arma3_scripting

[bold rivet]

I want to make an anti troll kinda thing since I saw a lot of people crashing drones into friendly helis. I will take a look at handle damage, appriciate the help

[errant iron]

hmm, that's not something i've tested with my safezone system yet, let me see how that goes

[bold rivet]

Im gonna try to combine it with UAVControl command

I will see how it goes

[errant iron]

worked perfectly fine against anti-tank missiles, but not for a tiny drone 🙃

this is the logic i used, if you're curious: sqf _vehicle addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {call { params ["_unit", "", "", "", "", "_hitIndex"]; if (!call WHF_fnc_isFriendlyFire) exitWith {}; if (_hitIndex >= 0) then {_unit getHitIndex _hitIndex} else {damage _unit} }}]; sqf // fn_isFriendlyFire.sqf params ["_unit", "", "", "_source", "", "", "_instigator"]; private _sideA = side group _unit; // with blufor default for empty vics private _sideB = side group _instigator; _sideA isEqualTo _sideB

[bold rivet]

Yeah, you prolly wont be able to stop people from doing that, but I at least want to get their name. Because the problem you have is that you dont even know who controlled the drone

Im trying to do that with UavControl right now, and it does work to some extend, but I have to use a while loop for every drone to check if someone is using it, and thats not optimal I would say

[errant iron]

hmm, printing _instigator simply returned null the entire time, but _source appeared to contain the drone object on some calls, and using UAVControl on that briefly gave me the player unit

[bold rivet]

If you use the UAVControll inside the handle damage EH and you crash it, it did show the name? Cuz the problem I had was that since the drone died, it did not show who was conencted to it

[errant iron]

ergh, sometimes it reported the name but usually aggressive crashes showed nothing: sqf _this addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", { params ["", "", "", "_source", "", "", "_instigator"]; if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = UAVControl vehicle _source # 0}; if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = _source}; if (isPlayer _instigator) then {[name _instigator] remoteExec ["systemChat"]}; }];

[bold rivet]

How do I do the sqf code highlight thing again?

[errant iron]

perhaps it's because the drone dies first and the player is disconnected from it, then the wreck destroys the aircraft afterwards?

```sqf
```

[bold rivet]

[] spawn {

    while {alive this} do {
        _peopleConnectedToUAV = UAVControl this;
        _uavSlot1Name = name (_peopleConnectedToUAV select 0);
        _uavSlot1Role = _peopleConnectedToUAV select 1;
        
        _uavSlot2Name = name (_peopleConnectedToUAV select 2);
        _uavSlot2Role = _peopleConnectedToUAV select 3;
        
        if (_uavSlot1Role != "") then {
            systemChat format ["%1 is using a drone as %2", _uavSlot1Name, _uavSlot1Role];
            if (_uavSlot2Role != "") then {
                systemChat format ["%1 is using a drone as %2", _uavSlot2Name, _uavSlot2Role]; 
            };
        };
        sleep 1;
    };
};

It shows a name as soon as you enter driver or gunner, but its a while loop

:/

I assume having a ton of while loops constantly run on drones cant be healthy for a server, or its performance rather

[errant iron]

i might have got it, if you attribute the UAV controller when they first take control of it, you can use it as a fallback for when the drone is destroyed and the controller loses connection: ```sqf
addMissionEventHandler ["PlayerViewChanged", {
params ["_unit", "", "", "", "", "_uav"];
systemChat format ["view changed, unit: %1, uav: %2", name _unit, typeOf _uav];
_uav setVariable ["TGC_uav_controller", _unit, true];
}];

_this addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {
params ["", "", "", "_source", "", "", "_instigator"];
if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = UAVControl vehicle _source # 0};
if (isNull _instigator) then {_instigator = _source};
_instigator = _instigator getVariable ["TGC_uav_controller", _instigator];
if (isPlayer _instigator) then {[name _instigator] remoteExec ["systemChat"]};
}];```

PlayerViewChanged: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Mission_Event_Handlers#PlayerViewChanged

[bold rivet]

Oh that looks good

Yeah imma give that a try

Thank you a lot !

[errant iron]

i assume PlayerViewChanged is local so you should add that on all clients

the handledamage is def local, so you'd do the same too

[bold rivet]

yeah, im gonna play arround with it alittle and see how it works

[errant iron]

hmm, sometimes it detects it correctly, other times it doesn't still...

printing source shows it sometimes thinks it's the aircraft itself that's doing the damage, rather than the drone wreck

but that's mostly when i crash into the body of the heli, hitting the rotor instead is more reliable at attributing the damage to the drone

[bold rivet]

So I made this now, and I guess this could work. If I add a killed eventhandler to it now and the drone killed itself, then I would count that as crash and save the variable in diag_log / .rtp file

if (!isNil "randomEHidk") then {
    removeMissionEventHandler ["PlayerViewChanged", randomEHidk];
};

randomEHidk = addMissionEventHandler ["PlayerViewChanged", {
    params ["_oldUnit", "_newUnit", "_vehicleIn", "_oldCameraOn", "_newCameraOn", "_uav"];


    [_uav] spawn {
        _uav = _this select 0;
        if (!isNull _uav) then {
            _peopleConnectedToUAV = UAVControl _uav;
            _uavSlot1Name = name (_peopleConnectedToUAV select 0);
            _uavSlot1Role = _peopleConnectedToUAV select 1;
            
            _uavSlot2Name = name (_peopleConnectedToUAV select 2);
            _uavSlot2Role = _peopleConnectedToUAV select 3;
            
            if (_uavSlot1Role != "") then {
                systemChat format ["%1 is using a drone as %2", _uavSlot1Name, _uavSlot1Role];
                _uav setVariable ["lastRegisterdSlot1User", _uavSlot1Name, true];
                if (_uavSlot2Role != "") then {
                    systemChat format ["%1 is using a drone as %2", _uavSlot2Name, _uavSlot2Role]; 
                    _uav setVariable ["lastRegisterdSlot2User", _uavSlot2Name, true];
                };
            };
        };
    };
}];

[cobalt path]

I was always a stranger to remoteexec, my question is how do I remote exec
mflamp1 switchLight "ON";?
Would it be smth like?
["mflamp1","ON"] remoteExec ["switchLight", 0,true];

[hushed turtle]

mflamp1 without quotes

[cobalt path]

THX!

[eternal ingot]

Can anyone help me with a chat.sqf file not working on trigger Activaiton? 2 files work,But the last 2 dont,Even tho the coding is right,If you want more info DM`S are open 🙂

[pallid palm]

chat.sqf file ?

[eternal ingot]

so for dialogue is what i mean

with voice acting

[pallid palm]

oh hmmm

[latent ridge]

what does the code look like exactly for the execution bit (trigger side)

[eternal ingot]

like i know the stuff for it,But its just really weird how its not working for specific BIKB (Dialogue file)

[eternal ingot]

In the trigger it would be blufor not present with : nul = execVM "chat (Number) .sqf";

i have tried different activation types but will not trigger 4 me

[latent ridge]

all of your scripts are the exact same execution?

[pallid palm]

whats with the null = in there

[latent ridge]

that was my follow up question

[pallid palm]

just do [] execVM " .sqf";

[eternal ingot]

ya i just prefer to do it with nul in there because thats how i started off with doing it

[pallid palm]

well that is way out dated

[latent ridge]

that could possibly be part of the issue as its outdated

[eternal ingot]

will i remove all nul so?

[pallid palm]

don't keep doing things just because thats the way you always did it

[eternal ingot]

and put [] execVM "chat.sqf";

[latent ridge]

yep, it should work

[eternal ingot]

alright ill try now

[pallid palm]

that null stuff was from way way back when the game did not work right yet: its just left over stuff no need to use it any more

[granite sky]

Dammaged is global argument, unlike all the other damage handlers. So it has its uses.

[pallid palm]

yes i was confused by that for some time also damage and dammage are 2 diff things

[eternal ingot]

ya nah still isnt working

i can send the code if you want

[pallid palm]

that would help

ill collor it for you

[eternal ingot]

wait what? colour

[pallid palm]

class Sentences
{
    class 3_Q_Line_5
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t5.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "Q";
    };

    class 3_WW_Line_6
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t6.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "WW";
    };

    class 3_Q_Line_7
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t7.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "Q";
    };
};

class Arguments {};
class Special {};
startWithVocal[] = {hour};
startWithConsonant[] = {europe, university};



class CfgSentences
{
  class ConversationsAtBase
  {
     class 1
     {
        file = "1.bikb";
        #include "1.bikb"
     };
     class 2
     {
        file = "2.bikb";
        #include "2.bikb"
     };
     class 3
     {
        file = "3.bikb";
        #include "3.bikb"
     };
     class 4
     {
        file = "4.bikb";
        #include "4.bikb"
     };
  }; 
};

[eternal ingot]

oh thats cool

how do i do that?

[pallid palm]

rgr that m8

[eternal ingot]

rgr = ?

[pallid palm]

looks nice right

[eternal ingot]

ya it does

[pallid palm]

you know how to do that right

[eternal ingot]

nah

[pallid palm]

its easy

some one can text it to you

i cant seem to text it it right

[eternal ingot]

ok but what does rgr stand for?

[pallid palm]

roger

roger willco

[eternal ingot]

should have just said that

[pallid palm]

lol 0k

so lets get to fixing the script if it even needs fixed

[eternal ingot]

also the trigger is BluFor Not present,And there is blufor in it

[pallid palm]

i see hmmm

i don't see ant thing wrong hmmmm

with the script but im not the best

[eternal ingot]

like its weird,Its the same as the other 2 that work just different words and number like t6,t7,t8 etc

so annoying

[pallid palm]

hmmmm

yes maybe some one else can help us

let me keep looking at it more

[latent ridge]

put a hint at the end of the script see if its firing at all, could be a error within the script but Arma aint tossin anything about it

[pallid palm]

are the WW and Q correct

[eternal ingot]

hint as in hint "(Put words wanted to be said here)";

[latent ridge]

ye

[pallid palm]

"ok its getting to here" remoteExec ["hint", 0];

[latent ridge]

ah see I typically just do hint "whatever i want"

[eternal ingot]

alright so where do u want me to put it again?

[pallid palm]

at the end

[eternal ingot]

its on the zargabad map,Could that be a problem by chance?

[pallid palm]

just inside the scope

[eternal ingot]

im not good at this stuff ur saying no clue what the scope is eh

[pallid palm]

inside the last };

[eternal ingot]

startWithConsonant[] = {europe, university "hint hi how are ya"}; like that

[hallow mortar]

Do not do that

[pallid palm]

ok

[eternal ingot]

ill try that two secs

[hallow mortar]

That's config, not SQF script. You can't put SQF code like hint in there, except as expressions in config attributes.

[pallid palm]

w8 kikko is here we are saved

[eternal ingot]

kikko is the guy with N id assume

[pallid palm]

yes hes the best ever

[eternal ingot]

ya i see the tags or whatever

DLC and stuff

[pallid palm]

hes like the best guy for anything Arma

[eternal ingot]

and could the map Zargabad be a problem?

[hallow mortar]

The map shouldn't be an issue

[pallid palm]

and there is others as well but i think hes the best

[hallow mortar]

Give me a second, I don't use the Sentences system often so I'm just reading through it and seeing what's up

[hallow mortar]

Factually, I am not

[eternal ingot]

i remember trying to this same thing on a spearhead 1944 DLC map,But wouldnt work even for the first one so ya

[flint topaz]

Nah Nikko stinks 😋

[pallid palm]

lol hahahahahaah lol

[eternal ingot]

so is N like a bohemia coder or what?

[hallow mortar]

Can you lay out for me how your code is set up in terms of files?

• what is in the "chat.sqf" files you're executing?
• where is your class Sentences ... config placed?
• where is your class CfgSentences ... config placed?

[hallow mortar]

No. People employed by BI have green names.

[pallid palm]

thats a vet collour yes hes great

[eternal ingot]

class CfgSentences
{
class ConversationsAtBase
{
class 1
{
file = "1.bikb";
#include "1.bikb"
};
class 2
{
file = "2.bikb";
#include "2.bikb"
};
class 3
{
file = "3.bikb";
#include "3.bikb"
};
class 4
{
file = "4.bikb";
#include "4.bikb"
};
};
};

Description.ext scotty colour plz?

[pallid palm]

meaning a vet of the game like really good guy

[eternal ingot]

["4", "ConversationsAtBase"] call bis_fnc_kbtell; this is a chat4.sqf file

[pallid palm]

Kikko can show you how to do that

[eternal ingot]

perfect

[hallow mortar]

For config formatting, put this at the start:
```cpp
and this at the end
```

For SQF code, replace cpp with sqf

[eternal ingot]

so at the start put the cpp? and ... at the end

[hallow mortar]

It's ` not .

[eternal ingot]

swap class CfgSentences with ccp?

[hallow mortar]

On my keyboard it's in the top left, but I dunno what shape yours is so it could be anywhere.

[pallid palm]

just copy what he put there

[hallow mortar]

No, just wrap it in those end pieces. This is purely for making the Discord formatting.

[eternal ingot]

sorry i dont know what ur on about?

[hallow mortar]

!sqf

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[pallid palm]

you see now ?

[eternal ingot]

honestly nah,This is confusing me

[pallid palm]

copy what nikko put there

[eternal ingot]

can you not just do the code and add ur twist to it

[hallow mortar]

I'm not trying to change the code (yet), I'm trying to show you how to make it look pretty in Discord to make it easier to read

[eternal ingot]

oh for the colour?

i thought u were on about the coding for the script

[pallid palm]

yes for the collour

[eternal ingot]

let me try there

hi,Hello,Oi```

ahhhh right

[pallid palm]

woohoo yes 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Remember, it's sqf for SQF code, and cpp for config

[eternal ingot]

so i put sqf instead of cpp when im trying to show the code?

shit didnt mean to do that

[latent ridge]

dont do what I do sometimes by accident and put a space after the sqf part lol

[pallid palm]

yes like cpp for the description.ext code

[eternal ingot]

ok so what do i do now with that error?

[hallow mortar]

If it's SQF code, like with commands and stuff, that goes in an Editor field or an SQF file, you use sqf to tell Discord that's the language it needs to highlight for.
If it's config (has class and stuff, goes in description.ext), use cpp to tell Discord to think of it as C++ (it's not C++ but the syntax is close enough to work)

[hallow mortar]

Okay, so this is in description.ext. I assume all those .bikb files exist, in the same folder as description.ext (NOT in a subfolder) and contain the class Sentences ... you previously posted?

[eternal ingot]

ya

ill send it all onto you if you want

its all in the same mission folder

nothing seperate

[pallid palm]

cool

can you show a pic of the mission folder tree

[hallow mortar]

You said 2 instances work and 2 don't. Which are which?

[eternal ingot]

so i have 4 bikb,4 chat.sqf,And a description.ext,Chat1.sqf and 2 work,3 and 4 dont

[pallid palm]

oh nice

[hallow mortar]

Can I see the exact contents of 3.bikb or 4.bikb, and the contents of chat3.sqf or chat4.sqf, please?

Also the attributes of whichever trigger is supposed to execute them

[pallid palm]

why is there no ( .ext ) at the end of the Description.ext

[hallow mortar]

Because they have "show file extensions" turned off in File Explorer. I'd recommend turning it on, but we can see from the file type column that that's not the problem here.

[eternal ingot]

i cant colour it

[latent ridge]

ccc class Sentences
{
    class 3_Q_Line_5
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t5.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "Q";
    };

        class 3_N_Line_6
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t6.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "N";
    };

        class 3_Q_Line_7
    {
        text = ""
        speech[] = { "\chat\t7.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "Q";
    };
};

class Arguments {};
class Special {};
startWithVocal[] = {hour};
startWithConsonant[] = {europe, university};...

[eternal ingot]

the three symbols black out and cant do it,Weird

[hallow mortar]

You must use ```cpp at the start and ``` at the end. You can't use ... instead.

They will appear a darker grey once Discord detects them, it's showing you it's detected them and will use code formatting. Like how it previews the italics if you type _text_.

[eternal ingot]

nah.Wont work,Blacks out and it skips a line instead of texting

[pallid palm]

🙁

[eternal ingot]

cpp ["3", "ConversationsAtBase"] call bis_fnc_kbtell;

there we go

[hallow mortar]

You've just got a space between the first ``` and cpp. Remove that space and you'll be good.

Except for that being SQF, so use sqf. cpp is for config.

[eternal ingot]

??

[pallid palm]

just like Guardian was saying 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Oh, hang on. Add a line break after sqf and before the actual code

[latent ridge]

press Shift+Enter

[hallow mortar]

I always forget

[pallid palm]

oh man so close 🙂

[latent ridge]

sqf

{insert code here}

[eternal ingot]

anyways u know what it says

sqf ["3", "ConversationsAtBase"] call bis_fnc_kbtell;

[latent ridge]

after you type the sqf part hit Shift+Enter to make a new line then past your code

[pallid palm]

i always show it this way

```cpp
// your code here
```

[latent ridge]

that works too lol

[hallow mortar]

Well anyway, I don't see anything specifically wrong with what's posted so far. It all looks roughly right. The next thing to check would be the triggers themselves.

[pallid palm]

,,, 🙂

[eternal ingot]

so sqf is for what? cpp is for?

[hallow mortar]

As I said a moment ago, SQF is for SQF code - executable code that you're putting in Editor code fields and in .sqf files

[pallid palm]

sqf is for sqf and cpp is for like config stuff

[hallow mortar]

CPP is for config, with class and such, which you're putting in description.ext

[eternal ingot]

right,Thanks

the triggers are right tho,Its Blufor - not present,Kill all of the enemys in the area = [] execVM "chat3.sqf";

and the next one chat4.sqf ofc

[pallid palm]

no = sign

[hallow mortar]

This isn't a criticism of you, more of a tip for troubleshooting: "it's right" isn't a substitute for the actual configuration. If everything was right, we wouldn't be troubleshooting :P

[hallow mortar]

If you have that = in the actual code execution field, remove it.
What you had before was null = [] execVM ...
What that did was take the Script Handle, returned by execVM, and save it to a variable called null. The = sign is used for assigning values to variables. Doing this used to be necessary due to a bug in the Editor, but it's been fixed for years. So you don't need null, and you don't need = either because you're no longer assigning a value to any variable.

Doing null = [] execVM ... wouldn't actually break your script, it's just pointless. But having a lone = hanging out there would break it, because that's not valid syntax and it would confuse the game.

[pallid palm]

in the onActiveation of the trigger put

"Kill all of the enemys in the area" remoteExec ["hint", 0];
[] execVM "chat3.sqf";

[eternal ingot]

so [] execVM "chat2.sqf"; e.g.

[hallow mortar]

Yes, exactly

[eternal ingot]

i dont use hints unless absolutely necessary tbh

ok ill try that now

[hallow mortar]

There are more efficient ways of doing this, but we'll stick with this now, at least until we get it working like this, because it will work.

[pallid palm]

then remove the hint

[hallow mortar]

If you try that and it still doesn't work, the next thing to check is whether the trigger is actually activating. Use a systemChat "trigger activated!" or something in its On Activation field to prove it. If the trigger activates but your script doesn't run, then the problem is with your script; if the trigger doesn't activate, then the problem is with the trigger.

[pallid palm]

i think he should have blufor presant maybe

[eternal ingot]

but if blurfor is present in the trigger it will just complete the task as the start of the mission no?

[pallid palm]

task what task you said nothing about a task ?

[hallow mortar]

Let's just take this step by step. Ideally, the steps I'm suggesting.

[pallid palm]

copy that

so 1 last thing does the trigger cover the whole map ?

or a small area

[eternal ingot]

alright so the code came up from N,So ya i think its the script but u said it was right so?

[pallid palm]

well it does look correct to me

so tell more about the trigger how big is it and are blufor in the trigger at start of mission

[hallow mortar]

Oh I see a potential problem. It's a classic too

[hallow mortar]

They just said the trigger successfully activates, so that's not the issue

[pallid palm]

copy

[eternal ingot]

so its a custom size,Fits the people i want in it and yes their in in at the start of the mission

[pallid palm]

copy that

[hallow mortar]

In your .bikb files the text attribute is missing a ; at the end

[eternal ingot]

they have it

like that right?

and the ones that work dont have it either

[pallid palm]

he said in the .bikb files

[eternal ingot]

shit srry 2 secs

text = ""````

then i have the words in the quotes

no ;

[hallow mortar]

Yes, there should be a ; after the closing quote

[eternal ingot]

but the others work?

without it also

[hallow mortar]

It's possible the game might be able to recover from it in some cases, but going without it is not how it's supposed to be done. It's wrong. There can be consequences. You should fix it.

[eternal ingot]

ill try that now

[pallid palm]

thats because the script gets so far and the game says oh no no way 🙂

[azure portal]

Possibly not the right spot for this, but does anyone know of a way to stop players from loading in prone when at altitude?

[sharp grotto]

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

[pallid palm]

depends on how hight you want them i think

[eternal ingot]

so it says the path file - 3.bikb,Line 4: Config End of line encountered after Captain,Roadblock clear,Moving to next objective; (Words i have in there@```

[azure portal]

Does that need to get reset if you want them to then jump out of a plane and freefall at that same altitude? Or is it just slap it in the init and make it wait then reset anyways?

[eternal ingot]

are they in the plane or flying object?

[hallow mortar]

Well that's a little suspicious.
Can I see the actual exact words you have in there? (just for that line) You might have odd characters that are breaking it.

[eternal ingot]

and the game just quit when the trigger was completed

[pallid palm]

maybe you can use ```sqf
_player playMove "Stand";

[eternal ingot]

class 3_Q_Line_5
    {
        text = "Capatin,Roadblock clear,Moving to next objective;
        speech[] = { "\chat\t5.ogg" };
        class Arguments {};
        actor = "Q";
    };```

[hallow mortar]

Okay, well, missing "

[eternal ingot]

oh fuck,Let me try again 🙁

[azure portal]

They're standing in the cargobay of the plane, not seated in the plane, and the plane is stationary on a floating piece of pier

[eternal ingot]

standing but are they in the object? like a seat for example

[pallid palm]

and when they jump out they go into skydiving mode ?

is that what your saying

[azure portal]

Hold on, I'll screenshot it

Just standing, not in a seat or anything. Idea is to open up the back when they're ready and jump out to skydive

[pallid palm]

so the plane is floting on the water ? like

[azure portal]

The plane is on a concrete pier piece floating 8km in the air

[pallid palm]

ahhh ok

[hallow mortar]

Yes, you will need to change the unit's freefall altitude back if you want it to start freefalling again. It's a permanent change to the unit's properties, not a one-time override.

[eternal ingot]

ya,Still not working even when corrected

[pallid palm]

8 m should not put you into freefall mode

[hallow mortar]

That's true, but they said 8km, which is a little bit higher

[pallid palm]

oh shit ok lol my bad lol 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Look I appreciate you're trying to help, but the first step to having a helpful response is actually reading what the other person wrote

[pallid palm]

yes yes thx for giving me hell i like it 🙂 it only makes me better 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Can you zip your mission folder and send it to me by DM? You can strip out the audio files if you like. I need to see this in its actual state, not piece-by-piece.

[pallid palm]

how the hell did i miss that dam 🙁

so this is a Halo jump em i right

[azure portal]

Does this look obviously wrong to anyone? Arma hasn't thrown a flag just from putting it into the init so far, about to test but wanted another set of eyes

[this, 8000] spawn {
    params ["_unit", "_altitude"];
    _unit setUnitFreeFallHeight _altitude;
    waitUntil { time > 1};
    _unit setUnitFreeFallHeight -1;
};

[eternal ingot]

how do ZIP it? i have never done that b4

[pallid palm]

right click on it

[hallow mortar]

Rightclick on the folder > send to > compressed folder

Unless you're on Windows 11 and they've hidden it somewhere else, because Microsoft's decided they hate the context menu this time around. It might be in the Share tab at the top when you have the folder selected.

[eternal ingot]

ya nah i got it gimme a sec

[azure portal]

Nevermind, worked perfectly 🙂 🎉

[hallow mortar]

Excellent!

[pallid palm]

nice

[azure portal]

Thanks fellas for reminding me of setUnitFreeFallHeight 🙂

[pallid palm]

was Nikko i didnt do any thing but get in the way 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Actually it was El'Rabito

[pallid palm]

oh oops

[eternal ingot]

right so i have the folder how to send it?

[hallow mortar]

rightclick on my name > message > drag the zip onto the message field > send

[eternal ingot]

i dont have nitro

[hallow mortar]

If it's big enough to need Nitro to send it, you should remove the audio files first

[eternal ingot]

ya i took em out

[hallow mortar]

the hell is in your mission

[pallid palm]

right click on Nikko's name then click on message

[pallid palm]

oh shit w8 what

[eternal ingot]

thats all of it ther

like 40kb no?

[hallow mortar]

You'll notice this doesn't show the size of what's in those folders

[eternal ingot]

i have 2 songs in there

4,790 KB

6,710 KB

[hallow mortar]

Songs are chonky and I don't need them. Take them out

[eternal ingot]

2 secs

and there might be a long delay between some tasks,Just wait like about 20-40 seconds for some,But its 3 minutes for the start so

[pallid palm]

hes not going to run the mission hes going to look at the files

[eternal ingot]

oh,Well if he wants too,There you go

[hallow mortar]

Thanks. I'll look at this. It might take a minute so stay cool.

[pallid palm]

lol back in Arma 3 Alpha i had this guy came in my server and he put all of us way up at like 30,000 m and we were stuck in freefall mode

[latent ridge]

thats terrifying

[pallid palm]

i had to kick him and restart the server

yes

we even hit the ground and did not die but stayed in freefall mode

it was bad lol

i didnt have battle eye on so now i always do 🙂

[eternal ingot]

is multiplayer good with arma 3?

[pallid palm]

hell yeah if you script correctly

[eternal ingot]

i played it once but i think it was just friends pissing about with zeus

[pallid palm]

well i dont use zeus i make my own missions from scrach

i think i made like 1000 missions by now

you know after playing for 10,000 hrs you want to make your own missions 🙂

w8 letme see brb

make that 10,080 hrs woohoo 🙂

lol

as a matter of fact i was just talking about the very 1st mission i made in Arma 3 last night in Gen Chat

it was fun

well i really started way back in OFP that was fun to but Arma is way way way better

i was talking to this 1 guy he has 23,000 hrs in Arma 3 i was like wow Awsome 🙂

but tbh my missions would be lame with out guys like Nikko and others

them guys are Awsome and thx all you Awsome guys for helping me make my missions so Awsome 🙂

[latent ridge]

So, I do have one small question about my script; I've added comments to each line to explain what I thought. however I am trying to get a object (like a statue) to "face" the players without leaning the object. However; I believe I messed something up since Arma is complaining about line 65 (which is the following part)

private _azimuth = _fgt getDir _nearestplayer;

I'm still kinda learning how to work with distance and arrays so any help would be great! this is suppose to loop which is already set up because my audio effect works as intended, just this block/section is where I am super stuck lol

if (count _players >0) then{ // Counts how many players are in the 
    // Check for Nearest Player
    private _nearestPlayer = objNull; // Variable nearestPlayer now represents Empty
    private _nearestDistance = 3001; // Variable nearestDistance now represents Max Distance of 3001 Meters
        
    if (_nearestPlayer != fgt) then{ // Variable nearestPlayer is checked to make sure its not FGT
    private _nearestPlayer = player distance fgt; // Variable _nearestPlayer now represents players distance from fgt
            
    if (_nearestPlayer <_nearestDistance) then{ // if the nearestPlayer is less than the nearestDistance
        private _azimuth = _fgt getDir _nearestplayer; // gets the direction of nearest player    
        _fgt setDir _azimuth; // sets the fgt to "face" the nearest player
    };
  };
};

if needed; I can copy/paste the whole Loop part of .sqf file lol

[pallid palm]

what do u mean by without leaning the object ?

[hallow mortar]

private _nearestPlayer = player distance fgt; // Variable _nearestPlayer now represents players distance from fgt```
Why do you do this?

Since you've done this, after that point _nearestPlayer contains a number (the distance). You cannot use getDir on a number.

[latent ridge]

rotating like making it like upside down or something stupid lol

[pallid palm]

oh lol ok

what about fgt setDir getDir Player; or somthing like that

[latent ridge]

So this is the part im still learning about Arma, when it says

private (whateverhere) = [x,y,z]

I'd assume its kind of limited to what I can give a name to. Again I'm coming from UE5 so a lot of this is kinda different to me so I did that as like a see what y'all say, cause like I said, I'm just trying to learn about it and some of the wiki's are confusing lol.

[pallid palm]

true that

[latent ridge]

I kinda thought you could "Change" the variable after using it for one thing if that makes sense?

but again; that logic now saying it out loud is kinda stupid lol

[hallow mortar]

private is used to prevent variables from conflicting across different scopes. See https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Variables#Scopes

Your usage of private is fine, what's not fine is changing the variable to be something else and then using it as if it still contained the original thing.

You can change variables to contain different things after defining them, there's no technical limitation on it, but you then have to remember that and treat them appropriately.

[pallid palm]

i just say in my head what i want to happed and then i make the script while im saying it in my head 🙂

[latent ridge]

of course; so my question about that part is; could the private variable be called whatever? like private dingdong = [x,y,z]

[hallow mortar]

Well, private is used only for local scope variables, not global scope variables (global variables are inherently incompatible with the concept of a private variable), so it must start with a _. But otherwise yes.

[latent ridge]

well everything in this .sqf (those goes for 99% of all my .sqf's) wont talk to one another so private is fine
-# I think?

[pallid palm]

esample of local scope var's

private ["_fgt","_azimuth","_more","_here","_lol"];
``` 🙂

[hallow mortar]

Yes. In fact, the majority of the time you define a local variable in any script, you're going to want it to be private. It's almost always the right choice.

(Actually, most of the time it won't cause a problem if it isn't, but it's better to be safe and there's no downside to doing so)

[latent ridge]

to answer this; thats kinda what I was trying to do with the _azimuth and the

_fgt setDir _azimuth;

part

ok, I think I understand, so I should rename the

private _nearestPlayer = _player distance _fgt;

Also does the player and fgt need the _ too? cause rn they dont

[hallow mortar]

Really depends what you're doing.
You might want to reference the global variable fgt if it's an object's Editor variable name. On the other hand, if you've dynamically acquired a reference to it within this script, it's probably better to keep it as a local variable so you don't conflict with other scripts. (If you do use global vars, it's recommended to give them a more unique prefix to avoid collisions with other scripts and mods.)
player isn't a variable, it's a command that returns the player object on the current machine. So that one really really depends. If you need the return from that command...you have to use that command.

[pallid palm]

with out the underscore: its a global variable frt

[latent ridge]

ok so I should make sure fgt doesnt have the underscore as it is a object in the editor itself correct?

[hallow mortar]

If fgt is the variable name you've given the object in the Editor. Editor variable names are global variables, but you can also get references to Editor-placed objects by other means, so that isn't the only possible way to refer to them.

[old owl]

I am always pretty anal about assigning private to my variables but also realistically in most cases doesn't matter. Only event it will really matter is if you call code with a variable of the same name then all of a sudden you're dealing with a really unfortunate to find bug. I tend to be anal about it because for me there really is not any reason not to use it. Except for maybe on frame event handlers where you want to save performance, even then though that is where syntax 2 of private comes in clutch

[latent ridge]

yeah the objects variable name in the editor is fgt

[pallid palm]

this may help some

//Server Run
if (!isServer) exitWith {};

//private local var
private ["_mrk","_vtype"];

//_mrk
_mrk = selectRandom ["Sub0","Sub1","Sub2","Sub3","Sub4"];

//SDV  is a global var
_vtype = "O_SDV_01_F";
SDV = createVehicle [_vtype, (getMarkerPos _mrk), [], 0, "NONE"];
SDV setDir 180;

//Submarine is global var
Submarine = "Submarine_01_F" createVehicle position SDV;
Submarine attachTo [SDV, [4.45, 0, 1]];
Submarine setDir 180;

[latent ridge]

so... meaning I should do the private for my variable? (sorry im kinda getting confused with the yes or no lol)

[old owl]

Apologies yapped a bit lol. TLDR is that realistically kinda rare you'll run into an issue if you don't but I always would since it's easy and will save you from potentially pain in the butt to find bugs later 🙂

NikkoJT is correct in everything he's been saying

Here is some more information though on how private works if helps #arma3_scripting message

I tend to generally use that syntax 99% of the time. If there is a bunch and performance is a concern, I'll tend to toss them in a private list like so:

private ["_var1", "_var2", "_var3", "_etc"];

[hallow mortar]

That mechanic doesn't actually depend on private. All local variables are destroyed on leaving an if scope if they were initially defined inside it.

[latent ridge]

gotcha; well I mean the audio works so I'll just keep using what I got anyway (at the start of the entire .sqf I have private _fgt = fgt; anyway so either way you guys mention works lol)

[old owl]

I know, more just demonstrating how it affects scope.

[latent ridge]

does its cause confusion a bit? maybe but I'll get that sorted (kinda rushing with this script a little bc the op im doing is this Saturday and this part is taking a lot longer than i thought)

[latent ridge]

I get the setDir script, but there isnt a way (as far as I am aware) to allow the script to automatically find the closest player no?

[old owl]

Also another reason why I was saying private doesn't really matter- although I tend to always use it out of best practice and readability

[pallid palm]

private does matter imho

like Nikko said if you don't use private then some mods and scripts could get corn fused 🙂

[old owl]

I mean just varies on what you are using it for. If you had a bunch of Draw3D running on every frame, you wouldn't want to impact performance by using private a bunch

[pallid palm]

oh yeah i agree with that yes

[hallow mortar]

You could probably do something with this https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_sortBy

[pallid palm]

why not just make the thing look at the leader 🙂

lol

[latent ridge]

I dont want it to "look at the leader" lol I would like the object to rotate toward the closest player but I'll have to ask again later as I gotta disappear for a few hours lol

[pallid palm]

copy that m8

[latent ridge]

ok, I have returned lol, so I found a thing called "nearestObject" is that a outdated way of locating a player closest to an object?

[warm hedge]

I have no idea what or why is outdated. You want the player object, among of any players?

There is no command to do it automatically. Several commands combined will achieve it

[latent ridge]

Referring to this, I am looking to make my object turn toward the closest player. I saw the "nearestObject" and was curious about it
I've been looking on exactly what allows me to achieve the goal im trying to get to. I am just a little stuck lol.

[granite sky]

nearestObject is max 50m so it'd not normally useful for that.

[latent ridge]

yeah I read more into it and saw that literally seconds after sending that message. I was like well crap that aint gonna work lol

[granite sky]

nearestObjects can do it, although it's a bit expensive because it'll sort the lot. Otherwise you first get a list of players and then find the closest one of those.

[latent ridge]

yeah nah I need a distance of 3k meters lol

[granite sky]

There is actually no good way to do this in SQF but there are several bad ways.

[latent ridge]

oh shoot? alright; so what is a "good" way of doing it? I've only used .sqf files so I have no idea what other ways there are... well besides functions but I have no idea how them things work XD

let alone create one

[granite sky]

I mean there really should be a command that'll find the nearest of an array of objects, but there isn't.

You can use this thing if you're not picky about performance: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_nearestPosition

[latent ridge]

ah yeah, I gotta take performance into account as I host the server and play on the same computer (local host)

[granite sky]

Fastest current method is this monstrosity:

private _distances = _objects apply { _x distance _pos };
_objects select (_distances find selectMin _distances);

[warm hedge]

Didn't thought of that find usage

[latent ridge]

so if I understand correctly;
distances = 3000m
_objects = the object im wanting the 3k to start at(?)
_x = player

[warm hedge]

No
distance is a command to get the distance between
_objects is the objects to find
_pos is the position of the object

[granite sky]

In this case _objects would be allPlayers or similar.

While _pos would be your "object" or the ATL position of it.

If you only care about closest in 2d then use distance2d instead.

playableUnits is probably better than allPlayers unless you want it to look at corpses.

You can prefilter down to players within 3km or not. Whether that's optimal depends on your mission.

If that 3km matters then it's probably best to prefilter.

[warm hedge]

I don't think that makes the process significantly faster tho

[granite sky]

It does if there's one player in radius and 99 out.

playableUnits inAreaArray [_pos, 3000, 3000]; anyway

[latent ridge]

ok so it would be this right?

private _distance2d = playableUnits apply { _x distance _fgt };
playableUnits select (_distance2d find selectMin _distance2d};

yeah I'll use playable units (I dont want my object focusing on a dead corpse lol.

[warm hedge]

Why you write _distance2d?

[latent ridge]

assuming off of this

I dont need 3d, just 2d

[warm hedge]

No that is not he mean

[latent ridge]

oh gotcha

[granite sky]

distance and distance2d are the commands inside the apply.

_distances is just a variable name.

[latent ridge]

oooohhhh

[warm hedge]

_distances or _distance2d or _distanvekdodkshsocodjjwkdokvjdjkvk make no difference

Just your readability and preference

[latent ridge]

ok I gotchu, again, just trying to understand hence why I'm askin and showing my thought proccess lol

[warm hedge]

No need to clarify that. Everyone is here for that purpos

[granite sky]

private _nearPlayers = playableUnits inAreaArray [_fgt, 3000, 3000];
private _distances = _nearPlayers apply { _x distance2d _fgt };
private _nearestPlayer = _nearPlayers select (_distances find selectMin _distances};

If it's possible that there are no near players then you should handle that case.

Can be done neatly with call/exitwith like this:

private _nearestPlayer = call {
  private _nearPlayers = playableUnits inAreaArray [_fgt, 3000, 3000];
  if (_nearPlayers isEqualTo []) exitWith {objNull};
  private _distances = _nearPlayers apply { _x distance2d _fgt };
  _nearPlayers select (_distances find selectMin _distances};
};

[latent ridge]

yes which I had the

if (count _players >0) then{ ...

so it would bypass the script I have... or well in this case, the one you guys are helping me with

sorry for the late reply lol

[latent ridge]

earlier you said that there isnt a "clean" or whatever way of doing it in a .sqf... I assume this would work in a not performance safe manner?

if so that is fine

[granite sky]

It's not terrible, written like that.

It should just be a lot better.

The apply part is pretty fast because of simpleVM.

[latent ridge]

what does simpleVM mean?

[granite sky]

It's a thing Dedmen wrote that optimises some short loops.

[latent ridge]

gotcha

[granite sky]

So if you can rewrite an algorithm from one larger loop to two short ones it's often much faster.

[latent ridge]

oh so I shouldn't wrap everything into one loop? (give me a moment and I'll show what I currently got)

[granite sky]

The more obvious way to do nearest-object is something like this, but it's very slow because there's no way (at not least not that I've figured) to use simpleVM with it:

private _nearObject = objNull;
private _nearDist = 1e6;
{
  private _dist = _pos distance _x;
  if (_dist < _nearDist) then {
    _nearObject = _x;
    _nearDist = _dist;
  };
} forEach _objects;

Note that for what you're doing it's probably not a concern anyway.

you gotta know how often your code is being executed.

[latent ridge]

base line 10 seconds but it has a random +20 so its a 10-20 seconds... I plan to raise it later once I get it working to like 30-50 seconds

[granite sky]

yeah don't worry about it.

SQF is slow but it's not that slow.

[latent ridge]

so this here I dont have to worry about as I have that If then bit right?

[granite sky]

assuming your logic is correct, sure. It's just organisation.

[latent ridge]

additionally; here my probably very incomplete and nonsense script lol

while {alive fgt} do {
    private _randomSound = selectRandom _sounds;
    private _players = playableUnits;
    // hint format ["Voltage Tower playing: %1.ogg", _randomSound]; 

    playSound3D [
        getMissionPath format ["audio\%1.ogg", _randomSound],
        fgt,
        false,
        getPosASL fgt,
        5,
        1,
        3000
    ];
    
    private _nearPlayers = playableUnits inAreaArray [_fgt, 3000, 3000];
    if (count _players >0) then{ // Counts how many players are in the 
        // Check for Nearest Player
        private _distances = _nearPlayers apply { _x distance2d _fgt };
        private _nearestPlayer = _nearPlayers select (_distance find selectMin _distance);
        private _azimuth = _fgt getDir _nearestPlayer
        
        _fgt setDir _azimuth;
        
    };

    sleep (10 + random 20);  // waits 30–50 seconds before next play
};

[granite sky]

yeah that's no good, you need to move the nearPlayers calc before the check.

[latent ridge]

wait I just realized

[granite sky]

Otherwise _nearPlayers could be empty even if _players isn't, and then bad things happen

[latent ridge]

yeah I was about to say... should I move all the private variables to where the private _randomSound is? so its at the start of the script

[granite sky]

Nah, keep them local where you can.

Style thing really, but if you keep the scope of a variable as small as possible then it makes it easier to read.

[latent ridge]

I mean, if its a "preferance" thing; I'd like to keep all the private variables stuff at the top so its easier for me to find them like how I got the private randomsound and players

but if that'll cause issues I'll move them as I need if that makes sense?

[granite sky]

Well, a lot of those vars can't have a legitimate value unless there are nearby players.

[latent ridge]

yeah so I should keep all those where they are but move the _nearPlayers before the if (count) check correct?

[latent ridge]

Editing the code one sec so you can see what I'm talking about

something of that sort? (maybe? lol)

[granite sky]

yes

[latent ridge]

sweet; now I just gotta figure out the whole _fgt setDir _azimuth; part

[pallid palm]

holy shit: i just made a Bad Ass Script where the Enemy select a random player from all the player group: and Attack you like Mad Dogs: WoW i stumbled on to something cool 🙂 lol the "ghost" in the Mach. 🙂

i got the idea from Lou hes Awsome

talk about a all out Rush lol wow

no disableing anything just good fun scripting 🙂

the enemy attack so fast and hard: i can hardly kill a 6 enemy group 🙂

of corse you can ajust the amount of Enemy in the group in the Params

holy shit them Enemy are Bas Ass mama jammers lol 🙂 also what's really cool is the script keeps checking to see how many players are alive so they get included in the random player check

i even went in a house and tried to hide and they came in the house and Attacked me like mad dogs 🙂

and they were nade-ing and shooting the hole time Wow

the script is only 22 lines

if you don't count the spaces and the comment out lines

the 1 time i got close to 2 objectives and both enemy groups from both objectives Attacked me also: holy moly that was intense.

the Attack player script: gets exec-ed from the enemy group script:

i had to fall back like 6 times just to live tho it all 🙂

i was like Runnnn lol 🙂

God i love Arma 3 woohoo

i cant w8 to host that missions and see how people deal with that 🙂

max amount of respawns is 30 on a 10 player mission

but you can change that in the params also 🙂

//Params
class Params
{
    class Respawn
    {//0
        title = "Respawn";
        values[] = { 0,10,11,15,20,30 };
        texts[] = 
        {
            "infinite Respawns",
            "10 Total Respawns",
            "Team Respawn",
            "15 Total Respawns",
            "20 Total Respawns",
            "30 Total Respawns"
        };
        default= 30;
        code = "";
    };
};

i like Team Respawn the Best: cuz when you die you go into Spectating mode till the last player dies and then we all respawn 🙂

its more like real to me: you can only view blufor side when your dead:

but you better turn the Ai off so you dont have to w8 for they to die 🙂

but sometimes you may want that so well you know

[pallid palm]

also i have this smooth Transition when you die from black schreen to spectating mode: and also on respawn: its cool i like it-------------------------------------------------------------------

[indigo snow]

funnily enough i remember someone a while ago trying to solve race conditions

[odd kraken]

i'm having an error that ive been stuck on for the past 4 hours, i need some help as im not good with scripting.

when a trigger is activated for a healthbar script for wbks, this shows up.
to explain the process, what im doing is

Spawn smasher with createunit, and give it the variable name of "IA"

Then a sleep goes off, where the full healthbar script is initiated. so far, it's not working and anytime i try to make it work, it either just stays static and doesn't progress/go down and doesn't go away once the boss is dead, I know the script works because the exact same one works with someone else, as i just copied it from them.

[errant iron]

trigger activation/conditions run in unscheduled environment, basically meaning your scripts are expected to run in a single frame, so they forbid sleeping inside them - you need to spawn your healthbar part in scheduled environment so it's allowed to run in the background, e.g. ```sqf
_unit = _group createUnit [...];
_unit spawn {
// in this block, _this = _unit
// (but you can keep using your IA variable too)
sleep 2;
systemChat format ["%1 has spawned!", name _this];
};

[odd kraken]

sqf 
if(isServer) then { 
a2 = createGroup east; 
"WBK_SpecialZombie_Smasher_Acid_3" createUnit [position a1, a2, "IA = this"]; 
}; 

IA spawn { 
       sleep 2; 
    systemChat format ["%1 has spawned!", IA _this]; 
}; 

[IA,""WBK_SynthHP"","Iradiated abomination] spawn { 
 if (isServer) exitWith {}; 
 params ["_unit","_param","_name"]; 
 _TB_Health_PIC = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscPictureKeepAspect", 20004];  
 _TB_Health_PIC ctrlSetPosition [0.319531 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.00500001 * safezoneH + safezoneY,0.0360937 * safezoneW,0.066 * safezoneH];  
 _TB_Health_PIC ctrlSetTextColor [1, 0.05, 0, 0.8];  
 _TB_Health_PIC ctrlSetText "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\Revive\overlayIcons\f100_ca.paa"; 
 _TB_Health_PIC ctrlCommit 0;  
    _ctrlBackground_Health = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscBackground", 20001]; 
    _ctrlBackground_Health ctrlSetPosition [0.355625 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.016 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.299062 * safezoneW, 0.044 * safezoneH];    
    _ctrlBackground_Health ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.3];    
    _ctrlBackground_Health ctrlEnable false;    
    _ctrlBackground_Health ctrlCommit 0; 
    _TB_Health_bar = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscProgress", 20002]; 
    _TB_Health_bar ctrlSetPosition [0.360781 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.027 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.28875 * safezoneW, 0.022 * safezoneH];  
    _TB_Health_bar ctrlSetTextColor [1, 0.15, 0, 0.8]; 
    _TB_Health_bar progressSetPosition 1; 
    _TB_Health_bar ctrlCommit 0;  
    _TB_Health_HUD = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscStructuredText", 20003]; 
    _TB_Health_HUD ctrlSetPosition [0.402031 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.0245 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.211406 * safezoneW, 0.025 * safezoneH]; 
    _TB_Health_HUD ctrlCommit 0; 
    _TB_Health_HUD ctrlSetStructuredText parseText format["<t color='#F7E8E8' align='center' size='1.1' font = 'PuristaMedium'>%1</t>",_name]; 
    _actFr = [{ 
        _array = _this select 0; 
        _mutant = _array select 0; 
        _param = _array select 1; 
        _hud = _array select 2; 
        _paramInitial = _array select 3; 
        _WBK_TB_paramHealthBarToShow =  (_mutant getVariable _param) / _paramInitial; 
        if !(alive _mutant) exitWith {_hud progressSetPosition 0;}; 
        _hud progressSetPosition _WBK_TB_paramHealthBarToShow; 
    }, 0.1, [_unit, _param,_TB_Health_bar, _unit getVariable _param]] call CBA_fnc_addPerFrameHandler; 
    waitUntil {!alive _unit}; 
 _TB_Health_PIC ctrlSetTextColor [1, 1, 1, 1];  
 _TB_Health_bar progressSetPosition 0; 
    [_actFr] call CBA_fnc_removePerFrameHandler; 
 { 
  _ctrl = (findDisplay 46) displayCtrl _x; 
  _ctrl ctrlSetFade 1; 
  _ctrl ctrlCommit 6; 
 } forEach [20001,20002,20003,20004]; 
 uiSleep 8; 
    ctrlDelete ((findDisplay 46) displayCtrl 20001); 
    ctrlDelete ((findDisplay 46) displayCtrl 20002); 
    ctrlDelete ((findDisplay 46) displayCtrl 20003); 
 ctrlDelete ((findDisplay 46) displayCtrl 20004); 
};```

so something like this?

[errant iron]

IA _this is a syntax error and the quotes are unclosed around the boss name, but otherwise ye you've got the idea

note that two separate spawn blocks will run at the same time, so sleeping in one block doesn't hold up other blocks

if you want the delay to apply to the healthbar part, you need to sleep inside that block specifically, e.g. sqf [IA, "WBK_SynthHP", "Irradiated Abomination"] spawn { sleep 2; ... };

[pallid palm]

@odd kraken and it might help if you collour the text to m8

```sqf
// your code here
```

that white text heart's my eye's lol 🙂

[odd kraken]

ok?

i tried and it didn't work

[pallid palm]

copy and past that then remove all the \\

[odd kraken]

and this is going to help how..?

[pallid palm]

so you can see collour text

[odd kraken]

and the collurd text will do what exactly

[pallid palm]

help people read it better

and help you faster

[odd kraken]

i gotcha, fair enough

[pallid palm]

thats a roger m8

most times if people see that white code they say omg ouch 🙂

#arma3_scripting message

took me some time to get it right also but you will get it right soon

[odd kraken]

[] spawn 
{ 
 if (isServer) then  
 { 
  a2 = createGroup east;  
  "WBK_SpecialZombie_Smasher_Acid_3" createUnit [position a1, a2, "IA = this"];  
 }; 
  
 waitUntil {!isNull IA}; 
  
 sleep 1; 
  
 waitUntil { !isNull findDisplay 46 }; 
 _para_HPBar1 = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscProgress", -1];     
 _para_HPBar1 ctrlSetPosition [0.2 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.05 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.6* safezoneW, 0.011* safezoneH];      
 _para_HPBar1 progressSetPosition 1; 
 _para_HPBar1 ctrlSetTextColor [0.1,0.1,0.1,0.8];   
 _para_HPBar1 ctrlShow true;         
 _para_HPBar1 ctrlCommit 0;         
  
 _para_HPBar2 = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscProgress", -1];       
 _para_HPBar2 ctrlSetPosition [0.2 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.05 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.6* safezoneW, 0.011* safezoneH];   
 _para_HPBar2 progressSetPosition 1; 
 _para_HPBar2 ctrlSetTextColor [0,1,0,0.9];    
 _para_HPBar2 ctrlShow true;      
 _para_HPBar2 ctrlCommit 0;           
  
 _para_Name = findDisplay 46 ctrlCreate ["RscStructuredText", -1];          
 _para_Name ctrlSetPosition [0.45 * safezoneW + safezoneX, 0.02 * safezoneH + safezoneY, 0.1* safezoneW, 0.09 * safezoneH];   
 _para_Name ctrlSetTextColor [1, 0, 0, 1];   
 _para_Name ctrlSetFont "puristaMedium";   
 _para_Name ctrlSetStructuredText parseText format ["<t align='center' size='1.3' shadow='2'> ????? </t>"];     
 _para_Name ctrlShow true;  
 _para_Name ctrlCommit 0;   
  
 _para_maxHP = IA getVariable ["WBK_SynthHP", 0];  
  
 while {true} do    
 {    
  _para_currentHP = IA getVariable ["WBK_SynthHP", 0];  
  _para_progress = linearConversion [0, _para_maxHP, _para_currentHP, 0, 1, true];    
  _para_HPBar2 progressSetPosition _para_progress;    
  
  if (damage IA >= 1) then  
  {  
   IA setVariable ["WBK_SynthHP", 0];  
   _para_HPBar2 progressSetPosition 0;  
  
   ctrlDelete _para_HPBar1;  
   ctrlDelete _para_HPBar2;  
   ctrlDelete _para_Name;  
   break;  
  };  
  sleep 0.01;   
playMusic "SoldatsMusicSong93";
 }; 
};

So a really talented scripter made this,(i only added the play music part) but this seems to not work in a dedicated server, any reason for this?

[winter rose]

waitUntil { !isNull findDisplay 46 };
there are no displays on a dedicated server

[odd kraken]

oh, what would work then?

[finite bone]

What are you trying to achieve (or more importantly, where are you running this)?

[odd kraken]

it spawns a smasher from webknights zombies and creatures mod, where a a boss health bar get put up on the screen

and im running this on a host havoc server in a innit of a hold action, which worked in eden, but not in mp

[pallid palm]

hay @odd kraken you got the text collour woohoo good job m8

[cosmic lichen]

How are you executing the script? If it's from a hold action then you need to remoteExec it

otherwise the code wrapped in isServerwill not execute as the holdAction code only runs on the client who activated the action

[odd kraken]

how would i remote exec it?

[cosmic lichen]

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

[paper drift]

I want to make planned artillery support for the mission

help

[winter rose]

help delivered ノ( º _ ºノ)

[paper drift]

❤️

[sharp stag]

Not sure if this is the best chat to ask this on, but looking for someone to help me put together a server with mods? Willing to pay if we can agree on a price. Ive tried to do it on my own but im not super experienced and have had to alter the name of every single mod for it to work, on top of that my internet isn't super fast so uploading the modpack has taken days 😅

[pallid palm]

not allowd to pay

but you can buy them a beer 🙂

[finite bone]

Why not just rent one from many service provides (like HostHavoc for example)? Also #arma3_questions

[sharp stag]

Yeah I have done that much. And the server works vanilla. Im just having trouble loading all the mods, troubleshooting them, and finding all the ones that need files renamed so the server can read them.

[sharp stag]

Haha alright thanks

[sharp stag]

Honestly I know I could finish it with time but I already have a tight schedule and just looking for a more experienced hand to quicken things up

[pallid palm]

Hello All: Can i do this: or How would i do this:

SDV setCenterOfMass selectRandom [ "[[2,0,-1], 12]", "[[-2,0,-1], 12]" ];

[winter rose]

without the quotes

[pallid palm]

oh really nice

[winter rose]

actually```sqf
SDV setCenterOfMass [[selectRandom [2, -2],0,-1], 12];

[pallid palm]

oh cool Awsome man thax Lou

man thats So Cool Woohoo 🙂

[pallid palm]

OMG @winter rose that works So Awsome: Woohoo THX man

now it looks so real woohoo

[obtuse depot]

hello script chat

does anyone have examples of the cadet popup code being executed on spawning into a multiplayer mission

[latent ridge]

I got this workin! thank you all for the help! I just had to remove the private _azimuth = _fgt getDir nearestPlayer and _fgt setDir _azimuth and just put fgt setDir (_fgt getDir _nearestPlayer); and it all works like a charm!!!

[granite sky]

You had a typo there. nearestPlayer is missing the underscore.

Earlier version was missing a semicolon.

[fair drum]

what do you mean cadet popup?

[obtuse depot]

HintC I believe

[pallid palm]

@obtuse depot about the spawning into a MP mission: i Guess the placement of the HintC: would be the bees Knees: on that 🙂

// MP mission
// most likely in the initPlayerLocal.sqf
if (!isServer && isNull player) then 
{
    waitUntil { not isNull player };
    "Your message" remoteExec ["hintC", 0]; // 0 means all clients
};

//or
//=============================================================
"Your message" remoteExec ["hintC", 0]; // 0 means all clients

//or
//==============================================================
//Displaying a hint to a specific group of players:
// Assuming   'USMC'   is the name of a specific group
{
    "Your message for the group" remoteExec ["hintC", _x];
} forEach units USMC;

//can use:===================================================
"Your message for the group" remoteExec ["hintC", USMC];

[mortal folio]

Is there a way to temporarily hide the vanilla heal action?

I could handleHeal and just make it do nothing but i dont want the players to be confused

[warm hedge]

Remove FAK from the inventory that is. I don't believe there is a way other than that

[mortal folio]

huh... that's a bummer

[warm hedge]

Speaking of, removing Engine-defined actions would be a niche idea

Oh wait, one thing. Try showHUD if it is acceptable to hide all actions

[mortal folio]

still want them to be able to interact with other stuff 😂 but yeah as you said it really would be nice to be able to remove, or at the very least hide engine defined actions

[ivory lake]

can be kinda done via config iirc

but dont think there's a clean scripted way

[obtuse depot]

thank u original gangster I plan on putting this into a mod when it’s holidays to tell ppl to touch grass

[sullen marsh]

LOCKING M8

Or atomic operations

[tribal crane]

Send queue update commands to the server and have the server do the actual updates.

[tulip ridge]

That's pretty sad to go out of your way to do that

[teal drum]

Which 3den attribute and which value do I apply to AI units to disable their Wake-Up Dynamic Simulation attribute via SQF?

According to https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Eden_Editor:_Setting_Attributes#Attributes I've tried several attribute types so far with the following snippet:

{
  private _isPlayable = (_x get3DENAttribute "ControlMP") select 0;
  if !(_isPlayable) then {
    _x set3DENAttribute ["addToDynSimGrid", 1];
  };
} foreach (all3DENEntities select 1);

ignoreByDynSimulGrid is the attribute I see in my mission.sqm file on a unit I manually uncheck that attribute on, but applying that via SQF doesn't seem to have an effect.

[obtuse depot]

:( u hurt my feelings

[teal drum]

Oh. select 1 is iterating over the groups...

Got it to work:

{
  {
    private _isPlayable = (_x get3DENAttribute "ControlMP") select 0;
    if !(_isPlayable) then {
      _x set3DENAttribute ["addToDynSimGrid", 1];
    };
  } forEach (units _x);
} foreach (all3DENEntities select 1);

[winter rose]

I'd say: it really depends on the meaning you put in it 😉

[obtuse depot]

i just want to wish ppl a happy holidays and this is how im treated 😔

diabolical...

[winter rose]

well – "go touch grass" can also be seen as a diss, that may be how Dart saw it
if it's "enjoy your holidays, don't forget to touch grass", you do you and I think it's wholesome!

[obtuse depot]

ngl it's a bit of both

😭

[tulip ridge]

This is about their mod causing CTDs for people, and then telling people to go touch grass when people got annoyed because its a holiday

[obtuse depot]

lol
updated the mod and then it broke and we fixed it

it is what it is

[winter rose]

yyyyyyeah, don't CTD people 👀 (on purpose)

[obtuse depot]

was a dumb binarize error bc temp folder needed to be cleaned lmao

[molten wyvern]

holy copium

[granite sky]

Oh yeah, addon builder claims to clear the temp folder but doesn't.

[drowsy geyser]

so removing that line is enough?

[winter rose]

check if hasInterface and put waitUntil + all UI stuff in there

[drowsy geyser]

Thanks, i need to read about dedicated server stuff

[granite sky]

As far as I can tell, you could just change the first then to exitWith and it'd probably work.

That'd break localhost though, so better to add if (!hasInterface) exitWith {}; afterwards.

Everything except the createUnit looks like client-only stuff.

[obtuse depot]

ended up with a silly 500mb rpt EOF error

[austere granite]

Does anyone know how you can color items in a treeview? Eden does it for the entity lists, but using parseText with <t color='blabla'> doesn't work

[small perch]

I want to add a hold action for an object that only shows up for the Zeus, how can I do that? I know the hold action part but i do not know how to check if the unit that is looking has the right Variable Name

[stable dune]

You asking about Abstract 's WBK?

[torn stream]

what situation would cause a server to not pass (isServer) ? several scripts that use an If(IsServer) don't go through in this particular server

[warm hedge]

You sure it is the only about isServer? Or any other commands?

[torn stream]

unsure, the script was supposed to add an eventHandler that was within isServer condition, i had to swap to true, now another script that also uses that is not running, as if whatever is inside isServer doesn't go through

it was a switch case in the thing i mentioned but still nvm i just checked it is a ifelse

[errant jasper]

which event type?

[torn stream]

ok, correction:
it is an isServer within an eventHandler, which makes me think it will always be false, so changing subject, what causes it to be true?

[torn stream]

XEH Hitpart

[errant jasper]

The server adding the event too would be the only reason for it to be true inside the handler.

It is a config based event XEH event handler ?

[torn stream]

The eventhandler is added using CBA's Extended event handler

I changed it from this

to this:

nothing within (isServer) was going through, which i may believe is because it is within an eventHandler, but the main issue our unit was having was that it worked in other servers from groups we played with, what made our server be different?

and now we're having issues with a couple more scripts doing that

and the main issue is the (isServer) not going through, i wanted to figure out what causes it, it's just our server, other servers, hosted, singeplayer, all of them work, just our main server doesn't

[errant jasper]

Long time since I used XEH, but I don't see why the event handler wouldn't be added on all machines including the server.
This probably still applies from BIKI

The event will not fire if the shooter is not local, even if the target itself is local.

So if you, a non-hosting player, shoots, the event will only trigger on your machine, so isServer is false.

[torn stream]

The server is being hosted using faster (dedicated essentially)

[errant jasper]

Yeah, so all machines have the HitPart event handler would be my guess. But only run on the machine local to the shooter. So it would fail for human players on a dedicated server, but work fine SP/Editor.

[torn stream]

i would have to check but it works on other units servers, i assume them to be dedicated aswell

[granite sky]

I would recommend restarting your logic with the assumption that isServer is not the problem.

Maybe something like filepatching causing your server not to be running the code you think it's running.

[tulip ridge]

What's your goal here? I recognize that code (the people who wrote it didn't understand it) and have spent my own time fixing it for my own group

[torn stream]

getting to understand why (isServer) statements don't work on our server, even tho it works on others

this is just one example

[formal stirrup]

The new or old one

Either way the new one has some left over variables from the old method if that is what you refer to

Or is that not the tank one

[tulip ridge]

It's not

Code's still pretty bad either way

[formal stirrup]

fuuuuuuck

schizo posted for no reason then GG

Not sure why they didnt have me remake the other one when I did the tank tbh

[tulip ridge]

Because they don't know what's bad

I've told them the exact issues with lots of their stuff, which still has not been fixed. I gave up
I've just been rewriting the scripts for their stuff in our unit mod

[formal stirrup]

fair enough

[real tartan]

so there is this animation where unit is redirecting vehicles to side road

Acts_ShowingTheRightWay_in
Acts_ShowingTheRightWay_loop
Acts_ShowingTheRightWay_out

is there an opposite animation to redirect to other side ?

[granite sky]

Yeah, from CBA wiki:

The same limitations of the usual event handlers added via the addEventHandler scripting command regarding locality also apply to Extended Event Handlers.

Now if you only cared about this code working for enemies shooting at players then it might appear to work on a server that wasn't using headless clients.

[warm hedge]

No

All animations that are accessible in Animations Viewer are the all animations available in game

Which means, you know, you can't find the left variant

Unless you use Marshall animations and call it a day

[split ruin]

I got error in this, its simple trigger to delete some mission objects

deltrg = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", uberPos, true];
deltrg setTriggerArea [50, 50, 0, false, 30];
deltrg setTriggerActivation ["NONE", "NONE", false]; //<- here 
deltrg setTriggerStatements ["triggerActivated wintrg or triggerActivated failtrg or triggerActivated failtrg2",
"
deleteVehicle failtrg;
deleteVehicle failtrg2;
deleteVehicle wintrg;
deleteVehicle hvtbuilding;
deleteVehicleCrew hvtveh;
deleteVehicle hvtveh;
", ""];
deltrg setTriggerTimeout [60, 60, 60, false];

wtf ?

[cosmic lichen]

Why on earth would you use a trigger for that

waitUntil 
{
    sleep 0.5;
    triggerActivated wintrg or 
    triggerActivated failtrg or 
    triggerActivated failtrg2
};

deleteVehicle failtrg;
deleteVehicle failtrg2;
deleteVehicle wintrg;
deleteVehicle hvtbuilding;
deleteVehicleCrew hvtveh;
deleteVehicle hvtveh;

[split ruin]

i tested and its not deleting the objects ... 😔

[cosmic lichen]

What did you do?

Add some debug printing

[split ruin]

I just put what your code at the end of the mission script

[cosmic lichen]

0 spawn 
{
  sleep 60;
  deleteVehicle failtrg;
  deleteVehicle failtrg2;
  deleteVehicle wintrg;
  deleteVehicle hvtbuilding;
  deleteVehicleCrew hvtveh;
  deleteVehicle hvtveh;
};

You could also put that code into the activation field of wintrg failtrg and failtrg2

and call it a day

[split ruin]

this is the first I did but I need some time between completing mission objective and deleting the objects because I don't want everything to disappear immediately in the players face

[cosmic lichen]

see above

[split ruin]

@cosmic lichen Its working! That's really clever to add spawn into win trigger statements, thank you.

[finite bone]

Looking at the input actions (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/inputAction/actions) does checking SetTeamRed (Left Ctrl+F1) work even when not commander (or most importantly, when in curator interface)?

[warm hedge]

Is this a scripting question or in-game control question?

[split ruin]

is there any way to make this command to work in MP (respawn = 5)? Or any way to spawn switch-able units? Its working fine only with units spawned in editor.

addSwitchableUnit _unit;

edit: if somebody wonders selectPlayer is the holy grail 🤘

[finite bone]

Scripting.

I'm trying to check if Ctrl+F1 is pressed which runs an entirely different script while in curator interface and I'm curious if SetTeamRed would function just the same for input action validation in this context

[warm hedge]

So you say inputAction "SetTeamRed" is the command in question?

[finite bone]

Yes

[warm hedge]

It worked pretty fine to me

[split ruin]

what will happen if two players switch simultaneously to same unit with selectPlayer command? 🫣

[cosmic lichen]

nothing happens simultaneously

one is always first

2nd one will probably fail silently

[mortal folio]

what's the command to make a vehicle a medical tent/vehicle? can't seem to be able to find it

i.e so you get the "treat at" option

[cosmic lichen]

There is no command for it.

It's config property

[mortal folio]

ah, gotcha

[cosmic lichen]

However, that's easy to script

[mortal folio]

yeah i figure i'd just have to make a custom action that does the same thing, easy enough, i was just hoping for an engine solution (without needing to change the config)

[digital torrent]

I am having a issue that the below code, when deployed in a zeus environment/multiplayer, the "custom action" is being trigerred when i am not looking at scp173. Eg. if i dont look at it, but the other player does, the custom action is still being activate when it shouldnt.

anyone know why? i dont think i need to put a remote exec but it is not working.

My quick hint check also seem working by properly returning the names of the player that is looking at scp173.

spawn {

....
_scp173View = false;
if (time - _lastTeleportTime > _teleportCooldown) then {
    private _menInRange = (_scp173 nearEntities [["Man", "LandVehicle", "Air", "Ship"], 100]) select {side _x in [east, west]};

private _viewers = _menInRange select {
                !(worldToScreen ASLToAGL getPosASL _scp173 isEqualTo [])
            };
            _scp173View = (count _viewers > 0);

 if (_scp173View) then {
                private _viewerNames = _viewers apply {name _x};
                hint format ["SCP-173 is being watched by:\n%1", _viewerNames joinString "\n"];
            };

if (!_scp173View && {count _menInRange > 0}) then { "Custom action"};

[errant jasper]

• On a given machine, viewers are all those in range, if the local player is looking. So if A, B, C are close, then it will be [A, B, C] if the local player is looking, otherwise none, []. On a dedicated server I would imagine none.

• The only way for a custom action to trigger is there are people close, and the local player is not looking.

• For the dedicated server machine it would pretty much trigger all the time anyone is close.

• For a, possibly, hosting player-machine, the custom action would only trigger if looking away and someone is close.

But basically this: _viewers = _menInRange select {!(worldToScreen ASLToAGL getPosASL _scp173 isEqualTo []) does not do what you expect it to. It is all nearby, if player is looking at it, otherwise none.

[digital torrent]

how can i change it that it is not just local player looking (aka me) but any player looking.

bc i though in the _meninrange select, i thought it would only select people that is also looking at it. and not just me

[errant jasper]

Well, it is not clear whether your use of nearEntities is meant to only apply to players or not. worldToScreen is meaningless for an AI, or unmanned vehicle.

worldToScreen cannot go look at some other players screen, or an "AI's screen".

[digital torrent]

ohhhh, i didnt know that worldtoScreen cannot go look at other players screen. so that why

is there a command that does it? or it dont exist in arma?

[errant jasper]

I don't believe there is a command like that. There is aimedAtTarget, but that is only for aiming. There are lineIntersect commands, but they just check whether there is an unobstructed line.

If you only need it to work for players the current scheme is fine. You could run the script on all machines and have

private _isClose = (vehicle player) distance _scp173 < 100;
private _entityOnScreen = !(worldToScreen ASLToAGL getPosASL _scp173 isEqualTo[]);
if (_isClose && !_entityOnScreen) then {
   // Trigger custom action appropriately here in MP
};

[digital torrent]

sorry, i am confused, how is _entityonscreen different from the original code?
Wont it still not work?

when i dont look at it*

[errant jasper]

Ah, I saw you want not looking at it, editing.

[digital torrent]

maybe i am getting confused but i think "player" do not work in multiplayer no?

I am a bit loss on why your code would work compared to the original. Your code seems to be focus if player (inthis case, in multiplayer, i dont think it work. But assuming it does, it would likely be me only) is within 100M and i dont see scp, then do "action".

If i want any players to be looking, your code dont seems to work.

Maybe i am understanding something wrong.

[errant jasper]

I see you want no-one at all is viewing when close. That is a tough cookie over a multiplayer connection.

[digital torrent]

yes, i want if no one at all is looking at scp in multiplayer within 100 meter, then scp can trigger the action

it best if it also incorporate ai but atleast the players

[errant jasper]

Well for AI you have to come up with some way of "seeing" that is not screenToWorld, because AI don't have a screen.

How often do you want to trigger? Because the only feasibly way would be to transmit each players _entityOnScreen on the server to perform a global check there.

[digital torrent]

i would want the check to be at each second.

less than that , it would kill frames. so at least 1 second up to maybe 5 second at most

[errant jasper]

So you could toggle player setVariable ["IS_SCP_ON_SCREEN", _entityOnScreen, true] all the time (or optimize whether closer than 100m or not).

[digital torrent]

what ever is easier

[errant jasper]

Then the server would do the check across all players based on that info.

No you can do a worldToScreen every frame if you want without noticing it. The problem is the network traffic is reliable, so it might cause trouble if sent too much.

[digital torrent]

i never deal with setting variable and custom check on other player's side.
I solely did some general remooteExec per the BIS website. how would you do to deploy that?
I cant really visualite how to code it

[errant jasper]

So something like this would run on all player machines:

if (hasInterface) then {
    [_scp173] spawn {
        params ["_entity"];
        while {true} {
            sleep 0.5;
            private _isClose = (vehicle player) distance _entity < 100;
            private _prevValue = player getVariable ["IS_SCP_ON_SCREEN", false];
            private _isOnScreen = !(worldToScreen ASLToAGL getPosASL _entity isEqualTo[]);

            private _shouldUpdate = (not _isClose && _prevValue) || (_isClose && (_prevValue != _isOnScreen));
            if (_shouldUpdate) then {
                private _newValue = if (not _isClose) then { false } else { _isOnScreen };
                player setVariable ["SCP173_ON_SCREEN", _newValue, true];
            };
        };
    };
};

This would update twice a second if the player is looking or not. To optimize network traffic we only send if status changed AND we are close. If we leave we set it to false.

The server would do something like this:

if (isServer) then {
    [_scp173] spawn {
        params ["_entity"];
        while {true} {
            sleep 0.5;
            private _closePlayers = allPlayers select {vehicle _x distance _entity < 100};
            private _NumWatching = _closePlayers count {_x getVariable ["IS_SCP_ON_SCREEN", false]};
            if (count _closePlayers > 0 && _NumWatching == 0) then {
                // Handle custom action
            };
        }
    };
};

[granite sky]

Given that we could sometimes hang Arma by deleting a unit immediately after someone selected out of it, I'd recommend avoiding that :P

[errant jasper]

You would of course need to add the teleport timeout et cetera too.

So basically on each player we store in the player-objects variable space in IS_SCP_ON_SCREEN whether or not the entity is close and on their screen. The server regularly checks for close players and reads these entries to know if the remote player is looking or not.

[digital torrent]

ok i have a good idea now. just curious but isnt _scp173 undefined on the server side. My old code used to be code tied to a specifc created scp173. Would you code still work if i am placing multiple scp173?

[errant jasper]

Well I don't know where you got _scp173 from in your original script.
Well it would work fine, you would need to spawn both handling scripts multiple times and use unique name for the setVariable name.

So:

[_scp173, "IS_SCP_NUM_1_ON_SCREEN"] spawn {
   params ["_entity", "_varName"];
   //.......
   private _prevValue = player getVariable [_varName, false];
   // ......
   player setVariable [_varName, _newValue, true];
//.....

And similar for the server handler.

[digital torrent]

Also, let says that the scp173 is killed and i want to kill the player's side check. how would i go from sending a info from server to player to stop it. given a constant running of the code on player side will slow them down.

[errant jasper]

Then you would spawn with:

[_scp173_1, "IS_SCP_NUM_1_ON_SCREEN"] spawn // ....
[_scp173_2, "IS_SCP_NUM_2_ON_SCREEN"] spawn // ....
[_scp173_3, "IS_SCP_NUM_3_ON_SCREEN"] spawn // ....

[errant jasper]

Well you could change the true condition to alive _entity. The script would quit the loop when that is no longer true.

[digital torrent]

it is that simple lol? i thought it was some complicated code haha. ok i think i have a good understanding now.

Thank you so much Muzzle!

[errant jasper]

You're welcome

Also if you get it working, you may want to try changing player setVariable [_varName, _newValue, true]; to player setVariable [_varName, _newValue, [2, clientOwner]]; to avoid having the server forward the data to all other clients, since they don't need to act on it.

So instead of 20 clients updating, forcing the server to send 20*19 updates out to the other clients, it just receives those 20 updates only.

[dim token]

Thanks for the answers earlier. I am going to experiment with server-side updates. I'm not aware of any way to enforce locking in SQF, so mutating shared state seems particularly brittle.

[indigo snow]

pushBack is atomic so a queue would do well enough

[pallid palm]

hello all: can i remoteExec this on the server some how ```sqf
[] spawn SFA_fnc_INS_ChopperHoldFinish;

this gets (run or spawned) from within the 1st chopper script

[hushed turtle]

[] remoteExec [ "SFA_fnc_INS_ChopperHoldFinish", 2 ];

[pallid palm]

oh cool wow nice m8

ahhh yeah Awsome thx @hushed turtle

you just made my day

[pallid palm]

@hushed turtle hmmm it does not seem to work correctly

Error position: <“SFA_fnc_INS_ChopperFinish“, 2];

[granite sky]

The quotes look suspicious in discord.

yeah those are not programming quotes.

[pallid palm]

so i should use " "

or ' '

[cosmic lichen]

both works

[pallid palm]

oh ok i'll try it

[hushed turtle]

Indeed they were, I was typing on phone and I didn't notice them being different 😀

[pallid palm]

woohoo it works Awsome thx all 🙂

thx so much guys i mean really happy now woohoo @granite sky @cosmic lichen @hushed turtle

all you guys just made me the happy-est guy in the World 🙂

[dim token]

What would be the best way to remove values from that array without reassignment , since I'm passing the reference in to child functions

I'm really trying to avoid just making it a global variable for sanity reasons

[indigo snow]

deleteAt modifies the original array instead of returning a copy

[dim token]

Great thanks.

[finite sail]

morning chaps 🙂
I have a variable in the main scope of my script. If I import it into a while loop further down, I understand the variable is privated in the loop

does that mean the value is or isn't changed in the main scope?

[pastel pier]

How do i get the variable name of a group? Like the group is called ei_0 but it returns Alpha 2-2. I want to do something like ((str ei_0) splitString "_""")#0 != "ei";

[winter rose]

not great to rely on that, but indeed most likely str _theGroup (not recommended)

[willow hound]

Not sure what you mean by importing a variable into a loop, there is no need (or mechanism) for that. You can just use existing variables in loops (see _a in the example below). You can also define new private variables in loops; the scope of such variables is tied to the loop and they become undefined after the loop (see _b in the example below).
Run the following code (e.g. through the debug console in the Editor) and observe its output:

private _a = 0;
systemChat format ["Starting with _a = %1", _a];

while {_a < 3} do {
  private _b = 42;
  _a = _a + 1;
  systemChat format ["_a = %1 and _b = %2", _a, _b];
};

systemChat format ["Finished with _a = %1 and _b = %2", _a, _b];
systemChat format ["isNil _a: %1", isNil "_a"];
systemChat format ["isNil _b: %1", isNil "_b"];

[finite sail]

I misunderstood my own code 🙂

the variable is privated in bottom scope, then I attempted to use it in a spawn snippet that was inside a loop, because I've only been doing this for 20 years and still learning 🙂

rather than messing around with importing, I just converted it to a global

I was using (misusing) this https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/import

[split ruin]

global variable is "visible" in loop and everywhere actually ...

[willow hound]

spawn always creates a new scope. To access data from the surrounding code, you have to pass it in as an argument.

private _a = 0;
private _b = 3;

while {_a < 3} do {
  _a = _a + 1;
  _b = _b - 1;

  [_a] spawn { //Provide _a as an argument to the spawned code.
    params ["_a"]; //Could also use a different variable name instead of "_a".
    systemChat format ["_a = %1 and _b = %2", _a, _b]; //_b is undefined here.
  };
};

systemChat format ["Finished with _a = %1 and _b = %2", _a, _b];
```Example 3 on https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/spawn illustrates this too.

[cyan dust]

Good day. I'm trying to understand - one of the UIs I use in mission created with createDialog does not prevent players from using VoN, however all the rest are
Is it a known issue? We really struggle with need to close UI in order to say something.

UPD: I see that non-blocking display has idd = -1 in its description, but all the others have assigned values, is that what makes all the difference?

Offtop:
IDD_EDIT_BRIEFING // TODO: Has to be checked by Pete! 138
Did Pete check it? 😆

[winter rose]

he never did :p

[dire star]

Did i write anything wrong bc my music wont play?
["CUP_A2OA_Iron_Mountain", 60] remoteExec ["playMusic", 0];

[hushed turtle]

It thinks the string is left side argument, but playMusic has them both on right

Use array in array like [[]]

[dire star]

ty, works now

[copper plinth]

What is the name of the variable that stores the object quality settings?

[hallow mortar]

There isn't one, by default.
You can use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getVideoOptions to get the data you need and then save it in a variable yourself, if you like.

[sharp grotto]

Sounds like a question a cheater would ask
And by looking at his linked steam account, I am pretty sure that's the reason.
Edit: Yup banned for Cheating in Arma 3 on the Infistar Antihack

[copper plinth]

There's still no quality of objects there, I need to disable extreme graphics settings on the server (all)

[hallow mortar]

That command does return object quality settings:

["objQualityName", "VeryHigh"],

Most client video settings cannot be force-set. They have performance and accessibility implications, so it's up to users to pick the one that works for them.
setTerrainGrid, setViewDistance, and setObjectViewDistance are about all that can be changed by script.

[copper plinth]

private _videoOptions = getVideoOptions;
private _objQuality = _videoOptions select 3;
private _hasViolations = (
  _objQuality in ["Ultra", "Extreme"] ||
);

smt like this ?

[hallow mortar]

No. getVideoOptions returns a Hashmap, not an Array. You can't use select on it because the contents aren't stored in order. You need to use get.

[copper plinth]

Thanks

[copper plinth]

@hallow mortar Can I lock Heli flight model to standart only for all clients ?

[hallow mortar]

Not through scripting. This is controlled by the server config forceRotorLibSimulation parameter. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Server_Config_File

[copper plinth]

Yes, but the player can still go to the settings and set the model to advanced mode, or will it not work?

[hallow mortar]

The documentation says that parameter enforces the setting. If you think it's not enforced, you can easily test it yourself.

[next prairie]

How hard is it to port over a2 vehicles

[indigo snow]

its at least 3 hard

maybe 4

[fading gorge]

for reference, how hard is diamond?

[indigo snow]

10 of course, according to Mohs'

real answer: It involves quite a bit of work, knowledge of the arma engine and the assorted tools

theres some guides on the forum

[hushed turtle]

On dedicated server with headless clients. Does server spread workload automatically by changing locality of AI units or does this has to be scripted?

[tame mica]

Hey hey, I was wondering if anybody knew how to do a script that adds a visual health bar, sorta like a boss healthbar from like a souls game into Arma 3, I know SCP - Darkwoods did make a boss healthbar, I was just wondering if anybody knew how to recreate it?

[willow hound]

It has to be scripted.

[urban bluff]

What makes you use "private" in spawned code? It literally makes nothing except for making the code harder to read.
Also that last private _newValue = if (not _isClose) then { false } else { _isOnScreen };... Well, it just means _isClose AND _isOnScreen, why make it that complicated

[cyan dust]

In addition to what @willow hound says and to save you a sh-ton of headache if you decide to do it:

• Your headless client should be spawning the groups and units it will control
• Spawning them on server and later transferring to HC is a pain and naked men

[errant jasper]

I think private affects code readability exactly zero point zero zero percent. But it does prevent overwriting variables in outer scope when code gets moved around and shift scopes. This wasn't for me, and 98% of my personal scripting doesn't live in spawn, so my habits mostly adapted to general callable code.

As for the second point, you are right _isClose && _isOnScreen is equivalent expression. This was code on a saturday evening that I didn't personally need, so I didn't spend time simplifying it. The logic merely followed my imperative train of thought at the time in which the condition was basically whether to "reset" to false-and-away state. (Edit: actually I had this unnecessary notion initially that I wanted to skip the screen check if the player was far away, and didn't clean up the conditions after opting not to)

But yeah you could remove _shouldUpdate too and simplify it all to:

_isObserver = _isClose && _isOnScreen;
if (_isObserver != _prevValue) then {
    player setVariable ["SCP173_ON_SCREEN", _isObserver, [2, clientOwner]];
};

[finite bone]

Cross posting from #arma3_config - How can I extract the CfgVehicles class hierarchy from in game like that of Arma 2 in Wiki? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_2:_CfgVehicles

[willow hound]

What makes you use "private" in spawned code? It literally makes nothing except for making the code harder to read.

• Consistency
• No need to think if you always make all local variables private
• No risk of breaking things by copy-pasting or by refactoring the code (e.g. by removing spawn)
• Easy to see where variables are declared for the first time: I see private, I know that there is a new variable (not a reassigned one) and I know for sure what its scope is

private essentially becomes the "I want to declare a new (local) variable" keyword (like const / let in TypeScript / JavaScript or var / val in Scala), and life is simplified.

[hushed turtle]

Yeah, I always use private just because it's easy to see where I'm declaring my variables. I wish there was some keyword for globals too.

[cyan dust]

I just write them with prefixes like FOO_SystemName_myGlobalVar

[errant jasper]

In a decade of sqf I can only remember a single time where I set multiple private variables in my top level function, and then accessed (read) them in further down in called functions. And this required care on my side but was safe for callers because my top level declared them private. But zero times have I ever wanted to write such dynamically scoped variable further down. And private ensures that never actually happens, even by accident.

[cyan dust]

To add, I declare private ["_foo","_bar",...] right above loops (for/while/forEach) if they are used there.
Not sure it actually improves things, but I ✨ believe ✨ it does no harm to reuse varaibles instead of re-declaring them

[hushed turtle]

I tag all if my global vars, but that doesn't help me to see where I'm declaring them. Hovewer I have /*new*/ comment at start of each line where I'm declaring global var in all my sqf scripts, which helps me to see that.

[errant jasper]

Well according to BIKI it is equivalent except worse performing 🙂

I didn't measure myself though, and doesn't really matter

[cyan dust]

Why not write them in a single block at the top of the file with default values for declaration?

That way you will see exactly what global vars are used here and what to expect from them

[hushed turtle]

I do have them at the same file. Well, at least most of them

[errant jasper]

I assume you preProcess your files so assuming you don't need a variable named global you COULD (not saying you should) do this:

#define global 

global TAG_myGlobalVar = 42;

[hushed turtle]

That's actually good idea

[thin fox]

Generally for global var I just search for "TAG_var =" 😅

[pallid palm]

imho

//Private and Global are different
Private  _variables =  whateveriwant;
// Global variable
someVar
//Global means the variable is in the global scope.
//Such as mission variables, variables on an object, etc.

//Private is only for local variables,
//i.e. variables that start with an underscore

//Variables that begin with an underscore are local variables,
//meaning they are only defined in that scope
someVar = 1; // global variable
_someVar = 1; // local variable
//All local variables have to start with an underscore

//For example:
params ["someVar"]; // Error: invalid local variable name

//hint is local, meaning A hint would only be displayed on the machine where it was run
``` 🙂

[drowsy geyser]

why does this not work, it just prints 'any'

p1 addEventHandler ["hitPart",  
{ 
    params ["_target", "_shooter", "_projectile", "_position", "_velocity", "_selection", "_ammo", "_vector", "_radius", "_surfaceType", "_isDirect", "_instigator"]; 
    systemChat format ["projectile type: %1", _projectile]; 
}];

[willow hound]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#HitPart says:

This EH returns array of sub-arrays [[...],[...], ... [...]]. Each sub-array contains data for the part that was hit as usually multiple parts are hit at the same time (see HitPart_Sample). The structure of each sub-array is listed below.

Or are you using https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#HitPart_2 (Projectile EH)?

[drowsy geyser]

No im using the first one and only want to know which type of _projectile/_ammo hit the _target

[hushed turtle]

Looks like you need to do (_this select 0) params... to get the first hit part

Looks like less than 3 parts got hit, so that would explain why third element in _this wasn't defined.

[stuck cobalt]

@cptnnick I pretty much said the same thing in the other channel. That's funny lol

[drowsy geyser]

So using this should work,right?

Im trying do differentiate between the different ammo types meaning: bulletbase,grenadebase,rocketbase etc.

[hushed turtle]

Yeah, _this in this context is an array of arrays, but you only need first subarray - I doubt ammo is gonna be different between hit parts

[drowsy geyser]

rgr, i will try it later, thank you

[pallid palm]

hay guys: Everything is working so Great: thx so much: all you great guys: You know who you Are: Woohoo: to many to Name

i freeking love this Arma 3 🙂

i just completed a mission i made where you must attack this HQ and kill all there and Download info form a LabTop on the location of the fuelDepo: (that spawns at Random Locations) and there's Tanks there and MG trucks and Ememy: and ofcorse you must expload the fuel 🙂 for mission win 🙂

huge explotion on the fuel and smoke and fire Woohoo 🙂

[delicate tangle]

Will this work as a file path for cfgfunctions: “Scripts & Functions\AI”

Will Arma take the spaces and & symbol for file paths?

[winter rose]

perhaps; try and see
I would recommend using Functions like everyone else

[pallid palm]

oh and thx @ Lou for helping me with this ```sqf
SDV setCenterOfMass [[selectRandom [2, -1], 0, -1], 100];

im feeling very thankful today 🙂

you might be woundering whats the big Deal with Setting the mass on a littel old SDV: 🙂 ```sqf
//Submarine attachTo SDV
Submarine = "Submarine_01_F" createVehicle position SDV;
Submarine attachTo [SDV, [4.45, 0, 1]];
Submarine setDir 180;

WooHoo

[drowsy geyser]

Is there specific reason that hitpart eh fires regardless if damage is turned off and hit eh not?

[pallid palm]

i'm not sure it might be a paradox 🙂

[drowsy geyser]

Would be nice if hit eh would also fire

[drowsy geyser]

Would really want to know why if someone with more knowledge can answer please

[pallid palm]

i have some knowledge just not about hitparts: i was just jokeing in the last post m8

[drowsy geyser]

All fine i didn't mean you

[pallid palm]

copy that m8

maybe you could try ```sqf
addMissionEventHandler

addMissionEventHandler ["hitPart",

[hushed turtle]

You need it to fire even when damage is off(I assume allowDamage false) ?

[hallow mortar]

hit can also fail to fire if the target has damage enabled, but the hit does very little damage.
I think they happen at different points in the hit process and monitor different events. hit apparently has a threshold for damage being done, while hitPart occurs earlier, before it's decided whether damage is being done.
But this is all engine code within Arma's horrifyingly complex and inconsistent damage system, so you'd probably need a dev to give a complete answer.

[drowsy geyser]

I just wanted to know why 😄

[pallid palm]

so i was right it is a paradox 🙂

paradox is a statement or situation that seems self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, yet may prove to be true 🙂

[errant jasper]

Well I can make the following speculations for why:

• Note the description for allowDamage says it does not transfer when unit moves locality despite being a global command.
• Combined with isDamageAllowed which states that for non-local objects the results is always false
  The following is of course all speculation based on reasoning of the data that is visible to us from the engine. We might conclude that possible allowDamage is only known properly on the machine the object is local to which is why other machines just get false. Now let us look at event handlers:
• "Hit" requires the object is local and will not fire if allowDamage is false, which make sense from a damage perspective since only the machine local to the object knows allowDamage is false or not.
• "HitPart" only works on the shooter. If you ever played on severly lagging server you know the shooter's view takes priority. Other game engines might have the server "rollback in time" so see where the hit is. But here the shooter is authoritative in what he hits. But assuming again above the shooter might not have accurate information on whether allowDamage is true or not for the target. So it just runs always.

There is also the argument that if someone is interested in the data in "HitPart" they may have other reasons than damage, so not running the handler here breaks that.

• The major disagreement with my hypothesis is that "MPHit", from BIKI at least, does distribute the event handler and also incldues the note about allowDamage being a deciding factor. But that would seem to imply non-local machines do have accurate info about allowDamage so why would isDamageAllowed return false for those? And why wouldn't allowDamage not then follow an object that changes locality?

Anyway, that was it for my speculative Ted Talk.

[pallid palm]

so i was right it is a paradox 🙂 🙂

lol just having fun 🙂

ok Awsome people i can't w8 to get back from Golfing: to learn more stuff Woohoo: see you m8s

[finite bone]

Does BIS_fnc_curatorHint allow structured text to be passed?

[winter rose]

the wiki page says nothing about it, so 🐮 perhaps

[tulip ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/try-it-and-see-give-it-a-try-try-try-and-see-try-it-yourself-gif-24095805

[dark viper]

hey guys do groups go null if every unit gets deleted or removed from the group? don't wanna run into a reference error? I'm new to arma 3 but I assume so

[hallow mortar]

The group can be auto-deleted when empty, but the exact timing is not guaranteed. Unless a script actually does deleteGroup on it, there's an element of "when the engine feels like it"

[hushed turtle]

Will group var be undefined or grpNull?

[dark viper]

^^ Yeah what can I do to check it during runtime? Oh and one more thing I'm gonna use groups as a keys in a hashMap but it is an unsupported type. The wiki gives a workaround by using hashValue group to create a key. Group value won't ever be changed during runtime as any side effect? ( i don't know how it responds to deleting and adding units) I'm assuming it keeps the same reference value the entire time unless it ever gets destroyed

[willow hound]

If all units from the group are deleted, the group is simply empty (not grpNull). Also, from https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/deleteGroup:

In Arma 3 when the last unit leaves a group, the group gets automatically deleted. Manually deleting all units from a group, however, does not automatically delete the empty group.

[dark viper]

Gotcha makes sense

the wiki say it uses netId for group hashValue, this is automatic unique identifer from the engine I don't need to worry about it changing ever?

and thanks for your help guys 👍

[willow hound]

When the group is deleted, the variable value should become grpNull. You can test this by running the following code (e.g. in the debug console in the Editor):

private _g = createGroup blufor;
deleteGroup _g;
systemChat format ["isNull _g: %1", isNull _g];

[little raptor]

not sure but iirc groups have a deleted event handler which you can use to remove the group from the hashmap just to be safe

[stable dune]

In function is

CONTROLHINT ctrlsetstructuredtext parsetext _text;

so yes, you can use structured text.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ctrlSetStructuredText

[dark viper]

that's smart didn't think about that thank you

[fleet sand]

Quick question how would i detect explosion on a object ?

[hallow mortar]

explosion event handler?

[fleet sand]

thanks that is it.

[harsh vine]

you could make a progress bar with https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ctrlCreate

[blissful current]

I've been messing around with [testBoat, 60] spawn BIS_fnc_unitCapture; since boats in Arma 3 can't seem to drive in a straight line near land masses.

It seems to record location data and the playback function works okay with some caveats; Some animations from the boat aren't included (water jets) and there is no engine noise since I guess it's technically off.

Any ideas on how get it to make some noise so it at leasts sounds convincing enough that it is actually driving?

[winter rose]

. . . turn the engine on? ^^
but otherwise you cannot manipulate e.g engine RPM by script.

[blissful current]

Wouldn't that just make an engine idle sound? Since the boat is driving the RPMs should be rather high.

[winter rose]

that's about it yeah

[blissful current]

I guess I could do a say3d since I think that follows the sound source. Then record the sounds it makes when I record with BIS_fnc_unitCapture.

[winter rose]

(by mouth)
("VROOHOOOOOHOOOOOOOOM")

[blissful current]

extra immersive! 🫡

[blissful current]

@little raptor
I am trying to loop an animation in the way you suggested a couple of weeks ago. The issue I am having with the EH method is that it fires multiple times (even though the wiki says it shouldn't for AnimDone). This means that the animation starts over rapidly, making it look jittery/glitchy.

testUnit addEventHandler ["AnimDone", {  
 params ["_unit", "_anim"]; 
 systemChat "mainFired"; 
 
 [_unit, _anim] spawn {  
  params ["_unit", "_anim"];  
  sleep 5;  
  if (alive _unit && _anim == "HubSittingChairUA_move1") then {
  systemChat "animationfired";
    [_unit, "HubSittingChairUA_move1"] remoteExec ["switchMove", 0]; 
    [_unit, "HubSittingChairUA_move1"] remoteExec ["playMoveNow", 0];
  };    
 }; 
}];

I fires more than the screenshot. Possibly up to 20 times.

[granite sky]

The double remoteExec is probably wrong because it doesn't guarantee execution order. Those commands aren't documented well enough for me to say what's actually correct.

All sorts of waffle about "good practice" and things that may or may not work. No actual description of how the animation system works.

[winter rose]

it doesn't guarantee execution order
it does, iirc?

[granite sky]

remoteExecCall does. remoteExec just puts them in the scheduler queue. IIRC they usually run in reverse order.

Oh, I guess these are commands so they should get remoteExecCall behaviour. Kinda hard to prove either way.

[hallow mortar]

remoteExec is supposed to have guaranteed execution order live. The remoteExec JIP queue, however, may not be in order

[blissful current]

I'm guessing that knowledge of the animation system is not commonplace and is made worse by the passage of time. Maybe it's a situation of there is only one or two people knowledgeable at Bohemia on it anymore.

[dark viper]

I shouldn't expect scripted combatBehaviour or behaviour values to stay if I don't disable the FSM right?

idk what the AI does if its disabled, will they even shoot or move? Do they just act normally according to whatever their behaviour is set to?

[winter rose]

new favourite "gif"

[granite sky]

IIRC "AUTOCOMBAT" handles all the safe/aware/combat switching so you can just disable that and otherwise they'll act normally for their behaviour.

[tulip ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/try-it-and-see-give-it-a-try-try-try-and-see-try-it-yourself-gif-24095805

Actual gif

[dark viper]

im trying to but forgot how to do it in script

[winter rose]

disableAI

[dark viper]

the bohemia wiki is a maze of links that aren't connected well imo

[winter rose]

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

from there you have categories you can use

[dark viper]

thats what i was looking for

yeah I have seen this page before and couldn't find it purposely looking for it

🤷

[granite sky]

yeah normal for wiki :P

Sometimes it helps to remember an "adjacent" command.

[winter rose]

just sayin' :p (I can take the flak though 😄)

[dark viper]

yeah it's too spaghetti sometimes

[granite sky]

The search requires you to remember what it starts with, at least.

Could do with a semi-modern search that can handle partials.

[winter rose]

fair, but also searching for "disable" is not so far fetched here 😄
but yeah, MediaWiki…

[warm hedge]

Please refrain from crossposting anyways
inheritsFrom is a command to parent(s), getArray should return all children of the class

[quaint oyster]

Can someone please remind me, its driving me nuts and google with its new AI search is making it hard to find the actual answer.

What is the command to print into the console to log stuff? I cannot for the life of me remember.

[warm hedge]

diag_log?

[quaint oyster]

thanks, it was driving me nuts, that is it.

[little raptor]

ok a few tips:

1. instead of remoteExec, a. add the EH to where the unit is local, or b. add it everywhere and do early return using if (!local _unit) , or c. handle its locality change; all are better options than remoteExec. I'd say adding it everywhere is the safest option but if you know locality won't change you can just add it to the local computer.

2. no need for switchMove+playMoveNow; just use the 2nd switchMove syntax, which is also less jittery if you set the blend factor to 0:

_unit switchMove ["HubSittingChairUA_move1", 0, 0, false];
// or its remoteExec form, but not needed if you do tip # 1
[_unit, ["HubSittingChairUA_move1", 0, 0, false]] remoteExec ["switchMove", 0]; 

3. instead of "AnimDone" EH, use "AnimStateChanged". "AnimDone" was a bit buggy last I checked it.

So it just becomes:

testUnit addEventHandler ["AnimStateChanged", {  
 params ["_unit", "_anim"]; 
 systemChat "mainFired"; 
 if (alive _unit && _anim != "HubSittingChairUA_move1") then {
    _unit switchMove ["HubSittingChairUA_move1", 0, 0, false];
 };
}];
// start the anim
testUnit switchMove ["HubSittingChairUA_move1", 0, 0, false];

4. you can use _unit disableAI "ANIM" which will prevent them from changing animation so often. (but the EH will take care of it anyway)

you can make it into a function and reuse it:
(I also added it to biki)

// TAG_fnc_loopAnim
params ["_unit", "_anim"];

// remove old EH
_unit removeEventHandler ["AnimStateChanged", _unit getVariable ["TAG_AnimStateChangedEH", -1]];

private _EH = -1;
// if anim is empty, just stop looping
if (_anim != "") then
{
    _EH = _unit addEventHandler ["AnimStateChanged", {  
        params ["_unit", "_anim"]; 
        systemChat "mainFired";
        private _loopedAnim = _unit getVariable ["TAG_LoopedAnim", ""];
        if (alive _unit && _anim != _loopedAnim) then {
            _unit switchMove [_loopedAnim, 0, 0, false];
        };
    }];
};

_unit setVariable ["TAG_AnimStateChangedEH", _EH];
_unit setVariable ["TAG_LoopedAnim", _anim];

// start the anim
_unit switchMove [_anim, 0, 0, false];

// start looping
[testUnit, "HubSittingChairUA_move1"] call TAG_fnc_loopAnim;

// stop looping
[testUnit, ""] call TAG_fnc_loopAnim;

[agile pumice]

Is it possible to get c# code into arma3?

or can I only use c++ with intercept?

[queen cargo]

you also can use OOS to generate SQF code @agile pumice
it is also a C-stylish lang

however, still in ALPHA 😃

https://github.com/X39/XInsurgency/blob/OOS_Insurgency/InsurgencyModule/src/Main.oos

but looking forward to reach BETA state soon

[agile pumice]

thats not really what I meant haha

I have a C# library that I want to run in arma3

not that I want to turn my sqf code into C#

c# doesnt work with call extension does it?

http://maca134.co.uk/tutorial/write-an-arma-extension-in-c-sharp-dot-net/

think I answered my own question

[finite bone]

How can I determine if curator has switched vision mode to nightvision / thermal? inputAction "curatorNightvision" > 0 does not work neither nightVision and cameraVisionMode

[zealous solstice]

yes c# work

[cosmic lichen]

Have you tried to check the vision mode of the curator camera?

[hallow mortar]

inputAction is for detecting whether the key is currently being pressed. It will only return true for a brief moment while the player is pressing the button to switch.

[finite bone]

I tried currentVisionMode curatorCamera and it returns 0 even when its nightmision

[finite bone]

I'm using waitUntil {inputAction ... - it works for other functions like control group set, camera position set etc.

Just flashlight and nightvision

[hallow mortar]

Try using a User Action Event Handler instead

[finite bone]

Yea thats what I was thinking - keydown even handler. But its strange that these inputactions are not being recognized

[hallow mortar]

User Action event handlers and KeyDown event handlers aren't the same thing

[finite bone]

Ah yes 😅 - User Action event handler works fine, KeyDown does not. But got it working in the end though.

[dark viper]

anyway to create waypoints without adding it to a group? can only find the way of creating waypoints by addWaypoint, I don't see something like a generic createWaypoint

I'd like to define some waypoints in advance (like a group of move commands together could be thought of as a custom route) and then add them to potentially multiple different groups at different times depending on other logic

[hallow mortar]

No, but you could predefine the waypoint data - position, type etc - and store it in a variable for later use

[dark viper]

thats what i figured i would have to do

[agile pumice]

would have been great if the link I shared was a little more elaborate

[jade tendon]

Gday all,
how can i force a player controlled vehicle in a position with scriptiing until the rest of the script has run then "release" the vehicle at the end of the script?

[drowsy geyser]

Remove fuel and add back later.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setFuel

[hallow mortar]

You could also attach the vehicle to something

[thin fox]

attach idea is brilliant

[jade tendon]

["Aligning vehicle with repair bay"] remoteExec ["hint", (driver _veh)];
    _veh setPos (getpos _nHeliPad);
    _veh attachTo [_nHeliPad,[0,0,0]];

//Detach
detach _nHeliPad;

Something like this?
Sry, dont now how to do the sqf coding is discord

[agile pumice]

nothing about params or anything lol

[tulip ridge]

```sqf
```

[blissful current]

Thanks for the tips, Leopard! I played around with your function for quite a bit tonight; however, I was not able to get your function to work as it is written on the BIKI. The unit will play the animation that you pass to it when you call the function; however, it will not loop. It only plays it once.

So I started modifying your function to see what would happen. I found a couple of interesting things:

• Some animations will loop with your function while others won't. The sitting animation you have listed on the BIKI won't loop, but I tried some others, like a push-up and vehicle repair animation that do loop.
• That sitting animation, you have on the BIKI will loop if you change the EH from AnimStateChanged to AnimDone, as well as change your if conditon from alive _unit && _anim != _loopedAnim to alive _unit. Though there is an awkward moment where the unit stands after the animation plays and abruptly sits again mid-standing animation. I was able to fix this by reverting to the first syntax of switchMove.

After messing around with the function, I switched over to tackling the jittery issue I have with my current script. I used a locality check like you suggested, but it did not fix the jitter. My current thinking is that since AnimDone "Triggered for all animation states in a sequence.", what is happening is that because the EH fires multiple times, my switchMove within the EH gets run just as many times as well. Thus causing the jitter at the beginning of the animation loop.

After further testing, the jitter seems to be caused by my adding a sleep in between the animations. The length of the jitter is directly proportional to the length of the sleep. Is there a way I can add a pause between the animation loop without sleep? Some of these animations are quite short so they look weird if you dont add a little break in between them.

[thin fox]

are you still trying to make AI sit on that beach chair? 😮

[blissful current]

Hahaha, yes! I think I'm about 20 hours deep at this point. I really should move on, but when I get frustrated, I tend to dig my heels in. But I'm still learning other things with it. I picked up a better understanding of variables and functions by messing with Leopard's function, so it's not all wasted time.

[thin fox]

oh well I've always try to set up animations but I always give up, just wait and see its results on dedi when you get everything working on editor lmao

even for simple commands or functions

[blissful current]

I hear that. I'm nearing completion of the major mechanics in the mission and I'm not looking forward to seeing what breaks when I test it on the dedicated server!

[thin fox]

😂

[hallow mortar]

Probably broadly correct, depending on what you want it to do, but don't use setPos getPos. Those commands are slow and do not use the same altitude format as each other. Instead, use a matched pair of setPosASL / getPosASL or setPosATL / getPosATL.

Also, attachTo will automatically move the attached object anyway, so you don't need to manually change its position first at all

[jade tendon]

yea i figured that out, it now uses BIS_fnc_attachToRelative.

My problem rn is detaching the heli from the pad when the script is finished

[hallow mortar]

Well, detach _heli

If your script is a repair script then it must have a reference to the helicopter to work with, so it's as simple as making detach the last thing it does

[tough abyss]

Whats params got todo with callExtension

[jade tendon]

i think i figured out why it wasn't working
I was setting the detach command in the wrong place

[stable dune]

Same result with one backslash
```sqf
//I only used one backslash
```
😎

[agile pumice]

I want to know how to accept params in the dll class

[tough abyss]

arma callExtension, you give it a string, it returns a string

its up to you to code it to parse the string

[agile pumice]

I'm trying to process html files with the xml document approach shown here http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/587458/GettingplusOnlyplusTheplusTextplusDisplayedplusOnp (method 3)

and im processing the input string like so: http://pastebin.com/raw/vvrSAwzd

but its just returning an empty string

[brazen sparrow]

sorry for not being more elaborate 😛

[keen crag]

I need to apply settings for some mods on the server, I tried in init.sqf, I tried in the server mod, but they don't apply, can you tell me where to enter these settings or what to do?

Example of settings:

hatg_setting_building = true;
hatg_setting_complex_detection = true;
hatg_setting_cooldown = 10;
hatg_setting_debug = false;

[warm hedge]

We don't know what are they. Is that a particular something for a particular Mod?

[keen crag]

Specifically, these lines are the settings of the Hide Among The Grass mod.

[warm hedge]

Which tells you that instructions?

[agile pumice]

not too sure with how to handle that in the string builder

[keen crag]

I set up the mod in arma, through the add-ons settings, and then exported them.

But I dont know how to apply them to the server, the methods I have tried do not work.

[next gust]

Have a read of this article https://github.com/CBATeam/CBA_A3/wiki/CBA-Settings-System

[keen crag]

thanx

[pallid palm]

oh nice @stable dune

so then like this then Woohoo 🙂
```sqf
// Copy text on all this and remove all the ( back slashes = \ ) and your code goes here
```

thx m8: lol i need help so i can help 🙂

[pallid palm]

```cpp
// and for Description.ext type code or settings code
// Copy text on all this and remove all the ( back slashes = \ ) and your code goes here
```

[thin fox]

[pallid palm]

you can also do diff colors like this

- private _scotty = _this select 0;
- private _scotty2 = _this select 1;

+ params ["_scotty", "_scotty2"];

[errant jasper]

Guess your got a promotion. Congratz, Corporal.

[dark viper]

is there a way to increase the spacing for a group of units in a formation? IE follow the wedge pattern but increase the distance between each unit

[winter rose]

nope iirc

[shut carbon]

with a mod, but for all groups, not just one.

[dark viper]

cause it would override the spacing config for that formation i presume? (i have no modding experience only know the basic)

what if you made a custom formation then

i assume thats possible

[round hazel]

Hey folks, bit of a queer one for you. I have this setup for which a player can enter into a trigger, and by looking through their camera (Or coming out of their camera) objects in a specified layer are revealed to them. As you can see, this work in singleplayer (First clip) but when running on a dedicated server, the 'Jumpscare' sfx works but the objects are not revealed. Everything I've read points to this working, and I'm rather confused. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Working through stuff on the debug menu, the player is given the value of "ghostCabin" in their "ghostLocation" variable, as intended. I believe therefore it may be something to do with the code in which I unhide the objects, in initPlayerLocal

[granite sky]

There are a lot of layers here. Figure out whether the code at the end is running first.

[round hazel]

Do you mean the 'Optics Switch' event handler? And yes, I'm terrible for writing spaghetti 😂

[granite sky]

EH -> camON -> showGhostObjs

stick a couple of diag_logs in showGhostObjs and it should be clear where it's breaking.

I don't really get what you're trying to do with this trigger though. It's a global trigger that's using player but it's broadcasting the vars for some reason?

It looks like it should still "work" but I don't generally work with triggers.

oh wait, getmissionLayerEntities says it's server exec?

Not sure why it would be, but that would certainly do it.

[copper mauve]

sorry new to scripting, what is the easiest way to make it so that the "hold action" results in these 3 light generators to turn on?

[granite sky]

Have you used hold actions before?

[copper mauve]

nope

[granite sky]

There aren't really easy or hard options here. Hold actions are just hard :P

[copper mauve]

usually didnt wander into setting up RP stuff besides some light scripting

[copper mauve]

pain.

[granite sky]

Enjoy the parameter list: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd

This is probably the thing for switching the lights: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/switchLight

It's local effect so I guess you'd need to remoteExec the thing.

[dark viper]

how do you send an AI radio message through script? things they say like "Moving to position" that's part of the base game when you command the AI to do something. I'm looking to trigger that audio with a script

I'm looking at CfgRadio and the Conversations system but unsure atm

[copper mauve]

seems to be the way to go, I'll test it a bit to see if they want to behave or not

[errant jasper]

Would also need to JIP secure it if necessary. And then there is the question of whether light are also subject to streaming and then if so whether light state is remembered across (un)loads.