#arma3_scripting | ARMA | Page 250

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:17 PM

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but every single 3rd party mission i've tried? surely they can't be all bad... including very highly rated ones

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:17 PM

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If it's multiple missions from different people then it is indeed strange

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:18 PM

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yes

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consistent crash behavior on all of them

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i've spent probably 15-20 hours on nothing but efforts to fix problem

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:18 PM

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And the machine runs other games well?

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:19 PM

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yes... the only other thing i play though is project reality

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so i can't say much for other games

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perhaps i should try one

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:19 PM

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hmm. Arma is pretty... demanding

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:20 PM

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true... i put it in lowest vid settings for diagnosing ... but my machine meets requirements fairly well

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:20 PM

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the official requirements are pretty optimistic

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to say the least

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:20 PM

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i have ram left to spare while running game, cpu not totally plugged, etc

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really

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sigh perhaps time for new mobo/cpu

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:22 PM

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My Arma never goes beyond 25% CPU usage. It's a quadcore. I guess Arma can only use one core or something

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no expert on stuff like that

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:22 PM

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it would be surprising if a modern game like a3 could only use one core, no?

little eagle Aug 13, 2016, 9:23 PM

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Well

tough abyss Aug 13, 2016, 9:35 PM

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This might be a better topic for #arma3_troubleshooting

fallen skiff Aug 13, 2016, 9:43 PM

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yes excuse me... thanks again for chat on this topic

grand cargo Aug 14, 2016, 12:34 AM

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ahahahah arma uses 1 core for most things I believe/

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 2:49 AM

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That's why running Headless Client is so good

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Because it uses your other core(s)

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Also I'm looking into Arma scripting

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Any recommendations on guides?

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Preferably newer ones that are designed for Arma 1.62

hallow spear Aug 14, 2016, 11:42 AM

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is it possible to set the status of a RscCheckbox? (ex: set column 1 row 5 value to not checked)

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:11 PM

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What am i doing wrong here? ```params [
["_mapClicks", false, [true]]
];

if (_mapClicks == true) then
{
hint format["Mapclicks : %1",_mapClicks];
} else
{
hint format["Mapclicks : %1",_mapClicks];
};```

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oh whats the command to make a codeblock?

zealous solstice Aug 14, 2016, 2:13 PM

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hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:13 PM

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thx 😃

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 2:18 PM

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== cannot compare booleans

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if expects a boolean, so just use:

if (_mapClicks) then {

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also, I'd rename the variable:
_isMapClick

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:20 PM

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oh i see

zealous solstice Aug 14, 2016, 2:20 PM

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@little eagle maybe with a ed at the end?

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 2:21 PM

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yeah, _isMapClicked
really depends on what this actually does

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:21 PM

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Just a simple tp on mapClick function

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 2:22 PM

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that would read good:

if (_isMapClicked) then {

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point is, you cannot compare booleans with ==. And it wouldn't make much sense anyway

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:23 PM

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Really appreciate the help guys! 😄

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 2:23 PM

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np, yw
that is what this channel is for : )

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 2:25 PM

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yeah i know 😃 but still it feels better to thank when one gets some help 😃

tidal stump Aug 14, 2016, 3:14 PM

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Hello! Playing the Apex protocol campaign, I noticed that one could now incorporate the video on games. For example on a screen.
Anyone have information on this feature?

zealous solstice Aug 14, 2016, 3:17 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gewndfow7lk

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you mean like this?

tidal stump Aug 14, 2016, 3:17 PM

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Yes exactly

zealous solstice Aug 14, 2016, 3:18 PM

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that is not "new"

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that is old

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click on the link in the video description

tidal stump Aug 14, 2016, 3:19 PM

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Ah? okay I'll watch this

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Ah! and thank you 😃

unreal skiff Aug 14, 2016, 5:23 PM

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anyone have experience with creating life servers

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?

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i have a couple problems when i created mine

dusk sage Aug 14, 2016, 5:36 PM

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Usually detailing the problem helps

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👌

lethal cave Aug 14, 2016, 6:46 PM

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what is the fastest way to force a tank to fire at a certain object without distracting on other units around him

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i guess fireAtTarget will do, but how do i find a muzzle i need

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 6:52 PM

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Im just guessing now but wouldnt you find the correct muzzle in configviewer for that specific tank?

lethal cave Aug 14, 2016, 6:54 PM

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trying it out, not sure exactly where to look

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weapons command returns tank weapons

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what if i wanna use other kind of ammo for that weapon, how would i go about it?

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 8:20 PM

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-snip-

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no, wait

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private _turrets = allTurrets _vehicle;
_turrets pushBack [-1];

_turrets apply {[_x, _vehicle weaponsTurret _x]}

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changing the magazine will be tricky...

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 8:42 PM

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Im getting confused by params. i need to check if _myVar is false or true. It cant be anything else than that.

'''params [["_myVar",false,[true,false]];

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The part that confuses me are how i define the allowed values.

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 8:43 PM

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the array on the third position only needs one example of the data type

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no point in having true and false, as both are boolean

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 8:44 PM

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oh okay

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 8:44 PM

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you cannot define "allowed values"

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only allowed data types

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if you only want to allow certain values , you have to check:
if !(_value in ALLOWED_VALUES) then { /* fix it */};

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keep in mind that in <ARRAY> is case sensitive

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 8:45 PM

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so say i had another one like so: params [["_myVar","string",["allowed1","allowed2"]];

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 8:46 PM

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that doesn't work. Both "allowed1" and "allowed2" are strings

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"string" is your default value

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in case it was undefined or the wrong data type

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 8:47 PM

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So i have to check the value after and deal with that then, got it!

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 8:47 PM

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yes

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param(s) can only check the data type (and for arrays the array size)

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 8:49 PM

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Thank you so much! 😄

lethal cave Aug 14, 2016, 8:59 PM

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thanks for info guys, i'll try it right now

dull parrot Aug 14, 2016, 9:13 PM

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Sup folks.

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 9:23 PM

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Sup sup :>

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 9:29 PM

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Sup @little eagle you seem to know your stuff

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Mind teaching me or pointing me into some good well, explained guides?

hearty shoal Aug 14, 2016, 9:30 PM

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Sup sup :>

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 9:32 PM

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There are no guides that are up to date. And imho all guides so far are lackluster.

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 9:32 PM

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Rip ;/

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So how should I learn?

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 9:33 PM

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By making mistakes

dull parrot Aug 14, 2016, 9:33 PM

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^

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 9:33 PM

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But how do I TRY

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And START to learn

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 9:34 PM

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I didn't know what I was doing. After 6 months and many deleted lines I could write basically anything

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Still learning about some weird details of SQF from time to time...

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 9:36 PM

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But I don't know anything of it

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So how do you expect me to "start writing lines"

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 9:37 PM

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This wiki explains the commands:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_Arma_3

Category:Scripting Commands Arma 3

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Still using that today on the obscure ones

native hemlock Aug 14, 2016, 10:04 PM

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With any type of scripting or programming you'll get the most out of just doing it
http://killzonekid.com/ his site isn't bad, it's scattered and sometimes a little dated information, but overall there is a lot of information
http://foxhound.international/development.html has some nice information as well

scarlet spoke Aug 14, 2016, 10:06 PM

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@Latouth if you speak German I'd know a really good tutorial series...

dusk sage Aug 14, 2016, 10:21 PM

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The wiki is the bible for SQF

halcyon crypt Aug 14, 2016, 10:23 PM

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any benefits over https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_Arma_3 ? ^^

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your link seems to outdated quite a bit (this page last updated: 25 Dec 2015)

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 10:25 PM

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Better formating, but less complete

halcyon crypt Aug 14, 2016, 10:26 PM

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meh formatting is a non-issue, I usually ctrl-f my way through it. ^^

little eagle Aug 14, 2016, 10:26 PM

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same

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something for 3den I think

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Never seen anyone successfully using it outside of 3den though.

lethal cave Aug 14, 2016, 10:31 PM

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that's what i used to change mag on tank and fire at target

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mission_tank_01 loadMagazine [[0],mission_tank_01 weaponsTurret [0] select 0,"CUP_20Rnd_TE1_Red_Tracer_120mmHE_M256_Cannon_M"];
mission_tank_01 fireAtTarget [mission_car_01, "CUP_Vcannon_M256_M1Abrams"];

snow pecan Aug 14, 2016, 10:45 PM

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menuAdd is for control type ctrlMenuStrip. Might be possible to use with other related control types but haven't tried that.

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Adding dropdown menus and items to them https://gyazo.com/5380a65c101b64b2c45ea413ab9ffaab

shut prairie Aug 14, 2016, 10:58 PM

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@scarlet spoke only speak English, no German here 😉

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 4:58 AM

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Looked in CBA documentation (but it's a bit messy). If anyone can confirm this, but does CBA not support Extended Evenhandlers for certain objects with parent class Static?

Example,

class Extended_Init_EventHandlers {

     class Static
     {
         init = "deleteVehicle (_this select 0)";
     };
}; ```

This script will delete some objects that inherit from class Static, but not all. It seems from my short testing that objects that inherit from Strategic don't get effected while objects that inherit from NonStrategic do.

Anyone can confirm?

grand cargo Aug 15, 2016, 5:51 AM

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commy2 should be able to fill you in

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@little eagle

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:32 AM

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Yes. Certain objects are disabled for performance reasons. Mainly map objects. So yes, certain Static

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Also, which doc where you looking at? I found the old ones to be lacking too so I wrote this: https://github.com/CBATeam/CBA_A3/wiki/Extended-Event-Handlers-(new)

GitHub

CBATeam/CBA_A3

CBA_A3 - Community Base Addons for Arma 3

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But maybe it can be improved? Please make a suggestion

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you have to add the closing parenthesis to the link. discord sucks

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 6:36 AM

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Gotcha. Wait, so the event handler get called on map objects too, not just mission objects?

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:37 AM

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It would, but it is disabled so it doesn't

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This was made for performance reasons in A2. But honestly the code has so much improved since then... maybe we could enable it for every object

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I just don't want to wreck performance. Deleting something that was made for performance reasons is a huge red flag

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 6:38 AM

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Yeah. I'll explain the situation... hold one

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:40 AM

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class CBA_Extended_EventHandlers_base;

class CfgVehicles {
    class Static_Base;
    class Static_Class: Static_Base {
        class EventHandlers {
            class CBA_Extended_EventHandlers: CBA_Extended_EventHandlers_base {};
        };
    };
};

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^ that config should readd it for the object

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But at that point you might as well just add it to config. Also won't work for missions

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 6:45 AM

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Gotcha. Well thanks man. I'll test it out and let you know.

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I'm only going to be using it for specific objects of child Stragetic

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:58 AM

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Yeah, "Static_Class" and "Static_Base". Replace them with your classes

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 8:07 AM

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@little eagle
Thanks again for the help. I realized now that I could have just gone to the github source and look in XEH and see for myself what was disable and what wasn't. Hindsight right?

Just to peak my interest, is there any way to make XEH run on only mission objects? Something like initMisssion = ""
I don't know if its true, but don't mission objects have an ID while maps ones don't, so you would use BIS_fnc_netId to check for id.

Of course, I don't know if this would really help with the performance issues due to your still checking if every object has an id, and this would run eveytime a person joins the game.

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 8:08 AM

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Just to peak my interest, is there any way to make XEH run on only mission objects? Something like initMisssion = ""

Yes, but:

Of course, I don't know if this would really help with the performance issues due to your still checking if every object has an id,

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and this would run eveytime a person joins the game.
only locally though

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Maybe that would work. Who knows

ebon rover Aug 15, 2016, 8:09 AM

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Hmm... if I get a chance I'll try it out. Future fork? Anyway thanks again.

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 1:30 PM

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@shut prairie I know this is probably late, but it couldn't hurt to read a few guides on Syntax and then just... Crack open a few scripts and look at them.

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Unpack some missions with features you like, take a look at the scripts.

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It's very similar to building in the sense that you have the resources, you just need to know how to put them together. You can google "Arma 3 Scripting Commands" and "Arma 3 Event Handlers" for a lot of what you'll need.

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The first time I started scripting was when I wanted to shoot vans out of a machine gun. I asked around a little bit, and I got a script that already did that, but I didn't just throw it into an SQF and never touched it again, I looked at it and learned from it and picked apart what each string did.

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I'd say the hardest part about Arma 3 scripting is debugging, but you can look up KillZoneKid's tutorial on Arma 3 debugging.

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A lot of people have the idea that you have to 'progress' through increasingly difficult scripting tasks in order to learn, but that's really not the case. It might be hard what you want to do initially, but that makes the learning experience all the more rich.

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(You still should be careful about biting off more than you can chew, though.)

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tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 4:30 PM

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well put

scarlet spoke Aug 15, 2016, 4:33 PM

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So in short: Copy, Paste & Understand ^^
But it's true

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 4:39 PM

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Yep! That's how I learned.

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@shut prairie Also, never be afraid to play with the scripts. Just keep a copy of the original, and toy with it all you'd like.

dusk sage Aug 15, 2016, 4:42 PM

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One of the best ways to learn is to tackle something complex

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You learn a lot on the way

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 4:50 PM

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don't just blindly copy stuff though. think about what it actually does. that way you can improve and simplify it most of the time.

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 5:07 PM

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For now, I'd seek understanding before improvement.

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Internet connection problems can make a var set on an object with _obj setVariable ["var",1,true]; not reach a client? Sorry, i know i ask much, but this will help me to debug a situation.

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 5:22 PM

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I don't think so. Never had it happen at least

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 5:23 PM

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Thankyou. I will check the code one more time.

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 5:23 PM

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There is one thing that can happen

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If you execute setVariable public on two machines at about the same time

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what end up happening is, that they will end up receiving the value of the other machine after they set their value

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So machine A will end up with B's value and machine B with A's value

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 5:27 PM

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I see. Not consireded it when making the code. Will see if thats the problem.

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 5:28 PM

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A way around this is to only use setVariable public on the server

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or the machine where the object is local (locality shouldn't change that often)

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 6:03 PM

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This can explain some inconsistence i'm having. Will be better to re-do the code with this in mind and avoid this situation. I found i did _p = player; and then set a public variable on _p after the player died and respawned. _p was not refering to the player anymore but probablly to the dead body.

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:05 PM

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yes, that is how it works

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If you setVar on the dead body before the unit respawns, the variable will carry over to the new unit

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But that stops as soon as the unit respawned, then the body is seperate

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 6:07 PM

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Nice!!!

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I got it. Thanks a lot.

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Its for a script to detect combat mode. Its fixed now!

little eagle Aug 15, 2016, 6:11 PM

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nice

tough abyss Aug 15, 2016, 6:13 PM

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It was turning combat mode off on the dead body. Now i turn it off imediatlly if the player die.

shut prairie Aug 16, 2016, 12:23 AM

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@tough abyss @dusk sage @little eagle Tons of info, jam packed. Thanks so much. Thing is though, I can understand what stuff does by the name, for the most part.
For example,
[] exec "scripts/fn_statusbar.sqf"

Executed the scripts/fn_statusbar file initiating it. Totally not taking from wackbatt (think it is) on Arma life rpg forums, which he had a public statusbar script.
I'm been looking at people's scripts lately (cough, @dusk sage's mainly Altis life cough) and can understand what most/some of it "is"

tough abyss Aug 16, 2016, 12:24 AM

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Right, well, that kind of stuff is easy.

shut prairie Aug 16, 2016, 12:24 AM

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Trye

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True*

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But thing is...

tough abyss Aug 16, 2016, 12:25 AM

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if (hasInterface) then {
    if (player == getAssignedCuratorUnit (allCurators select 0)) exitWith {};
    playMusic "IntroMusic";
    cutText ["", "BLACK IN", 0];
    loopdone = false;
    introended = false;
     _txt_1 = ["Vauun Presents...",5,"center","3","#FFFFFF"] execVM "AL_movie\txt_display.sqf";
    //----------------------------
    _secondshot = [cam1, cam2, camtar1, 10, 1, 1, false, 0, 0, 0,"nightvision","black",1,"NoSound"] execVM "AL_movie\camera_work.sqf";
    waitUntil {scriptdone _secondshot};
 
 
    _txt_2 = ["...A Mission for TMTM",5,"center","3","#FFFFFF"] execVM "AL_movie\txt_display.sqf";
    //-----------------
    _firstshot = [cam11, cam11, camtar5, 10, 1, 1, false, 0, 0, 0,"nightvision","black",1,"NoSound"] execVM "AL_movie\camera_work.sqf";
    waitUntil {scriptdone _firstshot};
 
 
     _txt_3 = ["'Au Revoir'",5,"center","3","#FFFFFF"] execVM "AL_movie\txt_display.sqf";
    //------------------
    _thirdshot = [cam3, cam4, target7, 10, 1, 1, false, 0, 0, 0,"nightvision","black",1,"NoSound"] execVM "AL_movie\camera_work.sqf";
    waitUntil {scriptdone _thirdshot};
    loopdone = true;
    introended = true;
    [nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil,nil] execVM "AL_movie\camera_work.sqf";
};```

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it's shit like that

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this

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this was a pain in the ass to troubleshoot

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but it's deceptively simple

shut prairie Aug 16, 2016, 12:26 AM

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I'm not "home"

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I'm on a trip, so all I can do is read

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When I get home I'll start trying commands out with like debug console

zenith totem Aug 16, 2016, 12:42 AM

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Anyone got any idea if "getUnitLoadout" and "setUnitLoadout" are going to change or not, they've been marked as not final since 1.58

meager granite Aug 16, 2016, 3:37 AM

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There is an issue with loadout commands that they always assume that there is two muzzles in each weapon unlike say weaponsItems which changes number of magazine arrays depending on number of muzzles, I'd submit that as an issue to be fixed in loadout commands.

distant egret Aug 16, 2016, 1:20 PM

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Anyway to check if a class name is valid?

meager granite Aug 16, 2016, 1:20 PM

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isClass(configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> "something")

distant egret Aug 16, 2016, 1:22 PM

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Thx works like a charm

zenith totem Aug 16, 2016, 6:29 PM

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I can't think of any weapons with more than 2 muzzles off the top of my head though besides vehicles

ebon rover Aug 16, 2016, 6:36 PM

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@little eagle

Just tested

class CBA_Extended_EventHandlers_base;

class CfgVehicles {
    class Static;
    class Building : Static {
        class EventHandlers {
            class CBA_Extended_EventHandlers: CBA_Extended_EventHandlers_base {};
        };
    };
};

Registered all objects it effected using

class Extended_Init_EventHandlers {
class Building
    {
        init = "INSERT CODE HERE";
    };
};

It only registered on mission objects and not map (terrain) objects. I didn't see any real performance loss. I mean obviously your going to get different results with different events, and more objects. I didn't do extremely thorough testing (like testing with different events, or on dedicated, etc.) so I could be wrong.

little eagle Aug 16, 2016, 8:05 PM

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It only registered on mission objects and not map (terrain) objects.
Interesting

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Maybe this is caused by this using the sub classes event handlers? Who knows

ebon rover Aug 16, 2016, 8:08 PM

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Maybe a change with the engine? I know there has been a lot of changes since 2014 when you guys blacklisted certain classes

little eagle Aug 16, 2016, 8:09 PM

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sub class event handlers didn't even exist when XEH was made

ebon rover Aug 16, 2016, 8:09 PM

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Haven't been around that long lol

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Spoiled 😃

little eagle Aug 16, 2016, 8:23 PM

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me neither, but I was brave enough to redo it for post Heli-dlc A3

jade abyss Aug 16, 2016, 11:17 PM

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I am wondering, is there a counterpart to "owner"?

daring geyser Aug 16, 2016, 11:26 PM

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Hey guys! showHUD command is broken again?

jade abyss Aug 16, 2016, 11:43 PM

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erm, not when i tested last time

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 2:12 AM

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I am wondering, is there a counterpart to "owner"?
As in a command that reports all local objects?
entities "" select {local _x} I guess.

ivory nova Aug 17, 2016, 3:00 AM

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Was practicing AI control in dual pilot helis last night and found it frustrating that I couldn't get the gunner to target structures/buildings, etc. (There were spotters hiding in a building and the gunner wouldn't fire upon them/the building.) How feasible would "target this structure/building" functionality be to script? E.g. ~ Command Menu > Select gunner > move your "Command Crosshair (?)" (middle of HUD) over structure/building > "Target that [house/church/bunker]!" > "Open fire!"

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(In the same way that I can direct AI to move to a structure, or specific location, but instead ask them to shoot at it instead.)

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 3:10 AM

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@little eagle
More like:
OwnerID setVariable ["blablub",Banana]; (exec on Server)

I am just curious.

*Stupid EnterButton...
Just like in [] remoteExec["fncName",OwnerID];

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 4:01 AM

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OwnerID setVariable ["blablub",Banana];
uhm

blablub = Banana;
OwnerID publicVariableClient "blablub";

I don't understand what else you mean.

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 4:39 AM

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Simply selecting the Object, related to that ID, without searching through the whole list.
nvm it.

+Hu? Since when has handleDamage 6 entrys? What did i miss? Output looks like the "gunner-Pos" who fired the shot (if Commander in Vehicle).

steep matrix Aug 17, 2016, 7:45 AM

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is there a simple way/function from BI to create a vehicle with full crew and all cargo (transportSoldiers)?

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 8:07 AM

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@steep matrix

_Veh = cursorTarget;
_FillIt =
{
    _Unit = "B_RangeMaster_F" createVehicle [0,0,0];
    _Unit moveInAny _Veh;
};
{
    for "_i" from 1 to (_Veh emptyPositions _x) do { call _FillIt; };
}forEach ["Commander","Driver","Gunner","Cargo"];
{
    call _FillIt;
}forEach (allTurrets _Veh);```
for example.

steep matrix Aug 17, 2016, 8:17 AM

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@jade abyss thanks testing

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tried to use BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle but its way too messed up and limited..

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        _transportSoldier = getNumber (configFile/"CfgVehicles"/_x/"transportSoldier");
        _crewType = getText (configFile/"CfgVehicles"/_x/"crew");

        if (_transportSoldier > 0) then
        {
            for "_i" from 0 to _transportSoldier do
            {
                _unit = _tempGroup createUnit [_crew,[-10,-10,0],[],0,"CAN_COLLIDE"];
//                _tempGroup addVehicle _newVehicle;
                _unit moveInCargo _newVehicle;
            };
        };```

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this is what i wanted to use, but BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle makes planes flying and the game crashes soon after

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 8:22 AM

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oO ouch

steep matrix Aug 17, 2016, 8:26 AM

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ok yours works nicely. thanks again 😃

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ps: 15 years and still no sqf cmd to do such simple thing..

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 8:35 AM

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😄

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15 years, started with .sqs, forgot everything, re-started with A3 😛

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 8:55 AM

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Simply selecting the Object, related to that ID, without searching through the whole list.
There is no the object A machine can have many objects...

blazing zodiac Aug 17, 2016, 10:33 AM

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@steep matrix https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createVehicleCrew will that work for you?

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 11:05 AM

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No

Tankbuster
This command creates drivers/copilots, commanders and gunners where appropriate, but it never creates cargo crew. So a gunship Huron will get a pilot >and copilot plus 2 door gunners, but nobody in the back

quiet bluff Aug 17, 2016, 11:45 AM

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how can i find position of object A relative to Object B?

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Thanks!

quiet bluff Aug 17, 2016, 12:08 PM

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@tough abyss dont work

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 12:13 PM

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He said "we need"

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tbh, just write a function for it.

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imo we don't need commands for every shit that can be achived by other means

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and is not performance critical

candid abyss Aug 17, 2016, 1:00 PM

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Hey guys, anyone has an idea how to achieve such a ghost effect (as pictured here: http://makearmanotwar.com/entry_uploads/13425/screenshots/ZfN07029FlUGJzLEy6twYUBja6QC37qdVveg5b52YjIRCuiuYD.jpg) with a given p3d? I've been fiddleing with it for a while without any progress.

full kindle Aug 17, 2016, 1:45 PM

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well isnt that just basic transparency?

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 1:51 PM

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It is. Just get a slightly transparent green texture (About 15 seconds in GIMP), and apply it to the object, then spawn the object on the ghost's position while taking its dir and posATL.

candid abyss Aug 17, 2016, 1:58 PM

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using setObjectTexture(Global)? I tried _obj setObjectTexture [0, "#(rgb,8,8,3)color(1,0,0,1)"]; to avoid creating a texturefile, which didn't work last time I tried. it didn't change the texture at all.

candid abyss Aug 17, 2016, 2:33 PM

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just tried it again. it doesn't work on models that don't have a hidden selection.

steep matrix Aug 17, 2016, 4:06 PM

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anyone tried these yet?

b:OBJECT addmissile ARRAY
b:OBJECT forcefollowroad BOOL
b:OBJECT setpilotcameradirection ARRAY
b:OBJECT setpilotcamerarotation ARRAY
b:OBJECT setpilotcameratarget ARRAY,OBJECT
u:getpilotcameradirection OBJECT
u:getpilotcameraposition OBJECT
u:getpilotcamerarotation OBJECT
u:getpilotcameratarget OBJECT
u:haspilotcamera OBJECT```

torpid pond Aug 17, 2016, 4:46 PM

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Hey, anyone have an example to make this: (check left top green notifications): http://i.imgur.com/33mEbOh.mp4

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 5:00 PM

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http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-gui-part-1/ for the text part id look in to that

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 5:18 PM

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I have a problem with showHUD command. Can someone who used it before check it one more time? Maybe i'm doing something wrong. My description.ext file is empty so this scripting command shouldn't be disabled.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/showHUD

zenith totem Aug 17, 2016, 5:44 PM

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@daring geyser It would help if you posted the code you're using and what you want it to do

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 5:46 PM

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@zenith totem Sure. That's from examples from command syntax page:
showHUD [true,true,false,false,true,true,true,true,true];

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Even more
showHUD [false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false];

And nothing is hidden 😦

zenith totem Aug 17, 2016, 5:50 PM

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It would help if you posted the code you're using **and what you want it to do**

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:39 PM

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@daring geyser Where are you putting this script?

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If you're putting it in the init field of a unit, you should be using this showHud[parameters];

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 7:40 PM

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How should i change my code to make 0 cars spawn if the number is 0? im lost 😛 ```fnc_test = {

params
[
["_amount",0,[0]]
];

_position = [[7525.87,5000.6,0.00143909],[7493.17,5000.71,0.00143909],[7470.39,4978.42,0.00143909]];

if (_amount < 0) then {
hint "0";
} else {for "_i" from 0 to (_amount) do {
_veh = createVehicle ["O_MRAP_02_hmg_F", selectRandom _position, [], 0, "NONE"];
createVehicleCrew _veh;
};};

};

[1] call fnc_test;```

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:40 PM

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showHud [parameters]; is just the script, you're not defining what it's pointing at

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:41 PM

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@tough abyss Have you tried to use it?

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:42 PM

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I'm at work right now, but if that's the entire script then that's your issue.

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:42 PM

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showHUD [false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false];
Does nothing with HUD

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All I ask is to confirm that this command is broken or not

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:43 PM

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...Right, because you're not defining what the script is being executed for. It's executing to nothing, which is why you don't have any errors.

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this showHud [false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false];

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:44 PM

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Read the syntax carefuly please: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/showHUD

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:44 PM

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Do you understand that defining what the script is being executed for is seperate from the syntax?

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It's not shown there because that would be redundant.

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:45 PM

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Really? Are you 100% sure? 😃

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:45 PM

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I'm pretty sure. Humor me and try it.

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:46 PM

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Will do now

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@tough abyss Syntax error as expected for the following line:
player showHud [false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false,false];

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:51 PM

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Did you put in 'player'?

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:51 PM

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Okay. Need someone who used this command before to confirm that showHud is broken

tough abyss Aug 17, 2016, 7:51 PM

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Rather than being snarky to the people who are trying to help you, it may be best to appreciate them.

daring geyser Aug 17, 2016, 7:54 PM

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Btw this one works well: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/shownHUD

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 8:07 PM

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@hearty shoal
for "_i" from 1 to (_amount) do {

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 8:07 PM

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DOH 😐

little eagle Aug 17, 2016, 8:08 PM

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so _amount = 3 results in:
1,2,3

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 8:09 PM

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Thank you as always 😃

native hemlock Aug 17, 2016, 8:44 PM

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@tough abyss showHud only has one argument, and it comes after the command

formal vigil Aug 17, 2016, 9:59 PM

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What's the proper namespace for global variables on a dedicated server? I'm using missionNamespace and it's working fine local, but once I put my mission on server it seems not working

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 10:01 PM

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@formal vigil
missionnamespace setVariable ["NameOfVar",StuffInsideVar,TRUE];

formal vigil Aug 17, 2016, 10:02 PM

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@jade abyss you've just probably saved my ass 😄

jade abyss Aug 17, 2016, 10:02 PM

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

setVariable

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/All_Arma_Commands_Pages <--- Save that

All Arma Commands Pages

formal vigil Aug 17, 2016, 10:02 PM

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Thanks, man. I'l ltry it in a few

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 11:44 PM

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Do i have to enable the new revive system in eden or can i enable that in description.ext somehow?

worthy spade Aug 17, 2016, 11:49 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Revive

hearty shoal Aug 17, 2016, 11:52 PM

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Yeah but that one is out dated and the new link only explain how to add the revive with eden

worthy spade Aug 17, 2016, 11:54 PM

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Oh, you're right. How odd of them to remove the template. Gonna have to update all my scenarios.

formal vigil Aug 18, 2016, 12:00 AM

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@jade abyss unfortunately it didn't work

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but I think the problem is in SHK_Taskmaster because tasks are not updating, the other part of the script seems to be working

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[p1, supRequester, supProviderArtilery] call BIS_fnc_addSupportLink; ["Task1","succeeded"] call SHK_Taskmaster_upd;

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first line runs, I'm getting the artilery support, but then the second line isn't working as I don't get the update for current task ("Task1")

jade abyss Aug 18, 2016, 12:06 AM

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Works for me. Sounds more like it just don't get to that point, where it has to set the Var

steep matrix Aug 18, 2016, 12:29 PM

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missionNamespace getVariable ["bis_fnc_moduleRemoteControl_unit", player];
does this ugly workaround now always be used if one wants to RC with ZEUS? 😮

little eagle Aug 18, 2016, 1:23 PM

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yes

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it's been like that since 2014

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https://github.com/KoffeinFlummi/AGM/issues/327
good times

GitHub

Zeus playable character should be able to use AGM · Issue #327 ·...

AGM_Explosives

AGM_Goggles

AGM_Logistics

AGM_Map / Drawing

AGM_Map / BFT

AGM_Medical

AGM_Parachute

AGM_Scopes

AGM_Vector

Nothing more to add. When you use the Zeus module to swt...

velvet merlin Aug 18, 2016, 1:32 PM

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can one overwrite the player variable still or is it protected by now?
player = remoteControlUnit;

selectPlayer was already quite messy but this is a classic design failure again by BI..

little eagle Aug 18, 2016, 1:32 PM

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no you cannot do that

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If you're using CBA there is
["unit", {RealPlayer = _this select 0}] call CBA_fnc_addPlayerEventHandler;

Yes it is based on polling, but at least not every mod needs it's own loop.

cedar nebula Aug 18, 2016, 1:42 PM

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hey guys, I have no idea about scripting but I need a script that I think is kinda easy to write for a scripter. I need a script that animates the hatch in my vehicle when a certain place is in use and closes it again if the seat is enpty...can somebody do that for me or help me write this script?

thin pine Aug 18, 2016, 3:13 PM

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@daring geyser I'm late. I used this command for a scene earlier. The reason why it doesn't work is because you have one parameter too much. The last parameter, the squadRadar hasn't been implemented in 1.62 APEX yet so you simply need to remove that

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showHud with 8 parameters works just fine. You need to wait for the next ArmA update for the SquadRadar afaik

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(Would've been nice if anyone that manages the wiki could've made that clear, I was confused originally too)

quasi thicket Aug 18, 2016, 4:04 PM

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Is it possible to change the color of a flashlight?

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            {
                color[] = {1800,1500,1200};

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?

hearty shoal Aug 18, 2016, 4:39 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setLightColor ?

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How do i check that veh is somewhat near my _pos? ```
_pos = [7805.79,3102.9,0.00143909];
_position = [[7805.79,3102.9,0.00143909],[7765.99,3102.69,0.00143909],[7723.36,3073.03,0.00143909],[7705.15,3132.25,0.00143909],[7738.89,3192.33,0.00143909]];
_veh = createVehicle ["C_Hatchback_01_F", selectRandom _position, [], 0, "NONE"];
createVehicleCrew _veh;

_veh doMove _pos;

waitUntil {veh distance _pos < 5};

_veh setDamage 1;

RPT: 18:37:46 Suspending not allowed in this context
18:37:46 Error in expression <;

waitUntil {_veh distance _pos < 2}; 

veh setDamage 1;>

18:37:46 Error position: << 2};

veh setDamage 1;>

18:37:46 Error Generic error in expression```

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@quasi thicket http://www.armaholic.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=32260

nocturne bluff Aug 18, 2016, 5:54 PM

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You are trying to suspend a script thread in a non suspendable evniroment

indigo snow Aug 18, 2016, 5:55 PM

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(_veh distance _pos) < 2

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any of those might be nil too

hearty shoal Aug 18, 2016, 6:21 PM

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So how should i approach the problem ? I need to check somehow if _veh is near _pos.

austere granite Aug 18, 2016, 7:34 PM

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@hearty shoal use spawn instead of call

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You can't use commands like waitUntil when you call a function

dusk sage Aug 18, 2016, 10:07 PM

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When the parent scope is unscheduled, for clarity

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 12:37 AM

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Hello everyone. I am trying to make a scenario that ends with "mission failed" when respawn tickets exceed a certain number (40). I have tried using the in-game module for respawn tickets under Scenario Flow>Respawn Tickets, which works in part, but with this module it says "your team has won" when the tickets are exceeded which is not what we want.... any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Been scratching my head on this one for two days now!

hearty shoal Aug 19, 2016, 1:19 AM

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cant you just you tickets and endgame respawns? like so in description.ext: respawnTemplates[] = {"Tickets","Endgame"};

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Respawn#Respawn_Templates

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 1:21 AM

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UI question, if you got a clue please use @austere granite

How does one animate a UI element to open up from bottom to top? Top to bottom opening is very easy by having H of controlsGroup at 0 and then uusing ctrlSetPosition to animate open it, but... how do I make it open from bottom to top that it looks the same?

meager granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:05 AM

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You'll have to move elements inside groups against group movements

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Might as well have group inside group and then all your elements inside it

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:06 AM

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That's really the only way is it?

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Yeah i was thinking about that, basically have another subcontrols group and then move that position downards while the other one goes up with the same commit time, but seems silly

meager granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:07 AM

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Nothing silly about, that's how UI works if you're trying to achieve exactly this effect

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You can only have single group extend upwards but your controls will appear to be sliding up

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If you want them to appear without movement then you'll need to have group inside group and move each other in opposite directions

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:08 AM

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Then the subgroup ctrlSetpos downwards

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yeah okay got it, guess that'll be the only way unfortunately. Was hoping for some ultrasecret hightech alternative setPos that would extend from bottom to top automagically

meager granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:09 AM

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UI coordinates start at top left so everything inside groups will be aligned to top left, its just how UI works

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Just thought it would be useful to have padding in controls groups so you can adjust entire contents just by changing the padding

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But for now you'll have to create second group inside to have this kind of padding

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 2:22 AM

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Okay thanks for the help anyway, should be easy really, just didn't think about it right away

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 7:38 AM

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Hello guys, I am having quite a bit of trouble with something that "should" be simple... What I am trying to do it make a mission end when BLUFOR run out of respawn tickets. I have it adding tickets correctly, subtracting them as players on the blufor side respawn, but it doesn't end the mission.... Here is what I have so far:

// Respawn templates from CfgRespawnTemplates. You can combine any number of them together.
respawnTemplates[] = {"Counter","Base","EndMission"};

// Side specific respawn templates. When undefined, general respawnTemplates are used instead.
respawnTemplatesWest[] = {"Counter","Tickets"};

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Literally throwing a lifeline out here guys.

BIS documentation: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Respawn#Respawn_Templates

open vigil Aug 19, 2016, 9:36 AM

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Have you tried the F3 framework?
http://ferstaberinde.com/f3/en//index.php?title=Main_Page

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:39 AM

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@open vigil Havnt honestly referred to F3 for years... but just looking through, it seems they lack respawn ticket tamplate

open vigil Aug 19, 2016, 9:39 AM

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I thought it did, my bad.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:39 AM

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Oh no worries. Any help at this point is appreciated.

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This is what I have set up in description.ext:

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// ====================================================================================
//Respawn Template

// Respawn type, see the table below
respawn = 3;

// Delay in seconds before playable unit respawns.
respawnDelay = 10;

// 0 to disable the score table (it can still be opened manually by pressing 'P' key).
respawnDialog = 0;

// Respawn templates from CfgRespawnTemplates. You can combine any number of them together.
respawnTemplates[] = {"Counter","Base","EndMission"};

// Side specific respawn templates. When undefined, general respawnTemplates are used instead.
respawnTemplatesWest[] = {"Counter","Tickets"};

// 1 to respawn player when he joins the game. Available only for INSTANT and BASE respawn types.
respawnOnStart = 1;

// When 1, the score table contains score of all playable units as opposed to players only.
aikills = 0;

// ====================================================================================

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and add tickets (2 for testing) in init.sqf

//Add Respawn Tickets

[west, 2] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

open vigil Aug 19, 2016, 9:54 AM

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Hmm, I don't typically deal with respawn tickets, so I'm not sure. Pennyworth really knows his stuff and would probably be one of your best bets.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:55 AM

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Yea, I just dont get why it wont call EndMission

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that post I left above, I have tried switching things around with both the global and side specific templates, but it just doesnt work.

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respawn counter just goes to --:--:-- and no end mission is called.

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so, its obviously detecting the tickets properly, and I can see it drop from 2 to 0...

open vigil Aug 19, 2016, 9:57 AM

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It sounds as if the tickets aren't linked to EndMission

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 9:57 AM

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They are, I've used that way to end a mission in 1.60

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:58 AM

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o.o

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teach me your ways

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 9:58 AM

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Is the side you are ending blufor?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:58 AM

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correct.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 9:58 AM

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Or trying to end

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:58 AM

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I want mission end when blufor exceeds respawn tickets,

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 9:59 AM

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Maybe try throwing endMission into respawnTemplatesWest?

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I only tried it quickly and don't remember what I did in 1.60

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 9:59 AM

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like how?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 9:59 AM

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I ended up writing my own respawn menu and system

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respawnTemplatesWest[] = {"Counter","Tickets"};

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Try adding the EndMission tag in there maybe?

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Or they could've broken it with 1.62

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My testing was in 1.60

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:00 AM

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I have tried that unfortunately.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:00 AM

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Hmm, odd.

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I know it definitely worked when I tried it. I believe I only had that though and respawnTemplatesWest

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Mine is a PVE mod though

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So no need for anything else

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Definitely could've been something that was broken in the update however. Hopefully someone else can be more helpful

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:03 AM

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hmm, I will test with just templateswest real quick and at least rule that out

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respawnTemplatesWest[] = {"Counter","Tickets","EndMission"};

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:05 AM

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Any luck?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:05 AM

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crosses fingers

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:05 AM

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Lol

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:06 AM

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counter just goes to --:--:--

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no EndMission.

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sigh

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:07 AM

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Hmm, odd. Could be something bugged. I can try it out when I get home myself and see if something's weird.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:08 AM

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here is other funny thing. There is literally a new module for this in Eden under Modules>Scenario Flow>Respawn Tickets..... however, when a side exceeds their tickets it says "Your side has won" which makes no sense at all. At least it ends the mission though....

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:08 AM

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Maybe try not adding the respawnTemplatesWest tag and doing just the default respawnTemplates?

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Rule that out as well

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:08 AM

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trying that now.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:09 AM

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You could hack it together with a trigger and an end mission module possibly?

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Have the trigger check for respawn tickets and when it's 0 end the mission

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That's a really ugly way to do it

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But should work

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:09 AM

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yea, would have to have it check and trigger end or lose... dunno how to write that check though

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trigger condition

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:11 AM

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No luck with the respawnTemplates only?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:11 AM

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checking now.

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respawnTemplates[] = {"Counter","Tickets","EndMission"};

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lol does exact same thing.

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--:--:---

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it is still subtracting tickets properly though, just no EndMission

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:13 AM

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Ok well it definitely sounds like something is broken

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As far as the trigger

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Or wait

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A better way would probably be in the onPlayerRespawn.sqf

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Depending on when it fires

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When the tickets get to zero what happens?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:14 AM

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counter stops

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--:--:---

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:14 AM

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Do you respawn though?

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No right?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:14 AM

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nope

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:14 AM

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Ok well with the trigger

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You can use something like

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You can check the tickets with [] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

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And make the trigger fire when it equals 0

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:16 AM

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ok so noob question, how would I put that into a trigger condition...

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what would it look like

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:16 AM

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Sync the trigger to an end mission module and when it fires it will end the mission

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:17 AM

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yea but what to put with [] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:17 AM

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hmm, I'm actually not home to test it at the moment

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One sec

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:17 AM

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@blazing zodiac Greatly appreciate your help btw... this has been killing me for two days lol

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:18 AM

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You can actually just start a loop in sqf

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So somewhere in your init or wherever else

#

  _remTickets = []call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;
  if (_remTickets == 1) exitWith {
    "end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;
  };
    sleep 1;
};```

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

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A few different ending options there

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waiit

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don't use that one

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:21 AM

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xD

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:21 AM

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Make sure that sleep is in there

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Or that check will run every frame

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:21 AM

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this loop will not affect performance?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:21 AM

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It should be very minimal

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A better way would be in an event handler

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But that may not fire when you have no tickets left

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I'm not sure

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And can't test as I'm not on my Arma machine

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:22 AM

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okay, let me try this scripted solution in init real quick

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:23 AM

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Also a repeating trigger is basically a while loop that fires every 0.5 seconds

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:24 AM

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well

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its spam looping the EndMission evert 0.5 seconds breaking everything lol

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:25 AM

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so respawn tickets isn't registering?

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try checking the respawn tickets

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:25 AM

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immediately upon preview it starts looping ending

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and i still have the two tickets

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:26 AM

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hint str ([]call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets)

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without the loop running

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:26 AM

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had to alt F4

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will check that now

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:27 AM

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Where are you adding the number of respawnTickets?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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init

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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Before that loop right

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?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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[west, 2] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

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yes

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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Ok just making sure

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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added 2 for testing

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 10:28 AM

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West, 0 as params to the remTickets fnc may work

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Unless an empty array defaults to missionnamespace, 0

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:30 AM

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

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[] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets should return the number of remaining tickets

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But who knows

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Gotta have him check with it after they are added

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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literally says -1

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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the hint is -1?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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yea.

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wtf

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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Well that's weird

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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yes.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

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You are adding that after you add the respawn tickets right

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

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[west, 2] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets; in init

launch mission

Run hint str ([]call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) in game debug

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returns -1

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

#

Oh

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Your loop is problematic

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

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Yea it should check for _remTickets to be == 0

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But it doesn't matter if that function isn't working

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and it needs to breakout

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once firing endMission

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 10:33 AM

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You need to exitWith that loop otherwise it'll keep looping

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:33 AM

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Yea

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I'm doing this on my work laptop so it's not great.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:34 AM

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yea, no worries

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:34 AM

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Unfortunately if that function isn't returning the number of tickets it doesn't matter anyways

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:34 AM

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yea wtf -1

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when I abort, I can see i still have the 2

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:34 AM

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[missionNamespace] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

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try that

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inside of the hint str

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

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running this on debug console, nothing

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

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hmm

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

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oh wait

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sorrt

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

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not even -1

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

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sorry**

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-1

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yea its still -1

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 AM

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well

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That's unfortunate

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 AM

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thats a feature.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 AM

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Lol

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It used to work

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 AM

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working as intended.

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-1

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 AM

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Maybe try a fresh mission with only that in it to rule out anything else?

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Oh wait are you checking in multiplayer?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:37 AM

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its funny that when the eden module for this reaches 0 tickets it ends the mission with "your side has won"

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:37 AM

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In single player it may return -1 since there are no respawns

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:37 AM

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no im testing in MP

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:37 AM

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Ok I figured

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Just a thought I had

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:38 AM

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yea, the respawns work, it subtracts the tickets

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and when they reach 0... timer stops and all respawns disabled

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--:--:---

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but no end

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:38 AM

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You could look in the BIS_fnc_respawnTickets function and see what would cause it return -1

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And see if anything jumps out at you as fucked up

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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I wouldnt know where to begin

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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In the functions viewer next to the debug console

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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ah ok

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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You can see all the functions

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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lemme take a look

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:39 AM

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just look for respawnTickets

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:40 AM

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http://pastebin.com/jyB280FV

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Returns:
NUMBER - remaining tickets after adjustment (-1 when no tickets were defined yet)

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:43 AM

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hmm

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You are adding the tickets in init yes?

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Try adding them in the debug console

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Before running that hint

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:44 AM

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ok trying now

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sorry, just run

[west, 2] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;

as global exec on debug?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:46 AM

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yes

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then run the hint str ([] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets)

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after taht

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:46 AM

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still -1

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:46 AM

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welp

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I got nothing then man

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Sounds like something is broken

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:47 AM

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yea, it seems to be adding the tickets but also not lol

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:47 AM

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Possibly why your menu template is breaking as well?

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Next step for me would be to set it up on a fresh mission with no mods

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To rule out any variables

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:47 AM

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-1 is feature

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:48 AM

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If it still is broken on a fresh mission with no mods it's definitely time to report it to the feedback tracker

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:48 AM

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yea, i mean its for sure broken

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return value is -1, but if i hit abort on mission I can see I have two left

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where else would it get two from

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 AM

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True

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 AM

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heading to FT now to report this.

#

lame.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 10:50 AM

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Sounds like the best next move

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Sorry I couldn't be more help

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Gotta get back to work though

#

Good luck man!

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 10:50 AM

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hey no worries, I appreciate everything man

#

thanks so much!

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👍

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:00 AM

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@tough moth You only have one side that has respawn tickets, right?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:02 AM

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yes

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:02 AM

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if you're still in game you should try to put this in the debug console's watch tab: BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal

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I opened up the function and did a check, if everything works proper then that var should return 2 (total amount of tickets)

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:04 AM

#

checking now

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yes it says 2

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which is correct

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:05 AM

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there ya go

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:05 AM

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[missionNamespace] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets; returns -1 tho

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:05 AM

#

well

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don't use [missionNamespace]

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:05 AM

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ok, so how do I make EndMission when tickets get to 0

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:06 AM

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let me modify hound's loop a bit

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:06 AM

#

roger

#

while {true} do {
_remTickets = []call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;
if (_remTickets == 1) exitWith {
"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;
};
sleep 1;
};

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:06 AM

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change that 1 to a 0

#

Vegas

#

well sanchez

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:06 AM

#

xD

#

while {true} do {
_remTickets = []call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets;
if (_remTickets == 0) exitWith {
"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;
};
sleep 1;
};

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:07 AM

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also if you surround code with 3 ` it comes out in the code blocks

#

code here

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3 of those before it and 3 after

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:07 AM

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@blazing zodiac BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal returns correct 2 tickets

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:08 AM

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great

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:08 AM

#

{
    while {BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal != 0} do 
    {
        sleep 1;    
    };    
    "end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;
}; ```

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there's various ways you can do this tbh

#

you could even set up a trigger

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that'll run non scheduled

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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Yea there is

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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in fact perhaps you should

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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trigger is better than loop

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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trigger condition is checked non scheduled every 0.5 secs

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so

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in condition place: BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal != 0

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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It running nonscheduled is definitely better

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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in activation put the endmission thingy

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:09 AM

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trying now

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

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make sure you don't set it repeated 😛 you wouldn't want that

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

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do you have respawn defined because if you dont it wont work

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I just tried and it works

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

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I literally just put BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal != 0 in trigger condition

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:10 AM

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oh wait

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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hint str ([] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) this will return -1 always not sure whats with that

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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you want it to equal 0

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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yer

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my bad 😛

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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Hey it's late night over here in EST

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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it's like 1pm here but I woke up half a hour ago (shame)

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:11 AM

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I've made more mistakes then I'd care to admit already in this series of "help"

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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should I still have

respawnTemplates[] = {"Counter","Tickets","EndMission"};

in description?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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Yea I think you need that for the menu to come up at all right?

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I'm not 100% on that

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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counter, yee

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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I only used the menu once

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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ok, lemme try this trigger condition.

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:12 AM

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747402284

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tried with module and it works

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 AM

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@tough moth are you testing in SP editor or MP?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 AM

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MP

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 AM

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oh ok

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just making sure here xD

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 AM

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Lol I said the same thing Sanchez at one point

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 AM

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oh did yer? I was on my phone until 10 mins ago so I guess i missed it

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😃

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:14 AM

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Alright I really gotta run now though, gotta finish up some work and go home to sleep. Good luck Vegas, sounds like we're on the right track now.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:14 AM

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@west lantern is that with respawn module or with respawn on custom position and a respawn_west marker?

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:15 AM

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respawn module, and... let me send you the mission

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:15 AM

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@blazing zodiac Thanks brother. Have a good one!

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with my current setup, and BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal != 0 in trigger condition, it ended the mission immediately.

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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That has to be changed to == 0

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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yeah man we said that earlier 😛

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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lol woops

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sorry, multitasking here

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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lol is ok

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

#

BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal !== 0

#

?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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no "!"

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:17 AM

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ah

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM

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just valueTotal == 0

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM

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ok trying again xD

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM

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== is read as "is equal to"

#

!= is read as "is not equal to"

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Just for future reference

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM

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@tough moth https://www.sendspace.com/file/5ognog

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM

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I see

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:19 AM

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unpack that to Documents\Arma3\mpmission and test

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check MP atributes

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and modules

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:19 AM

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yea if this doesnt work, will take a look at your module solution

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:20 AM

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Well if that's the actual system working it will be better then an extra trigger

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So I would try that either way after

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:20 AM

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hey it works !!!

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trigger condition totally works guys

west lantern Aug 19, 2016, 11:20 AM

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note that it seems to work for players only not for AI

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:20 AM

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You can play with different end mission types as well

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:21 AM

#

BIS_fnc_respawnTickets_valuetotal == 0

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works !!

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:21 AM

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

#

If you wanna look through that, there are many options

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:21 AM

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so i have it currently as a trigger condition

#

to use other endings, where would it need to live?

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just on activation?

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:22 AM

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waht do you mean

#

like instead of that ending?

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:22 AM

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yea

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:22 AM

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or win conditions

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yea in on activation

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:22 AM

#

Not sure to ask here, but is anyone here particularly good with Arma 3's ropes (already asked Duda, no reply), EG: making something like a hoist for instance

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

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Oh man, I messed with ropes a bit a while back.

tough moth Aug 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

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@blazing zodiac @thin pine @west lantern Thank you so much guys!

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

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They are certainly finicky

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

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yeah, ropes are not easy to do

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:23 AM

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No problem @tough moth That's what this channel is here for.

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:24 AM

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I've attached an offroad to an ammobox with a rope. That's everything I've done rope wise 😄 (setMass is useful fyi)

blazing zodiac Aug 19, 2016, 11:24 AM

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Is that how you disable the "E-brake"

#

I tried towing another vehicle

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But it had it's damn parking break on

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:25 AM

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setMass could perhaps be used for that yeah, but it'll still have this brake unfortunately

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:25 AM

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aah rip, stupid parking brake

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

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You could probably create a towing script by making an invisible AI driver drive the car while you're towing it

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

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im planning on using a rope for a hoist not to tow anything

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

#

right

#

What woudl this hoist be used for?

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b2/35/ca/b235ca15871a71707c0415eebc4a27ad.jpg

#

something like that

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

#

chopper one

#

for infantry ?

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

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yes

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to rescue infantry

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:27 AM

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dayumn duda would be the perfect guy to contact :/

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:27 AM

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its for the HH-60G from the USAF mod (and possibly for the CV-22)

#

yeah, got no reply from him

#

😦

thin pine Aug 19, 2016, 11:28 AM

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:/

#

nothing's stopping you from looking at how duda did it. If you can find out how he attaches folks to the ropes (afaik he actually doesn't, he said the ropes are purely cosmetical) and use that system to automatically winch people up then it's doable

red estuary Aug 19, 2016, 11:30 AM

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yeah, ill have a look. Thanks!

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 12:21 PM

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Hoist could work fine

polar folio Aug 19, 2016, 6:05 PM

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afaik the rope segments are stored somewhere. so duda might be just doing per frame movement interpolating fom one segment to the next. just guessing

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:36 PM

#

Hey, anyone know how to get an array like ["something",3] when we have ["something","something","something,"] ?

#

Hum

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:38 PM

#

Let's say I got a very complicated script and need the script to run fast. Would FSM get the job done, or do you think it would be more efficient to run my code outside the engine in a DLL (C#)?

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:41 PM

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I want in the other way so :

_myArray = ["9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag,","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F"];

and I want to count like :
_myNewArray = [["9Rnd_45ACP_Mag",3],["30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F",2]];

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:41 PM

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use hashes

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@elfin bronze

#

Are you using CBA?

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:42 PM

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Yup

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:43 PM

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http://cbateam.github.io/CBA_A3/docs/files/hashes/fnc_hashCreate-sqf.html

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:44 PM

#

Ok thank

zealous solstice Aug 19, 2016, 10:45 PM

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i realy hate the name "hash" in the case. its more of a Dictionary than a hash

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:45 PM

#

^^^

#

+1 👍

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 10:47 PM

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doesnt actually what he wants though right?

#

unless im missing something

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:47 PM

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Yes

#

wait what? re-reading

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 10:48 PM

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he just wants to convert the array, he doesn't have this yet: http://cbateam.github.io/CBA_A3/docs/files/hashes/fnc_hashCreate-sqf.html

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:48 PM

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I know he can create. The wiki is pretty self explanatory. CBA has an excellent wiki. If you need more help or have more questions @elfin bronze, let us know

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 PM

#

Yep, i want to made a listbox to list allMagzines from player. So i want to list like :
4x MagazineA
3x MX

and not like
MagazineA
MagazineA
MagazineA
MagazineA
MX
MX
MX

opaque topaz Aug 19, 2016, 10:49 PM

#

gotcha

elfin bronze Aug 19, 2016, 10:50 PM

#

So I Do some pushBack to get an array with all player's inventory and made listbox with that

#

My english is so bad omg

native hemlock Aug 19, 2016, 11:13 PM

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I don't think a hash is necessary, but I'd be interested to see the performance comparison. Do you want it to return an array of the type and the count for every unique type or only duplicates of one specific type that you specify?

austere granite Aug 19, 2016, 11:14 PM

#

private _array = [[], []];
{
    private _id = ((_array select 0) find _x);
    if (_id == -1) then {
        (_array select 0) pushBack _x;
        (_array select 1) pushBack 1
    } else {
        (_array select 1) set [_id, ((_array select 1) select _id) + 1];
    };
    nil;
} count ["9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F"];
private _arrayNew = [];
{
    _arrayNew pushBack [_x, (_array select 1) select _forEachIndex];
} forEach (_array select 0);
testvar = _arrayNew;
```

did this for now, might be quicker ways, but wasn't sure

#

doing a count on unique types didnt seem to be faster so w/e

elfin bronze Aug 20, 2016, 1:04 AM

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@native hemlock i want to count each type. @austere granite thank its work perfectly !

native hemlock Aug 20, 2016, 1:46 AM

#

There is actually a BIS function for this that KillzoneKid optimized called BIS_fnc_consolidateArray.

#

The full version can check for duplicates of nil, but in short it's this

_items = ["9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","9Rnd_45ACP_Mag","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F","30Rnd_762x39_Mag_Tracer_Green_F"];
private _cnt = count _items;
private _ret = [];
{
    _ret append [[_x, _cnt - count (_items - [_x])]]
} count (_items arrayIntersect _items);

austere granite Aug 20, 2016, 2:15 AM

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ah yeah arrayIntersect is dank, always forget about it

shut prairie Aug 20, 2016, 2:03 PM

#

Anyone had experience installing IgiLoad?

#

I put
[] execVM "IgiLoad\IgiLoadInit.sqf";

#

in the init.sqf

#

but it says to add it to the vehicles initialization field

#

how do i install it with ArmaLife rpg 4.4r3

indigo snow Aug 20, 2016, 2:04 PM

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its says not to

shut prairie Aug 20, 2016, 2:05 PM

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// USE: //
// 1. In mission "init.sqf" add line: "0 = execVM "IgiLoad\IgiLoadInit.sqf";". //
// 2. In vehicles "INITIALIZATION" field type: "0 = [this] execVM "IgiLoad\IgiLoad.sqf";" //

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in the changelog.txt which had use instructions

indigo snow Aug 20, 2016, 2:06 PM

#

odd, says otherwise in their forum post

tender root Aug 20, 2016, 2:42 PM

#

@here Heyho, one short question: Is there a weaponholder, which gear can't be accessed. So that you can spawn a item but you can't pick it up.

indigo snow Aug 20, 2016, 2:43 PM

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look into creating it as a simple object

#

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

tender root Aug 20, 2016, 2:46 PM

#

@indigo snow nice thx mate

proven sequoia Aug 20, 2016, 2:46 PM

#

Hallo @tender root

fringe estuary Aug 20, 2016, 5:23 PM

#

I notice the AI doesn't care that thier own kind is dead. Is there a script that allows them to react to dead friendlies?

little eagle Aug 20, 2016, 5:30 PM

#

change AI behaviour to danger

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sorry "COMBAT"

#

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

setBehaviour

little latch Aug 20, 2016, 8:28 PM

#

Hi, Does anyone know the animation door state for the new Hotels front door? ''' configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> "Land_Hotel_02_F" '''

#

cursorTarget animate ["door_1_rot", 1]; Doesn't open the double door

quiet bluff Aug 20, 2016, 8:33 PM

#

how do i put the magazine on the backpack in the loadout select screen

#

https://dev.arma3.com/assets/img/post/images/new_respawn.jpg

native hemlock Aug 20, 2016, 8:42 PM

#

@little latch That's because it's called Door_1A_rot

little latch Aug 20, 2016, 8:43 PM

#

wuteven

#

Thanks @native hemlock

native hemlock Aug 20, 2016, 8:43 PM

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That's the naming convention they use for double doors usually

little latch Aug 20, 2016, 8:43 PM

#

Alright, Didn't have much experience with the doubles ❤

native hemlock Aug 20, 2016, 8:45 PM

#

If you are looking at an object you can get a list of animations that you can use with the animate command from doing

copyToClipboard (animationNames cursorTarget joinString toString [10]);

It's not that useful in a case like this, but the newer command animateSource can be better https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateSource

little latch Aug 20, 2016, 8:45 PM

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Sweet thanks

#

I looked via config but didn't have much success

native hemlock Aug 20, 2016, 8:45 PM

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To get a list of sources you can use animateSource on you can run

copyToClipboard (((configProperties [configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf cursorTarget >> "AnimationSources", "true", true]) apply {configName _x}) joinString toString [10]);

fringe estuary Aug 20, 2016, 9:36 PM

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I'm creating a mission in which if the AI detects the players they fail the Task (Complete Mission undetected) Not sure how to make this work?

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Sorry wrong Channel

hearty shoal Aug 21, 2016, 1:34 AM

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Im doing some dialogs and i have one button that will be a ON/OFF function. How would i go about doing that?

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To add to that i dont want to close the dialog. I want to toggle onMapSingleClick "player setPos _pos" on/off.

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 2:07 AM

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_Ctrl ctrlEnable (false/true) <- ?

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@hearty shoal

hearty shoal Aug 21, 2016, 2:09 AM

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Thats just enable or disable the button? @jade abyss

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 2:09 AM

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Yep

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In any other case ->
Button to enable/disable (not disabling the btn itself)

onClick="if(MyBlockVar)then{MyBlockVar = false}else{MyBlockVar=true};";

In your Script ->
if(MyBlockVar)then{player setPos _pos};
Cmon, wasn't that hard, hu? 😛

hearty shoal Aug 21, 2016, 2:12 AM

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Ha ha yeah well i'm learning so its hard for me. No past scripting experience at all 😛

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:05 AM

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... i hate Arma.
Overall CPU: 0-1%.
Restarted -> 7x 0-1% - 1x 50%
wth?

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wow

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Okay... something is RLY Broken in Arma!

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I removed an outcommented line -> It works again oO
//{ _x setDamage 1;}; }forEach (nearestObjects [_SpawnMarker, [], 50]);

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Back in -> Broken again.

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:12 AM

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stop creating infinite "spawn marker" objects?

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:13 AM

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Its not doing it?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:13 AM

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and where does that line come from?

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it's not vanilla afaik

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:14 AM

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My own Stuff, maybe?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:14 AM

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exactly. and there is your bug too

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:14 AM

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oh commy... just stfu

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:14 AM

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lol

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I don't have slowdowns like this. It has to be something in your coding, sorry

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:15 AM

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I remove that outcommented line -> Server runs fine. Adding it back in -> (I repeat: That line is commented out) server is fkd up again

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:16 AM

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shrug, but there is a curly bracket missing

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:16 AM

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Does not, but okay.
Even when -> //
It shouldn't even consider that line

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:32 AM

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Now running on 1% again. This game is confusing me over and over again

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:44 AM

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maybe you loadFile that file instead of preprocessFileLineNumbers

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maybe you escape the newline in the previous line

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maybe it's part of a string by accident

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who knows. And there definitely is one more closing curly bracket than there is opening ones...

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:48 AM

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fml... 2 Objects collided with eachother...

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:48 AM

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physx

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:48 AM

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On the other side of the fkn map...
Seems like, sometimes they "pushed eachother" away, sometimes not...

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Yeah

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:48 AM

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yeah, physx is a huge bottleneck

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well narrow bottleneck I guess

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:49 AM

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Funny thing is: Each time i uploaded the the File without it -> They kicked eachother away.. except for the last 3 restarts... then i took a look at it by accident... wow...

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Noticed the 2 are beeing spawned at the same Pos -> Insta ServerDead.

Yeah, PhysX is nasty

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:51 AM

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spawned with CAN_COLLIDE flag?

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:53 AM

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Nah, old way

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"Type" createVehicle [0,0,0]
bla setPosWorld [here];

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Or in this case -> modelToWorld

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:54 AM

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use createVehicle Array with CAN_COLLIDE

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why setPosWorld ? seems unnecessary

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:54 AM

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iirc it was faster

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:55 AM

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setPosASL is the fastest

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:55 AM

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Wait, lemme search that, there was something in the perf log.

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:55 AM

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but yeah. setPos'ing two physX into each other will cause massive collision overhead ...

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:56 AM

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Yeah, haven't seen those tards... i was on the other side of the map

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:56 AM

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doesn't matter

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Similar to PositionASL, however z is measured from the sea level to the the model centre [0,0,0] of an object, rather than transformed boundingCenter or land contact vertices.

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Yeah, World should be faster then.

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Although I don't see why you would use the model center

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:57 AM

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Yeah, read that that.

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Random positions possible with different SpawnPoints, but same Units, different StartPos

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:58 AM

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It's not the setPos'ing anyway. It's collisions. The only way seems to not spawn them into another

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Wait, this was caused by units colliding? Or actual vehicles?

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:59 AM

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Thast why i wrote -> Or in this case -> modelToWorld

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2 Vehicles

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 6:59 AM

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yeah. units don't have physx

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 6:59 AM

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At least!

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I don't want to imagine, what would happend on the Servers then...

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Insta BBQing the Server

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:00 AM

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Probably the same thing that happens when you pile up corpses

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Because those ragdolls are nasty too

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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Yeah, nice too look at, but .... meh. I could live with the old animations.

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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Although I noticed that the slowdowns due to that happen mainly to me with my sub par graphics card

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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sub par?

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Below Avg?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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2011 AMD thing for laptops

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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Uh fk

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:01 AM

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hahaha

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:02 AM

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my bad

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And i just ordered a 6700k as DevServer for my home^^

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I feel bad now

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(1st world problems)

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:02 AM

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it's called 6850

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6850M

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: P

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(I have no idea what these numbers mean, M is for laptops)

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:03 AM

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Yeah, my Laptop got an erm... idk, 940m or so

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*860m

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 7:05 AM

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This machine probably ran 30k hours in the last 5 years

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still working

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best buy ever

jade abyss Aug 21, 2016, 7:09 AM

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That was my thought, when i scrapped my PIII-1Ghz "some" years ago.

calm vale Aug 21, 2016, 10:55 AM

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Hallo

velvet merlin Aug 21, 2016, 11:10 AM

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dont create stuff at [0,0,0] - its dangerous

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 1:24 PM

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I heard they eat children down at [0, 0, 0]

elfin bronze Aug 21, 2016, 1:30 PM

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Hey, it's possible to modify an LbAdd on listBox ?

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On the start of my script i do _ListBox lbAdd format ["%1x %2", _value, _displayName];
I have made a script to delete 1 items of the listbox. I Want to rename the item of the listBox on each delete items like :

Start = 2x MX
When player click on the delete button (on selected items) the list box update : 1x MX

tough abyss Aug 21, 2016, 1:56 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers Assign one of these to the listbox control. Create the function that does what you want to do (not sure what you want from how you described it, just make sure to use disableSerialization) Use the EH to call your function. The EH has to be created every time the dialog is closed and re-opened.

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or just update variables with script in the delete button's action=""; field, and make it close and re-open the dialog with: closeDialog 0; createDialog 'your_dialog';

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I'm not too practiced with UI. the commands you want might be lbSetData or lbSetValue. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/List_Box

elfin bronze Aug 21, 2016, 2:01 PM

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Hum i think i'm gonna do the second method : recreating the dialog ^^

tough abyss Aug 21, 2016, 2:01 PM

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yeah, much simpler

elfin bronze Aug 21, 2016, 2:01 PM

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Yep thank

tough abyss Aug 21, 2016, 2:02 PM

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np

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 2:36 PM

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just make sure to use disableSerialization

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Voodoo. You only need to disable the serialization if you store CONTROL or DISPLAY type in non-array variables if you operate in the scheduled environment.
I see no reason why a UI script should ever operate in the scheduled environment. All it would do is make the UI extremely sluggish.

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:05 PM

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for fun?

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:07 PM

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yeah me too, the number is 0

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:07 PM

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use perframe enjoy life

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ez

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quickscope230sniperscopepewpew

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:08 PM

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https://github.com/alganthe/Co-ops/blob/dev_altis/functions/revive/fn_uiElements.sqf#L45

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:09 PM

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noone polling anything

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not sure how you got perframe to "polling the fps"

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:09 PM

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hahahahahaha

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:09 PM

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what the fuck

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:09 PM

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like anyone uses that

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:09 PM

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https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7abCJnPhzwYzbvDW

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lol wat.

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:10 PM

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cough, not true, cough

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you should see the BIS equivalent to what I wrote above

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 4:10 PM

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btw

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diag_fps dosent take 16 frames

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it returns the last 16 frames fps averaged

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:11 PM

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hint: it's at least 3 times the size using multiple while loops

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no, no they simply don't

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what's the state of BIS revive btw :p

zealous solstice Aug 21, 2016, 4:14 PM

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no they dont work better they work worse

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:15 PM

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how the fuck do you think sleep / while works ?

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also, scheduled can exit at nearly any scope which is mildy infiuriating

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you do realise scheduled is actually heavier on the framerate than unscheduled, right ?

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no, i'm not.

zealous solstice Aug 21, 2016, 4:17 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/173543220582547456/182914045395861505/RespawnScreen.gif
this UI only use PFH and have massiv Dynamic Elements and run 100% faster than it would with spawns

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and not he is not joking he is right

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:19 PM

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oh snap. I said the forbidden words. I'm sorry

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don't

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:19 PM

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that's retarded

zealous solstice Aug 21, 2016, 4:19 PM

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you dont need to do it on each frame

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:20 PM

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not only that but in unscheduled the loop would stop itself

zealous solstice Aug 21, 2016, 4:20 PM

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you can not move that fare in 1 frame

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:20 PM

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oh wait, why the fuck would you use a PFH / onEechFrame for that :facepalm:

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:20 PM

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I'm so sorry

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By sluggish I meant that the scheduler stalls the execution of the ui script.
If anyone remembers CBA keybinding before Nou changed it to unscheduled
It was unusable, because the menu took half a minute to load in MP with low FPS
Now it is opened in milliseconds

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I mean the menu where you change keybinds

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:23 PM

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..............

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the fuck

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:24 PM

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the command itself should be fast. and the script should be faster after the command too. You drop the overhead needed to get serialization to work. which does stuff at least every time the scheduler changes the currently executed script

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every local variable must be serialized when the scheduler changes the current script

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why would it? all it does is make the script not load again after loading a savegame

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:34 PM

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he doesn't agree with you

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unscheduled is clearly better.

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:41 PM

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well, "efficiency" would mean that you can get more stuff done in less time.
I don't see how the scheduler helps there. Overhead for serialzation, overhead for measuring script run time after every command, overhead for additional variable-is-defined checks...

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I wouldn't call that more efficient. It's a way to prevent beginner from tanking the game by actually executing nearestX every frame

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here is one we can all agree on

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the best script is the one that doesn't run when not needed

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event handler

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I don't see how

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:51 PM

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rolf

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I can't tell if you're trolling right now

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why the fuck would you EVER do that

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that's just awfully bad design

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:54 PM

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I can believe that

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:55 PM

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that's just stupid design

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:55 PM

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Because handle damage fires 15 times per bullet

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:55 PM

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:facepalm:

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or, how about saving the gear when it's necessary? like, for example, when the dude is actually getting downed ?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:55 PM

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When did you need the gear info? Why not use killed if it's for example for respawn?

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See that is the problem. With that code you execute your getGear function every X seconds

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With the actual event handler you execute it twice per 2 hour mission

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killed has been in A1

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:57 PM

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it's just awful design in the first place, doesn't matter what year it is

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:58 PM

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But I think alganthe can agree that a PFH that records the gear every X seconds would be equally stupid

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:58 PM

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it's simply terrible design either way

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unscheduled / scheduled doesn't matter in this case

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because it's simply retarded.

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 4:59 PM

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Yes. Exactly. My point is that a PFH is not the replacement for while true polling loops like this.
It's just as bad

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 4:59 PM

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bad design is going to be bad design, but it's harder to produce death loops with unscheduled

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damn words

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not going to be soon tm

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I know that I&A 3 is at least going to switch away from it (mission is badly written but at least there's that)

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I let them take some stuff that I wrote

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gear limitations (arsenal blacklist) and revive

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my garrison function too, (also present in mars)

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dude, btc revive forces me to die once then die again when I press respawn

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what is solid in that

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not only that but in the tests that we ran with 60 players mine works better, the users didn't even notice a difference

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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doesn't the BI revive do the same thing? kill you twice?

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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nah

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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or was that patched?

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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they updated it

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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k

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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it's still as broken as before tho huehuehue

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it also doesn't work with vehicles

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:03 PM

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reviving .... vehicles??

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:04 PM

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nah, you can't get unconscious inside a car

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and that's not the reason quick

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:04 PM

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oh, yeah. I know that bug

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but you already have a corpse if you die once. why need 2?

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:04 PM

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that's because BIS coded revive like arse

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:04 PM

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surprise surprise

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:05 PM

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you don't need a corpse in the first place

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because the guy can just be forced to ragdoll through setUnconscious if he's not inside a vehicle

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inside a vehicle I just play the death animation

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:05 PM

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setUncon is not a ragdoll

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:06 PM

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(looks like one)

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there, https://github.com/alganthe/Co-ops/blob/dev_altis/functions/revive/fn_handleDamage.sqf

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now that I think about it I should've commented it

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:06 PM

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too many indentations 3/10

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:07 PM

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not using setDamage either

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I just override the value returned

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:07 PM

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forceRespawn player

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Your hd will kill me if I kill my previous avatar after selectPlayer

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:08 PM

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waiit, people use selectPlayer ?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:08 PM

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I was looking at algathes script, Quik

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waiit, people use selectPlayer ?
they could. wouldn't break ace at least

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:10 PM

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I could add an isPlayer check but that's such an edge case that I won't bother 😛

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:10 PM

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or use the _unit variable and avoid player like the plague

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:11 PM

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damn I read too quickly, didn't noticed I used player there

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👍 going to fix it

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:11 PM

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player can change during a script (especially in scheduled)

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:12 PM

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unit returned

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:12 PM

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from the previous unit to the current unit

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respawn, selectPlayer, teamSwitch

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also, most of the time I want my script to work with Zeus remote controlled units

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So I don't actually want player

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I want "MyUnit"

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the current avatar

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:13 PM

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I use selectplayer

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;)

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:13 PM

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Quik, it's ACE_player in ACE

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or call CBA_fnc_currentUnit I can't remember the full code. It's a one liner with a obscure BI variable

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cameraOn would report the vehicle you are sitting in

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or the drone you control

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not what I usually want

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It's all bad design by BI and everyone has to find ways around it

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or ignore it and blame BI

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But people wanted zeus support badly back in AGM

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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IS IT ZUES COMPATIBLE ?

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CAN I USE ZUES ?

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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omg, please stop with that

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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ZEUS

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PLZ

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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the war flashbacks

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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refuses to use zeus

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:15 PM

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almost as bad as items in the arsenal

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that is problems you don't have as mission maker I guess

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dammit. I searched for the reason why the unit test for cba diagnostic fails

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and the reason is that it tests the fail function

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[CBA] (diagnostic) ERROR: Assertion failed! File: x\cba\addons\diagnostic\test_assertions.sqf Line: 20
Checking ASSERT_DEFINED() is output correctly

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facepalm

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:18 PM

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whoop whoop

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I find that zeus cripples server performance and doesn't really give any better missions ;)

little eagle Aug 21, 2016, 5:19 PM

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depends on the zeus

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is output correctlypig english

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:19 PM

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True, but its what 9/10 zeus are not great zeuses.

lone glade Aug 21, 2016, 5:19 PM

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cue in a dude who thinks zeus needs to "win"

nocturne bluff Aug 21, 2016, 5:19 PM

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9.99/10