missing or the actions don't do anything?

[flint sentinel]

-unpacked mission folder

-Actions are there, do not work though

[winter rose]

what I suspect is that you created the mission in the Missions directory
then saved in MP missions (which copied the sqm only)
then exported as MP mission

that, or you need to restart the server to refresh the pbo

[hallow mortar]

They said they uploaded the unpacked folder, not a PBO

[flint sentinel]

No, Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I can see through my FTP I have all .sqf's with the mission

[hallow mortar]

I would recommend exporting it as a PBO and uploading that

[winter rose]

^

what is moveInCargo's locality?

[hallow mortar]

Is this the contents of the mission folder inside MPMissions, or the contents of MPMissions itself? The first one would be correct, the second one would explain everything.

[hallow mortar]

LA/GE, so not the problem here (the calling player is local)

[flint sentinel]

I don't see Pbo as an option, I have export to MP, Terrain Builder, to SQF

[hallow mortar]

Export to MP

[flint sentinel]

mpmissions>RC001>.sqfs

[hallow mortar]

Exported PBOs are located in your Arma 3 install folder in the MPMissions folder

[flint sentinel]

So I have been exporting to MP, my understanding is they came back as files and not .PBOs

Maybe I've been messed up this entire time, but wouldn't I find my exported mp missions through Docs>Arma3>mpmissions?

welp

[fleet sand]

I think your problem is how you execute the script with addaction. becouse You use addaction ["text","Script.sqf"]; That Scrit.sqf is executed with ExecVM witch is GA/LE and that is why it dosent work on server.

[flint sentinel]

I see the .PBOs, I'll give that a shot

[granite sky]

I'm now puzzled what mission you've been testing :P

[hallow mortar]

No, that's not it.
The LE in execVM means the script file is only executed locally on the machine where execVM was run. That's exactly the same as any addAction code, and completely normal.

[flint sentinel]

Literally what I put up above lol, the server accepted the mission.sqm and went with it

[granite sky]

I didn't think there was any way to get a dedicated server to load an unpacked mission.

[hallow mortar]

Is "RC001" the exact name of the mission folder? Does it have a map suffix (e.g. .Altis)? If not, the server may be interpreting it as a free-floating mission.sqm that simply happens to be in a subfolder, not as a mission folder.

[manic kettle]

Wait so is "script.sqf" the same as {execvm "script.sqf"} for the addaction input?

[flint sentinel]

It had map suffix, I removed it for sake of convenience

[granite sky]

yes, addAction special case

[manic kettle]

TIL.
Maybe you're not passing arguments correctly then. If the action shows up but it doesn't work

[flint sentinel]

It works, just not on a server. Waiting for my server to boot up to test .pbo

[flint sentinel]

This was my issue.

I was going through Docs instead of arma source, didn't know it was .PBOs I had to load in

Thank you so much for the help!

[gusty flame]

Also another question: Is there any way to access inventory-items by id? I'm making a missions where the players are going to use a limited amount of datapads (ACE microDAGR), and going close to a location lets you download data to the datapad, and going close to another location lets you upload this data to base. I would like for the data to actually be attached to the actual item in the inventory, meaning you can drop it, give it to other players, or enemies can kill you and take it. So I need to track each of the ACE_microDAGR's specifically to know which one has what data on it. Googling a bit I haven't been able to find a good solution to solve this. Does anyone know how this could be accomplished?

[faint oasis]

Hi, i have a question ? I put some units in a truck and everytime the mission start, they are starting to get out so is there a way to prevent that ? I tried to addVehicle but it's not working 😦

[winter rose]

vanilla?

[faint oasis]

no, i'm using some mods with the new dlc spearhead

[winter rose]

try to repro in vanilla

[hallow mortar]

A quick fix is usually to lock the vehicle

[fair drum]

Or disabled AI pathing

[faint oasis]

I tried but sadly it's not working.

{ 
    _grole = assignedVehicleRole _x; 
    if ((count _grole) <= 1) then 
    { 
        private _gindex = (this getCargoIndex _x); 
       
        _x assignAsCargoIndex [this, _gindex]; 
    } 
    else  
    { 
        _x assignAsTurret [this, (_grole # 1)]; 
    }; 
}forEach (units mygrp);

that solved the problem but i think there is a bug with the truck because there is 2 ffv turrets and only one is detected as a turret, the other one is detected as a cargo with a turret index but it still need to be assigned as a turret.

[harsh sedge]

Is it possible to overwrite certain mod/BIS functions with functions declared in Description.ext to test changes?

[open hollow]

there is any 3den enventhandler that is executed when a object is placed?
i cant fin any 🙂

[wild prairie]

Is there a way to access a model's RVMAT's properties ingame?

[open hollow]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getObjectMaterials this is the closest ( and setObjectMaterialGlobal)

[wild prairie]

I'm aware of that. What I'm interested in is accessing the properties of the RVMAT itself (if I understand correctly it may not necessarily be available under configFile).

[open hollow]

what properties you want? maybe there is some other way

[shut carbon]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#CuratorObjectPlaced

[open hollow]

this work on 3den?

[shut carbon]

3den, I thought you said Zeus 😛

[wild prairie]

bulletPenetrability/bulletPenetrabilityWithThickness specifically. I'm not happy with using armor directly. Working on an armor penetration system for infantry that takes ammo caliber property into account more reliably.

[shut carbon]

actually, nvm, on 3den i'm not sure.

[open hollow]

yea, it seems to work

in the end 3den is a mission lol

[open hollow]

hmm where is this information stored?

[shut carbon]

CuratorObjectPlaced works?

[open hollow]

addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated",

[shut carbon]

ah nice

[open hollow]

i mean its not in the rvmat afaik

[wild prairie]

Wiki says it's part of a .bisurf file: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Config_Properties_Megalist#BISURF_properties

I guess I can use loadConfig, but that'll hurt.

[open hollow]

yea, you will need to know what bisurf you are hiting, and then search the surface data in the config

[open hollow]

using HitPart Eh you get the surface you hit, and should be easy to search the bisurf in the config

[tulip ridge]

Issues when running on dedicated server

[gentle zenith]

Good afternoon/morning/night

On my server I have a vehicle clean up script that deletes dead vehicles after x amount of minutes, however lately it appears to be deleting the bodies of any dead players that were inside of it. This means their friends can't revive them (people that arrive after the vehicle has cleaned up).

Does anybody have a decent way to eject dead bodies from a vehicle? I've tried setting the unit's pos to the pos of the vehicle before cleaning it up but this hasn't worked

[granite sky]

You have a revive system that uses corpses? Unusual.

moveOut works fine on corpses but you might need to catch them early. There are various vague hints on the wiki about some sort of corpse state change after a time.

[tough abyss]

i think he is saying that the code deletes vehicles that are destroyed and has now started deleting deleting people still "inside" that vehicle ace and a few other medical mods / scripts sometimes keep a player in a fully destroyed vehicle

[tulip ridge]

Yeah but you still can't delete uncon players in ace

You can delete the bodies once someone actually dies, but not while uncon

[tough abyss]

yeah idk how this works im guessing hes using deletevehicle on the destroyed car which im guessing it either moves players to debug corner or something or just bad wording

[tulip ridge]

ACE should (may not be remembering 100% correctly) either just prevent the vehicle from being deleted altogether or eject the uncon players and then delete the vehicle

[tough abyss]

just tried it while uncon and conscious you're right it ejects

[candid sun]

inventory items are just strings afaik

dayz took it a step further - like you can write on pieces of paper - but it's not possible in arma 3

[fair drum]

what variables hold the UI colors clients have selected?

[warm hedge]

A function can get them, forgot which was but GUIColor or smth

[fair drum]

all I needed to point me right direction. found it.

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

oh i forgot im using a config lol

[warm hedge]

Yep that's what I meant

[fair drum]

cant use that

[warm hedge]

Then you can try a macro, ui_f has such macro

[fair drum]

oh it looks like you can use code in the array:

colorBackground[] = {"(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_R',0.13])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_G',0.54])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['GUI_BCG_RGB_B',0.21])",1};

[warm hedge]

And that can be alteted into a macro

Which is easy to handle

[little raptor]

loadConfig

or loadFile if you want it raw

[jade acorn]

what's the script counterpart of player squad leader giving MOVE orders to individual group members?

can't find anything in waypoint or group commands

[winter rose]

there is no exact counterpart
commandMove is without the waypoint + units go back to formation iirc

[jade acorn]

"units go back to formation" like they immediately go back from the point i have given them?

[winter rose]

that's what doMove says

[jade acorn]

ah I see that now

doStop should counter it so I guess it's worth trying. I'd rather avoid making separate groups

[signal drum]

Hi there, I'm trying to make a mod out of the two functions I've created in a test mission. This is a screenshot from my mod folder and Config.cpp:

I packed the pbo and copied it into the addon folder of a mod folder. I can load the mod with the launcher but the script "addVehicleDamageEventHandler", which is supposed to be run pre init, does not trigger. I think I messed up the script paths somehow.

Can anybody let me know how to set up the folder structure to make them work with the config file I created?

[warm hedge]

The function couldn't find which file it is

[winter rose]

sure https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Functions_Library#Function_Declaration

[warm hedge]

More like you forgot to specify it is

[signal drum]

I read that, but I didn't understand it apparently. I thought if I set up the functions the way I did, they would automaticalle look for the files inside the "Vehicles" folder

[warm hedge]

Re-read please, Category part of it

[signal drum]

In my mind, this here would mean <my mod folder>/Vehicles/fnc_handleVehicleDamage.sqf would relate to the class in my config:

[warm hedge]

Below that

Or you can specify the file path in the function's class itself too

[south swan]

it's config.cpp, though? So ROOT>\Category\fn_functionName.sqf should apply?

[signal drum]

I see. Is there no way for it to work without specifying the file path? Like in the first example above your red circle?

[signal drum]

That's what I thought would happen, but for some reason it doesn't

[warm hedge]

I have never heard that without file = would work

[south swan]

i assume it's PBO prefix shenanigans

[warm hedge]

...Maybe that too

[south swan]

        class Arrays
        {
            file="A3\functions_f\Arrays";``` from vanilla functions_f's config

so yeah, correct prefix + path to folder in file= property of prefix sounds like a solution

[signal drum]

Okay, thank you guys for the help. I'm going to give that a go and let you guys know how it went after I had lunch.

[winter rose]

doc to be amended then
edit: done

[signal drum]

I still can't get it to work, clearly I'm doing something wrong. This is my folder structure and Config.cpp now:

[warm hedge]

You forgot your pboprefix

[signal drum]

Oh, hold on

This is the pbo:

[warm hedge]

Click the gear icon

[signal drum]

Does the path need to be "NPC_Avoid_Vehicle_Eplosions\Functions\Vehicles"?

[winter rose]

Eplosions btw

[warm hedge]

If there is no pboprefix

[signal drum]

Eplosions

Oh god

[winter rose]

yes?

[signal drum]

I've fixed the name and added the PBO prefix, but the functions still don't show up in the function viewer 😵

It's weird, I feel like I should at least get an error that my function location isn't found when I start the game, but I don't even get that

[south swan]

click the gear button in PBO Manager and check what PBO prefix is listed there

[warm hedge]

Wait a minute, do you even have CfgPatches?

[signal drum]

I do not

Do I need one?

[warm hedge]

Must

You CANNOT skip it

[signal drum]

Ah dang

[warm hedge]

Also... which software you use to pack it into pbo?

[signal drum]

At the bare minimum, the config.cpp file requires a CfgPatches class.

Arma 3 Addon Builder

[warm hedge]

Ah, at least not PBOManager

[signal drum]

I think the missing CfgPatches was my problem all along

[warm hedge]

And since is a config topic, let's move on #arma3_config if you still have questions

[winter rose]

please try again without file = and report back, so I can revert or not the doc change!

[signal drum]

Sorry, will do.

[signal drum]

Okay, I'll let you know. Sorry for the inconvenience. 😄

[warm hedge]

We're all here to be the inconvenience 😄

[signal drum]

Thanks to you guys I managed to get it working now 🎉

[signal drum]

I removed the attribute again, it looks like this now:

When launching, I'm getting the following error:

Seems like it's not looking for the script inside the pbo, but rather in the root folder

I assume you need the file attribute after all, or maybe there's still something that's not right

[south swan]

"inside the pbo" isn't a thing. Like, at all

[signal drum]

Inside the mod folder then

[granite sky]

You need the file attribute if your PBO has a prefix. Which it should.

[ornate whale]

What am I doing wrong?

When I call TAG_fnc_myFunction; it does not work.

[south swan]

you're skipping one whole level of class hierarchy

[ornate whale]

category is mandatory?

[south swan]

yes

[ornate whale]

Why dont I see the chat? systemChat "Hello world!"; Could the UI be hidden when in Eden mission playtest?

[proven charm]

add small sleep before that, the GUI might not be ready

sleep 0.1

[ornate whale]

I am calling it from command line in game

[proven charm]

messed up gui positions?

[ornate whale]

default

[proven charm]

hmmm

[wild prairie]

HitPart doesn't fire for vests/backpacks, only the unit itself .

[ornate whale]

So, don't know what it was, but it works now. But how can I add a variable in the chat? systemChat ("EnemyDetected" + str _newTarget)

[proven charm]

or format

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

[ornate whale]

Maybe the problem is that I call it from the eventHandler. And that might not be considered as client.

[proven charm]

which eventHandler?

[ornate whale]

I placed it out of the eventHandler. 😄

[pulsar pewter]

Probably a locality issue then. Wherever the EH was firing wasn’t local to the client.

[granite haven]

player setUnitTrait ["Engineer", true, false];

How come if i exec this locally i cant repair damaged vehicles?

[hallow mortar]

You still need a toolkit

(and there's still a limit on how much you can repair, you can get things working but not 100% fixed)

[granite haven]

i have a toolkit

i set the vehicle damage to 0.7, is 0.7 not damaged enough maybe?

ah shit it wasnt enough

0.9 works, my bad

[manic kettle]

This depends on your settings.
Are you looking at the individual broken parts?

[granite haven]

what do you mean?

[manic kettle]

Oh nevermind you're taking about vanilla probably

[molten yacht]

I'm having trouble with my mission

despite having briefing explicitly enabled in my description.ext the dedicated server seems to always skip it

[hallow mortar]

Does the DS have briefingTimeOut set to a low number in its config file?

[molten yacht]

hmmm

[molten yacht]

900

also sorry

I meant debriefing

but that is also >900

like the mission ends and it goes straight back to mission select

There's no missions cycling setup

[pulsar pewter]

For setMarkerTypeLocal do I use classname? or the name in https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_CfgMarkers?

[pulsar pewter]

I've tried setting up both "UAV" or the class name "b_uav" and I get missing file errors both types.
createMarkerLocal [_markerName, _controller, 1];
_markerName setMarkerTextLocal "Drone Operator's Position";
switch (side _caller) do
{
case west: {_markerName setMarkerType "b_uav"};

[cold mica]

Wiki says "String" so you have to use the Name of the marker, not the classname.

[pulsar pewter]

That's what I initially thought, but it wouldn't accept "UAV" as the icon type, which according to the CfgMarkers wiki, is the name of an icon.

[cold mica]

I think because you need to define more stuff. Bottom of this page says you need to define Marker Shape and Marker Type like

_markerstr = createMarkerLocal ["markername",[_Xpos,_Ypos]];
_markerstr setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON";
_markerstr setMarkerTypeLocal "DOT";

Source: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createMarkerLocal

[pulsar pewter]

Turns out you don't need setMarkerShape; I've got only createmarker/settype/settext.
And it also turns out it is classnames, but I had a small typo on the classname.

i hate it when its small mistakes like that lol

[fair drum]

I'm not sure why, but the "fortify" task is not completing. It seems to be only firing on one of the scriptedeventhandlers when it should fire on both. It's worth nothing, there are 3 current subscribers to the "US_Reinf" event handler (one creates a destroy task, which is working correctly, 2/3 subscribers are working).

first picture, comparison between fortify and defend task files, bottom is where the us_reinf handler is called

when called in the scripted event handler externally again in debug after, it does update the fortify task, so the code is working, just not firing both subscribers

it looks like scripted event handlers give an ID that is different than _thisScriptedEventHandler

16:47:32 "DEFEND SUBSCRIPTION ID: 0"
16:47:32 "FORTIFY SUBSCRIPTION ID: 1"

16:48:07 "DEFEND Task Completed"
16:48:07 "TaskCompleted Event Handler Called"
16:48:07 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 1"

when the subscription id should actually be 0 from above

hmmm more interesting...

// Using _thisScriptedEventHandler for the ID

16:54:25 "DEFEND SUBSCRIPTION ID: 0"
16:54:25 "FORTIFY SUBSCRIPTION ID: 1"
16:55:03 "DESTROY SUBSCRIPTION ID: 2"
16:55:04 "DEFEND Task Completed"
16:55:04 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 1"
16:55:04 "DESTROY Task Created"
16:55:04 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 2"

// Using a stored variable ID from the return of the addScriptedEventHandler function

16:59:46 "DEFEND SUBSCRIPTION ID: 0"
16:59:46 "FORTIFY SUBSCRIPTION ID: 1"
17:00:20 "DESTROY SUBSCRIPTION ID: 2"
17:00:21 "DEFEND Task Completed"
17:00:21 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 0"
17:00:21 "FORTIFY Task Completed"
17:00:21 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 1"
17:00:21 "DESTROY Task Created"
17:00:21 "Removing Scripted Handler | US_Reinf | ID: 2"

[ashen ridge]

There is any event handler for player footsteps sounds?

I want to add some sound along with the player default footstep sounds by script.

I can think on some trick ways to do it, but, i hope there is a simple way.

[warm hedge]

I forgot if it does return footsteps but there is an EH to detect an unit's sound

[ashen ridge]

Sadlly, no foot steps sound id for SoundPlayed event handler.

[warm hedge]

Then maaaaybe use EntityCreated for footstep objects? I dunno, wild thought

[gentle zenith]

Yes it's a life server, the dead players inside the vehicles are a corpse - no mods running

When my cleanup script checks for dead vehicles, I try to eject the dead bodies before deleting the vehicle, they do however not eject. This means players that die in vehicle crashes can not be revived, I do remember in the past the bodies falling out once the vehicle cleans up, not now however.

[granite sky]

Test the vanilla behaviour maybe.

If they are being deleted on vehicle deletion then you probably can't fight that, and you'd need to move them out earlier.

[edgy thunder]

Hello Everyone quick question. Im not the best coder and im a bit stuck. I have a few units with prefixes. I want to have a script only effect certain units that have said prefix. What would be the most efficient way to do that?

[granite sky]

You mean like their editor variable name?

[edgy thunder]

Yes sir

[gentle zenith]

How would I go about moving them out since the moveout command doesn't seem to have an effect on dead bodies

[fair drum]

without knowing much else than what you've asked, for editor objects

private _units = allUnits select {"prefixCaseSensitive" in vehicleVarName _x};
[_units] execVM _myScript;

[granite sky]

moveOut definitely works on corpses shortly after death.

[gentle zenith]

Oh only shortly after? Ok thanks for that 🙂

[edgy thunder]

Thank you! I will try that

[granite sky]

@gentle zenith Well, I know it works shortly after. I don't know that it doesn't work later.

[fair drum]

if you need an alternative to force out of a vehicle, check my note
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setPosASL

[tidal idol]

Am I missing something here? Units aren't turning on their lasers but the hint is going (and I had previously tried an init EH).
Statement works fine in units init-line.

        class EventHandlers: EventHandlers{
            class B47_WZ_LaserOn_EH{
                suppressed = "(_this select 0) enableIRLasers true;hint 'ir turue'";
            };
        };```

[fair drum]

if you want units to turn their lasers on when they spawn, use enableGunLights with the init EH BUT, you need to add a slight delay after the objects inits. Do like, 2 seconds, the command is finicky.

// unit's class
class EventHandlers: EventHandlers
{
  class init = "(_this select 0) spawn {sleep 2; _this enableGunLights 'ForceOn'}";
};

[tidal idol]

I've tried that init line, but it didn't work either. I'm wanting to use the IR Lasers one since then the AI should turn them on/off with the combat mode.
Current iteration

        class EventHandlers: EventHandlers{
            class B47_WZ_LaserOn_EH{
                init = "(_this select 0) spawn {sleep 2; _this enableIRLasers true;};";
            };
        };```

[pulsar pewter]

hey folks,
What might be the easiest way to get an array of all the drone classes? I'm looking for a generalized method so I can then (in a mod) assign a specific variable to each class.

--There's AFAIK no specific "Drone"/"UAV" class within CfgVehicles, but there must be a way to do it, I think, given that we do have commands such as allUnitsUAV, which selects all currently-existing UAVs in a mission. Unless it just checks all objects for "isUAV=1"
-- Is there any way to get all classes for whom the "isUAV" property has value of 1?

[granite sky]

"getNumber (_x >> 'isUAV') == 1" configClasses (configFile >> "CfgVehicles");

Well, if you want classnames then append apply { configName _x }

[pulsar pewter]

So, if I'd want to define the array, I would just:

_dronetypes = "getNumber (_x >> 'isUAV') == 1" configClasses (configFile >> "CfgVehicles") apply { configName _x }

?

and then work with that array? I've nevevr worked with configClasses before.

[fair drum]

I'd do a scope check too

[pulsar pewter]

whatdya mean?

[granite sky]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/CfgVehicles_Config_Reference#scope

Depends what you're doing with the information but if you only care about classnames that can actually be spawned then you'd exclude scope 0.

[pulsar pewter]

basically, for my mod, I have 3 CBA_Settings for people to put in classnames of drones to divide them into three categories (RUF_Commercial/RUF_HighEnd/RUF_LowEnd). However, if they don't specify a category for a certain class, I want to automatically add it to a category, as a default.
Then, for my scripts, I'll check for a specific drone, what category it's in, to then apply a certain variable value and run my script.

RUF_DroneClasses = "getNumber (_x >> 'isUAV') == 1" configClasses (configFile >> "CfgVehicles") apply { configName _x };
{
    if (_x in RUF_Commercial or _x in RUF_HighEnd or _x in RUF_LowEnd) then {continue} else {_x pushback RUF_Commercial} 

}
forEach RUF_DroneClasses;

Does that make sense, though?

And cool, yeah, I'll add a scope check. Should just be 2, I think, as it's drones actually spawnable in editor/mission.

[velvet merlin]

for some reason this is not triggering when i would expect it to be:

ctrlAddEventHandler ["Draw",

on a RscMap control created via

cutRsc ["AAS_HudDisplay","PLAIN",0];

    class MiniMap: RscMapControl
    {
        idc = AAS_IDC_HUDMINIMAP;
        x = MINIMAP_X;
        y = MINIMAP_Y;
        w = "(20/100)    * SafeZoneW";
        h = "(20/100)    * SafeZoneH";
        colorBackground[] = {0.7,0.7,0.7,1};
        sizeExLabel = MAPTXTSIZE;
        sizeExGrid = MAPTXTSIZE;
        sizeExUnits = MAPTXTSIZE;
        sizeExNames = 0.05;//MAPTXTSIZE;
        sizeExInfo = MAPTXTSIZE;
        sizeExLevel = MAPTXTSIZE;
    };```

is this due to cutRsc use?

[warm hedge]

Is the map visible? Both fade and show

[velvet merlin]

yep (bottom right)

it does refresh, work, etc

just the draw control EH does not fire

it does initially when i am in respawn dialog but then stops when i get to player control

        _x spawn
        {
            _resource = _this select 0;
            _displayIdc = _this select 1;
diag_log ["AAS_MapResources",_this];

            while {true} do
            {

                waitUntil
                {
                    sleep 0.1;

                    (!(isNull ((uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc)))
                };
diag_log ["AAS_MapResources - ctrlAddEventHandler",uiNamespace getVariable _resource,(uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc];

                ((uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc) ctrlAddEventHandler ["Draw",
                {
diag_log ["AAS_MapResources - Draw",_this];
                    [_this] call AAS_fnc_createMapMarker;
                }];

                waitUntil
                {
                    sleep 0.1;

                    (isNull ((uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc))
                };
diag_log ["AAS_MapResources - isNull",(isNull ((uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc)),uiNamespace getVariable _resource,(uiNamespace getVariable _resource) displayCtrl _displayIdc];
            };
        };
    } forEach AAS_MapResources;```

the system even has a re-add mechanic in case the control gets destroyed - but it doesnt

just draw doesnt get triggered any longer

on 2d map it all works

it does work on the hud element initially

 7:36:37 ["AAS_MapResources",["AAS_CurrentDisplay",55001]]
 7:36:37 ["AAS_MapResources - ctrlAddEventHandler",Display #1119006,Control #55001]
 7:36:37 ["AAS_MapResources - Draw",[Control #55001]]
 7:36:37 ["AAS_fnc_createMapMarker",[[Control #55001]],Control #55001]
...
 7:36:43 ["AAS_MapResources - Draw",[Control #55001]]
 7:36:43 ["AAS_fnc_createMapMarker",[[Control #55001]],Control #55001]
 7:36:43 ["AAS_fnc_createMapMarker - drawIcon",Control #55001,"\a3\ui_f\data\Map\VehicleIcons\iconManLeader_ca.paa","\a3\ui_f\data\Map\VehicleIcons\iconManLeader_ca.paa","\a3\ui_f\data\Map\VehicleIcons\iconManLeader_ca.paa",[4421.26,6476.64,56.5718],180.878,"AS (CM:5R,B:3A,SM:3F,UP:3M)"]

the only thing that would make sense to make the control/display/resources gets destroyed and recreated without the draw EH - but then above isNull should get logged 🙄

[jade acorn]

every step creates a footprint texture on the ground, since they are terrain decals maybe you can detect someone walking through checking for these decals

[runic spoke]

36307. 11:36:49 Error Foreign error: Unknown enum value: "IncomingMissile"

removeAllEventHandlers does not recognize IncomingMissle..?

[still forum]

What is the left side argument to it?
A unit or a group

[kindred tide]

attached laptops to radio tower platforms and added some actions to them. if i order a unit to use the action, he climbs up, does the thing, climbs down, no problem, and it's in A2. suddenly AI doesnt jump off the edges!

(the towers are generated by script)

[winter rose]

the point being? they jump in A2, in A3?

[kindred tide]

usually

[winter rose]

which is it, both?

[kindred tide]

i can confirm for A2 and someone just recently confirmed it here for A3

we were talking about helicopter boarding from roof

[winter rose]

how is that even remotely related?
boarding involves pathfinding around the vehicle, action requires "move → trigger action → done"

[kindred tide]

even when the door is facing in their direction and not on the opposite side?

like, when there's no need to actually go around

[winter rose]

yes

[kindred tide]

so, if that laptop was attached to the helicopter, and the helicopter was hovering near the edge of the roof, and i ordered the unit to use the action on that laptop, the unit would NOT jump off and do everything correctly?

because he's not path-planning around the vehicle (i guess)

[winter rose]

try and compare what is comparable

[kindred tide]

i mean, entering the vehicle is asking the unit to perform a "get in" action, the difference is that the action is on a moving vehicle object, and here it's on an unmovable laptop (that was placed where it is during the game, so it's not "static" like a house)

[winter rose]

don't try to use logic
use empirical evidence

[hallow mortar]

Units have specific entry points for vehicles and they will path (in quite rigid ways) to get to them.
User actions on objects don't have this and the unit will probably accept "close enough".

[winter rose]

hence the "let me walk 10m away from the car before boarding it"

[kindred tide]

does it mean that if i attach an invisible object to the helicopter, addAction a "board" action to it, that does moveInCargo to the unit who used it, it'll make them reliably board the helicopter and avoid jumping off the roof?

[winter rose]

if they don't have to move to trigger it, like this laptop addAction, yes

but you then cannot order AI to "board", you will have to order them to do an action

[kindred tide]

yeah and call it "get in (safely)"

[hallow mortar]

You can skip the action part. Order them to move to the helo's position, waitUntil they're close enough, then move them into it.

[kindred tide]

i'm doing that already with agents. they can't be ordered to get in

[drowsy geyser]

so im using this line to make sure that allUsers turn into players i.e meaning that they all fully loaded the scenario:
waitUntil {count allUsers isEqualTo count allPlayers};
but this takes alot of time, is there any faster way?

i found out that it is the "only really reliable"(for me atleast) way to make sure that all players fully loaded the scenario

[cosmic lichen]

but this takes alot of time, is there any faster way?
What do you mean by that? It would take as long as the slowest client needs to load in

What about? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getClientState

[drowsy geyser]

yes i tried this but never managed to get it to work with getClientState

[drowsy umbra]

Trying to make a scouting mission, where the map marker for the enemy target (just a default OPFOR unit marker) doesn't show up on the player's map until the player lases the target. I made a trigger that fires when the player lases the target, but how can I sync that to the map icon appearing?

I'm not trying to spawn a custom map marker or anything, just hide the unit map marker until the laser designator hits the target, and then show the unit map marker.

[hallow mortar]

A quick way would be to have the marker start with its opacity set to 0, then use setMarkerAlpha to reveal it with the trigger

Starting with no marker and creating it from the trigger would also be pretty easy, but not as easy

[drowsy umbra]

Ooh, okay. That would work too. But how can I remove the default map marker that appears when the player knows about the AI unit being there? Like the red circle with the small red triangle? (I only want to remove the default map marker for that specific unit, not all of the OPFOR guys.)

[hallow mortar]

I'm not sure that you can

Those markers are generated automatically as part of the difficulty settings. You can turn off that difficulty setting, but that will affect everything.

*and I'm not sure if you can control that difficulty setting per-mission (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170976 :U )

[fair drum]

Take a look at my MPSync mod. It's still a work in progress but its pretty solid for menu position respawn templates

[granite sky]

I think those markers work from group knowledge, so forgetTarget spam might work to block the map marker for specific units.

Not tried it though.

[runic spoke]

vehicles/objects

Actually just vehicles

Had to double check

I'd probably get that if it was a static object, but it's only vehicles. I'll see if I can find exactly the vehicle causing it, spotted this one in a couple RPT files.

[tropic parrot]

hello, im still new to arma 3 scripting and im trying to make units get in vehicle in order, i dont know if this is the right place to ask for support, this is the code im using i placed a move waypoint with the script attached to it once they reach the way point i get error order ordergetin: type object, excepted array

`_vehicle = v1
_units = [s1, s2, s3, s4];

{
_unit = _x;
_unit orderGetIn true;
sleep 1;
_unit assignAsCargo _vehicle;
} forEach _units;`

[ornate whale]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/orderGetIn
orderGetIn takes an array as input. _units orderGetIn true; And place it below the forEach. You probably want to assign the vehicle first, and then order to get in.

_units = [s1, s2, s3, s4]; 

{
    _x assignAsCargo _vehicle;
} forEach _units;

s1 assignAsDriver _vehicle;

_units orderGetIn true;```

[tropic parrot]

well as i said im still new and this is my first try at scripting in the game, so if you mean by assign the vehicle the vehicle is named v1

[ornate whale]

No problem, I am new too. 😄 _vehicle = v1 is assigning a v1 object to a variable _vehicle.

_x assignAsCargo _vehicle means to give an order to a unit _x to take the vehicle in _vehicle as his mean of transport.

And orderGetIn means to make them all get in the vehicle they have assigned.

[tropic parrot]

ohh thx for the help but i think the order did not work as no one got into the driver seat

[ornate whale]

that is because you tell them AsCargo

[tropic parrot]

oh

[ornate whale]

you would need one to be assignAsDriver

I will edit the example, see now.

[tropic parrot]

sure

Thank you again! i was able to make it work with the assignAsDriver

_vehicle = v1;
_units = [s1, s2, s3, s4];

{
s1 assignAsDriver _vehicle;
_x assignAsCargo _vehicle;
} forEach _units;

_units orderGetIn true;

[stable dune]

private _vehicle = v1;
private _units = [s1,s2,s3,s4];
{
    _unit = _x
    if (_unit = s1) then {
         _unit assignAsDriver _vehicle;
    } else {
        _unit assignAsCargo _vehicle;
    };
} forEach _units;

Currently you are assigning s1 four times to the driver.

[south swan]

(and once as cargo :D)

[winter rose]

also assing

[fair drum]

private _vehicle = v1;
private _units = [s1,s2,s3,s4];

for "_i" from 0 to (count _units - 1) do {
    private _unit = _units select _i;
    if (_i == 0) then {
        _unit assignAsDriver _vehicle;
        continue;
    };

    _unit assignAsCargo _vehicle;
};

[tropic parrot]

Thanks everyone for the help!!

[tulip ridge]

Can you get the name of a script that called a given function?

// someCode.sqf
call fn_whatsMyName;

// fn_whatsMyName.sqf
systemChat "Your name is: " + <someCode.sqf>

[fair drum]

When you spawn a script via spawn or execVM, you get a handle as a return. That handle contains the script "name" which can also be assigned internally using scriptName. Are you wanting just that? Or the whole file path?

myScriptName = [] spawn {
    scriptName "Awooogahhhh";
    systemChat str myScriptName; // System: Awooogahhhh
};

[tulip ridge]

Just the filename itself, but does that work "out of the box" or do I have to specify a scriptName at the top of every single one of my functions?

Basically what I'm wanting is to pass the name of the file calling fn_whatsMyName, without having to specifically pass it every time

If the use-case seems a little odd, I wanted to make a logging function so I'm not just using systemChat everywhere, and I wanted to include what code is calling it.

// fn_someCode.sqf
"doing X" call TAG_fnc_devLog;
...
"doing Y" call TAG_fnc_devLog;
...
// etc.

Output (systemChat and diagLog):

[HH:MM:SS] [TAG_fnc_someCode] doing X
[HH:MM:SS] [TAG_fnc_someCode] doing Y
...

The full TAG_fnc_someCode is optional, it could just be someCode

[hallow mortar]

There doesn't seem to be anything that does this automatically. There's allegedly this magic variable: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Magic_Variables#fnc_scriptNameParent but it doesn't appear to be autogenerated.
You can try to use scriptName to do it, or you can write it in your message string manually every time, or you can do something like this for a set-once-per-file thing:

// at top of file
private _functionName = "TAG_fnc_someCode";
// log call
[_functionName, "doing X"] call TAG_fnc_devLog;
// in devlog
params ["_functionName","_string"];
private _text = format ["[%1] [%2] [%3]", _time, _functionName, _string];```

[little raptor]

well if you use CfgFunctions it is (which is what anyone should use anyway)

[tulip ridge]

Yep _fnc_scriptNameParent did exactly what I wanted 👍

[ornate whale]

I will add this event handler to every AI unit upon initialization. How can I create more variables of isRunning, so every AI has its own and at the same time it would be accessible in the eventHandler? I need it for the code to not be launched in less than 0.8 sec intervals. Should I make an array for it? Also can I pass additional arguments to the eventHandler?

isRunning = false;
group _unit addEventHandler ["KnowsAboutChanged", {
    params ["_group", "_targetUnit", "_newKnowsAbout", "_oldKnowsAbout"];
    if ((_targetUnit == player) && (isRunning == false)) then {
        isRunning = true;
        systemChat (str _targetUnit + "  detected by  " + str _group + "  at  " + str time);
        [_group] spawn {
            params ["_group"];
            sleep 0.8;
            _group forgetTarget player;
            isRunning = false;
        };
    };
}];```

[granite sky]

Set a variable on the group?

[ornate whale]

like private _isRunning in the group init for example?

[granite sky]

No, like _group setVariable ["isRunning", false]

Also usually you wanna toggle between true & nil to save having to initialize the vars.

In this case you're adding an EH to the group anyway so it doesn't make much difference.

[ornate whale]

Like this? setVariable and getVariable?

group _unit setVariable ["isRunning", false];
group _unit addEventHandler ["KnowsAboutChanged", {
    params ["_group", "_targetUnit", "_newKnowsAbout", "_oldKnowsAbout"];
    if ((_targetUnit isKindOf "Man") && ((_group getVariable "isRunning") == false)) then {
        _group setVariable ["isRunning",true];
        systemChat (str _targetUnit + "  detected by  " + str _group + "  at  " + str time);
        [_group] spawn {
            params ["_group"];
            sleep 0.8;
            _group forgetTarget player;
            _group setVariable ["isRunning",false];
        };
    };
}];```

[granite sky]

looks correct, yes

[ornate whale]

How can I check for nil instead

isNil

[granite sky]

Either that or use the getVariable version with the default

isNil { _group getVariable "isRunning" } or _group getVariable ["isRunning", false]

[ornate whale]

When I use the parameter true for making the var. public. That means that the name would not be usable anywhere else out of the group namespace?

[granite sky]

You definitely shouldn't do that here, because you're using it strictly locally.

If you use the public parameter then that var on the group will just be published to every client.

It's still a var on the group though.

[ornate whale]

Hmm, if I made this multiplayer, would it be necessary to publish it or not? Event handler should happen on the server, so private I suppose.

[granite sky]

Normally event handlers run on the machine they're installed on.

Note that this stuff gets tricky if you want to support headless clients, especially mods that auto-balance.

but otherwise you're probably creating the units on the server, that's where they stay, and that's where their event handlers run.

[exotic flame]

I have a question. Why does Arma 3 freezes for few seconds when you use an call a DLL which takes times to execute in RemoteExec environment ? Is it specific to the editor or will it do the same on a dedicated server ? I mean RemoteExec is supposed to be asynchronous, so why does the game freezes like i was calling the DLL in synchronous environment ?

[winter rose]

the dll call is synchronous process-wise

remoteExec may be scheduled, but it will not be parallel

[exotic flame]

This needs to be changed. We need the possibility to decide to execute a DLL synchronously or not. Executing a DLL asynchronously when you're connecting to a distant server is mandatory.

[granite sky]

lol

Just do your async on the extension side.

[exotic flame]

If i execute the code asynchronously on the extension sie, the dll execution will finish before my asynchronous process is finished. How will the game read the answer ?

[granite sky]

I guess it'd have to ask for it.

[exotic flame]

My DLL is meant fo dedicated servers, i'll gve it a try a server i'll create and i'll test the DLL. If the server doesn't lag it will be fine

[kindred zephyr]

can a display be used to generate video feed from a camera?

I understand the concept of procedural texture for pojection on surfaces, but its not clear to me whenever i can actually project to a display control.

[exotic flame]

maybe using a picture type control, and passing it the render value of your camera

[kindred zephyr]

how would that even be?

_Picturecontrol ctrlSetText (_Picturecontrol setObjectTexture[_data]);
```?

[exotic flame]

that's it, for example:
_control setText #(argb,512,512,1)r2t(rtt,1.0)
I don't remember where, but there is a page on the wiki that tell you how to get the rtt of a camera

it's exactly the sme as if you wanted to display the camera video feed on the texture of an object, you need to get the rtt of the feed

Render To Texture

[kindred zephyr]

so the text can actually be fed directly?
That where I had doubts, i assumed it needed to "be set" as a texture too

[exotic flame]

you can display the r2t (Render To Texture) on any object texture. The picture control is working exactly as an object texture so you should be able to pass the r2t of the camera to the picturebox using ctrlSetText

[kindred zephyr]

thanks, i shall test then

[exotic flame]

Just found a solution. The game freezes because my DLL loops until an answer is received. I can loop with the game scripts instead of the DLL but an asynchonous DLL call would really be welcomed. Not all probems can be fixed that way

[drowsy umbra]

Yup. See below:

https://youtu.be/1R561BtbeVo

https://youtu.be/SUJE47g1syk

[oak island]

Is there a simple respawn script useful for one-life operations where I want a backup way to respawn people who occasionally die to glitches, disconnect, etc?

[jade acorn]

so while playing a mission with dbo_horses I noticed that sometimes it can bug out in a way that camera is stuck to one entity while you still have control over the other. I tried different UAV-related functions and camCreate stuff but couldn't achieve this, any ideas how to replicate this bug? Ngl this opens a way for some Resident Evil-like stuff lol 😄

Super Miller Land does not use that while effect is pretty much the same but that would involve much more scripting than I would love to do.

[distant egret]

When controlling the horse and going into Zeus I got stuck when going back to my player. Could only shoot.

Also when you get shot (and unconscious) while riding you get bugged (only tried with ACE).

[kindred tide]

does "search and destroy" waypoint ever reach a finished state by itself or it requires skipping from script

[still forum]

Vehicle/Unit works fine for me.
It would be different if you run it on a projectile, in which case that would remove Ammo events.

[limber thunder]

Hello guys maybe someone can show me how to run a scirpt for a few seconds and then stop it.
I want to execute a script for a certain time and then I want it to stop again. I have already tried a bit with the terminate function but somehow the script still runs. How do I get the script to terminate after a few seconds?

This is in my trigger:
null = [] spawn {myHandle = [] execVM "script1.sqf"; sleep 4; terminate myHandle;};

and this is the sqf file:
playMusic ["RadioAmbient5", 1];
When i found out how to edit a small script i want to insert a bigger script instead of the playMusic. In the Arma wiki I have already seen that you can end the music simply with playMusic ""; but I want that really the script is ended.
I hope this is somewhat understandable what I mean ^^

[warm hedge]

Why stopping the music doesn't work? What do you mean by end the script?

[fair drum]

On it's own. It's just very thorough.

[fair drum]

Depends on your setup. Is it one life, no respawn point? Is it respawn points but no respawn tickets? Etc

[kindred tide]

it says in biki that if the group is in a chopper, its search area will be bigger. but what if at the moment the waypoint became current, the group was in a chopper, but since then was unloaded from it, while the waypoint remained current

[fair drum]

Like the group is separate from the choppers pilots' group? Lands and gets out?

[kindred tide]

yes

[fair drum]

It should function as normal.

[kindred tide]

as if they were on foot?

[fair drum]

Had exact scenario multiple times last night. Yep as on foot.

[willow hound]

What you are doing right now doesn't make sense. Using sleep and terminate like that would only make sense if script1.sqf contained code that can run for (more than) four seconds (e.g. waitUntil, another sleep or an endless loop).
As it stands, script1.sqf only contains playMusic, and that command is non-blocking: It instantly completes once it has started the music, it does not wait for the music to finish. Scripts terminate automatically once their last command has been executed, so by the time you reach terminate myHandle, the script that myHandle refers to has long been terminated automatically.

A proper solution would be running [] execVM "script1.sqf" in the trigger and moving sleep into the script:

playMusic ["RadioAmbient5", 1];
sleep 4;
playMusic "";
```That way, the music stops after four seconds. As explained above, the script terminates automatically once the last line has been executed.

[limber thunder]

my big goal is to build a script that marks players for a certain time on the map. For this I have thought that the script is executed for a certain Zwit and then terminated again. The music is just to test how I can start and stop the "script".

[warm hedge]

One thing you misunderstood is, end of a script is when the script executes the last line of it

[limber thunder]

Okay that makes sense why the music doesn't stop when I exit the script. I found a script that marks players on the map. But this should only happen for a few seconds.
So I thought about terminating the script after par seconds. Is terminate the right command for this?

[warm hedge]

Actually, that would more and more knowledge and time to explain what to start

[limber thunder]

is there no easy way to stop and restart a script that runs in the background?
To mark the players I would have used the
Dynamic Player Markers Script
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/147033-dynamic-player-markers/

[kindred zephyr]

using waitUntil you can halt a script, but what you want has to be a bit more complex as POLPOX mentioned.

The stop will only prevent script progression/looping, you need a framework (function chain) that starts and shows whatever you want to do during your time period, and then halts/terminate and hide whatever you want to until required again.

You just have to make sure that there is an actual way to "turn on and turn off" what ever you are doing.

[limber thunder]

okay thanks for the help, I will try my best

[granite sky]

Yeah, it has a timeout if no targets are spotted.

[tulip ridge]

I have a custom "Pick Up" action to remove an object and put an item into a player's inventory, but I put in a check to make sure the player actually has space.

This is all working as intended, but when the player tries to pick up the object from the ground holder, the item is completely deleted.
If the player open the inventory of the ground holder and tries to move it to their inventory, the item seems to have completely different properties.

1. The item does not stack with other items of the same type
2. The item has a seemingly completely different mass

• It can be fit into the inventory even though canAdd returns false and does not seem to increase the inventory slot's bar for "how full" it is

3. The custom action I have tied to the item does not appear if the glitched item is present
4. When doing backpackItems player, it returns an array of the four items, with the same class name

if (_unit canAdd _itemClass) then
{
    _unit addItem _itemClass;
}
else
{
    cutText ["Not enough space to pick up.", "PLAIN DOWN"];
    private _holder = "groundWeaponHolder" createVehicle [0, 0, 0];
    _holder setPosASL getPosASL _object;
    _holder setDir floor (random 360);

    _holder addWeaponCargoGlobal [_itemClass, 1];
};
deleteVehicle _object;

[granite sky]

Is this item actually a weapon then?

[tulip ridge]

It's a CBA_MiscItem

[kindred zephyr]

^ some items are locked to where they can actually go into your inventory, canAdd returns false if by config they cannot be put in specific inventories even if they can be fit in mass standards

[tulip ridge]

It's set to go any of the "normal" inventories
(Uniform, vest, backpack)

[tulip ridge]

I did just see that there's an item cargo command, it might be because of that

[kindred zephyr]

regarding point 4, its a bit inconsistent in between commands and what type of classname you are trying to check if it returns the items as separated indeces in inventory arrays or if they stack in a subarray, this can be commonly see with mags and mags with count of 1, like granades

[kindred zephyr]

I might be wrong about this one, but canAdd check in numerical order of the inventory type and evaluates if you can add the item to the first found inventory when you use a unit as the object to check the space within. You might want to specify the containers in the player to which you are trying to check,
alternatively, you also have the canAdd version of the command for each inventory type in a unit

[manic sigil]

Thought experiment.

I'm tinkering with gathering data on the fuel economy of the vanilla vehicles, and have a script that handles it pretty satisfactorily. However, it's just in straight lines. As long as I'm going to be going down the entire list of every vehicle, I may as well collect all the useful information I can.

Is there a practical way of measuring a vehicles turning radius? Assuming a perfectly flat plane (the VR terrain).

My thought so far is a triggered script; you start the vehicle and get it into a consistent turn at the speed you want, no eccentricity. Then when you start the script, it places markers along your trail at regular intervals until you have a complete circle, then check their distance against each other sorting for the longest distance, and half that for the radius.

Hrn... easier still to just waitUntil direction is 90 and 180 from starting direction.

[granite sky]

...yes

[tulip ridge]

Yeah but that still doesn't explain why the item seems to be "in limbo". Arma doesn't seem to fully recognize it (or at least ACE doesn't, since that's how I'm doing my action / checking if the player has the item), since I don't get the action I have tied to it

How do you open / what program do you need to open a .mdmp file?

[sullen sigil]

bi only tool

[tulip ridge]

As in like BI employees?
Seems odd because my game crashed when I was testing something and was going to loop at the rpt to see what happened, all it said was that it made a minidump

[granite sky]

yeah normal

You need the symbols to get much out of it, and only BI have those. Dedmen does like checking the minidumps sometimes.

[sullen sigil]

yes game crashes produce mdmp which bi use to diagnose the crash reason

[tulip ridge]

Yeah but I mean, why not have it in the tools?

[granite sky]

Uh, the tool is just windbg.

Commercial software never gives you the symbol files because it makes it too easy to reverse-engineer.

At minimum it tells you when each function starts and ends, and what they're called.

[tulip ridge]

Gotcha

[granite sky]

You can throw it at windbg yourself, but if the crash happened in Arma rather than a windows DLL it won't tell you much more than that.

Did you try addItemCargoGlobal btw?

[tulip ridge]

Yeah I was trying to test that now

Only other change I've made is putting my script into a cba progress bar
Realized I had a variable called _time, which I thought might have been causing the issue, but the crash still happens

The script works if I test it in the console, but not when running it normally (i.e. actually using the action)

[granite sky]

You have a replicable crash?

[tulip ridge]

That was the issue, works fine withaddItemCargoGlobal

[tulip ridge]

Yep, every time I try to use the ace action on the object to pick it up, I CTD; however, using the exact same script in the debug console works fine

[granite sky]

how long is it?

[tulip ridge]

The progess bar or what?

[granite sky]

The minimum crash code :P

[granite sky]

Nah, I mean the minimum SQF required to cause the crash.

[tulip ridge]

Not sure, I'd have to do some testing and removing bits at a time

This is the whole script though (minus some documentation I put at the top)

// Rough length of the "PutDown" animation
#define PUT_DOWN_ANIM_TIME 0.925
#define PROP(PATH, DEFVALUE, DATATYPE) [PATH, DEFVALUE, DATATYPE] call BNAKC_fnc_getConfigProperty
params ["_unit", "_object"];

if !(isText (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf _object >> "BNA_KC_Deployable_item")) exitWith
{
    format ["%1 is not set up properly for BNAKC deployables", _object] call BNAKC_fnc_devLog;
};

private _objectClass = typeOf _object;
private _name = PROP((configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _objectClass >> "displayName"), "item", "text");
private _itemClass = PROP((configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _objectClass >> "BNA_KC_Deployable_item"), "", "text");
private _pickupTime = PROP((configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _objectClass >> "BNA_KC_Deployable_placeTime"), PUT_DOWN_ANIM_TIME, "number");

[
    format ["Picking up %1...", _name],
    _pickupTime,
    {
        // Condition
        _this#0 params ["_unit", "_object", "_itemClass"];
        lifeState _unit != "INCAPACITATED" and // True if unit is uncon
        alive _unit and                        // True if unit is alive
        [_unit] call ace_common_fnc_isAwake    // True if unit is not dead and not unconcious
    },
    {
        // On Success
        _this#0 params ["_unit", "_object", "_itemClass"];
        _unit playAction "PutDown";

        // Check if the player has enough space to store the item, if not, drop it on the ground
        if (_unit canAdd _itemClass) then
        {
            _unit addItem _itemClass;
        }
        else
        {
            cutText ["Not enough space to pick up.", "PLAIN DOWN"];
            private _holder = "groundWeaponHolder" createVehicle [0, 0, 0];
            _holder setPosASL getPosASL _object;
            _holder setDir floor (random 360);

            _holder addItemCargoGlobal [_itemClass, 1];
        };
        deleteVehicle _object;
    },
    {
        // On Failure
    },
    [_unit, _object, _itemClass]
] call CBA_fnc_progressBar;

And this is the ACE Action on the object:

class PickUp
{
    displayName = "Pick up FX-7";
    icon = "\swlb_core\data\insignia\medical.paa";

    selection = "interaction_point";
    distance = 5;

    condition = "true";
    statement = "[_player, _target] call BNAKC_fnc_deployablePickup;";
};

[granite sky]

Does it crash when the progress bar starts or when it ends?

[tulip ridge]

Starts, as soon I let go of windows key to use the action, I CTD

[tulip ridge]

Reverted my changes, redid the Weapon to Item change, and removed an extra deleteVehicle, both of those worked fine.

[tulip ridge]

Any cba progress bar

[
    "Picking up",
    5,
    {
        // Condition
        true
    },
    {
        hint "completed"
    },
    {
        hint "aborted"
    },
    [_unit, _object]
] call CBA_fnc_progressBar;

This is an example from the CBA Wiki (other than the comment and title change), and causes me to CTD

[granite sky]

You removed all the code before that?

The config lookups and the devLog call

[tulip ridge]

Yep

Just tried removing the arguments part from the progess bar as well, still CTD

It's just the params and progress bar

params ["_unit", "_object"];
[
    "Picking up",
    5,
    {
        // Condition
        true
    },
    {
        hint "completed"
    },
    {
        hint "aborted"
    }
] call CBA_fnc_progressBar;

An ACE progress bar works perfectly fine, no issue whatsoever

[5, [], {Hint "Finished!"}, {hint "Failure!"}, "My Title"] call ace_common_fnc_progressBar

[tulip ridge]

Asked about it in the #976228110078992456 message channel in the ACE server, Dedmen took a look at it.

Apparently CBA's KeyUp crashed

[granite sky]

CBA progress bar has a lot of horrible stuff intended for input blocking. Probably related.

[hallow mortar]

Does it crash if you use a key other than the Windows key? I'm pretty sure Windows doesn't like it when you try to block or otherwise hijack Winkey input

[sullen sigil]

is fn a required prefix for sqf files if you already state their file in the cfgfunctions declaration?

trying to make the vscode header extension i use autocomplete the function name in the example but fn vs fnc is causing me problems

[granite sky]

Nah, fn_ is just the prefix it adds if you don't specify a file path for that function.

[sullen sigil]

that is truly epic

now i just need to figure out how to make my macro extension work in .sqf files

doesnt help that i dont actually know which extension is doing macros

[tulip ridge]

Only ever got a crash when using an ACE interact, tried using other keys with a normal addAction (including the windows key) but no crash.

[still forum]

Windows doesn't care

[sullen sigil]

is anyone aware of a method of letting players that are not part of a unit's group to hear its voice lines over radio (without just adding the player to their group)

e.g if theres an opfor squad i want to be able to listen to that squads radio transmissions while still being blufor

[fleet sand]

With vanilla radio channels like direct group side i dont think there is a way to do that.
Myb if you scripted a custom radio channel myb.
Your best bet would be to use TFAR or ACER and just find the frequency of the radio channel.

[vapid scarab]

are you talking about the direction call outs that AI make or player voip?
if players, are you talking vanilla radio channels or acre/tfar?

here is how you add a voip radio channel in vanilla arma. The AI side chat callouts are a mystery to me. I always have that disabled in my missions
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/radioChannelAdd

[sullen sigil]

the ones ai make

shouldve clarified ai in my message mb

[oak island]

No respawn point version.

[vapid scarab]

how would I got about getting all item class names from a single mod?

Im making a limited arsenal and I need a list of of kat medical items

[fair drum]

unfortunately, you are looking at creating a debug respawn and deleting it. you can assign the respawn to a single player if needed

[fair drum]

what is KAT's tag?

"KAT_someitemhere"?

[oak island]

Okay. Good to know. Thank you

I’ll just try to work out something else

[vapid scarab]

KAT_...

[fair drum]

grab the unit, create the respawn, save the return, create a respawn event handler, delete the respawn in that handler, all locally

@oak island

[fair drum]

private _items = toString {
    "KAT" in configName _x
    &&
    {(getNumber (_x >> "scope")) >= 2}
} configClasses (configFile >> "CfgWeapons");
_items = _items apply {configName _x};

something like this

may need additional filtering depending on other mods

[untold copper]

Heads up.
There is at least one kat_ classname that is in CfgMagazines; kat_painkiller(s).

[untold copper]

There is a classname list on their GitHub but it's not an exhaustive list.
https://github.com/KAT-Advanced-Medical/KAM/wiki/Classnames

[vapid scarab]

so all items are stored in CfgWeapons?

I got it working for the most part. Threw in a toLower for configName. Had to do some manual filtering, but it got me what I want.

thank you!

[untold copper]

No. Not all items.
kat_Painkiller is configured as a magazine so it can contain 10 pills in the box.

[vapid scarab]

excepts exist then....

[untold copper]

Change CfgWeapons to CfgMagazines to return the magazine in KAT.
Edit: Should work... I don't want to start Arma this late in the day. 🙈

[vapid scarab]

Thanks! dont worry about it.

[agile pumice]

Anyone make any ChatGPT hooks yet?

[fair drum]

chat gpt is poo poo for sqf. its too obscure

or did you mean an extension for use inside of arma 3 lol

[grizzled cliff]

One of the largest systems in ACRE is getting around this limitation.

It ain't easy.

also SQF is fine for large projects if you know how to organize and manager your code.

as far as code execution goes

ACRE and ACE almost entirely run inbetween frames

again it just depends on what you are doing and how often you are doing things

[jade acorn]

is there a getter or any function to check if squad that has reached a waypoint is there in a formation? By default waypoint will continue once the squad leader is near it and he will not wait for any of his team members. I set a timed delay but this is either too long or too short depending on how AI decides to navigate during their movement. I thought of delaying the waypoint completion until whole squad is standing in a formation but I'm a bit stuck rn

[kindred tide]

perhaps check unitReady on every unit in group?

[manic sigil]

Is there an easier way of detecting if Shift or Ctrl are being held down, other than setting up an OnKeyDown EH?

[winter rose]

afaik, no

[manic sigil]

Blast. I can probably get it to work as planned, but just feels messy xD

[ornate whale]

Can I use breakOut like here to jump out of a function?

fn_myFunc.sqf:
scopeName "fnc";
params ["_group", "_targetUnit", "_newKnowsAbout", "_oldKnowsAbout"];
_group setVariable ["isForgetRunning",true];
if (_newKnowsAbout < _oldKnowsAbout) then {breakOut "fnc"};
...```

[granite haven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/exitWith this might be better for your use

if (_newKnowsAbout < _oldKnowsAbout) exitWith {};

[ornate whale]

What is the correct way of storing some info about players (their in-game characters) in an array in MP? Should I use the player object as an index or some other identificator?

So I can find the corresponding value, whenever I have to deal with a player. And once the player dies or something, the corresponding value would loose its relevance. So then I would probably need to erase that specific column.

[agile pumice]

yes

Would I need to be using http://intercept.github.io ? or something similar?

[granite haven]

you can do:

player setVariable ["testVar", "Value"];

and then in onPlayerRespawn where it should have _oldUnit as param iirc:

_oldUnit setVariable ["testVar", nil];

and if you want to now give the player a new starting value just put under the last line in onPlayerRespawn:

_newUnit setVariable ["testVar", "Value"];

[little raptor]

You can, but it's only sensible if you're more than 1 scope deep
If you're still in the main scope use exitWith as MrThomasM said

[ornate whale]

I think I need to use an array for this, because I need every AI unit to have its own "sheet" of existing players and those values. But I am not sure how to identify those players.

[grizzled cliff]

In general they care more about their code than your end-user performance/FPS.

lol... well caring about the code getting what needs to be done done is kind of important

but most, i'd say 99% of SQF coders are fucking idiots.

and i say that in the most caring way possible

[granite haven]

you can change "Value" to [] and then you have an array value

[grizzled cliff]

seriously, the amount of times ive seen simple things like code being copied and pasted line after line instead of using a loop

or other incredibly simple inefficiences

[ornate whale]

I have set up this code to test it out. It works, but I am not sure what to use instead of the "player" keyword for MP. The array will be stored on the AI's side, not the player's though.

...
private _findTargetUnit = (_group getVariable "myArray") findIf {(_x select 0) == _targetUnit};
systemChat (str _findTargetUnit);
...```
Maybe some network ID.

[granite haven]

what i like to use to reference player units across clients etc is store there uid and then retrieve the player by using the getUnitByUID function.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_getUnitByUID and https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getPlayerUID

so get uid and store with getPlayerUID and retrieve from the array with getUnitByUID

[ornate whale]

Thanks will try it out.

[sullen sigil]

is there any way of getting all holster proxies present on the player's model?

purpose is using attachto to put pistol in holster proxy

[little raptor]

Does player selectionNames "memory" select {"proxy:" in _x} give them to you?

[sullen sigil]

i do believe so, thanks 🙂 ["proxy:\a3\characters_f\proxies\binoculars.001","proxy:\a3\characters_f\proxies\pistol.001","proxy:\a3\characters_f\proxies\launcher.001","proxy:\a3\characters_f\proxies\weapon.001"]

[little raptor]

No those are weapon proxies

[sullen sigil]

oh, duh

was wondering what a binoculars holster proxy was 🙃

[little raptor]

I think the proxy is on uniform?

Dunno where it's defined

[sullen sigil]

though, speaking of -- would i be able to attach with the same rotation as well? i cant think of any commands that'd let you get that rotation

holster proxy is on vest

[south swan]

inb4 holster proxies on the facewear

[little raptor]

It probably does work if it's defined in the memory LOD of player model (which seems it's not) but it could be off visually

[sullen sigil]

searching through vestcontainer doesnt help either

[little raptor]

It's a dummy container afaik

Not the actual "vest"

[sullen sigil]

ya

[little raptor]

What does "getModelInfo" return on it?

[sullen sigil]

on the vestcontainer?

[little raptor]

Yes

[sullen sigil]

["dummyweapon.p3d","a3\weapons_f\dummyweapon.p3d",false,[0,0,-0.661233]]

so yeah just dummy

[little raptor]

Try creating the actual model

[sullen sigil]

invisible and no collisions

[little raptor]

And then

_vest selectionNames "memory" select {"proxies\pistol_holstered" in _x}

[little raptor]

Wut?

What did you create?

[sullen sigil]

the dummy one

[little raptor]

I said create the actual model

[sullen sigil]

getmodelinfo vest player doesn't work

[little raptor]

You get it from config

Not getModelInfo because it's a dummy

[sullen sigil]

oh ofc

private _info = getText (configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> vest player >> "model");
private _vest = createSimpleObject [_info, getPosASL player, false];
_vest selectionNames "memory" select {"proxies\pistol_holstered” in _x}```right? ![meowsweats](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/707626030613135390.webp?size=128 "meowsweats")

[little raptor]

I guess

[sullen sigil]

does nothing

[little raptor]

Does it create the vest?

[sullen sigil]

nope

[little raptor]

Then check the config manually

[sullen sigil]

but path is being returned

and is correct

[little raptor]

Is _vest null?

[sullen sigil]

removing last line makes it create

[little raptor]

That code has errors tho

Copy it again

[sullen sigil]

private _info = getText (configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> vest player >> "model");
private _vest = createSimpleObject [_info, getPosASL player, false];
(_vest selectionNames "memory") select {"proxies\pistol_holstered”in _x}

ffs

that quote mark

returns empty array btw

[kindred tide]

what if you put vest player in ()

(vest player)

[sullen sigil]

its creating the model just fine now

[tough abyss]

Guys im just downloaded 2035 russia mod now but i cant see anything in editor

[sullen sigil]

just returning empty array

[tough abyss]

HELP ME PLEASE

[tough abyss]

Help me pls

[little raptor]

This isn't troubleshooting channel. Ask in #arma3_troubleshooting

[tough abyss]

Idk im new

Can you help

[little raptor]

Ask there

[tough abyss]

Ok

[kindred tide]

(i still cant get used to the order of precedence being the way it is and put everything in braces just in case)

[little raptor]

What about just selectionNames?

[little raptor]

Nular > unary > binary

[sullen sigil]

"proxy:\a3\characters_f\proxies\pistol_holstered.001", could be it?

[little raptor]

Binaries have different ones

[little raptor]

Yes

[sullen sigil]

what if there's more than one proxy?

[little raptor]

But why didn't what I said work?

Oh because of memory ofc

[sullen sigil]

does it just increase in .002, .003 etc

[little raptor]

There can only be 1

[sullen sigil]

ive seen vests with multiple pistols when holstered tho

in part of the model cfg -- not scripted

[south swan]

but last time i've seen that - all the proxies showed copies of a single sidearm

[sullen sigil]

ya they did

i just want to add support for multiple for the sake of it

and/or not having it randomly break

[little raptor]

In that case yes

[sullen sigil]

epic thx

next question, how would i make it have the correct rotation when attached?

[little raptor]

That could be tricky

AttachTo won't work

[sullen sigil]

ah

that isnt too great

[little raptor]

So what you could do is first find the offset of the proxy in vest model

Then apply the offset to the left leg bone of the player model maybe or right leg? Dunno

[south swan]

operation "rewrite parts of engine in SQF"

[sullen sigil]

I could just have the pistols swap so the one just "not in use" would go to the small of the back/wherever is configured rather than try bodge together a holster part

Feels like it'd probably be best (and look least shit, can just check holster scale for if it should appear or not)

[kindred tide]

render 1x1 px rectangles on screen to fully cover it and write your own render in sqf

to update the graphics in ofp

run a "thread" for each pixel in scheduled

[south swan]

and call it "scheiders"

[sullen sigil]

now i need to find where on earth webknight does his definitions for melee holsters so i can use those for melee weapons except he doesnt use cfgfunctions

lord have mercy

[queen cargo]

Did somebody say SQF-VM?

I feel like I have been summoned

[agile pumice]

If somebody's written an intercept plugin with VS Code before, could you send me a DM, I'm getting a lot of declaration has no storage class or type specifier errors

[kindred tide]

what'd you emulate in it

[queen cargo]

Emulate? You mean running sqf outside of the game? 😏

[kindred tide]

in game

engine inside the engine

[south swan]

inb4 SQF-VM-as-an-extension

[queen cargo]

SQF-VM is an existing project to run sqf outside of arma

[kindred tide]

does it replicate how the engine works or just sqf for sqf in isolation from the actual game

or arma's engine has an api that can be used externally

[queen cargo]

https://github.com/SQFvm/runtime

[ornate whale]

How do you make the code colorful? 😄

[sullen sigil]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[sullen sigil]

like that

[queen cargo]

```sqf
code
```

[ornate whale]

hint "Thank you!";

[ornate whale]

Can I pass additional arguments to an evenHandler?

[sullen sigil]

missioneventhandler, yes. regular eventhandler, no

[still forum]

regular eventhandler yes via detours

[ornate whale]

What is that?

[still forum]

other eventhandlers usually have some object

and objects can have variables on them

[sullen sigil]

basically just setting variables in the namespace

e.g

private _mydata = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,69];
_myUnit setVariable ["RC_EH_Data", _mydata, true];
//later on, inside EH
_unit getVariable ["RC_EH_Data",[]];```

[ornate whale]

How can I get to deeper levels of an array with set command, when the array has more dimensions?

_myArray set [[0,1], myValue]; //Like this?

[still forum]

(_myArray select 0) set [1, myValue]

[ornate whale]

OK, thanks.

[ornate whale]

This gonna be more tricky I think, how to do that when I need t o use get and setVariable? 😄

[still forum]

show pseudo code example thing

don't know what u mean

how is a variable nested

[ornate whale]

_group setVariable ["targetArray", value] //at [indexVariable,1] index

[still forum]

_myArray  = _group getVariable "targetArray";
(_myArray select 0) set [1, myValue]

[ornate whale]

OK, thats easy, I thought that getVariable gets you only the value not the variable itself.

Thanks.

[still forum]

That's correct

It gets you the value, not the variable itself

and values are by reference.
The variable points to the value, and you can edit the value in-place with the set command

[sullen sigil]

private _mydata = [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6], [7,69]];
_myUnit setVariable ["RC_EH_Data", _mydata, true];
//later on, inside EH
private _thedata = _unit getVariable ["RC_EH_Data",[]]; //returns [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6], [7,69]]
_thedata#0; //[1,2]
_thedata#1; //[3,4]

going by my example from earlier

[granite sky]

That doesn't work as intended (probably) because you're publishing the variable.

oh wait

never mind

[sullen sigil]

using select instead of # should be a crime

[granite sky]

So yeah, if you need to publish the variable over the network for some reason then you need to use setVariable. Otherwise modifying the array is sufficient.

[ornate whale]

Like this?

(_targetArray#_targetUnitIndex) set [1, true];

[ornate whale]

But what if I needed to do that over the network like u said?

[granite sky]

Then you have to use setVariable.

private _array = _myUnit getVariable "myArray";
_array set [1, true];
// array is now updated on this machine
_myUnit setVariable ["myArray", _array, true];
// array is now updated everywhere

[ornate whale]

Aha, I need to overwrite the whole variable, now I get it.

Since my script is going to happen in the event hanler of an AI unit, I probably don't need to worry about distributing those vars, but I probably would if those, AIs were headless clients, I suppose.

[granite sky]

Nah, you have a lot more to worry about if you want to support headless clients.

spamming arrays over the network in case it might help for poorly-understood reasons is not the correct approach :P

[ornate whale]

Is there any material on headless clients? Not that I need them now, but I would like to learn something about it.

[granite sky]

From an SQF perspective they are nearly the same as a client without a player or UI.

[queen cargo]

select is much more readable in most cases

so no, select should be used over # where possible

[sullen sigil]

more letters

[queen cargo]

more readable

[south swan]

more better

[ornate whale]

I think that select is much more self-explanatory for newbies.

[sullen sigil]

_arr#0 is much quicker to write than _arr select 0

[south swan]

you write code once, you read it many times

[queen cargo]

leaving this here

a benefit now is not worth as a benefit long-term

sure, now you save a second here not writing select

tomorrow, when reading that code tho, you will have a harder time

[south swan]

extra 5 seconds spent understanding a written code are unlikely to be covered by 5 microsecond performance benefit unless the code is run more than a million times before getting changes once

[little raptor]

imo in terms of reading there's no difference between # and select, if you use syntax highlighting

so code maintenance is irrelevant

in fact I'd argue # makes things more readable in cases where you should chain stuff:

_arr#0#0

vs

_arr select 0 select 0

unless you want to be weird/inefficient and delcare a variable for each select

[queen cargo]

you already can see the issue in this very comparison

_arr#0123#41515#155#15151

how many selects do i have in here

vs

[little raptor]

syntax highlighting makes it readable

[queen cargo]

_arr select 0123 select 41515 select 155 select 15151

[south swan]

you have "your data organization is kinda stupid" many selects 🙃

[sullen sigil]

_arr#0123#41515#155#15151
_arr select 0123 select 41515 select 155 select 15151

one takes up more horizontal space 🤷

[south swan]

and nothing really prevents you from going _arr # 0123 # 41515 # 155 # 15151

[queen cargo]

your brain still has to cope for it
we are not made to read text like that
wchi is the rseoan you can raed tihs txet wohitut any pobrelms

[sullen sigil]

i can only read that with many problems

and i use minecraft font for vscode

[south swan]

yaay, holywar of a styling kind

[sullen sigil]

try read this 🙂

i love indentation

i love macros

and i love incorrect linters

[queen cargo]

[sullen sigil]

worst part is that using it like this has meant ive written one mod in 10 hours most of which was spent trying to make it compatible with webknights stuff

as opposed to it taking me like 5 days

[queen cargo]

so you are more of a masochist? yeah, go use # then 😄
wtf is that minecraft font heresy

[sullen sigil]

it makes it easier to read for me for medical reasons

[south swan]

change that # to cobblestone textured square for better visibility

[sullen sigil]

shit u right

its so much better than trying to read all this

trying to read that is just awful

[kindred tide]

too much nesting

[sullen sigil]

theres no such thing

(blame the cba waitandexecute)

[kindred tide]

i use exitWitha lot to prevent nesting at if s

[sullen sigil]

i need to use else for all of those ifs

[queen cargo]

honestly, SQF is at fault for that
adding new functions (or navigating them) is no easy task in the language

adding a ton of sqf _fnc_fancy = {}; inbetween actual code is not really doing the trick, as visually everything looks the same

[kindred tide]

in some cases i do if(true) then {if(conditionA) exitWith{}; if(conditionB) exitWith{}; someCode;}; lol

[south swan]

_secondSecondaryEquipped sounds dangerously close to breaking the 4th wall, tbh

[sullen sigil]

that only works if youre just eliminating one condition rather than having something run if one condition is true and other

[sullen sigil]

it was that or _secondarySecondaryEquipped

[south swan]

here's for questionable editor (and life) choices:

and i'm done shitposting for today

[kindred tide]

i spawn every "logic" object as a suitcase at [0,0,0] to make that corner weird looking, those suitcases "keep the matrix in them" (breaking the 4th wall)

it's pretty surreal

like e.g a citizen is just a doll, his brain and identity are in the suitcase and the doll can respawn or change its form

[sullen sigil]

suitcases as logic objects but just being used as a namespace??

[south swan]

okay, you're actively tempting me. Make those Land_PortableLight_02_quad_base_Fs and store the data as animation phases. Let those lamps dance

[kindred tide]

they store vars and functions in them, yeah they're basically namespaces

[sullen sigil]

sometimes i arbitrarily flip primary secondary weapon and second secondary weapon because its funny

(i dont actually its only for saving cba loadouts)

[kindred tide]

i store the function body separately in module and then add it to objects i construct

e.g

[sullen sigil]

tag ABC

how... interesting

[queen cargo]

function global(scalar val = 0) {
    if (val > 10)
        return true;
    else if (val > 12) {
        return val < 50 ? false : true;
    }
}
final function fnc_myFunc(string msg) {
    diag_log(msg);
}``` we all do things to improve readability

[sullen sigil]

return commands are silly and sqf does it better

[kindred tide]

that's the only thing that's global in my code. the ABC framework. everything else is stored in objects like in namespaces

[kindred tide]

that's not sqf

or is it

[queen cargo]

that is sqc, which transpiles to sqf, yup

[acoustic abyss]

hey guys
sector control doesnt work after save/load
sector capturing process just broken after reloading
whats worng?

[acoustic abyss]

it seems like i need to reinit sector control module
but idk how

[ornate whale]

How do I call addUserActtionEventHandler from server in onPlayerConnected?

addMissionEventHandler ["PlayerConnected", {
params ["_id", "_uid", "_name", "_jip", "_owner", "_idstr"];
addUserActionEventHandler ["KeyName", "Activate", {params ["_activated"];}];
}];```

[acoustic abyss]

you do not need to call it
its event handler
just place it in init.sqf

you should add it to new player

[ornate whale]

But how? 😄

[acoustic abyss]

just try while cycle
and add condition with count of players
like if count of players chanhed it will reput this handler on them all

do you know why sector control doesnt work afer reload saves in sp?

[ornate whale]

Can I use remoteExec to distribute that handler to other clients?

[granite sky]

You can but it's not necessarily a good idea.

[ornate whale]

onPlayerConnects gives me the exact player, so I would probably targeted his machine only.

[granite sky]

I don't think PlayerConnected would work as a trigger because it's fired before the player object is created.

OnUserSelectedPlayer would probably work.

[ornate whale]

OK, but how I deliver addUserActionEventHandler ["KeyName", "Activate", { params ["_activated"]; to the client?

This is locally executed so I have to somehow send a message to the client with this code.

[granite sky]

is there a good reason not to put this in initPlayerLocal or a postInit function?

[ornate whale]

I am not sure, probably not. 😄

[ornate whale]

When this code is executed on the client from an UserActionEventHandler, will it have the global effect, like that the AI's on the server would use the new value when spotting players? Or should I use remoteExec?

    if (stance player == "STAND") then {
        hint "Stand";
        player setUnitTrait ["camouflageCoef", (stanceCamouflageCoef select 0) * baseCamouflageCoef];
    };```

[granite sky]

It should do.

I would not personally trust it.

[ornate whale]

What would you do to make it trustworthy then? 😄

[granite sky]

I'd check it.

Trouble is it's a rare usage. The common traits are medic and engineer, and those are primarily used locally.

[ornate whale]

I have launched two instances of Arma, and made a local server, and it shows the "debug" hint on both. Maybe I should check the real values. LOL 😄

[ornate whale]

Is there any way how to run debug console in MP ? Non-dedicated.

[granite sky]

Just make a DS with a batch file. Don't need many mods for this sort of testing.

[queen cargo]

in 3den at the top, there is options (name may be different) and multiplayer where you can make that available to nobody, everybody or logged in admin
could also be in another dialog in those

[granite sky]

I didn't have much luck getting two clients to connect to each other recently. It used to work.

[ornate whale]

So, it works, but its slow as hell to be any useful. There is like 5-10 secs delay between it gets executed and when I register the change in the value with the server player. I need to do it differently.

[granite sky]

That would be a risk.

Like we (and ACE) have to remoteExec spam setMass because it's too slow to avoid players murdering each other with carried crates.

You might find setUnitTrait is similar and works locally on non-local units.

Apparently remoteExecCall has much higher network priority than some of these commands.

[ornate whale]

So I would need if statement to check whether I am in SP or MP, and if MP then remote call

[granite sky]

shrugs

remoteExec works in SP too. It's just not necessary.

Only a theory anyway. setUnitTrait on non-local units might just do nothing.

[ornate whale]

What would I use then. 😄

Documentation says Local and Global execution

nothing about server

[granite sky]

There is not necessarily a solution.

setMass is also marked as local argument, global effect but it does change remote objects too until the network catches up. I suspect a lot of local-argument commands work like this.

[ornate whale]

Should I use schedule or unscheduled vesrion of remote?

[granite sky]

unscheduled

[ornate whale]

It works now. SP and MP as well, on local loopback.

[granite sky]

what, it fixed the delay issue?

[ornate whale]

Yes.

[granite sky]

gross :P

[ornate whale]

Thanks alot.

[granite sky]

It's kinda dumb because it's probably sending 10x as much data over the network as a result, but Arma makes us do dumb things.

[ornate whale]

😄 I dont actually care at this moment, after like 50 hours of twisting and bending the AI to do what I need, this is the smallest problem.

[granite sky]

(SQF is horribly inefficient on network data)

[ornate whale]

One last question, if you allow me, for this day. I am checking the stance when the onUserAction event is fired. But I am not sure, how to check the players stance correctly, because when I switch them quickly, it sometimes returns wrong stance, because standing up takes longer then going prone and so on. So I placed the artifical delay 1.3 secs, so I am sure he finished the change when I start to if his stance.

[] spawn {
    sleep 1.3;
    if (stance player == "STAND") then {
        hint "Stand";
        //player setUnitTrait ["camouflageCoef", (stanceCamouflageCoef select 0) * baseCamouflageCoef];
        [player, ["camouflageCoef", (stanceCamouflageCoef select 0) * baseCamouflageCoef]] remoteExec ["setUnitTrait"];
    };
    if (stance player == "CROUCH") then {
        hint "Crouch";
        [player, ["camouflageCoef", (stanceCamouflageCoef select 1) * baseCamouflageCoef]] remoteExec ["setUnitTrait"];
    };
    if (stance player == "PRONE") then {
        hint "Prone";
        [player, ["camouflageCoef", (stanceCamouflageCoef select 2) * baseCamouflageCoef]] remoteExec ["setUnitTrait"];
    };
};```

[granite sky]

You were hoping there was a better solution?

[ornate whale]

You sure? This seems to be a really dumb way how to check it. 😄 Too slow for an action game.