arma3_scripting

[south gale]

Thanks

If someone can hop in VC with me this is getting out of hand, none of my scripts are working

[coarse dragon]

How would I get a battleship to fire on a area of the map?

[quasi sedge]

#arma3_scenario just create waypoint "Fire" and sync to ship

[coarse dragon]

Oh.. its that easy?

[quasi sedge]

@coarse dragon better just utube it.. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arma+3+order+bots+fire

[next meteor]

Hey, I am currently trying to make a RHS-SU-25 make a bombing run on a designated target (by waypoints).
Current script is this forceWeaponFire ["rhs_weap_fab250", "LoalAltitude"];
Looked the weapon type up and added the one which was shown on the list. Under Mode (firing mode) there is just a "this. Might this a problem with "LoalAltitude"? Why doesnt it work with "this" then?

Currently thinking of maybe switching the pylons somehow to vanilla bombs and use the base script I found, but would there the addMagazineTurret or smth like that work?

[copper raven]

this means you should pass the weapon class itself as the firemode

[coarse dragon]

Why does !alive work

Well.. not work

[distant oyster]

it does

[coarse dragon]

Yet it don't

[fair drum]

well how are you using it?

[open fractal]

How does preloadObject work? I don't see an indicator for locality on the wiki page, or really an explanation of how it functions.

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

[fair drum]

i would treat that as a local command

[open fractal]

I'm having a hard time figuring out if it's a setting for the object or for the machine rendering it

[bitter jewel]

after a player takes control of a unit, the units face gets swapped to the players face. is the data about which was the units old original face completely discarded, or does that information still live somewhere during the mission?

[lyric copper]

Does anyone know what are the common culprits for BIS_fnc_init being evaluated to false and causing BIS_fnc_preload to timeout? Created a new MP Type module and starting to loose the plot.

Symptoms:

1. Connect to server and play mission - no problem here; server and clients preload <300ms
2. Complete mission or issue #restart server command
3. Mission starts. Server preload finishes <300ms. Client preload times out at >20000ms - only load screen active is BIS_fnc_preload but BIS_fnc_init check returns false throughout preloading

edit:
no (custom) functions running in the preinit or postinit phases. Only 1 module placed running a custom function - module function is spawned. No script errors in the RPT

[little raptor]

What you ask is not related to regex at all. regex is used to find a pattern in text.
maker types are defined in config

[little raptor]

in mission.sqm
oh right
well type is used for many other stuff, not just markers, so you still need to check the config, or dataType in mission.sqm
but anyway, the regex is:

type *= *"(\w+)"

if there are no spaces before and after = you can just write:

(?<=type=")\w+?(?=")

which won't highlight the type=" part

[hasty current]

If a unit has allowDamage set to false, are there any event handlers relating to a unit being hit that still get called? I want to make a unit that runs away if hit but cannot be killed/actually damaged. I tried Hit, but it seems it didn't work

[copper raven]

have you tried handledamage?

tho it's probably the same story

[little raptor]

use handleDamage to prevent damage directly, instead of allowDamage false

there are some weird cases that handleDamage can't handle tho

damage from projectiles and other external sources should be ok

[hasty current]

Will that work with ACE, though?

[little raptor]

dunno. iirc no

but you better test

[copper raven]

aslong as it's not something with flipping vehicles upside down, it's ok from my experience 😄

[hasty current]

I mean I did try it earlier and it didn't work, but I'll try again in case I did something wrong

[little raptor]

I noticed that sometimes my AI units die from "fall damage". but it works like 99% of the time, and I have no idea why that 1% of the time it fails

[little raptor]

handleDamage should still trigger even if damage is disabled

I remember that ACE had a weird damage bug despite the fact that I had disabled damage

I think it was passing the damage from handleDamage
if so it should work then

[hasty current]

Here's hoping 🤞

[little raptor]

if it doesn't work I'm pretty sure ACE should still have its own "handleDamage" event.
if so you might be able to use that instead

[copper raven]

https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/medical/functions/fnc_addDamageToUnit.sqf#L61

that should be ok

[hasty current]

It does! Thank you so much

[pearl night]

Hello,
what would be the script to play the mission completed ending cinematic on the server without actually ending the mission?
I want the player to know the mission is over so they can disconnect, but I want to save their loadouts so I need the mission to keep running.

[winter rose]

you can end the mission and execute a script?

(Mr Kain, let me tell you I appreciate your legacy)

[pearl night]

An oldtimer, eh? Nobody remembers the game these days. 🙂

Anyhow, I'm not good at scripting, I need to export them manually. I'v tried the export mission.sqm in the zeus, but it won't export players loadouts, only AI. Is there a script to export players loadouts?

[winter rose]

well how do you want them? is stored in your user profile ok?

[pearl night]

This is what I'm doing: I'm hosting a mission on my dedicated server. The mission is zeused by me. I want to carry over players equipment in between missions, so they start a new mission with the equipment they had on themselves at the end of the previous mission.

[winter rose]

okay, now I see 🙂
you could save the loadouts in e.g profileNamespace (saves even after restart) or uiNamespace (lost after game shuts down) or "just" the clipboard

profileNamespace setVariable [
  format ["KAIN_%1_%2", missionName, systemTimeUTC],
  allPlayers apply { [name _x, getPlayerUID _x, getUnitLoadout _x] };
];
```something like this

[pearl night]

So, I can execute this script at the end of the mission and this will create a file somewhere (like a log with all the loadouts)?

[winter rose]

@little raptor do better plz

[little raptor]

well what about the case where a player disconnects? they lose their loadout
also:

format ["KAIN_%1_%2", missionName, systemTimeUTC],
how are you gonna fetch this again? system time changes

[winter rose]

allVariables

well what about the case where a player disconnects?
server-side

he manually runs the script at the end of the mission

format ["KAIN_%1_%2", missionName, systemTimeUTC]
```can be replaced by```sqf
format ["KAIN_%1_end", missionName]
```ofc

[little raptor]

yeah that's what I meant

[pearl night]

Guys, I'm not following. 🙂

Give me something foolproof. 🙂

[little raptor]

if I were doing it I'd be using a hashmap on the server, with [uid, loadOut] pairs. I'd update this HM with every time someone disconnects. (tho not sure if the loadout can even be fetched then?)
once the mission ends (using MPEnded EH), I'd save the hashmap to profile namespace...

so yeah it's a long answer and I'm not in the mood

[pearl night]

I can just execute it manually before the mission ends. And I just need the loadouts of surviving players that are still connected.

[little raptor]

then just use what Lou wrote

[pearl night]

Ok, I will try it out. Thanks.

[bitter jewel]

can i turn a units string representation back into a reference to the unit

[little raptor]

you can use a hashmap for example
or use setVehicleVarName and assign unit to that var

_unit setVehicleVarName "varName";
missionNamespace setVariable ["varName", _unit];

//get:
missionNamespace getVariable [str _unit, objNull];

but ofc you better avoid this whole nonsense

[bitter jewel]

[little raptor]

I mean you should never str objects. always pass them directly

[bitter jewel]

normally i wouldnt but currently i am trying to collect any number of 3den entites in the editor, based on their attributes, and store them somewhere to be processed after the game has started

i am trying to avoid giving them variable names

they have their string representation in the editor tough, so i was wondering if i could use that

[little raptor]

well their "string representation" is gonna change after the game has started
the game recreates those objects so there's no guarantee what their string representation is gonna become

[bitter jewel]

well then i can forget that route

thanks anyways

[crude vigil]

Why dont you just use layers for that, it is easier to split your stuff into layers then you can access these layers' objects using these commands:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/get3DENLayerEntities for 3DEN
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getMissionLayerEntities for Mission (watch out, server only)

Plus, it is more productive, you can easily add/remove any object easily from related layers in case of change is needed.

[bitter jewel]

thanks

[bitter jewel]

can i write a macro where i get an element from an array

since # means quote

oh right i forgot the about select command

[acoustic abyss]

I'm trying to use the ED-1 Science drone ( "B_UGV_02_Science_F") as a prop. Small problem: when set to a simple object, a permanent light is created. How do I delete this light?

[winter rose]

maybe through animation I'd wager

[acoustic abyss]

Intriguing! How do you mean?

[winter rose]

see animateSource (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/animateSource)
or hideSelection perhaps (https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/hideSelection)

[acoustic abyss]

Thanks. We'll investigate 👩‍🔬

[acoustic abyss]

Does animateSource have an effect on simple objects?

[winter rose]

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Simple_Objects
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createSimpleObject
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_createSimpleObject
for some help 🙂

[compact maple]

If I expect a hashmap in params, is it correct?

private _buildings         = param [0, [], [[]]];

[winter rose]

no

private _defaultHashMap = createHashMap;
params [
  ["_buildings", _defaultHashMap, [_defaultHashMap]]
];

[compact maple]

Thanks ! 🙂

[late parrot]

Is there anyway to add 2 actions to one interaction?

 this addAction ["Interact", {systemChat (selectRandom   
[ "Text1", "Text2", "Text3", "Text4" ]) 
["task1","SUCCEEDED"] call BIS_fnc_taskSetState},   
nil, 1.5, true, true, "", "alive _originalTarget", 4, false, "", ""];```

[crude vigil]

An action is an interaction, do you mean make an action do 2 things instead of 1 thing? If so, of course, it can do unlimited things based on your code included in it.

[late parrot]

Yeah I mean whats the proper format to get 2 actions under an interaction

[crude vigil]

What do you want to do exactly?

[late parrot]

Have the system chat display a random text along with task being set to succeeded

If I through a && it will run but will give a debug message

[crude vigil]

Simply end your first line with ;

[late parrot]

So if I wanted to add more to an interact I'd just end each param with a ;?

and here I was doing the most.

[crude vigil]

not each param but each statement or each time you use a command(to simplify), you need to end that line with ;

[late parrot]

I appreciate it

[crude vigil]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Arma_Scripting Check out to see some basics. Know your tool. 😉
There might be another page for basics but I don't know.

[winter rose]

@pearl night wazzup

profileNamespace setVariable [
  format ["KAIN_%1_%2_end", missionName],
  allPlayers apply { [name _x, getPlayerUID _x, getUnitLoadout _x] };
];
```but this won't create a file at all
it will store data in your user profile

you can get it using getVariable

[pearl night]

ok, where should I put the getVariable comand?

[winter rose]

profileNamespace getVariable "KAIN_theMissionName_end";```

of course replace theMissionName with what missionName was at the time

[pearl night]

and I can just give the command as a zeus through the execute code module?

[winter rose]

I would say yes

but this will only get the var, you have to do something out of it

[pearl night]

When I use the script, it should give me the variable in the right top corner right?

[winter rose]

no

what you want to do should ideally be scripted in-mission, either that or give your players access to an Arsenal really

[crude vigil]

Are you asking about this?

[pearl night]

Well, basically, I'm hosting a mission on my dedicated server. The mission is zeused by me. I want to carry over players equipment in between missions, so they start a new mission with the equipment they had on themselves at the end of the previous mission.

I wanted to export them by hand, but now I'm trying to make through the variable.

[crude vigil]

I understand

you cannot do it through variable though.

[winter rose]

well, you could

using player UID and array correspondence

but meh

[crude vigil]

oh well servernamespace is a thing right

I forget that..

altho I never got to use it...

[winter rose]

profileNamespace no? because serverNamespace will disappear as soon as the mission exits iirc

[crude vigil]

profileNamespace is not a suitable thing for such operations, a player can cheat with it.

[winter rose]

that's him, the Zeus

[pearl night]

Too bad that the Export Mission SQF module exports only AI and not the players.

[crude vigil]

hmm, he ll store all loadouts to his profile... Mmmmmhhhh...

[crude vigil]

Ah I was wondering that... I hoped it would work like profileNamespace...

[crude vigil]

Well if there is no other way...

[loud jay]

In 15 minutes, the winning team will be the winner

I want a script that defines a combat zone between two teams, and whoever controls the combat zone within 15 minutes will be the winning team

[winter rose]

ok
how do you approach the issue?

[loud birch]

idk if this is the right channel to spit ball but

it'd be cool if there was a way via sqf to change the sky colour

afaik stuff like that is defined in CfgWorlds which I know can someone be fiddled with via scripting

[somber radish]

Anyone got a template lying around for making a mod. (I have read all I can come across). However I cannot get it to work. All I need is a "minimum Viable example".

It is literally just a FSM file but I want it in the "Mod-format" so it can be uploaded to Steam-workshop". Kinda like the Smarter tanks FSM.

[crude vigil]

I had linked you the minimum viable example. What is the problem?

[somber radish]

It doesnt work

I mean it is packed and signed

The image loads

However on mission-init nothing happens

[crude vigil]

so you say you got a fsm file and how is it being initiated?

[somber radish]

class CfgFunctions
{
    class DCO
    {
        class init
            {
                postInit    = 1;
            };

        class VehicleFSM
            {
                ext            = ".fsm";
                recompile    = 1;
            };
    };
};

[crude vigil]

what does FSM contain?

[somber radish]

/*init.sqf*/

//[450, true, true] call DCO_Fnc_Vehicle;
sleep 1;
[450, true, true] execFSM "Functions/Fn_VehicleFSM.fsm";
hint "DCO_Vehicle_FSM has loaded dudes and dudettes";

Oh it is a big file

It does work fine when placed in a mission

and initiated from init.sqf

[crude vigil]

is that all that is in this file?

[somber radish]

The Vehicle.fsm file contains about 5k lines

[crude vigil]

How do you understand it does not work?

no hint?

[somber radish]

Yeah, it should give a sys-chat saying "FSM loaded"

And plenty stuff in the RPT file

but nothing

[crude vigil]

Config wise, you do not define a file for functions to be read from, thats the first thing. You need a file for init.sqf to be found.

[somber radish]

Wouldnt that be cfgFunctions.hpp?

Config.cpp:

class CfgPatches
{
    class MyAddon
    {
        // Meta information for editor
        name = "DCO Vehicle FSM";
        author = "Tally";

        // Minimum compatible version. When the game's version is lower, pop-up warning will appear when launching the game. Note: was disabled on purpose some time late into Arma 2: OA.
        requiredVersion = 1.60;
        // Required addons, used for setting load order.
        // When any of the addons is missing, pop-up warning will appear when launching the game.
        requiredAddons[] = { "A3_Functions_F" };
        // List of objects (CfgVehicles classes) contained in the addon. Important also for Zeus content (units and groups) unlocking.
        units[] = {};
        // List of weapons (CfgWeapons classes) contained in the addon.
        weapons[] = {};
    };
};
#include "cfgFunctions.hpp"

[crude vigil]

no you need to target the function's file (ie. fn_init.sqf within init class)
or even better target the parent class with the folder fn_init.sqf is in

#include "cfgFunctions.hpp" just copy pastes ur cfgFunctions.hpp file into config.cpp and does nothing else.

[somber radish]

oh, can u show me?

something like ```sqf
init = someVarName;

?

[crude vigil]

is the function inside a folder called DCO ?

[somber radish]

I do have postInit = 1

DCO is the TAG

[crude vigil]

oh, looks like Im still sleepy.

you did not define a Category

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Functions_Library#Config_Levels

[somber radish]

ok, trying again

[somber radish]

OK, so new error popped up

script all/fn_init.sqf not found

this is the path:

\functions\all

and there I do have the file

even tried copying a all folder to the root dir

but no luck

[crude vigil]

show new cfgFunctions

[somber radish]

class CfgPatches
{
    class MyAddon
    {
        // Meta information for editor
        name = "DCO Vehicle FSM";
        author = "Tally";

        // Minimum compatible version. When the game's version is lower, pop-up warning will appear when launching the game. Note: was disabled on purpose some time late into Arma 2: OA.
        requiredVersion = 1.60;
        // Required addons, used for setting load order.
        // When any of the addons is missing, pop-up warning will appear when launching the game.
        requiredAddons[] = { "A3_Functions_F" };
        // List of objects (CfgVehicles classes) contained in the addon. Important also for Zeus content (units and groups) unlocking.
        units[] = {};
        // List of weapons (CfgWeapons classes) contained in the addon.
        weapons[] = {};
    };
};
#include "cfgFunctions.hpp"

cfgFunctions:

class CfgFunctions
{
    class DCO
    {
        class all     {

                        class init
                            {
                                postInit    = 1;
                            };

                        class VehicleFSM
                            {
                                ext            = ".fsm";
                            };
                    };
    };
};```

[crude vigil]

So the file path from root should be... all/init.sqf

not functions/all/init.sqf

You are working on config now, not description.ext

If you want it to stay as functions/all/init.sqf
you need to utilize file attribute...

[somber radish]

I tried copying a all folder to the root dir

What if I just DM you a zip-file containing the project

?

Kinda hard to explain stuff without being able to send screenshots etc

[crude vigil]

Just utilize the file attribute and be done with it, it is better anyways in the long run. Just type in the directory you want and it will be done.

If you are having trouble with this sort of stuff, the easiest way is to check in game with fileExists command to see.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/fileExists

[somber radish]

How?

[crude vigil]

It is written in https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Functions_Library#Config_Levels

[somber radish]

ok

Found the issue

path

the folder is the name of the .pbo file

[high vigil]

Any one have idea on this, using this via "Addaction" to Halo AI

private _target= _this select 0;
private _crew = fullCrew[_target, "cargo"];
{
  _x spawn {   
    params ["_trooper"];
      if (local _trooper) then {
        unassignvehicle _trooper;
        moveout _trooper;
        waituntil {sleep 0.5; isNull objectParent _trooper && getPosAtl _trooper select 2 < 100 || !(alive _trooper)};
        if !(alive _trooper) exitWith {};
        private _position = getPosATL _trooper;
        private _para = "Steerable_Parachute_F" createVehicle _position;
        _para setPosATL _position;
        _trooper moveInDriver _para;
      };
    };
    sleep 1;
} forEach _crew;

issue is when you eject like 50 ai server goes to like 25 fps while eject is happening

if you have no idea just try not to post useless information (that some one might take for good advise )

[frail vault]

i am trying to make an init script that deletes everything in a certain area
so i am trying to use the deleteAT and inAreaArray together, but its just giving me errors, any ideas?

[little raptor]

deleteAt deletes elements from an array. It doesn't delete anything from the game

[frail vault]

ah, that does explain why its not working not doing what i want it to haha

[little raptor]

The error is because you're using them wrong syntax-wise
That's different from "not working"

[little raptor]

Because mounting/ejection/vehicle creation are slow processes.

You have to add sleep between each ejection

[high vigil]

u read the code at all ?

[little raptor]

Did you?

[high vigil]

lol i wrote it

[frail vault]

do you have any suggestion in how i could get it work?
if not i will just keep looking around, thanks in advance

[copper raven]

use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/deleteVehicle

[frail vault]

actually that's i what i am trying atm. the problem is i need to delete everything in the given area, so
i am trying to use deleteVehicle with inAreaArray as of now actually

[copper raven]

so? if you fill the gaps correctly it should work

[frail vault]

i am just asking if he had any suggestions
and if not i am going to keep working at it
the problem is, i dont know how to fill the gap
which is what i am attempting to do

[copper raven]

what do you have currently?

it might be better to just run one of the commands that return nearest objects instead of inAreaArray

[little raptor]

Do you use it in a loop? (e.g. forEach)

[frail vault]

well i am doing

this addaction["Delete Vehicles", {vehicle forEach vehicle inAreaArray ["targetAO", 50, 50, 0, false, -1]; deleteVehicle vehicle;}];```

[little raptor]

your forEach is wrong

did you look at the wiki examples?

actually it's not just the forEach. your inAreaArray is wrong as well

[little raptor]

this addaction["Delete Vehicles", {{deleteVehicle _x} forEach (vehicles inAreaArray "targetAO");}];

[tough abyss]

anyone have some tips for getting into arma scripting composition and public zues not server side? i already know quite a bit just looking for ways to learn more

[still forum]

u all doin good scripts, keep on keeping on

[shrewd hedge]

@little raptor Is there anyway to change MG 42's ammo amount, like change 50 to 1500 rounds? I tried "setAmmo" script like this one: solder1 setAmmo [fow_w_mg42_deployed_high_ger_heer,1500]; but it does not work.

[little raptor]

why do you ping me?

 solder1 setAmmo ["fow_w_mg42_deployed_high_ger_heer",1500];

[shrewd hedge]

cause you are the best, I think

[winter rose]

https://tenor.com/view/broken-heart-heart-heartache-heartbreak-gif-12324138

[little raptor]

well I would answer anyway. but when you ping me your message seems to be specifically addressed to me, and other people might not answer you, even tho they can

[shrewd hedge]

ok, I see

[shrewd hedge]

but this one still does not work

[mental prairie]

does BIS_fnc_playVideo have to be executed on each client?

[little raptor]

you sure you don't have a typo?

[shrewd hedge]

typo?

[little raptor]

you've written solder1 instead of soldier1

[shrewd hedge]

oh, i will try again

no, not working,

I tried to use this: "
unit setAmmo [weaponOrMuzzle, count]"

[little raptor]

how did you get that weapon name?

[shrewd hedge]

i use FOW

in editor, when I put mouth on MG42 (static type), then it showed up

[little raptor]

wait. are you talking about static weapons?

or soldiers?

[shrewd hedge]

it is a static mg42 with a soldier

[little raptor]

well you have to get the name of the weapon first

what you just said is the name of the vehicle

[shrewd hedge]

oh...

[little raptor]

you can do something like this:

weapons staticWpn apply {
  staticWpn setAmmo [_x, 1500];
}

[shrewd hedge]

still does not work, I put this line in init of MG42(static type) also in the gunner, but it still does not work

[little raptor]

it doesn't magically give you 1500 ammo. the weapon must support that

[shrewd hedge]

oh, I see

then I can only add magasines

[coarse dragon]

Can triggeracivated and alive house. Be in the same trigger?

[little raptor]

because it has local effect

[little raptor]

wdym?

[coarse dragon]

I'm doing a task. One is to blowup a house. And then 2nd one is to escape.

So was wondering if the one trigger can have both of them commands init for the condition

[little raptor]

yes you can have both

this && !alive house

[coarse dragon]

Triggeractivated task1 && !alive house;

[vernal mural]

What is the difference between #lightreflector and #lightpoint ? The first one appeared on the wiki recently, and is only mentionned for setLightConePars and setLightVolumeShape commands

[still forum]

Reflector is directional

[vernal mural]

As setLightConePars takes a local argument and has local effect, I'd assume a reflector has to be spawned locally too ?

[winter rose]

yes, createVehicleLocal

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Lightpoint_Tutorial

[vernal mural]

I have this on my screen right now

but it does not mention the reflector

I just wanted to lift any doubt

a reflector is a classic old lightpoint, but directionnal

[winter rose]

yes
this tutorial could be updated to reflect the #lightreflector introduction

[coarse dragon]

If I want a ship to fire at a area on the map. Do I need to put the name of the weapons in the script

[cyan dust]

Good day. I'm researching the revive system, could you share the values of

bis_revive_ppColor
bis_revive_ppVig
bis_revive_ppBlur

?
If I understand it right, they are not global variables, but macro defined in 'defines.inc' 🤔

[little raptor]

Afaik they are global vars

If they're written like that they're most likely not macros
macros are typically written in uppercase only

[cyan dust]

Thanks, got it

[little raptor]

wat?

[coarse dragon]

Me want boatie to fire.
Nothing works

[little raptor]

what boat?
typically you have to give them a target, then make them fire using fireAtTarget, or doTarget and doFire

[coarse dragon]

A ww2 battle ship to bombard a town

[sick dune]

quick question: does the playVideo function allow for the video to be played in the field of view of all players?

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

most of the examples of it involve it being played on a screen.

I need it to be more of a cutscene.

[coarse dragon]

fireAtTarget ["LIB_UK_ARMY", "groundtarget"]; how wrong is this?

[little raptor]

you have to remoteExec the function

[little raptor]

it is by default

size: Array - (Optional, default [safeZoneX, safeZoneY, safeZoneW, safeZoneH])

[sick dune]

Excellent! The guide wasn't entirely clear on the default.

[little raptor]

that's fullscreen

[sick dune]

does it just start playing automatically, or is there a way to get it to fade to black, fade back in?

[little raptor]

if you know GUI coordinates it is clear

[sick dune]

I do not, as I am big dumb-dumb noob figuring this out as I go

but thank you for assisting

[little raptor]

it doesn't fade iirc. it just plays, and goes away when done

[sick dune]

ah, I'll have to do something to try to get it to do so, then.

[little raptor]

very

[coarse dragon]

i cannot get the hang of this stuff

[open fractal]

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

[sick dune]

thaaaaat'll do it.

[open fractal]

you could put it all together in a .sqf file and then execvm it on every machine

at least that's what my pea brain would do

[sick dune]

excellent, now I can do it in game rather than trying to get all of them to play a youtube video

[open fractal]

oh dear

[sick dune]

all of this is because my play group is a bunch of morons and I'm trying to idiot proof it for them

big case of herding cats

[open fractal]

if it's the group i'm thinking of I believe I've seen a couple documentaries

[coarse dragon]

fireAtTarget [groundtarget,"LIB_UK_ARMY"];

[little raptor]

just look at the wiki page and its examples....

[little raptor]

groundtarget is just the name of the target object

also you're missing the left arg (sourceVehicle)

and I don't know where you got the LIB_UK_ARMY from, but I'm 99% sure that's not a weapon/muzzle name. if you don't know it just don't include it. it's optional

[coarse dragon]

name of the tank i made immotral

[little raptor]

then you write something like:

my_ship fireAtTarget [immortal]

my_ship is name of the ship

and you should not write something like this in init, if that's what you're doing

[coarse dragon]

the conditions better?

[little raptor]

what condition?

[coarse dragon]

ok, where is best place to write it

[little raptor]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

just use doTarget and doFire instead. I doubt you'll be able to use this command properly

my_ship doTarget immortal;
my_ship doFire immortal;

if you want to try it in object init replace my_ship with this
if that doesn't work try in anywhere but init (e.g. trigger activation)

if that still doesn't work your ship may not be able to target/fire at all

[coarse dragon]

Na it's being picky about the firing angle and stuff

Thanks for the help anyway

[coarse dragon]

Leo?

!alive house; && triggeractivated task1compeleted; am i this crap at this

[neat karma]

Is it possible to add and enable zeus for #adminLogged at runtime, by running server-side code from the start menu?

[distant oyster]

drop the ;

[coarse dragon]

I done two separate triggers and it works lol thanks

[patent lava]

i'm having an issue using BIS_fnc_unitPlay, hopefully someone can find the error or the sqf gods show me the error the moment i post it

#include "..\data\alphaFlightPath.sqf";
#include "..\data\bravoFlightPath.sqf";
//#include "..\data\charlieFlightPath.sqf";

private _helis = [
    [alphaHeli, _alphaFlightPath],
    [bravoHeli, _bravoFlightPath]
    //[charlieHeli, _charlieFlightPath]
];

{
    [_x # 0, _x # 1] spawn {
        params ["_obj", "_data"];

        _obj engineOn true;

        [_obj, _data, [], true] spawn BIS_fnc_unitPlay;

        waitUntil { isTouchingGround _obj };

        sleep 3;

        _obj engineOn false;
    };
} forEach _helis;

this is my code, the ...FlightPath.sqf files contain the private variable _...FlightPath that have the unit capture data

problem: bravo is doing the alpha flight path

yes, the capture data is not the same

they follow the same path with like a second delay

https://imgur.com/fznVPzF

the gods have spoken, i recorded alpha's flight path while i thought i was recording bravo's 😭

[tired delta]

Hello guys, is it possible to stop players from joining your server with different branches?

Like the Profiling branch

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Steam_Branches

[dusk gust]

Could use
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/productVersion

Though it says "Stable" if its profiling/performance builds, you can probably check the build index and check if its beyond a certain number. May have conflicts with actual arma updates though.

Something like this (Not Tested)

// Run on server init
serverVersion = productVersion;
publicVariable "serverVersion";

// Run on client
if (productVersion # 2 == serverVersion # 2 && productVersion # 3 > serverVersion # 3)then{
  //Probably not on default build
};

They actually fixed it, disregard.
Can just check productVersion # 4 == "Stable"

[peak pond]

Hi, any way to access a debug console while at the Arma 3 main menu?

[dusk gust]

Not that I know of*

[winter rose]

mods perhaps

[peak pond]

Ok, I'll make a mod, thanks

[sullen imp]

got a question, could someone point me in the direction of a repair and rearm script, you know where they drive onto a like heli pad lookin square and it re arms?

im a noob to this lol

[little raptor]

over time or immediately?

[tough abyss]

look on bi forums think there is already one or two i got an edited version but can not share because script sometime buggy

[sullen imp]

immediately

like a re arm, repair type thing

i modded dayz for years, trying my hand at arma now lol

[little raptor]

you can simply use a trigger for that if you're making a mission. use something like this in the trigger activation code:

{_x setDamage 0; _x setFuel 1} forEach thisList;

[sullen imp]

thats exactly what im doing making a mission, so i can just add that on the heli pad or whatever item i wanna use?

so repair would be setrepair?

[little raptor]

there's no setRepair. setDamage is for repair

so i can just add that on the heli pad
no. you make a trigger around the helipad and use the code in there

[sullen imp]

ok, i got ya, is there a good website that has a list of these scripts

[little raptor]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Arma_Scripting
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Scripting_Commands

[little raptor]

idk. if you want to learn scripting see those links

[sullen imp]

lmao perfect thank you man so much

i do want to learn it

[opaque jungle]

Simple question but maybe not an easy answer

Is there an effective way to block off entry into a certain area that effects some players and not others?

I basically want to make a somewhat interactive and visual weapon and kit select at the start of an op by having "room of guns" but limited to different classes.

essentially I don't want the medic being able to run into the room filled with sniper rifles or every rifleman magically having an LMG and such

I know I COULD restrict each item individually but I was hoping for a way of just making a barrier based on what role is selected that way I could modify the contents of a room without having to add checks on each item there

more specifically I am intending to set these up in shipping containers with one end open so that I could in theory just block off one end with whatever barrier I can

[little raptor]

you can make a simple object locally that only has a geometry lod, so it's invisible
then use that to block players
iirc there's already a vanilla object for that

don't remember its class name

but it's probably under VR objects

[opaque jungle]

Simple enough to check if someone is in slot "Alpha 1-1 Autorifleman", "Alpha 1-2 Autorifleman" etc to make said object appear/disappear as needed?

[little raptor]

you could do that too yes

[opaque jungle]

I'm entirely new to scripting is the problem but I'll start digging into it

[little raptor]

you can put something like this in the player inits (change per role):

this setVariable ["unitRole", "medic"];

and then make an initPlayerLocal.sqf file in the mission root, and add this:

params ["_player"];
switch (_player getVariable ["unitRole", ""]) do {
   case("medic") : {
      barrier1 hideObject true; //remove barrier
   };
}

adjust roles and variable names (in that script only barrier1, don't change other vars) before using the script

[opaque jungle]

Seems like makes enough sense

[acoustic abyss]

Eden editor has an "Invisible Wall" object you can use to block areas off. You can even have an addAction on it, in case you want to (for example) add a Virtual Arsenal to something without ACE.

[graceful kelp]

rather specific, so this is more of a hope and a prayer.
does anyone know how to get a return on the current hellfire trajectory mode on ace hellfires

[thorny swift]

anyone who can help me with this?: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/237703-help-a-thicko-understand-weights-in-loot-system/ greatly appreciated and sorry for the stupid question

[little raptor]

where's the script?

[thorny swift]

Give me one sec

I believe it's from this line? https://github.com/dodzh/lootsystem/blob/1eb288be94d45df76d8ae80e88cf169031ffc2b5/lootsystem/code/LSS_fnc_spawn_loot_inBulding.sqf#L102

I'm new to all of this

[little raptor]

so is your question about how to convert the numbers to percentages?

[thorny swift]

Well basically I don't understand how much the weights impact things in the config file. My understanding was that it went up to 1 (being 100 percent chance of something spawning?) and then 0.50 would be fifty percent or something like that, but obviously in the example the guy who made the script uses numbers such as 10, 4, 5 etc.

[little raptor]

weights don't have to add up to 1, or be 1

if you want to convert those numbers to percentages, first sum them all, then divide all of them by the sum

that gives the "chance" of spawning each item

but you don't need that anyway

[thorny swift]

I see, thank you for clarifying

[little raptor]

it's more like a mental calculation
e,g, if FAK is 10, but medikit is 1, the chance of getting a medikit vs FAK is 1 to 10

[thorny swift]

That's a much better way of thinking about it

That makes sense to my little old head

Thanks a lot mate

[little raptor]

np

[acoustic abyss]

My coop mission has a Support Requester (CAS) module. In order to make it interesting for all the players, I'd like to give each one a go when it is used.

Right now I've got a simple expression that picks the first player:

[] spawn {
    if ( isMultiplayer ) then {
                _modCAS synchronizeObjectsAdd [(selectRandom (allplayers arrayIntersect units _playergroup))];
                              };
    }; 

How would I repeat this after the CAS run has been completed? Is there a way to return a variable?

[kindred zephyr]

if (player getVariable ["casUse",true]) then 
{
[] spawn {
    if ( isMultiplayer ) then 
  {
  _modCAS synchronizeObjectsAdd [(selectRandom (allplayers arrayIntersect units _playergroup))];
  player setVariable ["casUse",false];
  };
        }; 
};

Instead of worrying about repeating it, just make sure the same player cannot use it more than once, this will do that assuming your code executes locally from a player

[acoustic abyss]

• Nevermind. I will try this.

[acoustic abyss]

player getVariable ["casUse",true]
This information is accessible (to the server) in the missionNamespace?

[kindred zephyr]

if you broadcast it, yeah.

[acoustic abyss]

Right, eg publicVariableServer . I'd like this rotation to repeat, once all the players have had a go. Might be a pain to make it JIP, now I think about it 😬

[tough parrot]

how do you jump to config entry starting from an object typeOf instead of configFile root?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/config_greater_greater_name
the example uses configFile

[dusk gust]

Do you mean something like
configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf(vehicle player);?
If you're trying to omit configFile, I don't believe you can

[tough abyss]

how would i put a pause in between animations? i am thinking using the sleep command but don't think i can use it on an individual unit

[dusk gust]

Are you unable to use something like

_unit = unit1;
_unit switchMove "firstanimation";
uiSleep 2.1;
_unit switchMove "secondanimation";
```?

[tough abyss]

i plan on using it in public zues im pretty new to incorporating animation commands i believe that would need to be in a file correct?

wait no it wouldnt i read through a bit more

ill see

[somber radish]

Anyone here got some experience using CBA? I am looking to add some checkBoxes / sliders in eden editor. I just need a hint / script whatever I can reverse engineer to get started

The purpose is to change some values on a mod

switch it on / off etc

[tough abyss]

im using this the script with the animations im using its giving me a ; missing error at _unitswitchMove[#]AcrgPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_AmovPercMstpSrasWpstDnon_getOutHighZamak";
hashtag indicates error message

_unit = unit1;

_unitswitchMove"AcrgPknlMstpSnonWnonDnon_AmovPercMstpSrasWpstDnon_getOutHighZamak";

uiSleep 2.1;

_unit switchMove "ChopperLight_L_In_H";

[dusk gust]

Theres no space in _unitswitchMove - _unit switchMove

[tough parrot]

more like
_type >> "stuff"
there is a config >> name command in wiki but the description contradicts the example

my mod requires checking at runtime whether a vehicle or man has a weapon with a particular property

[dusk gust]

As far as I know, theres no way to just pull the config of an object, unless you specify which config to look in.

Most people will use something like

switch true do {
  case(isClass (configFile >> "CfgMagazines" >> _className)): {};
  case(isClass (configFile >> "CfgWeapons" >> _className)):{};
  case(isClass (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _className)):{};
  case(isClass (configFile >> "CfgGlasses" >> _className)):{};
};

Could also use the third syntax of https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isKindOf

To differentiate

[tough abyss]

the sleep command is having a generic error ive searched on bi forums other than that no real idea why it is causing it though

[dusk gust]

It means you're using it in an unscheduled context (in a call instead of spawn)

So you would have to spawn the script that you have the sleep in

[tough abyss]

just the ui sleep or the whole script?

[dusk gust]

I would say the entire script

[tough abyss]

ok thanks a lot im learning a lot

[willow hound]

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

[tough abyss]

how would i make all players in a plane forcibly eject and deploy parachutes upon the plane reaching a certain waypoint?

I understand the line im looking for is [something] spawn BIS_fnc_PlaneEjection;

i dont know what the 'something' is supposed to be (the plane or the waypoint) and how id use this command

[winter rose]

see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_planeEjection - it is for jets ejection

[tough abyss]

bugger. not sure what the right command would be then.

[winter rose]

action ["eject", theVehicle]
with an unassignVehicle of some sort

[winter rose]

{
  _x action ["Eject", _vehicle];
  [_x] remoteExec ["unassignVehicle", _x];
  sleep 1;
} forEach units _groupToEject;
```should do

[tough abyss]

awesome... does this go in the "on activation" of the waypoint?

[winter rose]

no, it's a general script - you have to define vehicle and units to eject

[tough abyss]

got it

where would i place it tho?

sorry if thats a stupid question, complete newbie to arma scripting

[kindred zephyr]

the "on activation" field is ok. You need to fill in the gaps on lou's code.

_groupToEject - Has to be the group name going to eject
_vehicle - Has to be the plane from the units will eject.

[tough abyss]

thanks a ton, ill give it a try now.

[winter rose]

then wrap it with if isServer { ... } as OnActivation field is run globally

(see https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Waypoints)

[kindred zephyr]

^

[tough abyss]

"error generic error in expression"

it kicks me out but not any AI in my group

though i dont really need it to work for AI just other players

[little raptor]

missing then 😛

[little raptor]

what's the code and where do you execute it?

[tough abyss]

onactivation of the waypoint. the code is the one lou posted

[winter rose]

working too much in Enforce Script 😎

[little raptor]

traitor 😠

[little raptor]

well in that script _vehicle and _groupToEject are not defined

[copper raven]

you need to spawn it

[little raptor]

did you define them?

and yeah

[tough abyss]

i did define them

[digital wasp]

hey, i've been struggling with my mission. i have 2 things i want to do - 3 tasks that require you to destroy a building 92 of them are spawned, 1 is default) and i need a car that will drive to the last known patrol's position which i imagine to be a 10-15 second timer that writes down the location of a car and then the move waypoint is placed on those coordinates. while i can google the first thing, getting last known coordinates and driving to them was a struggle for me

[little raptor]

did you spawn it like sharp. said?

[tough abyss]

dont know what that means - how do i spawn it

[little raptor]

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

[little raptor]

I didn't get what you need help with exactly. the position? the waypoint? the task?

last known coordinates
which coords?

last known patrol's position
which patrol?

[digital wasp]

i need a car to drive to the last known position of another car. i came up with this:

_lastKnownPos = getpos aicar1

which will check for the last position every 15 seconds and then if trigger is activated then

_aisquad2 move _lastKnownPos

[digital wasp]

coords of patrol

[digital wasp]

a car circling around

opfor

im pretty bad at coding so if i have mistakes - please forgive me

[little raptor]

better not use getPos. use ASLtoAGL getPosASL
but apart from that it's correct

does it not work rn?

[winter rose]

neveeer!

[digital wasp]

well, i dont know what modules to use and how to make it correctly. i need a module that checks the position every 15 seconds if the group is alive (like they will tell their position on radio), i think it's gonna be a trigger that has a condition of game logic present ```sqf
!alive aisquad1

and on activation
 ```sqf
_lastKnownPos = getpos aicar1
``` (or ASLtoAGL) and the other one is a trigger that activates when the group is dead and it will have ```sqf
_aisquad2 move _lastKnownPos

correct?

[tough abyss]

sorry to interrupt any way to stop ai randomly turning when doing animations? ive checked the animations in animation viewer and they dont turn right at all

[little raptor]

_unit disableAI "MOVE"

[kindred zephyr]

_myUnit disableAI "MOVE";

will prevent the unit from moving or turning

[tough abyss]

any way to make that start and then stop when animation's done?

[little raptor]

what modules
you mean trigger?
checks the position every 15 seconds if the group is alive
you can't use alive with groups. you need to check its members

this means all units are dead

units aisquad1 findIf {alive _x} < 0

[digital wasp]

so

!alive units aiteam1 > 0
```?

[little raptor]

no

[digital wasp]

okay, thanks

[tough abyss]

any way to make that start and then stop when animation's done?

[little raptor]

use an event handler or a loop or something

how many animations do you have?

how do you play them?

[tough abyss]

wait 1 ill get the script

[this] spawn {
params ["_unit"];
_unit switchMove "GetIn_Vertical_Unarmed";
Sleep 3;
_unit switchMove "ChopperLight_L_In_H"
};

[kindred zephyr]

if you are using

playMove

to do the animation, you can use eventhandlers like

AnimChanged

or

AnimDone

[little raptor]

[this] spawn { 
    params ["_unit"];
    _unit disableAI "MOVE"; 
    _unit switchMove "GetIn_Vertical_Unarmed"; 
    Sleep 3; 
    _unit switchMove "ChopperLight_L_In_H";
    _unit playMoveNow "ChopperLight_L_In_H";
    _unit addEventHandler ["AnimDone", {
        params ["_unit", "_anim"];
        _unit enableAI "MOVE";
        _unit removeEventHandler ["AnimDone", _thisEventHandler];
    }]
};

[kindred zephyr]

Question: In laser attachments (in general, any custom attachment that can emit a laser), is there a way command wise to get the origin of the laser without having to manually setpositions relative to the player?

[little raptor]

no

[loud python]

Ahoy! Quick question

when I just moveOut a bunch of units in a helicopter, the helicopter will attempt to pick them back up instead of continuing

any simple way to prevent that? or will I have to figure out something with waypoints?

[little raptor]

use leaveVehicle/unassignVehicle

[loud python]

unassignVehicle _x; moveOut _x still does the same thing

[little raptor]

what about leaveVehicle?

[loud python]

will try that next

nope, helicopter still landing

[little raptor]

who do you move out?

[loud python]

one second

[vehicle this] spawn {
  group (crew param[0] select 2) leaveVehicle param[0];
  {moveout _x; sleep 1;} forEach units group (crew param[0] select 2)
}

This happens on waypoint activation, with a flying taru that has a bunch of paratroopers riding along

the select 2 is just a magic number because pilot+copilot+1 gets me first passenger

[vehicle this] spawn { {unassignVehicle _x; moveout _x; sleep 1;} forEach units group (crew param[0] select 2) }

This didn't work either (with or without the unassignVehicle)

and what happens is that the helicopter just stops and lands and the paratroopers get back in the helicopter, when I actually want it to just continue and the paratroopers to do their thing

[little raptor]

first of all, why do you do param [0]? just use a single params ["_veh"]
second of all, your code is running schd. so the leader can order his units back into the vehicle. you must unassign them all at once (tho not 100% sure if it will work):

params ["_veh"];
_1stCargo = fullCrew [_veh, "cargo"]#0#0;
isNil {
  group _1stCargo leaveVehicle _veh;
  units _1stCargo apply {unassignVehicle _x};
}; 
{moveout _x; sleep 1;} forEach units _1stCargo;

[tough abyss]

Is there anyone way to force a ai aircraft to drop bombs then rtb and despawn with rhs?

[errant fiber]

Is there a way for mission debriefing to show after mission end in a Persistent dedicated server? After testing, if persistence is off, debriefing shows. Is there any scripts or code I need in order for the debriefing to show or is this not possible with a persistent server?

[errant fiber]

Could just use the CAS module and link it to a trigger. There won't be an rtb then despawn, seems useless, but could use the in-game CAS module for ambient strikes or whatever

[loud python]

wait what's up with that #0#0?

[little raptor]

select 0 select 0

[loud python]

oh, didn't know you could use # instead of select xD

[little raptor]

they're not exactly identical

# has higher precedence than select. and # is only for selecting an index from the array, unlike select that does multiple things

but it does the same thing

[loud python]

tells me it doesn't know _1stCargo

[little raptor]

then your unit wasn't in the cargo seat

[little raptor]

also I edited the code

not sure which one you used

the older one had an error. _1stCargo wasn't defined in the outer scope

[loud python]

I don't get it

it says undefined variable in expression, but it should be in scope though

[little raptor]

use your old method then:
crew _veh select 2

[loud python]

*sigh* if only arma had console.log...

[little raptor]

it has diag_log and systemChat 😛

[loud python]

ah...

I actually just remembered

it's not "cargo" but "gunner"

so yea, fullCrew with "cargo" returned empty array so that didn't work

dunno how arma thinks "undefined variable" is a helpful description of what happened, but oh well 😅

...aaand the code runs now

and the helicopter still waits and does nothing

but the infantry at least doesn't care about the helicopter anymore, so I guess it's half a win

[little raptor]

then probably related to the rest of your code

[loud python]

I mean, there is no rest of my code

other than the _ = spawn {} surrounding the whole thing

[little raptor]

then how's the heli supposed to move?

[loud python]

waypoints

[little raptor]

and how does it land?

[loud python]

this is just an empty scenario with one player and the heli

it's not supposed to land, just continue and move off-map

I can add code to despawn it or something once I get the basics to work

[little raptor]

you just kick those poor units out in the middle of the air? 🤣

[loud python]

yes

[little raptor]

how many waypoints have you added?

[loud python]

two

[little raptor]

is the second one far enough from the 1st one?

[loud python]

about two or three km, yes

[little raptor]

you're running the code in waypoint completion statement?

[loud python]

yep

[vehicle this] spawn {
params ["_veh"];
private _1stCargo = fullCrew [_veh, "gunner"]#0#0;
isNil { 
  group _1stCargo leaveVehicle _veh; 
  units _1stCargo apply {unassignVehicle _x}; 
};
{moveout _x; sleep 1;} forEach units _1stCargo;
}

That's the current code

[little raptor]

makes no sense to me why it doesn't work

maybe readd the waypoint?

[loud python]

I'm pretty sure the helicopter still has it stuck in his head that he wants to pick the infantry back up

[little raptor]

[vehicle this] spawn {
  params ["_veh"];
  private _1stCargo = fullCrew [_veh, "gunner"]#0#0;
  isNil { 
    group _1stCargo leaveVehicle _veh; 
    units _1stCargo apply {unassignVehicle _x}; 
  };
  group _veh addWaypoint [blablaPos, -1];
  {moveout _x; sleep 1;} forEach units _1stCargo;
  
}

[little raptor]

add a systemChat or something that runs in a loop and tells you what waypoints the pilot has

[winter rose]

[vehicle this] is vehicle group, so no good

vehicle leader this perhaps

waaait.
this is the leader in Condition - is it as well in OnActivation?

group leader - it's OK. my bad for the false alarm
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Magic_Variables#this_2

[loud python]

WAT

I just added a variable name to the pilot

waypoints group pilot is giving me [] now

but right after starting the mission

when it very clearly still has a waypoint

but the pilot is in his own group with the copilot, and that's the group with the waypoints

[little raptor]

you sure you didn't assign the vehicle or some other unit to it?

[loud python]

nope

https://imgur.com/a/t6WIzEv

as you can see, pilot has the variable name and the waypoints

[little raptor]

that's the copilot tho 😛

[loud python]

AAAAAAAAAH

never mind

I'm dumb

this one was 100% my fault

[little raptor]

but anyway you're using the group, so shouldn't matter

[loud python]

I had this in my console watch list: deleteWaypoint [group (crew taru select 0), 0]

okay got rid of that, back to debugging

This is the waypoint list before dropping infantry:
[[O Alpha 1-1,0],[O Alpha 1-1,1],[O Alpha 1-1,2]]

ah, and it stays the exact same afterwards

[little raptor]

what's the waypoint type and condition?

[loud python]

[0,1,2] apply {waypointType [group pilot, _x]}: ["MOVE","MOVE","MOVE"]

[little raptor]

completion condition?

in 3den

[loud python]

didn't change them

so they're just the default true

[little raptor]

is your heli too high? (more than 200-300m)

[loud python]

Airport personnel reported no smell of weed

the waypoint does change as well

currentWaypoint group pilot is 1 at mission start and then changes to 2 when the paratroops drop

[little raptor]

so they're not high?

AI have (had) a bug at high altitudes

they can't complete waypoints

[loud python]

nah, they're at a few hundred meters max

then the helicopter actually lowers to like 100m or so

and then it just hovers there

oh well, gotta go so I'll leave it at this and see if I can figure it out some other day

@little raptor Thanks for the help though 😄

(if anybody knows an obvious answer, please ping me)

[mental prairie]

can I use remoteExec on execVM

[distant oyster]

yes

[winter rose]

I shall allow it.

[hollow plaza]

Is there any place where I can see all the holdAction idle icon names and the icons themselves? I remember that previously in https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd I could open up the list and it'd also show the icons themselves, which made it significantly easier to choose the most fitting one for a custom holdAction.

Currently it seems that the list only shows the names, even though I'm 90% certain it used to also show the icons previously.

[winter rose]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/File:A3_HoldActionIcons_v2.02.png

re added

[hollow plaza]

Thanks, this is exactly the page I was thinking about

[somber radish]

Anybody got experience using CBA_Settings?

I am trying to set up some check-boxes and sliders to define variable values in Eden-editor

So far I am having no luck

the basic error I get is:

Error Missing {
18:05:56 File vehicleFSM\functions\fn_init.sqf..., line 193
18:05:56 Error in expression < Fall back to default value.", TO_STRING(_value), _setting]] call CBA_fnc_log;
_>
18:05:56   Error position: <(_value), _setting]] call CBA_fnc_log;
_>
18:05:56   Error Missing ]
18:05:56 File vehicleFSM\fnc_init.sqf..., line 177
18:05:56 Error in expression < Fall back to default value.", TO_STRING(_value), _setting]] call CBA_fnc_log;
_>
18:05:56   Error position: <(_value), _setting]] call CBA_fnc_log;
_>

[copper raven]

looks like you have an undefined macro

[digital wasp]

how do i make a trigger to fire when a buidling (custom, added to the map) is destroyed?

[vernal venture]

I can't seem to find it- the difference between stamina and fatigue with disableStamina and disableFatigue?

[little raptor]

afaik they're the same

the only diff was in setStamina and setFatigue. fatigue is in range 0-1. stamina is overall stamina (affected by loadout)

[vernal venture]

I was hoping to disable the stamina bar and allow unlimited sprinting, but also still force people to respect weight caps.

[digital wasp]

anybody?

[little raptor]

you should use event handlers for something like that. see:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#Killed
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#MPKilled

or:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Mission_Event_Handlers#BuildingChanged

[digital wasp]

oof, alright, i'll try my best

[tough parrot]

Killed works on vehicles?

[digital wasp]

also, is !alive going to work on buildings?

[little raptor]

yes and yes

[digital wasp]

so i can just ```sqf
!alive buidling;
Not present

[tough parrot]

well it says so in the desc for that command

[digital wasp]

huh?

[tough parrot]

"Check if given vehicle/person/building is alive (i.e. not dead or destroyed). "

[digital wasp]

wrong reply?

[tough parrot]

ya

[digital wasp]

okay

[tough parrot]

for alive

[little raptor]

better just use the EH. a trigger is a loop, constantly checking and eating away performance. an EH only fires when the event happens

[humble harbor]

hi everyone, I'm trying to make a function that accepts a vehicle as an argument and marks on the map the position of its laser.
The lasertarget command does not work for me because I want it to work even when no specific target is being pointed at.
The closest I can get to how I want it to work is by using getPilotcameraTarget which always returns a position. The problem is that it works great for jets but not for drones, since they both have a pilot camera and a gunner camera, and the laser shoots from the gunner turret.
I also tried with a "Fired" eventHandler but the game does not treat the laser beam as a projectile, so I cannot get its position that way.
Any suggestions?

[little raptor]

you should be able to use the weaponDirection command

if not, selectionVectorDirAndUp

[humble harbor]

and then do some weird line intersection stuff?

[little raptor]

yeah

[humble harbor]

oh boy

linear algebra always comes back to bite me in the ass

[little raptor]

what? there are commands for that

[tough parrot]

probably index 0 of https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lineIntersectsSurfaces

[humble harbor]

thank you I'll give it a shot

[tough parrot]

if using weaponDirection i guess you would also need the selectionPosition of the weapon muzzle converted to world space as the begin point

[digital wasp]

how do i delete 2 objects via trigger?

[little raptor]

deleteVehicle obj1;
deleteVehicle obj2;

if more, use a forEach loop

[digital wasp]

does it have to be vehicle? i got confused and that's why i asked

[little raptor]

no. vehicle = object in Arma terms

[digital wasp]

okay, thanks

[humble harbor]

there's no way to get that info just by knowing the weapon name right?

[little raptor]

There is. You can get the selection name of the pos and axis of the camera from the config

[humble harbor]

oh ok thank you, I guess it's time to get familiar with the whole config thing

[acoustic abyss]

Do the commands enableEnvironment and fadeEnvironment affect sounds created by createSoundSource ?

[desert sable]

Would anyone have an idea as to why my triggers only fire if the player walks inside them, and jumps/climbs within it?

[tough abyss]

what is the trigger set to activate on?

[desert sable]

Player entering it

[tough abyss]

does the trigger not work if they jump? im guessing with a mod

[desert sable]

No, it will fire if they jump inside the box of the trigger (or if they climb on an object inside the trigger box). It's also a 5 x 5 x 1 box, btw

[tough abyss]

maybe make the z higher vertically and double check it is completely on the ground

[desert sable]

The trigger is also inside a cargo tower, so that makes sense

[tough abyss]

from memory triggers attach themselves to the ground like a helipad and then work up a bit maybe going on an object changes the z to be into the trigger

[desert sable]

I'd imagine it does. The ones in my cargo tower are the only ones misfiring

[tough abyss]

that would make sense then

it could also be that the z co ordinate is the only place the trigger activates like if the z coordinate is 50 the player has to be at 50m high

both of those make sense to me so try them both

[desert sable]

I'll try that, thanks!

[tough abyss]

no problem

[leaden haven]

I am trying to set up an RHS version of Domination, how do I use this?

#ifdef __RHS__

How do I force it to use RHS things?

I mean, how do I define this to make Altis Domination load as RHS? Thanks.

[copper raven]

define the macro somewhere in some main configuration file(id assume it has one)

[digital wasp]

if i want a trigger that fires when a does not equal 1, ill do ```sqf
a != 1;

[cosmic lichen]

Yes

[tough abyss]

is there any way to change objects size not using setobjectscale? i want to try make a small tank

[cosmic lichen]

No, setObjectScale is your only choice

[winter rose]

or you could make everything else bigger by setObjectScale

[tough abyss]

now im thinking of making a huron sized hummingbird with tiny people hanging off the side

[humble harbor]

does deleting a keyvalue pair in a HashMap while iterating with a foreach cause undefined behavior or is it safe?

[little raptor]

why use a trigger for that? if you're the one changing a, you know exactly when that becomes 1

[digital wasp]

it's a radiostation that needs to be destroyed, so when it's destroyed a becomes 1, and i need to have a trigger that calls for backup if the team is dead and radiostation is up

[little raptor]

well YOU are changing a

you know WHEN it's gonna happen

so using a trigger is a waste

it's like you're the one with the key to a house and you know only you can open it, but you always visit the house every minute to see: is it open yet?

well if you opened it it's open. if not it's closed...

if you don't know what I'm talking about:
let's say you do this in one trigger:

a = 2;

and then in another trigger you're checking:

a != 1

which does some code

just put the code under that a = 2 in the first trigger

[digital wasp]

yeah that's not how i set it up

so, i have 2 triggers, 1 for destroying radio and the second one for backup that has to meet 2 conditions: 1 is team is dead and the second one is radio is up and running, and radio trigger sets a to 1. so i need to check if a != 1

[little raptor]

ok

[somber radish]

Quick question, where do I define dependencies for mods?

I got a FSM mod that relies on a couple of CBA functions

[crude vigil]

requiredAddons in cfgPatches

[somber radish]

Thank YOU!

[somber radish]

If I could give you a price I would

For all the answers you gave me the last few days trying to conver the FSM into a mod

[crude vigil]

Been a pleasure for me ^^

[somber radish]

Any way to check if you are actually in a mission (not main-menu or editor)?

I want to use it as a condition to initiate a function, that should otherwise not be initiated

[acoustic abyss]

You can use the postInit property of CfgFunctions for that: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Functions_Library

[somber radish]

It still initiates at main-menu

[little raptor]

is3den and also see:
https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/224307-solved-prevent-function-initialization-in-main-menu/?do=findComment&comment=3367650

[somber radish]

nice

[acoustic abyss]

I am curious-

My (coop) missions are scripted with about 30 different triggers. Triggers for branching objective outcomes (destruction vs completing addAction). Triggers for music. Triggers for EndMission. This costs performance for server and client. I figured at least the triggers controlling branching outcomes could be handled by a server executed FSM.

There's a thread on the BI forums praising FSM, but not giving any concrete examples. The campaign scenarios use a missionflow.fsm . And ~15 other FSMs. But I couldn't find how they were executed (eg there were no execFSM commands in any files, nothing in description.ext).

Does anyone use FSM files in their multiplayer missions, or can link me to an example ?

[little raptor]

I figured at least the triggers controlling branching outcomes could be handled by a server executed FSM
you can just create the triggers dynamically
Triggers for branching objective outcomes (destruction vs completing addAction)
these don't need triggers

also FSM doesn't have any perf advantage over plain SQF

[ivory lake]

missionFlow.fsm auto executes if it exists iirc

the main advantage for fsm is the visualisation aspect

for the mission designer I mean

[patent goblet]

Does anyone use FSM files in their multiplayer missions, or can link me to an example ?
Good examples would be missions in coop-campaign Apex protocol by BI
a3\missions_f_exp\campaign\missions

[compact maple]

Hi, is there any tool I can use to pack a pbo in cli?

[little raptor]

Mikero's

tho I think A3 Tools has a command line version too

yeah:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/FileBank

[compact maple]

Right thanks!

[coarse dragon]

Can a trigger with alivecheck be synced with a end scenario?

[winter rose]

sure, why not

[coarse dragon]

How would I do that? Do I need triggeractivated too?

[winter rose]

you can put a BIS_fnc_endMission call in the OnActivation field

[coarse dragon]

!alivecheck "me"; in the condition aswell?

@winter rose is that right ?

[little raptor]

that's not a command...

[coarse dragon]

Help? 😬

[fair drum]

typically people and campaign missions just do something like !(isNil "variable") for that kind of thing

[winter rose]

no, first, tell us the end goal in human terms
then we try and seek a valid scripted approach

[coarse dragon]

Want the mission to end when I die

[acoustic abyss]

That's very interesting. I assume it has to be in the (mission) root directory for this to happen?

[fair drum]

sp already does that? got more human term end goals that you want outside of what already happens?

in mp you can create an eventhandler for "killed" which will avoid using triggers and scheduled

[coarse dragon]

If I get out of the city alive. For the mission to end aswell

[winter rose]

you need to override onPlayerKilled.sqf iirc

[acoustic abyss]

Thank you

[coarse dragon]

Thanks

[humble harbor]

The following is a "Fired" event handler function. The issue I'm having is not being able to setVariable to the _payload (the projectile of the event handler). After setting the variable, doing "allVariables _payload" returns an empty array.
What am I doing wrong?

private _fn_onPayloadSent = {
    private _unit = param[0];
    private _payload = param[6];

    if (getNumber (configOf _payload >> "laserLock") == 1) then 
    {
        _payload setVariable ["originPos", position _payload];
        _unit getVariable "tracedPayloads" pushBack _payload;
    };
};

[fair drum]

take your code apart first and see if it is even firing at the setVariable spot

start with the line you want to work, then start adding in around it

[humble harbor]

it is

I'm sure the projectiles are being pushed in the array at the second line

[distant oyster]

are you sure that the projectile still exists and is not objNull?

[humble harbor]

I am

[fair drum]

so in my little test I just did, it looks like you can't give variables to projectiles

[humble harbor]

yup, can confirm 😦

[fair drum]

even though it counts as an "object", a projectile/ammo is not a valid subtype

to get around this (probably not wise), you can actually just use a different name space and set an array that you can grab later

missionNamespace setVariable ["my_projectile_1", [_projectile, "myValue"]];

[humble harbor]

thank you very much I'll try

[ivory lake]

when i've used it i did so yeah

[tidal ferry]

Question

When I delete an object in Zeus

And/or it dies

Does it become objNull?

Well sorry, specifically if I delete it

Or does it just... cease to exist?

Working on a script that I want to attach to an object, but commit die when the host object is deleted

[winter rose]

it gets removed, so it does not "become" anything

the variable that was pointing to it becomes objNull though

[tidal ferry]

So should I use !alive, isNil or isNull?

Hmm okay

I'll try isNull then

[winter rose]

isNull (alive returns false for objNull)

[tidal ferry]

Is there anywhere I can access a full list of human memory points? I.e. head, shoudler, legs etc

[digital wasp]

is htere a way to change object type with a script

[tidal ferry]

Don't suppose you might know? 😅

In a little bit of a rush ATM

[crude vigil]

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

[tidal ferry]

LEGENDARY, thanks!

[winter rose]

you're welcome! 😄

[coarse dragon]

Hey un I have an AI spawn point down. But when it gets to the manpower limit its giving me a error. Doesn't break it. But its annoying having the errors on the screen

[digital wasp]

any help?

[little raptor]

no

you have to delete the object and create new one

[digital wasp]

sadge

[little raptor]

how did you set it up?

[coarse dragon]

3 sectors then the Spawn Ai. And 3 Spawnpoints.
Manpower is 100.
Every 15 secs. Mostly infantry

[little raptor]

did you sync everything properly?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_MP_Support_Guideline#AI_Spawnings_and_Tactics

[coarse dragon]

Yea it all works. Just an annoying error when the limit is reached

[cosmic lichen]

Posting the error here might help

[coarse dragon]

I ain't typing that whole thing out

[cosmic lichen]

Check the rpt file

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

[little raptor]

those errors only occur when there's a problem with the module sync and data

but it's hard to tell which one you did wrong

[coarse dragon]

Would having the wrong values at a certain spawn point cause it?

The total only came upto 90% On one of them

[little raptor]

dunno. maybe

copy your module setup in an empty mission (use vanilla maps, preferably VR) and DM me. I'll take a look

[coarse dragon]

I'll test it out 1st see if I get it again

Seems grand now

Other than my game seems to have bugged out now. Yaay

Gun wouldn't fire. Then ran now I'm dead with no menus and stuck here.

[tepid vigil]

Is there any significant difference in functionality or performance between hashmaps and CBA namespaces?

[little raptor]

hashmaps are probably a bit faster

idk what CBA namespaces use

iirc they used a helper object and did setVariable on it

if so they are a lot different in functionality too

anyway, there's no point in using scripted stuff when there's native engine support for something

[cosmic lichen]

Don't they use locations as namespaces?

[distant oyster]

yes they do

[hollow thistle]

locations or simple object, depends if local or global.

object might be better for network as you can publish only one "key", with hash map you need to send the whole thing over the network.

[half sphinx]

I've got an issue using

player setDamage 0;

If someone has sway after being shot their scope will be stuck on a different place on the screen than the standard middle when I use setDamage. I don't know how to fix it...

[little raptor]

try player switchMove animationState player

[humble harbor]

why does
_obj setVariable ["myvar",nil]
not remove "myvar" from allVariables _obj?

[cerulean cloak]

How would I go about getting the pos for where a bullet landed? I'm not bothered if it's a bit slow or inefficient as long as it works

[humble harbor]

_soldier addEventHandler [
    "fired",
    {
        [param[6]] spawn {
            private _bullet = param[0];

            while { true } do {
                private _pos = position _bullet;
                if(isNull _bullet) exitWith {};
                someGlobalVar = _pos;
            }
        }
    }
]

[cerulean cloak]

Thanks, works perfectly

[little raptor]

for now... 😉
it's riddled with errors

[humble harbor]

tell me I'm learning

[little raptor]

well

1. you don't use Fired EH with "soldiers". you should use FiredMan
2. you should never use a "waiting" while loop without some form of suspension (sleep or uiSleep). rn your while is wasting the scheduler's time and executing multiple times per frame, yet the bullet cannot change in one frame, obviously.
3. you shouldn't use scheduled environment in such places in the first place, due to scheduler limitations. if for some reason there are multiple scripts running, the interval between "scheduler visits" to your script keeps getting longer, and the error gets large

[little raptor]

nil doesn't remove variables

[humble harbor]

I purposely avoided the waiting thing because in the documentation they said that the shortest sleep duration is 0.02, and with a 800m/s bullets it's 16 meters of accuracy that you might be losing. He seemed more concerned about making it accurate than performant, so yeah

[little raptor]

shortest sleep duration is 0.02
whatever doc said that is wrong

and like I said, there's no guarantee your script runs every frame

[fair drum]

you're not guaranteed any amount of sleep time, it depends on the scheduler's load

[little raptor]

it's scheduled

[humble harbor]

doc clearly says "To remove a variable, set it to nil" 😄

[little raptor]

well in technical terms it is removed

but the identifier is not. the variable will simply be bound to no value

[cerulean cloak]

Now, is there any way to make this track more than one bullet from the same gun?

[fair drum]

every time you fire, that's going to fire. with some of the mgs in the game, you just spawned a TON of individual scheduled instances

[humble harbor]

oh okay gotcha

[cerulean cloak]

I'm not bothered if it's inefficient, it's just for my use for testing something.

[fair drum]

well you can't test something if you just made the game a slideshow for potentially a long amount of time...

[humble harbor]

maybe he wants to fire a couple of bullets, give him a break 😄

[little raptor]

the game won't become a slideshow tho...
the scheduler does...

[little raptor]

use an array or something

[cerulean cloak]

But if it's writing to a global variable won't the second shot overwrite it?

[humble harbor]

use a hashmap

[little raptor]

hashmaps can't be used with objects

[humble harbor]

i know, use an artificial id

[little raptor]

no. you just add stuff to it.
you won't overwrite anything

[humble harbor]

global hashmap, assign artificial id to every bullet once fired, push the position to the hashmap using the id as key

[little raptor]

wat? why use "artifical id"? just use the hash value

like I posted here:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/HashMap#Unsupported_Key_Types

[humble harbor]

oh that's nice I didn't know that

[cerulean cloak]

Not really sure how to do that in this case. It's writing to the global every loop but I only want to know where it lands not where it's been along the way.

So if I just tacked the pos on each loop that won't really be of any use

[still forum]

#AmmoEventHandlersForPresident

[little raptor]

projectiles = [];
onEachFrame {
  private _deleted = false;
  {
    _x params ["_projectile", "_lastPos"];
    if (alive _projectile) then { //update pos
      _x set [1, getPosWorld _projectile];
    } else {
      //do whatever you want here with _lastPos, for example
      systemChat format ["projectile %1's last pos: %2", _projectile, _lastPos];
      //
      projectiles set [_forEachIndex, 0];
      _deleted = true;
    };
  } forEach projectiles;
  if (_deleted) then {projectiles = projectiles - [0];};
};
_soldier addEventHandler [
    "FiredMan",
    {
        projectiles pushBack [param[6], getPosWorld param[6]];
    }
]

this is a slightly better version of that script

[little raptor]

oh and I totally forgot to rant about position 🤣

normally it's the first thing I mention... 😅

[humble harbor]

omg please forgive my 2am brain 😄

[little raptor]

so do you know what I'm talking about?

I noticed that in another one of your scripts too

[humble harbor]

I mean I know there's the whole ATL, AGL, ASL and whatever, is that it?

[little raptor]

yeah

[humble harbor]

yeah I forgot about a lot of things, I started programming for the first time with this game like 8 or 9 years ago

sweet memories : ')

[desert sable]

Anyone know a script that I can use to move an object across a plane at a certain speed?

[tight cloak]

use a loop that +'s to relevant axis, a sleep command will determine how fast

[desert sable]

And what would the command look like?

[acoustic abyss]

It would look like this: #arma3_animation message
(You can unwrap it from the loops if it's just a single object)

[desert sable]

Thx!

[acoustic abyss]

Works in dedicated. Very smooth sailing. But the object hath wonky physics. 🐝 ware.

[dim crow]

I need some help. I am trying to create artillery that works with a trigger and fire mission. It works but all the artillery just fires at the fire mission point. How can I spread the artillery fire to target all the vehicles in the tigger area,??

I think this involvesscripting

[acoustic abyss]

This could suit your needs: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/154838-finally-got-artillery-working-right/

You'll need to set up triggers and get the (shell transit) timing right. Which you can easily rehearse in Eden if you know where the enemies/players are beforehand.

[dim crow]

Ok thanks

[copper raven]

it only does with missionNamespace, uiNamespace etc, afaik those have some special handling for it

[violet gull]

Code in MPKilled EH vs Killed EH operates similar to remoteExec, correct?

[fair drum]

what do you mean?

[violet gull]

Disregard, appears to be correct according to wiki.

Killed eventHandler code is local, MPKilled basically remoteExecs to all.

[zinc loom]

hi guys im working on this:

but it doesnt work

class CfgVehicles {
class Rope;
class RopeRabbit : Rope {
maxRelLenght = 1.1;
maxExtraLenght = 20;
springFactor = 0.5; // higher == less stretchy rope
segmentType = "RopeSegmentRabbit";
torqueFactor = 0.5;
dampingFactor[] = {1.0,2.5,1.0};
model = "\A3\Animals_F\rabbit\rabbit_F.p3d";
};
};

class CfgNonAIVehicles {
class RopeSegmentRabbit {
scope = 2;
displayName = "";
simulation = "ropesegment";
autocenter = 0;
animated = 0;
model = "\A3\Animals_F\rabbit\rabbit_F.p3d";
};
};
Note: Lenght is purposely misspellt for some unknown reason.

So an example for using the above custom rope definition with the ropeCreate command:

// ropeCreate[fromObject, fromPoint, toObject, toPoint, length, ropeStart, ropeEnd, ropeType];
myRope = ropeCreate [vehicle player, "slingload0", myCargo, [0, 0, 0], 10, ["", [0,0,-1]], ["", [0,0,-1]], "RopeRabbit"];

i dont know how to insert it in the vr i guess

it says bad vehicle type

oh i see the creator is here, dedmen wrote this i think somewhere

[humble harbor]

oh okay thanks mate

[distant oyster]

where did you put the config?

also:

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

```sqf
// your code here
hint "good!";
```
↓

// your code here
hint "good!";

[zinc loom]

!code test

[distant oyster]

no you have to type what the bot says

[zinc loom]

class CfgVehicles {
    class Rope;
    class RopeRabbit : Rope {
        maxRelLenght = 1.1;
        maxExtraLenght = 20;
        springFactor = 0.5; // higher == less stretchy rope
        segmentType = "RopeSegmentRabbit";
        torqueFactor = 0.5;
        dampingFactor[] = {1.0,2.5,1.0};
        model = "\A3\Animals_F\rabbit\rabbit_F.p3d";
    };
};

class CfgNonAIVehicles {
    class RopeSegmentRabbit {
        scope = 2;
        displayName = "";
        simulation = "ropesegment";
        autocenter = 0;
        animated = 0;
        model = "\A3\Animals_F\rabbit\rabbit_F.p3d";
    };
};

myRope = ropeCreate [vehicle player, "slingload0", myCargo, [0, 0, 0], 10, ["", [0,0,-1]], ["", [0,0,-1]], "RopeRabbit"];

the first 2 classes i tried description.ext ...

[distant oyster]

you can't declare vehicles in description.ext

[zinc loom]

ok #include "blah.h"

and using it ?

where do i declare them ?

[distant oyster]

#include is just a preprocessor, it will still end up in description.ext

you would have to create a mod to add new vehicles to the game

[zinc loom]

using mod in my VR ?

[distant oyster]

what do you mean?

[zinc loom]

i want to use this roperabbit ... could u explain me how to do it, or how to learn how to do it ?

[distant oyster]

i have no experience with ropes, but I do know that you can't create a CfgVehicles class on a mission level. You would have to mod the game, aka create an addon/mod

[neat karma]

I'm trying to create a Zeus curator for #adminLogged at runtime.

this outputs no errors but it's not working

private _moduleGroup = createGroup sideLogic; 
"ModuleCurator_F" createUnit [ 
 getPosATL player, 
 _moduleGroup, 
 "this setVariable ['BIS_fnc_initModules_disableAutoActivation', false, true];" 
];
_moduleGroup setGroupOwner adminLogged

I'm not even sure if this is possible but it would be extremely useful if you could enhance/ fix workshop missions on the fly

[copper raven]

no, that won't work\

try adding this setVariable ['owner', '#adminLogged', true] in the init

[neat karma]

holy shit it actually works

private _moduleGroup = createGroup sideLogic; 
"ModuleCurator_F" createUnit [ 
 getPosATL player, 
 _moduleGroup, 
 "this setVariable ['owner', '#adminLogged', true];this setVariable ['BIS_fnc_initModules_disableAutoActivation', false, true];" 
];

thanks dude

[humble harbor]

is there a way to resize the ingame exeption message popup?

[winter rose]

not afaik

[quasi rover]

If I don't remove a given Event Handler that was added with addEventHandler, what effect on the server?

[winter rose]

it will rise by 1°C

[prime fox]

Hey guys quick question.

Struggling with quite a basic script but really can't get it to work. Basically I have a task where I want the player to pick up the backpack and once the player has, for the task to succeed. Anyone know the script to do it? Thanks 🙂

[open fractal]

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

you make the condition that the player is carrying the backpack

[prime fox]

So would that be naming the bag and then adding: bag = backpack player; in trig condition? I know how to do conditions with items and what not, just unsure about the backpack hahaha

[open fractal]

You would want the classname of the bag

So just put it on in the editor and type backpack player in the debug console

and it’ll give you the classname

backpack player == “backpack_classname_in_quotes”

= is to assign a variable, == is to compare values

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Arma_3:_Event_Handlers#Take

you can also use this if you’re comfortable with event handlers

[copper raven]

best would be to not use triggers. take event handler in combination with https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_taskSetState

[humble harbor]

hi everyone, can anyone tell me how I can check if a bomb is currently locked onto a target or if it's just freefalling?

[little raptor]

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

tho not sure if that works for bombs

[humble harbor]

yeah it returns an object so don't think so, thank you anyways it will be useful in the future

[undone dew]

["Car", "init", {

    clearWeaponCargoGlobal (_this select 0);
    clearMagazineCargoGlobal (_this select 0);
    clearItemCargoGlobal (_this select 0);
     (_this select 0) setVehicleAmmo 0.45;
    [
        (_this select 0),                                            // Object the action is attached to
        "Claim this Vehicle",                                        // Title of the action
        "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",    // Idle icon shown on screen
        "\a3\ui_f\data\IGUI\Cfg\holdactions\holdAction_connect_ca.paa",    // Progress icon shown on screen
        "(alive player) && !dialog && player distance _target < 8",                        // Condition for the action to be shown
        "_caller distance _target < 8",                        // Condition for the action to progress
        {},                                                    // Code executed when action starts
        {},                                                    // Code executed on every progress tick
        {[(_this select 0)] call HG_fnc_setOwner},                // Code executed on completion
        {},                                                    // Code executed on interrupted
        [],                                                    // Arguments passed to the scripts as _this select 3
        0,                                                    // Action duration in seconds
        0,                                                    // Priority
        true,                                                // Remove on completion
        false                                                // Show in unconscious state
    ] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd", 0, true];    // MP compatible implementation

}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

[little raptor]

wat?

what did you expect it to return then?

target = object

[humble harbor]

a laser position would have been great

[undone dew]

Can anyone help me figure out why this isn't working? It uses a CBA event handler to try to add an action to a vehicle when it spawns, the other commands (clearWeaponCargo and such) are working but it won't add the action in mulitplayer

[little raptor]

there's no such thing as "laser position"

the laser target is an object too

[humble harbor]

the more you know...🤔

[little raptor]

you mean it works in SP?

[undone dew]

yes, it works in SP but does not in a dedicated

I also tried remoteexec with addAction instead of BIS_fnc_holdActionAdd but had the same issue

[little raptor]

probably because the object is not fully initialized or something
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work

[undone dew]

I'm not sure that's the case, the other lines in the CBA event handler are working (clears its cargo and reduces ammo)

i'm looking closer at the condition

[copper raven]

it should return the laser object, if it's a gbu and locked on for example

[misty osprey]

anyone know how to create laser targets with a script I have this code

   if (_side == West) then {_LaserType = "LaserTargetW"; _LaserBaseType = "LaserTargetWBase";};
   if (_side == East) then {_LaserType = "LaserTargetE"; _LaserBaseType = "LaserTargetEBase";};
   
   _LaserObject = _laserType createVehicle _LasePos;
   _BaseObject = _LaserBaseType createVehicle _LasePos;
   _laserObject attachto [_BaseObject, [0,0,0]];

but I can't lock onto the laser target with my plane

[copper raven]

try reveal them

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

[copper raven]

try InitPost instead of Init

[undone dew]

k, how does InitPost work?

[copper raven]

it executes after all the other init event handlers

[oblique olive]

hello, do I just have to add this line to init.sqf to activate the option? null = [this] execVM "R3F_LOG\USER_FUNCT\do_not_lose_it.sqf";

[copper raven]

well, no one will be able to tell what that script does

unless you tell us

if you put it in init.sqf it will run on every machine, do you want that?

[oblique olive]

sorry it's for r3f logistic to be able to recover the cases when the vehicle is destroyed

http://team-r3f.org/madbull/logistics/EN_DOCUMENTATION.pdf it's on page 15 but I didn't quite understand

[copper raven]

since it does something with this, it tells me that it's supposed to be in some init field

[misty osprey]

I tried reveal but the laser target still doesn't show up is it because I have it attached to another object;

[oblique olive]

yes I searched in the files but I can't find where to add this

he also talks about it on page 9

[misty osprey]

it looks like it goes in the objects init field in the editor

[copper raven]

no, attaching shouldn't be an issue

there are the report sensor commands, should try those

[next arrow]

How do i write configs. I just want to add a simple cube

[little raptor]

obviously the object init field

There is only one required parameter to call the script : the reference to the object to not lose. If
called in the mission editor's initialization line, this reference is the keyword this

[little raptor]

#arma3_config

[oblique olive]

thank you for your response Leopard20 but where should I add this line?

nul = [CargoNet_01_box_F, "cargo_pos"] execVM "R3F_LOG\USER_FUNCT\do_not_lose_it.sqf";

set to "cargo_pos" to unload the object around the destroyed cargo

[little raptor]

idk. as the doc says:

Read its description in the script to know how to use it.

[little raptor]

the line itself goes into the object init. as I said already

do you not know what it is?

[oblique olive]

ok thank you i will look again in the files

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/reportRemoteTarget https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVehicleReceiveRemoteTargets this will reveal it regardless of the vehicle not having proper sensors to detect the lase, otherwise if the vehicle can detect it by itself, reveal is enough

[misty osprey]

its working now thanks for helping

[sharp stag]

How would I go about counting how many ai on my team die. Then being able l to spawn that many ai back into the game when I'm at a FOB.

[winter rose]

you could increment a counter every time one dies,
but the simplest might be to simply get the count at the beginning of the mission then get the difference with what's left

[sharp stag]

How would I go about the first option?

[winter rose]

e.g event handlers

[sharp stag]

Lastly, how can I add a addAction to every object in the mission with a certain class name

Because the objects are added in part way through mission by anothr mod

[winter rose]

addAction, forEach and allMissionObjects

[distant oyster]

if you have cba you can use the init event handler

[tidal ferry]

Hey question

Does this still work?

http://killzonekid.com/farewell-my-arma-friends/

[boreal parcel]

Hey guys, does anyone know if it is possible to make certain components of vehicles (Engine/Turret/Gun) take no damage or instantly repair?

We are using ace and planning on an operation using hmmvvs however aces vehicle damage model a few updates back fucked them so russians firing 7.62 take out the engine and turret in like 1-2 shots.

[fair drum]

its more important to know if its RHS or cup humv since i believe RHS has its own damage handler for vehicles

[boreal parcel]

ahhh I cant remember off of the top of my head, but I want to say RHS? Let me check

[boreal parcel]

Yeah, RHS USF

[fair drum]

are you using the ace compatibility patch for RHS?

[boreal parcel]

yeah

[fair drum]

i personally for ease, would just make a new handle damage event handler and add the health back when struck by a 7.62 weapon

[boreal parcel]

Hmm gotcha, thats what I was looking into, just wanted to check. Well ill get into that tomorrow, its 2 am here. Thanks for the info

[lofty rain]

Any way to make object detectable with mine detector? Using Ace.

[open fractal]

why does my ai helicopter keep lifting off despite writing ```sqf
FB_HELI_PILOT disableAI "all";

[winter rose]

mods or wrong target most likely

[open fractal]

I deleted the copilot to be sure

the pilot just does not care

It's an RHS helicopter if that makes any difference

but the waypoint is transport unload, he keeps doing his passengers dirty and lifting off lol

[winter rose]

did you name the pilot or the helicopter this 👀

[open fractal]

that's the pilot

FB_HELI is the helicopter

I've also tried driver FB_HELI

[winter rose]

iirc transport unload is ViV drop, no?

otherwise try in an empty VR mission in vanilla and compare

not "with vanilla units", in vanilla - without mods loaded

[open fractal]

I'll try disableAI for the pilot in vanilla later