arma3_scripting

[warm hedge]

And it is possible to make instakill via a script

[hushed turtle]

It's weapon from mod. There are some vanilla .50 cal weapons. I would test those first before asking BIS about a mod 🤷🏻‍♂️

[lime rapids]

some of the more common factors that could be causing this
1 ballistics ie range, body armor of target and any objects the round is passing through
2 server desinc and lag / packet loss
3 could be bad config on cups end stating that the ,50 round is slower or smaller bullet size
4 any other mods or scripts running at the same time

[open marsh]

CUP weapons is gold standard though

[lime rapids]

no it very much is not

[open marsh]

as in a lot of people use it so ppl will notice if it doesnt work

[warm hedge]

And?

Is the question "is it realistic" still?

[shrewd mauve]

if (isNil "toolkitUses") then { toolkitUses = 0; };
{
_veh = _x;
if (damage _veh > 0) then {
_timeForRepair = 300;
_repairProgress = 0;
while {_repairProgress < 1} do {
if ("Toolkit" in items player) then {
_repairProgress = _repairProgress + (1 / _timeForRepair);
sleep 1;
hintSilent format["Repairing: %1%", ceil(_repairProgress * 100)];
if (_repairProgress >= 1) then {
_veh setDamage 0;
toolkitUses = toolkitUses + 1;
if (toolkitUses >= 3) then {
player removeItem "Toolkit";
toolkitUses = 0;
};
};
} else {
hint "You need a Toolkit to repair this vehicle.";
sleep 1;
break;
};
};
};
} forEach (nearestObjects [player, ["Car", "Tank", "Air"], 5]);

Hello someone made this little script for me i wanted to make repair longer , its possible to add 3rd pârty DLC repair kit to it ?

[hushed turtle]

With it's audiovisual quality? No way IMHO. Maybe when combined with JSRS.

Still don't understand how does this relates to scripting though

[open marsh]

no shit sherlock, ofc i ihave jsrs

thanks for pointing out the obvious

[winter rose]

cool down buckaroo, this ain't the wild west

[lime rapids]

likely mod conflict or bad config

[echo nebula]

Guys we are all just trying to help each other we can be civil right

Speaking of help if you dont help me i will be MAD

😤

Hey im trying to get sql from the ace github i wanna learn and dont know am i supposed to drop this in mission file or can i take the function inside and put it in eden editor for startup init?

Talked with someone earlier about cargo size and wanna learn how to use this repository of functions effectively and to learn to make my own so not sure how to mesh them into missions thx in advance

i was joking about getting mad btw

im here to learn

https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/cargo/functions/fnc_setSize.sqf

[warm hedge]

Context here

[echo nebula]

i got directed to these functions i wanna change cargo size and they suggested these i just don't know how to use them

[lime rapids]

i c

[echo nebula]

i can work my way around the functions utility its more the file exploration and how to inject this stuff into my mission im lacking in knowledge

or the rules that arma uses for its systems im starting to get there but struggling mostly with the different files and what goes where and how i can mess with stuff in eden vs zeus vs pbo data in config etc

[lime rapids]

so you just want to set a single vehicles cargo size right?

[echo nebula]

that or set the value of a objects cargo weight yes

[warm hedge]

I actually suggested Mod approach before I understand the context. You should ignore my instruction

[echo nebula]

its a simple task or i thought so and i want to start simple and work from there my end goal is a way to functionally pay for through objects a seperate object or vehicle ie: 3 money or boxes for 1 vehicle

i dont know how to do any function yet so ye

[warm hedge]

It likely is just one line of code

[echo nebula]

id assume so im just very foreign to how any of this works

[lime rapids]

so for an object you can double click on it in editor and put [this, 3] call ace_cargo_fnc_setSize into the vehicles "init box" and modify the number after "this" to change its size

pretty sure if you have the 3DEN mod aswell you can just double click and scroll down and there is a box you can modify for vehicles cargo size or an objects cargo size

[echo nebula]

can you walk me through how that works for future understanding, its just calling into action the function of setting cargo size for "this" being the init directed object and the value is just that functions value change on mission startup?

[echo nebula]

do you have a link id love to grab that ty!

[lime rapids]

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=623475643

[echo nebula]

yeah i have that mod ty

its quite useful

[lime rapids]

essentially ace has a function defined by that name and it is designed to take on two "parameters" (you can think of them as what you tell it to modify) and then it apply's whatever it needs to do code wise to that vehicle to increase the size of it

[echo nebula]

okay so its worked on my HEMTT but my concern is mostly that it worked on 1 single truck how could i make it work on all? is there a way to call that function to define all hemtt to have that function on mission startup?

[lime rapids]

just double click on all the trucks and paste that code in

[echo nebula]

but i might want to spawn a new hemtt in zeus it wont have that cargo size anymore

and maybe im stupid but im trying to execute the code in the new one in zeus but that isn't working as a test either

[lime rapids]

[_this, 3] call ace_cargo_fnc_setSize if you have zeus enhanced you can double click and paste this command into the console there note the difference in _this vs this

[echo nebula]

im trying that too i see it wants _this i have zeus enhanced is there a button i press to initiate the code or just press ok?

[lime rapids]

just ok

[echo nebula]

im pressing it and nothing seems to be happening

[lime rapids]

maybe need to press enter in the box

[echo nebula]

ive also now tried that on all options, global, local, target

[lime rapids]

i apologize i was mistaken use [_this, 20] call ace_cargo_fnc_setSpace this command for both

[echo nebula]

woah

that worked on target

right we were changing the value of the objects cargo size not its internal space

lol

[lime rapids]

yeah reeding is hard

[echo nebula]

is there a way to write this stuff in the init of the mission file like call "B_Truck_01_cargo_F" ace_cargo_setSpace = 20?

instead of manually scripting each hemtt, im fine with it this is fantastic progress and im very grateful im learning alot i'd just like to see how far i could push this function

[winter rose]

you can, it would be grabbing all existing trucks and foreach on them

spawned ones would be a different thing though.

[echo nebula]

thats kinda what i mean

my big thing is i spawn objects in for my players mid op for them to use and our ops last multiple days before server restarts so having that consistent space in the object or the cargo size of a barrel etc being consistent would be quite helpful

im so happy i got this far lol been trying to figure this out for ages lmao ik its simple but im very unfamiliar with arma and its systems

[winter rose]

you would then need to use an event handler, "EntityCreated" (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Mission_Event_Handlers#EntityCreated) and check for the classname

[echo nebula]

how do we typically find classname apart from the obvious, is it through the config viewer ?

[hushed turtle]

Is it possible to change cargo size in vanilla using scripting or is it some ACE witchcraft?

[echo nebula]

well i know this one, cargo size is a ace addition, there is inventory size but theres no cargo in vanilla last time i checked

(cargo is for boxes, crates, spare wheels for ace etc)

[hushed turtle]

So, ACE has it's own cargo for things like spare wheels If I understand correctly

[echo nebula]

could you show me an example of this in action im writing one up but having a hard time with the syntax for the param

[echo nebula]

correct, the whole thing im working on is entirely ace driven its a little menu for boxes etc

[winter rose]

this or right-click → copy to clipboard → class

(iirc)

[echo nebula]

yeah that was the easy way i thought existed thank you

[winter rose]

addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {
    params ["_entity"];
    if (typeOf _entity == "B_MyClass_F") then { _entity call SWA_fnc_MyScript; };
}];

[echo nebula]

oh wow thats different to what i wrote

[winter rose]

we will never know if you don't post it :p

[echo nebula]

im trying to finish it you are too quick lol

addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {
    params ["_entity"];
    Class B_Truck_01_cargo_F {
    ace_cargo_setSpace = 16;
    };
}];```

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-thats-what-she-said-what-she-said-steve-carell-gif-19896260

[echo nebula]

XD

[winter rose]

yeah nah, here you are trying to define a class in script, you definitely cannot do this

[echo nebula]

i figured after reading your crazy one

how do we define the target of the function is that just typeOf _entity == "B_Truck_01_cargo_F"}?

then if we can confirm entity is that we move forward with function?

[winter rose]

this event will execute for every created entity
you have to filter by entity type as shown yes

[echo nebula]

thats extremely cool

could we have different set values for the entity based on the target

like could i streamline 4 dif vehicles with 4 dif values in this ?

[winter rose]

sure

[echo nebula]

thats rlly cool how do we seperate the dif entities do we have to call to each what allows us to direct each to their specific function?

[winter rose]

you could use e.g a switch structure, this way it will accept multiple types

[echo nebula]

interesting let me see if i can try my hand at it

    params ["_entity"];

    if (typeOf _entity == "B1","B2","B3",) 
    switch (_condition) do {
    case "B1" { _entity call ace_cargo_setSpace = 16;
    case "B2" { _entity call ace_cargo_setSpace = 32;
    case "B3" { _entity call ace_cargo_setSpace = 64;
}];```

would this be something similiar to what im looking for theoretically

i understand im bad at this but as i learn more its becoming infinitely more engageable

[cyan thunder]

EntityCreated is awesomely useful - I use it for all sorts of things (like the current factions we are using some of the officers are set up weird and either have pistols only or no pistol/rifle so I have a quick check that adds an appropriate rifle, I also use it to control weather a unit is blacklisted from headless by type/side etc

[echo nebula]

it seems super useful

[winter rose]

somewhat yes (of course here this code is wrong)

[grand narwhal]

Hello, I have a question about preInit.

The following code is in a preInit executed function:

    if !(isNil {respawnBlockWest}) then {
        createMarker ['respawn_west', respawnBlockWest];
    } else {
        logWarning0("No respawn position found for side WEST")
    };
};```
However when I run the code, it tiggers the logWarning macro. However, if I run the code ingame (after the preInit stage), it succeeds. 

For my basic understanding of preInit, does map objects only get initialized after the preinit stage?

[echo nebula]

i feel like the switch needs a way to actually force the dif _entity to call the function but im not there yet i think but im glad im sorta getting closer

[plain bramble]

GOD this intel is driving me insane I have no idea what I'm doing anymore and nothing's working. I don't even know how to use eventhandlers and idk how to set up the triggers properly to make it work.

Someone please just give me a quick and dirty solution on a silver platter I can just paste in and format for each intel item at this point

because I'm tired of trying to quickfire intel in Zeus editor

[winter rose]

addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {
    params ["_entity"];

    switch (typeOf _entity) do
    {
        case "B_Class1_F": { [_entity, 16] call ace_cargo_setSpace; };
        case "O_Class1_F": { [_entity, 32] call ace_cargo_setSpace; };
        case "I_Class1_F": { [_entity, 64] call ace_cargo_setSpace; };
    };
}];
```but don't quote me on it, check how to use `ace_cargo_setSpace`, I have no experience with this function

[echo nebula]

i think im the opposite im really loving learning this cause ill be able to change it in future

[plain bramble]

don't get me wrong everything I've learned so far is fantastic

I have the better half of a mission already set up at this point and it's the most immersive mission I've been involved with

but for the life of me I can't solve intel.

[echo nebula]

oh i see so in place of my condition you use (typeOf _entity) and for the actual setspace your using the _entity system again like in eden editor thats so cool

im actually rlly proud of how close i was lmao

[plain bramble]

What's crazy is,

for me, it's not managing the intel module and writing all that, then linking it to a trigger

that I can do just fine

it's setting up a player action that deletes the intel object, then fires the trigger.

[thin fox]

there are tutorials for intel

[grand narwhal]

anyone got a quick anwser to this before it gets lost in the chatter? 🙂

[plain bramble]

and they're all as clear as mud.

trust me I've watched every one of them.

[grand narwhal]

so your problem is getting the action command for the player working?

[plain bramble]

my problem is getting the action command to trigger the AddDiaryEntry module

[echo nebula]

trying some variations of this ingame, not seeing results so far, no results and im not getting any erroers either its quite strange

[grand narwhal]

ah, let me just look at the module. I personally dont really work with the arma 3 modules

[plain bramble]

You can sync it with a regular trigger so when players walk into the trigger, or if the trigger is activated via other means, it should create intel.

[grand narwhal]

okey, and at what part does it not work for you?

[plain bramble]

so I've got a document resting on a table the players need to collect. I've set up in the document, for brevity's sake I'll just refer to as "doc", with an AddAction script that deletes the document on interaction and sends a hint saying "you've collected the doc". Then, the trigger contains within it's init !alive doc so that when the document gets deleted, theoretically, it should fire, because things in arma are "dead" when they're deleted or so I've been told. However, in practice, it doesn't work.

I did get it to work once, but the intel I wrote in the module didn't appear in the briefing, instead having just a blank image error icon.

[agile bolt]

!alive doc `is a condition for trigger

[grand narwhal]

are you doing this all in code? Or placing the objects, triggers, modules and such in the eden editor?

because addaction command attached to an object is just suicide imo. especially in mp

[plain bramble]

eden only. I'd like to be able to quickly add this stuff in a module composition and edit it on the fly so I don't spend all day alt-tabbing checking .sqfs

[grand narwhal]

yeah, ok. Then you're working with the object init in the editor right?

[plain bramble]

yup

[agile bolt]

try using object classed as inventory item for documents, addaction has local var scope which you have to code around

[grand narwhal]

can you share the object init of the doc?

[echo nebula]

so we had a syntax error on my part the "ace_cargo_fnc_setSpace" was the correct usage i didnt put the fnc in there properly and now from what i can tell it works lol

[cyan thunder]

worse still if you add them to a player 🙈 - (though tbf if you are using ace it's far nicer to add whatever it is to ACE UI)

[plain bramble]

this addAction ["prist's account", {deleteVehicle testbox}, nil, 1, true, true, "", "true", 4, false, ""];

[grand narwhal]

this only deletes the testbox (what ever that is?)

[plain bramble]

Yes

the testbox is the object it's deleting.

[grand narwhal]

the doc i assume?

[plain bramble]

It will be, yes.

[echo nebula]

wow im astounded how perfectly this works is there any consiquences of me throwing like 40 entities into a array of switches into this code and letting it go ham on every vehicle on spawn? this is absolutely f* amazing how useful this is

and now i can make all my crates a value of 2 weight too!!!

i owe you one lou!

[grand narwhal]

I just use an infinite loop executed locally at the client where all the actions are placed. It works like a dream

[cyan thunder]

all code has consequences in that it takes time to execute but you have to consider how frequently it's called and what the cost of running it is - EntityCreated doesn't get fired that often in the grand scheme of things - if you want to reduce the hit put an exit condition at the top so you can bail out fast if the entity isn't a vehicle or whatever

[echo nebula]

how would i put a exit condition im still quite new to this

[thin fox]

did you try BIS_fnc_initIntelObject??

[echo nebula]

like if else exit?

default stop?

[cyan thunder]

I just did that by accident, had a while{true}w/sleep to for a mod to display it's debug info and ran it in the unscheduled env by mistake (nut loose on the keyboard) arma did not like that 😄

[plain bramble]

I haven't but I don't believe it'll be helpful in this case because I'm wanting something simple and modular.

[thin fox]

why? that's why there is a condition field in addAction

[cyan thunder]

something like if!(_foo isKindOf "LandVehicle") exitWith{}; at the top - that'll bail out if _foo isn't a LandVehicle (which is cars, tanks, APC's etc)

[grand narwhal]

does the condition field of addAction not do the same?... xD

[thin fox]

well, it's simple as that... it will do all you want for that intel, even the addAction

[echo nebula]

im genuinely excited to learn more this shit is so cool when i spend time deciphering these hieroglyphs

[cyan thunder]

I've been programming since 1987, that feeling never goes away 😄

[thin fox]

it's safer

[cyan thunder]

basically this 😄

[echo nebula]

lmao always the right for me

[grand narwhal]

hmmm, dont really agree. It depends more on what they actions are for.

[echo nebula]

i just do network and server hosting stuff administration crap and files never touched any script or programming outside editing a few values or stealing from github

[cyan thunder]

eh - not knowing something is never a bad thing, not choosing to learn is - you are choosing to learn - the rest comes with time/practice 🙂 - curiosity is the thing that makes a good programmer a good programmer

[echo nebula]

_foo is land vehicles or is it just a replacement name?

[thin fox]

it doesn't make any sense

[echo nebula]

also iskindof is a odd one im gonna need to learn

[plain bramble]

none of this stuff makes sense to me I'm just here man

[cyan thunder]

_foo is whatever object you want to check, so if you have params ["_entity"]; at the top of your EntityCreated function it'd be _entity not _foo (fyi, foo, bar, fizz and buzz - are what programmers use as "placeholders" when they don't know what the other person is calling the variable 😄 - I like to think that foobar comes from FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition) 😉 )

[winter rose]

it's "is inherited from"
e.g "B_MRAP_01_F" isKindOf "Car"

[plain bramble]

OK IT WORKS

PHEWH

idk what was wrong last night

but it works now.

[grand narwhal]

its better to have one loop with 20 actions with there own conditions (which allows even some grouping of actions, like alive player) then have 20 actions with their individual conditions which basically are 20 individual loops

[plain bramble]

now if I can slap a hint in here it'll be great. I assume...

[echo nebula]

lmao

[grand narwhal]

but any answer to my question btw? 😄

[plain bramble]

I assume if I edit my existing code from
this addAction ["prist's account", {deleteVehicle testbox}, nil, 1, true, true, "", "true", 4, false, ""];

to
this addAction ["priest's account", hint "you've collected the priest's account of what happened", {deleteVehicle testbox}, nil, 1, true, true, "", "true", 4, false, ""];

it'll work properly.

or does it need to be in the squggly brackets

[echo nebula]

thank you that helps alot, so what is "LandVehicle a defined term or would i need to specify the vehicle

[plain bramble]

oh thank you god my hypothesis was correct

now I can go back to making le scary mission

[echo nebula]

how extensive would it be to theoretically make the player input x objects to recieve x objects how would i go about that i can think of some basic ways like have a factory the player has to load cargo into until x then idk how i would check and spawn a vehicle but thats where im at on my next big project.

[plain bramble]

thanks everybody.

[cyan thunder]

arma uses a thing called a class hierarchy, an entity can be a subtype of a class - say "Helicopter" or "Car", "LandVehicle" is a parent class of all vehicles that are land vehicles - basically all cars, APC's, trucks whatever

[thin fox]

is it working?

[plain bramble]

it is indeed working perfectly.

[echo nebula]

is there a repository of all these hierarchies?

[winter rose]

stop making working scripts, this is not the place!

[thin fox]

with that addaction?

[plain bramble]

yes, with the addAction

[thin fox]

the second one?

[agile bolt]

how that's working is beyond anyone's mind 😂

[thin fox]

lmao

[cyan thunder]

yeah - you can get them via Config Viewer in Eden or there are commands to work with it directly configHierarchy and the like

[plain bramble]

yes it's working exactly as intended.

[echo nebula]

oh amazing ty

[grand narwhal]

an you help me with this @winter rose 😛

[plain bramble]

I walk up to the box, hit spacebar, it disappears. The game says they've collected the intel, and intel has appeared in the mapscreen.

[thin fox]

I don't know what you did but this shouldn't work at all lol

wrong parameters order

[grand narwhal]

if it works, don't fix it! thats like rule 101 in coding xD

[winter rose]

I am afraid I don't know, but strongly assume that you won't have markers in pre-init

[cyan thunder]

arma's config system is pretty neat but generlaly you'll find yourself using typeOf and isKindOf a lot in your code 🙂 first tells you what something is and second returns true/false if it's kindOf

[plain bramble]

sometimes, professor, the most effective thing to destroy the enemy's plans isn't in-fact to send soldiers in, but to instead send in a flock of hens, whom of which have no idea or preconception of how severe the situation is that they are in.

[cyan thunder]

so you can do stuff like "is this unit a man (CAManBase not Man) and alive and on the enemy side and carrying a UAV terminal or whatever

[agile bolt]

@plain bramble this should be the correct one, you passed deleteVehicle testbox as an argument and it somehow works lol
this addAction ["priest's account", { hint "you've collected the priest's account of what happened"; deleteVehicle testbox; }, nil, 1, true, true, "", "true", 4, false, ""];

[grand narwhal]

true, its the map object it need to find where all players spawn. Which is dynamic. And I want to create the respawn marker at that object. But i dont know if the preinit already has the mapobjects initialized. I assume not, so maybe I need to make a different approach. And that map object is already in the mission.sqm

[plain bramble]

I uh, hah,

put a comma between the arguments

[agile bolt]

thing is, you passed deleteVehicle testbox as an argument which you can acess with _this select 3 within addaction scope

[winter rose]

deleteVehicle ↑

[cyan thunder]

also, use vscode (https://code.visualstudio.com/) and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ezcoo.sqflint-revisited - it'll remove a lot of pain (first is a decent editor, second is a plugin for it that helps spot errors, typos in your code - stuff like the dreaded trailing , in arrays and the like

[plain bramble]

I have no idea how it's happened, but now I'm gonna save this as a custom composition so I can just paste it in for other stuff I want the players to find in this endless breadcrump fetchquest of a horror op

I bet I could link this to a hide module on a marker that is named "exclusion zone" so the players don't know where the bad places are until it's too late

[echo nebula]

oh this looks similiar to obsidian lol

[agile bolt]

was just confusing as hell to me as i spent way too much time activating a trigger through addaction scope last night

[cyan thunder]

it's "just" a code editor - it's a pretty popular one and widely used - has a bunch of plugins for making arma development more pleasant (it's not the one I use at work (neovim or intellij ftw :D) but for arma it's great)

[echo nebula]

oh man this is a tad overwhelming

[cyan thunder]

perseverance pays off, how do you eat an Elephant?... one bite at a time - everyone is a beginner at some point - even Dedman had to start somewhere 😄

[pallid palm]

yes it was for me (too) but now i know (Lou) (Woohoo) to You lol

[echo nebula]

i got the sql plugin how do i make it all work

[hushed turtle]

Wait, he wasn't born a master programmer? 😯

[echo nebula]

and is there immediate changes i should make for ease of access?

[hushed turtle]

So far I was using this one https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/?itemName=blackfisch.sqf-language

[cyan thunder]

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son born under a full moon 😉

[pallid palm]

lol

[cyan thunder]

tangentially related, "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" is one of the best metal albums ever created - perfect arma background music

[hushed turtle]

How I could not notice 🎸

[echo nebula]

how do i use these plugins

[cyan thunder]

Seen 'em live twice, seeing them again at the end of this month 🤘

[hushed turtle]

Install them and start coding?

[echo nebula]

what do they do im trying to figure that part out i guess

[cyan thunder]

they add functionality to vscode - specifically in this case they add a linter (a background task that watches what you type and makes sure it looks valid) - basically it'll give you a heads up if your code is syntactically invalid, for example (I deliberately removed a ; and it warned me on the next line that it was missing)

[echo nebula]

i dont have all that colour in mine

[cyan thunder]

in that case, not only did it flag the error but it suggested what it might be

[cyan thunder]

install the SQF extension, it'll syntax highlight (that's the colors) the file

[echo nebula]

i think i gotta use their theme then too

[cyan thunder]

it's called SQF Language in the extensions

[echo nebula]

and i want the file to be under sqf?

i changed it now i got quite a array of colours and i think the arma stuff is working now too?

[hushed turtle]

sqf extension

[echo nebula]

it doesn't show extension i installed it but when i have to choose a language it kinda just works?

like i typed and it came up with BIS

[hushed turtle]

What a taste for colors 😆

[cyan thunder]

yeah, if the extension is whatever.sqf then vscode will recognise it as an SQF file automatically - for SQFLint you may need to install Java and then go into settings and set the path to the java binary - java is here - https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ ( you want this one probably https://download.oracle.com/java/24/latest/jdk-24_windows-x64_bin.exe) if you install it in the default location then the apth you want to put in "Java Path" is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-24\bin\java.exe - that's basically all you have to do to get it linting properly 🙂

[echo nebula]

thanks i got java already ill direct it

java sucks to setup when your doing any complicated minecraft hosting i got like 12 versions XD

[cyan thunder]

Java sucks generally but the JVM is an engineering masterpiece

(note: not saying Java is a bad language - it's clearly not and half the world runs on it just not a language I enjoyed programming in at all)

[echo nebula]

i dont know the code i just know its hell for compatability

could i make a theoretical vehcile spawner in arma?

like interact with object = vehicle spawns

youd need to have a location for the vic to spawn and then my concern would be i want them to pay to spawn it, is there a check in game for a radius? like could i check for "block" in radius "5 meters" else no car?

[grand narwhal]

of course. you can do almost anything in Arma. Thats why its so beloved and additive... its like lego's but then for adults

[echo nebula]

where could i find functions that could help in this endevour i want to make factories that my players can build and input resources into to get vehicles of their choice

[grand narwhal]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createVehicle
for starters

[echo nebula]

it might be a big step from changing 1 value idk if theres a middle ground option but its kinda my big crux atm spawning vics for my players is really rough on gameplay loop

[cyan thunder]

100% can, I did this for my players so they could buy vehicles without hassling me 😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0N2hRmk30Q

[echo nebula]

i want the logistics portion of the game to be as seemless as possible

yeah aye

its a nightmare

[cyan thunder]

also that T-34 plays Sabaton when players get in it - because why not and it amused me 😄

[echo nebula]

lmao

[cyan thunder]

(not as much as when I made every vehicle blast barbie girl for an op)

basically torture - https://youtu.be/nyXV0Ext2zk?feature=shared&t=107

[echo nebula]

can i change a function call per case in a switch script?

like cargo fnc setspace for case a but setsize for case b

[cyan thunder]

yep

[echo nebula]

would there be any issues

hmm

that makes me want to make the largest entity created script ever

[cyan thunder]

switch/case is a common pattern for handling dispatch based on a condition that can be one of many

you can also use it for stuff like this sqf switch true do { case (_bearing >= 337.5 || _bearing < 22.5): {"N"}; case (_bearing >= 22.5 && _bearing < 67.5): {"NE"}; case (_bearing >= 67.5 && _bearing < 112.5): {"E"}; case (_bearing >= 112.5 && _bearing < 157.5): {"SE"}; case (_bearing >= 157.5 && _bearing < 202.5): {"S"}; case (_bearing >= 202.5 && _bearing < 247.5): {"SW"}; case (_bearing >= 247.5 && _bearing < 292.5): {"W"}; case (_bearing >= 292.5 && _bearing < 337.5): {"NW"}; }; since you can switch on a boolean 🙂

[echo nebula]

LMAO

thats so useful i worry its going to be inefficient or a poor way to script this stuff like if theres a cleaner method id like to do it

thats why i wanted to do switch rather then a standard else function

[cyan thunder]

switch isn't "expensive", it's essentially just a short hand to avoid a massive nasty block of ifelse

[echo nebula]

awesome ty

ive done 8 of these big arma events and its getting tiresome to do everything so having a way to make players load up crates sized 2 cargo on my hemtt and having dif objects be able to be loaded is gonna be so huge

is there a way to use a object position in reference to another object rather than the map?

[cyan thunder]

https://pastebin.com/56G5Rvfd that's most of how my vehicle spawn works

what they are "allowed" to spawn is then controlled by config via Description.ext because I'm lazy and we change maps/enemy factions fairly often

[echo nebula]

right

[cyan thunder]

^ uses ace, so it adds a new item to the ACE UI called "Ragner" (our unit) and then everything sits behind that for vehicle spawning

[echo nebula]

its getting late i might read that one tomorrow when i got more brain power, ive been working on this for hours

but ty!

[thin fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OmZfQWgQak&t=349s&pp=ygUnZ3VudGVyIHNldmVybG9oIHZpcnR1YWwgdmVoaWNsZSBzcGF3bmVy

[cyan thunder]

no worries 🙂

[cyan thunder]

yeah it's good that one 🙂 - I just built one for our purposes but that's entirely because I could and I wanted it to work a specific way (since we are mercenaries I bill them for everything - hell I have a store at the end of the runway run by the Unfriendly Arms Dealer where they can buy the good stuff 🙈 )

forgot I did that 😄

[echo nebula]

man i feel like ive just unlocked a new way to play this game

my players are gonna be so happy with this lol

[echo nebula]

where do i place this if! script does it go inside my "addmissionevent handler" or above the whole thing?

[cyan thunder]

inside the function that gets executed at the top - it's commonly called a "guard clause" btw - basically you want to exit the function immediately if whatever the function does doesn't apply when it is called 🙂

[echo nebula]

also technically my event handler has things outside landvehicle now so i guess it should prob not be used

[cyan thunder]

entirely depends on the context of what you are doing 🙂

[echo nebula]

i was just gonna do a big switch of all the objects cargo i wanted to change

[cyan thunder]

yeah, I spend far more time programming arma than I do playing it these days - that or sat in the zeus slot watching them do stupid things in funny ways 😄

[thin fox]

I was talking about this with Gunter yesterday (from that video I've linked. There are a lot of players that don't actually knows that arma is a sandbox lol

[agile bolt]

right, in two separate scripts, top one is working, bottom trigger isn't firing for some reason. both are spawned through script using BIS_fnc_spawnGroup, both groups are using arrays with classnames to spawn in

_players = playableUnits;
_target = selectRandom _players;

enemyVehGroup = [getMarkerPos "spawnEnemyPos", independent, [vehUnits]] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;
targetVeh = leader enemyVehGroup;

private _wp = enemyVehGroup addWaypoint[_target, 1];

[true, "taskDestroy", ["", "Destroy the leading vehicle"], targetVeh, "ASSIGNED", 2, true] call BIS_fnc_taskCreate;

_taskDestroyTrg = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", [0,0,0]];
_taskDestroyTrg setTriggerStatements ["!alive targetVeh", "[""taskDestroy"",""SUCCEEDED""] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState;", ""];

_greenforGroup = [getPosATL player, east, [infUnits]] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;
_targetTL = leader scientistGroupTemp;
_killTarget = [_targetTL, true];

[true, "taskEliminate", ["", "Eliminate the target"], _killTarget, "ASSIGNED", 2, true] call BIS_fnc_taskCreate;
_eliminateTrg = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", [0,0,0]];
_eliminateTrg setTriggerStatements ["!alive _targetTL", "[""taskEliminate"",""SUCCEEDED""] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState;", ""];

[cyan thunder]

aye but doesn't surprise me, arma is kinda unusual in that not only do they not actively supress mods or implicitly allow them but straight and directly wants you to mod it 🙂

[agile bolt]

i just noticed i switched sides on them, good thing i posted 😂

[thin fox]

that's what makes this community so awesome

[cyan thunder]

I've got 5310 hours in arma - about 200 of that is vanilla arma 😄

[thin fox]

I have 3,300h

it's my "home" game

[cyan thunder]

mine as well 😄

[hushed turtle]

And they themselves call it "platform" rather than "game" 😂

[cyan thunder]

I mean they spun part of it off as a legit military simulator

considering it's age and origin, it really is a fantastic sandbox/thing

[hushed turtle]

What a rookie hours I got at just 14 hundred 😆

[cyan thunder]

highest person I've played with is north of 12000 hours 🙈

a full time job is ~2000 hours a year, so he basically did the equivalent of a full time arma job for 6 years

[echo nebula]

when writing in my init i have to get rid of my // stuff is there any way to make this more seamless?

i like writing notes for anyone reading cause i might have other zeus looking over this and teaching them

[digital hollow]

You could have the marker in editor at a default position and move it once your dynamic object is initialized.

[cyan thunder]

@thin fox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx-2y1yQ9Gw final version of my convoy stuff - it's properly modular now I can protect it with basically anything that flies 😄

[thin fox]

that's so cool man, loved it

did you remember that we've talked about the moduleCas_F days ago?

[cyan thunder]

yeah vaguely

I played with modifying that a while ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsrHZ-2kNo

[echo nebula]

omg i got my huron containers to work they actually load and unload omfg

[thin fox]

@cyan thunder

[echo nebula]

this is just such a game changer for me

[digital hollow]

comment "This comment works";
"This comment works too";
// This doesn't work
/* This doesn't work either */

Or use the 3den comments module

[echo nebula]

ty

[scarlet igloo]

hey guys, is there any way i can check if a player has changed backpacks? im trying to do a rally point system that checks whether or not a player has an LR backpack and im trying to make it more dynamic

[tulip ridge]

SlotItemChanged event
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#SlotItemChanged

[echo nebula]

alrigth well i got a absolute absurd amount done today ill come back tomorrow to possibly work on the factory system ty all for the help ive gone from not having the faintest idea of how to do this to being able to add functions and different ones to any object! tyvm

[cyan thunder]

You can do very neat things with that stuff - I have it setup so that players can drive a vic with a container to a spot on the map, unload it then that can be converted to a FOB (creates a respawn point and puts the correct arsenal down) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruO7b2DdKfs

[echo nebula]

oh man i gotta make arsenals automated next lol

[scarlet igloo]

ill check it out, thanx :D

[echo nebula]

i have certain equipment i want them using or have access to but every restart id have to add new editions they unlock manually and such

[cyan thunder]

it's easy if you are using ace 🙂

[echo nebula]

always

[cyan thunder]

create an arsenal off the map somewhere, set it up how you want it then you can use ```sqf
// get the virtual items in the arsenal, we only want the keys (as it is [["foo", any]]) - i.e. conventional hashmap)
_validItems = keys (primaryArsenal call ace_arsenal_fnc_getVirtualItems);

_arsenalObjectClass = "AmmoCrates_NoInteractive_Medium";
{
[_x, _validItems, true] call ACE_arsenal_fnc_initBox;
} forEach (allMissionObjects _arsenalObjectClass select { _x getVariable ["isSecondaryArsenal", false] == true});

TL_arsenalsTransfered = true;```

[echo nebula]

but the thing is i want to force only certain ppl to have access to certain gear and make any gear they get access to perma during the reset and after

[echo nebula]

😮

ill have to read that tomorrow i gotta sleep

but ty goodluck yall

[cyan thunder]

ace uses events, you can hook the event when the arsenal is closed, if the player shouldn't have it you can just remove it from them then 😉

[echo nebula]

oh thats smart

[cyan thunder]

or you know just punish them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwa4_pjLAWs if they take something you told them not to 😄

the thing I most love is that if you have an idea you can just build it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvbXLLLSx4

One of my more recent things - I extended lambs so that it understood how to garrison/defend trenches (Trencher mod is awesome btw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J4RsP84JO8

[quick sky]

Does anyone understand why AI simply become "static"? By that i don't mean pathing, but AI dont raise their gun when you come close, yet they still shoot without an animation.

Here's my code: https://pastebin.pl/view/6a90883d
It won't let me send the code in discord for some reason.

[verbal acorn]

I’m sorry if this is the wrong chat. But I’m running a small Arma 3 group, trying to step up my mission creation. And I’m in need of help with triggers and other things. Can anybody help? Or direct me to the correct channel to ask in?

[quick sky]

Usually #arma3_editor but what are you looking to do?

[verbal acorn]

It’s an SCP group, so I’m trying to figure out how to systematically teleport one player away, kill them so my team sees the death message, and then play a scream for the rest of the group.

[quick sky]

Make a trigger and set activation to ANYBODY/ANY PLAYER and Repeatable unchecked and put the condition as this && isServer. In On Activation, paste:

private _victim = thisList select 0;

// teleport them to whatever coordinates
_victim setPosATL [1000, 1000, 0];

// kill them after 1 second
[_victim] spawn {
    sleep 1;
    _this#0 setDamage 1;
};

// death message
["SYSTEM", format ["%1 has died under mysterious circumstances...", name _victim]] remoteExec ["hint", 0];

// scream sound
[_victim, "scream"] remoteExec ["say3D", 0];

Make a description.ext in your mission folder and put this code in:

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

Find a scream noise, convert it to a .ogg if it's not already and put it in \sounds.

[verbal acorn]

Okay. I have no idea how to do the sound part of it but the teleport and kill worked perfectly. Thank you.

[quick sky]

You simply need to find a mp3 of a scream noise, and convert it to a .ogg.

This is an example you could use.

Just name it whatever you pathed here;
sound[] = {"sounds\scream.ogg", 1, 1}; and you'll be fine.

It also has to be in the sounds\ folder if that's where you pathed it to.

The first number is the volume, with 1 being full volume. The second 1 is the pitch/speed of the sound.

[winter rose]

do you want the scream to originate from the vanishment point, perhaps?

[verbal acorn]

My thought process is teleport, death message, sound plays for those who where not teleported.

[quick sky]

^^, in that case, add a

private _victim = thisList select 0;
private _vanishPos = getPosATL _victim;

and then

[_vanishPos] remoteExec [{
    params ["_pos"];
    private _sfx = "Land_HelipadEmpty_F" createVehicleLocal _pos;
    _sfx say3D "scream";
    sleep 3;
    deleteVehicle _sfx;
}, 0];  // 0 = all clients

If i'm correct.

[quick sky]

Is anyone able to help me with this per chance?

[tulip ridge]

Prefix your classes
Also you don't need to do the sounds[] = {scream} thing (scream should also be in quotes) anymore

[verbal acorn]

I should have specified. The mod I’m using has zeus modules to play sounds. Can I do something to set one of those to play?

[quick sky]

Zeus Immersion Sounds?

[verbal acorn]

Drongos spooks and anomalies.

[winter rose]

don't usesqf _enemy attachTo [_helper, [0, 0, 0]]; detach _enemy; to teleport objects; _enemy setPosASL getPosASL _helper is good enough

[quick sky]

Do you recon that causes the problem im having tho?

[winter rose]

most likely not.

_hostage disableAI "MOVE"; is what makes a unit not move, that's about it

[quick sky]

But that shouldn't stop their shooting animation tho. I'll go ingame real quick to take a clip of what's happening exactly.

[winter rose]

_enemy disableAI "MOVE";
_enemy disableAI "PATH";

that's enemy's disableAI

[quick sky]

What's the difference between MOVE and PATH?

Is there documentation on this anywhere?

Would try and look but the BI Forums have been down for a while.

[winter rose]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/disableAI 👀

[quick sky]

It explains the disableAI feature but not necessarily the parameters as far as i can see.

I'll for sure mess around with it, i'm gonna assume that disabling pathing would be more then enough.

Unsure of why MOVE was added in there. I'm gonna assume its rotation or so.

[quick sky]

Nevermind, just seen the button.

😭

[buoyant cairn]

Even after changing the variables the ''One hit kill'' script still doesn't have an effect on already spawned AI units

[] spawn {
while {true} do {
{
_x setVariable ["HAF_spawned",true];
_x addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", { [_this#2, 1] select (_this#6 == player) }];
} forEach (allUnits -allPlayers select {isNil {_x getVariable "HAF_spawned"} && side _x == EAST && !isPlayer _x});
uiSleep 2;
};
};

[cosmic lichen]

Use entity created event handler instead of a loop

[buoyant cairn]

hm, that's a good idea, gonna give it a try

thanks bro

[quick sky]

Is there a function that allows you to change the amount of armor an AI has?

Me commenting out _enemy disableAI "MOVE"; gave the AI 1000% extra armor or something.

        // SECTION 9.2: ENEMY PLACEMENT
        private _mustSpawn = count _units < _unitsMin;
        private _shouldSpawn = (random 1 < _enemyChance);

        if (_unitCommon &&
        count _units < _unitsMax &&
        (_mustSpawn || _shouldSpawn)) then {
            // Create enemy group and unit
            private _group = createGroup _enemySide;
            _group deleteGroupWhenEmpty true;
            private _enemy = _group createUnit [
                selectRandom _enemyTypes,
                getPos _helper,
                [], 1, "CAN_COLLIDE"
            ];
            _enemy attachTo [_helper, [0, 0, 0]];
            detach _enemy;

                // set position and stance
            _enemy setFormDir (_helper getDir _furthest);
            _enemy setDir (_helper getDir _furthest);
            _enemy setUnitPos (selectRandom ["UP", "MIDDLE"]);

                // Disable AI movement
            //_enemy disableAI "MOVE";
            _enemy disableAI "PATH";

                // Add to units array
            _units pushBack _enemy;
            sleep _sleep;

Part of the script.

[buoyant cairn]

something like this?

["CAManBase", "init", {
params ["_unit"];

if (
    side _unit == EAST && 
    !isPlayer _unit && 
    isNil {_unit getVariable "HAF_spawned"}
) then {
    // Mark unit as processed
    _unit setVariable ["HAF_spawned", true];
    
    _unit addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {
        [_this#2, 1] select (_this#6 == player)
    }];
};

}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

[cosmic lichen]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[buoyant cairn]

["CAManBase", "init", {
    params ["_unit"];

    if (
        side _unit == EAST && 
        !isPlayer _unit && 
        isNil {_unit getVariable "HAF_spawned"}
    ) then {
        // Mark unit as processed
        _unit setVariable ["HAF_spawned", true];

        _unit addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {
            [_this#2, 1] select (_this#6 == player)
        }];
    };
}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
```sqf

[cyan thunder]

yeah that button is bad UX - it caught me the other other day when I missed it on a different page 😄

[stable dune]

addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {
    params ["_entity"];
}];

And check side group unit rather than side unit.
Side unit may return civ x point so

side group _entity

And you need to check that
isPlayer _this#6 ,
Because if event is called on server, player is not exists on server.

[buoyant cairn]

if (isNil "HAF_entityHandlerAdded") then {
    HAF_entityHandlerAdded = true;
    
    addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {
        params ["_entity"];
        
        if (
            _entity isKindOf "CAManBase" &&          // Only human units
            side group _entity == EAST &&             // More reliable group side check
            !isPlayer _entity &&                      // Exclude players
            isNil {_entity getVariable "HAF_spawned"} // Not already processed
        ) then {
            _entity setVariable ["HAF_spawned", true];
            
            _entity addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {
                params ["_unit", "_selection", "_damage", "_source", "_projectile", "_hitIndex", "_instigator"];
                
                // Check if instigator is a player (works in MP)
                private _isPlayerDamage = !isNull _instigator && {isPlayer _instigator};
                
                // Return full damage if from player, original damage otherwise
                [_damage, 1] select _isPlayerDamage
            }];
        };
    }];
};```

[buoyant cairn]

Like this?

[fair drum]

to check if the event handler was added, you need to check the return of the handler:

HAF_entityHandlerAdded = addMissionEventHandler ["EntityCreated", {}];
if (HAF_entityHandlerAdded == -1) exitWith { systemChat "My code failed :("; }

[buoyant cairn]

but do you think the code i sent is going to at least work?

[granite sky]

Looks plausible as long as you don't have other HandleDamage event handlers (eg ACE).

[buoyant cairn]

Gonna test right now

[granite sky]

I don't think addMissionEventHandler ever fails. I don't know where the -1 return value idea comes from.

[buoyant cairn]

No errors, but no effect, ACE is conflicting, but it already gave me a positive return for not popping up an error

I will probably try to add a ACE compatibility to it

Unless i mess everything up and give up lol

[tulip ridge]

Why bother with HandleDamage if ypu're just killing them outright anyway?
Just use a Hit EH or something and kill them there

[buoyant cairn]

Would still effect my player only?

[tulip ridge]

You would check it the exact same way

[buoyant cairn]

I might just give it a shot, as long as ACE and CBA don't conflict with it and mess everything up like it did a few months ago

[buoyant cairn]

So it would work on both already spawned units and newly spawned ones

insteresting approach

im gonna work on it tomorrow when i get home

[tulip ridge]

No, you'd have to add it to every unit
Unless you're fine with a CBA dependency

[buoyant cairn]

no problems with a CBA dependency

already have it anyways

[tulip ridge]

Then you can use CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler to just add event handlers to units

["CAManBase", "HitPart", {
    systemChat str _this;
}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

https://cbateam.github.io/CBA_A3/docs/files/xeh/fnc_addClassEventHandler-sqf.html

Then just check whatever conditions you want in the EH

[buoyant cairn]

Cool, will just check for player only and fresh spawns and already spawned ones

Nice, thanks for the help bro

[tulip ridge]

That is the EH, you wouldn't need to add a new one

["CAManBase", "HitPart", {
    private _firstHit = _this select 0;
    private _instigator = _firstHit select 11;
    if (isPlayer _instigator) then {
        (_firstHit select 0) setDamage 1; // Kill unit
    };
}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

[buoyant cairn]

Thanks for doing it

do i have to update de config.cpp and mod.cpp?

[tulip ridge]

You'd need to add cba_main to your requiredAddons if its not already

[buoyant cairn]

Done it a few seconds ago lol

I have a side question

Does CBA usually overwrite all of the ACE's EventHandlers?

[glad ore]

hello guys, my friendgroup and i play regular pvp missions on our server. To balance it a bit i would like to restrict the arsenal and take out some weapons from the mission and make them not playable. For example G6 Lynx or TITAN launcher. how do i do this?

[buoyant cairn]

Or "mechanics" to be less specific

[buoyant cairn]

You can edit the Arsenal with Zeus, if im not wrong, barely messed with it to be honest

[buoyant cairn]

Also, thanks again for the help brother

[glad ore]

we dont use zeus. isnt it possible to do via init sqf or smth

smth like this:

// banWeapons.sqf
private _bannedWeapons = [
"arifle_Katiba_F",
"srifle_DMR_01_F"
];

while {true} do {
{
private _playerWeapons = weapons _x;
{
if (_x in _bannedWeapons) then {
_x removeWeapon _x;
_x setVariable ["warned", true, true];
_x globalChat "Diese Waffe ist verboten!";
};
} forEach _playerWeapons;
} forEach allPlayers;
sleep 5;
};

[buoyant cairn]

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[buoyant cairn]

Use this to share your code here

[glad ore]

oh okay

[buoyant cairn]

Makes it easier to read

Also, i don't usually mess with the Arsenal and weapons in the game, so i guess the others here can help you a lot more than i can

[fair drum]

just limit what weapons the arsenal shows. documentation for ACE arsenal and vanilla arsenal on their respective sites.

[glad ore]

where do i limit this?

[tulip ridge]

What do you mean?

[tulip ridge]

For ACE: https://ace3.acemod.org/wiki/framework/arsenal-framework.html#102-blacklist-items-from-all-arsenals

[buoyant cairn]

When ACE and CBA are running, which one has top priority on handling damage or vehicle damage, for example

[tulip ridge]

Well CBA doesn't modify damage handling at all

That's not the point of CBA

[buoyant cairn]

Then why do we have to use it to call the EH?

im just curious, that's all lol

[glad ore]

we dont use ace

[tulip ridge]

addClassEventHandler will just add the HitPart event handler to all child classes of CAManBase

In that example, it just saves you the effort of manually adding the event handler to all units

[buoyant cairn]

While still being able to set local player as the instigator and keeping the code simple

Very nice

Thanks for the help and the explanation

[tulip ridge]

There's https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#arsenalRestrictedItems

Never used it, sounds like what you're looking for though

[glad ore]

already tried this its not working

[buoyant cairn]

Another quick question, if i join my friends on a private server, will the script affect them as well?

[proven charm]

did you write the script yourself?

the HandleDamage needs to be run where the entity is local so you should cover that

[tulip ridge]

That's not using HandleDamage, and HitPart should run local to shooter iirc

[tulip ridge]

Depends entirely on how you're running the script

Are you loading it from a mod that only you're using?

[proven charm]

oh i was looking at the code posted above

[buoyant cairn]

Created a whole pbo for it, only i got it

[tulip ridge]

Then yeah it should be fine

If you want, you could also check the _instigator's steam id and checks if it matches yours

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

[buoyant cairn]

Will do, thanks so much bro

[buoyant cairn]

Me, docs and good old AI

[proven charm]

chatGPT?

[buoyant cairn]

But now the script is all Dart’s

[buoyant cairn]

Nah, gpt sucks, all due respect

Im using deepseek

[proven charm]

i wouldnt now, cause i dont use those 😉

ok

[buoyant cairn]

Good, i don’t usually rely on Ai, unless is a language im not used to

[proven charm]

have to say im bit impressed that AI created that code. not saying its perfect

[buoyant cairn]

But it’s a good helper

[buoyant cairn]

Oh don’t put your expectations so high lol

Lot’s of corrections there

The Ai creates some nonsense, just like any other

Deepseek it’s just easier to work with because it’s not so much gibberish unlike gpt for example

I do recommend using it only to help, not to create the whole thing

And yet, me with deepseek still got completely destroyed by Dart lol

[proven charm]

it usually shows if people come here with chatGPT code 🙂

it just dont work

[buoyant cairn]

I tried using a fully made one

[granite sky]

Well, that didn't work, because he was trying to use it with ACE :P

[buoyant cairn]

True lol

I tried gpt and the one it made crashed my game, then when it said “oh i updated it” it ended up giving me a permanent error on screen and zero damage to any enemy

Anyways, time for me to go to work, have a good one yall

[granite sky]

I've seen some pretty plausible SQF code from AIs recently, so I guess they've been grinding through the git repos.

In the end you've got to understand the platform though. The code isn't the hard part with SQF.

[proven charm]

yeah like locality

[pallid palm]

my Chat GPT is the guys that i know, in Discord, i would never trust any code unless it came from the guys in here

or myself if its easy enough

[grand narwhal]

Thx for the suggestion. That was indeed the alternative I had in mind. The thing is that a big chunk inc the base is executed in the preInit. I hoped to avoid a spawn with a waitUntil, but it couldn't be helped 🤷‍♂️

[digital hollow]

You could try it in postInit too

[empty gulch]

Dynamic Airport Configuration need a little help have all the inputs for the air port

class AirportBase : NonStrategic
{
simulation = "airport";

ilsPosition[] = { 52861.855, 77991.344 };
ilsDirection[] = { 53606.29, 0.08, 77826.59 };
ilsTaxiIn[] = { 53616.027, 77795, 53481.39, 77780.69, 53140.055, 77859.125 };
ilsTaxiOff[] = { 53074.191, 77872.25, 52990.79, 77892.19, 52917.27, 77910.7, 52824.09, 77972.95, 52813.656, 78002.45 };

};

[brittle badge]

place a carrier under the mapp. so i did (just for blackwasb)

[empty gulch]

lol under the map lol

[brittle badge]

yes in eden editor

it works

autopilot for blackwasb can land than

[empty gulch]

so thats just for cv aircraft right ?

[brittle badge]

jep.

only jets/planes ho can land automatic on carrier can land there. but u can make a script that everyplane can land there

so i think

[empty gulch]

ok ill try it out thank you

[echo nebula]

good morrow? im gonna try learn how this script works and what it exactly does to learn how to do it myself if your around could i ask insights into it?

oh i think i get it, your just making a arsenal that dupes itself to other objects of same class ie "Ammocrates_nointeractive_medium"

oh interesting im curious how it updates is it just checking every single time a interaction happens with it?

[echo nebula]

alright a tad bit confused on how to use this code

[echo nebula]

is there anyone around who could help me understand how this code works and what i should do with it

[sharp arch]

How do I script a unit to be designated by a laser so it can be targeted by data link/IR homing weapons?

[hallow mortar]

Laser targets are objects and you can create them and attach them to things

Unfortunately I can't remember the classnames off the top of my head, but there are a few different ones for different sides; you'll need to get one that's targetable by the desired side

Once attached, you can either leave it alone (for LOS detection only) or broadcast it to the datalink (reportRemoteTarget, and confirmSensorTarget)

[thin fox]

"LaserTargetW" for blufor "LaserTargetE" for opfor

[hallow mortar]

Should also mention that IR guidance and laser guidance are not the same thing. Some IR-guided weapons also have laser guidance, but it's not guaranteed. You need to make sure the specific weapon has the correct type of seeker.

[grand narwhal]

Probably, yeah. Need to test it 🤔

[split ruin]

I need to make dedi proof little script which adds players individual rating to "overall rating" variable

_scorehandle = 0 spawn 
    { 
        missionNamespace setVariable ["kib_score", 1000, true];
        while {true} do 
        {
            sleep 10;
            private _oldScore = missionNamespace getVariable "kib_score";
            private _playerScore = rating player;
            private _sideScore = _playerScore + _oldScore;
            if (_sideScore >= 900000) then {_sideScore = 900000};  
            missionNamespace setVariable ["kib_score", _sideScore, true];
            player addRating (0 - rating player);   
        };
    
    };

[cosmic lichen]

Please use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#HandleScore

[split ruin]

@cosmic lichen nice, didn't know it existed 👍

[cosmic lichen]

Whenever you need to use spawn + while + sleep , check to see if there isn't an event handler that could do that.

[winter rose]

sudden memory of "can I have a distance EH?"

[cosmic lichen]

DistanceChanged?

[winter rose]

yes someone did not want to loop to check if entity 1 and 2 were close

[cosmic lichen]

I hope you suggested him to use AnimChanged event handler for that ?

[winter rose]

yeaaah, of cooourse

"TimeChanged", { params ["_timeSlice"]; 😄

[pallid palm]

hello: what do i put inplace of the "man" to cover all (Ai and Players)

_unit isKindOf "man"

[warm hedge]

"CAManBase"

[pallid palm]

@warm hedge oh cool thx man Awsome

[sharp arch]

Is there a Lasert target for independent?

[winter rose]

try LaserTargetI

[sharp arch]

Thanks

[split scarab]

Is there any way to freeze an object without enableSimulationor simple object? It's a light I want to attach to the roof and it doesn't flash if it's a simple object or enableSimulation = false

[split ruin]

@split scarab what object?

[split scarab]

Portable Helipad Light

[hallow mortar]

Just attach it to something

Doesn't have to be attached to the roof, it can just be some proxy object that's not going to move. attachTo is pure magic, there doesn't have to be any proximity.

[split ruin]

why you want to freeze it? performance gain is almost zero

[split scarab]

It doesn't stay on the ceiling that's why I wanted to freeze it in place

[split scarab]

If I rotate the object it'll attach to, will the light also be rotated in the same direction?

[hallow mortar]

Depends what you mean.
If you rotate the object after attaching, the light will move with it, no matter what.
If you do a plain attachTo, the light will orient itself to match the object's orientation upon attaching. Use setDir, setVectorDir etc after attaching to adjust its relative orientation.
If you use BIS_fnc_attachToRelative, the light's relative orientation before attaching will be preserved.

[split scarab]

I just rotated both upside down and it worked, thank you :)

[floral cloud]

Is there a way to remove specific weapons from the Virtual Arsenal?

[granite sky]

The vanilla one or the ACE one?

[floral cloud]

vanilla

[granite sky]

I don't think there's a blacklist option. You can either list everything or list specified items.

[floral cloud]

Not even via script?

[haughty timber]

Hi, I'm trying to run a script where every unit that gets spawned except the player gets money (I'm using GradMoneyMenu), but it's currently not working correctly. This is my code atm:

    params ["_entity"];
    if (!!isPlayer _entity) then
    {
        private _randomMoney = floor random [5, 100, 500];
        [_entity, _randomMoney] call grad_moneymenu_fnc_setFunds;
    };
}];```

Can anyone help? Thanks

I feel like this code is very wrong, but I can't put my finger on where

[quaint oyster]

You could just do setvariable and call it a day.

I used grad money in the past and I didn't even know it had the call functions for adding cash lol.

[haughty timber]

I'm using GradMoneyMenu because specifically with this script in mind, I can have my players loot enemy AI corpses for cash

[quaint oyster]

Setvariable is the core of the call function, just save time and use setvariable. You also have !! In the if statement which probably isn't gonna work out.

[haughty timber]

How do I find units that aren't players?

[quaint oyster]

Should work how you have it off the top of my head just remove a ! In the if statement, it only requires one

[haughty timber]

Is ! the same as not?

[quaint oyster]

It is but !! Won't work as far as I know

[haughty timber]

I did not isPlayer _entity earlier and it didn't work, it counted players as the units still and reset the amount of money every time we died

[quaint oyster]

Try it as !(isplayer _entity) See if it works that way, I can't see much else unless the call function doesn't work that way.

[hallow mortar]

isPlayer may indeed not be true at the moment the new unit is created, before the player's control is transferred into the new body

[lime rapids]

also note two !

[hallow mortar]

Also, this EH is going to fire for every single entity that ever gets created, which includes all sorts of shit, not just units. You are going to be adding funds to, like, grenades.

[quaint oyster]

Maybe a killed event handler?

[hallow mortar]

They don't want to add funds to units that died, they want to add funds to units that just spawned.

[hallow mortar]

You should include a check for whether the entity isKindOf "CAManBase" to only apply this to valid units

[haughty timber]

Is there a better way to code this?

[quaint oyster]

If it was me, I would try a killed event handler adding the cash on death via a

_unit setvariable ["grad_bank_var_idk_it_lol",(50 + random 1000), true];

Something like that.

That's how I handled it on mine for several years I just don't remember the variables.

[granite sky]

See the note here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Arsenal#Remove

[quick sky]

To be fair, the forum does look like Microsoft Internet Explorer back in 2001.

[haughty timber]

Oh no, I want to add it to every living unit as well

For the mission I'm making, I'm also allowing my players to rob living civilians (we're doing a "bad guy" mission)

Every unit except INDFOR

Because we're fighting both BLUFOR and OPFOR

[quick sky]

With ACE or scrollwheel?

[haughty timber]

ACE

The "rob living civilians" system is pretty simple, GRAD Civs allows you to make civs surrender if you aim at them, while GRAD Money Menu lets you take their money while they're surrendered

The only issue right now is actually giving units that spawn money

I was using
if (not isPlayer _entity) then
But it didn't work as intended; every unit gets a randomized amount of money when they spawn yes, but that includes resetting the amount of money the players have every time we respawn

[quick sky]

initServer.sqf

{
    if (alive _x && side _x != independent) then {
        _x setVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 50 + random 1000, true];
        _x addEventHandler ["Killed", {
            params ["_unit", "_killer"];

            if (!isNull _killer && _killer != _unit && isPlayer _killer && side (group _killer) != independent) then {
                private _cash = _unit getVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 0];
                private _current = _killer getVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 0];
                _killer setVariable ["grad_bank_cash", _current + _cash, true];

                if (local _killer) then {
                    systemChat format ["Message", round _cash, name _unit];
                };
            };
        }];

         // ace interaction
        if (side _x isEqualTo civilian) then {
            private _civ = _x;

            [_civ, 0, ["ACE_MainActions"], [
                "Rob Civilian",
                "Take their money",
                "",
                {
                    params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionId", "_arguments"];
                    private _cash = _target getVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 0];
                    if (_cash <= 0) exitWith {
                        if (local _caller) then { systemChat "This civilian has nothing left."; };
                    };

                    private _callerCash = _caller getVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 0];
                    _caller setVariable ["grad_bank_cash", _callerCash + _cash, true];
                    _target setVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 0, true];

                    if (local _caller) then {
                        systemChat format ["Message", round _cash, name _target];
                    };
                },
                { true },
                {},
                []
            ]] call ace_interact_menu_fnc_addActionToObject;
        };
    };
} forEach allUnits;

Could try this. I'm not the best with ACE interactions, but you could use the documentation to make that work specifically if it doesn't.

https://ace3.acemod.org/wiki/framework/interactionmenu-framework

[haughty timber]

Most of that is actually unnecessary, since the GRADMoneyMenu and GRADCivs module already work in tandem pretty dang well

[quick sky]

Unsure. Never worked with GRAD, just used parameters that are in the docs.

[haughty timber]

if (alive _x && side _x != independent) then {
_x setVariable ["grad_bank_cash", 50 + random 1000, true];
} forEach allUnits;

Haven't tried this yet

[quick sky]

Could try it this way?:

{
    if (alive _x && side _x != independent) then {
        _x addEventHandler ["Killed", {
            params ["_unit", "_killer"];

            if (!isNull _killer && _killer != _unit && isPlayer _killer && side (group _killer) != independent) then {
                private _reward = 100 + random 500;
                [_killer, _reward] call grad_lbm_fnc_addFunds;

                if (local _killer) then {
                    systemChat format ["Message", round _reward, name _unit];
                };
            };
        }];
    };
} forEach allUnits;

Again, unsure, as i don't know how GRAD works.

[haughty timber]

Should I ask in their server instead?

[trim solstice]

basically haave the same question and not having any luck trying to make a custom Airfield without using a carrier for i still can have the taxi on and off part.

[earnest token]

I’m creating a Vietnam scenario and for helicopters taking off, I want to delay a couple so they take off one by one. How can I do this?

I’m no too experienced with scripting so I would appreciate if u tell me where ur gonna need me to place the scripts

[fair drum]

Can I have an event handler event handler that fires when event handlers are handled?

[quick sky]

You’ll use a small line of code in the helicopter’s Init field to delay its movement.

1. Place each helicopter with a pilot in Eden Editor
Place the helicopter (with pilot) and name the helicopter something like heli1 and paste this into the helicopter’s init field:

this spawn {
    params ["_heli"];
    private _padBase = padBase;
    private _padDest = padDest;

    while {true} do {
        // fly to destination
        _heli doMove position _padDest;
        waitUntil { (_heli distance _padDest < 30) || !canMove _heli };

        // land at destination
        _heli land "LAND";
        waitUntil { isTouchingGround _heli || !canMove _heli };
        sleep 40;

        // fly back to base
        _heli doMove position _padBase;
        waitUntil { (_heli distance _padBase < 30) || !canMove _heli };

        // land at base
        _heli land "LAND";
        waitUntil { isTouchingGround _heli || !canMove _heli };
        sleep 40;
    };
};

2. Place two invisible helipads
Place two invisible helipads from the "Objects (Helpers)" category. One at the base: name it padBase and one at the destination: name it padDest for example.

Repeat the same thing again if you're wanting to do it for multiple helicopters.

The while {true} do { makes it so that it's a infinite loop and it'll never stop.

[quick sky]

If you're dealing with a light object (such as a blinking or rotating light) and you want it to remain visually animated (e.g., flashing), you cannot set enableSimulation false or use it as a Simple Object, because enableSimulation false disables scripts/animations for the object and Simple Object mode disables all logic/animations to improve performance.

[earnest token]

Damn that’s a lot😂 thanks for ur help

[modern plank]

Is there a string function like text startWith prefix returning a boolean?

I found nothing in the strings function page, so maybe CBA or whatever native workaround?

I guess there is nothing dealing with regexp?

Oups, I missed
string find [substring, indexStart]

Have a good night/day folks!

[tulip ridge]

Or just "whatever" find _key == 0

[winter rose]

ask dedmen kthxbai

[ionic talon]

Hi 🙂
Does anyone know how to place underwater mines with a script, and get the "Z" right?
Every time I place them, they stick out way too far above the water...

[fair drum]

Use ATL or a negative Z with ASL

[ionic talon]

Oh thanks, I'll check that !

[modern plank]

Small question about Missions Parameters (class Params in description.ext). Is there a way to create a kind of presets parameter, one param at the top who will update several ones when changing its value.
I know that I can read the whole params and do whatever I want with them after, but I would like dynamic changes on the parameters page directly. Possible?

Currently I have a "mission type" at the top, that overrides a bunch of params like "respawn type" during the init process, except if this param is set to value "custom". It just works, but checking if I can do better.

[next gust]

How would I access the first soldier in a group via script?

[modern plank]

Do you need something else than units _group select 0? Some check on the rank maybe?

[next gust]

no, that should be enough.

[modern plank]

ok.

[next gust]

ok I asked wrong. given a player, how can i know his position in his group?

[modern plank]

What do you mean by "position"?

just his place in the array?

[next gust]

probalby

[modern plank]

does it matter?

[next gust]

yes, we hand out helmets with the position as a number on it. need give the right helmet to a player based on his number in the group

[modern plank]

private _place = -1;
{
  if(isPlayer _x && local _x) then {
    _place = _forEachIndex;
    break;
  };
} forEach units player;```

Something like that (not tested).

[next gust]

will give that a try, thanks!

[modern plank]

Looping on all units of the player's group.... then getting the index if the unit is a human player + local to the computer where it runs... to avoid matching another human in the same group.

Code to be executed on the computer who owns the unit. You may need to deal with clientID and owner otherwise.

[next gust]

works. thanks again for the help

[split scarab]

Anyone got pointers for how to disable thermal vision on a AR-2 Darter drone after being assembled?

[modern plank]

Not exactly the same, but some inspiration...

You may want to test the class of object to target Darter only, because this EH is attached to player.s, not the drone itself. Code not tested yet.

[split scarab]

Thank you very much :)

[tulip ridge]

Just check if it's equal to player then

That works but seems less clear about what the goal is

units player findIf { _x isEqualTo player }

Should work

Plus findIf exists as soon as a match is found, so it'll always be less or as many loops as forEach

[old owl]

Could also just do units player find player too

[reef tangle]

Does anyone know how to change the mission for arma 3 server we want to swap it to freeroam

[tulip ridge]

True
Forgot find has an array syntax ngl

[reef tangle]

im stuck at zeus

[fair drum]

what do you mean by freeroam?

[reef tangle]

I mean sandbox

[reef tangle]

we need the server type like this

rn its under zeus

[echo nebula]

hey could someone give me some help understanding how this script works and its utilization

_validItems =  keys (primaryArsenal call ace_arsenal_fnc_getVirtualItems);

_arsenalObjectClass = "AmmoCrates_NoInteractive_Medium";
{
    [_x, _validItems, true] call ACE_arsenal_fnc_initBox;
} forEach (allMissionObjects _arsenalObjectClass select { _x getVariable ["isSecondaryArsenal", false] == true});

TL_arsenalsTransfered = true;```

someone in the server gave it to me for my arsenal but i want to learn how it works i figured it would make all of that object class have the same arsenal but it doesn't seem to work

[cedar bay]

@hasty violet thank u

[fair drum]

did you define your header class in description.ext?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext

class Header
{
    gameType = "Coop";    // game type
    minPlayers =  1;    // minimum number of players the mission supports
    maxPlayers = 10;    // maximum number of players the mission supports
};

not sure which gametype is "Sandbox" but you can look through other missions and see what type they use

[proven charm]

it seems that you need to set the "isSecondaryArsenal" variable in boxes for them to work as arsenal

so in init ```
this setVariable ["isSecondaryArsenal", true];

[cosmic lichen]

Also read if you haven't yet. https://ace3.acemod.org/wiki/framework/arsenal-framework

[still forum]

in engine, Y and Z are always swapped.
And we go to the effort of always swapping them around the expected way, when passing any coordinates to/from scripts. Unless someone forgets to do it..

[split scarab]

Anyone know how to disable TFAR radio when a unit is unconscious or where I can find TFAR documentation? Haven't bene able to find it myself

It disables radio if using ACE Medical but I'm using the vanilla medical system for my mission as we have a lot of new players that aren't used to ACE Medical

[atomic niche]

https://github.com/michail-nikolaev/task-force-arma-3-radio/wiki
docs are on the github

[cosmic lichen]

Yeah it caught me by surprise

[split scarab]

Thank you!

[still forum]

https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/2cf57849b6957bda4ca24f6d76f499f0a2788c58/addons/common/XEH_postInit.sqf#L78 Here is how ace does it.
tf_unable_to_use_radio

[hushed turtle]

Java person

[wind hedge]

Does this 👇 fires when player pressing the R button, or when using the action on the action menu for reload magazine? Or both?

private _ehId = addUserActionEventHandler ["ReloadMagazine", "Activate", { systemChat "reloading!"; }];```

[winter rose]

key only

we have https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#MagazineReloading

[wind hedge]

Thanks!

[haughty timber]

Is it possible to add a while {} do loop on the init of a unit? I'm using a mod's unit spawning module, it allows me to write down a code I want to run on the init of the spawned unit

Basically what I'm trying to achieve is a moving mapmarker on every living vehicle that I spawn

My current code looks like this:

    _vehMarkerClassname = format ["boughtVehMarker_%1" , _index];

    _vehMarker = createMarker [_vehMarkerClassname, _this];
    _vehMarker setMarkerTypeLocal "mil_triangle";
    _vehMarker setMarkerSizeLocal [0.6,0.8];
    _vehMarker setMarkerColorLocal "ColorGUER";
    _vehMarker setMarkerText _vehMarkerClassname;

    [] spawn {
    while {alive _this} do {
        _vehMarker setMarkerPosLocal _this;
        _vehMarker setMarkerDir (getDir _this);
        };
    };
} else {
    deleteMarker _vehMarker;
};```

[winter rose]

please don't do that in init

make ONE thread that manages all marker for all units 😄

[haughty timber]

Ah crap, the problem is I wouldn't know the variable names of the spawned vehicles because they aren't made in the editor

[atomic niche]

while {alive _this} do {
        _vehMarker setMarkerPosLocal _this;
        _vehMarker setMarkerDir (getDir _this);
        };
    };

and please add some delay

[haughty timber]

Oh yeah I was gonna add a delay lol

What's a better way of doing this...?

[hushed turtle]

You gonns need [this] spawn {

[hallow mortar]

You don't need to. You can find them by other means, for example by filtering the results of vehicles, or by having this module save the reference it already has. e.g.

markerVehicles pushbackUnique _this;

// and in the overwatch loop
{
  // some marker code here
} forEach markerVehicles;

[haughty timber]

Oh right

[hallow mortar]

Does the module indicate whether it runs this init code only on one machine, or on all machines?

[haughty timber]

It's the Simplex Support Services Logistics module, I dunno

[hallow mortar]

Try hovering over the title of the init field and seeing if the tooltip has any useful information.

[hushed turtle]

If you spawning then by script then you have all variables you need. Don't you?

[haughty timber]

It just says "Code ran for every item spawned. _this refers to the object, _thisargs refers to any extra arguments passed with the item"

[hushed turtle]

Or you could add them into global array on spawn a then have one thread, which loops through

[hallow mortar]

Super.
Well, I don't really want to go into this mod's code to figure out how it actually works, so there's a limit to how much I can say about it. But the main point is, it matters where the code is executed. If it's executed on all machines, you need to structure it properly to avoid duplication (either by adding a check to only run on the server, or by managing all the markers fully locally). If it only runs on one machine, then you need to make sure that machine correctly gives other machines the information they need.

[haughty timber]

Oh right

[hallow mortar]

There's two ways to approach an overall looping thread: local management (each machine runs their own loop) and global management (the server runs one loop that broadcasts markers to everyone). In the case of local management, you need to make sure everyone gets an up-to-date list of targets for the markers. In the case of global management, you need to make sure the server's list is kept up-to-date. If the init code only runs on the server, that's easy, but if it runs elsewhere (e.g. on the machine of the player who spawned a vehicle) then it's a little more complex.

[haughty timber]

Is there a way to test the locality of the module's code

[fair drum]

Look in the config. It's under isGlobal

0 is server only, 1 is global, 2 is global+persistent

[echo nebula]

hey thanks im quite new to this, this makes sense didn't know the systax so started with isSecondaryArsenal = true. does the primary box that i have need a call command too like this setVariable ["primaryArsenal", true];

since it needs to call the function of the virtual arsenal items from the primary arsenal and the keys for each item to send to every box rather than a full arsenal

[haughty timber]

How do I check the config? Apologies I'm still a novice

Is it in the Splendid Config Viewer?

[echo nebula]

you can check the dir and params in config iirc

[echo nebula]

i tried this and it didn't work it just gives full arsenal im not sure what im supposed to do

[cosmic lichen]

That's another case of DistanceChanged EH @winter rose we should really have that /s😄

[hallow mortar]

It may not be that simple.
That config controls the module's code that's run for the module's initialisation, but this init field code isn't directly executed by the module's creation, it's executed by the module code when it creates a vehicle through its own processes. It could have its own internal checks and/or remoteExecs that cause this code to be executed on other machines.

[haughty timber]

I could spelunk into the code or ask in their server

[hallow mortar]

if you have a DS or a friend available for a quick test, you can check yourself:

private _text = format ["init code was run on machine %1",clientOwner];
_text remoteExec ["systemChat"];```

[haughty timber]

Oh thanks for this! This might be able to help me kill two birds with one stone, since I've been having issues with locality for scripts using that module

[winter rose]

:U

[winter rose]

you can add them to some kind of array
I would recommend markers to be local as to not use network for it

[echo nebula]

hey Lou when you have a minute do you know what i do to call my primary arsenal object or is there code i write per item inside the init of the game via the keys of the items?

i get the context of the script but the formatting is not something im adept in yet

[winter rose]

what is a "primary" arsenal object?

[echo nebula]

its the object that gets the virtual items on init to distribute that data to all "secondaryarsenals" essentially duplicating a specific arsenal to all of that object class of my choosing

but im having a hard time declaring a box as the primary arsenal object and so my secondary arsenals end up just having full virtual arsenal rather than a limited one

[winter rose]

I, huh, would have no idea

[echo nebula]

no problem thanks for taking the time regardless

if my way of describing the issue is poor too please lmk how to improve

[haughty timber]

Wait @echo nebula are you using a limited arsenal of some sort

[echo nebula]

i am attempting to

[haughty timber]

What are you using?

[echo nebula]

the function?

[haughty timber]

For the limited arsenal

Is it the one used in Antistasi?

[echo nebula]

im using ace's "ace_arsenal_fnc_getVirtualItems"

[haughty timber]

Oh

[echo nebula]

oh no lol im manually trying to do it haha

so i can update 1 arsenal and it will update all of them

im trying to do small projects scripting wise to learn and then work my way up and this helps my server

[haughty timber]

Maybe you could post the code you have so far for it?

[echo nebula]

i already have i don't want to be obnoxious and post like 3 times an hour

ill just direct to it

[haughty timber]

Ohh ok

[echo nebula]

this

its not mine it was written by someone else aiding me and i actually understand now how it works but my issue is mostly to do with navigating how it identifies or how i identify the primary arsenal

[haughty timber]

Oh I see

[echo nebula]

maybe on startup i tell the box to boolean the _validitems?

that way it triggers the function to get the item list or "keys"

[proven charm]

the code you posted would go to init.sqf (or whatever is suitable for arsenal init) and every crate you want to use should have the "isSecondaryArsenal" variable set

[echo nebula]

thanks! im unsure what init.sqf is to be truthful, i also did the isSecondaryArsenal variable and it gave a full arsenal rather than the keys from the arsenal i have limited is there something i need to do to direct to the arsenal i have chosen?

[hallow mortar]

init.sqf is a script located in the mission folder. It runs on every machine during mission initialisation.

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

[proven charm]

@echo nebula well i dont really know how ACE arsenal works, i was just reacting to the code you posted

[echo nebula]

thanks i appreciate the help

i haven't touched init.sqf yet or folders outside the game with script yet to be truthful im nervous on that front

[proven charm]

you have to run your script somewhere, dont worry

[echo nebula]

well ive been running them currently inside the eden editor in the init section

[proven charm]

right

[echo nebula]

and i guess the code i have im confused about how it finds the information from the arsenal the whole keys section confused me

[proven charm]

yeah i was bit puzzled as well but i dont know ACE so

[echo nebula]

i see the documents area for the mission sqm

thanks im still very new trying to learn appreciate the help even tho its confusing

what is a createHashMapObject?

im trying to understand all this lingo, is a hashmap just a database of all information a object has?

[winter rose]

a hashmap is an object storing data as key→value

hashmap.Get(key) returns value

(oops, my Enforce Script leaked here)

[echo nebula]

so maybe i could get a hashmap of the data from primary arsenal -> then i could inform the init through _foo?

whats a hashmap typically used for? like examples of its utility

[thin fox]

Store some data into a key. Like, I want to store some planes magazines inside a key called "GBU", and some other magazines in "Rockets", and in a script I would get the key to get the data from it

[echo nebula]

interesting that makes sense categorizing the data

the first section having "_validItems" makes sense now we use a hashmap on the primary arsenal to declare it as "_validitems" and then the code on init will work?

like it stores data from the ace function -> we take that declare it as _validitems and then the script goes wild with that?

2 iq thinking im 10 iq XD

[echo nebula]

could i theoretically use a event handler on the object to declare that when it opens to call _validitems and it does the function i want?

[echo nebula]

im so out of my depth with this i just don't get it, im trying to learn this hashmap stuff or look at all the ace functions or learn how to declare _this = "foo" i just dont get it i guess ill come back later when im less fatigued

[granite sky]

You don't generally want to start by reading ACE code :D

[split scarab]

What's a better way to do this? (Disabling TFAR radio if unconscious and enabling if conscious)
It works but "detatches" from the player after respawn

initPlayerLocal.sqf:

[player] spawn {
    params ["_player"];
    _player setVariable ["tf_unable_to_use_radio", false];
    while { true } do {
        systemChat format["Conscious check: %1", _player];
        sleep 0.5;
        if (incapacitatedState _player == "UNCONSCIOUS" && !(_player getVariable "tf_unable_to_use_radio")) then {
            _player setVariable ["tf_unable_to_use_radio", true];
            systemChat "Disabled radio";
        };
        if (incapacitatedState _player == "" && (_player getVariable "tf_unable_to_use_radio")) then {
            _player setVariable ["tf_unable_to_use_radio", false];
            systemChat "Enabled radio";
        };
    };
};`

[hushed turtle]

You can attach it again from EH on respawn.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#Respawn

[hushed turtle]

Yeah, this stuff is quite overwhelming at first

[hushed turtle]

Also you should probably do while { alive _player } do {, so the thread finishes executing after player dies

[split scarab]

Yeah haha literally just noticed and changed it, gonna test with the same script in onPlayerRespawn.sqf

[granite sky]

Should probably put in yet another feedback tracker request for an unconscious EH :/

[little raptor]

AnimStateChanged EH

[granite sky]

There are so many animation state changes that it's probably slower than polling the damned thing :P

[little raptor]

yeah I meant as a workaround 😅

[wind hedge]

Has anyone ever evaluated the utility of a
A) speedChangedEh
B) player forceProne true; (Same as forceWalk but for prone) (Yes I know it can be done via AnimStateChanged EH but also a expensive workaround) Basically to simulate a player with broken legs until healed

[little raptor]

speedchangedEH?

[wind hedge]

Yes, triggered when a unit/vehicle changes speed. Useful to determine if a unit reached certain speed or if it moved at all

[little raptor]

you might as well check every frame then

speed changes a lot

[wind hedge]

I see, not a good idea then

but idea B) is not so bad is it?

[little raptor]

I don't see its use case

why force someone to be always prone or even crouched?

Basically to simulate a player with broken legs until healed
ah this

[wind hedge]

To simulate a damage state between unconscious and not so wounded... emulating for example how many extraction shooters allow the players even on a "downed state" to move around crawling or prone

[little raptor]

well technically you can create your own animation states for that (you can use vanilla rtms tho)

if you chain them together without linking to vanilla ones the unit won't be able to go to another state except those you link to (basically traps the unit into a specific network of anims)

[wind hedge]

Yes, there are even mods for that but... a command would be simpler 😅

Would also be useful to simulate ai units being suppressed, forcing them temporarily into forced prone or croush

There are many many use cases really

[tulip ridge]

Ai units do get suppressed

It's a vanilla thing

Also setUnitPos(?) exists for AI to force them into a certain state

[digital hollow]

addForce to make them collapse >:)

[wind hedge]

From the Wiki comments: "A unit might not always go prone when ordered to setUnitPos "DOWN", if the unit doesn't agree with the command."

[wind hedge]

A little bit too harsh for just being suppressed

[wind hedge]

Vanilla suppresion lowers their skill I believe but doesn't force them into prone/crouch

[small crow]

hey yall literal first time doing anything arma scripting related or just coding in general. I'm trying to make this script have there be multiple sidechat messages (one after another), how would i do that

[wind hedge]

You can just add ; and another sidechat just like the previous one as many times as you like but the UI can only show so much text before it is replaced by newer text

another way would be to use spawn instead of call so you can space them with a sleep like so:

0 spawn {_soldierOne sideChat "Show this text"; sleep 1; _soldierTwo sideChat "Show this text"; sleep 1; _soldierOne sideChat "Show this text";}

or you can continue what you are doing like sqf call {_soldierOne sideChat "Show this text"; _soldierOne sideChat "Show this text"; _soldierOne sideChat "Show this text";}

But all the text will come up at once

[small crow]

how would I set a longer interval between the texts here?

[wind hedge]

change sqf sleep 1 to sqf sleep 100

The amount of seconds you want

But using spawn

[small crow]

alr ty

[hushed turtle]

Way back in OFP days, any unit with injured enough legs was forced to prone

[wind hedge]

Well, that can no longer be done in Arma 3 unless you mod your own animations in

[drowsy geyser]

Just use player playActionNow "PlayerProne";
if the player has a certain damage value, and then block the input actions: Stand, Crouch, Prone, MoveUp, MoveDown

[granite sky]

Player draws RPG, moves to crouch? :P

[west portal]

How does cursorObject work in multiplayer? I'm trying to make it so that players are supposed to spot a radar, and I know it works in singleplayer, but how does it return in MP?

I'm doing this through a trigger with condition cursorObject == obj1

Is it possible to determine which player's cursor is over the radar?

[winter rose]

triggers are executed on each client, unless Server Only

[wind hedge]

VAL_fn_aiMovingThoughBuildingsFix = {
    params [
        ["_unit", objNull, [objNull]]
    ];
    
    onEachFrame {
        if (insideBuilding _unit == 1) then {
            if (isTouchingGround _unit) then {_unit setVelocity [0,0, -1]};
        } else {
            onEachFrame {};
        };
    };
};

☝️ Will this effectively remove the onEachFrame {} when the unit is not inside a building?

[winter rose]

well yes

it is recommended to use the EachFrame event btw

it will work for only one unit, and onEachFrame does not see other variables

so it won't work 😄

[wind hedge]

Good to know, moving on the EachFrame EH then 😉 Thanks

PS: I know it is very expensive so I will use it on few units only

[winter rose]

only one event, check on multiple units at once

[wind hedge]

I guess I could also try to use the animationChanged EH and check only every time they change animations

would be less expensive and might be as effective

[winter rose]

if you want to paralyse them when they enter a building… why not simply disableAI?

[wind hedge]

Well the function is meant to avoid the ai falling under the building or getting stuck

last time I tested the Ai could still move

Its been ages that I tested it, I am just redoing most of my old scripts and some might no longer work

[thin fox]

disableAI works fine, I use it a lot

[wind hedge]

Yeah, I meant Ai could still move with sqf if (isTouchingGround _unit) then {_unit setVelocity [0,0, -1]};

disableAi "PATH" works great if you want them to still turn and fire. disableAi "Move" is stronger

[cosmic crater]

Hi all. I've been working on a full mission where all you have to do is put down a unit and copy files and run. Everything is there. I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to copy the contents of the entire mission folder to run with playScriptedMission to a new world?

[glass remnant]

Looking for arma 3 server dev

[winter rose]

you can advertise in #creators_recruiting (following the template), even non-paid

[split scarab]

Would anyone happen to know why on my dedicated server, I can heal people/rearm vehicles in Zeus using Zeus Enhanced (I think?) but my friend also using Zeus cannot? I'm typically logged in as admin but he can't do it even with admin

[split scarab]

And does anyone know how to let spectators hear TFAR radio comms, not just proximity? And how to remove a specific radio from Zeus? :)

[winter rose]

that would eventually be #arma3_troubleshooting , not scripting 😉

[split scarab]

Fairs, for all 3 questions?

[glass remnant]

You cannot play/edit this mission; it is dependent on downloadable content that has been deleted.\na3_characters_f pulled theese from server logs, any idea?

[granite sky]

Fake error. Your problem, whatever it is, is elsewhere.

[glass remnant]

Also i get Server error: Player without identity

no functions are working because of that error

[hallow mortar]

This is probably not a scripting problem.
Does it say literally na3_characters_f, or is it actually a3_characters_f?
If the latter, try verifying your game files (and the server if it's impacting other people on the server, not just you). If the former, ✨ mod problem ✨

[glass remnant]

Na3 it says

But my main issie is that it shows player without idenity

@hallow mortar gonna go insane soon trying to figure it out for 2 hours straight

[hallow mortar]

These are probably both symptoms of the same problem

Verify your game files anyway

Also try without mods, with a known good mission file, with a fresh empty mission file.

[glass remnant]

@hallow mortar thanks, i will give it a try

[pallid palm]

@cosmic crater well what i do if i want to move a mission to a new map:
i just change the folder name from A3-Jets.Altis To A3-Jets.Stratis
and then ofcorse you must go in the mission
and reset all the stuff to the places you want

but as far as playScriptedMission to a new world,, i dont know how to use that

i have seen missions where eveything was scripted to find locations and had many maps in it for use, but that takes alot of scripting, and yes it can be done

like the DEP mission

https://github.com/Fluitketel/DynamicEnemyPopulation

[pallid palm]

its a cool mission but i have to edit the hell out of it to fit my needs

[lime rapids]

is there any config properties to determine if something under cfgweapons is an infantry weapons?

[warm hedge]

type being 0, 1, 2 or 4

[lime rapids]

thx

[raw vapor]

Is there any way for AI to detect "oh shit I'm being shot at" even if it's by a friendly?

Ideally I want a line of script that checks,

• When someone is being shot at
• If the AI knows what jerkwad is shooting at them
• What side jerkwad is on, East or West
  and then finally, do something based on the outcome of if their side is the same as your side or not.

I observed AI behavior where I started shooting at indep as blufor, both friendly, trying to scare the AI into going into combat mode since I do know how to trigger scripts based on CombatModeChanged. The AI moved to my position after I finished shooting and missing them, so they know something's up. The use case is I am trying to make a group of AI set the person shooting at them to a renegade even if they don't hit anyone—ideally only if they actually identify who is shooting them.

[proven charm]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#FiredNear but i dont know about friendly fire

[sharp grotto]

Problem with FireNear is, max. distance ~69m.
I would use a combination between firedNear and Hit EH, not perfect but better than nothing.

[hallow mortar]

Suppressed EH would be ideal except it only considers enemy fire

[dusky kestrel]

Sup guys, can someone tell if it is possible to make a script that gives me both bullet instant hit and no weapon spread?

In a way that would work on my local player

[queen cargo]

@tough abyss UI != GUI
what you need is just some way to do that stuff

recommended: simply add some simple keys for detailed adjustment and the rest: 3d space movement

[open fractal]

you can speed up the projectile or teleport the projectile or something like that.. idk if 'instant' is attainable

speeding it up would probably get u the simplest result but idk what the engine limitation is there

[dusky kestrel]

Would work, how can it be done? I have the CBA mod

[open fractal]

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

'Fired' can get u the projectile object and you can set the velocity of it

[wind hedge]

Anyone knows if sqf addMissionEventHandler ["PreloadStarted"
Runs before Mission Params in Description.ext or after?

[dusky kestrel]

Nice, thanks man, what about a no spread?

[open fractal]

probably need to edit config which requires making a mod

[dusky kestrel]

Like a whole pbo file?

[proven charm]

the Description.ext is run before scripts are run

[wind hedge]

A Function from a config with preInit would run before Description.ext thou, right?

[cosmic lichen]

No

Just think about it. CfgFunctions can be defined in description.ext

[wind hedge]

Absolutely right. How do I write Gvars from a mod but allow the mission params to overwrite the default Gvars values then?

[cosmic lichen]

You wait until the mod has defined them and then overwrite them.

[wind hedge]

I see, so no there is no way of doing that in unscheduled...

thank you

[cosmic lichen]

Of couse

Cba_fnc_waitUntil

Or your own eachFrame eh

[wind hedge]

My mod will imitate CDLCs so no CBA sadly, would be cool thou

I will just go scheduled

[little raptor]

you can write your own CBA_fnc_waitUntil

[cosmic lichen]

This

It's 3 lines of code

[little raptor]

it's a bit more but yeah 😅

[cosmic lichen]

Not necessarily.

If he only wants to check one condition

If he wants to build a framework like CBA's then of course it's more work.

[royal quartz]

hey guys the attachTo command says the offset is applied to the objects center, does that mean [0,0,0] in model co-ordinates or is it the position that the command boundingCenter returns?

Example for the hatchback on what boundingCenter returns. Its a very small amount but I need to know as im doing some work that requires precision.

[0.0344856,0.118506,0.561098]

https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/attachTo

https://community.bohemia.net/wiki/boundingCenter

[tulip ridge]

It's model coordinates

PositionRelative = model offsets

[granite sky]

Generally boundingCenter doesn't matter for vehicles, because their model gets automatically recentered on load.

Buildings are another matter. I'm not sure what attachTo uses there.

[royal quartz]

ok I was just curious because I was getting minor discrepancies in my logic for making vehicles go bumper to bumper of around 0.1 sometimes or 0.27 others and wanted to know if this could be the cause. thanks for the info.

If anyone does know would greatly help thanks

[granite sky]

Was that using data from boundingBox(Real)?

[royal quartz]

yes I am using this command to get the bounding box of the vehicle ´boundingBoxReal [_loadVehicle,'geometry'];´ as it seems to provide the closest correct bounding box.

A question on that command with these parameters, do you know where the center of orgin comes from? Because on a hatchback for example you get this

[[-0.989059,-2.52638,-1.36978],[0.905163,2.20161,0.264737],2.38464]

As you can see for the Y co-ord, its not even so the center the command measures from is not central to the model which is frustrating. I was just wondering if anyone knows what the origin point is based on?

[royal quartz]

right I get its from model space co-ords but is it from [0,0,0] or from the boundingCenter position, or the center that boundingBoxReal gives. Im also wondering what the center of BoundingBoxReal is explained above

[tulip ridge]

It's from the model center, so wherever [0, 0, 0] is
(or from the given bone, if set)

[cosmic lichen]

BB Center might be an offset from center of mass

Might be qeustion for #arma3_model

[royal quartz]

ill ask in #arma3_model but any idea for bb real? that cant be center of mass unless its wrong for the hatchback lol. THe engine is in the front and the point it originates from is towards the bck by 0.3 meters from center

I asked here because model people might not even know of the commands if they focus on model and config

[cosmic lichen]

They will know.

[little raptor]

boundingCenter is different from [0,0,0]

attachTo uses [0,0,0] in model space (model coordinates origin is always [0,0,0] ofc, just like world coords)

[royal quartz]

any idea what this or BoundingBoxReal centers are then? See your answering in model chat ignore here. 🙂

[plain bramble]

Hi everyone. I'm back again with a different question.

I want to make a point in my mission where players can use (for example) a tent to skip time. I saw a reddit thread reference this code:

this addAction ["skip 5 hours",{SkipTime 5}];

Which in theory should work. But I wanted to double check that this action is in-fact repeatable?

[little raptor]

yes

[plain bramble]

Great

[granite sky]

Note that skipTime needs to run on the server.

(so this code wouldn't work in multiplayer, except for the host)

[plain bramble]

Though I will say, I probably need to just handle it zeus-side considering my playerbase. They'd abuse the shit out of a button like that.

[hushed turtle]

skipTime needs to be executed on server regardless

[cyan thunder]

all arma playerbases tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwa4_pjLAWs&feature=youtu.be

[plain bramble]

Yeah. Gonna handle it zeus side

"K everybody nappy time"

"I SAID"
"NAPPY. TIME."

[split scarab]

Is it possible to "override" this spectator button somehow so it toggles ACE Spectator on/off instead of the vanilla spectator? With vanilla spectator you're just stuck 1st person view from your body

I'd like for player to be able to spectate their own team while they wait for respawn

[remote cobalt]

Hey folks,

am I lucky and somebody already did some legwork with the new ACE function that attaches IR Lasers on vehicles?

I wanted a drone that is loitering in the Air targeting Targets on the ground and marking them with the IR Laser.

My idea is this:

droneVeh disableAi "AUTOTARGET";
droneVeh disableAi "AUTOCOMBAT";
droneVeh disableAi "FSM";

droneVeh lockCameraTo [truck_1,[0]];

droneGrp enableIRLasers true;

droneGrp setBehaviour "COMBAT";

droneVeh fireAtTarget [truck_1,"Laserdesignator_mounted"];

While the targeting works, the activation of the IR Laser does not happen. Also, if I switch it on manually by taking UAV turret control, it uses the laser and it is also visible for the Player on the ground, but after I release the UAV controls it will only stay on for a few seconds and then be switched off.

I didn't find to much in the ACE documentation and got lost in the ACE Github so I was hoping somebody here already worked with that function and might be able to help.

[hushed turtle]

You can try to configure vanilla spectator https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_End_Game_Spectator_Mode#Mission_Configuration

[split scarab]

Ooh that works yeah! I don't suppose you also know if there's a variable or setting somewhere for whether or not NVG/Thermals are allowed during spectator?

[hushed turtle]

I believe at least at first person this depends on whatever player being spectated is using and cannot be controlled by spectator nor mission maker

[echo nebula]

is anyone here knowledgeable about ace i asked about ace related questions previously and i still use it extensively for my zuesing and eden editing and would like some guidance on working some problems i have/things id prefer to script and not have to manually do in missions for my players

[glass remnant]

When i pick role and after i load in i get a black screen, but cant figure out whats wrong, ill leave log files here https://logpaste.com/Tg0oLHmC

[tulip ridge]

Just ask, http://dontasktoask.com/

ACE discord is also a good place

[echo nebula]

oh good call i didn't think that was a thing truth be told

well i guess i want to fix this arsenal script i have and i got no clue how, i also want my players to be able to purchase vehicles of my choice for objects in game like you construct a vehicle at a sign and it costs 3 boxes

[tulip ridge]

https://acemod.org/discord

[thin fox]

Do you know about Liberation?

[echo nebula]

im aware of it but id rather have it be a personal project, we worked on events like this before i just want to be able to automate some stuff but i don't like the stuff that comes with liberation or antistasi

[thin fox]

I'm talking about taking a look into their files and see how they do some stuff rather than just reinventing the wheel again

[echo nebula]

you got a good point, im not knowledgeable about how to do that but it makes alot of sense and ill def investigate it tyvm

[thin fox]

it was a game changer for me, I learned a lot

[echo nebula]

ty ill be sure to do that

[echo nebula]

want to let yall know that i solved the issue with my arsenal i had to use a cba function to wait until the map had loaded and the objects loaded before i ran my _validItems script 😛

ty yall for the aid!

[abstract veldt]

What are the return values of a Zeus module? e.g. If I had a custom zeus module and placed it on a unit via Zeus, how do I get the unit it was placed on? Or do I define that when creating the module. Not sure if that makes sense.

[warm hedge]

You need to define an EH to the curator module

[tulip ridge]

You can just set curatorCanAttach to 1 in the module's config, and then just check attachedTo _logic

E.g. something like:

params ["_logic"];

if (!local _logic) exitWith {};

private _unit = attachedTo _logic;
if (isNull _unit) exitWith {
    [objNull, "Place on a unit"] call BIS_fnc_showCuratorFeedbackMessage;
};

[pallid palm]

hello all: So if i set the Fog on a Hosted Server in The initServer.sqf to WhatEver i want,
do i need to set the Fog in the initPlayerLocal.sqf and the init.sqf also

[cosmic lichen]

You shouldn't need to.

As it' server excec

[pallid palm]

oh ok cool : thx @cosmic lichen so i was woundering if some one joined later

[jovial sinew]

apologies if this isn't the place to ask this, does anyone know of a cheeky little line of code I could use to disable ace3 fatigue on a single player in a multiplayer environment (dedicated server, if that changes anything)

going to bed, so @ me if anyone has an answer, cheers

[tulip ridge]

Just disable it in the settings

[pallid palm]

and also player enableStamina false;
player enableFatigue false;

[jovial sinew]

eh, I could
we usually play with stamina and all that, I'm looking at making one player in each squad an experimental heavy weapons droid, so I'd ideally like some way to disable stamina for just them

[jovial sinew]

oh for real? my code monkey was telling me that wouldn't work with ace

[pallid palm]

must do both

[jovial sinew]

copy, appreciate it

[pallid palm]

settings and p10 enableStamina false;
p10 enableFatigue false;

[tulip ridge]

Change performance factor in Eden properties

[tulip ridge]

ACE doesn't check for vanilla stamina being enabled / disabled at all

[pallid palm]

agree

[tulip ridge]

So why are you saying to disable it, when ACE ignores it

Same for vanilla fatigue

[pallid palm]

he would need to disable vanilla also right

if he wants all off

[tulip ridge]

Not sure if advanced_fatigue replaces or runs on top of the vanilla system
In any case, just change the unit's performance factor through Eden

[pallid palm]

copy that

i think advanced_fatigue runs on top of the vanilla system

[tulip ridge]

If you want something more dynamic, you can look into adding a dutyFactor that checks some part about the unit

["TAG_isWeaponsDroid", {
    // -5 is a random value, can tweak to whatever you want
    // duty factor of 1 means no change
    [1, -5] select (/* check if the unit is a weapons droid */);
}] call ace_advanced_fatigue_fnc_addDutyFactor

That wouldn't make it dependent on whatever slot a player picks, which you may or may not want

[pallid palm]

nice looking script @tulip ridge

[lean ice]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to make a mp mission for me and my friends to play on a private server. I created easily a sandbox mission with zeus but now I'm trying to launch random objectives in the mission with scripts. I don't really know how to script so I used ai to create it but it's quite hard. Can someone help me please ? 🙂
I published the mission folders on GitHub https://github.com/Jozoooooooo/MISSION/tree/main/SANDBOX%2520AUSTRALIA.australia

If it's not the place to publish this I'm sorry and I will delete it immediatly

[tulip ridge]

Link is a 404, I guess github urls allow the space instead of using %20?

And now it doesn't have the space

Weird

That still 404s, both

[ebon radish]

Anyone know if using the unit capture script, I have a NPC do its thing, if I enter that NPC as Zeus will it override the unit capture? I want to use the helmet cam mod to get seamless stuff (since you can’t do a lot of stuff with helmet cam)

[atomic niche]

discord formats it lol

[tulip ridge]

I guess GitHub is %2520?
https://github.com/Jozoooooooo/MISSION/tree/main/SANDBOX%2520AUSTRALIA.australia/objectifs

[tulip ridge]

Ah, yeah it changes the %2520 to a %20

[lean ice]

I copy the permalink maybe it will work for you

[atomic niche]

its fine just link to https://github.com/Jozoooooooo/MISSION/tree/main

[lean ice]

Oh yes, thank you !

The server run but the scripts for launching random missions are not working good at all

[cosmic lichen]

Well these scripts can't work as they contain commands that don't exist.