#arma3_scripting | ARMA | Page 272

tough abyss Dec 18, 2016, 9:31 PM

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1st is javascript, 2nd is python.

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What are you specifying ?

loud python Dec 18, 2016, 9:31 PM

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for _,v in pairs {"hello", "world"} do
    print(v)
end

proven crystal Dec 18, 2016, 9:32 PM

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hint "now?"

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hint "alright, it just doesnt really seem to work if i try to edit previous posts"

halcyon crypt Dec 18, 2016, 9:34 PM

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seems like we need a sandbox channel lol 😛

proven crystal Dec 18, 2016, 10:01 PM

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sorry for the spam ^^

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hm damn i can switch to 3rd person

jade abyss Dec 18, 2016, 10:05 PM

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code above has a "{" missing

loud python Dec 18, 2016, 10:11 PM

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indeed it has

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and the game probably told you about that

proven crystal Dec 18, 2016, 10:14 PM

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that bracket i had found before but seem to have added a typo somewhere else too

jade abyss Dec 18, 2016, 10:35 PM

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tried to simplify it? (e.g. removing "&& {isNull objectParent player}")

proven crystal Dec 18, 2016, 10:41 PM

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But i want the 3rd party view in vehicles

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Also if i dont have that part it will also unallow to use scopes and sights of rifles

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Works now, but unfortunately im again missing some alive placements. Cant be connected

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Its usually a sign of it getting to late when i mess up my map again...

true barn Dec 18, 2016, 10:49 PM

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@jade abyss your still doing Arma coding, figured you would of stop after Altis Life.

jade abyss Dec 18, 2016, 10:51 PM

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There is a difference between: Helping others and coding myself.

Life is far far far away in the past. Everyone has his dark past 😉

true barn Dec 18, 2016, 10:53 PM

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Lol

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I agree

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Anyways hope all is well

jade abyss Dec 18, 2016, 10:55 PM

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yepyep

tough abyss Dec 18, 2016, 11:08 PM

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I think I just found arma 3's SQF script limit

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Out of memory (Requested 16830KB)
footprint (2425430015KB)
pages (458752KB)
Active SQF Handles: 339979

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🤷 Whoops

jade abyss Dec 18, 2016, 11:11 PM

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Nah, there is more possible

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I once made a script that added eachFrame a new script that adds on eachFrame a new script that adds on eachFrame a new script that adds on eachFrame a new script that adds... etc

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Way more is possible.

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Best "AntiTheft" Method.

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if servername != "blabla" -> Execute that thing after X minutes

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Let them wonder why the Server crashes all the time

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Hide that thing in somewhere in the files -> profit.

cerulean whale Dec 18, 2016, 11:52 PM

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hint "stuff" //code

final gale Dec 19, 2016, 12:14 AM

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@tough abyss My favorite was a glitch I found with Arma 2, if you add a script that modified the velocity of whatever vehicle you where in and you got in a boat, after going about ~1500km/h the server would crash

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 12:24 AM

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@tough abyss Not crashing the Server, just lagg him out/drop the FPS below 1

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On CLientside everything feels fine, the Server... yeah... running on 1-2 Fps, nothing possible to do serverside.

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That drives ppl more crazy then crashing

halcyon crypt Dec 19, 2016, 12:25 AM

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you'll get the name of a bad scripter 😛

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 12:26 AM

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Imagine: Server runs fine for 5min, then turns into a shithole :D
And you keep wondering: "On the other Servers, it runs fineeee, why not on mine"

halcyon crypt Dec 19, 2016, 12:30 AM

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tbh, most MP missions/servers behave that way anyway 😄

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 12:37 AM

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true words 😄

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 1:28 AM

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```sqf

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only works on github, because certain good people made it work

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not very likely discord will support that

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Active SQF Handles: 339979
339979 dead puppies

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 2:19 AM

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@little eagle It uses the same thing

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Or atleast did at one point

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Nvm uses highlight.js, which does support SQF

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https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js/blob/4ef879d0b09267615fa69d74ad702fa27a5e0ba2/src/languages/sqf.js

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 4:04 AM

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private _weapon = currentWeapon _unit;

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doesn't work then

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 4:06 AM

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Well it does

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It's not that fancy

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But it's there

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 4:07 AM

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fixing spelling does help

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 4:07 AM

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😛

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The lib classes most of the commands together

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So everything is red

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Unless someone makes a nice PR 🤷

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 4:07 AM

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the keyword definition is ... lacking a few

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 4:07 AM

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Someone added the 1.66 ones

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Surprised tbh

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It was way outdated before that

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 4:35 AM

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does anyone know why my sound might not be playing? i've looked at literally every variable and it's just not playing. here's my description.ext entry:

class CfgSounds
{
    sounds[] = {};
    class firing
    {
        // how the sound is referred to in the editor (e.g. trigger effects)
        name = "firing";
        // filename, volume, pitch, distance
        sound[] = {"sounds\Untitled.ogg", 1, 1, 5000};
        // subtitle delay in seconds, subtitle text 
        titles[] = {1, " "};
    };
};```

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and the filepath is correct

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i would like to have it work with playSound3D, but even playSound isn't returning anything

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i've run "playSound firing" and a bunch of variants of that through my debug console, i've listened to the file with VLC to make sure it works

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i'm just confused as hell

native hemlock Dec 19, 2016, 4:37 AM

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Have you read the notes on the wiki? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playSound3D

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 4:47 AM

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Ah, damn, overlooked them. Thanks Penny.

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 5:11 AM

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Now I feel like something is wrong with my description.ext. I had an original intro.jpg, but I changed it to a different file and kept the filename, but it's still showing the original picture.

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i've been doing this for so long why does arma do this to me

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~~and another question~~: you show or operators with pipes like so, correct? while {alive gun1 || alive gun2 || alive gun3 || alive gun4 || alive gun5} do{

vapid frigate Dec 19, 2016, 7:10 AM

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@tough abyss you restarted the game? it'll cache textures by filename

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 7:12 AM

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i got it working. as it turns out my description.ext was getting angry at me because i had changed my loading screen .png to a .jpg by just changing the filetype in my explorer.

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and it was just crashing my game when i tried to load it. but everything is working now, and i'm going to take a well-deserved nap.

vapid frigate Dec 19, 2016, 7:13 AM

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yeh renaming a file isn't the same as changing its type 😃

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 7:13 AM

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no, i mean, i changed its filetype fine, but arma didn't like that

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i had to re-export it

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You have to explicitly change a file type

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I did.

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ArmA 3

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Also doesn't like disproportionate image sizes

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2:1 ratios and 1:1 ratios are all it likes

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@tough abyss

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Description.ext in particular

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@tough abyss Have you seen this file type before?

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ext_auto_file

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?

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@dusk sage

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Anyone know if I should use the description.ext? or use EDEN from now on?

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I know, Geeky. My image is the exact recommended size.

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http://puu.sh/sU9dQ/b4b1273793.png This is the one I made.

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Yeah just thought you should know.

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ArmA 3 is also picky when you do things like paa -> png -> jpeg

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It still works fine even without that aspect ratio, anyways.

noble juniper Dec 19, 2016, 12:17 PM

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Lol, just for gigles:

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Recursive array
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] 13:12:10 Error in expression <_test_cache",["empty",1,[],{}]];
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] _tests pushBack _tests;
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] missionNamespace setVar>
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] 13:12:10 Error position: <pushBack _tests;
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] missionNamespace setVar>
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] 13:12:10 Error -5902040 elements provided, 144298519 expected
[13:12:10][Step 7/8] 13:12:10 File sunit\fn_addTest.sqf, line 12

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_tests pushBack _test <- s god damnit!

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i find this funny because i never did that mistake till now lol

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and i kind of like the error message

rotund cypress Dec 19, 2016, 1:09 PM

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Is there any good optimised way to completely disable fog on servers?

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Right now I do 0 setFog 0 on eachFrame

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 1:35 PM

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on each frame??? wtf?

rotund cypress Dec 19, 2016, 1:38 PM

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Yes

rancid ruin Dec 19, 2016, 1:40 PM

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maybe a good first pass at optimisation would be to not do it every frame

rotund cypress Dec 19, 2016, 1:42 PM

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While loop with a sleep would be better

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But its not good enough

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 1:42 PM

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How come even when you limit what is accessable in the arsenal people can still load whatever the hell they want now?

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Pretty much defeats the purpose of preloading the arsenal...

rotund cypress Dec 19, 2016, 1:46 PM

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Just make a script on an eventhandler to remove all guns when used that you dont allow @tough abyss

tough abyss Dec 19, 2016, 1:47 PM

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I could, but the system is clearly not supposed to work as it is now. It even shows the loadouts under the load section greyed out, yet you can still load them.

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Found some code that could completely disable the save/load buttons, but it would be nice to keep them.

vital onyx Dec 19, 2016, 3:36 PM

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While loop with a sleep would be better

If you want delays higher than 1 second for your loops, try the cron script

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https://github.com/ussrlongbow/rwt_cron

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no while/waituntil loops

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 4:29 PM

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One command, no accuracy needed 😛

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 6:10 PM

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But that script is even worse than a while loop

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https://github.com/ussrlongbow/rwt_cron/blob/master/longbow/cron/functions/fn_cronInit.sqf#L31-L33

GitHub

ussrlongbow/rwt_cron

rwt_cron - Cron scheduler script for Arma 3 missions/addons

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    RWT_var_cronInstance = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector",[0,0,0],false];
    RWT_var_cronInstance setTriggerActivation ["NONE","PRESENT",true];
    RWT_var_cronInstance setTriggerStatements ["[] call RWT_fnc_cronJobRun", "", ""];

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trigger runs every 0.5 seconds, while you have options with a SQF loop by adjusting the sleep. And the trigger has even more overhead

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And whatever cronJobRun does, it doing a huge SQF sin

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https://github.com/ussrlongbow/rwt_cron/blob/master/longbow/cron/functions/fn_cronJobRun.sqf#L79

GitHub

ussrlongbow/rwt_cron

rwt_cron - Cron scheduler script for Arma 3 missions/addons

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[] call compile format ["RWT_var_cronJobsAt_%1 = nil",_earliest];

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multiple of those.

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I guess the clients won't notice it, because it only runs on the server ¯_(ツ)_/¯

vital onyx Dec 19, 2016, 8:06 PM

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@little eagle a single trigger instead of multiple loops + unified interface for one-time and recurring jobs

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so, not so bad as an option ;)

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 8:07 PM

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You could achive the same with a loop

vital onyx Dec 19, 2016, 8:07 PM

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maybe, but trigger is a bit more flexible

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 8:07 PM

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He just needed to run one command every so often

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😛

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 8:08 PM

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I don't get what the point here is anyway

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Can't you just set the weather in the mission like everyone else?

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There is a forecast and a start value

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both to 0

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???

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done

dusk sage Dec 19, 2016, 8:09 PM

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I've never played with fog, but I've noted people in the past fiddled with the attributes and still had fog

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 8:09 PM

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yeah, if you up the rain too high

sharp jay Dec 19, 2016, 9:13 PM

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Is there a way to open up an inventory, like opening a dead soldiers inventory, that will let you load and save that inventory to profileNamespace?

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I can use BIS_fnc_loadInventory /saveInventory, but how can i do this without spawning a box or something. I do not want other people to be able to open your personal storage.

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 9:24 PM

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Keywords:
Eventhandler, InventoryOpened, false

sharp jay Dec 19, 2016, 9:29 PM

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will look into that.

cerulean whale Dec 19, 2016, 9:52 PM

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Hey quick question, I have never needed this before now but I do now... how do I make it so someone can't press esc and click out of a dialog?

vital onyx Dec 19, 2016, 9:53 PM

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there are multiple ways

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first you may just reopen it once it is closed

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:)

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second - disable user's input

little eagle Dec 19, 2016, 10:42 PM

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add a keyhandler and block DIK_ESC

cerulean whale Dec 19, 2016, 10:54 PM

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I made a loop to reopen it when someone closes it... the issue is that it only runs once....

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I'll just muck around with it lol

west lantern Dec 19, 2016, 11:03 PM

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is it possible to damage the legs of a player or NPC so that it cant move/walk in a3?

halcyon crypt Dec 19, 2016, 11:53 PM

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probably?

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

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not sure if you'd be able to prevent moving/walking entirely with that though

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 11:55 PM

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no

loud python Dec 19, 2016, 11:56 PM

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well, for the NPC, you can just this disableAI "MOVE"

jade abyss Dec 19, 2016, 11:57 PM

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For players: The only option is to interfere with the Keyinput (e.g.: using a Keyhandler that negates the movement input, when Var1 = true)

loud python Dec 19, 2016, 11:59 PM

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Can somebody look at my code in #arma3_scenario and tell me if there's something obvious wrong with it?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:23 AM

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@tough abyss Good ruse, but the pause menu cannot be rebound.

final gale Dec 20, 2016, 12:28 AM

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I'm currently having a strange issue, Im trying to use a listbox and if I understand the command properly lbAdd should add a item with some text in it but when ever I try ```
_index = lbAdd [1500, "Test"];
or
_control lbAdd "Test";

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:29 AM

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Thanks guys, but no Ill just then set the damageEH for HitLegs to 1, I wont fiddle with AI and in depth key interception as this goes to the mod config, its not for a mission. Doing that in a mod will make people angry and cause incompats.

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      {
        _unit setHitPointDamage [_x, 1];
        } forEach ["HitLegs"];
        _unit setHitPointDamage ["HitBody", 0.2];
        _unit setHitPointDamage ["HitArms", 0.2]
      };``` ^ that

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:34 AM

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why not condense that to

{_unit setHitPointDamage [_x, 0.2];} forEach ["HitBody", "HitArms"]

?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:34 AM

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forEach ["HitLegs"];

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:37 AM

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That's kinda useless; might at least directly _unit setHitPointDamage ["HitLegs", 1];

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:38 AM

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also isKindOf "CaManBase"

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before it bugs out on sheep and rabbits

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:39 AM

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wait what?

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sheep and rabbits are men?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:39 AM

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class Animal: Man

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:39 AM

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...

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#justarma3things

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:39 AM

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class Woman: Man ¯_(ツ)_/¯

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:40 AM

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class inheritance: works when used right

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:40 AM

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At least they fixed Campfire_light_F inheriting from Ship

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:42 AM

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and the god created Man

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😛

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but lets not quote the Bible here... I hope the snake doesnt inherit from Man, if it does fu BI

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:43 AM

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wait, does that mean god is a vehicle?

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:44 AM

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kek it is what you want it to be

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:44 AM

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God is dead. End of Convo.

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:44 AM

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there's a way to find out

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if (alive god) then {hint "he's alive"} else {hint "nietzsche was right"}

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:46 AM

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isAlive

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:47 AM

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"isAlive"

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:47 AM

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you're right, it's alive

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*fixed it*

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I've had to think about GML stuff today

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GML has function names like that

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:48 AM

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That's kinda useless
making sure that when I set HitLegs to 1, that Arms and Body is lighly damaged aswell, hence the setup

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:48 AM

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    class AllVehicles: All {
    class Land: AllVehicles {
    class Man: Land {
    class Animal: Man {
    class Animal_Base_F: Animal {
    class Snake_random_F: Animal_Base_F {

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:48 AM

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why do a forEach with only one element though?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:48 AM

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A snake is a Man and an AllVehicles

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:49 AM

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ah the script is more complex thats just example, sorry for the confusion

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:49 AM

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The forEach is so both legs are affected

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duh

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:49 AM

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it handles vehicles too

rotund cypress Dec 20, 2016, 12:49 AM

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Hey does anyone know how I can attach a say HMG for the prowler onto a quadbike? Not using attachTo command

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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if I have to use createVehicle to spawn a can of soda, I take that as a hint from arma 3 that you can actually get in and drive around in a can of soda if you try really hard

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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i guess its more scripting than mission making, so

"How can I make a 3D text in a position in a mission
like a 3d text floating in the air (but it disappears when I move away more than 5 meters)"

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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@rotund cypress as far as I know that doesn't work like that

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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Not every vehicle is mountable

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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Just like in real-life

rotund cypress Dec 20, 2016, 12:50 AM

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I've seen it done

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ok

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But

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Is there any HMG that is mountable onto say a quadbike or any other vehicle?

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 12:51 AM

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cant u just attach a static one?

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:51 AM

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weapons in arma 3 are pretty much part of the vehicle itself

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they aren't just "mounted" on it

rotund cypress Dec 20, 2016, 12:51 AM

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I know, but I saw some HMG or Machine Gun mounted on top of a truck.

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:51 AM

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you'd have to mod your own vehicle

rotund cypress Dec 20, 2016, 12:51 AM

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That does not belong there by default

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And it wasnt modded

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I tried addWeaponsTurret and commands like that but didnt work

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:52 AM

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

attachTo

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:52 AM

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there are cars with mounted machine guns, make sure it wasn't one of those 2) attachTo

rotund cypress Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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I know there is attachTo command, but is there no other way?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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No

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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no

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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yes

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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fuuu

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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mod your own vehicle in

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:53 AM

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#arma3_config

edgy aspen Dec 20, 2016, 12:54 AM

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Thank you.

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:54 AM

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RE floating 3d text
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/drawIcon3D

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oh wait, text? Does BIS_fnc_3dcredits works still?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:55 AM

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You have to hang out with the cool kids to get a bluename

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:56 AM

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yep yep yep

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Or spam "first" in #general_chat_arma and in here

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 12:56 AM

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i tried them but I need a way to make them only apears to the player near them (<5m)

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:56 AM

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(scroll up, if you don't believe me 😄 )

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 12:56 AM

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appears*

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:57 AM

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you have to add distance checks and fade outs then

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 12:57 AM

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+resizing of the image size

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:57 AM

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yeah. you can do basically anything

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but it will be more than 5 lines

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 12:58 AM

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everything under 2000 lines is a small project

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:58 AM

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I had that in a mission for injured 3d icons, it worked for me for up to 75m but screw me if I got that now around, who knows where I burried that

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iirc commy was helping me around it

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/nametags/functions/fnc_drawNameTagIcon.sqf

GitHub

acemod/ACE3

ACE3 - Open-source realism mod for Arma 3

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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def more than 5 lines 😉

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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If you need 2k lines for 3d icons you are doing it wrong though

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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yeah lol

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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they're not that complex

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 12:59 AM

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well its not 5

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10 maybe 😛

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 AM

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I'm not saying you'd need more than 2k lines for this xD

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 AM

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_color = [[1, 1, 1, _alpha], [1, 0, 0, _alpha], [0, 1, 0, _alpha], [0, 0, 1, _alpha], [1, 1, 0, _alpha]] select ((["MAIN", "RED", "GREEN", "BLUE", "YELLOW"] find ([assignedTeam _target] param [0, "MAIN"])) max 0);
🤦

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:01 AM

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Just saying that less than that isn't "a lot"

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@little eagle I can only guess what that code might do, but I couldn't tell you how it does that

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 1:02 AM

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@little eagle so how do I check the distance and make it fade?

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:03 AM

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how to fade
alpha value below 1 in drawIconWhatever

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how to distance check
player distance _target

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add some math

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SQF magic

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done

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:04 AM

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SQF magic

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that's what everybody wants to read in a comment

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//magic

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 1:04 AM

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ok, make it invisible + "sqf magic"
ty

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:04 AM

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followed by //TODO: write comments to explain what this does

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:04 AM

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I'm not gonna write it for you, Oscar

river blade Dec 20, 2016, 1:05 AM

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i know

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sqf magic reminds of this>> http://puu.sh/sVgKq/2c9f872bad.jpg

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lol

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:05 AM

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Is using the stringtable.xml good for convience?

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I'm using it as part of our framework.

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:06 AM

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it's good for using translations

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 1:06 AM

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{
    if (getText (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf _x >> "textSingular") == "pilot") then {
    DEADPILOTS pushBack _x;
    };
} forEach allDeadMen;

addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", {     
    if (
    {
        player distance _x <= 15
    } count DEADPILOTS > 0
       ) then {
        {
        _corpsePos = getPos _x;
        if (player distance _corpsePos <= 15) then {
        _line1_start = _corpsePos;
        _line1_end = [(_line1_start select 0), (_line1_start select 1), 0.5];
        _line2_start = [(_line1_end select 0), (_line1_end select 1) + 0.5, (_line1_end select 2)];                
        drawLine3D [_line1_start, _line1_end, [0,0,0,0.5]];
        drawLine3D [_line1_end, _line2_start, [0,0,0,0.5]];        
        drawIcon3D ["\a3\ui_f\data\gui\cfg\hints\BasicLook_ca.paa", [0,0,0,0.5], _line2_start, 0.75, 0.75, 0];
        };
    } forEach DEADPILOTS;
    };
}];``` that worked for me for icons, I dont know about text...
see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/drawIcon3D for examples

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:06 AM

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For lump all string values into 1 box

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:07 AM

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concerned about magic numbers?

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stringtable is really only usefull for translations

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:13 AM

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magic numbers are cool

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:14 AM

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sure: https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/nametags/functions/common.hpp#L7-L13

GitHub

acemod/ACE3

ACE3 - Open-source realism mod for Arma 3

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and: https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/nametags/script_component.hpp#L19-L23

GitHub

acemod/ACE3

ACE3 - Open-source realism mod for Arma 3

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Hope we get enums with Enfusion or whatever it's called

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:17 AM

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no boobies, boring link

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:21 AM

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Can't link boobies here, Dscha

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/ /( . Y . )\ \

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best I have

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:22 AM

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niccccceeee

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😄

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:22 AM

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how to get bluename:

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post boobies

jade abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:23 AM

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tell @open vigil that you posted them. He will add you to a special group.

little eagle Dec 20, 2016, 1:24 AM

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Claim it's actually just a regexp

loud python Dec 20, 2016, 1:29 AM

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you need to format it as code if you want to claim it's a regex

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( . )( . )
-- Captures tho characters surrounded by spaces

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 1:31 AM

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How do I get ArmA 3 tools to register Posideon tools?

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 6:58 AM

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legit ways to knock the player out of hit feet?

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as in vanila ways w/o spawning shit to hit it

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 7:15 AM

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[_unit, "PRONE_INJURED", "FULL"] call BIS_fnc_ambientAnim; well that puts it down and locks in the injured animation, I can quit that, but doesnt knock out, just instantly shows on the ground...

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 9:09 AM

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getting generic error in expression when using uiSleep 2; weird

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 9:11 AM

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Scheduled or unscheduled?

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 9:13 AM

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EH so unscheduled

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 9:15 AM

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sleeping isn't allowed in unscheduled

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uiSleep 2; suspends everything

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and is not allowed in unscheduled

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 9:16 AM

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shit... its a function so I can postinit it to make it work

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or not... maybe I dont need sleep/uiSleep at all.. will see

tough abyss Dec 20, 2016, 9:20 AM

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Thought everyone knew that?

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WaitUntil, uiSleep, sleep is not allowed in the unscheduled environment

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It even says in your RPT.

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Suspending not allowed in this context

west lantern Dec 20, 2016, 9:23 AM

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someone that does scripting a lot might

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not me though, TIL

tough abyss Dec 21, 2016, 2:34 AM

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There is not a getPosAGL?

native hemlock Dec 21, 2016, 2:37 AM

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Well test2 isn't defined

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Don't think so, but you can always do ASLToAGL getPosASL

tough abyss Dec 21, 2016, 2:46 AM

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@native hemlock thanks.

meager granite Dec 21, 2016, 6:50 AM

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getPos supposed to be getPosAGL but there are some BUTs

thin pine Dec 21, 2016, 7:26 AM

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Watery butts

little eagle Dec 21, 2016, 7:26 AM

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setPos uses AGL

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getPos does not. It uses the highest pathway lod if present

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So yeah, ASLToAGL getPosASL is how you get a AGL position

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Watery butts
If you meant that it's somehow inconsistent over water then you're wrong

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AGL over water is using the waves

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which is true for getPos too

half monolith Dec 21, 2016, 7:46 AM

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I have a question about using the virtual arsenal and making a blacklist of items we dont want in our server, I have been able to makea black list, but i want to expand on that and make one for Blufor Opfor so people on opposing teams cant grab uniforms that they shouldnt

cerulean whale Dec 21, 2016, 8:28 AM

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make a loop and if they are wearing that uniform while arsenal is open then ```SQF
removeUniform player

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and you can adapt that for any item / clothing item

half monolith Dec 21, 2016, 9:56 AM

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i dunno this may be above my paygrade lol

thin pine Dec 21, 2016, 10:27 AM

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Could someone politely discharge that man from this discord server please?

tame portal Dec 21, 2016, 10:35 AM

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@little eagle I'll buy myself a hammer to hit myself with it to fully understand what went through the bohemian ducttape employees to make setpos and gepos not use the same relative height to the actual floor

open vigil Dec 21, 2016, 10:38 AM

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@MrSanchez#5319 Done

thin pine Dec 21, 2016, 10:43 AM

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I thank thy dearly

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Though his links are still here unfortunately

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From which he could profit

open vigil Dec 21, 2016, 10:46 AM

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are you on mobile?

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either way, close the app and reopen it, they should disappear.

thin pine Dec 21, 2016, 10:50 AM

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Ah

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Cheers.

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Did not appear to work but i assume it will for others

open vigil Dec 21, 2016, 10:52 AM

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Ive just restarted all of my devices (mobile and Desktop) and its gone.

thin pine Dec 21, 2016, 10:54 AM

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Restarting whole device != restart app but it's fine ;)

open vigil Dec 21, 2016, 10:56 AM

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😉 but it also worked when I restarted the app (But also poor initial choice of words on my part)

little eagle Dec 21, 2016, 11:37 AM

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@tame portal It's all for backwards compatibility. You don't want to break old missions. But I've been saying for years now that basically everything should be done in ASL, and only converted to AGL immediately before a command is used that takes that, or to ASL immediately after a command is used that reports something else.

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there are always exceptions

nocturne iron Dec 21, 2016, 3:01 PM

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@tough abyss can't spawn in a local placeholder entity like an invisible helipad, getpos and delete?

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I'd also try looking at the Wiki page on co-ordinate name spaces

little eagle Dec 21, 2016, 5:05 PM

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any ideas how to derive world position without spawning the entity
I guess you can make a debug mission where you spawn all available entities and store their average road contact to model center distance

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otherwise I don't see how. Make extension that opens the models in real time : P ?

opaque topaz Dec 21, 2016, 5:07 PM

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+1^ https://github.com/intercept/intercept

rotund cypress Dec 21, 2016, 8:08 PM

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Is there any command for switching nightvision goggles mode? For example switch from thermals to normal when using the new apex nvgs? I searched for a command but didnt find any. Only thing i found was to found out in what mode they were in (currentVisionMode)

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I also tried player disableTIEquipment to disable the thermals on the nvgs but didnt work

cerulean whale Dec 21, 2016, 8:47 PM

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Hey, I've been using this: ```SQF

for "_i" from 1 to _doors do {
ct animate[format["door%1_rot",_i],0];
ct setVariable[format["bis_disabled_Door%1",_i],1,true];
};

tough abyss Dec 21, 2016, 8:57 PM

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lock: something setVariable ['bis_disabled_Door_1',1,true]; unlock: something setVariable ['bis_disabled_Door_1',0,true];

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is what I've gleaned from https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/152949-lockunlock-doors-on-a-builing/

carmine sonnet Dec 21, 2016, 10:00 PM

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@rotund cypress I think its the command "action" off the top of my head. Cant look right now to check though.

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:28 PM

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how do you get the position now and what is wrong with it?

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 10:44 PM

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do EHs set with ctrlAddEventHandler persist when the display it's setting them on is closed and opened again?

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:45 PM

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i don't think so but should be easy to debug.

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 10:46 PM

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it is, but testing the easy way first 😛

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:46 PM

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hehe. it would make sense but i'll shut up since i'm not sure. i'll go check myself actually. now i'm curious

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 10:47 PM

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see, easy 😄

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trigger some curious minds and the work will be done ^^ lol

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:47 PM

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the fine art of making others work for you

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 10:50 PM

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the BIKI isn't saying anything like "you have to re-set the EH after closing" so my guess would be that they do persist

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:55 PM

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i ran this from the debug console:

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((findDisplay 49) displayctrl 1) ctrlAddEventHandler ["KeyDown", {playmusic "leadtrack06b_F_EPC"}]

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idd 49 is the pause menu

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after closing and reopening the pause menu the track doesn't restart

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you have to close it to hear music at all though in SP since simulation stops there i think

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not the most elegant way but knowing the track it seems it's not starting over unless you readd the EH

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 10:58 PM

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I'll give it a shot 😃

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 10:58 PM

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remember you also have to press a key since it's a key down EH

halcyon crypt Dec 21, 2016, 11:01 PM

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didn't hear any music playing but adding a diag_log does show that it fires only once

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interesting

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oh fail.. music volume was turned down 😄

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thanks though 👍

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and it does make sense I guess

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 11:09 PM

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i'm a bit out of the loop on these new commands tbh so i don't get half of it. but i'm guessing you are describing the phenomenon that a simple object is underground when you spawn it at your own position for example?

jade abyss Dec 21, 2016, 11:18 PM

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@halcyon crypt e.g. InventoryOpened EH is NOT permanent and needs to be added again, when its closed (iirc 😄 )

cerulean whale Dec 21, 2016, 11:38 PM

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Hey, how would I find the nearestObject in an array. e.g. testArray pushBack cursorObject Do that for two objects... how would I find which object is closer using nearestObject (I want my array to go higher than just two values and I don't want to use an Algorithm because I know there is an easier solution)

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That's searching for IF the nearest object is in the testarray... I want to find the CLOSER one

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damn, I was hoping I wouldn't have too haha

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@tough abyss I've already written something for it haha

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 11:48 PM

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there's also a neat BIS fnc called sortby that accepts any condition and can sort de and ascending. not sure what the status is on how optimizsed it is though.

marsh storm Dec 21, 2016, 11:50 PM

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Is there a way to check if a player has a specific addaction?

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Not finding anything anywhere on it :/

dusk sage Dec 21, 2016, 11:53 PM

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_distance = selectMin (object_array apply {_x distance player});

@tough abyss

marsh storm Dec 21, 2016, 11:55 PM

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@tough abyss that's my question really, I don't know how to, and obviously if the player doesn't have the addaction when the script executes (it removes the addaction) then it will throw an error

cerulean whale Dec 21, 2016, 11:55 PM

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Volc... when you set the action do An_Action = addAction.. then maybe if !isNil An_Action

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something like that?

marsh storm Dec 21, 2016, 11:56 PM

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@tough abyss - it is defined as ben mentioned above as An_action = addaction... so what @cerulean whale suggests actually seems like it might be the solution i'm after

cerulean whale Dec 21, 2016, 11:57 PM

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I'm not sure if that works, I haven't been near addActions in a long time...I use a custom interaction system now.... but from what I can recall it does

marsh storm Dec 21, 2016, 11:57 PM

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I hadn't thought to check if the variable was nil, that's a clever way to do it

dusk sage Dec 21, 2016, 11:57 PM

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Store the ID returned by addaction into a variable, check for its presence on each client @marsh storm

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Or setVariable on the player, and broadcast

polar folio Dec 21, 2016, 11:59 PM

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this

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

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plus this

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

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i think

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:01 AM

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Overcomplicating it

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Just set a flag on the player when they have this addAction

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:01 AM

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true

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:01 AM

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If you only want to know if they possess it

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No need to go into the nitty gritty

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:02 AM

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situation wasn't specified though. might be interaction between different addons/scripts. but go easy if possible for sure

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btw

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"_distance = selectMin (object_array apply {_x distance player});" the fuck is this?

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looks sexy. is it fast too?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:02 AM

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faster than the loop I'd imagine

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It will work 😛

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:03 AM

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how do you output the object though?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:03 AM

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Unless there is a syntax issue

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:03 AM

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isn't that the point?

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to get hte object not the distance i mean

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:03 AM

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I just saw Quik's code

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And posted a neater way

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:04 AM

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hm

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:04 AM

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but

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:04 AM

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man. they are adding so much good shit. like as much as they used to add in several years back when. hard to not lose track

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:06 AM

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_distances = object_array apply {_x distance player};
_object = object_array select (_distances find (selectMin _distances));

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Hard on phone

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:06 AM

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was just gonna say. clone array to get the index yea?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:07 AM

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You need a reference array for the index

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:07 AM

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cool. neat

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:07 AM

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@tough abyss Returns min value not index 😦

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😃

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logical I guess

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With the name selectMin

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Bit annoying though

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still no

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😛

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object_array doesn't have distances

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99% sure it's not possible w/o another var

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_distances = object_array apply {_x distance player};
_object = object_array select (_distances find (selectMin _distances));

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works fine

#

Obviously could do it by explicitly writing object_array apply {_x distance player} twice though

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But not efficient

vapid frigate Dec 22, 2016, 12:14 AM

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i think (_x distance player) would have to be first for the sort to work?

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and select 1 at the end 😃

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not sure if it'd be very efficient sorting rather than finding the smallest manually though

marsh storm Dec 22, 2016, 12:17 AM

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Hey @tough abyss @dusk sage @cerulean whale thanks for the advice, got that working

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 12:17 AM

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np

marsh storm Dec 22, 2016, 12:17 AM

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Appreciate that fellas, all the best

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:18 AM

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👍

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:22 AM

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i made them race. BoGuu slightly faster. this is fun. someone bring up anotehr problem for those two to solve 😄

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:25 AM

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Any of you guys good with dialogs?

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Having a perplexing issue

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:30 AM

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i think everyone hates dialogs in arma. just describe

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:30 AM

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50 cutRsc ["ui_master","PLAIN"];
waitUntil {!isNull (uiNameSpace getVariable "ui_master")};

_display_master = findDisplay 2110;
    
    _ui_text_ind = _display_master displayCtrl 1012;
    _ui_text_pop = _display_master displayCtrl 1022;
    _ui_text_ind ctrlSetText "50/min";     
    _ui_text_pop ctrlSetText "200/200"; ```

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I know right, that's why I've stayed away from them for so long

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Anyways, I have two RscText controls with idc 1012 and 1022 that are in the ui_master control idd 2110

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and they just don't appear with the text defined in the controls or using ctrlSetText

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:33 AM

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waitUntil {!isNull (uiNameSpace getVariable "ui_master")};

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Is that null to begin with?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:34 AM

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It's a trick to wait until the display has been loaded

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:34 AM

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waitUntil {!isNull (uiNameSpace getVariable ["ui_master", displayNull])};

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:34 AM

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Picture controls in the display display perfectly

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:34 AM

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I'm just questioning whether your waitUntil is doing anything

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:35 AM

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Probably isn't tbh, just following a tutorial

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:35 AM

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use the default above

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:35 AM

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Is there a way to intentionally log things to remoteExec log?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:35 AM

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So it will always returned null if nil

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:35 AM

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By remoteExecing

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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Sure

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Set it to log things, then remoteExec

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😛

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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Thanks bo

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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It logs some things

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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@nocturne iron try use

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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But I dont actually know where I define what it should log?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:36 AM

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ctrlSetText [idc, text]

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@rotund cypress remoteexec.txt

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Can pick and choose what to log

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Normal BE filter things

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:37 AM

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That's the dialog format though, I'll give it a go

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:38 AM

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Oh so lets say I want it to log when function name_fnc_fncname is executed?

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I just do that in remoteExec.txt

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BattleEye filter?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:38 AM

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You're correct, my bad @nocturne iron

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Where are your controls defined?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:39 AM

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in a #include'd file called dialogs.hpp

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:39 AM

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Nvm, I'm blind

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Not my day

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:39 AM

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{
idd = 2110;
movingenable = true;
duration = 90;
enableSimulation = true;  
enableDisplay = true;
onLoad = "with uiNameSpace do { ui_master = _this select 0 }";

    class Controls
    {

        class ui_u_indicon: RscPicture
        {
            idc = 1011;
            style = 48;
            text = "img\ui\industry.paa";
            x = 0.00499997 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
            y = 0.786 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
            w = 0.055 * safezoneW;
            h = 0.055 * safezoneH;
        };
        class ui_u_popicon: RscPicture
        {
            idc = 1021;
            style = 48;
            text = "img\ui\population.paa";
            colorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0};
            x = 0.00499997 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
            y = 0.665 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
            w = 0.055 * safezoneW;
            h = 0.055 * safezoneH;
        };
        class ui_u_poptext: RscText
        {
            idc = 1022;
            text = "200/200"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
            x = -0.000156274 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
            y = 0.709 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
            w = 0.0670312 * safezoneW;
            h = 0.055 * safezoneH;
            font = "EtelkaNarrowMediumPro";
            sizeEx = 1.6 * GUI_GRID_H;
        };
        class ui_u_indtext: RscText
        {
            idc = 1012;
            text = "150 p/t"; //--- ToDo: Localize;
            x = -0.000156274 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
            y = 0.83 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
            w = 0.0670312 * safezoneW;
            h = 0.055 * safezoneH;
            font = "EtelkaNarrowMediumPro";
            sizeEx = 1.6 * GUI_GRID_H;
        };
    };
};```

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:40 AM

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As a tip

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onLoad = "with uiNameSpace do { ui_master = _this select 0 }";

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Can just be

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:40 AM

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I'm happy as for tips

#

only just dipping my toes into dialogs now

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:41 AM

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onLoad = "uiNameSpace setVariable["ui_master", _this select 0]";

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:41 AM

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thanks

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:42 AM

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Not seeing the issue with those

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Try set the text via debug

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:42 AM

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Alright

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:43 AM

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And change the waitUntil

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:43 AM

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Okay

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:43 AM

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Maybe stick a hint after it, so you know when to expect them to appear

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:43 AM

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Yeah put all that in

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It's just bizzare, all the images and boxes work fine

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:44 AM

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Does the initial text work?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:44 AM

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nope

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:45 AM

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as in from the config

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:45 AM

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Yeah doesn't work

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I'll quickly retest it though

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:45 AM

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I'd start by removing the font and font size properties

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And you're sure its location is visible?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

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Yeah

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

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yea sounds like your config is faulty

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

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Okay

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

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of those control types

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:48 AM

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I'll give you guys what I had for my rscText default

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{
   access = 0;
   idc = -1;
   type = CT_STATIC;
   style = ST_MULTI;
   linespacing = 1;
   colorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0};
   colorText[] = {1,1,1,.5};
   text = "";
   shadow = 2;
   font = "Bitstream";
   SizeEx = 0.02300;
   fixedWidth = 0;
   x = 0;
   y = 0;
   h = 0;
   w = 0;

};```

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:49 AM

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that worked?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:49 AM

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it has previously

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and there wasn't an error in the GUI editor or anything if that means anything

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:50 AM

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not sure about your sizeEx in the current one (not the last posted one)

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:50 AM

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does it have to be between 0 and 1?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:51 AM

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not sure and i'm also pretty rusty but if GUI_GRID_H works anything like safeZoneH then * 1.6 sounds bad

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try fixed numbers like in the original

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:52 AM

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Ah shit I think I might have mixed safeZone and GUI_GRID Coord spaces

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I'll try fixing that

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:52 AM

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@dusk sage would 1 logwhendetected in remoteExec.txt work?

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Then when i call logwhendetected

#

it will log?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:52 AM

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i'm just guessing until someone fluent and competent shows up ;D

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:52 AM

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aha

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:53 AM

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@rotund cypress Try it 😉

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Don't have to restart A3 to reload the filters

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:53 AM

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is GUI_GRID_H a constant like safezoneH?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:53 AM

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@rotund cypress it's SQF, you're not really sure if it's going to work if you haven't tried it repeatedly under duress

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:53 AM

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txt is not sqf

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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Well, not really

#

BE filters are dodgy as hell

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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Oh I'm an asshole

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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Compared to SQF

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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nvm

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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It's a 🤷 on will it work

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:54 AM

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having a look for you now @polar folio

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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You'll need to define GUI_GRID_H yeh

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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so doing * 1.6 would mean you get letters 1.6X the size of your screen

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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Yeah

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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lol

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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I think that's it

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:p

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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That did not work @dusk sage

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:55 AM

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Did you try w/o the two fields like I suggested?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:56 AM

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so if you consider the space inbetween the start of the control and the actually rendered letter you would see nothing inside a small control

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:56 AM

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Trying it now, last time I launched A3 just had one of those moments

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That makes sense

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:56 AM

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Try log everything and catch what it logs as @rotund cypress

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:57 AM

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@dusk sage I'm supposed to put a folder with my mission name in the same folder as the remoteExec.log right?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:57 AM

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just remove sizeEX for now so it inherits it so we can rule it out

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:57 AM

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And then stick remoteExec.txt in that folder?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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Nope

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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Thanks

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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you have a battleye folder

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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Testing it now

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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in that you need the be dll & config

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You should specify this folder path on startup params

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Or, put it in your profile (and you don't need to)

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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Okay the rest of the UI isn't even appearing now

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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lol

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 12:58 AM

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"-profiles=D:\ArmaInstallation\config"

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That is what I have

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What you mean?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 12:59 AM

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Is C++ like SQF in that you need to use ' ' to isolate strings within " " strings?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 12:59 AM

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yea

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' ' or double quotes

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oh wait

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in sqf. no idea about C++

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:00 AM

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Yeah

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:00 AM

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if by C++ you mean arma configs then yes 😄

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:00 AM

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I think the new method of checking load is screwing init

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Yeah :p

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It's technically C++ :p

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 1:01 AM

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@dusk sage I have ArmaInstall/config/BattlEye/battleye

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config/battleye i have the dll and the beserver_active_whatever

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and then another folder battleye

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which also has a dll in it

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 1:02 AM

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just 1 be folder

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@nocturne iron

string = "'hello'";
string = " ""hello"" ";
string = " "" """ hello """ "" ";

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:03 AM

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Thanks

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Also it's not even showing up now

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any of the display :p

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 1:04 AM

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😮

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:04 AM

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after what change?

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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Doesnt work @dusk sage

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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Not sure

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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lol

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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@rotund cypress Doesn't work? is anything logging?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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since I did some of the changes and renabled the dialog

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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Or filters not loaded?

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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How do I make it so everything logs? @dusk sage

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:05 AM

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do one by one from what you had initially. if removing sizeEX and thus inheriting doesn't work somehow then just copy paste it from yoru parent class

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:06 AM

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Yeah

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I think it's in the actual calling of the ui though since the photos aren't showing now

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 1:06 AM

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1 "" @rotund cypress

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 1:06 AM

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thanks

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ill try

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:08 AM

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nvm guys

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I may have reorganised my functions and forgot to change the directory of the script calling the display

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Also it's working now

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thanks for all the help

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really appreciated

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:09 AM

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so what was it? mistake before you even came here?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:09 AM

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I think it was the SizeEx * GUI_GRID_H

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Since that wasn't working beforehand anyways

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:09 AM

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ye would make sense

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:10 AM

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Yeah

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changed from ui_init.sqf to init_ui.sqf, it's the dumb things that get you

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:11 AM

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yea that bitter sweet moment when you realise it was just you being sloppy all along. degree of bitterness determined by how many hours you wasted. sweetness is the realisation that the solution is very simple 😄

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been there too many times

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:11 AM

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I know right

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Once I put a script in the wrong mission directory

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because for some reason they have almost identical directories right next to each other

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spent two hours trying to figure out why something dumb as fuck wasn't working

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put it in UserSaved\Missions instead of \Missions

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:12 AM

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it can be good though. i have optimised code in the past trying to find an issue like this that i would've never touched again otherwise because lazy

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:12 AM

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yeah

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On another note, is there a way to force the viewable distance of a lightpoint

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not it's brightness or spread, but how far you can see it

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:27 AM

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quick search only shows this one being relevant https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setLightFlareMaxDistance

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which is the sprite thingy. the rest is handled by the engine i think. question would be by which criteria. so maybe intensity also increases render priority. who knows. my experience is that scripted light points are pretty limited

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:28 AM

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Yeah

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Trying to get a neat team-coded unit light up 'thingo' so people can do night ops with zeus without NVG

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:30 AM

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just some ambient light around the unit? or some more elaborate scripted flashlight?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:31 AM

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Yeah

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I think it's an engine issue

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the problem is that it doesn't really load in for a while

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and by the time it loads in it's really blinding and ruins the contrast

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:35 AM

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are you doing all mission side stuff or addon code?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:39 AM

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mission side

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http://imgur.com/a/k86Lw

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this but seeing if the GM can see it from like 1km away

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 1:53 AM

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i can barely see it on this pic lol

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is the main purpose for the GM to see it?

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 1:55 AM

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Yeah

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It's pretty unnoticable, the general light up effect is visible when you look at the lack of it in the second screenshot though

tough abyss Dec 22, 2016, 2:20 AM

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Can i use hideObject in a rope? 😄

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 2:54 AM

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Have you tried using hideObject on a rope 😃 ?

tough abyss Dec 22, 2016, 2:55 AM

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Quick noob question (dont use them, never have) what is the point of battle eye filters?

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 2:56 AM

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[https://epochmod.com/forum/topic/29736-all-you-need-to-know-about-be-filters-but-were-too-lazy-to-google/]

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Note the URL

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😉

nocturne iron Dec 22, 2016, 3:11 AM

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lel

tough abyss Dec 22, 2016, 3:57 AM

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Thanks

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 4:27 AM

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Hey guys.. if I have a string like this (uid ) "76561198099644981" and I want to get it out of the string how would I do so? because if I do parseNumber or call compile it ends up like this: ```
7.65612e+016

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 4:28 AM

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Depends what you want to do with it

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In the engine it will use an exponential

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You just have to accept that

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 4:29 AM

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I need it for an SQL Query... I could convert my SQL to a string but that would be a pain

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because they I would have to rewrite everythign else

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 4:29 AM

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Then just use the string UID

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 4:29 AM

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Once again, all my other queries are setup differently to use without the string...

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Unless I put it on a separate table and store it separately. hmm

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 4:30 AM

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You will be absolutely fine, I'd suggest using something like a varchar for your UID DB side though

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 4:30 AM

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I am using one xD

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 4:30 AM

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Then it's fine

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Use the string in the query

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 4:42 AM

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Sigh, Thanks @dusk sage I didn't know you could pass a string into a varchar and it could still read an integer... Good to know though, thanks

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 4:43 AM

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Well, it's not an integer 😄

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 5:05 AM

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Well, whatever xD I don't do goddamn SQL haha

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:03 AM

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I am turning stupid I guess.. is there any command like: "removeMagazine(s)" for a container?

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 6:08 AM

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no

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:11 AM

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so I will need to replace the whole inventory to remove a mag right?

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:14 AM

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@vague hull

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Let me just write it

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Wait, do you want to remove 1 magazine or all of them

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?

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clearMagazineCargo removed all of the mags

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what u could do is put all the current mags into an array, bar the one u want to remove

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clear the crate with clearMagazineCArgo

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and then add them all back with addMagazineCargoGlobal

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:17 AM

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I wanted to remove the mags of a certain type

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:17 AM

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gimme 2mins

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:17 AM

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I allready got that code

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Just wanted to know if there was any smarter way than clearing the whole inventory

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:20 AM

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Oh, well not rlly

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just push it into an array using MagazineCargo and then delete from there, then readd

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:21 AM

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welp... after 6 year I would apprechiate such commands more than 64 bit tbh

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:22 AM

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xD

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64 bit is sexy tho

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 6:23 AM

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havent said anything against that

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just well.. you get the point I guess^^

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 6:35 AM

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There used to be a way to have invisible AI unit outside of the map to "TakeMagazine" out of your container but I think this action is still broken

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And its not instantaneous

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:48 AM

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xD, I am having the most illogical problem ever now haha, ArmA is so broke

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_x select 0; works fine, _x select 1; LITTERALLY THE SAME THING is broken

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haha

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xD

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[["Container","B_supplyCrate_F","[16795.2,12625.5,-0.0249023]"],["B_Kitbag_mcamo","B_Kitbag_mcamo"],[],[],[]]
``` Anyone know why I can select the array with container at the start but not the one with kitBag?

vapid frigate Dec 22, 2016, 6:55 AM

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array select 1 should be ["B_Kitbag_mcamo","B_Kitbag_mcamo"]

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 6:56 AM

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That's what it is

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xD

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I've fixed it now

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It was already like that

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but anyway

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I fixed the problem... idk why it was broke but it works now haha

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 7:26 AM

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What setPos / getPos allows for building surfaces?

little eagle Dec 22, 2016, 9:50 AM

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ATL ?

cerulean whale Dec 22, 2016, 9:59 AM

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Nvm. I've done it a different way

vagrant canopy Dec 22, 2016, 1:43 PM

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This is driving me mad...

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Does anyone have any idea, why a function I wrote will work in the debug watch and show the correct results, but when run in a script the exact same way, doesn't show the same results?

jade abyss Dec 22, 2016, 3:19 PM

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@vague hull

welp... after 6 year I would apprechiate such commands more than 64 bit tbh```
This command is needed since > 15 Years!

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 3:32 PM

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Actually its needed ever since. That simple 😅

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I mean, even just removing all of one type would be a huge boost

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 3:34 PM

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@vagrant canopy post code on pastebin

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Probably hardcoded

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Why do you need it anyway? You can't create them through scripting.

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animator, smokesource, explosion, crater, crateronvehicle, slop, lightpoint, smoke, camera, camconstruct, camcurator, dynamicsound, objectdestructed, destructioneffects, alwaysshow, alwayshide, scud, epeparticlesource

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from arma3.exe

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probably many of these are never used and deprecated

jade abyss Dec 22, 2016, 3:53 PM

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iirc there was a max amount of e.g. Bulletholes, sooo

jade abyss Dec 22, 2016, 5:21 PM

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e.g. = example given = "not every case explained, just giving the idea of what was meant"

rancid ruin Dec 22, 2016, 5:23 PM

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e.g is latin bro

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exempli grati or something

dusk sage Dec 22, 2016, 5:49 PM

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for the sake of example

west lantern Dec 22, 2016, 6:34 PM

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IE

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in example

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exempli gratia

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e.g.

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 8:05 PM

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is there any way to prevent a weaponholder from despawning instantly after clearing its inventory?

vital onyx Dec 22, 2016, 8:09 PM

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why do you need this?

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 8:14 PM

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basically just a pickup script, that takes everything into your inventory that fits

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butz since you cant remove single items.. I need to clear the whole thing and readd everything -> makes it despawn before I can readd the stuff

vital onyx Dec 22, 2016, 9:03 PM

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just create a new ground weapon holder

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and fill it

jade abyss Dec 22, 2016, 9:06 PM

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☝

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 10:14 PM

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I just made a script for disabling thermals on the new NVGs in Apex. Is there any better optimised way of doing this?

addMissionEventHandler [ "EachFrame", {
    if ( currentVisionMode player isEqualTo 2 ) then { 
        player linkItem hmd player;
    };
}];

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 10:21 PM

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Looks like a good solution

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 10:22 PM

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@vital onyx tryed that, didnt help ..

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 10:23 PM

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weapon holder despawns on next simulation frame if empty

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 10:23 PM

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hey guys, any idea about how one could use the virtual arsenal as a store for something like wasteland or altis life?

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 10:24 PM

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you'll need to go unscheduled and do everything in one frame

rotund cypress Dec 22, 2016, 10:26 PM

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Changed it a bit @meager granite to only apply for NVGs that has thermals

addMissionEventHandler [ "EachFrame", {
    if ( currentVisionMode player isEqualTo 2 && { hmd player in ["NVGogglesB_grn_F", "NVGogglesB_blk_F" ] } ) then {

        player linkItem hmd player;

    };
}];

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 10:28 PM

#

quick question. i used to overwrite my cfgfunctions stuff ingame to try new changes so i don't have to constantly repack. now somehow it doesn't seem to work. did somethign change in that regard? any way to reenable that behaviour or is it something on my side maybe?

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 10:28 PM

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@meager granite Will try that now

meager granite Dec 22, 2016, 10:29 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Description.ext#allowFunctionsRecompile ?

Description.ext

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@polar folio

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 10:29 PM

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thx!

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it's addon side so i never thought about description.ext. gonna see if i can make it work in a config

vague hull Dec 22, 2016, 10:41 PM

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@meager granite didnt help aswell

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 10:45 PM

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guys I'm looking for a function that does the exact oposite of waypointName

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in other words, I have a waypoint name and need a value (array) that I can pass to deleteWaypoint

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:03 PM

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first you need to retrieve the waypoints of the group

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

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as you can see it will return an array of arrays. each of them being a waypoint with the array consisting of name and waypoint index

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actually i'm not sure about the last. wiki exampel looks weird

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the idea though would be to then cycle through them and see if your info matches one and if so proceed to delete it

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 11:13 PM

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I've seen that

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but it returns an array of arrays of the form [group, waypoint_index]

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no name to be found

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:14 PM

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then your initial method of starting with the name is bad

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can you explain more about the context?

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 11:15 PM

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I want to remove a waypoint

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which I gave a name in the editor

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:16 PM

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under what condition?

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

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linked from https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/waypointName

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get the groups waypoints like i said

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according to that page a waypoint is an array of the group it belongs to and the index. so you should have all you got

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 11:22 PM

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the index may change though

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for example if I were to add a new waypoint in between in the mission editor

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that's why I want to use the name

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the name of waypoint n won't change if I add a waypoint m+1 < n

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:23 PM

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still works...in theory since you still use the name to perfectly identify

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let me whip out some pseudo code

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sec

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 11:24 PM

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how am I using the name?

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:28 PM

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http://pastebin.com/Tj7kHrvp

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haven't tested this. i literally never use waypoints. but this makes sense to me from what the wiki says. just so you see what i mean

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got curious. tested ingame. works

loud python Dec 22, 2016, 11:38 PM

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seems like a terribly convoluted way to do something very simple

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but hey, that's how arma usually is

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any way, thanks for the help

polar folio Dec 22, 2016, 11:40 PM

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oh if this looks dirty to you then you haven't seen nothing yet ;D

#

the waypointName command looks relatively recent too so that would explain why the waypoint data itself doesn't contain the name. probably way older than the waypointName one

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 12:09 AM

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@tough abyss poseidon is great until you run into sublime text's $70 pricetag 😄

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 12:13 AM

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@rotund cypress you may better like smth player action ["NVG",player] instead of linkItem hmd

rotund cypress Dec 23, 2016, 12:24 AM

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That didnt work @vital onyx

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I dont see any problems with linkItem because it will just turn them off

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Which I see as a good thing

rotund cypress Dec 23, 2016, 1:38 AM

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Is there any eventhandler for side chat? Like to add custom names to side chat messages

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I think I found what I'm looking for

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setGroupID

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 2:39 AM

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@nocturne iron Sublime text in Poseidon is free

opaque topaz Dec 23, 2016, 3:22 AM

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Atom with language-arma-atom package is awesome too

dusk sage Dec 23, 2016, 3:24 AM

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^ 👌

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 3:57 AM

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@tough abyss is it? Prevented me from saving and such

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 3:58 AM

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Didn't have that problem on my end?

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Nope worked for me

#

using the self-contained zip version?

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Or the executable installer based one?

cerulean whale Dec 23, 2016, 4:26 AM

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@nocturne iron it comes ipt when you save but can just exit

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 4:31 AM

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Thanks

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 7:44 AM

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Hi I'm having some problems with ctrlSetText

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This is the code I'm using

#

    waitUntil {!isNull (uiNameSpace getVariable ['ui_master', displayNull])};
    
    display_master = findDisplay 2110;

    ui_text_ind = display_master displayCtrl 1012;
    ui_text_pop = display_master displayCtrl 1022;
    
    vblue_unitpop = {((alive _x) && (side _x == west)) && (_x isKindOf "Man")} count (allUnits - [officerWest_1]);
    vred_unitpop = {((alive _x) && (side _x == east)) && (_x isKindOf "Man")} count (allUnits - [officerEast_1]);
    
    vblue_popcap = (count vblue_m_ownedpoparea) * vuni_popx;
    vred_popcap = (count vred_m_ownedpoparea) * vuni_popx;
    
    vblue_popstring = (str vblue_unitpop) + "/" + (str vblue_popcap);
    vred_popstring = (str vred_unitpop) + "/" + (str vred_popcap);
    
    vblue_indstring = (str vblue_i) + " p/t";
    vred_indstring = (str vred_i) + " p/t";
    
    _handle = {ui_text_ind ctrlSetText vblue_indstring;ui_text_pop ctrlSetText vblue_popstring;} remoteExec ["bis_fnc_call", west];
    _handle = {ui_text_ind ctrlSetText vred_indstring;ui_text_pop ctrlSetText vred_popstring;} remoteExec ["bis_fnc_call", east];```

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it's on a 10 second loop

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 8:25 AM

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why do you remoteExec cutRsc?

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 8:25 AM

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probably a popup message

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but yeah.. kinda pointless

#

It would be better to do the calculations before and send the cutRsc together with the ctrlSetText

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 8:29 AM

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No it would be worse

#

UI is client-side business

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 8:31 AM

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I mean, its just about are these commands/variables only available for the server, if so then it would be better

#

if not and everyone has that info, then it would be better to make a fnc for it and call it by remoteExec (if not possible to be done in a different way)

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on the other hand side this looks like its not executed on a server anyways, so yeah

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 9:03 AM

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Ah

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Thanks

#

I see where I'm going wrong

#

Was trying to send it to clients but I've missed the obvious

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:43 AM

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the ctrlSetText command still doesn't work

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:49 AM

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It does

#

probably you are using it in a wrong context?

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:50 AM

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Potentially

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:51 AM

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it has a different syntax for dialogs and displays

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:51 AM

#


    while {true} do {
    
        _handle = 50 cutRsc ["ui_master","PLAIN"];
        waitUntil {!isNull (uiNameSpace getVariable ['ui_master', displayNull])};
    
        display_master = findDisplay 2110;

        ui_text_ind = display_master displayCtrl 1012;
        ui_text_pop = display_master displayCtrl 1022;
    
        vblue_popstring = (str vblue_unitpop) + "/" + (str vblue_popcap);
        vblue_indstring = (str vblue_i) + " p/t";
    
        ui_text_ind ctrlSetText vblue_indstring;
        ui_text_pop ctrlSetText vblue_popstring;

        sleep 10;
    
    };
};```

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Using the display context

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:51 AM

#

add line disableSerialization; after while {true} do {

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:52 AM

#

I added it before the loop?

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:52 AM

#

try inside the loop

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:53 AM

#

Giving it a go

#

No bueno

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:54 AM

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then log the variables ui_text_ind and ui_text_pop to see what's happening with them

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:55 AM

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They've been defined as controls

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:55 AM

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just try to run the code from the loop's body in debug console

#

not sure why to keep them in variables

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ui_text_ind ctrlSetText vblue_indstring; can be replaced with
((findDisplay 2110) displayCtrl 1012) ctrlSetText vblue_indstring;

#

that guarantees that it is definitely not an issue with deserialized variable

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:57 AM

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Sure

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 10:58 AM

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Why do you create display each 10 seconds?

#

Why not have cutRsc outside of loop

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 10:58 AM

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was going to ask same question :)

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 10:58 AM

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Going to do that in a bit :p

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had a different script originally, just hacking it together to see what works first. This is my first run with displays

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 10:59 AM

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Also if you save your display in uiNamespace, why not use it instead of findDisplay 2110 ?

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No problem with findDisplay, just see no point in saving display to ui namespace if you're not using it

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might as well do waitUntil {!isNull findDisplay 2110} if you want findDisplay

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 11:00 AM

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Okay

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    disableSerialization; 
    _handle = 50 cutRsc ["ui_master","PLAIN"];
    waitUntil {!isNull findDisplay 2110};
    
    while {true} do {
    
        vblue_popstring = (str vblue_unitpop) + "/" + (str vblue_popcap);
        vblue_indstring = (str vblue_i) + " p/t";
    
        ((findDisplay 2110) displayCtrl 1012) ctrlSetText vblue_indstring;
        ((findDisplay 2110) displayCtrl 1022) ctrlSetText vblue_popstring;

        sleep 10;
    
    };
};``` tried this code, still not working

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:03 AM

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what exactly doesn't work?

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you don't define vblue_unitpop anywhere

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you had it in earlier code

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 11:04 AM

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They're defined elsewhere

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:04 AM

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So what doesn't work then?

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 11:04 AM

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Switching the values of the control doesn't work

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:04 AM

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Try with test data?

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some static string

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also add debug outputs to see if you retrieve controls right

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systemChat format ["((findDisplay 2110) displayCtrl 1012) = %1", ((findDisplay 2110) displayCtrl 1012)];

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something like this

nocturne iron Dec 23, 2016, 11:06 AM

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Thanks

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giving that a go

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hmm

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it never gets to the systemChat

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:26 AM

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is there any known LOD for a model that has to be present in order to get addAction to work?

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:27 AM

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Are you sure your display's idd is 2110 @nocturne iron

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Add debug checks if you even get display

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@tough abyss Isn't it the same LOD that defines if your cursor is on target? (cursorTarget)

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I think you need FIRE and VIEW lods for actions to appear

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:39 AM

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VIEWGEO should be enough.

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:40 AM

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tested it with viewgeo but it might not help that it is a mine which is basically a projectile (cfgAmmo)

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:40 AM

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Omg

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You cannot addAction on CfgAmmo

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:40 AM

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damn 😦

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:40 AM

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just like how you can't use set/getVariable on them

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:41 AM

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fml mines are a real pita

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:41 AM

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CfgAmmo are much simplier entities and they don't support lot of stuff normal entity do

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Your best bet would be adding mines to some list and action to player and check distance to mines in the list

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or through some near* command

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:42 AM

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ACE spawns a logic CfgVehicles and adds the actions to it. Dunno if attachTo is also involved. Might not work with CfgAmmo either

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for mines that is

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:42 AM

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did that for now (attachTo works) but its kinda ugly..

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:43 AM

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oh. don't use "Logic" as logic

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but "Building"

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no AI overhead

meager granite Dec 23, 2016, 11:43 AM

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removing mines done just like I described it, action is on player himself, it checks if mines are nearby to become active

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:44 AM

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i would like to avoid such system

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i used a fired EH on the mine muzzle to add the actions to the fake action object attached to the mine

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:45 AM

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just use the dummy object

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that should be fine

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dunno what happens when you place you mines via editor. you'll probably have to think about a way to handle that too

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:46 AM

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maybe a overall question as i'm not sure, is it better to add the action to the player as se-matra suggested or risk that you could have 20 mines with each a few actions on them? (in terms of performance and managability)

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yea :/ have to try if the init EH works on cfgAmmo

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:48 AM

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doubt it. CfgAmmo has no eventhandlers

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the butterflies (CfgNonAiVehicle) do 😛

tough abyss Dec 23, 2016, 11:51 AM

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do you happen to know how ace deals with editor placed mines?

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 11:52 AM

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they probably don't work tbqh ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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or iterate through allMines in postInit. Would still mean that spawned ones mid mission don't work though

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 12:42 PM

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So one more try one my question regarding cleaned up weaponholders:

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how can I avoid them from being deleted after their inventory was clear for a tiny moment

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they are getting cleaned up even tho I add some items directly after clearing the cargo
I can even read them at this point (getItemCargo and so on)
yet the weaponholder gets deleted not even a second later

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13:40:51 [[["30Rnd_9x21_Yellow_Mag",17]],[["SMG_02_F","","","",[],""]],[],[]] //reding the invetory for the first time
13:40:51 7cc47900# 1780139: dummyweapon.p3d REMOTE logging the weaponholder before readding stuff
13:40:51 [[["30Rnd_9x21_Yellow_Mag",17]],[["SMG_02_F","","","",[],""]],[],[]] reading the inventory after readding stuff

a second later logging (isNull _weaponholder) return true

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everything from an unsheduled envoirnment (except the logging afterwards ofc)

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:08 PM

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You can't. It's a bug

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:08 PM

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fml

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:10 PM

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https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/151099-scripting-discussion-dev-branch/?page=46#comment-3119630

Bohemia Interactive Forums

Scripting Discussion (dev branch)

Anyway, just to bring my point across why playerControlled should absolutely, most definitely exist, you can set up this simple situation in the game right ...

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you can try using two different types of dummy items that are removed later

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e.g. a weapon and a magazine

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but you have to juggle around a bit depending on what the end results are for different item sets

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because you can't remove single items

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honestly, the easiest way is to just create a new weapon holder and to delete the old one

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:12 PM

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that doesnt do it for me sadly

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:12 PM

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why?

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:14 PM

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I have got an external cleanup going on the server, it does pretty well, but it needs to save all the weapon holders that were created, which too works fine, but if I create a new weaponholder on the client, it would never get cleaned up by this system

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:14 PM

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create it on the server then?

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I don't see the problem

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if you script can't handle createVehicle'd weapon holders

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it frankly is not good enough

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:15 PM

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It is for what its designed for.. but welp, might aswell just change that now

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:16 PM

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but you have to juggle around a bit depending on what the end results are for different item sets
this should work either way

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:16 PM

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yep, will try that now

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:17 PM

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same thing for all possibilites

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:17 PM

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btw, if a player drops an item, is the weaponholder created a GroundWeaponHolder or WeaponHolderSimulated?

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:17 PM

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No idea. Try typeOf cursorTarget

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 1:18 PM

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ok but thanks first of all

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 1:18 PM

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deleted my suggestion. it doesn't work, but I'm sure you'll figure it out

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 2:04 PM

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or assign InvetoryClosed EH - it should give the object

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WeaponHolderSimulated is spawned when killing a Unit to simulate falling rifle, when you drop items on ground - GroundWeaponHolder is used

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 2:17 PM

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👍 thx

jovial nebula Dec 23, 2016, 2:48 PM

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Is the setvariable command working with map-placed objects?

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Such garbage containers

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 3:06 PM

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no

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variables should disappear on the local client if the cameras moves away far enough

jovial nebula Dec 23, 2016, 3:12 PM

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This sucks

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Any workarounds?

halcyon crypt Dec 23, 2016, 3:14 PM

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keep them in a global var or a CBA namespace?

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or a CBA hash

vital onyx Dec 23, 2016, 3:14 PM

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where CBA namespace is an array inside mission namespace?

halcyon crypt Dec 23, 2016, 3:15 PM

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🤔

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:17 PM

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are they going to fix CBA soon i cant run my server with my mods without CBA 😦

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:19 PM

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@little eagle actually worked now thx for the help

cold linden Dec 23, 2016, 3:22 PM

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its possible to get the addonname by classname?

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*is it

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:23 PM

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if the addonmaker was nice to you, there yshould be an entry in cfgPatches about it

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yet that doenst need to be there

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:24 PM

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am i wrong that i need CBA for NIarms mods? or can my server run without them, oh nvm its a supid requirment ugh

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:25 PM

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CBA is needed for NiArms?

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:25 PM

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yep

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:25 PM

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thats new to me

cold linden Dec 23, 2016, 3:25 PM

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which mod you mean?

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:25 PM

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well the steam version its saying its a requirment for NIarms core

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but cba on steam is out of date or broken so im in a pickle where im paying for a server i cant even use

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:27 PM

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@cold linden ?? this could be the case in any mod

cold linden Dec 23, 2016, 3:28 PM

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sry, i mean Estron with my last message

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:29 PM

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uhmm, NiArms actually works with an older version

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I dont know why its a dependency anyways

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:29 PM

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oh?

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bah steams down :/

vague hull Dec 23, 2016, 3:30 PM

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if needed just ask about it in the forums

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or on twitter

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:32 PM

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well my whole issue is that im trying to start up a small CTI server using my custom mod and custom gametype for CTI so i can use my mod factions units etc, but NIarms AR15 Rifles and NIarms core are required and to use those 2 mods for my custom mod i need CBA to work.

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:41 PM

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it probably uses CBA for scripted features like bolt action animations or similar

indigo snow Dec 23, 2016, 3:42 PM

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Actually the rails

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:42 PM

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so im forced to wait till cba is up to date till i can even run my server?

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:45 PM

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ah right

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no you aren't, you could just remove the mod temporarily

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unless you run something persistent that will make people lose their loot, if it's from NIArms

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:48 PM

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um, but i dont want to remove the whole point of me owning a server, it was for my custom mod :/

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:49 PM

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just pointing out the difference between "forced to" and "want to". not trying to be a dick here

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:49 PM

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ur fine, im not mad

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:49 PM

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thank god ;D

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:49 PM

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:b

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:50 PM

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so joint rails is in CBA now and that is the issue, right?

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:50 PM

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maybe havent dug that deep into it but most likley is

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:51 PM

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what i'm gettign at is, you should try if it works with joint rails. although CfgPatches being set up to look for CBA might cause issues. best case scenario would be jsut an error pop up

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:52 PM

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oh, so run the server without CBA but still use NIarms stuff?

open vigil Dec 23, 2016, 3:54 PM

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Or download the up to date CBA from somewhere else

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:56 PM

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oh so only steam is outdated/broken? i had CBA keep me from joinign a friend the other day too.

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 3:57 PM

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wait, thier is a up to date version?

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why is it not on steam?

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 3:59 PM

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don't listen to me. i'm not informed on the details

open vigil Dec 23, 2016, 4:03 PM

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I'm not saying it is or isnt broken, but my group and many others have had no issues with CBA lately.

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:04 PM

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are you using armaholic or steam version?

open vigil Dec 23, 2016, 4:06 PM

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PWS

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:12 PM

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hurm 3rd party auto updater i guess i could try it

rancid ruin Dec 23, 2016, 4:17 PM

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play with six is painful, don't subject yourself to it

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:23 PM

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ya reading up on it the whole idea is kinda stupid to me i mean isent that what steam workshop is for?

indigo snow Dec 23, 2016, 4:25 PM

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whats wrong with the version on the WS?

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:28 PM

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has the CBA team fully switched to PWS? because before steam went down, everyone was having a problem with steam CBA as far back as Dec. 1st

indigo snow Dec 23, 2016, 4:29 PM

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Afaik CBA doesnt really have an "official" release place outside the BI forums and the WS

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but what was the problem with it? a bug, corrupted file, out of date?

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:30 PM

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think out of date steam version is 3.1.2.

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if not out of date then no idea

open vigil Dec 23, 2016, 4:43 PM

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I've been using PWS for years because it's convenient. Many veteran players swear by it and many well known servers keep their repos there.

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 4:44 PM

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@open vigil i might have to switch anyway if CBA is not working on steam

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 5:17 PM

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the point of PWS is the same as WS. it's all about the chronology. PWS has existed way before arma going to steam afaik. so nothing stupid about it

rancid ruin Dec 23, 2016, 5:17 PM

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it has one of the worst user interfaces i've seen in a piece of software

polar folio Dec 23, 2016, 5:19 PM

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no need to hate. i don't use it myself and stuff but let's keep up the x-mas spirit ;D

leaden knoll Dec 23, 2016, 5:20 PM

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It does, but its far more easier to organise collections etc than SW.

open vigil Dec 23, 2016, 5:37 PM

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Tools don't need to be pretty, they just need to work.

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But, we digress (again) , this is scripting (and I'm not sure CBA is his issue)

lilac halo Dec 23, 2016, 7:09 PM

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@open vigil what you think the issue is?

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 8:26 PM

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@Estron CBA on Steam is up to date and works

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@Estron#5275

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fucking discord

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Estron Vor 8 Stunden
CBA is 100% broken updated it already!

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/comments/450814997

jade abyss Dec 23, 2016, 8:27 PM

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@Estron#5275 test

little eagle Dec 23, 2016, 8:27 PM

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this is not true. who knows what you broke on your end