arma3_scripting

[tame portal]

Well

Can you give an example array?

Also make sure those vehicles actually exist in the missio

[full sorrel]

          {
            _obj = _objs select _i;
            //_object = call compile _obj;
            _object = missionNamespace getVariable [_obj,objNull];
            _object setPosATL [getPosATL _object select 0, getPosATL _object select 1, (getPosATL _object select 2)- 100];
          }; 

  ["shelf_1", "shelf_2", "ammo_1", "ammo_2", "ammo_3", "ammo_4", "ammo_5", "ammo_6", "home"];
_objs

[shadow sapphire]

Can anyone help me with syntax for enablechannels?

I need to enablechannels for _x in a foreach loop, can't find the syntax for that.

        {
            diag_log format ["[deployQueue] processing queue: index = %1, value = %2, total = %3", _x, _forEachIndex, _reinforcementSide];
            if (!isNull _x && alive _x) then {
                [_x, false] remoteExec ["hideObjectGlobal", 2];
                [_x, true] remoteExec ["enableSimulationGlobal", 2];
                {cutText ["Reinforcing","BLACK IN",20,false];} remoteExec ["call", _x];
                sleep 1;
                [_x, _heloObj] remoteExec ["assignAsCargo", 2];
                [_x, _heloObj] remoteExec ["moveInCargo", 0];
                sleep 1;
                ["Terminate"] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_EGSpectator", _x];
                2 enableChannel [true, true];
                3 enableChannel [true, true];
                5 enableChannel [true, true];
                if (_x in _heloObj) then {
                _reinforcementSide deleteAt _forEachIndex;
                _assigned pushbackUnique _x;
                };
            } else {
                // _reinforcementSide deleteAt _forEachIndex;
                // unassignVehicle _x;
            };
        } forEach _reinforcementSide;
        
        (_heloObj emptyPositions "cargo" == 0 || _reinforcementSide isEqualTo []);
    };```

[sick venture]

whats this button do

[random estuary]

hey hey, i'm trying to remove all weapons from the new Xian, so far, it has removed the Gatling, but the missiles and rockets are still there, anyone any idea of their position?

{
    _vehicleObject removeWeaponTurret         ["gatling_30mm_VTOL_02",[0]];
    _vehicleObject removeMagazinesTurret   ["missiles_SCALPEL",[-1]];
    _vehicleObject removeMagazinesTurret   ["rockets_Skyfire",[-1]];
};```

[runic spoke]

maybe change -1 to a 0? 😉

[native hemlock]

Probably a better idea to remove the turrets rather than just the mags, otherwise someone could possibly rearm it

Look for the turrets in the config browser

[random estuary]

will try that @native hemlock and already tried @runic spoke

[shadow sapphire]

@native hemlock, do you know off the top of your head the correct syntax for enablechannel in a foreach loop?

[native hemlock]

Why does that fact that it is in a forEach loop matter?

The enableChannel command needs to be run locally on each client for it to take effect

[shadow sapphire]

I don't know, but it's not working when I just stick it in there the way I normally use it.

So, I need to remoteexec foreach?

This is the context:

        {
            diag_log format ["[deployQueue] processing queue: index = %1, value = %2, total = %3", _x, _forEachIndex, _reinforcementSide];
            if (!isNull _x && alive _x) then {
                [_x, false] remoteExec ["hideObjectGlobal", 2];
                [_x, true] remoteExec ["enableSimulationGlobal", 2];
                {cutText ["Reinforcing","BLACK IN",20,false];} remoteExec ["call", _x];
                sleep 1;
                [_x, _heloObj] remoteExec ["assignAsCargo", 2];
                [_x, _heloObj] remoteExec ["moveInCargo", 0];
                sleep 1;
                ["Terminate"] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_EGSpectator", _x];
                2 enableChannel [true, true];
                3 enableChannel [true, true];
                5 enableChannel [true, true];
                if (_x in _heloObj) then {
                _reinforcementSide deleteAt _forEachIndex;
                _assigned pushbackUnique _x;
                };
            } else {
                // _reinforcementSide deleteAt _forEachIndex;
                // unassignVehicle _x;
            };
        } forEach _reinforcementSide;
        
        (_heloObj emptyPositions "cargo" == 0 || _reinforcementSide isEqualTo []);
    };```

[jaunty drift]

You need to remote exec the enableChannel commands.

[shadow sapphire]

Yes. The question is, what is the syntax for doing so correctly in this context?

[jaunty drift]

Probably something like [2, [true, true]] remoteExec ["enableChannel", _x];

[native hemlock]

So if you need every client to check those conditions and then enableChannels, then every client should run the foreach loop themselves. However, if only the server needs to check those conditions and then when the conditions are met every client needs to enable those channels, then you should use remoteExec like robtherad mentioned

I'm not 100% on that syntax but it looks correct

[plucky beacon]

So I'm starting to mess around withe event handlers

What's the best way to pass the return variables to a script?

[native hemlock]

Why would the event handler need to return a variable to a script? The point of event handlers is really to do something once the event has taken place

So you would run the script once the event handler was executed

And pass those parameters from the event handler to the script

[plucky beacon]

But you can't use general expressions like "Sleep" without the script

For context I want diolague to play when you fire a missile from a jet

[native hemlock]

So you should run the script once the missile is fired

[plucky beacon]

right but I only want it to happen when missiles are fired

so I should run a comparison in teh script?

or is there something I can do in the handler

no

[native hemlock]

No

[plucky beacon]

against teh Fa-18 aim 120 and Javelin do not have missile warnings

ACE javelin that is

In any case...

[native hemlock]

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

Mess around with it a bit, I'll be back in an hour or so if you still need help

It should also be noted This EH will not trigger if a unit fires out of a vehicle. For those cases an EH has to be attached to that particular vehicle.

[plucky beacon]

Ya, I got it on the plane itself

[shadow sapphire]

@jaunty drift, @native hemlock, thank you both very much for the syntax help. I think I can trial and error it from there.

[plucky beacon]

plane1 addEventhandler ["Fired",{
    _unit = _this select 0; 
    _weapon = _this select 1; 
    _magazine = _this select 6;
if(_weapon == "js_w_fa18_aim9xLauncher") then {
    /*play voice line*/
    };
}];

what I'm testing atm

[dusk sage]

It would seem there is problems with disableChannels atm

Seems to occasionally not work

Muting the whole server?

[plucky beacon]

I derped

[tame portal]

So yeah disableChannels doesnt work

using enableChannel doesnt work either when using it in a script executed by the mission

but running it in debug works fine..

[jade abyss]

again: Works for us. We disabled General, Side, Direct.

[tame portal]

Hm it must be something within the mission thats overwriting it

but theres nothing.. i double checked it

Would you mind having a look at my mission?

[jade abyss]

checking

scrap it

I have to kill someone later.

disableChannels[]={0,1,2};

• (in Mission init.sqf)

0 enableChannel [false, false];
1 enableChannel [false, false];
2 enableChannel [false, false];

[dusk sage]

isn't that form of disableChannels now redundant?

[tame portal]

Yes, but the new one doesnt work

[jaunty drift]

It seems to work for me on a dedicated server: disableChannels[]={{0,true,true},{2,true,true},{4,true,true},{5,true,true},{6,true,true}};

[tame portal]

Well it doesnt seem to work when hosting the server via ingame ui

Its really strange tbh..

[jade abyss]

...

[tame portal]

(It also didnt work on a dedicated)

[jaunty drift]

Pretty sure the game considers you an admin when you do that and admins have access to all the channels.

[tame portal]

Negative

Teammate was able to use all channels aswell

Same for the test on the dedicated

Somethings really strange on my system..

[jaunty drift]

Doesn't seem to work for players who are connected but not slotted when the mission starts who then slot in and join the mission.

[dusk sage]

Yeh for me it seems to work for some players, but not for others

[tame portal]

0 enableChannel [true, true];
1 enableChannel [true, true];
2 enableChannel [true, true];
3 enableChannel [true, true];
4 enableChannel [true, true];
5 enableChannel [true, true];
6 enableChannel [true, true];

Disables all channels but Global and Group

Group = Text and Voice disabled

Global = Text and Voice enabled for everyone

*Meant to be false

copied from notepad accidently

[dusk sage]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T117205

[prime valve]

I approve this bug report

[tame portal]

me too

[random estuary]

@native hemlock it wouldn't let me remove the turrets, the classnames were correct, checked in config, just went with removal of all ammo instead as we don't have any means to re-arm

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, I have a fully functioning helicopter redeploy script working in my PVP project for immersive respawning. What I need now is a way to divide arrays up based on number and then call the script twice if there are more than sixteen players in the queue array, three times if there are more than thirty two players in the array, and four times if there are more than forty eight players in the queue. Anyone have tips on where to start?

[indigo snow]

_myArray = [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w];
_myChalks = [];
_chalkSize = 16;
while {count _myArray > _chalkSize} do {
    _myChalks pushBack (_myArray select [0,_chalkSize]);
    _myArray = _myArray select [_chalkSize, count _myArray];
};
_myChalks pushBack _myArray;
// _myChalks = [ [a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p],[q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z] ] 

something like that

then run the heli stuff forEach _myChalks

[shadow sapphire]

@indigo snow, thanks a bunch! Will try!

I'll have to start with low numbers at first, though, because I don't have 48 friends I could get on at once, haha.

[indigo snow]

you can run the pseudo code itself with some ai duders really

[shadow sapphire]

Ah! That's a good point.

Where should I create these chalk arrays? In the init?

Rats, I need to sort these chalks by side, too. Hmm. I'll think on it before I ask for more help. I'll do some trial and error and whatnot. Thanks again, @indigo snow.

[indigo snow]

_myGreenArray = _myArray select {side _x == resistance};
_myRedArray = _myArray select {side _x == east};

[bronze trellis]

hi guys im making a mission in the editor and i have a trigger set to display a message when any player enters a zone and that works fine. But in the conditions field i want to have it so it only triggers when a player has a gps in the inventory
does anybody know what i need to add to the condition field to do that?

[indigo snow]

what is your current condition?

[bronze trellis]

"gps" in (VestItems player + UniformItems player + BackpackItems player)

[indigo snow]

did you try "itemGPS" in (items player)?

[bronze trellis]

@indigo snow i did just now, it doesnt work

[indigo snow]

my bad, theyre assigned so you should use assignedItems

to be absolutely safe you might want (items player + assignedItems player)

[shadow sapphire]

@indigo snow, I am having trouble wrapping my head around this chalk array you made. I can see how it works, but my brain just isn't creative enough to craft it to my situation.

I think I'm getting close to figuring it out, though.

[indigo snow]

the _chalk would be an array of arrays of units to deploy

[shadow sapphire]

I see that part.

[indigo snow]

so youd { _x call fn_myDeploymentfunction} forEach _myChalks

[shadow sapphire]

It's pretty plain syntax, very impressive to me how plainly you were able to make each statement.

[bronze trellis]

@indigo snow so the condition would be "itemGPS" in (items player + assignedItems player) ?

[indigo snow]

@shadow sapphire Im about to head to bed and i dont know the specifics of your code, but youd use the snippet i wrote to break up a large array of units into an array or smaller arrays of units. Youd then call the code you used to run on the large array of units forEach _myChalks for example

[shadow sapphire]

@indigo snow, okay, thank you so, so much. I'm sure I'l be able to work it out, it'll just take me a while, haha.

[indigo snow]

@bronze trellis in is case sensitive, use "ItemGPS"

[bronze trellis]

ah ya your correct, thats it. but now it displays the message as soon as i pickup the gps and not when i enter the zone with it?

[indigo snow]

i dont see any code that checks for the player being in a zone

normally, this in the condition field returns the boolean of the trigger check

so it'd be that && this, with that being the earlier code

[bronze trellis]

ah gotcha

thanks for the help mate have a good nite

[vagrant badge]

i have problem with waste land script spawn vehicle stores and gunstores inside buildings

[west lantern]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addSecondaryWeaponItem would this load a mag directly to a launcher or is adding it to inventory only?

[indigo snow]

Directly to launcher

[deft zealot]

whats the maximum length for a string used like this: obj setVariable [string, value]

[queen cargo]

@deft zealot i would assume it is the same as the length for the normal string

any other assumtion requires t esting

and i highly doubt anybody ever tried

[deft zealot]

still 8k limit?

[queen cargo]

go higher

8k was for format command

From Arma 3 v1.55.133789 strings are limited to maximum of 9,999,999 (sometimes 10,000,000) characters

[deft zealot]

oh ya i remember they changed that

[queen cargo]

using str formatText [fooofoo, foofoo] you even can reach that with format

nah ... they just put a limit on it as far as i know

[dusk sage]

I like the fact they pointed out that +1 uncertainty

As if it'll matter

[queen cargo]

well ... shows more that some string manipulation commands use "<" and other use "<=" 😛

[still forge]

so the map on my server keeps going blank if i relog etc, not sure why but id love some explanation if anyone has it?

[dusk sage]

markers?

[still forge]

such as all my map markers not showing, a literal blank map where in reality all my npc'

npc's show up, etc. it seems to happen when i relog and appears only sometimes

[dusk sage]

Dev branch bug atm I think

There is something on reddit about it IIRC

[native hemlock]

https://www.reddit.com/r/arma/comments/4nabx6/solution_to_markers_not_showing_up_on_the_devbuild/?utm_source=mweb_navbar

People have had mixed results with changing the difficulty, but I haven't heard any response on adding "mapContent =1"

[plucky beacon]

is "IsKindOf " the best way to compare classnames, or is that "IsTypeOf"

plane1 addEventhandler ["Fired",{
    _unit = _this select 0; 
    _weapon = _this select 1; 
    _magazine = _this select 6;
if(_weapon isKindOf "js_w_fa18_aim9xLauncher") then {
    AWACS sideRadio "R4F2_1";
    };
}];

[dusk sage]

isTypeOf doesn't exist AFAIK @plucky beacon

(typeOf _weapon) == "js_w_fa18_aim9xLauncher"

[plucky beacon]

Right, oops. Anyway that's what I mean. Is that better than isKindOf?

[dusk sage]

Wiki!

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

Checks whether the object is (a subtype) of the given type.

[still forge]

thanks penny ill try

[plucky beacon]

@dusk sage https://gyazo.com/db7e2c2de04343756acbf4e5d309bff6 What object is this referring to? Is it not taking the weapon fired from the event handler?

The wiki only says it refers to one object which should be _weapon

[dusk sage]

The weapon parameter in the Fired EVH is a string

[plucky beacon]

I guess I could use projectile?

[dusk sage]

It will be the weapon type

By default

I.e, if you shoot a katiba

weapon will be "arifle_katiba_F" or w/e

It's already a classname for you

[plucky beacon]

But it's the classname in the form of a string

[dusk sage]

Yeh

[plucky beacon]

oh so wait

hang on

[dusk sage]

typeOf object

will give you a string (classname)

i.e

[plucky beacon]

(typeOf select 1) ?

nevermind

[dusk sage]

_weapon isEqualTo "CLASSNAME"

You can't call typeOf on a string, it takes an object and returns a class

You already have the class

[plucky beacon]

so I don't even need "typeOf" then

It's already comparable

[dusk sage]

👍

[still forge]

@native hemlock hey, issue still here

[native hemlock]

That's all I got unfortunately, I haven't encountered the issue first hand

[queen cargo]

just for clarification @still forge ARE you using the dev-branch?
also are those markers created via scripts?

a minimal, complete and verifiable example would be great https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve

[still forge]

@queen cargo , it's basically that my map markers that were set in the eden editor do not show up,( http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/487892961319738294/A1B127D4B04A3C18D25690532498DB048E888D3C/ ) the map will sometimes be completely blank until a full game restart OR changing my difficulty settings to recruit from veteran from when it for some reason goes to vet

[queen cargo]

weird ... but if what Pennyworth said is not helping ... youre kinda fucked :3

[still forge]

yes

[lyric isle]

Need a script to remove all objects of the same classname from a terrain. Possible?

[vapid frigate]

@lyric isle you could use nearObjects with a big distance

[queen cargo]

@vapid frigate no!

doing that wont do any good ...

not to mention that nearObjects wont find everyhting

@lyric isle what objects

[vapid frigate]

yeah, sorry, was thinking stuff he'd spawned

i thought you could get some terrain objects with nearObjects or nearestObjects

but not all

[queen cargo]

not only that @vapid frigate ... main problem is the performance especially on large maps

it could kill your game if youre unlucky

or you do not cover the whole map

in the end: polling the whole map is smarter (with eg. 500 meter radius)

[vapid frigate]

{ hideobject _x } foreach (player nearObjects ["House", 100000])

works on altis, but slow

few seconds

[sacred fox]

Do anyone here know where i can get in contact with BadBenson? 😃

[queen cargo]

@polar folio @sacred fox is asking for you

just @nnotate them

[sacred fox]

thanks X39 😃

[dull parrot]

yo, so... http://pastebin.com/07rERLVh

That is my script.

areaOfPlay = execVM "scripts\ormp_ff_engine\ormp_ff_outOfBounds.sqf";

I have a trigger, set to Activation anybody, type present, and on deactivation that script gets fired.

It fires, sometimes, it's VERY inconsistant, and it is not working as intended

I am able to go out of bounds, sometimes it never re-fires

Sometimes it waits until I am to far out of bounds to fire, and then there is no way to get back.

Sometimes it simple doesn't fire at all.

On the activate side, I am calling terminate areaOfPlay;

to stop the script upon returning.

[dull parrot]

Ormp_FF_OutOfBounds = compileFinal preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\ormp_ff_egnine\ormp_ff_outOfBounds.sqf";

Also why is the above line breaking my mission?

it's in a single file ormp_init.sqf

which I am trying to #include "path/file.sqf"

yet if I include it, it breaks.

By brekas, I mean nothing works at all, as if I have no scripts runing.

[sacred fox]

anyone noticed that after the latest arma update, something went wrong with IgiLoad, you can not lock or access inventory on the Cargo, Repair and fuel pod. and its only localized to them, all the other pods works fine, something is broken but what?, i thought i might just ask if someone here has encountered the same issue. IgiLoad on Exile.

[ruby spoke]

How secure is the BIS_fnc_MP function? I'm thinking of basing a callback framework around it but I'm worried about exploits and hacks that might be known about the function. Any ideas?

[rapid plume]

For start the BIS_fnc_MP is just for legacy and is pretty much absolute - you should use remoteExc instead and you can make it pretty secure by editing the CfgRemoteExec.

[ruby spoke]

ahh I see, thank you this is what I needed.

[dusk sage]

Using remoteExec will be no different for what you're attempting

[ruby spoke]

I was just worried about security holes.

[jade abyss]

remoteExec

+Whitelist stuff

[dusk sage]

Alot of further security went into rExec IIRC

[native hemlock]

BIS_fnc_MP now utilizes remoteExec though so in theory the same feature should apply

But you should still use remoteExec, the changes to BIS_fnc_MP to use it were backwards compatibility optimizations

[dusk sage]

Were all these optional TKOH parameters on the wiki before?
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

I don't remember seeing them

[ruby spoke]

Yes, I think they were.

[dusk sage]

Yep forgot to look at the history

Shame

[native hemlock]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=addAction&diff=68087&oldid=65313

[dusk sage]

We can only dream for radius

💩

[ruby spoke]

Yes that would be a useful parameter.

[native hemlock]

But why?

[dusk sage]

So we don't have to write it in the conditions

[native hemlock]

You can use radius in the condition

[dusk sage]

Nobody wants to put that down every time, vs a number and a comma

😉

[native hemlock]

I actually think radius might work

[dusk sage]

How come

[carmine galleon]

Hey

[native hemlock]

If you type in a command and hit f1 it brings up "Scripting Help" https://gyazo.com/eb0d8c9a182ca1f1a7da8400b3e2f1a1

[carmine galleon]

Any way to remove a shift-click placed GPS point using script ?

Because on respawn player always have his old GPS point

[native hemlock]

For addAction it shows radius as a parameter

[dusk sage]

You on dev branch?

[jade abyss]

oO i've never seen that one Penny

[dusk sage]

They mentioned they were adding to it in one of the changelogs

Perhaps this is it, as the unconcious thing is new

Seems so, this is main branch:

https://i.gyazo.com/2b8b9655058d9fd0959e412784442595.png

[native hemlock]

Dreams really do come true

[dusk sage]

Indeed they do

[native hemlock]

And it works as expected

[dusk sage]

👍

[queen cargo]

good you discovered

now go and update the biki

[jade abyss]

Missed 75% of the Convo.
tl;dr anyone? 😄

[native hemlock]

lol it was like 10 lines

[jade abyss]

<- lazy 😄

Whats radius doing (i assume, min. Dist. until the action appears) + Still need conditions, right?

[native hemlock]

Yes

[jade abyss]

So, just no Dist. check in the conditons anymore. hmm.. kk

[native hemlock]

I have no idea how you would edit the wiki when there is already an entry for one of the parameters that isn't the same in TKOH and A3

[shadow sapphire]

I have some end mission triggers that work on my own machine, but when I uploaded it for open alpha testing, the mission didn't end appropriately. What might be the problem?

The trigger:

CP1=CreateTrigger ["EmptyDetector", getmarkerpos "M1", true];

CP1 SetTriggerArea [200, 200, 0, false];

CP1 SetTriggerActivation ["EAST SEIZED", "PRESENT", false];

CP1 SetTriggerTimeout [60, 60, 60, true];

CP1 SetTriggerStatements ["this","[] execVM 'RedWin3.sqf'","false"];

[shadow sapphire]

This doesn't work for creating markers appropriately in multiplayer. I have to figure out a way to make the markers appear appropriately to only the side they belong to and hiddenfrom the other side.

if (side player == EAST) then {
CP4A=createMarkerLocal ["P4", getmarkerpos "M4"];
CP4A setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON";
CP4A setMarkerTypeLocal "Mil_Warning_NoShadow";
CP4A setMarkerColorLocal "ColorWEST";
CP4A setMarkerTextLocal "Defend";
};

if (side player == independent) then {
CP4B=createMarkerLocal ["PD", getmarkerpos "M4"];
CP4B setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON";
CP4B setMarkerTypeLocal "Mil_Warning_NoShadow";
CP4B setMarkerColorLocal "ColorEAST";
CP4B setMarkerTextLocal "Seize";
};

Should I try to go with a foreach or something?

[night void]

@jade abyss hey mate! We make kill simulation... ;)

[jade abyss]

I have no clue, what you are talking about oO

[night void]

Unit x killed by unit y

We talked about it few days ago

All sayd its impossible. :) They was wrong

Abs izi way!)))

[shadow sapphire]

Almost nothing is impossible with Arma scripting, @night void. The question is never "is it possible?" The questions are "how?" and "how hard?/Is it worth it?"

There has only been ONE thing that I've run into that was impossible so far. Everything else that everyone says is impossible has been made to work.

[night void]

So, now we can simulate kills by game mechanic)

[dusk sage]

@night void Go on then, show us what you did

[plucky beacon]

Whats the most efficient way to randomly select between 4 objects. it's on an event handler so I don't think making a new array would be most efficient.

[native hemlock]

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

[lone glade]

selectRandom

damn

beat me to it

[plucky beacon]

not the BIS function?

[lone glade]

BIS func is the old way

[plucky beacon]

oooh

[native hemlock]

Returns a random element from the given array. Engine solution to BIS_fnc_selectRandom

[lone glade]

before you would just use array random floor select array or whatever it was

[night void]

@dusk sage u need it too?

[shadow sapphire]

I need to remoteexec createmarkerlocal based on a unit's side. Any guidance on the syntax for that?

[lean tiger]

besides call compiling formatted text, any way I can turn a variable of "[a, b, c, d]" into an array?

been crawling all over the wiki, there's gotta be a smarter way than how I'm doing it :<

[dusk sage]

@night void Nah just interested what your solution ended up being

[noble ether]

@shadow sapphire Bet you can't solve the Halting problem with arma scripting 😛

[lean tiger]

Disregard my earlier issue -- solved it

[dull parrot]

// Given a named flag capture area marker, returns number of EAST players on flag

private ["_flag", "_side"];

_flag = this select 0;
_side = this select 1;

_onflag = [_flag,[],[_side]] call Zen_GetAllInArea;
systemChat format ["Total %1 on %2", _side, flag];
_cnt = count _onflag;
_cnt

This is missing a [ on line 9.

Am I doing the format wrong?

The format line, is line 9...

I see it.

/wrist

[dull parrot]

i have a ff_flagHandler.sqf

http://pastebin.com/wVNhMPzg

I make it a function

// takes flag marker, handlers the logic of capture and contest of a flag point.
ff_flagHandler = compileFinal preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\ff_engine\ff_flagHandler.sqf";

Yet, it always returns any.

For that matter, ALL of my defined functions return ANY no matter what I pass into the params/

Any one care to shed some light on this?

[dusk sage]

You have

params ["_flag"];

then _flag = this select 0;

the second one is wrong (_this)

And not needed, params has you covered on that

[plucky beacon]

plane1 addEventhandler ["Fired",{
    _magazine = _this select 5;
    if(_magazine isEqualTo "js_m_fa18_aim9x_x1") then {
        _fox2 = selectRandom ["R4F2_1","R4F2_1","R4F2_1","R4F2_2","R4F2_3","R4F2_3","R4F2_3","R4F2_4"];
        player sideRadio _fox2;
    };
}];

is there a way I can optomize this better? it freezes the first time you fire.

initplayerlocal.sqf

[prime valve]

Any way to remove a shift-click placed GPS point using script ?
Because on respawn player always have his old GPS point

[dull parrot]

can I not // FLAG_TIMERS - Alpha, Bravo, Charlie
alpha_point setVariable ["flagCount", 0];
bravo_point setVariable ["flagCount", 0];
charlie_point setVariable ["flagCount", 0];

Set these to markers

???

[dusk sage]

?

[vapid frigate]

@dull parrot: you can't setVariable on markers afaik

[dull parrot]

Hmm

Damn bis wiki is down

private ["_flag"];

// get the flag of current flag being handled
_flag = _this select 0;
_counter = this select 1
systemChat format ["flag = %1 | counter = %2", _flag, _counter];

_contested = true;

// Loop CHECK SIZE OF SIDES -> GET CAPTURING SIDE -> WINNING SIDE TIMER - 1 -> CHECK SIZE OF SIDES
// Get west on a flag.
_wcnt = [_flag, west] call ff_getTotalOnFlag;
// Get east on a flag.
_ecnt = [_flag, east] call ff_getTotalOnFlag;
// Compare the above to get the capture status of a flag.
_side = [_flag, _wcnt, _ecnt] call ff_getSideTakingFlag;
sleep 1;

if (_side == blue && _counter < 30) then { _counter = _counter + 1; };
if (_side == red && _counter > -30) then { _counter = _counter - 1; };
if (_side == contested) then { systemChat format ["%1 Is Contested", _flag]; };

if (_counter == 30) then { systemChat format ["%1 was captured by BLUE", _flag]; };
if (_counter == -30) then { systemChat format ["%1 was captured by RED", _flag]; };

So, I have three global variables....

// FLAG CAPTURE TIMERS
ALPHA_TIMER = 0;
BRAVO_TIMER = 0;
CHARLIE_TIMER = 0;

I would like to be able to intelligently alter the correct variable based on the name of the object passed as _flag

in my case, it's a marker.

I am thinking of a getFlagTimer func, but I am unsure as to how to point to my actual global variables.

I am trying to avoid a nested if statement...

_counter should be the correct global variable in question.

Incrementing the correct variable, based on the _flag object passed.

If this makes sense to anyone.

[native hemlock]

Questions on top of questions of top of questions

[fallen skiff]

just a quick question -- I'm currently learning Python (1st language) and I'm not ready for scripting yet in Arma 3 or anything else; my q is simply, what sorts of things can you DO with scripting in Arma? (feel free to point me to web page or doc)

[dusk sage]

love how the BI wiki is down

for that question

sods law

[native hemlock]

Kinky, to make things pretty when posting code you should use the discord markdown for code which is ``` https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/210298617-Markdown-Text-101-Chat-Formatting-Bold-Italic-Underline-

[fallen skiff]

forums.bistudio.com is down too

[native hemlock]

As an example, if you join a server with no mods, you yourself could replicate all of those things with scripting

[fallen skiff]

all of what things?

[dull parrot]

Anything you see.

[native hemlock]

It's way too broad of a question

[dull parrot]

Also, scripting is simpler than python.

[native hemlock]

What I'm saying is that all of the things happening in that mission you join are possible through scripting

[dull parrot]

So, if you understand basic python you shouldn't be to far off.

[fallen skiff]

do you use scripting to make your own mods, or to enhance mods that are made with Eden editor, prehaps?

[dusk sage]

I would say just learning from the wiki is better than learning python

[dull parrot]

Although, scripting is only hard because unlike real languages, it's documentation and syntax and useage is fucking balls bad.

[fallen skiff]

oh i am beginning to see what you mean

[dull parrot]

If there is a book, about sqf, and sqf ACTUALLY worked the way the book described, and it had ACTUAL control flows.

It would be fun.

Not the teeth pulling extravaganze it is.

[fallen skiff]

is sqf the in-house bohemia scripting language?

[dull parrot]

Yeah

[fallen skiff]

too bad they didn't use something standardized like python

[dusk sage]

It's a lil' different

[dull parrot]

Fucking hell man, they could have just let us right our shit in C++, it would be easier than this.

[dusk sage]

As it's run on the RV engine

[fallen skiff]

so it's a bit of sore spot I see 😃

[dull parrot]

Haha, I am just pissed I can give a marker a variable.

can not*

[native hemlock]

I don't think it's that hard....

[dusk sage]

There is plenty of SQF -> C++ projects out there 😄

[native hemlock]

You have to realize it's a scripting language

[dull parrot]

True penny.

[fallen skiff]

one final question -- I like to fly helis and I am a bit dissatisfied with the collective controls -- can those be altered at all by scripting? (that is, any vehicle controls)

[native hemlock]

Are you dissatisfied because the controls don't seem to work properly, or the helicopter doesn't fly like you think it should?

[fallen skiff]

that it doesn't fly like I think it should

they DO work the way they are supposed to, i'm sure

[dull parrot]

switch {_condition} do
case 1 : {code}

IS that incorrect, I am like 90% sure it is.

[dusk sage]

    case 1: {}
};```

[dull parrot]

Trying to switch off the name of a marker stored as _flag

would _flag be the condition?

[native hemlock]

Your best bet Lee would be to edit the helicopter configs

[dusk sage]

come again

[fallen skiff]

what file would that be? I'll have a look

[native hemlock]

Have you tried using the advanced flight model?

[fallen skiff]

yes i've tried both adv and standard

Should I explain the issue in a little more detail or would that be inappropriate here?

[dull parrot]

So, can I pass a Global Variable as a pramater?

into a function

[fallen skiff]

it's really very simple

[dusk sage]

yes @dull parrot

[dull parrot]

Well, I wouldn't need to do I.

Because it's global.

[dusk sage]

although, if its global, and your passing it to a local script

there is no need

[dull parrot]

I just say GLOBAL = whatever

[dusk sage]

yep

[dull parrot]

test = ["alpha_point"] call ff_flagHandler; sleep 1; systemChat "alpha point fired";

This trigger init is giving me a Generic Error in Expression

But not stating the error.

this is the on activation for a trigger, activated via Anbody, Present.

[dusk sage]

we need to see the script

oh wait

Did it mention suspension?

[dull parrot]

http://pastebin.com/DwahEHhF

no

[dusk sage]

try

test = ["alpha_point"] call ff_flagHandler; 
[] spawn {
    sleep 1; 
    systemChat "alpha point fired";
};

to rule out the sleep

[dull parrot]

says I can

Can't

on activation type script expected nothing

is the error, when trying to put it in the box

[jaunty drift]

I think with a trigger you would need to do nul = [] spawn {...

[dull parrot]

Wow, that is very odd.

The error is gone, I am guess it was the sleep. But my NESTED functions chat ouytputs fire, but my switch does not seem to fire.

I think I am going to have a single function per capture point.

I wanted it to be modular, but at this point I don't like the huge switch / if mess.

If a single function only ever affects a single point it will be easier on me.

[dull parrot]

private ["_flag", "_westcnt", "_eastcnt"];

_flag = _this select 0;
_westcnt = _this select 1;
_eastcnt = _this select 2;
systemChat format ["_flag = %1, wstcnt = %2, estcnt = %3", _flag, _westcnt, _eastcnt];

if (_westcnt > _eastcnt) then {
_side = "blue"; // West is capturing
systemChat format ["The %1 is taking %2!", _side, _flag];
_side
};

Why does the above not return a string?

[native hemlock]

Again, to make things pretty when posting code you should use the discord markdown for code blocks which is ``` https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/210298617-Markdown-Text-101-Chat-Formatting-Bold-Italic-Underline-

What do you mean by "not return a string"?

No systemChats? Or you are expecting _side to be returned to the function callings this?

[dull parrot]

_side shouod be a string.

Set via the if statements.

I bring in three privates, _flag, a marker, and two ints, westcnt and eastcnt

The purpose of the function is to compaire the two ints and fint out if which is larger, or if it's a tie, then output a string representing which side won.

This however is returning any

'''test'''

[native hemlock]

Then _westcnt isn't greater than _eastcnt

[dull parrot]

'''test

[lone glade]

`

[dull parrot]

Well, there is two other checks.

[lone glade]

not '

[dull parrot]

  _side = "blue"; // West is capturing
  systemChat format ["The %1 is taking %2!", _side, _flag];
  _side
};
if (_westcnt < _eastcnt) then {
  _side = "red"; // East is capturing
  systemChat format ["The %1 is taking %2!", _side, _flag];
  _side
};
if (_westcnt == _eastcnt) then {
  _side = "contested";
  systemChat format ["%2 is %1!", _side, _flag];
  _side
};```

So, I should get ONE of these strings back.

And I am double checking the ints before they go in.

With me testing it will always be 1 over 0

In favor of blue.

is my _side getting destoryed by the if?

Is it because I need to declare _side outside the if statements, in order to return it?>

[dusk sage]

You would probably want

if (_westcnt < _eastcnt) exitWith {
  _side = "red"; // East is capturing
  systemChat format ["The %1 is taking %2!", _side, _flag];
  _side
};

[dull parrot]

Ahh, thanks BoGuu

[open star]

Is the BIKI down for other people too?

[dull parrot]

yes

been down for a while now.

[native hemlock]

What do you consider "a while"? I'm sure they'll get it fixed when they wake up and are in the office within the next several hours

[dull parrot]

3+ hours now I think.

[indigo snow]

If your script returns Any, one of the variables you use is nil.

[shadow sapphire]

What is the syntax for calling a foreach loop for all units in a given side? Any links?

[vapid frigate]

{ if(side _x == EAST) then { dosomething _x }; } foreach allUnits

or

{ dosomething _x } foreach (allUnits select {side _x == EAST })

[shadow sapphire]

Ah, I should have specified that it was a remoteexec I was needing. Thank you so much, though. I'll be more specific, I wasn't actually expecting help, haha.

[vapid frigate]

all clients of units on a given side?

[shadow sapphire]

I need this:

CP4A=createMarkerLocal ["P4", getmarkerpos "M4"]; 
CP4A setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON"; 
CP4A setMarkerTypeLocal "Mil_Warning_NoShadow"; 
CP4A setMarkerColorLocal "ColorWEST"; 
CP4A setMarkerTextLocal "Defend"; 
};```

To be remoteexec'd for all of the clients on a given side.

[vapid frigate]

looks like you can just use EAST for the targets param on remoteExec

[shadow sapphire]

Oh, that's good! I have lots of trouble with syntax, still.

[dusk sage]

yeh

[vapid frigate]

so i guess put those 5 lines in a function, and remote exec that function for east

[dusk sage]

[] remoteExec ["stuff",east/west] etc

[shadow sapphire]

Okay! That's easy enough! Thanks SO much, both of you.

[dusk sage]

The targets you can use are here: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/remoteExec

[vapid frigate]

think 'stuff' might have to be a function name though

not your code directly

[dusk sage]

For the purposes of explaning the targets, I think stuff is fine 😉 Could also be a variable though... 😛

[vapid frigate]

but you could use { CP4A=createMarkerLocal ["P4", getmarkerpos "M4"]; CP4A setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON"; CP4A setMarkerTypeLocal "Mil_Warning_NoShadow"; CP4A setMarkerColorLocal "ColorWEST"; CP4A setMarkerTextLocal "Defend"; } remoteExec ["bis_fnc_call", EAST];

[dusk sage]

eww

[vapid frigate]

better to use a function though

[shadow sapphire]

Oh... I use it JUST like that, @vapid frigate?

[vapid frigate]

you could, but it would have to transmit the script across the network, so not ideal

[shadow sapphire]

What do you recommend as the alternative, @dusk sage?

[dusk sage]

Put the code in some variable and use remoteExec

Either by using CfgFunctions or just a global variable

[shadow sapphire]

Hmm.... example? I get the feeling that's going to be over my head, man. I prefer what I can do and what works to what works that I cannot do.

[dusk sage]

Okay

[vapid frigate]

yep, that's definitely the better, but harder to explain way 😃

[dusk sage]

So you can define a function like

myfunction = {};

And remoteExec that

Or make a new file called fn_myfunction.sqf

And put your code in there, then add it to CfgFunctions

Your new variable to rExec would be TAG_fnc_myfunction, for the latter

[shadow sapphire]

Ah, I see. Yes, my sandbox developer uses that pretty often to do lots of things.

[dusk sage]

Need to not* over complicate remoteExec to think about it

The function name is just a variable

Which contains the code to be executed, that is all

It doesnt matter how you put the code in that variable

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, that sounds doable, but it's definitely something I'm unfamiliar with.

[dusk sage]

Aslong as said variable exists on said client, it'll run it

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, I think I'll try this, but I've got to make a new mission to get a clean start, because building it into the old way would be too tough, haha. Okay, brb. I'll read up through these again when I get back, if you guys are gone.... well, I'll read up through them, anyway.

[vapid frigate]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Functions_Library_(Arma_3)

i'd learn to use cfgfunctions with that.. the most reliable way i think

[dusk sage]

I set up CfgFunctions & CfgRemoteExec with you before IIRC @shadow sapphire

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Functions_Library_(Arma_3) *

Your link is dead -> )

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah, I have my CfgRemoteExec still, I don't know if I have CfgFunctions, still. IDK where it went.

Confirmed, link is dead.

[vapid frigate]

discord breaking it

[dusk sage]

rofl

[shadow sapphire]

Weird.

Should I make practically everything a function? I always regear all of my units in every mission. Would it be worthwhile to do make that script into a function as practice?

[vapid frigate]

personally i make all scripts functions in cfgfunctions

not everyone does though

keeps it organized

[shadow sapphire]

@vapid frigate, what is the disadvantage of making them all functions?

[vapid frigate]

i guess that you have to do it

extra step in making a script

[shadow sapphire]

Oh, so no network traffic issues or anything from things being passed?

[vapid frigate]

nah, all cfgfunctions get compiled at load time afaik

and to remoteexec one, it would just need to pass the function name + parameters

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, so, I'm looking at this stuff... Could you walk me through making the first function, then I can try to practice on my own from there? I've started with a completely new mission file now. It's empty.

Well, it has mission.sqm.

[vapid frigate]

in a mod or mission?

[shadow sapphire]

Mission.

Step 1: Add Description.ext

[vapid frigate]

Step 2: add a folder 'functions' (or folder\functions)

Step 3: add your script to that folder, and name it fn_FUNCTIONNAME.sqf

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, done. Does anything special need to be done inside of the function.sqf?

[vapid frigate]

Step 4: add the following to description.ext:

class CfgFunctions {
    class YOURTAG {
        tag = YOURTAG;
        class YOURCATEGORY {
            class FUNCTIONNAME {};
        }
    }
}```

[shadow sapphire]

What should my category be? Like, I just make that up?

[vapid frigate]

yeah, doesn't really matter. afaik, it's just for showing it in the functions viewer

your tag is the important one

[shadow sapphire]

Okay!

[vapid frigate]

after that, you can

call YOURTAG_fnc_FUNCTIONNAME;

or [] remoteExec ["YOURTAG_fnc_FUNCTIONNAME", EAST];

[shadow sapphire]

Ah, that makes sense! Awesome! So, should I just experiment with when things should be called or remoteExec'd?

What else?

[vapid frigate]

that's it

[dusk sage]

You're forgetting one thing @vapid frigate

[vapid frigate]

to make more functions can just add more class FUNCTIONNAME {}; and fn_FUNCTIONNAME.sqfs

[dusk sage]

You need to specify a path to the file

If it's not in root directory

[vapid frigate]

yeah good point

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, and for subsequent functions, what would each one look like?

    class ASG {
                tag = "ASG";
        class Loadout {
            class Loadout {};
        class Capture Points {
            class Capture Point 1 {};
        }
    }
}```

[vapid frigate]

you don't need a category for each

and can't have spaces in class names

    class YOURTAG {
        tag = YOURTAG;
        class YOURCATEGORY {
           file = "folder\functions";
            class FUNCTIONNAME {};
        }
    }
}```

[runic spoke]

no spaces, use _

[shadow sapphire]

Oh, so they can all be in the same categore, gotcha.

Okay, so thank you so much! I'm going to experiment now.

[vapid frigate]

need to add that file thing too, as @dusk sage suggested

[dusk sage]

Have a peek at this: https://github.com/ArmaLife/Framework/blob/master/Altis_Life.Altis/Functions.hpp

That is a good example of a large system of functions in different folders with different tags

[shadow sapphire]

Just... since I have your attention already, though, would I remoteExec or call a loadout script? I assume I'd remoteExec.

[dusk sage]

It depends where you're calling it from

And who you want it to be called on

[shadow sapphire]

From initplayerlocal and for initplayerlocal.

[dusk sage]

Then it'll be called on every client by default

[runic spoke]

remoteExec is made for server to client.

[vapid frigate]

you would call it from there, not remote exec

[shadow sapphire]

Ah! Okay, thanks!

[dusk sage]

But if you had some function that will be executed by a client and that client only, if you called something, it'd only occur on said client

If you wanted a global effect, you'd need to remoteExec said called thing

[shadow sapphire]

Hmm... so would I have issues, where the client was wearing different gear on their client than they were globally?

[dusk sage]

If you remoteExec on all clients in initPlayerLocal, you'd be executing on everyone, every single time someone joined, which isn't ideal

No, that'd be global

It depends on the command as to whether it's broadcast

[shadow sapphire]

Oh! Okay, that's good!

[dusk sage]

Look at the icons at the top of the wiki: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/enableSimulation

It will tell you whether other clients are synced with whats going on

[vapid frigate]

if you remoteexec it from initplayerlocal, with 30 players it'll run the script 30 times on each client

each player would be telling each other player to run it

[shadow sapphire]

Yeah, I don't want that to happen. I've dealt with that one when I first started mission making last year.

People suddenly had empty vests and stuff.

class CfgFunctions {
class ASG {
tag = "ASG";
class Loadout {
file = "functions"
class Loadout {};
}
}
}

Is acceptable?

[vapid frigate]

looks right

need a semicolon after "functions"

[shadow sapphire]

Thanks!

[dusk sage]

you need a semi colon after all your } aswell

class CfgFunctions {
    class ASG {
        tag = "ASG";
        class Loadout {
            file = "functions";
            class Loadout {};
        };
    };
};

[shadow sapphire]

    class ASG {
                tag = "ASG";
        class General {
            file = "functions";
            class Loadout {};
            class CapturePoint3 {};
        };
    };
};```

or

```class CfgFunctions {
    class ASG {
                tag = "ASG";
        class General {
            file = "functions";
                        class Loadout {};
            file = "functions";
            class CapturePoint3 {};
        };
    };
};```

[vapid frigate]

the first

[dusk sage]

the file and tag will apply to all that follow

[shadow sapphire]

So each function within a category can come from the same file director?

Awesome!

[dusk sage]

Like I said before

Take a look at: https://github.com/ArmaLife/Framework/blob/master/Altis_Life.Altis/Functions.hpp

[vapid frigate]

yeah, you can specify a file inside the function class too

[dusk sage]

It will answer most of your CfgFunctions questions

[vapid frigate]

but shouldn't need to

[shadow sapphire]

I've looked at it a touch, but was just too caught up in having direct attention.

[dusk sage]

😉

[shadow sapphire]

Super fast responses to my questions were too enticing.

But, okay! I'll go experiment alone now.

[prime valve]

Hey guys, does anyone has issues with the GPS waypoint staying here after death ? Like, the player has a GPS, he places a point, so the waypoint is displayed on his screen. Now he dies, and respawn, without a GPS, and the point is still there (as he has no GPS anymore). How do to deal with that ?

[runic spoke]

are you saying the waypoint is on the bottom right side of your screen?

[vapid frigate]

i think just on the map/radar, and you can't get rid of it

i don't think it's an actual waypoint?

[prime valve]

No, you know when you have a GPS, you hold Shift + Left Mouse Click, and a point appears on your screen with the distance

[runic spoke]

You don't need a GPS to see that.

[vapid frigate]

oh ok.. i guess our difficulty settings have that off

[prime valve]

I know, I made it that so the player needs a GPS to do that. And no, this is not difficulty wise. I'm looking for the name of that point or a command that could delete it

[vapid frigate]

i'm not sure what it is.. have you checked if it's a waypoint on the player or a task?

[runic spoke]

onMapSingleClick "true";

or onMapSingleClick "_shift";

[shadow sapphire]

What is the difference between calling and spawning a function and which is used for what?

[runic spoke]

spawning = scheduled = can have sleeps, calling = unschedueled = no sleeps.

[shadow sapphire]

Thanks!

[dusk sage]

No bad logic

It 100% depends on your current environment when you use spawn/call

[shadow sapphire]

Call = priority
Spawn = can sleep

[dusk sage]

If you are in a scheduled environment already, call or spawn both give a scheduled environment, in which you can sleep

[shadow sapphire]

Ah, I see.

[dusk sage]

If you are in an un-scheduled environment already

Then spawn gives you a scheduled and call gives you an un-scheduled

Spawn no matter the environment will give you a scheduled one

It also creates a new thread, which will run in parallel with the script it was spawned from, so it will not wait for it to finish

[runic spoke]

in the end, don't spawn unless you need to.

[dusk sage]

Have a read of: http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-code-performance/

If you are unsure the kind gents at BI gave us a command to use without breaking our stuff in 1.58: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/canSuspend

[shadow sapphire]

Thanks, @dusk sage!

[shadow sapphire]

I was ending missions this way

"END6" call BIS_fnc_endMission;
};```

but this didn't work on the hosted server to end the mission for either side OR the server.

I learned that BIS_fnc_endMissionServer is required to end it on the server, but I am unsure of how to use the two variants in unison to get the desired effect of multiple endings.

[shadow sapphire]

Okay, searches indicate that the way to do this is only one way. Call the endmissions on all clients, sleep briefly, then endmissionserver. But, I still don't understand the syntax for calling for the clients. I would guess a remoteExec.

[willow basin]

Wouldn't that be like ["END6"] remoteExecCall ["BIS_fnc_endMission"]; ^^

[shadow sapphire]

Very likely. Thanks for the input. I'll give it a shot, for sure.

[willow basin]

Ah sorry, actually it should be "END6" remoteExecCall ["BIS_fnc_endMission"];

for your example

[shadow sapphire]

Will give it a try.

[agile pumice]

Has anyone done an onmouseenter display handler for list boxes?

so when I hover over a list item a smaller control box would appear on my pointer?

[dusk sage]

or just endMission..

[willow basin]

BIS_fnc_endMission or BIS_fnc_endMissionServer is recommended by wiki and provides more options than endMission.

[queen cargo]

recommended due to the fact that just the script commands do not provide the same "feeling" like the script command

script function*

script function will also take care of the "effect" and sound

[fallen skiff]

I want to adjust a single control in a helicopter -- I think I have figured out how to unpack/access the various config (pbo and bin) files using editor and tools -- but I'm having trouble finding the relevant heli control bits in these files. Any ideas?

[compact galleon]

Anyone know how to disable IK so I can play animations on armed soldiers?

[native hemlock]

For those that remember our addAction discussion the other day, KillzoneKid updated the wiki to include the radius parameter for 1.61+ https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addAction

[jade abyss]

Hu?
BE protection kicked in for player id=123456, name='Dscha', msgType=10
Oo whats that?

[tame portal]

VIP BE service lol

[lone glade]

probably wrong signatures or stuff like that

[jade abyss]

I was executing stuff with publicVariableServer

[lone glade]

sounds like BE protection detected that

were you logged in?

[jade abyss]

nope

[lone glade]

there you go

[jade abyss]

even when logged in

Same msg

Ah, RemoteExec Restriction.

[lone glade]

oh ? they changed the message ?

[jade abyss]

Seems like

[night void]

Hey guys! Who good with explosives? Can i make own c4 but without planting animation?

[tough abyss]

I have tried using Transport Unload waypoint to get a helicopter to drop me and my team off, however it only kicks me out and then flys away with my team members. What's the best way to fix this?

[nocturne bluff]

google

This is such a common problem and there are a million threads on it

[lyric isle]

Need a script to remove all the trees of a certain type. I believe I need an array to call all the trees of the same type. Could anyone help? Cheers.

[split coral]

Something like this:
{if (getModelInfo _x select 0 == "yourmodelname") then {hideObjectGlobal _x}
} foreach (nearestTerrainObjects [getpos player,["tree"],5000,false])

[rancid ruin]

can I safely rely on locations on a terrain always being within map borders?

e.g I'll never download a map from armaholic, run nearestLocations @ [0,0,0] and find a location the mapper made @ [-100,-100,-100] ?

[meager granite]

 _v = cursorTarget; 
 _v addEventHandler ["Killed", {systemChat "Killed 1"; (_this select 0) removeEventHandler ["Killed", 0]}]; 
 _v addEventHandler ["Killed", {systemChat "Killed 2";}];

For some reason Killed 2 never triggers, why is that?

removing event 1 instead of 0 does the same for some reason.

[velvet merlin]

what index do you get for both?

[little eagle]

@meager granite
It's a old bug. If you remove an event handler from inside that event, you will skip one.
I think this is because you are modifying an array in C++ land while iterating through it, which is undefined.

@velvet merlin
0 and 1

debug friendly version:

player addEventHandler ["fired", {systemChat "fired 1"; (_this select 0) removeEventHandler ["fired", 0]}];  
player addEventHandler ["fired", {systemChat "fired 2";}];

Same as:

_a = [1,2];
{systemChat str _x; _a deleteAt _forEachIndex} forEach _a;

[meager granite]

Yeah, makes sense

Thanks

[little eagle]

does not happen with CBA XEH 😛

[meager granite]

What, it even happens if I delete different event handler, not Killed one?

I guess all event handlers are stored in same list

Yeah seems so

[tough abyss]

Hey all, I have added some custom attributes to the classes in my cfgidentities.

How can I access the value of that attribute when I have assigned that identity to a player?

class CfgIdentities
{
class Goodman
    {
        name="Herman";
        country="USA";
        speciality="rifleman";
        ghostSound="male_2";
        ghostRole="rifleman";
        ghostSkill=4;
        fullName = "Herman Goodman";
        nameSound = ""; // Arma 3 only!
        face="WhiteHead_11";
        glasses="G_Combat";
        speaker="Male03ENG";
        pitch=1.0;
    };
}

So if I wanted to find out what ghostSound is so I can play the appropriate sound for that identity?

[little eagle]

You can't. there is no way to read the "identity" of a unit

Because "identities" are just a set of face, speaker, pitch, glasses and name

[tough abyss]

Hmmm, how can I set custom attributes for a unit. Or can I define my own classes are read them as objects?

[cedar nebula]

I'm currently using this: '#lightpoint' createVehicle position player; to spawn a light but I want to spawn a light that is more like a cone shaped light...can someone tell me how I can achieve this?

[deft zealot]

looks like third param of https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/remoteExec is broken

[high plume]

guys, can anyone tell me if its possible to script an AI to fire in a long burst (hold down LMB) ?

[native hemlock]

Alternatively, you can tell them to suppress if they are in your group by opening the command menu (` or ~), and then hitting 3 and 9

[high plume]

@tough abyss that sounds interesting ands imple enough to implement. i just want the AI to shoot so that i can test sounds im working on. MG42 needs to be fired in bursts.

ill check it out. i have never worked with EHs before other than to set ammo to 1 (got that from a forum someday...). can i come back at you if i have questions?

thanks guys.

[rich bramble]

Is there a way to have a helicopter already 'spun up' at mission start? I've only found "<vehicle> engineOn true", however that only starts the standard spin-up sequence. The old editor had special:flying but iirc that's no longer a thing in 3den and besides that I want a spun-up heli on the ground.

My current 'workaround' is to drag the heli into the air in 3den (which has a similar effect to "special:flying" in the old editor) and then doing a setPos on mission start.

[native hemlock]

From Karel

Right now, helicopter and planes will turn their engines on when placed above ~20 m altitude. We're planning to add an indivual attribute which would give you full control over whether the engines should be running at the start or not.

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/188266-helicopter-not-flying-at-start/?p=2984525

I'm not sure if there is a follow up to what that attribute is though...

[rich bramble]

Thanks, that was a very quick and super relevant answer! 😃

[native hemlock]

Is there AI in the helicopter?

[lean tiger]

You could probably spawn it high with an AI in it, remove the AI, set it low

that way it'll be staging down and won't take off on you

[fallen skiff]

I have found at least some of the heli parameters in the unpacked config files, but I want to change the speed at which the Collective control responds to a keypress. Any ideas if and where this function may be found?

[halcyon crypt]

oh boy, what an amount of channels.. miss Skype already 😦

anyway, anyone know if the new screenshot (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/screenshot) command works with dedicated servers / headless clients like "rendered" in memory?

[lone glade]

nope it doesn't work on clients without a rendered scene, this command was introduced to create the 3DEN previews, nothing else

[halcyon crypt]

Ah pitty. Thanks.

[sacred fox]

anyone have any clue why the lightpoint flare's at night is looking ugly at night since the 1.60 update?, its like crosses, same with tracers.

[lone glade]

remove any mod tweaking them (except ACE3)

[halcyon crypt]

another option is to reduce or disable the depth of field (or whatever it's called) option in the video settings

at least, that worked pre 1.60

[sacred fox]

nvm seem to be the Depth of field settings

thx anyway 😃

[rancid ruin]

is there a command like max for arrays?

[indigo snow]

private _max = 0;
{_max = _max max _x} forEach _array;

[lean tiger]

Anyone with experience having to overload the 4096 character limit for strings with ARMA2Net? There's a parameter for it, but I can't seem to get it to work right

[tough abyss]

@rich bramble you can set the velocity of the helicopter in the init line

I am doing that for my ghost recon missions where there is a helicopter insertion

[vagrant badge]

hi

if i wanna foun buildings whats i must change in this code: ``` _atms = [];
{
if ((str x) find ": atm" != -1) then
{
_pos = _x modelToWorld [0,0,0];
if (surfaceIsWater _pos) then
{
_pos = _pos vectorAdd ((getPosASL _x) vectorDiff (getPosASLW _x));
};
_atms pushBack _pos;
};
} forEach nearestObjects [player, [], 999999];

copyToClipboard str _atms;
*/```

i try found dome on tanoa

[tough abyss]

Hey all,

I am trying to make the tasks display on the screen however they are only displayed on the map. I want to get that popup where it says new task assigned

Using this code from the BIKI

task1 = player createSimpleTask ["taskName1"];
task1 setSimpleTaskDescription ["To be successful in this example task you need to...","Example Task",""];
task1 setTaskState "Assigned";
player setCurrentTask task1;

[ruby spoke]

@tough abyss BIS_fnc_showNotification maybe?

Btw, if I defined functions in CfgRemoteExec would I still have to define them in CfgFunctions?

[tough abyss]

Thanks, that worked @ruby spoke

[austere hawk]

@gilded rampart your nightvision script/mod looks awesome. If you don't plan to release it to the general public, could you maybe share the effect settings you used?

[queen cargo]

looks like some combination of radial blur & noise

[dusk sage]

@vagrant badge You need to change the keyword it's looking for in the object names

[tough abyss]

Can I use waitUntil with playing a sound to check the sound has finished playing or is there a better way to do this?

[tough abyss]

I am trying to loop some ambient radio chatter inside a helicopter, using the ambient radio chatter script as an example. However it only loops once. I want it to continously loop with a random time interval

ARC uses a trigger to continuously call the script, however it makes more sense if the script itself loops I think

[indigo snow]

BIS_fnc_selectRandom, selectRandom is a native command now. (saves you at least 3ms)

[native hemlock]

^ and you might as well make that array once outside of the while loop and then select random inside of the loop

Are all of the sounds the same length as well?

[indigo snow]

doesnt matter his sleep doesnt have a lower bound

[tough abyss]

They are all around 20 seconds'ish

[indigo snow]

you might want to include a lower bound on your sleep. 30 + random 20

[tough abyss]

Got it, lemme test it

Ok, it's not playing anything now

while {true} do
{
    sleep 20 + random 30;
    (0 fadeMusic 0.3);
    _radioChatter = ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
                    "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
                    "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
                    "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"] selectRandom;
    playSound3D [_radioChatter, player];
};

Complaining about a missing semi colon, although Poseidon editor is not highlighting any syntax errors

[indigo snow]

yea theres a syntax error in there

look up the syntax for selectRandom on the wiki

[tough abyss]

Ah they've moved the operand

[native hemlock]

Yeah you have the array on the wrong side of selectRandom

And isn't playSound3D global? So every player would hear each other's sounds overlapping?

[indigo snow]

every player would be broadcasting their own chattering yea

[tough abyss]

What would you recommend for a sound coming from a helicopter when you are inside it?

[indigo snow]

have the helicopter play the sound, not the player

[kindred kayak]

Has anyone had luck working around the apex-preview issue with map markers not showing? (https://twitter.com/Arma3official/status/743353184224083972 and https://feedback.bistudio.com/T117215)

[tough abyss]

Now it is playing every single sound at once and then it stops :/

_loop = true;
while {_loop} do
{
    sleep 20 + random 30;
    (0 fadeMusic 0.3);
    _radioChatter = selectRandom ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
                    "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
                    "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
                    "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"];
    playSound _radioChatter;
};

Sleep is definently seconds yea, I wonder why the loop is ignoring it...

Does ArmA 3 kill infinite loops after a certain time?

[native hemlock]

Do you have -showScriptErrors on?

[tough abyss]

In debug console?

[native hemlock]

There you go

It is running in a nonscheduled environment so you cannot use a sleep

[] spawn {
    _loop = true;
    while {_loop} do
    {
        sleep 20 + random 30;
        (0 fadeMusic 0.3);
        _radioChatter = selectRandom ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
                        "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
                        "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
                        "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"];
        playSound _radioChatter;
    };
};

[tough abyss]

Ah ok, I guess I will have to do it in the helicopter init to test

Ah thanks

It works now 😃

[native hemlock]

There is also no need to create that array everytime the loop runs, so instead you would do this

[] spawn {
    _loop = true;
    _radioChatter = ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
        "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
        "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
        "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"];
    while {_loop} do
    {
        sleep 20 + random 30;
        (0 fadeMusic 0.3);
        _randomRadioChatter = selectRandom _radioChatter;
        playSound _randomRadioChatter;
    };
};

[tough abyss]

Yea that makes sense, probably also affects the probability of sounds repeating ?

Thanks

[native hemlock]

No, it should only be a slight performance improvement

[tough abyss]

So is playSound the best option then? How about

helo say _randomRadioChatter; ?

[dusk sage]

What performance increase would putting the array outside of the loop have

[tough abyss]

I guess it saves the engine from reassigning and fetching all the variables to create the array

[dusk sage]

They are just strings, putting it outside is just creating another variable

The inside would be indentical

[native hemlock]

Not really, it has to create an array with 20 indexes to select from every loop iteration

_arr = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20"];
for "_i" from 0 to 5 do {
    _random = selectRandom _arr;
};
//0.0097 ms

for "_i" from 0 to 5 do {
    _random = selectRandom ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20"];
};
//0.0167 ms

There is 0 point to assigning variables in loops if they are going to be literally the exact same between each iteration, it's just going to be slower if you do

Only by milliseconds, but still

[lone glade]

You do realize random [1, 10 ,20] exist, right ?

[native hemlock]

Yes, but I was building a string for the purpose of mimicking ecurb's original array of strings

I suppose you could use your random way to get a random index and then playSound after using format

[lone glade]

just do ```
for "_i" from 0 to 5 do {
switch (random [1, 10, 20]) do {
case 1: {
// Your code
};
case n: {
// Your code
};
};
};

[native hemlock]

What?

That is so unnecessary for this

You'd have 20 cases with

playSound "helicopter_radio#";

[lone glade]

didn't knew he wanted that, (haven't read above :P)

he can just use format for that

or joinstring, or +

    playSound ( ["helicopter_radio", str (random [1, 10, 20])] joinString "");
};```

there.

[tough abyss]

Hmmm

[tough abyss]

playSound and playSound3D seem to behave the same, I can still hear the radio sounds even if the helicopter is over 400 metres away. Any ideas?

[native hemlock]

@lone glade do you also know that is a Gaussian distribution? So the middle values appear more than the edge values

And those sounds wouldn't work because that produces decimal values....

I don't think you'll be able to stop the sound once it is playing already, however say3D may be better as you can specify the distance

[tough abyss]

Ok, I am trying to check if a player is not in a vehicle. How would you phrase it?

if (!player in _vehicle)

if(player in _vehicle == false)

Neither seem to work

[lone glade]

because in only works with arrays and strings

(vehicle player == player )

or (isNull objectParent player)

second one being faster

[tough abyss]

Thanks

[dusk sage]

You can use in with vehicles

player in vehicle is fine

[lone glade]

don't know why you think that, but it's false.

[dusk sage]

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

It's been that way for years

[ashen nebula]

Hey, Anyone know how to disable button's hover color?

[lone glade]

wow, I completely forgot that syntax for in existed

my bad

[dusk sage]

It's kind of sad really

As we'd like it to be as fast as possible to array comparisons business

but it's checking for objects too

and locations

[lone glade]

that syntax is kinda useless tbh

(isNull objectParent player) is faster than (bob in car) which is faster than (vehicle player isEqualTo player) which is faster than (vehicle player == player)

[dusk sage]

Well objectparent is not checking for a specific vehicle, so you'd hope it'd be faster

[tough abyss]

One last thing, I am compiling this vehicle chatter into a function. When I call it as a function it is complaining that the _vehicle local variable is undefined.

params ["_vehicle"];
[] spawn {
    _loop = true;
    _radioChatter = ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
        "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
        "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
        "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"];
    while {_loop} do
    {
        //check if player is inside a vehicle
        if (vehicle player != player ) then {
            sleep 10 + random 5;
            (0 fadeMusic 0.2);
            _randomRadioChatter = selectRandom _radioChatter;
            _vehicle say3D [_randomRadioChatter, 1];
        };
    };
};

I call it like this:

ghost_helo call GhostFunctions_fnc_VehicleChatter;

[lone glade]

because it isn't

[tough abyss]

I will try it with [ghost_helo] call

[lone glade]

the spawn exit the scope of the call

pass _vehicle as an arg to the spawn and use params there

[tough abyss]

Ok got it

When it is just one variable I am passing to a function, do I need to use the array parenthesis still?

[native hemlock]

No, but params would handle it either way

"a string" spawn {
    _value = _this; //"a string"
};

["a", "string", "and", "another"] spawn {
    _allOfIt = _this; //["a", "string", "and", "another"]
    _firstIndex = _this select 0; //"a"
    _secondIndex = _this select 1; //"string"
};

[tough abyss]

It is still complaining that vehicle is undefined with it being passed as an argument of spawn

params ["_vehicle"];

//because spawn starts a new thread outside the scope of this call, you need to pass any variables in the function call through here
[_vehicle] spawn {
    _loop = true;
    _radioChatter = ["helicopter_radio1", "helicopter_radio2", "helicopter_radio3", "helicopter_radio4", "helicopter_radio5", "helicopter_radio6",
        "helicopter_radio7", "helicopter_radio8", "helicopter_radio9", "helicopter_radio10", "helicopter_radio11", "helicopter_radio12",
        "helicopter_radio13", "helicopter_radio14", "helicopter_radio15", "helicopter_radio16", "helicopter_radio17", "helicopter_radio18",
        "helicopter_radio19", "helicopter_radio20"];
    while {_loop} do
    {
        //check if player is inside a vehicle
        if (vehicle player != player ) then {
            sleep 10 + random 5;
            (0 fadeMusic 0.2);
            _randomRadioChatter = selectRandom _radioChatter;
            _vehicle say3D [_randomRadioChatter, 1];
        };
    };
};

[native hemlock]

You have to declare the _vehicle again

[lone glade]

_vehicle isn't defined anywhere in what you posted

[tough abyss]

Sorry I edited the missing line from top

[lone glade]

roh, editing

missing a param(s)

[tough abyss]

come again?

ghost_helo call GhostFunctions_fnc_VehicleChatter;

[jaunty drift]

    params ["_vehicle"];
    ...

[tough abyss]

Ahh

[lone glade]

also your function would error out if the vehicle is null

[tough abyss]

How should I handle that?

[lone glade]

params [["_vehicle", objNull]];

if (_vehicle isEqualTo objNull) exitWith { /* error code */};

[tough abyss]

Ok got it

This functional style of programming is really hard to get my heard around sometimes. Thanks for the help 😃

[native hemlock]

The reason you have to declare the variable again is because it's a different scope when you use spawn

If you'd like to learn more about it and private variables, this post will help http://foxhound.international/arma-3-sqf-private-variables.html

[lone glade]

private all your local vars

[native hemlock]

The params command is so convenient for that and setting variables passed to functions

One of the best command additions in recent time

[lone glade]

that and apply 😛

[native hemlock]

This is probably the most fun though... https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setAnimSpeedCoef

[lone glade]

and by far the one with the most interesting results huehuehue

[tough abyss]

Does the distance function work if an object is cargo of another object?

I am just going to check

Interesting as cargo inside a helicopter I get a distanec of 2.98
I wonder why that is?

Is there a specific point in the helicopter it is measuring from, perhaps the tail ?

[native hemlock]

I'm pretty sure it measures from (theObject modelToWorld [0, 0, 0]), which might be the boundingCenter

Let me check

So I was wrong, about boundingCenter

However these two are the same

player distance theObject;
player distance (theObject modelToWorld [0, 0, 0]);

[fallen skiff]

nice to see you again Pennyworth, I have a question for you (and scripters generally) which should be easy to answer ... helicopters in arma 3 have a control called the Collective, somewhat analagous to a throttle. When you engage it, there is a brief pause, then it begins to move slowly, then a little faster. I'd like to speed that process up a bit, -- make the RATE of movement controllable.

Is that even possible?

I have found the heli references in the unpacked config files but that's as far as I've got

[random estuary]

Quick one, would this exit a script if the player was using stream friendly ui?

if !(isStreamFriendlyUIEnabled = false) exitWith {};

[hallow spear]

the return on that command will be true or false. so you should be able to just do if !(isStreamFriendlyUIEnabled) exitWith {};

[random estuary]

yeah good point, the if is looking for the boolean, thanks

[fallen skiff]

@native hemlock pardon the interruption, did you see my question just now in #arma3_scripting?

[lone glade]

You can't check if a player has a certain setting or not

[indigo snow]

give people some time to get you an answer vicious

[native hemlock]

Yes, I just know nothing about editing helicopter controls

That's actually something I don't think is possible with script commands

That's more of a config or possibly controller setup thing

[fallen skiff]

can you suggest who / where I might inquire further?

[native hemlock]

Do you have a joystick?

[fallen skiff]

I use PPJoyMouse and a game controller

i don't want to change any of the joystick-related controls

however i CAN tell you that when I experimentally map collective(analogue) to joystick or any controller, I see the same slow response

[native hemlock]

I can't really point you to anyone specifically, but you might be best writing up a post with what you see as the issue and posting it here https://forums.bistudio.com/forum/162-arma-3-addons-configs-scripting/

It's easy for things to get missed here on discord, as sometimes chat scrolls fast and people ask questions at the same time

[fallen skiff]

thanks I will do that

dslyecki would probably have something to say on this but I cannot seem to get hold of him

...even when I spell his name right 😃

[lone glade]

dslyecxi*

[native hemlock]

People will usually be constructive and helpful if you show that you've put some effort into the post, rather than "helicopters don't fly like I think they should, how fix?"

[fallen skiff]

yes I understand

i actually have managed to unpack and find many of the heli related parameters

[native hemlock]

I know absolutely nothing about helicopters, their terms, and their configs. If you see something in the config that you think is relevant to the issue, just throw it into google with "arma" in it and see if anything turns up

Some config entries are well documented on the Arma 3 wiki or the VBS wikis, but not all

[fallen skiff]

i've been doing that, no luck so far... i'll keep digging for a while to make sure I'm well informed before making a post

i suspect that the control I want to acquire is hardcoded, binarized, under the hood etc.

like suppose you wanted to change the rate at which a gun can reload, it would be analogous to that

[native hemlock]

If you've extracted the game data with Arma 3 Tools, nothing in configs should be hidden or binarized

Something pertaining it to though might be hard coded in the engine

[fallen skiff]

indeed

in fact the tweak i have in mind might be considered a cheat

but I would like to propose it as a desirable change and I think I can make a case for it

I just thought it would be nice to DEMONSTRATE it and so illustrate my idea concretely

[little eagle]

@lone glade

because in only works with arrays and strings
wrong

Alternative Syntax
Syntax:
unit in vehicle
Parameters:
unit: Object - person
vehicle: Object - transport
Return Value:
Boolean

[lone glade]

check what I wrote below that

[tough abyss]

Is there any way to force max FOV via script?

[jade abyss]

afaik not

[lone glade]

afaik not, most of those settings aren't possible to change via commands

[tough abyss]

How about detecting the height of the player 3rd person view above the terrain?

[jade abyss]

take the cam Height

[lone glade]

would be fucked in buildings

[jade abyss]

currently searching, where i made that before.

@lone glade Doesn't matter, when you check the Dist to the ground

[lone glade]

should've precised 😛

[tough abyss]

We could ref the player rather than the terrain

[jade abyss]

Can't fkn remember where it was. I just remember, that i took LineIntersect***something, then checking the distance to the ground

[tough abyss]

That is enough for me to find a fix @jade abyss. Thanks!

[jade abyss]

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

[native hemlock]

lol I know why you are wanting to know this information

[lone glade]

pretty sure all of us know why here 😛

[jade abyss]

Anti-OverTheWallLooking3rdPersonServer

😄

[lone glade]

yep

[native hemlock]

Someone with a reasonably big following was streaming battle royale last night and it was revealed that the guy who was first or second on the leaderboards plays with ridiculously high FOV

[tough abyss]

^^

[jade abyss]

If LineInters... would be more precise, the fkn "I bend me through the wall too look at the other side" would be over -.-

[lone glade]

doesn't really matter when you can actually clip your head through walls

[jade abyss]

It would

[native hemlock]

I feel like this would be hard to script around

[lone glade]

tho gun occlusion was sneakily added back

[jade abyss]

Since then, you can simply say -> Fk you, get back to "Stand" and not "lean"

[tough abyss]

We already have code to detect the wallhacks, but the x2 FOV gives players a massive advantage in the final circles.

[jade abyss]

Yeah

[lone glade]

you could try https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/camPrepareFov

[jade abyss]

hm, that one is new for me

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

(wich, i assume, doesn't work for normal views, but... could be a workaround

like -> Creating a cam behind the player and block the normal 3rd Person button

[native hemlock]

lol look at this https://www.twitch.tv/1080p__/v/73233544?t=1h52m45s

Especially when you double zoom out

[lone glade]

the "I have a uav above my head" feel

[native hemlock]

I'm sure he is not the only person to do it, but it seems hard to restrict

[tough abyss]

Yeah, not very fair imo

[dusk sage]

looks like splendid cam rofl

[lone glade]

(disable 3rd person and enjoy)

really does

but it's more stable 😛

[dusk sage]

😄

get the old tobii eyex out

that would be too easy

[native hemlock]

Best solution would be to convince BIS to add a server.cfg value that was something like restrictFOV

[jade abyss]

Yep

[native hemlock]

As I'm sure they wouldn't want people abusing this type of thing in PvP/TvT game modes

[dusk sage]

Lets get our markers back first

👽

[lone glade]

this ^

[tough abyss]

^^

[native hemlock]

In a perfect world everyone would play first person, but you can't get force that upon the masses

lol oh lord the markers

[lone glade]

"let's fix polyline markers, BY REMOVING ALL OF THE MARKERS"

[tough abyss]

I can't run a preview of BR Tanoa due to this!

[dusk sage]

haha

[native hemlock]

lol you can't see the zones?

[tame portal]

"First person is shit!" - People that play Battlefield, Call of Duty and other first person only games

[jade abyss]

^^

[lone glade]

"first person is shit, I can't see behind walls"

[tame portal]

If only we were able to understand those people

[jade abyss]

but, tbh, Arma in 1stPerson only is hard after a while

[dusk sage]

I played a king of the hill the other day

The same guy killed me 5 times, had no idea where he was. I shadow played it

And saw his muzzle in the wall

Literally had no idea

[jade abyss]

I like it, but sometimes i rly need need 3rd 😄

[lone glade]

don't worry dscha, in the next ACE3 version mission makers will have the option to disable THE WHOLE FUCKING UI

[tame portal]

When I play king of the hill

I die

😦

[dusk sage]

And lag

[tame portal]

Goes pretty much for any gamemode in ArmA, I am total shit at PvP

[jade abyss]

Yeah, you are.

[native hemlock]

Has anyone been able to figure out what exactly causes the map marker issues? Like do both createMarker and creatMarkerLocal not work?

[jade abyss]

Hu? oO

what did i miss? @native hemlock

[lone glade]

BI fucking up when they added the server setting for polylines

[jade abyss]

ermmm

[lone glade]

absolutely no markers work, mission tasks and drawIcons do

[jade abyss]

oO

Wait

[dusk sage]

There was a 'fix'

To do with changing your difficulty

clientside

[lone glade]

it's bull

[jade abyss]

Yeah, ive seen alot of Markers in the past

[lone glade]

sometimes the markers work, sometimes they don't

[jade abyss]

We were playing Domination last time, Markers worked as before oO

[native hemlock]

Yeah I don't think the difficulty changing really works, I attempted it myself with no luck

It just seems super inconsistent

[tame portal]

Tbh I haven't had any issues with markers lately

[lone glade]

(1.62 onwards)

stable isn't affected

[tough abyss]

Are you running 1.62 @tame portal ?

[native hemlock]

I tried to recreate the issue myself, but I had no luck

[tame portal]

Yeah hosted my mission on dev branch and it worked fine

Aswell as on stable and preview

[lone glade]

wat

[tough abyss]

^^

[native hemlock]

Gun game needs markers?

[jade abyss]

hmm

Do you know, how we call that kind of stuff?

[lone glade]

want my profile and the mission + server.cfg I tested it with?

[jade abyss]

"ARS" - Arma Random Shit

[native hemlock]

Sure

[tame portal]

Penny you cheeky cunt xD

[native hemlock]

Is it that the markers are just invisible for some people, or that they don't even exist?

Like with allMapMarkers actually return anything?

[lone glade]

actuaaally, I didn't checked if they existed

gimme a sec i'll check

[tame portal]

I went back to preview now but Ill check later if my mission still works flawlessly

[native hemlock]

It wasn't supposed to be cheeky 😛 I legitimately didn't think you would need them, unless you are referring to a different mission

[lone glade]

markers exist, they are invisible

[native hemlock]

Does creating it again make it reappear?

[lone glade]

No, my new markers are still invisible

I can see them via the zeus camera tho

[jade abyss]

hmm.. what's uro'ing (breaking) it? Zeus? Does it work in normal Missions?

[lone glade]

no idea what's breaking it, you can only see the markers through zeus

they seem to be invisible

the only markers that work 100% of the time are task ones

[native hemlock]

What difficulty is the server on and what value do you have for mapContent?

[jade abyss]

Hint: 0,1 & 2 are possible.

(iirc)

[lone glade]

tried both mapContent ticked and unticked, no change (local MP)