arma3_scripting

[high silo]

I also need to be able to unload them at the other end

I could do something similar to this

if ((_veh isKindOf "landvehicle") && (driver _veh == player)) exitWith { 

But for air

[exotic flax]

it's all possible;

• in trigger you can get a list of all units inside it (thisList), so you can filter the player and the heli
• I'm not an expert on waypoints, but shouldn't be too hard to use HOLD waypoints and only trigger them when a player is in the trigger (and loop over ID's)

although you could also have multiple pickup points, so the player has to pickup from multiple helipads which each have it's own AI group

[ebon citrus]

EH "Take" is being fired when you reload. Any ideas?

[exotic flax]

is that a question or statement? 🤔

[ebon citrus]

question if i have done something wrong or is the actrion just being handled as taking

[exotic flax]

because I've never seen that behaviour

[ebon citrus]

kk

could be CBA?

[exotic flax]

no, CBA only extends on existing EH's, not adding behaviour to it

[ebon citrus]

hold on

https://streamable.com/896dd4

[copper raven]

Probably not intended, wouldn't make much sense, as there is Reloaded eh already

[ebon citrus]

it's taking a magazine from something

so probably why it fires

[exotic flax]

it would make sense; since you take a magazine from your inventory, although I doubt it's supposed to do that...

[copper raven]

^

[ebon citrus]

yeah, it makes logical sense, but probably unintended

[warm hedge]

Is there any scripts running besides that?

[ebon citrus]

a bunch, i can try it on vanilla

just something i noticed

[warm hedge]

Better try it in vanilla just to make sure

[ebon citrus]

yep

just launching

same result

on vanilla

[warm hedge]

Just a mission with only a soldier?

[ebon citrus]

empty stratis map with one ammo bearer

[copper raven]

Wonder if put would fire, if you put the magazine from the weapon back to your inventory 😄

[warm hedge]

🤔

[ebon citrus]

here's the debug copnsole scripts:

player addEventHandler ["Take", { 
 params ["_unit", "_container", "_item"]; 
 systemChat "take";
}];```

no other script is running

it's kind of bothersome

it's not even that the player is the container and the unit

but the unit is a groundweaponholder

the container is the player-unit

[exotic flax]

tested on VR, single unit, and it does indeed trigger the magazine loading from dummyweapon.p3d

[valid bison]

Hello, someone can help me ? I want to use "AnimChanged" Event Handler. But they don't detect any animation when i switch weapon. Only when I move. How can I have a detection of the animation when I switch a weapon ? Thanks you.

[warm hedge]

Changing weapon is something different than regular animation so that's why not working in this context; maybe checking the weapon every frame is the way?

[ebon citrus]

isnt there a change weapon eh?

[warm hedge]

IIRC not but might wrong

[valid bison]

No @ebon citrus

And i don't want use a while ^^

[warm hedge]

Don't need to use a while, addMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame",{/*yourcode*/}]; is slightly better

[valid bison]

Each frame isn't the same system ?

[ebon citrus]

action EH?

switchweapon is an acvtion

so you could trigger on all keydown events and if the keydown is for action to switch to antoher weapon, execute the code

[warm hedge]

One can switch weapon without using action menu

[valid bison]

For the moment I'm using "actionkeys". The concern is that I'd like my script to run, once the end of the animation of the change of my weapon.

[ebon citrus]

actionkeys is what i would use

[warm hedge]

Each frame isn't the same system ?
You compare with while? That's a nono

[exotic flax]

but there are a dozen of different keys which could switch a weapon...

[ebon citrus]

dont bind to keys

bind to the action

[exotic flax]

there are also a dozen of actions 😉

[ebon citrus]

i remember doing this to check for players opening interrupt menu

[valid bison]

Yes, and i have write all this keys ^^ But that execute my script when I press my key

[ebon citrus]

switch-case

[valid bison]

But i want to execute my script only when i have change my weapon

[ebon citrus]

or if action in array of actions

wait until weapon is what you want

[warm hedge]

Bind to the action is a massive no (for me) since you can only assign one EH to the action menu today

[ebon citrus]

not the action menu

to key-actions

keybinds

[valid bison]

Yes, waitUntil can work

I will test that

Thanks you 🙂

[ebon citrus]

waituntil and then oneachframe check until weapon is desired

[valid bison]

Ok, thanks you 🙂

[exotic flax]

btw @ebon citrus https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151351 😉

[warm hedge]

onEachFrame is also a big no because of the same reason, could cause a conflict between scripts; addMissionEventHandler ["EachFrame",{}] is better

Not Fixable
F

[ebon citrus]

When unit reloads it takes current magazine and puts it in uniform or vest or backpack and takes another magazine from those containers, so the magazine changes and the action of putting or getting a mag from a container triggers the EH. Granted that the firing on addprimaryweaponitem is a bit odd, however at this point we are not going to touch it as it could introduce unexpected behaviour and break existing functionality in scripts. AFAIK no tweaks have been done to these EHs for a long long time.```

fair enough

[exotic flax]

it's fixable; just would take too much time and effort for something that small

[ebon citrus]

"if it's broken but fixing it breaks other things, dont fix it"

it's a feature now

might want to add this to Biki on the note for "take" EH?

to let people know it fires on reloading aswell

[warm hedge]

Gib a bit

[ebon citrus]

no hurry

i jsut didnt find it immediately obvious when i was using it

[warm hedge]

Nah, it's too late, just a sentence before sleep

[ebon citrus]

fair enough

also, i used displayAddEventHandler for detecting actions with KeyDown

[warm hedge]

Just to make sure, it happened when a unit reloads right?

[ebon citrus]

one of the params was the action that was executed if i recall correctly

yep

[warm hedge]

Okay, consider it done

[ebon citrus]

but not switching attachments

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151351

anyways, i have to figure something else out

might have to override the "take" action from ground-items

[high silo]

So I have managed to make the script only trigger if its a helicopter, thats landed and isnt moving. How do I now tell the AI to get in the heli, I try waypoints in the SQF but nothings happening. I know the scripts running

Is it because I haven't referenced the units before?

[ebon citrus]

can you share the code?

[warm hedge]

BIKI updated

[ebon citrus]

cheers

[high silo]

Basically I need to find a way to make AI placed on the map by another script, be commanded by this script.

Condition:

call{{_x iskindof "helicopter" && isTouchingGround _x && speed _x < 1} count thislist > 0  }

On Activation:

call{_handle = [(thisList select 0)] execVM "Scripts\JAC\Transport\Task1.sqf";}

Then inside that SQF is:

private ["_veh","_vehType"];
_veh = _this select 0;
_vehType = getText(configFile>>"CfgVehicles">>typeOf _veh>>"DisplayName");

if ((_veh isKindOf "helicopter") && (driver _veh == player)) exitWith { 

hint "bing pot";

};```

Inside the QRF is where I need to then order the AI to board the heli thats triggered the condition.

[autumn swift]

Hi I have a question regarding the SQL_CUSTOM protocol in extDB3.
For the normal SQL protocol, you can use the TEXT parameter to make it wrap string datatypes in quotes.
Example: "extDB3" callExtension "9:ADD_DATABASE_PROTOCOL:<DATABASE_NAME>:SQL:<PROTOCOL_NAME>:TEXT"

How can I do the same with SQL_CUSTOM protocol? When I look at the example in the docs, there doesn't seem to be any place to add those parameters:
"extDB3" callExtension "9:ADD_DATABASE_PROTOCOL:<DATABASE_NAME>:SQL_CUSTOM:<PROTOCOL_NAME>:<SQL_CUSTOM_FILENAME>"

Do I have to define this somewhere else?

EDIT: Managed to find the solution. It's enabled by defining OUTPUT=string in the sql custom ini file

[spark rose]

deleteVehicle nearestObject [getMarkerPos "Respawn_West_1", "Campfire_burning_F"];
        "Respawn_West_1" setMarkerPos getPos tester;
        "Campfire_burning_F" createVehicle (tester getRelPos [1, 0]); 

wow that's formatted a bit nicer on my screen. anyway, looking for help creating an object directly in front of the player

i've tried using "direction", "getDirVisual", "getDir", and now "getRelPos"

the object is sometimes off by as much as 30 degrees

[uncut rapids]

What I've done to do this before is you could attach the object to the unit and then detach it right afterwards

Personally I don't like doing trig just to create an object lol

Some other person prolly has an easier solution but attachTo will work if all you're doing is just putting it in front of the unit

[spark rose]

Hmm that's not a bad idea....

[uncut rapids]

Just obj attachTo [unit,[0,distance,(this one will take testing cause sometimes 0 is in the ground)];

Actually wait it's for a campfire right? @spark rose

[spark rose]

yep

[uncut rapids]

I have a script for that lol one sec

_obj attachTo [unit,[0,distance,0.3]];

[spark rose]

hm. think i may have to modify it but i think your idea will work

[uncut rapids]

Np, it worked for me when I made my knockoff Squad logi system lol

[spark rose]

yeah it's not bad (i use Bis_fnc_holdActionAdd), but i don't like how (as opposed to how i was doing it) that it doesn't follow terrain well

hmmmmmmm

[uncut rapids]

yeah thats the only issue, i kinda forgot that cause my build system has a keybind for changing elevation

[spark rose]

        _pos = tester getRelPos [3, 1];
        createVehicle ["Campfire_burning_F", _pos, [], 0,     "CAN_COLLIDE"]

best solution thus far

can_collide results in the exact position, but similar to your attachTo and detach method, sometimes the orientation relative to terrain is a bit off

[high silo]

Is there a way you can find out which vehicle just entered a trigger, then get AI to load into said vehicle.

I manged to do find out if its a helicopter or land vehicle but its as far as I got

[exotic flax]

_veh = false;
{
   if !(vehicle _x == _x) then {
      _veh = vehicle _x;
   };
} foreach thisList;

[winter rose]

``` 😄

also, thislist* @exotic flax

[exotic flax]

I'm on a phone... Blame Google 🤣

And no, it's not THE solution, but will help you to get the correct way in your case...

[hidden talon]

does this syntax look correct for the objectsmapper function? I'm getting a "generic error in expression" from the objectsmapper function itself when running this
0 = [TaskManLocations, 0, call (compile (preprocessFileLineNumbers "TaskMan\compositions\tentcamp.sqf"))] call BIS_fnc_ObjectsMapper;

TaskManLocations is a global variable (or atleast it should be, I was told to just leave out the _ prefix that assumedly used when making local variables) i made in another script file that runs execVM on the separate file that contains the objectsmapper line above, the variable contains an array of markers
TaskManLocations = ["loc","loc_1","loc_2", "loc_4"];

[bold kiln]

Can You attach a player to a Geometry point?

[tough abyss]

0 = [TaskManLocations, 0, call (compile (preprocessFileLineNumbers "TaskMan\compositions\tentcamp.sqf"))] call BIS_fnc_ObjectsMapper;

```Parameters:
    position: Position - (Optional, default [0,0]) 
    azimuth: Number - (Optional, default 0) the template orientation 
    objectsArray: Array - created with BIS_fnc_objectsGrabber 
    badChance: Number - (Optional, default 0) must be in range 0..1. Chances of object non-creation for each object ```

`TaskManLocations` is not a position it's an array

@hidden talon

you want

[hidden talon]

how would I redefine it as an array in that line?

[tough abyss]

i mean you have an array of strings

so you'd have to do a bit of conversion on taskmanlocations to get positions out of that

[hidden talon]

oof, that's far beyond me

[tough abyss]

i can help you

what is "loc", "loc_2", etc

are those actual things or are you using them as placeholders?

[hidden talon]

they're marker names, yeah

[tough abyss]

okay

so here's what you'd do

to get a position of a marker, you use getMarkerPos

since we have an array of these markers, it's impractical to go

_pos1 = getMarkerpos "loc";
_pos2 = getMarkerpos "loc2";
//etc

[hidden talon]

of course, hence why I made an array for them 😛

[tough abyss]

instead, what we can use is called a forEach operator

well

not operator

forEach construct is more apt

anyways

what we'll do, is we'll first assign an empty array for the positions we want to store to be fed into

[hidden talon]

so I would string together a "forEach in array" ish line?

[tough abyss]

_myMarkerPosArray = []```

so we have our empty array defined with the variable _myMarkerPosArray

[hidden talon]

is it possible to define that as a global variable, or is it fine to define that multiple times locally in each of my script files where I need to create a composition with the objectsmapper?

[tough abyss]

now we need to put things in that empty array, which is where our forEach construct comes into play

[hidden talon]

or rather one time each for my composition scripts, not multiple

[tough abyss]

i try to avoid gvars wherever possible, if i have a variable that's existent in one script that i need to get into another i'll do everything in my power to just pass that variable along to the new script

but if you're just starting out and you want to get your foot in the door, it's OK to use gvars

it can just make things sloppy when you end up having a lot, since they all need unique names and can cause problems if you accidentally use the same varname for different things

you want to keep your variables in-scope unless you have to take them out

anyways, back to your code

[hidden talon]

that's what I was hoping for, i basically have a script file that is ran during the mission, which holds the locations array as a global variable, to make it easier on myself i'd rather define the empty extra array in that single file, instead of having to have it locally in each of my individual composition spawner files

and i need to be able to communicate between the file that selects a position, and the composition files

[tough abyss]

myMarkerPosArray = [] //Now a gvar
{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos _x
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos
} forEach taskManLocations;```

so, i did a few things here and i'll explain each one

first i'll explain the forEach construct and how it works

forEach is what you want to use when you want to act on many different values within an array

like we do in this case, for instance

[hidden talon]

what I assume its doing is going over each element in the original array, and grabbing their positions and storing them in the dummy array?

[tough abyss]

correct

and we needed to define that myMarkerPosArray as an empty array, because without it the game would go "what the heck is this" and not know that you wanted to stick these new values in an array

so to summarize, forEach will execute code using each element of an array as an element wherever you define it in the construct

which leads me nicely into the first line of the actual working of the code itself

private _newPos = getMarkerPos _x

[high silo]

Sorry to interrupt your explaining but just quickly encase anyone knows.
Im trying to set the groups variable name when I spawn them in a using a sqf. Anyone know how, I tried a few things but no idea.
This is how I spawn them in:

Spawnteam1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, ["rhsusf_usmc_marpat_wd_squadleader"], [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

[tough abyss]

so this is pretty straightforward. i've defined a local variable, _newPos, to be used exclusively within the scope of this forEach construct (since we don't need it elsewhere)

@high silo will help you when i'm done with tin, one sec

anyways

_newPos is a local variable, as distinguished by our underscore in front of it

and i actually just amended my code to include private, which is a simple command that tells the game that this variable should only be available in the scope that it's defined in

[hidden talon]

i'm still very fuzzy on scopes, I assumed scopes was basically the equivalent to wether a variable is local and global, but it seems to not be the case

i don't want my global variable to be private if private means it's local, when I need to reference it in a separate script

[tough abyss]

private just means it's only accessible within that scope

a scope is different from locality in the sense that a scope is an independent part of your code, whereas locality is where the code is being executed in the game

anyways, back to the example

private _newPos = getMarkerPos _x
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos

so we've defined a new variable, _newPos, to temporarily store the value given by getMarkerPos _x

[exotic flax]

For everyone; all the information provided by Vauun is also available on the wiki, or part of any starter programming course online

[tough abyss]

^

i will provide helpful links when i'm done

now _x is what's known as a 'magic variable'

it's a bit special

[hidden talon]

i'm aware of the wiki, I just have alot of trouble with figuring out syntax, very new to this

[tough abyss]

we all start somewhere 😄

but _x is special because it's representative of the variable currently being operated on in the array provided to forEach

so for each time forEach runs

it will step through the array you give it

and effectively replace _x with whichever value in your array that it's on

[hidden talon]

so _x is only very temporary, until when and if you replace it anywhere else?

[tough abyss]

yes, but you're not replacing it, the game is

[hidden talon]

well, yeah 😛

as i understand it now, its basically a temporary variable that can be whatever you need it to be

[tough abyss]

yes

[hidden talon]

without having to create a new variable to "take up space"

[tough abyss]

in essence

yes

basically, this is keeping you from having to manually write out
newPos = getMarkerPos "pos1"
newPos = getMarkerPos "pos2"

and then manually putting all that in an array

[hidden talon]

so now i just need to pull _x out of the dummy array in some way, and communicate it to the separate script, assuming that's the entire conversion process

[tough abyss]

nope

_x only exists in forEach

all it is is a variable

you don't need to reference it anywhere

the return of our values comes in the next line

myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos

[hidden talon]

oh i see, its already set as the new current variable in the dummy array

so i can just use the dummy array

[tough abyss]

one sec there's a house fly that's really bothering me

alright there's that problem solved

also let me write what this forEach is doing, might make it a touch more understandable

// what we have in our SQF
myMarkerPosArray = [] //Now a gvar
{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos _x;
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos;
} forEach taskManLocations;

//what the game sees

{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos "loc1";
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos;
} forEach ["loc1","loc2","loc3"];
// myMarkerPosArray is currently [[x,y,z]];
{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos "loc2";
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos;
} forEach ["loc1","loc2","loc3"];
// myMarkerPosArray is currently [[x,y,z], [x,y,z]];
{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos "loc3";
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos;
} forEach ["loc1","loc2","loc3"];
// myMarkerPosArray is currently [[x,y,z], [x,y,z], [x,y,z]];```

so while all WE'RE putting into the game is ```sqf
{
private _newPos = getMarkerPos _x;
myMarkerPosArray pushback _newPos;
} forEach taskManLocations;

the game sees and does all that additional stuff below

and the result is an array of the positions for each marker

also i'm bad and forgot my semicolons in the earlier examples

[hidden talon]

that's all making my head hurt to try to interpret, but i think i got the gist of it (mostly at least)

[tough abyss]

exercising your brain is never a bad thing

pushback is pretty straightforward - all it does is appends a new value to the end of an array

so now that we have our positions from our markers

we can do a similar thing for your original code

{
0 = [_x, 0, call (compile (preprocessFileLineNumbers "TaskMan\compositions\tentcamp.sqf"))] call BIS_fnc_ObjectsMapper;
} forEach myMarkerPosArray;```

[hidden talon]

how would it know what _x is since it's in a totally separate file?

[tough abyss]

like i said _x only exists within a forEach loop

[hidden talon]

so _x is _x everywhere where there is an _x for that moment?

[tough abyss]

yes, in that forEach construct

[hidden talon]

how does that not cause conflicts with other scripts defining their own _x?

or is that where scope comes in

[tough abyss]

well for one you can't assign _x as a variable

but yes, it only exists within the scope of your forEach

[hidden talon]

oh i see

i think i understand that a bit better now then, _x is not a real variable in that sense, it's not a string, integer or array, etc, and it doesn't change itself into one, except the game sees it as one within the scopes you're using it in

[tough abyss]

yes and you can only use it in forEach afaik

as for @high silo

Spawnteam1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, ["rhsusf_usmc_marpat_wd_squadleader"], [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;
i see you're trying to use an RHS group to spawn, you need to use 3DEN's config editor to actually get what you seek. the game doesn't know what ["rhsusf_usmc_marpat_wd_squadleader"] is. you need to specify a path to a config entry

to do so, open your config viewer in 3DEN, (i think it's Tools > config viewer) at the top

in the left hand pane, scroll down to cfgGroups

expand that

and then go find the group that you want to spawn

at the bottom there will be a long entry that looks

something >> like >> this >> which >> is >> a >> path

copy/and past that in parenthesis

instead of that array

Spawnteam1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, (something >> like >> this >> which >> is >> a >> path), [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

[high silo]

Configfile
Missionconfigfile

Which one

[tough abyss]

configFile

you can specify your own mission configs but i don't think you're doing that

[high silo]

I am not

How will I know which is the right one, theres tons

[tough abyss]

@hidden talon https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Magic_Variables#x
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SQF_syntax
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_Arma_3
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Functions

How will I know which is the right one, theres tons
you have to click through the cfgGroups entries. they are pretty self-explanatory by name, i think it starts with B / O / I / C (for respective factions) and then it gets more narrow in scope from there

[hidden talon]

thanks, it's claiming _x is an undefined variable, but I'll have a look through the page on it and see if I can't figure it out I guess, thanks for the help so far

[tough abyss]

can you show me your code?

[high silo]

I found RHS but dont know what im looking for directly

Its just giving me all the RHS equipment

[tough abyss]

if you single-click on the various group entries and then look in the large, main window it will have a definition in there that's the actual name you see when clicking for groups in the 3DEN editor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7IHPun3eE > ArmA 3 Editor Tutorial - Config Viewer - Finding Classnames

[hidden talon]

oh I think it's because i did a whoopsie and left out the curly brackets, i've got another issue with a simple switch where I do the actual random array element selection

[tough abyss]

can't boot up arma right now to show you

[hidden talon]

i'll plop it on pastebin, it's quite alot

[tough abyss]

sure

[hidden talon]

https://pastebin.com/Nr4YNk2A

pastebin screwed that line 1 up, don't worry about that

getting an error at line 22, etc where I'm trying to select random from a missions array at the bottom

[high silo]

Ohhh I get it

[hidden talon]

it claims the syntax is wrong but i've tried embracing the cases with brackets, then curly brackets, it seemed to work for a time but I'm out of my depth on that I think

[tough abyss]

aha, you're using case wrong but i see why you're making that mistake

[high silo]

configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry_team" >> "Unit5"

[tough abyss]

@high silo yep, you got it. though i think you drilled down too deep, remove >> "Unit 5" from the end

[high silo]

I already struck oil?

[tough abyss]

you certainly did, Mr. Pink

[high silo]

_team1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, [configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry_team"], [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

[tough abyss]

switch (VARIABLE) do
{
    case ANYVALUE1:
    {
        STATEMENT;
        ...
    };

    case ANYVALUE2:
    {
        STATEMENT;
        ...
    };

    ...

    default
    {
        STATEMENT;
        ...
    };
};``` @hidden talon

see, case doesn't REQUIRE an integer to work

[hidden talon]

even if I have a limited amount of integers in my array?

[tough abyss]

case will match the value given to it against the variable in parenthesis in switch

the variable and values can be anything

[hidden talon]

oh I think i see it now

[tough abyss]

they don't have to be numbers

[hidden talon]

the _objtype already picks a random value doesn't it?

[tough abyss]

sec

@high silo close, but you're using [] instead of ()

(configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry_team")

[high silo]

_team1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, (configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry_team"), [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

[tough abyss]

yep, you got it

[high silo]

I can wait till your done Vauun 😄

[tough abyss]

naw it's fine

it's fun flexing my brain

[high silo]

So how do I now define the group name

[tough abyss]

you did already, it's _team1

_objType = floor(random(11)); i'm not sure what you're trying to do here though @hidden talon

[high silo]

So why didnt it work before?

[tough abyss]

do you just want a random event to happen?

So why didnt it work before?
i mean that function you wrote works, but you may be trying to reference the variable somewhere that variable isn't available

it's a local variable so you can only use it in the same file unless you pass it to another

(or make it global)

[high silo]

Thats what I need to do ^

How I do dat

[tough abyss]

depends on your environment. show me all your code

[hidden talon]

i'm not sure myself, I admit i grabbed the basic switch setup from a reddit post explaining how to spawn pre-made compositions, I had a look at the random wiki page but wasn't sure what the 11 is supposed to be there for, other than possibly adding extra numbers to look for?

i believe originally it picked a random composition file to spawn, and may be leftovers I didn't delete from that, since the random mission switch at the bottom is supposed to deal with that, I commented it out and had the switch reference _rndLoc instead like it probably should, and it magically solved the syntax issue - the script isn't quite working out at all though unfortunately, on the + side there are no more syntax issues

[high silo]

Random script is selected to run, giving them a task to land at a LZ pick up the infantry there and transport them.

Units are spawned in "Task1Units.sqf"

_team1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, (configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry_team"), [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

When the heli lands at the LZ its checked to see if it is a heli, if its come to a complete stop and which heli it is. From there the AI spawned in the other script is then ordered to load in that script. "Task1.sqf":

private ["_veh","_vehType"];
_veh = _this select 0;
_vehType = getText(configFile>>"CfgVehicles">>typeOf _veh>>"DisplayName");

if ((_veh isKindOf "helicopter") && (isPlayer driver _veh)) then { 

  if (team1 distance heli1 < 30) then {
  
    _tra1 = _team1 addWaypoint [[6869.75,1081.69,0],0];
    _tra1 setWaypointType "GETIN NEAREST";

};

};

Can I just add this in the "task1units.sqf"

publicVariable  = "_team1";

[tough abyss]

i would avoid using publicVariable instead just pass the variable

[high silo]

how 😄

[tough abyss]

• side there are no more syntax issues
  @hidden talon it's the little victories! i've been doing SQF for four years now and i still have trouble sometimes, so "no syntax errors" is cause for celebration to drink sometimes

[hidden talon]

i'm just glad I learned a bit about variables and the magic variable today 😛 i've been trying myself for a few years, had a hiatus until now when I'm experimenting with random task generation

always had issues actually learning though when my native language isn't english, and i'm a bit of a thick head unless there's visual learning

[tough abyss]

i got my start by doing eventhandlers that shot jeeps out of a machine gun

i thought that was so amusing i decided i wanted to learn about more than what i could do

now i've done things from fully-MP compatible cutscenes to todd howard boss fights to ace-combat styled 20v20 furballs over takistan at the end of an op

@high silo to answer your question

[hidden talon]

lmao that's a whole lot of progress for 4 years

[tough abyss]

how are you executing task1units.sqf

[high silo]

It will be randomly using the init.sqf but atm to test locally

[tough abyss]

post init.sqf

also be careful about using init.sqf in a multiplayer environment

[high silo]

I havent gotten to coding that part yet, hence locally tested

The init.sqf will just exec the main script, which will pick a random script to trigger from a selection I give it. Once a mission is complete it retriggers the main script in a endless loop untill we get bored and stop

[tough abyss]

so wait why have this in separate scripts

you can have all this in one script

[high silo]

because its the easiest way for me to do it and understand what im doing

[tough abyss]

you're making more work for yourself tho

hold on

if you want to define a bunch of different groups that have the potential to spawn

you can just stick them all into an array

and then select randomly from that array

and pass said value into your spawnGroup function

[high silo]

You lost me

[tough abyss]

ye so you can just

_groupArray = [
(configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "my_group_1"),
(configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "my_group_2"),
(configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> "West" >> "rhs_faction_usmc_wd" >> "rhs_group_nato_usmc_recon_wd_infantry" >> "my_group_3")
];

_groupToSpawn = selectRandom _groupArray;

this will randomly select one of those config entries for use in your spawnGroup function

so you'd then have something like

_team1 = [[6862.94,1083.6,0], WEST, _groupToSpawn, [], [], [], [], [], 308.080] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

[high silo]

That makes sense

But that just raises more questions

[tough abyss]

such as?

[high silo]

So I now have randomish units spawning at the pos, I still need to order them to get in the helicopter when it lands close enough to them.

And create markers for the pilots to head to.

I have a way of telling if the heli is stopped, which heli but I cant order the AI around because they are not defined in that script

[rancid basalt]

Sorry to interrupt, guys, but I have a question that I think should be easy to answer, but I'm having difficulty finding the answer.

I want a script to start when a player walks into a trigger. How do I reference that player? How do I assign them to a variable?

[high silo]

Use a trigger?

[rancid basalt]

Yep

"player"?

[high silo]

In the condition:
if (A distance B < number) then { script here };

Or just use a area trigger like the 10x10x10

[rancid basalt]

Ah, so the player is implied and does not need to be explicitly defined?

[high silo]

Depends what you have the trigger set to

[rancid basalt]

When anyone enters zone

[high silo]

In the trigger you can set the size, type activation etc

Can set it to Blufor, anyplayer, anybody etc...

[rancid basalt]

I am wanting a player to join a group when they enter the trigger zone, but I do not know how to define the player

Or reference them

[high silo]

give the player a variable name in eden when you spawn it

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

[rancid basalt]

[_unitOne, _unitTwo] join (group player);

That's where I am on, I am having difficulty referencing the "_unitOne" when that unit is the player joining a different group

[high silo]

So

[Player21] join (BingPot); 

Unitone is the variable name

Double click on the player, at the top will be a place where you can assign its variable name

[rancid basalt]

In this case, it will be whichever player enters the zone, so I cannot statically assign it to a specific player

I apologize for the noobie questioning. I am extremely new to this.

I am a C++ dev, but writing my first scripts in Arma.

[high silo]

if (A distance ZoneA < 6) then { [A] join (BingPot); };
if (B distance ZoneA < 6) then { [B] join (BingPot); };

That should work

Just do that for every player

Probably a easier way

But thats how I would attempt it

[rancid basalt]

Great! Thank you. It's something I can work off of, at lease.

[high silo]

Connor here might give you a better way

[robust hollow]

why wouldnt you just execute the trigger on clients and do player in thisList as the condition, and [player] join myGrp on activation?

[high silo]

I see him typing /

[robust hollow]

im not seeing a need to define a distance check for every unit

[rancid basalt]

That sounds like a *great idea. So you just create an array on mission init and work from there, I assume

[robust hollow]

.. no?

idk, depends on how you specifically are trying to do it, how i described it the only thing you would need to do in advance is assign a variable to the group so you can reference it.

[rancid basalt]

Ok, thank you. I appreciate the help.

[high silo]

@robust hollow sorry to tag you, but I spent 6 hours trying to work this out but still can't.

I want to spawn a AI squad in one script and assign it's group variable name. So I can then give it a waypoint in another script. Without making it a public variable or running the other script. Any tips?

As atm the other script is saying the group is not defined in its script...

[robust hollow]

is this related to https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/105462984087728128/722615952964976650 ?

[high silo]

Similar but it didn't actually fix a issue just solved one I already knew how to do

#arma3_scripting message

Same as this question just re worded as I think i didn't explain myself correctly

[robust hollow]

that is the correct way to assign the variable. is the group created and given a waypoint on the same client?

[high silo]

No it's created on one script, and assigned in another that's my issue

But I can't create it and assign it in the same script, as one creates the AI and the other checks to see if the player is close enough for the AI to then climb onboard.

[robust hollow]

not quite what i mean. is it a sp or mp mission?

[tough abyss]

I am working on this problem for a client of mine on Fiverr.
The problem sounds simple but of course that is never the case with code.
We are trying to add a tab to the shop in the warlords addon. In the shop we are looking to add a a section where the players can purchase an airstrike on a location, Done by A.I. We are having trouble finding where in the .pbo file, the code for the shop is. If we did know where the code location was then it would be more simple to add that section to the shop in the warlords interface.
If anyone could help find, or make this happen, then please let me know. If you need more details let me know about that too.

[high silo]

Mp

[tough abyss]

Yes, they play mp

[high silo]

No I was answering Connor

[tough abyss]

oh

[robust hollow]

so i mean is the group created on the server and the waypoint is assigned on the server, or do the two scripts execute on different clients.

@tough abyss what pbos have you looked in?

[high silo]

So they are spawned on a server level, but triggered with a player on a client level

But they are both in a sqf file

[robust hollow]

and why would you like to avoid a public variable?

[high silo]

Going to be multiple of them and don't wanna increase strain on the server if possible

There gonna be repeating every 15mins for about 3-4 hours plus other stuff running at the same time

[robust hollow]

doesnt sound so bad

[high silo]

When I tested it with a public variable it didn't work, unless I was assigning it wrong will have another look then

[tough abyss]

The pbos that we have looked in are the missions_f_warlords

that is it

[robust hollow]

try functions_f_warlords.pbo -> \warlords\fn_wlpurchasemenu.sqf

idk if thats the right function but it sounds like a shop menu to me

[rancid basalt]

Ah, yes, Warlords. The Warfare lite

Boy do I miss Warfare BE

[tough abyss]

where would I find the warlords file?

[robust hollow]

inside the pbo

[rancid basalt]

You will probably find that inside of the .pbo

[tough abyss]

where in the pbo. Does it need to be opened as a file and not notepad?

[robust hollow]

what? you open it how you normally do

same as how you looked at missions_f_warlords

[rancid basalt]

https://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=16369

[tough abyss]

in addons right... because we have been opening it in notepad and looking through the lines of code that are there

[robust hollow]

😬

[tough abyss]

I take it theres another way that we have over looked

[robust hollow]

yea. any pbo unpacking tool.

[tough abyss]

oh

[rancid basalt]

I linked it above, but I suppose any would work.

[robust hollow]

that armaholic link is one (though it is outdated)

[tough abyss]

ok

[robust hollow]

though if you are unaware of pbo tools then I'm not sure how much success you're going to have modifying the warlords shop. you shouldnt be modifying it directly in that pbo

[tough abyss]

we havent modified anything. We have just been looking so I think were safe on that one.

[robust hollow]

ok 👍

[rancid basalt]

Are you just trying to add assets? The wiki documentation details how to do this.

[robust hollow]

We are trying to add a tab to the shop in the warlords addon.

https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/105462984087728128/722631602785746966

[rancid basalt]

Ah, that's far beyond me.

[tough abyss]

How the heck do I use the fricken Pbo manager. the file icon is just a blank piece of paper.

[rancid basalt]

I wanna say something, but Connor will just destroy any semblance of knowledge I pretend to have.

You click the green arrow on the upper left and navigate to the .pbo you want to open

Once opened, you right click -> extract the .pbo to a location

[tough abyss]

No im not at that. like downloading the darn thing

Like its not an installer.

[rancid basalt]

Ah, yes. It is zipped using 7z

[tough abyss]

yea

[rancid basalt]

I highly recommend 7z for all of your compression and extraction needs 😬

https://www.7-zip.org/
It's lightweight and portable

end ad

Think Winrar, but it doesn't make you depressed

[tough abyss]

lol

perhaps

[rancid basalt]

Plus it isn't popping CVE's every couple of years...
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3768/Rarlab-Winrar.html?vendor_id=1914

[tough abyss]

what am I opening this file with.

[rancid basalt]

7zFM.exe

Take this to PM, Seb. I don't want to clog this channel

[tough abyss]

Yeah ok

[vernal venture]

Can this be cleaned up at all?

this addAction 
[ 
    "<t color='#96afff'>Gear Up</t>", 
    { 
        params ["_null", "_caller"]; 
        _arsGroup = groupID group _caller; 
        switch (_arsGroup) do 
        {
            if( groupId (group player) == "BlackOps") then
            {
                default {[blackops_box, _caller] call ace_arsenal_fnc_openBox}; 
            };
            if( groupId (group player) == "Undercover") then
            {
                default {[undercover_box, _caller] call ace_arsenal_fnc_openBox}; 
            };
        }; 
    } 
];

I'm not in game to try it, so I'm not sure from looking at it if it'll even work

[robust hollow]

whats the point of declaring a switch statement if you use an if statement to decide what exists inside it? just scrap the switch all together

[vernal venture]

Fair point. I thought I had to define caller in some way like that.

[fair drum]

so haven't used initPlayerLocal.sqf yet. Can I put any normal .sqf scripting commands in there or do I have do some extra parameter setup or anything.

[robust hollow]

works same as everything else. its only special because it is automatically executed for you.

[fair drum]

mk so if I use the variable player in the initplayer, it only targets the player that connected just then? such as,

if (isServer) then {
    [player, "AfricanHead_03"] remoteExec ["setface", 0, player];
};

or do I have to use playableUnits

[robust hollow]

well.... initPlayerLocal is only going to execute on that player... so unless that player is the host, an isServer if statement is completely useless.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Event_Scripts#initPlayerLocal.sqf
look at initPlayerLocal and initPlayerServer, together they might achieve what you're after

[fair drum]

ok then so I should be able to just do

player setface "AfricanHead_03"

and it will apply that skin to every player that joins the game since player is local in the initPlayerLocal

[robust hollow]

no, because only the connecting player would see the changed face.

initPlayerLocal does not execute on all clients every time a player connects. it executes on the client connecting. it is called initPlayerLocal so you can tell it apart from:
init - which executes on the server and players as they connect
initPlayerServer - which executes on the server when a player connects
and initServer - which executes on the server when the mission starts

so you would still want to remoteexec setface

[fair drum]

mk... so use initPlayerServer with the remoteExec above. i saw a clause saying avoid using initPlayerServer.sqf so I was trying to avoid that

[robust hollow]

yea

[fair drum]

would I still use the player variable? how would I tell it to modify only that player that connected? would I have to var every playable unit in the mission?

[robust hollow]

it only executes on the connecting player, so you can either use player or _player from params ["_player", "_didJIP"];

[fair drum]

kk ty

[robust hollow]

oops, partially misread ur message. with initPlayerServer player wont work so use the param variable.

just read the wiki its all very straight forward 👌

[fair drum]

thats what i was wondering. so _playerunit

[robust hollow]

yes

[fair drum]

so I will have to do it for a specific unit var as _playerUnit is undefined until mentioned. I don't want to have to var every playable unit though. what about something like:

{[_x, "AfricanHead_03"] remoteExec ["setface", 0, _x]} forEach playableUnits

[robust hollow]

u saying ur going to run that every time a player connects?

[fair drum]

nah just wondering if that would work so I don't have to do something like unit1, unit2, unit3... etc individually

[robust hollow]

whats wrong with _playerunit?

[fair drum]

well i get an error when I use:

[_playerUnit, "AfricanHead_03"] remoteExec ["setface", 0, _playerUnit]

saying its undefined

[robust hollow]

so define it

params ["_playerUnit", "_didJIP"];

[fair drum]

I guess I haven't learned that yet

[robust hollow]

........ legit just paste it on the line above the remoteexec

[fair drum]

Oh. Guess I need to look up how params work in the grand scheme of things. It seems obvious to you but I thought it was telling me something else.

[winter rose]

usually, parameters are provided in the _this variable.
params "names" and "filters" elements of an array
if no left-argument is provided, params uses the _this variable

params ["_playerUnit", "_didJIP"];
// is approximately the same as
private _playerUnit = _this select 0;
private _didJIP = _this select 1;
```@fair drum 🙂

[velvet merlin]

is there a way to trigger MEH Ended also if you quit a mission via ESC menu?

[ebon citrus]

can i attach a variable to a ctrl?

it's a string variable, so i could use text, but i need text to display texture

[still forum]

setVariable also accepts a control as argument yes

[ebon citrus]

oh, alright

thank you

[ebon citrus]

is there a way to detect if a magazine is for a primary weapon or handgun?

if the answer is crawling the config, i'll do that myself, im just asking if there exists a way

[winter rose]

no command for that afaik

[ebon citrus]

i see

im stuck in the config aswell

there isnt specificly linking anything

i basically need to find out the weapon that uses a specific magazine

and i feel like iterating through the whole config is a bit time-consuming

[winter rose]

a magazine can go in many weapons (see "magazine wells" in config)

[ebon citrus]

oh yeah, i forgot this part

basically i need to find out if the magazine is for a primary weapon or a secondary

but that wont work

since a magazine for a pistol can be used in some primary weapons

can i find the "first" magazine well a magazine can fit into?

might just have to make a list of magazine wells?

or make a lsit of magazines

i really hate hardcoding

[still forum]

can i find the "first" magazine well a magazine can fit into?
There is no ordering in config like that

[ebon citrus]

can i get A weapon a magazine fits into?

just any one

[still forum]

you can parse all weapons, and iterate through all magazines for all weapons and find the ones that fit

[ebon citrus]

that's exactly what i want to avoid, but if need be, yeah

[winter rose]

parse magWells, stop at the first that has the magazine, parse all weapons, stop to the first that can take that magWell

[ebon citrus]

that's so heavy XD

would have to parse at mission-start

"bake" the config for my kind of use

why is legacy arma stuff so hard in arma 3

[winter rose]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_compatibleMagazines if you need

(and, no, there is no compatibleWeapons)

[ebon citrus]

yeah, that's good

thanks

yep, it looks like i'll have to make a list of magazines

ok, hey

usually, secondary weapon ammo doesnt fit into primary weapons

except for the kriss

and sting (scorpion evo)

[winter rose]

9mm is a b****, innit

[ebon citrus]

it is

but with the mods i'll be running, the magazines wont have cross-compatibility between sidearm and primary

i'll just array intersect a list of primary weapon mags and one for secondary weapons

and then find in the primary array

or make just one for secondary mags

and all the rest are either grenades, primary weapons, missiles/rockets or extra

yeah, that would work

Thanks Lou and ded!

hmmm

is "weaponClass" the config entry for the weapon name?

i cant open the config with the mods loaded and im too lazy to launch without mods 😅

for foxes den, how do i get the className from the config

because there doesnt seem to be any standardized data-name for it

i tried _generalMacro

but CUP doesnt like that

can i jsut use the end of the config?

configName

[winter rose]

🔨

[warm hedge]

Improving a skill be like

[ebon citrus]

i continued my project of writing the arma 2 inventory in arma 3

for my arma 2 arma 3 conversion mod/collection

[ebon citrus]

is there a command to remove a magazine from weapon?

or will i just delete the weapon and add it back without a magazine 😅

does removeMagazines also remove the magazine in the weapon?

[warm hedge]

There's no direct command to do it, but setUnitLoadout will do some workaround IMO

[ebon citrus]

mmmh

[warm hedge]

Oh wait a minute...

Correction: removePrimaryWeaponItem/removeSecondaryWeaponItem/removeHandgunItem do the thing

[ebon citrus]

nice

is there a overflow issue with arma 3?

in sqf

is it possible?

[warm hedge]

What do you mean?

[ebon citrus]

never mind, weird edits

i was wondering because i had some strange values in known variables

but it was just windows

yep, it works

👍

now shower

[brave jungle]

I need to get the classname of a squad from a display name that has been filtered to a faction.

  ("true" configClasses (configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> _side >> _curSelFac >> "Infantry")) apply {
    systemChat str _x;
    lbadd [2102, getText( _x >> "name")];
  };
``` is my current code, basically i'm asking how can I "backtrack" from a displayname, simple loop that iterates with given displayname, or is there a better way?

[high silo]

When im trying to get AI to load into a vechile, is it better to use getpos or getposatl

A = getPosATL heli1;
  
    _tra1 = team1 addWaypoint [A,0];
    _tra1 setWaypointType "GETIN";

[brave jungle]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getPos has some examples of the different results each one will give, it depends on the location of it

Example no.2

[high silo]

Im using ATL atm, it moves the AI just right of the heli. I dont understand why.

Thats what im reading through now

[brave jungle]

I tend to just play around with the ones that are relevant until they're what I need

[high silo]

Each time I run it they goto the same pos, which is strange and dont get in

[brave jungle]

I would have done team1 addWaypoint [Heli1, 0];

[winter rose]

addWaypoint [heli, 0]

[brave jungle]

If its moving it wont update iirc

[winter rose]

addWaypoint takes an Object too
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addWaypoint

[brave jungle]

Yeah that ^

[high silo]

Will try that and change the waypoint from GETIN to Load as its going to run on a dedicated server

[winter rose]

…wut? what is the difference, dedi or not?

[high silo]

According the the wiki under Get In Nearest "On a dedicated server, an AI unit will only get in vehicles that are empty."

So I updated the script, and the AI still move but dont actually get in the helicopter... Idk why. They just crowed around it

Maybe its because load only works group to group... Will have to play around

[winter rose]

Get in nearest, not Get in

[high silo]

That doesnt work, thats my issue

[winter rose]

did you attach the waypoint to the vehicle?

[high silo]

They just huddle around the vechile

I placed it on the helis pos

addWaypoint [heli, 0]

[winter rose]

not enough, I believe

[brave jungle]

Yeah that doesn't attach it

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/waypointAttachVehicle iirc

ha beat ya Lou

[high silo]

Ya just googled that, reading up on it now

[winter rose]

zdahp ninja'ing meh or i ban u D:

[brave jungle]

Bump on my question ;)

[ebon citrus]

I dont know if this is true in arma 3, but i recall waypoint under helicopters being set off to to the side in arma 2

Move waypoints would always be placed in a circe around the helicopter instead of right under it

[exotic flax]

Get In Nearest
The group will only move to the waypoint if there are any empty vehicles, or vehicles on the group's side with empty seat spaces, that are within about 50m of the waypoint's location.
...
On a dedicated server, an AI unit will only get in vehicles that are empty.

[ebon citrus]

Possibly to make AI not walk under a landing heli

[winter rose]

@brave jungle you can't exactly backtrack precisely, as groups could have a same name (e.g BLUFOR/OPFOR Scout)

[brave jungle]

I feared that too, just not sure how to retain the classname for later use

[exotic flax]

can't you use stuff like lbSetData or lbSetValue as hidden variables?

[high silo]

So im looking at something like this?

    _tra1 = team1 addWaypoint [heli1,0];
    _tra1 setWaypointType "GETIN";
    [_tra1, 2] waypointAttachVehicle heli1;

[winter rose]

private _classPath = _x
lbEntry setVariable _classPath ?

_tra1 = team1 addWaypoint [heli1, 0];
[_tra1, 2] waypointAttachVehicle heli1;
_tra1 setWaypointType "GETIN";
```maybe this ^ is better

[brave jungle]

Ugh... more rework of my code :c

Didn't think the setData etc

so i'll look into it

[winter rose]

you can hopefully store config, yes 😉

[exotic flax]

no idea how it works though... never got into GUI stuff myself that deep...

[winter rose]

backtracking would be awful really 😄

[brave jungle]

backtracking would be awful really 😄
Yeah in hindsight if it errored it would be catastrophic hah

infinite loading screen

[high silo]

So with [_tra1, 2] waypointAttachVehicle heli1; I got a error saying it got a array but expected a group...

Will changing the _tra1 to the group fix that?

[winter rose]

@brave jungle

// just kidding, don't try this at home
private _t = time + 10;
private _thread = [] spawn { /* backtrackingCode */ };
waitUntil { time > _t || not isNil "TAG_resultVariable" };
if (isNil "TAG_resultVariable") then {
  terminate _handle;
};

@high silo
_tra1 is absolutely not speaking. would you have named it _getInWaypoint, you would get it 😉

[high silo]

Well either way, hes running to the same bush like a moron. And not getting in the heli right next to him.

    _getinwaypoint = team1 addWaypoint [heli1, 0];
    [_getinwaypoint, 2] waypointAttachVehicle heli1;
    _getinwaypoint setWaypointType "GETIN";
``` Better 😉

[winter rose]

no
waypointAttachVehicle takes a waypoint

[high silo]

So this?

    _getinwaypoint = team1 addWaypoint [heli1, 0];
    [team1 , 2] waypointAttachVehicle heli1;
    _getinwaypoint setWaypointType "GETIN";
``` cos if yes it still doesnt work

[winter rose]

have you considered, you know, using _getInWaypoint?

😄

you don't have to number them manually, the engine does that itself
grab the waypoint reference from the addWaypoint, and only use this from there

also, don't blindly copy/paste from the wiki 👀

[high silo]

I think I get what you mean

_getinwaypoint = team1 addWaypoint [heli1, 0]; 
waypointAttachVehicle heli1; 
setWaypointType "GETIN";

Or am I completely missing it

and should just cry in a ditch

[winter rose]

waypointAttachVehicle takes a waypoint
setWaypointType takes a waypoint

sooo use the waypoint 😄

[high silo]

    _getinwaypoint = team1 addWaypoint [heli1, 0]; 
    _getinwaypoint waypointAttachVehicle heli1; 
    _getinwaypoint setWaypointType "GETIN";
``` **cries** this?

[winter rose]

YESSS yes, that is it ^_^

[high silo]

So it worked but only one got in, so now I have to backtrack and find where I went wrong.

Thankyou btw 🙂

[shut shadow]

Is there any way to check if an item is going to cause a premium content DLC message when attempting to pick it up?

[warm hedge]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_DLC_Restrictions
If you only need a document, here's the thing

[rancid basalt]

I've got a very broad question, but I would like to modify an Official BIS mission function, and I was wondering how I should go about doing that? Of course I cannot modify the pbo, but can I just rewrite the function locally in description.ext or something like that?

[warm hedge]

You're true

[winter rose]

@rancid basalt you cannot override a BIS function unless you use a mod
you can create a new one if you want.

[shut shadow]

thanks @warm hedge

I'm looking for some of the inventory items added by Old Man, I think they may be too recent for this list though, unless I'm typing my classnames wrong

[winter rose]

the list is for A3 v1.98, it should be fine @shut shadow

[warm hedge]

Maybe they aren't listed, suppose aren't restricted tho

[rancid basalt]

@winter rose Alright, thank you. I was, specifically looking to add a menu tab to the Warlords game-mode to add the ability to purchase groups into High-Command. I noticed Jezuro made an edit to Warlords where he added some menu features.

[ebon citrus]

i guess there is no script to remove a magazine with a specific ammo count from a unit's inventory

addMagazine takes a parameter for ammount, but removeMagazine doesnt

looks like i'll have to write my own function for removing loadout-elements

[exotic flax]

Remove all, add whatever you need 🤔

[ebon citrus]

i was expecting embed, but i guess that's disabled for a reason

or...

setloadout

im just going to write a function that gets loadout, removes whatever is needed and sets loadout

[exotic flax]

getloadout -> modify array -> setloadout

[ebon citrus]

exactly

but in function form

because it's a repetitive task

not really a question

just something i found curious

wouldn't be hard to do, engine-side

[exotic flax]

Get and set loadout are actually functions in Arma 🤣

[ebon citrus]

i guess there is no script to remove a magazine with a specific ammo count from a unit's inventory

addMagazine takes a parameter for ammount, but removeMagazine doesnt

[exotic flax]

magazinesDetail gives a list of magazines with ammo count, although afaik it's not possible to remove by ID.
Although you could see how many have x amount ammo, and then remove (or not add) that amount of new magazines

[ebon citrus]

is there a wildcard parameter in sqf?

i need to find a an array inside an array

but one of the members of that array is unknown, but irrelevant

[still forum]

no

findIf

[ebon citrus]

fair enough

yeah, that works

just not as clean

[winter rose]

if it is a "pair", there are the findInPair functions

[ebon citrus]

sadly it's 3

3 elements

yeah, it works well

[high silo]

Me again... Im trying to spawn random group at a random location. It works but they keep spawning in the same location each time I execvm the sqf. Anyknow know if a script thats been execvm once it gives the same results every time?

_locationArray = [
    ([6864.03,1092.65,0]),
    ([7307.99,744.952,0]),
    ([7441.67,849.606,0]),
    ([7389.13,456.576,0]),
    ([7591.29,340.919,0]),
    ([7888.78,434.569,0]),
    ([7759.82,517.202,0]),
    ([7593.39,690.979,0])
    ];

_locationToSpawn = selectRandom _locationArray;

Thats how im picking a random one.

Does it save the location once picked unless restarted?

[ebon citrus]

assuming container to remove item from is unit's uniform

params["_unit","_className","_count","_container"];

_unitLoadout = getUnitLoadout _unit;

switch ( toUpper _container ) do {
            case "UNIFORM": {
                _uniform = (_unitLoadout select 3);
                _uniformItems = (_uniform select 1);
                _index = _uniformItems findIf {_x select 0 == _className && _x select 2 == _count};
                _item = (_uniformItems select _index);
                _item set [1, (_item select 1)-1];
                _uniformItems set [_index, _item];
                _uniform set [1, _uniformItems];
                _unitLoadout set [3, _uniform];
                _unit setUnitLoadout _unitLoadout;
                systemChat "dropped";
                
            };
            case "VEST" : {
            
            };
            case "BACKPACK" : {
            
            };
    };

passed arguments are ["_unit","_className","_count","_container"]
where _unit is the unit, _classname is the className of the magazine, _count is the amount of rounds in the magazine and _container is the inventory-item. HAVE NOT CONFIGURED VEST AND BACKPACK YET

[high silo]

Nevermind, its picking at random each time. But its the marker im using the check thats not working. Nevermind 😄

[still forum]

Does it save the location once picked unless restarted?
it can't

[ebon citrus]

Ded, can you check if my code is stupid?

it works 🤷‍♂️

but im not confident

[still forum]

looks pretty annoying to read

[ebon citrus]

i hate not being able to array[index][index]

[winter rose]

uff… https://sqfbin.com/ please

[still forum]

_uniformItems set [_index, _item]; useless
_uniform set [1, _uniformItems]; useless
_unitLoadout set [3, _uniform]; useless

[ebon citrus]

what?

[still forum]

code is too short to need sqfbin

[ebon citrus]

ok, im coming from C

[still forum]

same thing in C

[ebon citrus]

not...

wait...

so it returns a pointer?

[still forum]

every variable in SQF is a reference to a value

[ebon citrus]

i thought it returns a copy of the array

not a pointer to the array

is there a copyarray?

[still forum]

+_array

[ebon citrus]

so thsi would return a copy of an array?

_item = ((_uniformItems select _index)+[]);```

[still forum]

no

thats...

looks like a syntax error

and thats not what i posted

[ebon citrus]

yep

dont get stuck on that

[still forum]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/%2B

[ebon citrus]

edited the opriginal post

wopuld that return a copy of the array?

[still forum]

still a stupid way to do that

it would result in a copy

but thats not what I wrote

[ebon citrus]

_item = (+(_uniformItems select _index));

yes, because i wrote it

[still forum]

weird, and inefficient.. but yeah

[ebon citrus]

would that do the trick?

[still forum]

if _item is an array then outside + will copy less

yeah. but outer parenthesis not needed

[ebon citrus]

does it matter in performance?

[still forum]

but in your code snippet above, I see no reason to copy

[ebon citrus]

yep

[still forum]

does it matter in performance?
parenthesis no

[ebon citrus]

i jsut wanted to know what was the syntax for copy

thanks for the quick lesson

_uniform = (_unitLoadout select 3);
                _uniformItems = (_uniform select 1);
                _index = _uniformItems findIf {_x select 0 == _className && _x select 2 == _count};
                _item = (_uniformItems select _index);
                _item set [1, (_item select 1)-1];
                _unit setUnitLoadout _unitLoadout;
                systemChat "dropped";```

better?

dont focus on the systemchat

that's jsut for debug

[still forum]

+[] please don't

[ebon citrus]

yes, i saw that

it escaped

syntax error

[still forum]

that is for concatenating two arrays, the copy is a side effect

[ebon citrus]

and i typed it there by accident

corrected

it was unintentional edit

[still forum]

that'll work.
you could do
_uniformItems = _uniformLoadout select 3 select 1

to shorten it

[ebon citrus]

yep

i can do (_uniformItems select _index) set [1, (_item select 1)-1]; aswell?

or is that too unreadable

it would save me one variable

[still forum]

no, _item would probably be undefined in your snippet

[ebon citrus]

oh yeah

i need that

good eyes

[still forum]

whether you get rid of _uniformItems or _items... not much difference`
besides that _items is much more useful

[ebon citrus]

anyways, thank you lots

i would totally not have noticed that pointer-related mistake

is the effect of addMagazineAmmoCargo global?

im blind

it is...

can i get a hammer?

@exotic flax magazinesAmmo seems more useful than MagazinesDetail for scripting

magazinesDetail seems more about string representation, giving you an easy way to display magazine info for the user

magazinesAmmo gives an array with 2 elements per magazine, one for the classname and one for the ammo count

[uncut rapids]

yes and if you want more detail, ie location of magazine in containers (uniform,vest,backpack) and whether its loaded or unloaded in a weapon you could use magazinesAmmoFull which comes in handy sometimes, idk what your end goal is tho

[ebon citrus]

my end goal is convoluted and useless

i.e. Arma 2 inventory in Arma 3 😅

[uncut rapids]

understood

been a while since I've played A2 I cant even remember the UI if I tried lol

[ebon citrus]

a lot of way to go, but i'm somewhere. Here is a screencap:
https://imgur.com/CdeZJXP

still need to move the pistol magazines to the pistol-bar

whole backpack is unfuctional

need to do that

im just fixing stuff with the main inventory still

[uncut rapids]

that looks pretty good though

im assuming the map, compass, etc would go on the bottom boxes?

[ebon citrus]

yep

the allignment still needs work, it's just there to be close

[uncut rapids]

gotcha, that one will be pretty straight forward, assignedItems would be the backbone prolly
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/assignedItems

[ebon citrus]

😅

all planned out

there is just a lot of script that needs to be written to handle all kinds of edge-cases

but it's progressing

why? Idk, im pissed that i couldnt finish it a few months ago and gave up

now im back

[uncut rapids]

i feel that

[ebon citrus]

but yeah, i handled that issue already

[astral dawn]

:O
Arma preprocessor deletes commas from a string passed as macro argument?!

#define STUFF(text) [text]
STUFF("Hello,,, 123")

If I preprocess it, I get this:

[""Hello 123""]

[plain current]

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

Macro arguments may be composed of any characters, as long as they do not contain a comma (because commas are used as argument-delimiters).

[astral dawn]

Jesus Christ... (this atop of all other problems with this preprocessor)

[plain current]

Have fun 😉

[astral dawn]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Spent so much writing my beautiful framework for managing text to meet this in the end

[plain current]

Note however that although the macro gets resolved properly, the comma gets removed from the String *(probably a bug)*.

[astral dawn]

I know but I don't want to have missing , in my texts. Any workaround for this?

[plain current]

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

#define HINTARG(ARG) hint ("Passed argument: " + str ARG)
#define array1 [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0] 
HINTARG(array1); // SUCCESS

[quaint ivy]

Yo, its a bit easier for me to ask here than to search so: If I have a variable that represents an object or a marker, and I delete that object/marker, does the variable automatically get deleted after some time because it's value is nil?

[astral dawn]

No, variable will become objNull for the object case

isNull

but not nil

marker reference is just a string, when you delete marker the variable will remain in its previous value (string)

regarding my problem: another idea - make string not part of macro

[quaint ivy]

So to get it deleted, do I manually have to nil it?

[astral dawn]

you should, but if you are using global variables, you should rethink if you really need them

perhaps you can just ignore this issue, unless you are having 1000s of such variables, and in this case it gets quite interesting, why would you have it like this

[ebon citrus]

what's the error?. Error emssage attached below:
https://imgur.com/a/WQPbLu6

right is 0

can i not compare numbers with != ?

[astral dawn]

generic error 😄

you can

are you sure it's 0?

[ebon citrus]

yep

wait

[quaint ivy]

_right has to be a number

[astral dawn]

:DD

[ebon citrus]

it's not a number

it's a string

[quaint ivy]

lol

[ebon citrus]

if(_left != "0")

fixed

XD

i forgot that you cant set numbers into a listnbox

[quaint ivy]

@astral dawn Im working on a system that can create random missions. With such a system i need a good cleanup script. My cleanup script works perfectly when it comes to automatic detection of enemies that should be deleted, however I'm looking for a way to pass additional garbage to it. My issue comes from the fact that the missions are completed trough a trigger so I need a way to pass this variable on trigger activation.

[ebon citrus]

fixed a dupe-glitch in my inventory

[astral dawn]

@astral dawn Im working on a system that can create random missions. With such a system i need a good cleanup script. My cleanup script works perfectly when it comes to automatic detection of enemies that should be deleted, however I'm looking for a way to pass additional garbage to it. My issue comes from the fact that the missions are completed trough a trigger so I need a way to pass this variable on trigger activation.
You should consider using OOP for this
|| i must hide myself, the hate for OOP is incoming||

[ebon citrus]

if the target had no gun, but you had a gun, the game would swap your gun to the target but retain a copy with you because the target's gun was none-type

[brave jungle]

I'm looping to add each config path for each squad via a list box selection (was talked about earlier today here, got busy) via:

_squadArray = "true" configClasses (configfile >> "CfgGroups" >> _side >> _curSelFac >> "Infantry");
  {
    lbadd [2102, getText( _x >> "name")];
    lbSetData [2102, _forEachIndex, _x];
  } forEach _squadArray;

then simply attempting to extract via lbData and using the lbCurSel , however it returns as "" meaning lbSetData isn't working, anyone used this command before and can shed some light on it?

[plain current]

lbSetData only takes strings as the data

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lbSetData
data: String

[brave jungle]

So it does...

Ha

[ebon citrus]

lnb > lb

fight me in a civil manner which wont involve any arguments or flaming/trolling

🇱🇳🇧

[plain current]

[ebon citrus]

is in case sensitive with strings?

[cunning crown]

In think so

[ebon citrus]

time for toUpper

[cunning crown]

See example 6: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/in (and the header note)

[ebon citrus]

Pistol magazines now in pistol-belt. Image attached below:
https://i.imgur.com/wTp3fc0.png

[astral dawn]

are you redoing arma 2 inventory?

[ebon citrus]

and some unfortunate bystander's 6.5 mags to show it separates primary and secondary mags. Image attached below:
https://i.imgur.com/u3GbIIC.png

yep

[astral dawn]

cool

but you could take arma 2 inventory from arma 2 I think?

or is it hardcoded?

[ebon citrus]

i think it is

and you couldnt

because some of the stuff arma 2 inventory evidently relies on is not present in arma 3

and it's not a for the end goal

it's for the journey

[tough abyss]

Suggestion for that Inventory would be to change the colors and that’s it would looks amazing with different colors

Ik it’s based on Arma 2 colors but yeah just a suggestion

[ebon citrus]

you can change the colors, that's not an issue

[tough abyss]

Yeah ik

[ebon citrus]

well, you cant change the background

but colour stuff is still to come

[tough abyss]

Why?

[ebon citrus]

the very very background is a static image

because i couldnt get the arma 2 cut corners in arma 3

[tough abyss]

Oh ok

[ebon citrus]

everything else but the corners is a ctrl

and the filter-list

[cunning crown]

because i couldnt get the arma 2 cut corners in arma 3
You can just create images for these cutted corner ^^

[ebon citrus]

yeah, but that would defeat the purpose

im pretty sure you can change the colour still

arma 3 can tint pictures in controls? irhgT?

well, will have to look into it at a later date

there's a lot visual-wise that's still WIP

[astral dawn]

arma 3 can tint pictures in controls? irhgT?
As I recall, yes

like markers

[ebon citrus]

mmmh

[cunning crown]

I'm pretty sure that it can recolor a blank white picture so yeah probably

[ebon citrus]

im tackling the backpack-code next

the backpack or the description box

either one

🤷‍♂️

i need to change the scrollbar of the inventory to the arma 2 one aswell

non-issue, i've done it before

[cunning crown]

Imo, the best is to do that brown rectangle with the cutted corner an image and the rest just static things, then you can recolor it easily (if you want)

[ebon citrus]

yeah, youre right

but that's visual stuff

i need to adjust the alpha and the fonts aswell

but im doing the stuff that actually matters first

this inventory wont allow you to change uniforms, vests, hats etc. either

and it probably wont work with all uniforms out-of-the box

since you need to configure the uniforms to have sick inventory capacity

but im including modded uniforms with it

arma 2 dealt inventory capacity in slots. Arma 3 deals in weight

so either i have to change all item weights... or i can make the uniform inventory huge

not a difficult one

you wont be able to overfill the slots, though

and if you want a magazine to take more than 1 slot, you need to configure it with the mod

unfortunately

i'll probably configure all vanilla-items

but modded items will be up to you

i'll work through all the modded items in cup etc. as i have time

and make them into compatibility patches

that's the plan, atleast

[ebon citrus]

the backpack is weird

hmmm

might do it in my own way

i dont like hardcoding it

i'll see to improving it later

and i know

[warm venture]

Alright so im trying to make it so SWAT can use UAVs on my server. I set their character slots to UAV operators, which is fine if they go up and "hack" the uavs, then it gives them control to them (even though they are spawned in by the altis life vehicle buying system), but I want to know what code runs when you say to "Hack UAV" so I can make it automatically happen when they buy one

[ebon citrus]

ummm...

check the script that's attached to the action?

take a look here for hints: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/connectTerminalToUAV

[warm venture]

if (typeOf _vehicle == "B_UAV_02_F") then {
    player connectTerminalToUAV _vehicle;
};

I'm doing this, but it doesnt seem to do anything..

[restive leaf]

Do they have a UAV terminal sided with the UAV in question?

They also have to have it equipped when the command is run

[warm venture]

Yes, NATO uav terminal.

if I spawn it through infistar then hack it, it works

through infistar, I need to spawn it then hack it, then it works fine. If I hack one spawned by altis life's vehicle system, I cant take controls but I can connect to it..

[restive leaf]

Oh, don't know anything about Altis Life...

[warm venture]

my code looks fine though?

[exotic flax]

Nothing wrong with that piece of code, but can't tell how bad the rest is...

[warm venture]

well the rest is all stock.

[exotic flax]

Arma 3 stock? Or some Life framework stock?

And which side is SWAT? NATO, OPFOR, INDEP?

(since it's not A3 vanilla)

[tough abyss]

@exotic flax the tonic framework

[ebon citrus]

is there a way to detect if a display is destroyed by ESC. Im having no luck with onDestroy

sahInvEh = (findDisplay 5730) displayAddEventHandler ["Destroy", {
            systemChat "closed";
            (findDisplay 5730) displayRemoveEventHandler ["KeyDown", sahInvEh];
        }
];```

@warm venture player is a local variable

are you running this code in server-environment or client-side?

[warm venture]

On the server, in a client script.

the server references the player by "player"

[ebon citrus]

it cant

player only exists on clients

[warm venture]

_vehicle setVariable ["vehicle_info_owners",[[getPlayerUID player,profileName]],true];

thats in the altis life script.

[ebon citrus]

player is the player object

[warm venture]

it works fine in all other aspects

[ebon citrus]

where is this running?

[winter rose]

it works fine in all other aspects
so the script is client-side 😄

[warm venture]

fn_vehicleShopBuy.sqf on altis life 5.0

@winter rose As I said, its running on the server, in a client script.

its not a mod.

[winter rose]

"running on the server, in a client script" makes absolutely no sense

[warm venture]

the file is on the server

[winter rose]

"scenario script, executed client-side" maybe more

[ebon citrus]

you'll have more help on the Altis life discord or whatever

[warm venture]

they're worthless

[ebon citrus]

this is way too much context to explain

i see

[warm venture]

player connectTerminalToUAV cursorTarget; running that through debug on local doesnt work

[ebon citrus]

is the terminal already connected?

If UAV is already connected to another terminal, this new connection will fail.

check the return

[warm venture]

its not connected to anything

[ebon citrus]

if it returns false,then the UAV is already connected

try isUAVConnected

[warm venture]

if (isUAVConnected cursorTarget) then {hint "Connected";};

doesnt hint, so shouldnt be

[ebon citrus]

hey

do you have spyglass or whatever?

[warm venture]

Its disabled

[ebon citrus]

it might be filtering the command

or BE filters

[warm venture]

even filtering it when run from a script?

[ebon citrus]

it's local

if youre running it from the client, then YEAH

isnt that obvious?

make sure it's not being filtered out

[warm venture]

do be filters go in battleye/launch or just battleye

[ebon citrus]

ask altislife discord

i dont mess with that stuff

or ask someone smarter here

😅

[restive leaf]

Most of whom also don't mess with that stuff 😉

[ebon citrus]

there's a time and place for everything

[warm venture]

isnt it universal? for epoch, exile, wasteland

[ebon citrus]

in the same way that linux is universal with windows

bad example

but the context is too much

someone who does not work with the framework will have a hard time just getting up and saying what's wrong with it

but im suspecting it's BE filters

or spy-gass

no offense to tonic

[warm venture]

all the offense

[ebon citrus]

that's what it likes you to think

yeah, profanity is bad

[warm venture]

deleted it so i dont get another warning for saying a naughty word on an 18+ game

[ebon citrus]

16*

arma 3 is only pegi 16

i dont know how

[warm venture]

11 year olds these days swear more than adults.

[ebon citrus]

it has cussing, blood, extreme violence and spiders

[warm venture]

spiders

[restive leaf]

Which is completely irrelevent to a policy on what is acceptable in a company discord...