#arma3_scripting | ARMA | Page 566

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:29 PM

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yeah, the whole thing kinda be wack

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the first event handler I add from mission start, starts at ID 1 but when I removeAllEventHandlers then add it back the ID starts at 0

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:30 PM

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maybe smth has also added one

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which mods do you run? maybe one of them did 🤷

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:31 PM

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brand new mission just initPlayerLocal.sqf

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no mods

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:31 PM

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anyway, does it worry you much? you get your ID, you delete an EH by passing your ID, that's all we users need to know I guess 🤔

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I mean... use it as API

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don't worry about decrements as the guy said

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:32 PM

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yeah, just concerning ... i don't need another onEachFrame event handler running in the background evertime it gets called so its hard to tell with these wack IDs

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that could very quickly lead to game crashes

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:33 PM

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🤔 you don't need it - you don't add it, I don't get it 🤔

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i don't need another onEachFrame event handler running in the background evertime it gets called
Sorry man, every time what exactly gets called? When you call addMissionEventHandler, surely it will add one for you

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:43 PM

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yeah "i don't need another" as in it would be very bad to have multiple handlers executing the same code EachFrame but as long as its actually being removed and the IDs are just being incremented then its fine

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and yeah every time I call whatever function that adds the event handler because its needs to be removed so that the code is not running when I don't need it to run

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:51 PM

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maybe you could add it once and could just have a toggle/flag to run it or not

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if you are going to add/remove them very often, at some point you will reach the float maximum integer

queen cargo Jan 20, 2020, 11:52 PM

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Would not worry too much about that
Unless the Mission is supposed to run for weeks

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:52 PM

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yeah lol, mine only runs when the player dies so if he dies like 5000000 times in one mission window .. then i hope his computer blows up

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:54 PM

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all right then 😄 I'd personally prefer it to be added permanently at start and just exitWith at start if conditions are not met, to avoid messing with remembering the ID, then removing the handler, etc

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:55 PM

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yeah, i agree with that ... but i dunno the performance impact EachFrame has on large missions even when its being exited on the first line of code

queen cargo Jan 20, 2020, 11:55 PM

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Few ms
Again.. Nothing to worry about

tough abyss Jan 20, 2020, 11:55 PM

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and i am removing it from within itself so i dont really have to deal with the handlers removeMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame", _thisEventHandler];

astral dawn Jan 20, 2020, 11:56 PM

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performance impact is none... just make sure that the actual added code to onEachFrame is small, because it might be recompiled on each frame

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Few ms
😮 few us I think

queen cargo Jan 20, 2020, 11:56 PM

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😅 😅 I am overdue to sleeping right now

astral dawn Jan 21, 2020, 12:54 AM

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better tjam me at least

slim oyster Jan 21, 2020, 1:20 AM

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Anyone know a way to temporarily stop an AI from firing? I want AI to keep target info, target to keep enemy status, etc. I just want an AI to lose the ability to fire his weapon for 1-2 seconds. It would be right after a reload, so preferably something to do with loading an empty magazine and giving them a full one after the wait.

high marsh Jan 21, 2020, 1:21 AM

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unit disableAI "TARGET";

Maybe?

slim oyster Jan 21, 2020, 4:41 AM

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The AI loses targeting info and it takes a while to reacquire the target

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I just want a very short amount of time the enemy cannot fire in

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will a _unit setAmmo [currentWeapon _unit, 0] prompt a reload?

velvet merlin Jan 21, 2020, 5:36 AM

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how often does attachTo sync the position data on MP? was it per frame?

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@slim oyster try combatMode "blue"

jade abyss Jan 21, 2020, 5:38 AM

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Per Frame

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At least it looks like it, when attached to a player. Instant moving etc.

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(as long as the "attachTo parent", it is attached to, has PhysX set up)

still forum Jan 21, 2020, 7:52 AM

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No i just want to avoid problems with extdb
You want to prevent people with malicious names from getting to your database, by kicking them?
Thats not the correct way to do security, the correct way is to make sure that your DB can handle weird input correctly @echo yew

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 8:05 AM

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"Bobby Tables"

velvet merlin Jan 21, 2020, 9:07 AM

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is possible to interact with the AI commend menu via sqf in some way (besides the opening)?

surreal peak Jan 21, 2020, 9:38 AM

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@velvet merlin like these? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Command_Group:_Unit_Control . Can u give an example of what u mean?

velvet merlin Jan 21, 2020, 10:00 AM

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

showCommandingMenu

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 12:56 PM

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//config.cpp/bin
class Extended_Killed_EventHandlers
{
    class CAManBase
    {
        class Salmon_heac_killed_eh
        {
            killed="[(_this select 0), 'dead'] call salmon_heac_fnc_reactHelm; [(_this select 0), 'dead'] call salmon_heac_fnc_reactRifle";
        };
    };
};

Function reactHelm and reactRifle both just contain(for testing purposes)

systemChat "Helm"/"Rifle"

It works perfectly fine until a unit dies from another. Lets say I shoot AI it'll fire twice.
If AI setDamage 1 then it'll just print systemChat once.
If I respawn then it'll print systemChat once
If I shoot AI then it'll print systemChat twice.
Does anyone know a way around this?

still forum Jan 21, 2020, 1:11 PM

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systemChat "Helm"/"Rifle" thats syntax error?

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second script won't execute if first script errors.

wispy cave Jan 21, 2020, 1:15 PM

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What's the best way to get a unit by its roleDescription? I'm expanding my TK script to also detect when a UAV teamkills someone. Normally I'd get the player object from the eventhandler but if the thing that teamkills is a UAV I don't get the UAV operator, just the UAV.

still forum Jan 21, 2020, 1:19 PM

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then just get the current uav operator from the uav?

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

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 1:20 PM

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@still forum

//config.cpp
class CfgPatches
{
    class test
    {
        name="test";
        version=1;
        requiredVersion=1.96;
        requiredAddons[]=
        {
            "ace_main",
            "cba_main"
        };
        author="";
        authorUrl="";
        units[]={};
        weapons[]={};
    };
};
class Extended_Killed_EventHandlers
{
    class CAManBase
    {
        class test_killed_eh
        {
            killed="systemChat 'dead'";
        };
    };
};

In game:
Any unit dies from setDamage 1 prints "dead" once
Any unit kills another prints "dead" twice

wispy cave Jan 21, 2020, 1:20 PM

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oh yea, that works too

still forum Jan 21, 2020, 1:20 PM

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Any unit kills another prints "dead" twice
I think ACE team also had that bug, or maybe it was handledamage running twice

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 1:21 PM

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Did you guys find a solution? Could you point me in a direction of that discussion if there is one?

still forum Jan 21, 2020, 1:22 PM

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ACE Slack, don't think they did. They told me to take a look at it

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 1:22 PM

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Hmm.. ok. Going to try with vanilla EH but last time I tried using them they didn't even fire.. :/ Thanks

hollow thistle Jan 21, 2020, 1:24 PM

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the solution was to do something like:

params ["_unit"];

if (_unit getVariable [QGVAR(alreadyKilled), false]) exitWith {};
_unit setVariable [QGVAR(alreadyKilled), true];
// ... rest of EH code

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 1:26 PM

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I'll try, thanks! 🙂

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 2:28 PM

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isn't the "issue" because of locality?

astral dawn Jan 21, 2020, 2:29 PM

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@tough abyss yesterday I had issue with vanilla EH firing "killed" twice

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solved it with putting a flag on unit after handling killed first time

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(yeah I am using ace)

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private _handledPreviously = _oldUnit getVariable ["vin_killed_handled", false];
        OOP_INFO_1("  handled previously: %1", _handledPreviously);
        if (_handledPreviously) exitWith {
            OOP_INFO_0("  handled previously, ignoring this call");
        };
        _oldUnit setVariable ["vin_killed_handled", true];

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 3:04 PM

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I'm using a similar solution. I didn't have the ability to test at the time and was thinking someone else must've had the same problem. Thanks for all the help :)
@winter rose I was thinking it had to do with locality too ie killed runs on both attached unit and killer but I wasn't sure. I'm happy with the variable alreadyKilled solution.

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From my testing it just looks like it runs twice ^^

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 3:12 PM

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well if it is locality, you can fix it with if (local unit)

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 3:13 PM

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It happens in sp and editor

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 3:13 PM

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then not locality related I'm afraid

tough abyss Jan 21, 2020, 3:13 PM

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yep

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I could only test now. Weird problem to have though.

astral dawn Jan 21, 2020, 3:18 PM

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at least it doesn't lock your game so that you must Alt+F4

hollow thistle Jan 21, 2020, 3:29 PM

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It's not locality, flag on unit is a solution.

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It's done same way by ace too.

astral dawn Jan 21, 2020, 3:42 PM

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oh weird, I thought ace was causing this since it happened when unit was unconscious for some time then passed out (through ace scripts, that is)

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anyway... any idea what's causing it?

hollow thistle Jan 21, 2020, 3:44 PM

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no

forest ore Jan 21, 2020, 4:39 PM

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What in the lord's name this time. How to inflict damage on player with the below when player is in vehicle? Because that just damages the vehicle player happens to be in sqf dmgTrg = createTrigger ["EmptyDetector", position [1,1,0], TRUE]; dmgTrg setTriggerArea [10, 10, 0, TRUE]; dmgTrg setTriggerActivation ["ANYPLAYER", "PRESENT", TRUE]; dmgTrg setTriggerStatements [ "this", "{if (isPlayer _x && alive _x) then {_dmg = 0.1; _x setDamage (damage _x) + _dmg;}} forEach thisList;", ""];

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 4:41 PM

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maybe thislist lists the player's vehicle, and you should do something about crew, if _x is a vehicle @forest ore

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(italic is not sarcasm from me, I don't know triggers' behaviour on this)

worn forge Jan 21, 2020, 4:46 PM

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Not sure you can uiSleep or sleep in a trigger statement

forest ore Jan 21, 2020, 4:47 PM

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true Ryko, probably can't. At one point I had [] spawn there. Forgot to remove the uiSleep from that example of mine.

winter rose Jan 21, 2020, 5:04 PM

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-showScriptErrors saves lives

forest ore Jan 21, 2020, 5:06 PM

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Lou, thanks for the suggestion. Reading about crew at the moment and like you suggested I'd probably need to tap into the vehicle's crew array somehow. Well nothing's brewing under the hood so-to-say but maybe something will after a while 🤷🏼‍♂️

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 6:23 PM

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Hello, I have a problem with UAV, I would like to get some help, it's possible to assign the created crew of uav to player team somehow?

surreal peak Jan 21, 2020, 6:32 PM

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@slate sapphire as in something like [_uavCrewMember] join player?

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

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 6:32 PM

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I can try

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

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it say that the crew created will be in vehicle group

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my problem is, the killing reward scripts/town activation scritps will not work cos they expect member of player group

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 6:52 PM

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I don't know how to get the uav crew to make them join player group

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and if it's possible

worn forge Jan 21, 2020, 7:03 PM

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You can join them as any other unit, but expect funkiness... they will try to enter player group's formation which will destroy any kind of loiter WP

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(units uavGroup) joinSilent group player

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:26 PM

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it's there another way to relate the uavGroup to players ?

worn forge Jan 21, 2020, 7:28 PM

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I think you need to be more specific for what you want to do

young current Jan 21, 2020, 7:29 PM

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do you want to give orders to UAV crew with the group command system?

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:30 PM

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no it's not that the goal, I am fine using the terminal, the problem is, when UAV do kills the score system doesn't give bounty to player, cos the system works if it's player killer or one ai of player group killer.

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another problem is the drone doesn't activate town

young current Jan 21, 2020, 7:30 PM

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is this in some modded/custom scenario?

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:31 PM

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yes it's my warfare edition

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I wanted to add, also drone kills to score system

young current Jan 21, 2020, 7:31 PM

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now that you have explained the basics someone might figure out how to help you.

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but I would wager its the bounty system that needs altering

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what you are trying to do does sound like it would break how the UAV behaves

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:33 PM

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I did ask if was possible to relate the uav to player, if that is not possible without break the uav functionalities of course we need find another route or just give up with the score.

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there is something weird still

exotic flax Jan 21, 2020, 7:33 PM

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probably need something to catch the kill (event handler), check if it's a UAV (unitIsUAV) and who the gunner is (UAVControl), and then assign the kill to the gunner.

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:33 PM

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cos if I use the greyhawk on turret I get the kills it's like recognizing me as gunner and works

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instead the land one rcws doesn't

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yes Grezvany13, still I don't understand the actual system,

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arma engine give me the rating for kill with both uav, but on the greyhawk I get the bounty as gunner , on rcws land one I don't

exotic flax Jan 21, 2020, 7:37 PM

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that seems to be an issue with the custom scripting, not with Arma

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:38 PM

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the turret of the two drones are working differently

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or maybe

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I had multiple drone connected, I need try it just with the RCWS

exotic flax Jan 21, 2020, 7:41 PM

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but you can only operate one gun at a time, so that shouldn't be an issue

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and since it works correctly in the killcount of Arma itself, it must be somewhere in the scripts of the mission/scenario/mod which handles the kills

slate sapphire Jan 21, 2020, 7:45 PM

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I can't do more tests right now cos we are about to start daily 9pm game but from previous test made the greyhawk the flying one I killed vehicles with missiles and got the reward without problem so all working, with the land rcws I did same killed some ai but I only get the rating (arma engine) and not the kills, btw the command you listed will help me in my goal so I want to tank you a lot

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unitIsUAV and UAVControl 🙂

astral tendon Jan 21, 2020, 8:30 PM

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what is targetAge?

worn forge Jan 21, 2020, 8:54 PM

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Probably the length of time since unit A detected unit B, it's considered in a number of different contexts

astral dawn Jan 21, 2020, 8:56 PM

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How are script handles generated?
How many of them are there?
Are they recycled? I have a plan to spawn lots of scripts, but after previous have been terminated.

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:12 PM

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Hi guys, could someone help me work out whats wrong with this script I have on a mission?

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I'm getting this error:

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'21:11:06 Error in expression <h) then
{
_x setVehicleLock "LOCKED";
};
} foreach _lockveh;
};

while {true} d>
21:11:06 Error position: <;
} foreach _lockveh;
};

while {true} d>
21:11:06 Error Missing )
21:11:06 File mpmissions__cur_mp.Tanoa\vehicleLock.sqf..., line 19
21:11:06 Error in expression <h) then
{
_x setVehicleLock "LOCKED";
};
} foreach _lockveh;
};

while {true} d>
21:11:06 Error position: <;
} foreach _lockveh;
};

while {true} d>
21:11:06 Error Missing )
21:11:06 File mpmissions__cur_mp.Tanoa\vehicleLock.sqf..., line 19'

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https://pastebin.com/exVLspNL

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and the pastebin is the script itself ^

ebon ridge Jan 21, 2020, 9:14 PM

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you missed a parenthesis

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exactly like it said in fact!

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line 16 on pastebin

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:15 PM

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Sorry, I'm just dumb and I couldn't interpret the error layout it was giving me

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thank you!

ebon ridge Jan 21, 2020, 9:15 PM

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yeah it is pretty awful

oblique arrow Jan 21, 2020, 9:16 PM

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I recommend using code blocks so your code is readable

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:16 PM

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I tried, I think I made a mistake with that

oblique arrow Jan 21, 2020, 9:16 PM

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in discord that is

ebon ridge Jan 21, 2020, 9:17 PM

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```sqf
your code here
```

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:17 PM

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thanks, will remember that in future

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were all the other errors related to that missing parenthesis

ebon ridge Jan 21, 2020, 9:17 PM

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find out

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:17 PM

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will do a test

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to be fair, I actually am not sure where the parenthesis should go on that line
It looked like everything is closed to me

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Feeling pretty stupid, I have dabbled with this stuff before not sure why i can't see it

oblique arrow Jan 21, 2020, 9:20 PM

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either behind typeOf _vehicle or they arent needed

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:20 PM

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will try one there

oblique arrow Jan 21, 2020, 9:21 PM

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Thats a guess tho

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havent used those commands myself yet

ebon ridge Jan 21, 2020, 9:27 PM

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can't paste image here :/

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if ((typeOf _vehicle in _lockveh) then
   ^^                           ^

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should be

 if ((typeOf _vehicle) in _lockveh) then

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now each open paren has closing paren to match

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the inner ones aren't actually necessary though

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 if (typeOf _vehicle in _lockveh) then

this should work as well

solar forge Jan 21, 2020, 9:32 PM

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will try that ^

upper rose Jan 22, 2020, 2:04 AM

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so i understand that there's a system in place that fails or succeeds a mission if too many of a particular side are killed

but what im trying to do is create a system that leads to mission failure in the event the player's side kills too many civilians, and likewise play an audio notice across the entire world every time a civilian is killed

I currently have a system in place that counts the number of dead civilians and plays an audio notice on the local client that indicates a civilian is dead, but that doesnt differentiate between a civilian that dies by falling off a mountain versus the player's OPFOR faction that actively kills a civilian intentionally.

this is what i currently have in every CIVFOR's init field to count the number of civilians killed by OPFOR and play an audio notice

this addEventHandler["Killed",{deadCivCount = deadCivCount+1; playSound "CivilianKilled"}];

this is what was suggested to me by a colleague, but it's not working...

this addEventHandler ["MPKilled",{if (side (this select 1) == OPFOR) then [deadCivCount = deadCivCount+1; playSound "CivilianKilled"]}];

anyone able to steer me in the right direction?

upper rose Jan 22, 2020, 2:29 AM

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https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/202715-who-killed-the-civilians/

I did find this however, but I'm not looking to reveal who actually made the kill

exotic flax Jan 22, 2020, 2:32 AM

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use that script, but remove the line with hintSilent format["...

upper rose Jan 22, 2020, 3:26 AM

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alrighty

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 8:07 AM

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@astral dawn

How are script handles generated?
They are just the memory address of where the script instance is.
How many of them are there?
on 64bit arma on windows 10 home with 128GB of memory there are... 2.21428571*10^9 possible script handles.
Or if we assume there is some padding. 1,937,500,000 possible handles.
Are they recycled?
uh.. somewhat, but more by accident than deliberately.

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 9:30 AM

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Thanks Dedmen!

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@ebon ridge I think we are good to try this then?

winter rose Jan 22, 2020, 9:52 AM

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I am slightly concerned about this idea of yours now @astral dawn 😅

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 9:57 AM

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Just curious.. With regards to the addWeaponTurret thing where an imaginary gun is added to a particular seat such as the driver or pilot ones, how can I reposition the "turret" to be in front of a real gun attached to the vehicle?

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I know its not that necessary, but I'd love to have a few grenade launchers on the wings of a small prop aircraft instead of one being fired from the center lol

winter rose Jan 22, 2020, 9:59 AM

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@bronze lotus it is I believe linked to a memory point in the 3D model itself, so you cannot do much script-wise

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you could teleport the fired bullet with an EH though

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:01 AM

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Ah I see @winter rose, but how do I use the EH?

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I never heard of an EH, that could work haha

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 10:04 AM

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It will be fine @winter rose , worst case is that it will crash the game after several days of running

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:06 AM

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Ah I see, event handler. Is there a way to detect the 30mm grenade with an event handler if that's what you mean @winter rose?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:10 AM

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

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:11 AM

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Yeah I saw taht @ebon citrus, but I want to know how to select the round also.

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*that.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:11 AM

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_this select 6 should be your ticket

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or if you use params ["_unit", "_weapon", "_muzzle", "_mode", "_ammo", "_magazine", "_projectile", "_gunner"];

then it's the _projectile

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM

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Ah fair enough, and is there a script which teleports objects?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM

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setpos

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM

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So I can teleport that, thanks for helping me also.

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Ah cool, thanks and will it reset the projectile's ballistics or leave them?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM

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setvelocity

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:12 AM

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Sorry, I'm quite new to scripting lol

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But will do if it somehow resets the ballistics.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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no worries

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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Ah cool.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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im not tipsy today

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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Fair enough lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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it can

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but you can just getvelocity and setvelocity

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:13 AM

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Yeah true.

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However, do I use the event script on the vehicle with the turret commands or the player?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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the vehicle with the turret

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in this case the vehicle (plane, whatever)

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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Yeah no problem.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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you can get the vehicle with vehicle player

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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But yeah, I'm basically making a Caesar prop aircraft have a few AGS grenade launchers lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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yep

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:14 AM

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And its okay, I already got a unique variable for it.

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Well variable name that is.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:15 AM

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FiredMan can be attached to the player directly

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and will return the projectile fired

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i am noit entirely sure about the locality of these event handlers

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:16 AM

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Yeah true, I saw that and what you mean by locality?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:16 AM

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whether it fires on remote or has to be local where the object is local

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it's about multiplayer stuff

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if youre not planning on using this in multiplayer, it doesnt matter

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:17 AM

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Although I likely will, I'll see how it goes haha

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But yeah, the amount of stuff I can do in Arma's amazing xD

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:19 AM

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yeah

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well about a after a month's work, you should have a grasp on the general limitations

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although rather open, it is nearly not perfecty and all powerful

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:21 AM

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Oh of course, I know scripting is still limited but its pretty interesting still lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:21 AM

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certainly

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and with being open, it ofcourse brings its own bunch of security issues

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might want to read this, if youre thinking of doing multiplayer scripts: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Remote_Execution#Security

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:23 AM

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Fair enough and all good, I'll take a look. Although I'll likely use this just for a Zeus Insurgency server but its okay.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:24 AM

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if it's a private milsim group or something like that, you can jsut turn off battleye and be done with it all

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:25 AM

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Its public but all good.

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With regards to the "setpos" script, do I select the projectile by just using "_projectile" in the object section of the script @ebon citrus?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:32 AM

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yes

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as detailed in the Biki article: projectile: Object - Object of the projectile that was shot out

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 10:33 AM

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Ah all good, sorry about that. I weren't sure if it'd select all projectiles on the map or something lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 10:34 AM

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no worries

ebon ridge Jan 22, 2020, 10:45 AM

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#define TRY_(args) \
[] call {
    private _retArray = []; \
    private _scriptHandle = [_retArray, args] spawn { \
        params ["_retArray", _args]; \
        _args params args;
        private _retVal = [] call
#define CATCH_ ; \
        _retArray set [0, _retVal]; \
    }; \
    waitUntil {count _retArray > 0 || scriptDone _scriptHandle}; \
    if (count _retArray == 0) then
        // It crashed mid-way somewhere
#define ENDTRY_ \
    else { \ 
        _retArray[0] \
    } \ 
}

_val = TRY_(_a ARG _b ARG _c) {
    _a + _b - _c
} CATCH_ {
    3 // fallback value
} ENDTRY_;

I didn't test this yet, looking for someway to really catch exceptions (crash) in script in a recoverable manner. Is this it, or is there a better way?

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 10:47 AM

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Me and billw, we want to replace call in our framework with spawn and wait untill script done or has crashed

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 10:47 AM

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If the script depends on _this, then it won't work in there

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why go to such effort and add such a overhead to all your stuff, if you could just do proper error checking in your scripts and have them just not crash

ebon ridge Jan 22, 2020, 10:48 AM

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lol

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 10:49 AM

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Yes with SQF... without debugger or anything... (except for call stack dumps, but still crashes happen on users without ADE)

ebon ridge Jan 22, 2020, 10:49 AM

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perhaps you didn't see how much script we have, "just don't make mistake" isn't real advice, if it was all software wouldn't have bugs

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regardless i don't suggest using this on all stuff, but on high level places were we can make bugs in the script recoverable rather than catastrophic

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 10:54 AM

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So far main thread crashes most, so... it will be in main thread, and it does most amount of mission logic

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 11:24 AM

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are you trying to say you dont know how your script works?

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arma 3 has a very crude debugger built into it, but have i ever had the need for anything better? no, not really

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so i'm going to have to be with Dedmen here

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your best bet is to just write sqf that doesnt crash in the first place.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 11:29 AM

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arma 3 has a very crude debugger built into it
It doesn't. Debug console is not a debugger

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perhaps you didn't see how much script we have
ACE also has lots of script, and they can manage

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 11:32 AM

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I don't think you are being constructive this time (with all respect to you programming skills)

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your best bet is to just write sqf that doesnt crash in the first place.
without error handling or anything useful provided by arma itself, I might agree

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 11:51 AM

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@still forum in terms of "debugger" i meant the script error messages that pop up in runtime

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It's close enough to a debugger in the way that it gives you a slight hint if what's going wrong... usually somewhat around the block. So i'd say it's a debugger. Not a very sophisticated one, but debugger regardless

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And never did i mention the debug console. Way to construct a strawman right there 😂

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 11:54 AM

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Dedmen's callstack dump thing is closer to debugger than the default arma error msg

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 11:54 AM

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a error message is not a debugger

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 11:54 AM

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Like, 100x closer

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 11:55 AM

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a error message tells you after the fact: "Something went wrong"
a debugger tells you right there "Something is wrong right here right now, please look at this now"

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 11:56 AM

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Regarding ACE, they are doing different things, and they therefore can run that synchronously to the game (aka unscheduled)... asynchrony in our code gives some problems too

hollow thistle Jan 22, 2020, 12:09 PM

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with some creative thinking you can do everything unscheduled.

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Albeit for your oop game logic related stuff it would end in writing custom "scheduler" most likely 🙃

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But you have already written oop on top of functional language, so why not go deeper bloblurkinglenny

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 12:13 PM

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Albeit for your oop game logic related stuff it would end in writing custom "scheduler" most likely upside_down

Yes, adding more script, and more error possibility, removing asynchrony, reducing error possibility... IDK if gain will be positive or negative :(

hollow thistle Jan 22, 2020, 12:15 PM

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Have you tested your mission on longer running sessions? In my experience after some time scheduler goes bonkers and everything executes so slow.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:22 PM

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@still forum that's a syntax check. A debugger is usually operated when the code is running. Not before

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The error message in arma is just a simple trap

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A debugging feature

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The execution of the script reached a point from which it cannot continue.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:24 PM

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exactly

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but there is no debugger operated while the code is running in arma

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it just has a crashhandler, thats not a debugger

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:25 PM

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It is a debugging feature

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The handling of crashes and displaying/logging them and their location is debugging

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Important information, what, where, why

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:26 PM

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a crashlog is a feature that helps debugging yes, but its not a debugger, and not part of one either

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:27 PM

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It is not a debugger, but a debugger feature, indicating that there is a debugger behind the frames

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:28 PM

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indicating that there is a debugger behind the frames
but there is none

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There is a debugger interface, but its disabled in release builds.
in release builds there is no debugger anywhere

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:29 PM

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ArmA doesnt offer built in features like memory browsing or breakpoints out of the box, but having the debugger indicate the important information of "what, where, why" is already an indication for a debugger

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There is a debugger for scripts

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:29 PM

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There isn't.

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Besides my externally added one, and the BI internal one

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Btw the games name is Arma

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:33 PM

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Which one?

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I've seen all 3 ways used

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ARMA, Arma and ArmA

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And we might want to stick to topic discussion

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:34 PM

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ArmA is Armed Assault, a game from 2006.
Arma 3 is Arma, which is not a abbreviation for Armed Assault anymore. Its Arma, a latin word.

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Which one?
which debugger you mean?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:38 PM

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Arma 3 offers tools suitable for debugging, right?

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:38 PM

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Any example? Don't know of any. Not sure what you mean
Like you can write logs with diag_log, but thats not a debugger.

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Arma 3 had a debugger interface once, but the backend for that was still disabled, and that interface was removed when people missused it for cheating

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:40 PM

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My goal is to teleport 30mm grenade projectiles to the muzzle of an AGS-30 attached to a vehicle. Can anyone point out any issues with this script applied to the vehicle init?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:41 PM

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Codeblocks, please

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:41 PM

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Oh sorry, how do I do that?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:41 PM

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Code

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Dont mind the indent on the first row

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:42 PM

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this enablePersonTurret [[-1], true];
this addWeaponTurret ["RHS_weap_Ags30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addEventHandler ["Fired", {params ["_projectile" setpos ("_projectile" modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])]}];

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So, anything wrong with this script for what my goal is?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:42 PM

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Yes

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You forgot the closing brackets of your event handler

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:42 PM

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Oh rip lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:43 PM

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So close the params command first

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Then close the code

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And then close the addEventHandler

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Remember ; where necessary

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Wait

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This looks real weird

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Let me get a syntax editor

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:44 PM

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All good.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:44 PM

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your problem is msot likely

this enablePersonTurret [[-1], true];
this addWeaponTurret ["RHS_weap_Ags30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addEventHandler ["Fired", {params ["_projectile" **HERE** 
setpos ("_projectile" modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])]}];```

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:44 PM

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Yep, all good.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:45 PM

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this enablePersonTurret [[-1], true];
this addWeaponTurret ["RHS_weap_Ags30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addMagazineTurret ["RHS_mag_VOG30_30", [-1]];
this addEventHandler ["Fired", {
    params ["_unit", "_weapon", "_muzzle", "_mode", "_ammo", "_magazine", "_projectile", "_gunner"];
    setpos ("_projectile" modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])
}];```

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herre

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:46 PM

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Oh thanks haha, I was about to ask if a new line would work lol

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:46 PM

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"_projectile" can't modelToWorld from a string

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you want _projectile the variable, not "_projectile" the string containing the name of the variable

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:46 PM

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also

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:46 PM

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also setPos is missing your left argument

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:46 PM

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your setPos command is incorrect

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check the syntaxc on that

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you haven't actually declared what youre moving

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only the position

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:47 PM

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One of y'all able to just type out the line I need?

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Oh okay.

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Well, I'm trying to move the _projectile.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:47 PM

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I assume
_projectile setpos (_projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])
?

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:47 PM

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I'll try it.

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OH, wait.. Are the brackets at the beginning supposed to be closed first?

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Instead of the closest ones to the end?

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I think its the other way around but I'm just making sure lol

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:49 PM

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not sure which you mean

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:49 PM

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params?

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:49 PM

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Actually.. How's this?

this addEventHandler ["Fired", {params ["_projectile"] setpos (_projectile setpos (_projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75]))}];

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:49 PM

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doesnt work

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_projectile will in this case return the unit

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:50 PM

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wtf

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why, what, why

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I told you what to do :U

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:50 PM

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I tried to follow it, sorry.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:50 PM

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he's learning

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Dedmen

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:50 PM

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Yeah, I'm not very good at this.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:50 PM

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you want to define all of the parameters for params

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the names you give them are just... names

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but the order at which you define them is important

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so you want to do them all

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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Oh, do I need all the other options aside from _projectile also?

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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Read the wiki pages for all the commands you are using, to find out how to use them
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/params
params returns a boolean, you are giving a boolean as left side parameter to setPos.
Look at setPos wiki page
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setPos
setPos takes Object as left side argument, not boolean, giving it a boolean can't work

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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yes, you do

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because they come in order

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like so

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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you want to define all of the parameters for params
no need if you don't need the others, and the order is correct (The order isn't correct tho)

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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I been checking out the setPos thing but I'll look at the other one.

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Oh okay.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:51 PM

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params ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7"];

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

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And how would I select 6 which is for projectiles?

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

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you can just use "" if you don't need them

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

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Well I mean, I only need 6.

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I still need one of them.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

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if you want just one, you can use _projectile = (_this select 6)

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

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OH okay, thanks.

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I want to start that line again if that's okay?

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Just so I can eliminate potential mistakes and I'll be back in a minute since I need some water.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:53 PM

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params ["" /*0*/,"" /*1*/,"" /*2*/,"" /*3*/,"" /*4*/,"" /*5*/,"_projectile" /*6*/];

or

private _projectile = _this select 6;

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:54 PM

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Okay, now I'm back and no worries.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:54 PM

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👍

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we were all there one day

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despite our backgrounds, everyone started from something and asked the same questions and made the same mistakes

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:56 PM

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Fair enough, I know what you mean.

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Thanks for being understanding also.

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But yeah @still forum, do I use the private line after the params box or in it?

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And I think I put "" in the [] box before that right?

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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By code blocks where two seperate examples

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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it's "or"

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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two lines of code, completely seperate

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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so you use one or the other that dedmen provided

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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Yeah I know they are, I meant how to implement them in my code.

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Since params is required.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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Your eventhandler code starts at { and ends at }

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you put your code inbetween

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:57 PM

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Ah all good.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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you use

params ["" /0/,"" /1/,"" /2/,"" /3/,"" /4/,"" /5/,"_projectile" /6/];
or
private _projectile = _this select 6;

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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the first line would be retrieving the parameters. You can do that by having the first line be params (as above) or _this select (as above)

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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I'll show what I mean guys.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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after that, you do the next step in the next line

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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all good

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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You don't need to use params (the wiki page just shows that as example as its the most sensible thing to do)

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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sometimes, it's better to show, not tell

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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Oh never mind, so I can delete Params?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:58 PM

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yep

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:59 PM

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Ah cool, that's what I was asking about actually haha

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Thanks.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:59 PM

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you can use _this select 6 instead

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:59 PM

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Yeah true.

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So I done that now.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 12:59 PM

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holds the same information

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 12:59 PM

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Yeah all good.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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if you need more than one parameter, or you control how many are passed, "params" is the best option

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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Ah okay.

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But yeah; with regards to SetPos, do I only need a space seperating that and the select command?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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;

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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setPos goes onto a new line

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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Ah all good.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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a line ends with semicolon

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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Oh okay, will do.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:00 PM

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and line feed for readability

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Ah true, I admittedly don't do that enough xD

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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setPos goes onto a new line LIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Lol

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Unreadable code is best code!

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It's like you're going to force him to use proper spacing as well, I bet you're some python nerd

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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who needs obfuscation when even you cant read the code

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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/s

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Lel

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holds breath

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jvklacdjglkdajlgkdasjglaks

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Python is good practise for readable code

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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But fair enough on a serious note lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:01 PM

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i recommend everyone to write atleast a few programs in python

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yes, i digress

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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https://github.com/overfl0/Pythia just use this

GitHub

overfl0/Pythia

An extension for Arma 3 that lets you write extensions in Python 3 - overfl0/Pythia

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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wait, really XD

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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What's this? Lol

austere granite Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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nothing

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ignore

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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Lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:02 PM

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🤣

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:03 PM

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I see its an extension but its all I know lmao

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:03 PM

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sqf scrubs wont be able to read my chad python

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:03 PM

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Shiiet

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brings Javascript

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:03 PM

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wait what! POOP! IT HAS SUPPORT FOR CYTHON!

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:04 PM

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Cyka blyat

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:04 PM

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IMA REWRITE ARMA 3 NETCODE

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nyandab2

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:04 PM

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Yeet

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:04 PM

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pip some socket in here

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:05 PM

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I'm confused lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:05 PM

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just pass it

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:06 PM

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However, do I use 6 or _projectile for the variable in the SetPos command? Lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:06 PM

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ok, you need ot understand what parameters are passed to the eventHandler

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when it gets called

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it receives 8 parameters

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in order

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as an "array"

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:06 PM

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Oh my bad, I forgot to read its article.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:07 PM

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so you want to get the 7th value in that array

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this is done in 2 ways, both of which dedmen already referenced well enough

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but what you want to do, if youre using a parameter that is passed with the call multiple times

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is to create another mroe readable variable for it

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this is why private _projectile = _this select 6;

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_projectile is easier to remember and read than _this select 6

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both of them hold the same information

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:09 PM

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Oh, so I can just use "_this select 6" yeah?

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I don't mind if that's the case.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:09 PM

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here we are defining the variable we want to use: private _projectile

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:09 PM

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Yeah I know, I just didn't feel it was necessary for me in this case.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:09 PM

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and here we insert whatever is on the right side of the equation onto the left side:
= _this select 6;

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you can...

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but you shouldn't

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youre going to get a bunch of angry cats and litter on you if you do

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:15 PM

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Now I'm back and fine, I'll make a variable for it xD

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Surprisingly also.. I actually killed a cockroach with a shoe despite being really afraid of them lmao

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I somehow even picked it up to throw out lol

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*throw it out

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It was off-subject, but that's why I was AFK for some time so yeah.. They're scary to me lol

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 1:16 PM

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@ebon citrus if you prefer C you might aswell use Intercept directly

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:16 PM

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i prefer C, but i also like the rapid development nature of python

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 1:16 PM

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@bronze lotus F-word violates the rules, please edit that out :u

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:16 PM

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Oh sorry lol, my bad.

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I'm not very politically correct so it can be easy.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:17 PM

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it's not about PC

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it's jsut a family friendly server

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:17 PM

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Ah fair enough.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:18 PM

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keeps the conversation on topic and mature

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:18 PM

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Although I tend to swear regardless of the situation, I understand how it could help.

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@ebon citrus you know where I'm missing a semicolon?

this addEventHandler ["Fired", {_this select 6;
private _projectile = _this select 6;
_this private _projectile setpos (private _projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])}];

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I'm not sure because its included in the ends of these statements from what I can see.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:22 PM

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here*
_this private _projectile setpos (private _projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])

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and nto a semicolon

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remove _this private

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_this is the current namespace

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private means youre attempting to DEFINE a private variable within the current namespace

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:23 PM

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Oh okay, my bad.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:23 PM

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but youve already befined the variable

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so just scrap everything else and go for the variable already prepared

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_projectile setpos (_projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:25 PM

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private _projectile = _this select 6;
_projectile setpos (_projectile modelToWorld [1.5,0.27,0.75])

That want you want yep?

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I obviously kept the addEventHandler thing.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 1:27 PM

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_this is the current namespace
its just a variable

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:27 PM

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that correct

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_this within a called function is the variable passed when calling the function

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my mistake

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:29 PM

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Goddamnit @still forum xD

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But its okay, and thanks also y'all 🙂 The teleportation works now 😄

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Although its positioned a meter high, I can fix that easily and I appreciate the help.

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Though, is it possible to duplicate the script I made into the same init as long as I change setPos coordinates and the variable?

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:33 PM

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?

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yeah...

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but remember that the eventhandler fires no matter which thing fires

astral tendon Jan 22, 2020, 1:33 PM

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how to change the selected waypoint for unit? also how to create a waypoint to be first so I don't have to remove the older ones?

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:33 PM

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That's okay, I don't mind in that regard but sorry I confused you lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:34 PM

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so in what youre asking, no

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:34 PM

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However, I'm not sure how to script that sorry @astral tendon.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:34 PM

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you might aswell just duplicate the projectile to both sides

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less hassle

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or have it fire sequentially

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left-right-left-right

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:35 PM

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I wouldn't mind doing it sequentially haha, although I was going to duplicate it but it'd use the same amount of ammunition it has.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:35 PM

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alright

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then jsut make a check

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how i would do it

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pull how many rounds the weapon has left

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if the number of ammo devided by 2 floored is comparable to the number of ammo devided by 2, shoot left

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if not, shoot right

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:37 PM

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Ah okay.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:37 PM

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so

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  _ammoCount = (_unit ammo _muzzle);
  if ((floor(_ammocount/2)) == (_ammocount/2)) then {

//shoot left
}else{
//shoot right
};```

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something like that

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didn't actually check the syntax, so use at your own risk

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but in this case, if the ammo was 13, the results would be false, because 6 != 6.5

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if it was 12, then it would be true, because 6==6

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:43 PM

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Ah all good, and I'll think about it.

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But actually, I'll just put the grenade launcher on top of the plane since it looks better haha

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:44 PM

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or below

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grenades fall fast

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or rather

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they have low muzzle velocity

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there's a reason why missiles, weapons and such a like are hung UNDER the plane

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also, remember to sync it with your propeller XD

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or give it enough clearance

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:46 PM

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It weren't an issue for me actually haha, the AGS-30 seems to be zeroed at 25m and the muzzle is probably about half a foot higher than the top of the propellors lol

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It was working earlier at least when I tested it with an AI gunner xd

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:47 PM

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just attachTo an automated 40mm onto the bottom fo it and call it a day

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you can even remote control it from the passanger seat

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:47 PM

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I would've, but I love the idea of the pilot firing it too xD

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:48 PM

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fair enough

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:48 PM

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Yeah lol

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Want to see a screenshot of the aircraft? Lol

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I should also mention that its great for dive "bombing" haha

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:49 PM

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sure

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:51 PM

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1975919055

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:52 PM

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mount it on the nose of the plane so you can use the gunner sight XD

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:53 PM

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I actually did that earlier LOL

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Maybe I should xD

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Although I couldn't aim through the optic anyway, it looked cool lol

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:53 PM

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i remember doing it once with the m2

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:54 PM

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Nice lol

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But yeah, I love the attachTo thing lmao

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:54 PM

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you seen this guys.,.. Banned Inc. videos?

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:54 PM

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Look within my screenshots and you'll see a huge truck with so many guns on it hahahaha

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And yeah I have, I kind of got inspiration from it lel

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I even made my own battlebus APC xd

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With concrete armour and two Dshkms inside :DDD

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 1:55 PM

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good ol' wasteland arma 2 days

bronze lotus Jan 22, 2020, 1:56 PM

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I hadn't played much of that a while back, but I did for a bit.. It was quite interesting lol

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But yeah, I love the military and political memes Banned.Inc uses.. Especially the UN memes xD

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And the Slav ones actually lol

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 4:11 PM

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If game has debugger bu has interface disabled, why not have a separate build with interface enabled

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They have profiling and performance builds already

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And one more debug build I think?

queen junco Jan 22, 2020, 4:42 PM

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Hey, I got a quick question about faction editing. How do I customize the subfaction-category Like "Men", "Tanks", "Planes", etc. in a custom faction. And assign the different vehicles/Loadouts to those? The Alive orbat Editor uses only the Basic class names.

still forum Jan 22, 2020, 4:55 PM

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And one more debug build I think?
You'd still need a UI for the debugging. And we are at the same state if not further with my debugger backend already

astral dawn Jan 22, 2020, 5:26 PM

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Yeah agree

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||except for it not being broken after arma updates 🤓 ||

forest ore Jan 22, 2020, 6:14 PM

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Started to doubt myself: does this if (!isServer) exitWith {}; on top of a script file make any other than the server (or player host) exit the file immediately?

worn forge Jan 22, 2020, 6:33 PM

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That would be the point, yes

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Obviously if it's inside a control structure it would just exit that structure

winter rose Jan 22, 2020, 6:39 PM

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@forest ore ^

What is the issue there?

forest ore Jan 22, 2020, 6:45 PM

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I was reading KK's info list (here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isServer) on different isXXXX and probably started to overthink the whole thing. For example we have if (!isServer) then { // run on all player clients incl. headless clients but not player host }; but yeah.. should probably have thought twice since that example is for if-then case

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 8:36 PM

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@forest ore it does

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Oh, sorry, just noticed you got an answer already

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😅

jagged trout Jan 22, 2020, 8:39 PM

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anyone who's good at scripting and eden mind talking with me for a few seconds. Trying to get something simple to work and banging my head against a wall.

ebon citrus Jan 22, 2020, 8:41 PM

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How good?

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Ive got a good while, if im good enough?

tough abyss Jan 22, 2020, 8:51 PM

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If you have a question just ask. Asking for someone to help you personally with an unknown issue is not going to work.

grave lotus Jan 22, 2020, 8:57 PM

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Is there a way to add some position randomization or offsets within BIS_Fnc_spawnGroup if its calling from an array of differing squad sizes? It doesnt seem to have the placement radius randomizer built into createUnit.

worn forge Jan 22, 2020, 9:07 PM

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I think it spawns the units according to their formation in the config, so if you want them to spawn in any other kind of formation you'll have to re-place them after they've spawned

grave lotus Jan 22, 2020, 9:11 PM

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that just answered my real problem. I'm feeding new units into the config that dont have formation data... THAT is why they are all coming in at 0,0,0 and 'fusing' until split apart via zeus. 🙂

worn forge Jan 22, 2020, 9:12 PM

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Well the command returns the group, so you could run some simple code to reposition them after they've come in

grave lotus Jan 22, 2020, 9:12 PM

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in the end, a tiny offset to each should do it

worn forge Jan 22, 2020, 9:14 PM

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_group = [_position, east, 5] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup; { _x setPos (_x getPos [random 10, random 360]); } forEach (units _group);

grave lotus Jan 22, 2020, 9:14 PM

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thanks! that'll drop right in 🙂 much appreciated

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my units defending the supply crate were spawning inside the crate 🙂

winter rose Jan 22, 2020, 9:30 PM

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@jagged trout so, what's your issue? If I may ask you to ask 🙃

jagged trout Jan 22, 2020, 9:35 PM

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I'm trying to run two unitplay recordings with a set delay in between

winter rose Jan 22, 2020, 9:41 PM

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and?

jagged trout Jan 22, 2020, 9:47 PM

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I figured it out. sorry, I was testing.

vital silo Jan 23, 2020, 12:33 AM

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@echo yew

Diag_Log Format ["FPS: %1 | entities : %2 | vehicles : %3 || players : %4", Diag_Fps, (Count (entities [[], [], true, true])), (Count Vehicles), (Count AllPlayers)];```

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If you need a loop with this:

[] Spawn {
    While {True} Do {
        Diag_Log Format ["FPS: %1 | entities : %2 | vehicles : %3 || players : %4", Diag_Fps, (Count (entities [[], [], true, true])), (Count Vehicles), (Count AllPlayers)];
        UiSleep 120;
    };
};

tame lion Jan 23, 2020, 1:43 AM

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From a scripting perspective, how do I detect respawn points that are vehicles? This would include vehicles that have been made so by zeus mid mission. I imagine it'd be something like:

vehicle getVariable ["respawnPoint", false]```
but I don't know what that variable would be if so

exotic flax Jan 23, 2020, 1:56 AM

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As far as I know does a vehicle not "know" it's a respawn location.

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You should be able to find all locations with
BIS_fnc_getRespawnPositions
And check if there are vehicles in there

celest fossil Jan 23, 2020, 3:04 AM

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hi wat is script for debug to set time?

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like for editor

jade abyss Jan 23, 2020, 3:07 AM

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

setDate

celest fossil Jan 23, 2020, 3:08 AM

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thank you

tame lion Jan 23, 2020, 3:36 AM

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thanks @exotic flax I was unaware of that function. I've just been using entities and the classname for respawn modules

exotic flax Jan 23, 2020, 3:36 AM

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it's actually used by the Respawn Modules, so that's how I found it 😉

ebon citrus Jan 23, 2020, 3:39 AM

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@celest fossil if youre using the editor, you can set time and date in the top bar in "attributes" -> "environment"

unreal scroll Jan 23, 2020, 10:13 AM

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When running MP (local or dedicated) I noticed that some waypoint statement codes (like _wp setWaypointStatements ["true","this remoteExecCall ['OT_fnc_addtogarrison',2]"];) hit twice. Is this a known problem, and how to deal with it? I made some brutal workaround by defining new variable for passed objects in script, to avoid launching it twice, but idk if is it a good way.

winter rose Jan 23, 2020, 11:16 AM

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remoteExecCall 2?

unreal scroll Jan 23, 2020, 11:21 AM

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What's wrong with it? I thouth it should run on the server only.

winter rose Jan 23, 2020, 1:02 PM

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Have you checked the note on https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setWaypointStatements ?

setWaypointStatements

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@unreal scroll

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it should be sqf if (isServer) then { ... };

jaunty ravine Jan 23, 2020, 1:20 PM

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Quick question: How do I make it to where a helicopter spawns on the ground using BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle?

unreal scroll Jan 23, 2020, 1:37 PM

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@winter rose Thank you.

worn forge Jan 23, 2020, 3:12 PM

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@jaunty ravine I have a feeling that both BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle and BIS_fnc_spawnGroup have built in "features" which spawn the helicopter as "FLY", if you want to spawn it on the ground you'll have to do it yourself, ie:

_crewGroup = createVehicleCrew _vehicle;

jaunty ravine Jan 23, 2020, 3:13 PM

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Alright, thank you, I'm gonna try that now.

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Works beautifully, thank you, @worn forge.

worn forge Jan 23, 2020, 3:15 PM

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👍

worn forge Jan 23, 2020, 6:36 PM

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Hey folks, anyone know off-hand if there's a command that lets you know the maximum # of players that can connect to the mission?

winter rose Jan 23, 2020, 7:33 PM

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@worn forge maybe count playableUnits

worn forge Jan 23, 2020, 7:34 PM

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Nope, just gives current # of players

ruby breach Jan 23, 2020, 7:36 PM

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

winter rose Jan 23, 2020, 7:36 PM

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oh wait, there is disableAI then. Well, @ruby breach to the rescue!

ruby breach Jan 23, 2020, 7:37 PM

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I'm good for something at least 😁

winter rose Jan 23, 2020, 7:37 PM

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I was about to say to read the CfgHeaders' maxPlayers entry 😅

worn forge Jan 23, 2020, 7:37 PM

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That's perfect, thanks.

warm blaze Jan 23, 2020, 11:44 PM

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hi guys! Fast question: is it possible to make high command module and headless client work together on a dedi server? So ai groups will be under control of headless client but players can control them via high command module still

high marsh Jan 24, 2020, 12:01 AM

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Yes, iirc there are event handlers for high command units creation

warm blaze Jan 24, 2020, 12:06 AM

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could you please guide me where can I read about those EHs?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 1:18 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ @warm blaze

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Search top right: Arma 3 event handlers

austere granite Jan 24, 2020, 1:19 AM

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is it at all possible to manipulate UAV camera through script commands?

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:29 AM

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What do you mean "manipulate"?

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Turn the camera? Yes

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Postprocessing? Not that im aware of

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You can always apply PP to the unit when they are in the camera view and then remove it when they exit

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I once did a grainy filter thingy for when the UAV is too far away

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Sort of to simulate direct radio static

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 8:16 AM

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who knows how to realize the effect of color blindness of the player’s camera?

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it is widely used in training missions

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A2 OA

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rummaged through all source codes, found nothing worthwhile

crude needle Jan 24, 2020, 8:30 AM

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https://youtu.be/SooyaoBrjkU

If you just need a simple black & white.

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:54 AM

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

Post process effects

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@wary lichen ^

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 9:31 AM

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Thanks, I try it

velvet merlin Jan 24, 2020, 11:58 AM

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can you make something execute in main menu via cfgFunctions?

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or just preInit for missions

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preStart = 1; //1 to call the function upon game start, before title screen, but after all addons are loaded (config.cpp only)

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does this also work with
-skipintro
-world=empty
-noLand
?

still forum Jan 24, 2020, 12:02 PM

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preStart always runs

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That is pre-main menu tho, if you want main menu directly... I guess you'd have to replace one of the Vanilla CfgFunctions which you know is called in main menu.

velvet merlin Jan 24, 2020, 12:09 PM

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so also for directly loading to editor mission or autotest?

still forum Jan 24, 2020, 12:10 PM

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yes, preStart always fires

velvet merlin Jan 24, 2020, 12:13 PM

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ty

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directly executing code from cfgFunctions seems not possible though, is it?

still forum Jan 24, 2020, 12:15 PM

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no, its just parsed/processed in initFunctions, which doesn't execute code it just parses the file paths and compiles them, and takes care of preStart/preInit/postInit

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although, you can execute code in a number config entry in CfgFunctions.. but... why would you

jade abyss Jan 24, 2020, 12:18 PM

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@velvet merlin onLoad in the config of the menu/display*

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 2:56 PM

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Not sure if i need to ask this here cuz itz config (remoteexec) related but im having a slight problem with a few functions that need to be executed from the client to my server.

Multiple entries on the cfgremoteexec seem to work untill i add a few new ones. Those don't get executed on the server and ive got a error in the rpt saying its not allowed to execute that. Even tho its added to the CfgRemoteExec Functions config, target = 2.

Now that im reading up on the wiki for the first time on it, it mentions that some functions may need to be white listed ? If so, how would one go and whitelist it? 😂

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 2:58 PM

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{    class Commands
    {    mode = 1;
        
        class hintC {allowedTargets = 0;};
        class deleteGroup {allowedTargets = 2;};
    };
    
    class Functions
    {    mode = 1;
    
        class BIS_fnc_execVM {};
    };
};```

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I think mode = 1 means it's whitelisted

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 2:59 PM

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Well, ```
Operation modes
Operation mode is numeric value describing how functions or commands should be treated on server on client.

0: remote execution is blocked
1: only whitelisted functions/commands are allowed for remote execution
2: remote execution fully opened

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i got it like

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class CfgRemoteExec
{
    class Functions
    {
        mode = 1;
        jip = 0;
        class fnc_AdminReq                                            { allowedTargets=2; };    // infiSTAR AntiHack
        class fn_xm8apps_server                                        { allowedTargets=2; };    // infiSTAR xm8apps
        class ExileServer_system_network_dispatchIncomingMessage    { allowedTargets=2; };    // ExileMod
        class plant_message                                            { allowedTargets=1; };
        class plant_remove                                            { allowedTargets=1; };
        class plants_fnc_plants_create                                { allowedTargets=2; };
        class plants_fnc_plants_remove                                { allowedTargets=2; };
    };
    class Commands
    {
        mode=1;
        jip=0;
        class addAction                                                { allowedTargets = 1; };
    };
};

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But im still getting:

😂

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:00 PM

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hmmm

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 3:01 PM

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This is so weird, i made other stuff with it on a different server but these 2 last functions dont seem to wanna be fired

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:01 PM

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So your situation is a player runs a command with plants_fnc_plants_create and nothing happens, that error shows up in rpt

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 3:02 PM

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jip

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Like yes

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Bsically im the player in this case

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:02 PM

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Maybe remove jip = 0

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 3:03 PM

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🤔

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Welp, didnt try that yet, im gonna,. lolz

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:06 PM

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That's the only thing that's different from my use

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 3:10 PM

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Yeeh but how come the other functions that need to be executed on the server with target 2 do work?

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That's what's puzzling me

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:12 PM

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How are those functions created? With a hpp file? Because that might rename them

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run copyToClipboard str (allVariables missionNameSpace) and see if you find plants_fnc_plants_create

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:47 PM

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For someone entirely new to arma, how hard would making a script to detect explosives in a backpack (both grenades and other) and to explode when shot/damaged?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:48 PM

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@true hull anything else to add?

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:49 PM

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wtf

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Show us how amazing you are then and answer dude's question

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:49 PM

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don't react, peeps. Let Darwinism (and mods) do their job.

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:50 PM

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I'll take this constructive criticism as a warning against attempting such a project as an introduction and start a smaller project as an introduction into scripting.

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:51 PM

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it would be quite difficult, for a beginner.

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:51 PM

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@ebon palm you can do it with a couple of commands yes; has iirc, and the type of explosives you want to check

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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it would need to be tied to an eventhandler too

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for the hit

still forum Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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!purgeban 622116952420122655 30d spammer

lyric schoonerBOT Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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*fires them railguns at @true hull* Ò_Ó

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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👍

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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and also if you want to detect hit on the backpack that gets more tricky

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:52 PM

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But what about checking damage while both on the player and dropped

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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dropped?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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getting slow with age @still forum 😄

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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Yeah

still forum Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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don't ping me while I'm busy :U

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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Filling the bag with grenades and using it as a redneck satchel charge

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:53 PM

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oh you didn't mean a soldier-held backpack, but one on the floor - my bad

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well scripted yes, but in specific conditions then - and not an all-situations script

ebon palm Jan 24, 2020, 3:54 PM

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Both

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:54 PM

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probably easier but also not sure if groundholders take damage at all

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 3:54 PM

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You could still put a "Hit" eventHandler on it

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:55 PM

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does it register hits

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 3:55 PM

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Nope, one would need a fake target

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I think a groundHolder would be 0×0×0 in size

young current Jan 24, 2020, 3:56 PM

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so basically an custom user action that is active if bag is full of grenades and places them down along with fake target that has the hit logic added to it

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cant remember if theres inventory events for dropping stuff

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that would be more universal place to tie it to but also more complex

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 3:59 PM

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OpenInventory eventhander @young current

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

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You might also look into https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#InventoryClosed

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More useful in your case

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:01 PM

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both probably would need to be used to compare if a backpack has been dropped and if it had grenades in it

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:02 PM

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Nope

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Only inventory closed

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Tricky thing would be to make sure the bag inventory isnt opened twice

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So you could just make the wepaonHolder non-interactable

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 4:03 PM

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@ebon palm so yeah, no, not easy 😁

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:03 PM

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Tbh, i would personally use addAction to create an explosive bag on the ground

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:03 PM

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I dont see how that works for players inventory and if you drop a bag

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:03 PM

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Ofcourse you dont

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The _container in the example returns the container you just closed

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:04 PM

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perhaps you oh superior mind will elaborate then

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:04 PM

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So if you drop a bag, the container will be the groundweaponholder

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Check that container for the items and their conditions you want

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If true, turn it into an explosive bag

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 4:04 PM

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Ofcourse you dont
Uncalled for? 👀 @ebon citrus

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:05 PM

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And create all the necessary groundwork for it, like detecting hits, and so on

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TBH, it's more hassle than it's worth doing it this way, and instead you could make it so that a player just turns their bag into a satchel charge through addAction or ace interactive menu

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And that stachel is immediately placed on the ground

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Using vanilla-assets to create a hit-detection for groundWeaponHolders is tricky and not all that rewarding

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Instead of shooting it, you could consider a timer, which would make it more simple

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Or bomb-touchoff style mechanic

rough heart Jan 24, 2020, 4:09 PM

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@worn forge That between quotes should be the completely renamed function after creating them within a config.cpp but ill run a check anyways, thanks for the usefull snippit 👌

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:09 PM

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Shooting it to blow it up is probably the main goal though. Like in the movies.

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 4:09 PM

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Hate to be a stickler for reality but I'm not sure shooting explosives would actually set them off

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:10 PM

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probably would have to be quite the lucky shot

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but it was what he asked for.

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:10 PM

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Well, it's something you can experiment with

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A good one for a first project

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Gets you thinking

tough abyss Jan 24, 2020, 4:11 PM

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So, after some testing.
The killed eventhandler fire twice if I binarise my config. If I keep it cpp the "fix" for it firing twice makes it fire 0 times. Thx arma lol

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:11 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#InventoryClosed is probably your best bet on detecting if a backpack is dropped through the normal inventory interaction. This does not detect swapping bags though

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Your other option is to start messing with the GUI, and i wouldn't call that at all beginner friendly

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:13 PM

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@tough abyss probably more a #arma3_config issue but sounds like you might have 2 killed eventhandlers stacking up

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:15 PM

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And i'd personally say

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Your first project should'nt really be anything that specificly works

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But more so experimenting with the environment and the tools at your disposal

tough abyss Jan 24, 2020, 4:17 PM

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@young current I only tested this once but I was running 99% vanilla arma 3 with CBA (only other mod) and made a simple mod that adds a cba eh on killed. When I binarise my test mod it fires twice. When I keep it cpp it fires once. Weird..

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:17 PM

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how are you binarizing your addon?

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:17 PM

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Ehhh

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Im not config expert

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:18 PM

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and probably best to continue on #arma3_config

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:18 PM

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But could it be that it reads both the .bin and .cpp?

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And binds it twice?

young current Jan 24, 2020, 4:18 PM

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no

tough abyss Jan 24, 2020, 4:19 PM

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No I deleted the cpp

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 4:33 PM

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Hey folks I have some questions about unitcapture that I can't seem to find answer to online

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I'm trying to make a test/practice mission and I'd like programmed transport helis to fly to a city, land, and leave again

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Is there a way to make the helis respawn with unitplay enabled?

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Also, is there a way to loop the unitplay if they are still flying after the leave the city?

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 4:44 PM

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Does it have to be unitplay? Waypoints are not enough?

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And yes, unitplay is enabled by default on units, if i recall correctly. Just spawn the unitplay function

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You can loop the unitplay by teleporting the unit to the start position and restarting the unitplay function with the same parameters

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 5:03 PM

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Well I've noticed that the AI pilots flying waypoints are usually dunces that don't come close to even a mediocre player's skills

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Would it be possible for you to explain the spawn unitplay thing a bit more? I use the radio commands to activate them at the moment but how do I make it start by default?

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I put it in the init field of the heli but it didnt do anything

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Also, what should I do to get the thing to respawn?

tough abyss Jan 24, 2020, 5:13 PM

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delete heli, spawn heli where you want it, unitplay again?

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:04 PM

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Apologies for being ultra noob but - I tried to spawn it with a radio trigger that does [[23181, 18686, 53], 180, "B_Heli_Light_01_armed_F", west] call bis_fnc_spawnvehicle; but it say invalid num in expression or something

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How should I go about spawning a heli then doing unitplay on it? I looked for it online but again, nothing that helps

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(I know it's shitty to ask for code but could you just provide a basic example that I can tinker with? I'm pretty damn clueless atm)

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:40 PM

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Honestly I think unitPlay isn't a simple place to start, why do you want to use that specifically?

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If you make your waypoints with the CARELESS behaviour then they won't care if they're being shot at

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:42 PM

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@worn forge I'm making a practice mission for pretty high-level gunning intended for an environment like KOTH, with super speedy landings and such

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I've tested using waypoints but they just set down slowly, in a straight line to LZ

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I can manually fly pretty well so I think it's best to work with unitplay despite its difficulty

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:43 PM

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Well at the very least you'll need a variable that defines your spawned unit, so
_vehicle = [[23181, 18686, 53], 180, "B_Heli_Light_01_armed_F", west] call bis_fnc_spawnvehicle;

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Then you can do something with BIS_fnc_UnitCapture

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:44 PM

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I got the recording and playback part down by yt tutorials but, how do I make it respawn after it dies and how do I reset them?

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:44 PM

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Like
[_vehicle, duration, FPS, firing, startTime] spawn BIS_fnc_UnitCapture, according to the wiki, but I've never used it so you're on your own

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:44 PM

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I can make the path files no problem at this point - its just about actually using the paths

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 PM

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Respawning after it dies would be pretty easy, just put a Killed eventhandler

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 PM

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so like this addeventhandler killed... then what?

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 PM

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_vehicle addEventHandler ["Killed", { your code }];

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your code = BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 PM

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oh!

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I'll try that

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thank you very much.

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 7:46 PM

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When it dies, it'll spawn again

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:47 PM

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so I don't need _vehicle if it put it in the init field? because it says local in global space

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:47 PM

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no local var in global space indeed

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ideally nothing in the init field either, unless for testing / you know what you are doing

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:50 PM

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oh hey it respawned!

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But I can't do unitplay on it again apparently

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I cant attach images but theres a little box that says

'rec = [] |#|spawn wp1;'
Error spawn: Type array, expected code

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:51 PM

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wp1 is a waypoint I presume

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can't spawn an array indeed; you can spawn Code

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:52 PM

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yeah its a sqf file of the path and [heli1, wp1] spawn BIS_fnc_Unitplay;

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uh what does spawning code mean?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:52 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/spawn 😁

spawn

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:55 PM

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I'm gonna try putting it in curly brackets then lol

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oh now it doesn't play in the first place rip

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oh wait nvm i'm dumb

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:56 PM

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wait, you don't know what you are doing

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:56 PM

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I do not know what I am doing

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as I said above I'm pure idiot when it comes to this stuff

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:57 PM

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just uneducated, not stupid

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amma bash knowledge into your skull! 💀

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:57 PM

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Please do I can't find much about this online that would help a lot lol

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:58 PM

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so: what is it exactly that you want to do:
force a helicopter to drive the path you drove, and if it explodes/dies/whatever, respawn and do it again?

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 7:59 PM

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Yeah the idea thing is - radio trigger to spawn heli that flys my path which will respawn and do it again if it dies, and if it goes through the whole path it'll delete itself

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if that makes sense

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 7:59 PM

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yep, got it

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:00 PM

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And right now I only got manual playback to work

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But that’s it

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How should I approach this?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:03 PM

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on Event "Killed", delete the helicopter, create a new one and turn its engine on, make this chopper call unitPlay
on "unitPlay" completion, just delete the helicopter

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:04 PM

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So I would make two event handlers? Where should I do that if init field is not a good place

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:05 PM

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sqf script file?

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init.sqf is a file that will always be called on mission start. in MP, it will be called on every - single - machine though.

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:07 PM

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Ohh so don’t want that if I will be hosting this for mp

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Good to know good to know

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:07 PM

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you can want that, but with some safeties

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:07 PM

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What do you mean

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:07 PM

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like ```sqf
if (isServer) then {
/* something */
};

this ☝️ is assured to run only once, on server on mission start

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:08 PM

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Oh excellent, that makes sense

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:08 PM

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so the file will still be executed for every machine, but only the server will access this portion of code.

if you want to dedicate an init file only for the server, initServer.sqf is the one - no client will ever execute it.

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

can interest you 😉

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:09 PM

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Also uh I plan to make like 3 to 5 helis, is there a way to do this without copying code a bunch

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Thanks! I’ll read through them right now

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Holy smokes there’s a ton of init sqf things

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:12 PM

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yes, but you hopefully don't have to use them all 😁

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:12 PM

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Wow the different event scripts are really cool I just got some ideas I should look into in the future

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Right lol

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:12 PM

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just pick the one that fits your usage and build from it

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:12 PM

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And uh about the multiple helis

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Do you know if there’s a way to make it simpler than copying the code a bunch of times?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:13 PM

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it is doable, but you have to have multiple unitPlay data nonetheless

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(unless this is the exact same route you want?)

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:14 PM

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Oh no I’ll be doing different paths, so I guess I could just copy and paste with different variable names

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Thank you so so much btw I’ll try to do this in about 40 minutes when I get home

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:15 PM

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have fun, keep us posted

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:15 PM

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Will do, thanks again.

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 8:17 PM

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bohemia forums down for just me?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:18 PM

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nope, happened right now

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dang this thing is fragile these days. is it the temperature or what 😄

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 8:31 PM

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please help

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https://community.bistudio.com/

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:32 PM

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gibs help

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 8:32 PM

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bad gateway

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:32 PM

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https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/community.bistudio.com.html

Community.bistudio.com Down or Just Me ?

Community down? Check whether Community.bistudio.com server is down right now or having outage problems for everyone or just for you.

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@wary lichen NO CROSSPOSTING #rules 👀

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 8:33 PM

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where to write then?

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I search bis_fnc_sandstorm and bis_fnc_destroyCity

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 8:34 PM

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delete in #arma3_editor plz :p

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thks

wary lichen Jan 24, 2020, 8:35 PM

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can you give offline documentation on the above functions?

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for A2 OA

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 8:39 PM

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just use google's cache

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 8:54 PM

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rip when I want to get started on the thing wiki is down

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big oof

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so @winter rose how do I attach an event handler that's in an sqf file to a heli?

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if I put this in the init field it seems to work but I know you said it's not good to use init

this addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit", "_killer", "_instigator", "_useEffects"];
    deleteVehicle _unit;
}];

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 9:08 PM

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There's nothing "wrong" with using the init field

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 9:13 PM

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If you say so

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also

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this gives me an error with expected object not array

this addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit", "_killer", "_instigator", "_useEffects"];
    deleteVehicle _unit;
    _helithing = [[1000, 1000, 1000], 180, "B_Heli_Light_01_armed_F", WEST] call bis_fnc_spawnvehicle;
    [_helithing, wp1] spawn BIS_fnc_Unitplay;
}];

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when i blow it up of course

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and it does get successfully deleted

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 9:38 PM

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Because BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle returns an array, not an object

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

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Returns - Array format [createdVehicle, crew, group]

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So technically you needed to have as your last line
[(_helithing select 0), wp1] spawn BIS_fnc_Unitplay;

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I assume you have created a waypoint called wp1

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Rather, you have some data called wp1 which is related to unitplay

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 9:41 PM

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oh shoot thank you I see now

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and yeah wp1 should work, in theory

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thank you very much

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omg omg omg it's working

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but uh, since I put the thing in the init field it doesnt respawn the second time after I kill the heli that got spawned in by the first one

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is there a way to like, transfer the contents of the init field?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 9:55 PM

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There's nothing "wrong" with using the init field
There is in certain cases, see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Multiplayer_Scripting @worn forge

Multiplayer Scripting

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 9:56 PM

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wait... now I understand what's causing an annoying bug

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I set up inf. ammo helis that have stuff in their init field

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and sometimes only I can use the inf ammo feature...

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that must be why

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also uh @winter rose how do I give the heli that just got spawned in the same event handler? and how do I add the contents of a separate wp1.sqf file as an array?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 9:59 PM

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grab the reference of the new helicopter, and add Event Handler to it 🙂

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 9:59 PM

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wait yeah but once the new one gets destroyed it doesn't add another event handler anymore

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 10:00 PM

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give me 5s

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:00 PM

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this is what I have so far... it's in the init field sorry

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this addEventHandler ["Killed", {
    params ["_unit", "_killer", "_instigator", "_useEffects"];
    deleteVehicle _unit;
    _helithing = [[1000, 1000, 1000], 180, "B_Heli_Light_01_armed_F", WEST] call bis_fnc_spawnvehicle;
    private _wpdata = [A BIG BUNCH OF NUMBERS aka THE WHOLE PATH FOR UNITPLAY]
    [(_helithing select 0), _wpdata] spawn BIS_fnc_Unitplay;
}];

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 10:01 PM

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ouch

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:01 PM

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It sucks I know :(

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 10:02 PM

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Don't worry we'll get it fine :)

worn forge Jan 24, 2020, 10:02 PM

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It's only wrong if you don't know what you're doing 😉

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 10:02 PM

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It doesn't "suck", you are learning / approaching - and so far you made it progress

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so it's a proof of concept

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:05 PM

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woo go me \o/

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except I can't help but notice how little I know regarding this

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also like - I guess it's fine if it doesn't respawn itself

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so maybe a radio command just spawns a wave of helis

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...do you think that would be easier to implement

fallow hawk Jan 24, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Can you give me a hand?
My campaign broke

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:07 PM

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define broke

fallow hawk Jan 24, 2020, 10:07 PM

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Blackfoot, planting explosives

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I do the first

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EZ

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Do the second?

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:08 PM

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uh I don't really understand what you mean

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this is a custom mission that you're making?

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okay what am I doing I should let someone else take care of this lol

fallow hawk Jan 24, 2020, 10:10 PM

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This is a normal mission

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From the campaign

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This is base game

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oh

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:10 PM

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oh I mean... why are you planting explosives

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sounds like that's like an intentional thing

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where you cant harm friendlies or civies or something

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 10:13 PM

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@fallow hawk wrong channel, i assume

fallow hawk Jan 24, 2020, 10:13 PM

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yep

ebon citrus Jan 24, 2020, 10:13 PM

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This is for creating scripts, not troubleshooting the campaign

fallow hawk Jan 24, 2020, 10:13 PM

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yea

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I got that

faint fossil Jan 24, 2020, 10:30 PM

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@winter rose
so maybe a radio command just spawns a wave of helis
...do you think that would be easier to implement
and how would one go about doing that?

tawdry hatch Jan 24, 2020, 11:20 PM

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How do I add a virtual garage to my mission?

winter rose Jan 24, 2020, 11:59 PM

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@faint fossil ping me tomorrow if you can, I will take a look at that. I have to go for now 😉

rough dagger Jan 24, 2020, 11:59 PM

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Hi .. I am trying to get some AI to board my heli in multiplayer ... of course the SP version (below) does not work. Could anyone suggest how I can make this work in MP

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        _myHeli = (vehicle player);
        _HELI1ATL1 = (getPosATL _myHeli) select 2; // this checks heli altitude 
        _meters = _myHeli distance [15141, 17176]; // this checks how far away the player's heli is from the main pickup point 

        // if player's heli is on the ground and near the pickup zone, units will auto-board 
        if ((_HELI1ATL1) < 1) then {
            if ((_meters) <50) then {
                { _x assignAsCargo _myHeli; [_x] orderGetIn true; } forEach units deployedGroup;
                
                // state transition
                readyToBoardState = false;
                readyToDisembarkState = true;
            };
        };

winter rose Jan 25, 2020, 12:00 AM

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run this from the server, and instead of vehicle player use a named vehicle variable @rough dagger

rough dagger Jan 25, 2020, 12:00 AM

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hey man .. thank you

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I was using a named vehicle before, but I wanted to give the players more choice of heli

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the named asset works great ... should I only use named assets in this situation?

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if you got to go, no worries 🙂

winter rose Jan 25, 2020, 12:25 AM

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ideally yes, because referring to player can be very random, depending if the script runs on the player-server, dedicated server, client etc

rough dagger Jan 25, 2020, 12:29 AM

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thank you Lou

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would there be a way to determine the vehicle name of a heli when a player enters?

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that way i could ID the particular heli in play, and script accordingly from there

winter rose Jan 25, 2020, 12:32 AM

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you could do vehicle thisSpecificPlayer , but then you have to know which player has a vehicle. I suppose you have other criteria

rough dagger Jan 25, 2020, 12:34 AM

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🙂 that is a good steer Lou, thank you ... I will see where this lead takes me ... nice one

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 5:46 AM

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is there a way to execute (via cfgFunctions) a script in the root of the addon folder without specifying the prefix?

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file = "myFile.sqf";

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looks for game root/scripts folder

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is the only way to have a define+include to set it in a separate file?

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 5:47 AM

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?

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 5:55 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/PreProcessor_Commands#FILE

PreProcessor Commands

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Functions_Library#File_Path

Arma 3 Functions Library

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http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-mission-root/

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but for an addon

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 6:02 AM

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Like executing a file outside of the addons/Arma folder, wich is not in any .pbo?

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 6:07 AM

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nope

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you have to specify where the sqf to be executed is located, otherwise the game looks at game root or scripts folder as said

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however if you dont want to hardcode the path, its usually done by definition in separate file via define/macro+include

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for missions there is a way for dynamic path determination

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i am asking if there is also such thing for a addon

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CBA

            class preStart {
                preStart = 1;
                file = PATHTOF(fnc_preStart.sqf);
            };```

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 6:19 AM

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Erm, yeah for example

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Is this what you were asking for?

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 6:20 AM

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nope

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as said this is the define/macro+include way

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i am looking for a native sqf/preproc way

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 6:21 AM

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What are you trying to achieve? 🤔

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Sry, but i don't get what you rly want.

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 6:26 AM

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as linked

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file = "\PATH\file.sqf";

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PATH = not hardcoded, but determined dynamically/on runtime

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most likely its not possible

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but same was thought with mission root and people found ways

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 6:29 AM

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But why? The addon is packed anyway, when it calls to compile cfgFunction for example

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 6:37 AM

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same reason as CBA/ACE does it - to not hardcode the PATH, but define it separately/not define it

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in a mission you also just want to execute [] execvM "dummy.sqf" and not specify the path/name of the mission

rough dagger Jan 25, 2020, 7:30 AM

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If a path is just string, then surely you could concatenate the different parts of the dynamic path together right? It’s not quite what you are after but I am wondering if a dynamic path could be built up in this way...

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Sorry to chime in, but I saw something on JavaScript recently that did something similar...

velvet merlin Jan 25, 2020, 8:29 AM

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FILE doesnt work for this. so it would be via some sqf command but seems not doable

winter rose Jan 25, 2020, 8:35 AM

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@tough abyss can't read the error on mobile
It seems there is an error either in your usage or the script…

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what does the error say?

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contact the author then

if you did as he said and it breaks, it's his

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so it seems

meager ember Jan 25, 2020, 9:33 AM

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might as well tell him first

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@tough abyss giving you a little out-of-band warninig, please remove and refrain from the f-word and similar swearing words here

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here #rules apply, in any case

cosmic lichen Jan 25, 2020, 9:41 AM

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you could try https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_UnitCapture. Also check see also. There are several functions

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I see

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I tested it with multiple units and it works

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I used the example provided with the script

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just created a second unit and executed it

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no error

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they both run and do stuff

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I keep that

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[unitvar] spawn "play.sqf";

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Where are you executing that? From within Eden Editor?

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hmm

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I only get the error you describe when I execute the script from within Eden

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In preview it works fine for 3 units

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You sure the unit variable names are correct? No typo?

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Weird

cosmic lichen Jan 25, 2020, 10:52 AM

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Glad it works now @tough abyss

wet shadow Jan 25, 2020, 11:42 AM

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Hello people, does anyone have any insight if it would be possible to use the Eden editor eventhandler 'OnToggleMapTextures' as a normal eventhandler during a mission?

still forum Jan 25, 2020, 2:27 PM

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@velvet merlin

without specifying the prefix?
no.
CBA/ACE:
as linked
file = "\PATH\file.sqf";
PATH = not hardcoded, but determined dynamically/on runtime
No, actually its hardcoded, the macro is resolved when the config is binarized.

fleet hazel Jan 25, 2020, 2:42 PM

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guys. How do I determine how many items I can put in my backpack?

ebon citrus Jan 25, 2020, 2:56 PM

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@fleet hazel each item has has their own "size". If you know the item size, then use

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

If you dont, but know the item, then use
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/backpackSpaceFor

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I hope that makes sense

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If you want to get the backpack space in general without counting items in there, use

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

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So you need to be a bit more specific on what exactly you want to do

jade abyss Jan 25, 2020, 3:00 PM

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There are still some outdated Config Entrys floating around (something like maxMagazinesCargo (or so) for Items and Weapons too), wich are not in use in A3! So the only way is to get the size of your backpack, get the weight (mass) of the magazine (getNumber from Cfg Entry for example) and do some simple math

ebon citrus Jan 25, 2020, 3:01 PM

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BackpackSpaceFor maybe?

fleet hazel Jan 25, 2020, 3:01 PM

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@ebon citrus loadVest player shows me = 40
getContainerMaxLoad vest player = 140

ebon citrus Jan 25, 2020, 3:02 PM

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Vest is a vest

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Backpack is a backpack

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Those 2 commands return different valies

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Read their description

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Always read the description and notes for scripts you use, dont be like me 😂

fleet hazel Jan 25, 2020, 3:06 PM

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Ok 🙂