arma3_scripting

[little raptor]

ofc if you only want it to be the driver what you first wrote was best

[modern meteor]

should this code not simply add and remove the silencer of the the player?

    player removePrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "Silencer off";
}
else {
    player addPrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "Silencer on";

}
}

as a toggle

for some reason it does not but also does not give an error

[little raptor]

because of the {}

it doesn't execute at all

[modern meteor]

hm

but where is the {} wrong?

[little raptor]

outermost

[modern meteor]

ah

let me check

[little raptor]

what you wrap in {} becomes a code
a code never executes unless a command executes it
e.g. in {} forEach array, forEach executes the {}. or in if (bla) then {} then executes the {}

[modern meteor]

ah, i understand

thank you

i changed it to..

    player removePrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "Silencer off";
}
else {
    player addPrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "fuck";
}```

now it adds a silencer to the player but never removes it

if ("muzzle_snds_shield_black_m" in primaryWeaponItems player) then {

is this valid?

[little raptor]

it's valid

but in is case sensitive

so it never succeeds

because what you have is all lowercase and the actual item class name most likely isn't

[modern meteor]

but the name of the item is all lowercase

[little raptor]

try primaryWeaponItems player in debug console

see what it gives you

[little raptor]

no

at least not always

depends how it was defined in config

[modern meteor]

that solved it!
it gave me something different in the debug

now it works

primaryWeaponItems player => can i use this command to get the loadout of an AI unit in my group?

[willow plume]

if ("muzzle_snds_shield_black_m" in primaryWeaponItems player) then {    
    player removePrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "Silencer off";
}
else {
    player addPrimaryWeaponItem "muzzle_snds_shield_black_m";
    hint "fuck";
};

^ You were missing a ; in this code, in case that was breaking it

[willow plume]

you can, what are you trying to achieve?

[little raptor]

he wasn't

[little raptor]

loadout? it's only for primary weapon items

[modern meteor]

sorry, primary weapon attachments i meant

for a certain unit in my group

[little raptor]

yes

[modern meteor]

ok

an how?

in other words, how can i address a certain unit (eg F2) in a script?

[little raptor]

groupSelectedUnits player

[modern meteor]

sorry, i meant without actively selecting it

if i understand correctly

_myUnitCount = count units player;

gives me an array with units in my group

now how can i access the 4th member in the player group from the array?

[little raptor]

I guess (units player - [player]) select 3

[modern meteor]

primaryWeaponItems (units group - [player]) select 3;

tells me group not defined

[still forum]

But I noticed that Arma could drop that kind of request or trim it.
Arma should never drop anything, if it does its a bug

[little raptor]

order of precedence is wrong

I meant units group player...

fixed

but your code is still wrong

[tough abyss]

oh ok, and from your arma programmer point of view : what is best practice to you in order to send huge data? [var, {data = _this}] remoteExec ["call", _client] statement or missionNamespace setVariable ["var", any, _client] ?

we discussed about that and we have a conclusion but it is interesting to have your pov too

[still forum]

no difference

both are serialized and sent mostly the same

[tough abyss]

ok thanks

[still forum]

maybe we finally need a compress/decompress command

[tough abyss]

that would be great

[modern meteor]

Thank you!

[little raptor]

remoteExecCompressed 😛

[willow plume]

this would be extremely useful

[still forum]

for like a dozen people sure

[willow plume]

Couldn't this already be done (kinda) using the HashValue command?

[still forum]

wat

[willow plume]

ohh wait nvm

the idea was [array of values] -> convert array to hash -> send through remoteExec to unhash function -> unhash the data -> run code

but there's no way to un-hash values which have been hashed with https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/hashValue

[still forum]

Yes, hashes inherently cannot be unhashed, that's like, the definition of a hash

[copper flare]

I am working on a shoothouse and I have nearly everything working except the final evaluation tally. Part of the final evaluation is to count targets hit, targets missed, and maybe save those numbers to do some math with them like time penalties.

I am using the pop-up target objects from Vanilla. I've broken them out into arrays named as "S1Shoot" and "S1 NoShoot" so I've got something like this already.

private S1Shoot = ["S1_01","S1_02","S1_03","S1_04","S1_05","S1_06","S1_07","S1_08","S1_09","S1_10","S1_11","S1_12","S1_13","S1_14","S1_15","S1_16","S1_17","S1_18","S1_19","S1_20","S1_21","S1_22"]
private S1NoShoot = ["NS1_1","NS1_2","NS1_3","NS1_4"];

According the forums on individual targets I can apparently using this line to return the state of an individual target where a returned value of 0 means the target is up and a returned value of 1 means the target is down:

private _state = _target animationPhase "Terc";

Where I am completely lost here is how to take that line, and work it into a "ForEach" Command to iterate through array ultimately returning values to count the number of targets up and number of targets downed.

[modern meteor]

forEach (units player - [player]) group player;

can someone tell me the correct syntax?

[little raptor]

what are you trying to do?

[modern meteor]

running a command for all units in the players group excluding the player.

[little raptor]

_shotValid = {_x animationPhase "Terc" == 1} count S1Shoot;
_shotInvalid = {_x animationPhase "Terc" == 1} count S1NoShoot;

_notShot = count S1Shoot - _shotValid;

[little raptor]

then just ditch the group player part

[modern meteor]

Tyvm

[copper flare]

THanks

[cold mica]

I have been trying to set up this script for multiplayer yet it never works as intended. Here is how it is called:

weaponGod's init

[this] execVM "scripts\weaponDealer.sqf;

weaponDealer.sqf

params ["_weaponGod"];
[_weaponGod, "Miłosz the Weapon Dealer"] remoteExec ["setName", 0, this];
_weaponGod_actionId = _weaponGod addAction [
    "<t color='#FFC800'>Demand STG-44",
    {
        params ["_target", "_caller", "_actionID"];
        _target removeAction _actionID;
        _target globalChat "You have found me, stranger.";
        sleep 4;
        _target globalChat "Ah, I see you want the best.";
        sleep 2;
        _weapon = [_target, "rhs_weap_MP44",1] call BIS_fnc_addWeapon;
        isNil { _target selectWeapon _weapon; };
        sleep 3;
        _groundWeaponHolder = createVehicle ["GroundWeaponHolder", getPosATL _target, [], 0, "NONE"];
        _groundWeaponHolder addMagazineCargo ["rhsgref_30Rnd_792x33_SmE_StG", 6];
        _target action ["DropWeapon", _groundWeaponHolder, primaryWeapon _target];
        sleep 5;
        _theFlashbang = "ACE_G_M84" createVehicle (getPosATL _target);
        sleep 1;
        [_theFlashbang] call ace_grenades_fnc_flashbangThrownFuze;
        deleteVehicle _target;

    }
];

The issue occurs when the _target tries to select the weapon. It never does so so I try to force it with an isNil yet it still bypasses it and runs the rest of the script without selecting the weapon and dropping.

In singleplayer, the weapon is successfully selected and dropped. Running this script in the debug console on a dedi does work, but only when it is run in global execute.

Any advice is appreciated

[little raptor]

your isNil does nothing special. it only contains a single command
a single command is always unscheduled

[open fractal]

maybe you're calling the addaction expression on a client separate from the server where the ai is local?

[cold mica]

Where should I be calling the action in an MP environment? Server? Globally? Currently, it is in the init of a unit, meaning it should be global + JIP.

[fair drum]

if that is in the init, you need to worry about the first line remoting to every client every time a client joins (globally, globally lol)

[orchid stone]

do we have a command to take distinct elements from an array?

[1,1,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,5,5] becomes [1,2,3,4,5]

[cold mica]

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

This can do the trick

[orchid stone]

ahh ty

good enough for me, this will work

[cold mica]

I'll remove the remoteExec once I figure out how to properly execute it. The code has been switching between localities so often, I left that in there

[digital rover]

_uniqueArray = _array arrayIntersect _array

[orchid stone]

even cleaner

ty

[limpid lake]

I know a friend of mine currently has a working script for it that runs while in mission

automatically does it mid mission, hes sick

[tough abyss]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/951949245445984296/970444430119174285/unknown.png
Is it possible to remove this kind of warning message and put it in systemChat instead ?

(pbo is obfuscated, we can not fix the error)

[tranquil jasper]

that kind of message is generated by arma itself so probably not, best bet is to just fix the issue or if you are not the creator let them know there's a problem so they can fix

[tranquil jasper]

idk how performant arrayIntersect is but here is an alternative you can try if it's too costly

_unique = [];
_input apply {_unique pushBackUnique _x};

^ This is slightly more than 2x as fast as arrayIntersect using the example dataset and the code performance checker on the ESC menu

worth considering if you need to do that operation a lot

[granite sky]

I get the arrayIntersect version as 4x faster.

[open fractal]

You have an addaction which is applied to everyone in the server but iirc the expression is going to be called locally for whoever hit the button

so just remotexec the ai command and call it a day I’d say

[tranquil jasper]

odd, I wonder why the discrepancy?

[granite sky]

I'd have expected arrayIntersect to be faster as it's a command, even if it's a dumb algorithm :P

[tranquil jasper]

Not sure why our systems say different things...I get 0.0022ms for 10k runs with arrayIntersect, 0.0009ms for 10k runs with pushBackUnique

[granite sky]

0.0024 vs 0.0099

[tranquil jasper]

yeah I wrote the test wrong, that's why

2x faster but you get no output 😅

[granite sky]

Oh yeah, diag_codePerformance doesn't complain about errors :P

[haughty bone]

Greetings everyone. I was wondering if any of you is familiar with extDB3 ? I am trying to work with it but am hitting a couple points that are confusing to me. I also am new to scripting in general. Which also doesnt exactly help 😅

I just have a couple questions when it comes to setting up the extDB3 and how to check if it can actually make a connection succesfully.

[little raptor]

No. It's never faster

SQF is never faster than engine

[tranquil jasper]

it was an error in the test

[finite bone]

Is there a way to remoteExec the createVehicle command and have it create a vehicle once in a multiplayer lobby? The createVehicleLocal does the job fine but I couldn't get that object be added to the curator list.

[open fractal]

createVehicle is global

[drifting portal]

createvehicle is global, remote exec it will spawn several vehicles depending on number of connected players

[drifting portal]

you want to add something to zeus list?

[finite bone]

Ye, I understand createVehicle is global hence I wanted a similar solution to (A) Create the vehicle and (B) Add it to the curator list

[drifting portal]

you know that adding an object to the curator list will crash the game?
jk
use

   [[_CreatedObject], {   
           params ["_object"];   
          { _x addCuratorEditableObjects [[_object], true]; } foreach allCurators;   
        }] remoteExec ["spawn", 2];   

create a vehicle with createvehicle, then replace the _CreatedObject with the variable storing the vehicle

pretty easy

[finite bone]

the problem is the createVehicle command itself is run inside a remoteExec'd sqf script

[drifting portal]

may you post the code?

[finite bone]

ye

Init:

[[_object_class],"\create_object.sqf"] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_execVM",0,true];``` create_object.sqf: ```sqf
_my_obj_class = _this select 0;
/* other variables and code arguments and such */
_my_obj = _my_obj_class createVehicle _designated_position;```

[drifting portal]

read this please

[finite bone]

Yes exactly

[drifting portal]

there is no point in having this then so you must change it

[finite bone]

I replaced createVehicle with createVehicleLocal

[drifting portal]

why

your end goal is to do what exactly?

[finite bone]

just so it will execute once locally and probably have it added to the curator list

[drifting portal]

hmm but the problem is players won't see the vehicle the zeus is editing

and every player will have their own version of the vehicle

[finite bone]

1. Create a vehicle based on the object class passed
2. Have it editable by zeus
   all while running globally for players in remoteExec

[drifting portal]

yes, but you are creating it only local for the zeus here, which means the players playing won't be able to see what the zeus is doing

[hallow mortar]

...why does this script have to be remoteExec'd to all players?

[drifting portal]

it will not be on their screens

[hallow mortar]

Also you don't need BIS_fnc_ExecVM, you can just use execVM

[drifting portal]

yep that too

why would you give zeus an editable object that other players can't see?

[hallow mortar]

I don't think that's the intention, just a misunderstanding of what createVehicleLocal does

[drifting portal]

yep

I'm trying

to relay that to him

[finite bone]

so my only way is to have it created first in the init file and then pass it to the remoteExec'd script?

[hallow mortar]

I'm not sure exactly what that means but I think the answer is no

[drifting portal]

you just want a vehicle that can be seen being edited by zeus by everyone on the server right?

[finite bone]

yes

[drifting portal]

yes

createVehicleLocal does the opposite of that

[finite bone]

yea i learnt it the hard way xd

[drifting portal]

it gives every player a vehicle that is only visible to them on their side

yep so

no need for remoteExec here

do

init :

[_object_class] execVM "\create_object.sqf";

create_object.sqf:

_my_obj_class = _this select 0;
/* other variables and code arguments and such */
_my_obj = _my_obj_class createVehicle _designated_position;
/* BELOW adds object to curator interface*/
   [[_my_obj], {   
           params ["_object"];   
          { _x addCuratorEditableObjects [[_object], true]; } foreach allCurators;   
        }] remoteExec ["spawn", 2];   

because

the command is global

locally executing it will still give a global effect

[finite bone]

ah ok ty

[drifting portal]

try it and give feedback

because I have not checked if it works

[orchid stone]

anyone ever run into an issue where sound sources created with createSoundSource cannot be heard after respawn?

it could be the complexity of the sounds coming through as well. i'm not really finding much on when could stop a sound source from playing (the same function works on different maps for me)

for the curious, this is my script. it's not doing much

#include "script_component.hpp"
if (!isServer) exitWith {};

private _logic = param [0, objNull];

_logic spawn {
    private _sound = _this getVariable "SoundEffect";

    _eval = format ["getText(_x >> 'sound') == '%1'", _sound];
    _soundref = configName((_eval configClasses(configfile >> "CfgVehicles")) # 0);

    createSoundSource [_soundref, position _this, [], 0];
};

[orchid stone]

... i think it's the respawn screen... on the wiki it says...

"For some unknown reason if at the moment of command execution the player is in first person view and is inside a vehicle, the sound created is greatly attenuated."

does the respawn screen put players in some sort of pseudo vehicle when they first connect?

[orchid stone]

i guess a trigger with setSoundEffect is a better answer to this problem

[drifting portal]

is creating and deleting a trigger after its use a good practice? (The trigger won't be running for long)

[fair drum]

I like to. Less objects.

[drifting portal]

Have you noticed any impact from doing this?

[orchid stone]

generally it's good practice to dispose of objects when you're done with them

i say that from a general programming point of view (not as an arma scripting expert/authority - which im not)

[drifting portal]

Where are my arma 3 experts/ authorities I miss them

[orchid stone]

Not sure what you mean, but you should make sure your stuff is cleaned up. Especially things that run in loops (even more so with infinite loops - like a repeatable trigger that never gets deleted). One trigger maybe won't matter, but it's bad practice.

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

[drifting portal]

yes I'm specifically wanting to use a single trigger to avoid doing more than one loop

[open fractal]

i can proclaim myself an expert

[drifting portal]

may we hear the answer dear sir

[open fractal]

this is below my pay grade

[drifting portal]

ok

Troalinism setdamage 1;

[ebon citrus]

delete triggers when theyre no longer being used

[ebon citrus]

is there a method for rejecting updates for Units?

as in, rejecting network replication updates sent by the server

i have a scenario with possibly hundreds of agents at once and im thinking that it might cause issues when the server population increases

so i was thinking of fetching updates for only the agents which are within actual render-distance

although, i think this might work more in the way where the server pushes updates to the clients from the networking point of view

so if i can stop the inflow of data and also hide the said agent on the local client until the agent is within render distance

[prisma wharf]

how would I add a loop to a play3D script

class CfgSounds
{
    sounds[] = {};
    class music1
    {
        name = "music1";
        sound[] = {"\sounds\pa.ogg", 1, 1};
        titles[] = {0,""};
    };

    class music2
    {
        name = "music2";
        sound[] = {"\sounds\generator.ogg", 1, 1};
        titles[] = {0,""};
    };
};

what i have so far

[drifting portal]

This sounds a lot like dynamic simulation

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

[ebon citrus]

dynamic simulation is not per-client, but per-scenario logic

there already are no agents present when players arent present, but sometimes ýou dont want to send the network updates of an agent to a client that is 5km away from that agent just because another player is nearby that agent

but wait...
Each client have it is own dynamic simulation manager, all script commands do affect the local simulation manager.
this would lead me to believe that they are local effect?

well, this is easily tested

just by disabling the player's ability to trigger dynamic sim and then dynsiming the agents

need to try that when i get home

[drifting portal]

yes

thats why I mentioned it

[ebon citrus]

needs to be tested

although im pretty sure dynamic simulation wont block packets

but we SHALL see

i might be wrong

nope, here it says then
To achieve best results it is suggested to manage dynamic simulation on one place - ideally on server.

so who knows

we need Dedmen in here

Does dynamic simulation disable simulation of far objects client-side or server-wide or both?

[drifting portal]

from what I have observed (this is like 1.5 years ago so I might be recalling the wrong memory) I was the client-server and things were static for me when they are far away from any player, but I'm not sure about dedicated servers

[ebon citrus]

this is the problem. Im not trying to disable something when theyre far away from ANY player, but that their disabled for a client that cannot possibly see them

im alrady optimizing my mission to the extent where the agents are not present when there are no players around, so that part doesnt benefit me at all

[drifting portal]

a client that AI can not see?

[ebon citrus]

no

If client B is 200m away from Agent A and client C is 5km away from Agent A, i want A to be enabled and behaving for B, but not C

[drifting portal]

nope

dynamic simulation doesn't do that

[ebon citrus]

but Arma 3 sends positional updates for players (for obvious reasons) even on units they would not be interested in

[drifting portal]

so yeah you need a better way

[ebon citrus]

I dont need this part of Arma 3 for my scenario

so i was wondering if there was an engine commmand or similar to discard pushes made by the server concerning certain units

[drifting portal]

the closest person I know about knowing something about such a thing is @hollow thistle

[orchid stone]

I'm actually not sure your question is about dynamic simulation or even scripting at this point

[drifting portal]

no he is doing a splendid idea

but its execution is too far from my level

he needs someone high tier lol

[orchid stone]

Not saying its a bad idea. But that's really not even about simulation ranges, but what the server packages in each frame to clients

[drifting portal]

Yep

He wants to selectively send packets

A manager

[ebon citrus]

i dont think the server hands out packages per frame

there's probably an internal time-condition to keep the packets-per-second limited to some reasonable range

[drifting portal]

I would have tagged dedmen if its not for the rules

Yeah per frame is a bit too much on the bandwidth innit

[ebon citrus]

could be, depending on server performance

[drifting portal]

Have 60 players, server just dies

[ebon citrus]

rather it would be the server Dossing the clients

the client end would probably freeze

not the server

[drifting portal]

Well say its a crappy server that runs like 20 fps

Its not going to ddos but its going to die

[ebon citrus]

yeah, but if it runs at 20fps, then that's perfectly reasonable

20 updates per second is reasonable

[drifting portal]

Yes

[ebon citrus]

but if youre swapping between 20 updates per second and 3600 updates per second

then that's just unreasonable

anyway, BI has this part handled which is evident from the server-traffic

[orchid stone]

Depends on the architecture. But generally there is a tick rate and updates are sent out at that rate

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

[ebon citrus]

but returning to topic, there doesnt seem to be a way of discarding updates of a particular agent server side

[orchid stone]

There is good info there

[ebon citrus]

depends on the software-design

the server doesnt need to update clients of the information it processes on every frame

that would be silly

[orchid stone]

It talks about each frame in that link

[drifting portal]

Yes I'm trying to figure out a way but I don't seem to have reached something

[ebon citrus]

it says the maximum number of packets per frame

so when the server needs to send packets, how many packets does it send before it moves to the next frame

[orchid stone]

No it contains the definition and flow of each frame.

[ebon citrus]

not how many packets it sends every frame

[ebon citrus]

where?

[orchid stone]

Ctrl f, then type "frame"

[ebon citrus]

do you mean this?

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/77985-network-optimization/?do=findComment&comment=1356651

this post from 2009

with no source

yikes

ok, lets go over some basics

[orchid stone]

No, I sent the Biki article with a lot of info

[ebon citrus]

if you have the cycle-time, you would really want to run your physics simulation at a higher framerate

but you dont want to send updates of that physics simulation on every frame

so you send updates to clients, for example on every 3rd frame if you simulate at 60 cycles per second

that's when you get 20 updates per second

then on the client-end, you interpolate between the updates sent by the server

and do some prediction as to where the unit would be moving if it continued moving in the same way

and bam

you have fluid movement and fluid simulation without running some ridiculously high update-rates from server to client

downside is that the position isnt always super precise and if packets fall behind or theyre not handled correctly in order, you get rubberbanding and what we usually call "desync"

[distant egret]

I think he meant this: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/119571-arma-2-oa-beta-build-84984/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-2061026

[orchid stone]

That's a nice wall of text, but you're talking about achieving this with the internal scripting engine

Soooo

[orchid stone]

Yes

[ebon citrus]

that doesnt relate to the topic

also, this topic is INCREDIBLY old

[distant egret]

It does? Updates are send less the further you are away as client

[ebon citrus]

i would not be surprised if things have changed since then

ah, it was already dealt with

my bad

[warm hedge]

Ey what?

[drifting portal]

He has cometh

[ebon citrus]

there was a discord nitro scam bot

but someone dealt with it already

[drifting portal]

POLOX may you also please help us here

[ebon citrus]

im not sure if polpox knows

[warm hedge]

Ah log says so. It was a automated process

And what is the topic?

[drifting portal]

Give it a shot

[ebon citrus]

is there a way to stop the server from sending updates to clients of objects that are too far away from the clients

[drifting portal]

That's a bit broad give more details

[ebon citrus]

either by some internal logic or by simply discarding all updates of specific objects

i'd be able to do the logic myself

[warm hedge]

[ebon citrus]

ok, simply put, i want to tell the server not to send updates from a specific object to a specific client

[drifting portal]

He basically wants units updates to be sent to the players that are close to the units only not players that are far away

[warm hedge]

I... don't think I can say I know it

[ebon citrus]

some combination of createVehicleLocal and publicvariable?

but vehicles are not agents

and i have specifically agents

[warm hedge]

What kind of server side objects you don't want to sync?

[ebon citrus]

agents

[warm hedge]

And is that even necessary? Do you have a LOT of agents that would kill the performance?

[ebon citrus]

i have A LOT

[drifting portal]

He has the nato altis invading force

[warm hedge]

Ah...

[orchid stone]

I'm still confused why there is doubt the server doesn't do this per the previous info sent (albeit old)

[ebon citrus]

i have from 1200 to 2400 agents server-wide

[warm hedge]

Perhaps just enableSimulation in server side?

[ebon citrus]

maybe, but i'd still want to send packets to some specific clients

because some clients are close to the agents and the updates are relevant, but some clients are so far away that the updates are just spam

i understand that from the design nature of arma there comes a need to keep every player on the server updated on every object and agent, but i would like there to be a way of changing this behaviour if the scenario calls for it

since it's not strictly necessary to all scenarios

just even a command to tell the server "Dont send updates of this object to this client"

and then being able to reverse that change

[warm hedge]

Hmm. I don't think I can solve it, or I can tell it is even possible or not

[ebon citrus]

i dont think that should be awfully difficult to solve

if there are the necessary people working on the game anymore

I'm certainly not a big person and my request is not big, so it would most likely never be added

but one can always hope

[drifting portal]

Yeah its too big of a framework thing

[ebon citrus]

this would be a huge help to people trying to optimize their missions for LARGE amounts of units

[drifting portal]

Yep

[ebon citrus]

it's really not a big deal to do

well, i dont know how RV4 works internally on that department

but if it's well designed, it would not be a big deal

[drifting portal]

Well I think its either dedmen or killzone kid or veteran29 who might have an idea about this

[ebon citrus]

whatever way you use to collect updates or determine the receiver of the updates, in that method check if the receiver of the update is paired with the target of the update in this ignore list/hashmap/whatever data structure you prefer and if so, ignore the update

there, done

then a method of removing pairs from this ignore-"list"

[ebon citrus]

yeah, but we cant tag people

and im not looking for a ban right now

[drifting portal]

Yep lol

I tagged veteran29

Already

[ebon citrus]

all of this would be done in engine-side, ofcourse, a fool would do it in an interpreted script engine...

looks at panda

oh no...

[drifting portal]

This would have greatly helped in my biggest mission that I have made, darn

[orchid stone]

I'm also wondering about the performance impact of evaluating and filtering through each entity in the update rather than just taking it from the server (client or server)

Tbh, I'm not even convinced it's a good idea

[ebon citrus]

the performance impact of sending data over the network is astronomically higher than that of a simple hash lookup

we're comparing peas and planets here

[ebon citrus]

yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, man

[drifting portal]

Its a stupid idea but did you try enablesimulation false on a client in a server?

[orchid stone]

Oof. Ok well bed time then

I didnt come here to argue lol

Good luck

[drifting portal]

Yeah we are lacking it here

[ebon citrus]

opinions backed up with facts make it a valid argument. Otherwise it's just that... an opinion

[orchid stone]

I was just about to ask you for numbers on your assumptions.

[drifting portal]

Come on elon just bought Twitter chill guys

[ebon citrus]

assumption of what?

[orchid stone]

Well, that the documentation is wrong, and that it is necessary to circumvent the server updates with something in the scripting engine, and so much more

[ebon citrus]

i never said the documentation is wrong

[orchid stone]

But honestly. You're being a bit confrontational about it for some reason, and I have no skin in the game. So I'm just gonna let ya go

Have a good night

[ebon citrus]

it IS necessary to block engine updates from script engine in this case

and so much more

[ebon citrus]

im confrontational about it because youre not making any valid arguments

just launching baseless assumptions

[orchid stone]

I dont think that's fair to say when I provided documentation related to how the server determines what is a necessary update and what isnt

[ebon citrus]

but that is not nearly important in this case and no you didnt

[orchid stone]

Ok this is childish now

I'm done for real

[ebon citrus]

ok, go sleep

good night, sleep tight

My case still stands

In my humble opinion, there should be a way to ignore network updates of specific objects to specific clients

this should probably be a BI forum post at this point rather than a discord discussion

[drifting portal]

we should have created a thread

[ebon citrus]

cant create threads

[cyan dust]

Good day. What are advantages of functions-as-files in compare with Inline functions?
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Function

[drifting portal]

well in general in-file functions are easier to edit

and you can add comments without using comment command

that very slightly affects performance

in-line can be directly called, in-file needs a set of commands to be called

but overall in-file are easier to deal with

more clean code

it depends if you have access to mission files too

[cyan dust]

Thank you. Any other opinion?

[drifting portal]

well

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Function#Execution

please do check this

and

check this

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Mission_Optimisation#General_script_mistakes

when you do execVM repeatedly for a file, you will make the game read it each time, which is slow

so you can for example do

My_fnc_Cool = compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "myScript.sqf";

and whenever you want to use it you can do

call My_fnc_Cool; //or spawn My_fnc_Cool;, depends on your use case

more efficient

do that when you want to run the same sqf file more than one time, if one time just use execVM

[cyan dust]

Sorry, there is a little misunderstanding, I know how funcs work and how to write and use them, it's just that I walked functions-as-files route from day one (the first thing I saw in tuts and examples I guess), and now was struck by question why would I do that in the first place? A good question indeed, because I have no answer to that, it's just how it is. I was asked why don't I just write them as global variables inside one large sqf file instead of building 'functions' folder tree - no answer to that either. I tried biki - it just says 'well, you can do that or that' without explaining the difference. That's how I ended up here (=
Now I do know that functions-as-files are compiled firsthand and that it is compileFinal, is that it? Anything else maybe? Why would one prefer functions-as-fiels over inline code variables then?

Maybe I underestimate these advantages?

[still forum]

no

[still forum]

and now was struck by question why would I do that in the first place
Better organization.
Now I do know that functions-as-files are compiled firsthand
what do you mean by "firsthand" ?

[cyan dust]

Before other scripts, before init.sqf run for example

[drifting portal]

well it really depends on your use case mate

[still forum]

Thats just a preInit eventhandler, you could add your own eventhandler and compile your scripts there, before init.sqf and others

[drifting portal]

you can write them all in a single sqf file

then execute that sqf

so that they become global variables

that you can execute in game

it just depends on your use case

[winter rose]

and that's "bad" 😄

[drifting portal]

if you have a 1000 line function however

[cyan dust]

That is my question (+ "bad' why?

[still forum]

Bad organization when everything is just thrown together in the same bucket.
Bad modability (CfgFunctions you can replace single functions if you want to mod something, if its all in one large file not so much)

[winter rose]

they may be local only if you f-up
they may be overwritable if you f-up
they may become illegible if you f-up (or keep them piled-up)
etc 🙂

[cyan dust]

And in terms of perfomance? no difference?

[still forum]

no performance difference

[cyan dust]

Got it, thank you

[still forum]

Well unless SQF bytecode maybe, depending on how the compilation happens.
But if you are thinking about putting your scripts into a single file, you are not thinking about bytecode

[cyan dust]

Yeah, gotta keep that in mind, thanks

Thanks, everybody,

[drifting portal]

If you are really persistent

About putting everything in one place

Put only small functions in one place

Give large functions their own files

They deserve it

[drifting portal]

I assumed he expected this

[winter rose]

why persist in going the bad way when the good way is shown 😛

[drifting portal]

A single missing ; will disable a lot of functions potentially

[cyan dust]

Gotta know what you're doing instead of blindly following 'good practice' xD
And also I'm working with 'dark side' 'just go an easy way' colleague who asks smart questions and has a point. Just wanted to sort things out for myself.

[drifting portal]

Good practice is always good

[winter rose]

Gotta know what you're doing instead of blindly following 'good practice'
I concur! 👍

yes but "why" is important 🙂

[drifting portal]

Bad practice is only worth it if you going to ensure it will be fun

And worth it

[winter rose]

we spoke with Zeus this year, and we agreed on that
"you should not inline things"
yeah… """but why?"""

so you know and don't blindly follow indeed - or repeat the same "bad practice" in a different way 🙂

[ebon citrus]

just split all of your functions into their own files and define them in CfgFunctions

There is no reason to otherwise than for testing

i dont care what CBA says

also, i think the security aspect of CfgFunctions needs to be brought up too

[winter rose]

Like, here @ebon citrus ?

[drifting portal]

nica you must read this first

[drifting portal]

.

[ebon citrus]

i meant the finalcompile feature of CfgFunctions

as in, you cant replace CfgFunctions scripts from runtime

or so im told

[little raptor]

You can recompile functions in missions

If you enable it

[ebon citrus]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Functions_Library point number 2

they can be recompiled if you enable it, exactly

but an inline function can be replaced just by assigning the function variable again

as such, much more prone to exploit

but i am me, i put my functions religiously in CfgFunctions

[rapid swallow]

Hello, who has a script for the infantry spawn during the spawn trigger so that the infantry fills in the houses on the first and second floors

[pulsar bluff]

how you put your functions is really irrelevant. whichever way is more efficient for your workflow (and the workflow of anyone else you want working on the project) is best

inline functions should perform a tiny bit better since they are located in a namespace with less data

so your getVariable would produce a result tiny bit faster

[ebon citrus]

so the points made by the functions library biki article are irrelevant?

[still forum]

No they don't perform better.
Functions don't know where they are.
What do you mean namespace with less data?

so your getVariable would produce a result tiny bit faster
You mean namespace with fewer values == faster? No thats not quite how hashtables work. Adding more values might even make the lookup faster, if you get over the threshold to get more buckets allocated.

[little raptor]

in a way they do perform better tho

not related to what QuikSilver said

but because CfgFunctions also create _scriptName and _scriptNameParent variables... 😅

basically these lines:

private _fnc_scriptNameParent = if (isNil '_fnc_scriptName') then {'BIS_fnc_GC'} else {_fnc_scriptName};
private _fnc_scriptName = 'BIS_fnc_GC';
scriptName _fnc_scriptName;

[still forum]

Can you disable them with CfgFunctions entry?
initFunctions has a check for different header "types" so I assume there's also one without that?
Never actually tried to do that

[little raptor]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cyan dust]

So namespaces (missionNamespace, localNamespace... etc) are based on hashtables rather than on plain arrays, interesting, thanks, that's nice to know.

[little raptor]

I think you can based on a quick look I had:
headerType = -1

yeah it was also documented on the wiki 🤣

I read the file

[versed widget]

is there a way to check currentweapon of the vehicle in gunners position like cannons and such, i tried currentweapon gunner vehicle player but it returns the gunner side arm

[little raptor]

because you ARE getting the weapon of the unit...

gunner vehicle player gives the gunner itself...

I don't think it's possible to know which vehicle weapon they have selected tho

@versed widget use currentWeaponTurret

[versed widget]

thanks that will do

[leaden ibex]

Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out, if it's possible to add a music track into the SOG "player", using mission side scripts.
Anyone has any idea if it's possible? I would normally script it to the heli, but the SOG has such a nice menu for it

[tidal ferry]

Is it possible to check the status of animateSource?

[little raptor]

animationSourcePhase

[tidal ferry]

Sweet, thanks

[modern meteor]

Hi, my AI squad members have a laser/light combo attached to their rifle. Is there a way to activate their laser or light via script?

[still forum]

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

[tough abyss]

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

wait lol

hive mind lol

[winter rose]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/enableIRLasers for lasers

[modern meteor]

Many thanks guys

Hmm, it looks like the AI cannot switch between laser and lights mode on an attachment

I am using a laser/light combo where I as a player can press a button to switch between modes but it seems for the AI it can only activate one mode with the attachment. Is that correct or am I doing something wrong?

Just for clarification, I try to switch between light and laser for the AI in my squad. Those units have a laser/light combo equipped on their rifle.

[winter rose]

laser/light combo is not a vanilla equipment, so maybe the mod is doing something special here

[modern meteor]

oh, i see. i guess in this case it is not possible to alter the function of the attachment from laser to light.

[hallow mortar]

It might be possible by calling the function the mod uses to switch, but it might take a bit of investigation to figure out what that is

[obtuse prawn]

hello there, i have this command:
**this setUnitLoadout (missionConfigFile >> "CfgRespawnInventory" >> selectRandom ["UA1", "UM1","UE1", "UE2", "UE3", "US1"]); **
I want the AI to execute this command on it's init, when they respawn, so AI will be like changing classes.
And i also want to make so that this only work for one side (the other side, will have other classes to select).
Can someone help me on how to do this?

[modern meteor]

Any idea how to find out which function it is calling?

[hallow mortar]

It could be mentioned somewhere in the config of the weapon or the attachment. Alternatively, you might be able to find it by just browsing all the functions added by the mod (or any of its dependencies) using the function viewer.

Keep in mind there's no guarantee this will result in finding something that works. It's only a possibility.

[modern meteor]

Ok, thank you. I'll give it a try.

[little raptor]

how do the AI respawn exactly?

[obtuse prawn]

i have the multiplayer respawn modules named as respawn_side_x
This way, both players and AI can respawn on them.

[ebon citrus]

If it's multiplayer, then make sure only the server runs that code

Whether it be a local server or dedicated

You can check with isServer

Otherwise it runs for every client and the server

The init field runs on every device where the object gets initialized

[tough parrot]

The only difference of inline AFAIK is less jumps and larger compiled file.

[tough parrot]

_unit = "I_Soldier_AR_F" createUnit [[9142.09,21661,9.53674e-007],createGroup[resistance,true]];
sleep 10;
selectPlayer _unit;

Is this supposed to work for taking control? It is not working for me. It works if I console myself into an editor placed unit.

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/createUnit the syntax you're using does not return the unit, use the first one

[modest temple]

A mod a group I'm in using has a vehicle that doesn't have a cargo variant. So I made one you can spawn in as a composition on a dedicated server

this removeWeaponTurret ["LIB_M2", [0]];

this setObjectTexture [2, ""];

this lockturret [[0],true]; 

getPos this nearestObject "Building" attachTo [this];

this lockCargo [4, true];
this lockCargo [5, true];

this is the init of the car

it works

The attach to attaches a box in the back to make it look like a cargo vehicle

how would I modify this, to allow it to work it multiple boxes if I wanted to decorate it further

I can't just name the boxes because then it wouldn't work on a multiplayer server if more than one was spawned at ones, right?

[tough parrot]

is EachFrame supposed to target 50hz sim rate in all cases or does it use graphic rate in some cases?

[tough parrot]

netId is for MP, though I'm not sure what range of objects are included

[little raptor]

wat?

it literally runs every frame

[willow hound]

It's easier to name the vehicle and then do ...

if (isServer) then {
  this attachTo [MyVehicle, ...];
  this setDir 123;
};
```... in the decorative object's init. Bonus points if you make it a function and call that 🙃

[little raptor]

there's no guarantee that MyVehicle is defined before this object

[tough parrot]

According to wiki there is a different frame rate for simulation and graphics. For servers, there is no graphics, so...

[little raptor]

it always means simulation frame

[willow hound]

Never had that problem; probably because I place MyVehicle first 🤷‍♂️

[little raptor]

also there's no different frame rate. there are different timings

[tough parrot]

What is the difference? I read that server is capped at 50hz. I don't know what is for client.

[little raptor]

you can remove the server FPS cap

What is the difference?
objects have different simulation frequencies. if your FPS is higher than object update frequency the game skips the simulation and extrapolates the object position for rendering based on their velocity, which is the render time scope position.

[tough parrot]

Okay. That clarifies how the sim vs render time scope works. The wiki page on it is very vague.

[tough abyss]

Is there any way to get the view distance defined in graphical user config instead of viewDistance command ?

[little raptor]

no

[dry valley]

would i need to know how to script/code to create a particle system? or is it doable by tweaking some template and making 2d images or 3d model parts?

[little raptor]

if you want to create and spawn your own particles you need both
if you want to spawn the vanilla particles scripting is enough
if you want to modify the vanilla particles you need config and model making

also now sure what you mean by "particle system"

[dry valley]

like.. if a plastic box is shot at, or whatever object. it destructs, and delete the original object "source of particles" and sprays/bursts its "part1, part2 etc.p3d" on the floor.

basicly an explosion of premade parts if its 2d billboards or 3d models..

allready made the models, but atm it doesnt matter if it bursts cubes, just so i could tweak something to make it fit the item.

[little raptor]

if you have your own object, object destruction effects is pretty much config only

no need for scripting

[dry valley]

so just in the config.cpp and CfgCloudlets?

[little raptor]

yeah. I think some stuff should be added to CfgAmmo too

I don't remember very well

[dry valley]

hmm

[little raptor]

you can ask in #arma3_config for help

[dry valley]

ok, well thanks for your time. appreciated

[open fractal]

this might be a dumb question but is it possible to add a keyDown event handler that works in the arsenal? I'm not quite up to speed on GUI stuff and the event handler doesn't fire for display 46 while in the arsenal. I see a bunch of controls get added to Display # -1 but adding an event handler to findDisplay -1 does not seem to produce results.

Should I assume that if I want something similar I need to modify the function itself?

[copper raven]

add it to the arsenal's display i guess

arsenalOpened scripted EH gives you the display

[granite sky]

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

[open fractal]

oh my goodness gracious does it?

i skimmed that page but didnt see it gives the display

thank you

[granite sky]

The example doesn't use it but it's in the table.

[open fractal]

yep there it is _display

[lapis ivy]

Hello. I have a condition:

a3a_var_started && (([east,0] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) < 1 or ([west,0] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) < 1);

Activation:

"SideScore" call BIS_fnc_endMissionServer;

But, for some reason, when the tickets run out, the game sometimes gives a defeat to the team that is the winner.
How can I do this in one trigger to add points to the winning team without creating a second trigger?

[copper raven]

display should also be stored in uinamespace getvariable ["RscDisplayArsenal",displayNull];

[copper raven]

because SideScore doesn't look at tickets, but actual ingame score, you can do a hacky approach and just add some big number to the winning side (you'd have to find that out yourself, with the tickets) https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addScoreSide, or you can make your own "endMission" function that ends based on tickets

[lapis ivy]

Yes Yes. I understood it. I don't understand how to add a sidescore to a team that has tickets left with a script. It would be desirable to make it in one trigger.

I need something like this...

if ([east,0] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) then (west addScoreSide 9990) or if ([west,0] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets) then (east addScoreSide 9990);

[open fractal]

oh wow the scripted event handler did exactly what I needed.

[missionNamespace, "arsenalOpened", {
    private _display = _this # 0;
    _display displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown", {
          //stuff
        } 
    }];
}] call BIS_fnc_addScriptedEventHandler;

Should I go through the effort of removing the event handler after the arsenal is closed?

disregard I got it in the state that I want it

[finite bone]

I have this code: sqf { _bodyPart = ["Head", "RightLeg", "LeftArm", "Body", "LeftLeg", "RightArm"] selectRandomWeighted [0.47,0.69,0.59,0.55,0.61,0.58]; _dmgType = selectRandom ["backblast", "bullet", "explosive", "grenade"]; if (typeOf _x != "VirtualCurator_F") then { [_x, _damage, _bodyPart, _dmgType] call ace_medical_fnc_addDamageToUnit; _tip = selectrandom ["04","burned","02","03"]; [_x,[_tip,200]] remoteExec ["say3d"]; } else { [_x] call ace_medical_treatment_fnc_fullHealLocal; }; } forEach (_nearentity);

When I run it - I get this following error in the server log without any damage being done to the player:
[ACE] (medical) ERROR: addDamageToUnit - badUnit [Z1,0.01,"RightLeg","grenade"] [local false] Here Z1 is the variable name of the player.

[copper raven]

https://github.com/acemod/ACE3/blob/master/addons/medical/functions/fnc_addDamageToUnit.sqf#L41

[copper raven]

you have syntax errors, also i suggest you just end yourself manually, e.g

if ([west, 0] call BIS_fnc_respawnTickets <= 0) then {
    [east, west]
} else {
    [west, east]
} params ["_winner", "_loser"];

["GroupLost", false] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_endMission", _loser]; 
["GroupWon"] remoteExec ["BIS_fnc_endMission", _winner];

[lapis ivy]

Thank you!
What does GroupLost and GroupWon mean?

[copper raven]

IDK, that's what BIS_fnc_endMissionServer uses

[lapis ivy]

Understood. Thank you.

[lapis ivy]

We have a multiplayer game, is it better to use BIS_fnc_endMissionServer ?

[drifting portal]

well

if you read the biki

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

it will tell you the difference

between endmisison and endmissionserver

[drifting portal]

check CfgDebriefing

in config viewer in eden editor

[tidal ferry]

Hey, is there any way to access 3den Editor comments from within a scenario? E.g. writing comments in 3den Editor which are visible to Zeus

[drifting portal]

well that requires a script

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/drawIcon3D

[open fractal]

you have a random bracket forEach (_nearentity])

and _damage is not defined

[finite bone]

the _damage is defined in the code above it

I fixed the typo of forEach (_nearentity)

[open fractal]

are you running this on the server?

if (isNull _unit || {!local _unit} || {!alive _unit}) exitWith {ERROR_2("addDamageToUnit - badUnit %1 [local %2]", _this, local _unit); false};

if the unit isn't local then it will give you this error

[_x, _damage, _bodyPart, _dmgType] remoteExecCall ["ace_medical_fnc_addDamageToUnit",_x];

this will call the function on the player's machine

if you have code that affects a player unit expect it needs to be run local to the player

still check the documentation

[finite bone]

ah ok

[open fractal]

ace devs are doing you a favor by giving you an error code, you can always open up github and ctrl+F to find why it's happening

badUnit being the error code in this case

[drifting sky]

In A3, isn't there a way to get the index of the current event handler?

[open fractal]

_thisEventHandler

[little raptor]

_thisEventHandler

[drifting portal]

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

are there functions for this type of stuff?

[copper raven]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Function_Group:_KeyframeAnimation

[copper raven]

what i wrote should be ran on the server only

[drifting portal]

hmm

I thought

there was a way

to create keys

using a function

is it not possible to create a key?

[drifting sky]

What's with "BIS_fnc_findSafePos" sometimes returning only the first element of a position instead of an array?

[drifting sky]

I was using it in an attempt at a foolproof way of finding a totally empty position. It seemed to work in A2, but in A3, in sometimes returns just the first element in a position array, instead of a whole array.

Anybody have advice for finding an empty position with 100% success? Devoid of any map or editor objects, or objects spawned in during the game, including vehicles, men, and buildings.

[pulsar bluff]

you are sure there are empty positions available?

[tough parrot]

you mean it only returns the x coord?

[drifting sky]

yes

[tough parrot]

I tested a mod a while back that turns a backpack into a tent. I had no problem with the placement unless there was no actual place to fit it.

[drifting sky]

it only happens like 1 out of a hundred times

[tough parrot]

maybe try findEmptyPosition instead

[drifting sky]

How come the "fired" event handler sometimes has a "_thisEventHandler" of "any", thus causing an error?

[little raptor]

Are you sure you're not modifying it elsewhere?

[little raptor]

Are you sure it's returning a number to you?

If you pass an object as center it could be returning the object (when it doesn't find a safe pos)

[ebon citrus]

according to the docs, it returns the center of the map

[proven charm]

you can decide what it returns when no pos is found by using the parameter #8

or param #9 if you start counting from one 🙂

[raw oyster]

ugh so one of the mods we use (R3F Logistics) that has been dead for a bit is now broken... yay. With our unit so dependent on it for our logistics system I may need to just make a new one. Can anyone point me in the right direction of scripting a gui with a money system that spends money when a vehicle or object is created. Pretty advanced ik it's just never attempted something like this on this scale, and any help is appreciated.

[steel fox]

R3F logistic is just a collection of mission scripts no? Can't you just fix whats broken in the script?

[raw oyster]

It does a lot more than the factory, and I am very inexperienced. Apologies idk why I called it a mod. The current issue is when players use scroll wheel to drop a item they are using it stays attached to them.

[steel fox]

Not at my computer so I can't check for you rn. But can't you just look through the code for a bit and try to find where a detach somewhere and see what's broken?

Logs might even be telling you exactly what is wrong.

[raw oyster]

Will try we haven't touched anything besides the normal config, and even then we haven't touched it in months. It just started out of the blue.

It also does it randomly one op a player can drop items, and the next he can't, but someone else can

[steel fox]

If R3F hasn't changed you might have changed a mod or setting and created an incompatiblity

[raw oyster]

Hmm ok

That's prob most likely it will just have to dive into the modlist

[steel fox]

Be sure to also start checking logs next time it happens. (Some people do disable logs for better performance so keep that in mind and turn em back on)

[raw oyster]

5:41:47 Scripting function 'advlog_fnc_detach' is not allowed to be remotely executed
5:41:47 User Comm. Jonah (76561198133665042) tried to remoteExec a disabled function

[little raptor]

that's related to your server setup

not the function itself

[raw oyster]

how do I allow it?

[little raptor]

CfgRemoteExec or something like that

google it

[raw oyster]

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

how can I apply it here?

nvm I see what you mean

you chads ty for the help @little raptor @steel fox

[plush prism]

I will ask the scripting guys if they know anything. But we used it daily on our serveur without any issue.

[raw oyster]

it wound up being a mission side error

[plush prism]

👍

[raw oyster]

We had to put this in our description

class CfgRemoteExec
{
    class Functions
    {
        /*
        Operation modes:
            0 - remote execution is blocked
            1 - only whitelisted functions / commands are allowed
            2 - remote execution is fully allowed, ignoring the whitelist (default, because of backward compatibility)
        */
        mode = 2;

        /*
        JIP:
            0 - JIP flag can not be set
            1 - JIP flag can be set (default)
        */
        jip = 1;

        class BIS_fnc_someFunction
        {
            /*
            Allowed targets:
                0 - can target all machines (default)
                1 - can only target clients, execution on the server is denied
                2 - can only target the server, execution on clients is denied
                Any other value will be treated as 0.
            */
            allowedTargets = 0;

            //Override the global setting (defined in class Functions) for this function:
            jip = 0;
        };
    };

    class Commands
    {
        mode = 1;

        class setDir
        {
            allowedTargets = 2;
            jip = 0;
        };
    };
};

might be something to put in a doc to do for setup we have been using r3f logistics for nearly a year, and never had to do that till now

[little raptor]

if you put that exact thing, it's nonsense

[raw oyster]

oh?

I mean once I put it in it stopped all the bugs on the server

[little raptor]

all you needed was:

class CfgRemoteExec
{
    class Functions 
    {
        mode = 2;
        jip = 1;
    };
    class Commands
    {
        mode = 1;
    };
};

[raw oyster]

ah

[little raptor]

class BIS_fnc_someFunction
that was just an example and no such function exists

[raw oyster]

ight ty

[grave jungle]

I managed to get it working using an even simpler example.

I managed to get it working. No $PBOPREFIX$ was needed, nor was the P drive~!!!

[little raptor]

did I say it was?

[drowsy geyser]

hey, do i need to remoteExec setAnimSpeedCoef
if i want to "freeze"a specific player ?

[open fractal]

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

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Multiplayer_Scripting#Definitions

[drowsy geyser]

yes thank you, i see that is says GA but its LE so i guess it needs remoteExec?

[digital rover]

Yes

[hallow mortar]

Setting animSpeedCoef to 0 might have strange effects. You should also consider attaching the player to a static object or disabling simulation on them (note: disabling simulation might make them immune to damage)

[ebon citrus]

Sigh... you dont need to use p drive, you WANT to use it

[grave jungle]

someone told me it was not optional, but it does appear to be optional. I was able to use the "file" attribute at the FUNCTION level to specify the location of my functions as files individually.

also, the name of the folder in which the addon resides seems to be irrelevant

👍 thank you for the help

[grave jungle]

love this

umm I just got my P drive working, so far as I can tell I think it's useful to: 1) enable you to recompile functions in-game 2) have all assets pre-unpacked to make loading times faster

not sure what else it's really needed for

[little raptor]

it's not really needed for scripting. but for model and terrain making it's a must have, otherwise some tools can't find the assets you use
you can recompile functions if you simply put them in a mission folder and build your scripts in that mission

that's how I personally make my mods

[marsh drift]

Could someone help me out? Im not good at coding. The function for open my doors/hatches (vehicle) is not working properly. If I turn out or in nothing is gonna happen but if i open the door manually (from outside per user action) it is opening but will close immediately after it opens.

fn_openHatches.sqf

params["_v"];

_v = _this select 0;

while{alive _v} do{
    
if (isTurnedOut (_v turretUnit [8])) then {
        if (_v animationPhase "door_left" < 0.5) then {
            _v animateSource ["door_left",1];
        };
    } else {
        if ((_v animationPhase "door_left") >= 0.5) then {
            _v animateSource ["door_left", 0];
        };
        
sleep 0.5;
 
};
};

Config:

class AnimationSources: Animationsources
class door_left
{
    source = "user";
    animPeriod = 1;
    initPhase = 0;
};

model.cfg:

class Animations
{

class Rotation 
    {
        type = "rotation";
        memory = 1;
        minValue = 0;
        maxValue = 1;
        angle0 = 0;
        angle1 = 1;
    };

class door_left: Rotation

    {
                type            = "rotation";
                source          = "door_left";
                selection       = "door_left";
                axis            = "door_left_axis";
                memory          = 1;
                sourceAddress   = "clamp";
                minValue        = 0;
                maxValue        = 1;
                angle0          = 0;
                angle1          = -3.05;
    };

};

class UserActions 
{
            
    class Open_Door_Left 
    {
        displayName = "Open Left Door";                
        position = "door_knob_left";                
        radius = 3;
        onlyForPlayer = 0;
        condition = "this animationPhase 'door_left' < 0.5";
        statement = "this animate ['door_left', 1]";
}; ```

[little raptor]

use ```sqf and ```cpp for syntax highlighting of scripts and configs respectively

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[little raptor]

(also please edit your message, don't make a new one)

[marsh drift]

uh sry yes

[little raptor]

your sleep is inside the else scope, not while

also don't do it that way

you're keeping a while loop always active

you can just run that script when the user opens the hatch

for example, you can add TurnIn and TurnOut event handlers to your vehicle:

class EventHandlers {
  class JakeEatsASteak {
     TurnIn = "[_this#0, 0] call jake_fnc_turnInOutTank1";
     TurnOut = "[_this#0, 1] call jake_fnc_turnInOutTank1";
  };
};

jake_fnc_turnInOutTank1:

params ["_vehicle", "_phase"];
_vehicle animateSource ["door_left", _phase];

ofc you only need the function if you need to do more than animation

if that animation is all of it no need for that small function

just do:

class EventHandlers {
  class JakeEatsASteak {
     TurnIn = "_this#0 animateSource ['door_left', 0]";
     TurnOut = "_this#0 animateSource ['door_left', 1]";
  };
};

[grave jungle]

Looking for a recommendation here on a good way to call custom functions in-game as a player. Use case is admin-functions to be called to do various things on a moment's notice (e.g. "teleport player") etc....

I could build a UI but that seems like overhead... binding to custom keys also seems inflexible and non-robust

[little raptor]

you can use actions or communications menu

see:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_2:_Custom_Command_Menu
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Arma_3:_Communication_Menu

[grave jungle]

comms seems interesting..

[little raptor]

I recommend comms menu

[south swan]

radio trigger, some object with addAction, links in diary on the map...

[grave jungle]

yep that seems good

Leopard

so then the admin would press 0, 9 and see the custom script commands I've got

only thing would be how to pass parameters into it

I'll read your suggested Wiki articles.

[little raptor]

@marsh drift also if you want to customize script to handle all doors for different turrets, you can do:

params ["_vehicle", "_turret", "_phase"];
private _anim = call {
  if (_turret isEqualTo [8]) exitWith {"door_left"};
  if (_turret isEqualTo [9]) exitWith {"door_right"};
  //etc.
};
_vehicle animateSource [_anim, _phase];

class EventHandlers {
  class JakeEatsASteak {
     TurnIn = "[_this#0, _this#2, 0] call jake_fnc_turnInOutTank1";
     TurnOut = "[_this#0, _this#2, 1] call jake_fnc_turnInOutTank1";
  };
};

[marsh drift]

aahh ok im understanding this right now. I have added emissive light rvmats and im doing it the same way with hide/unhide and while loop... So i can use it the same way here?

class JakeEatsASteak 
{
     TurnIn = "_this#0 animateSource ['door_left', 0]";
     TurnOut = "_this#0 animateSource ['door_left', 1]";
     isLightOn = "";  ?
};```

what do you mean with customize? I have another door and a front hatch

[little raptor]

I don't think there's an event handler for lights

[little raptor]

I mean you can use that single function to handle both hatches for you

based on the turret path

[little raptor]

how do you hide and unhide the lights?

and what is your current script?

[marsh drift]

config

class Eventhandlers: Eventhandlers
{
    class lightstoggle
    {
        init="if (local (_this select 0)) then {[(_this select 0), """", [], nil] spawn jzra_sb_fnc_lightToggle;}";        
    };
};

class CfgFunctions
{
    class jzra_sb
    {
        class scripts
        {
            file = "\jzra_sb\scripts"; // file path will be <ROOT>\My\Category\Path\fn_myFunction.sqf";
            class lightToggle
            {
                file = "\jzra_sb\scripts\fn_lightToggle.sqf"; // file path will be <ROOT>\My\Function\Filepath.sqf";
            };
        };
    };
};

fn_lightToggle.sqf

params["_v"];
_v = _this select 0;

while{alive _v} do{
    
if (isLightOn _v) then { _v animate ["lights_hide",1,true]; } else { _v animate ["lights_hide",0,true]; };
sleep 0.01;
 
};

[little raptor]

well looping is very bad.
but anyway afaik there's no event handler for lights
idk if there's a native engine solution for that, but if there isn't, you can use user action event handlers.
see:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addUserActionEventHandler
for example, create a post init function that does this:

if (missionNamespace getVariable ["jake_headlights_action_EH", -1] != -1) exitWith {}; //don't add the EH if it was already added

_EH = addUserActionEventHandler ["headlights", "Deactivate", {
  _v = vehicle player;
  if (isLightOn  _v) then {
    _v animate ["lights_hide",1,true];
  } else {
    _v animate ["lights_hide",0,true];
  };
}];

jake_headlights_action_EH = _EH;

ofc it only works with player controlled vehicles...

you can ask in #arma3_config to see if there's a better solution. I personally don't know of any, but I'm not a model maker either

[marsh drift]

thank you for all of this will try it out now 😄

[little raptor]

np.
also this is a list of all event handlers:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers
if you need an event handler for lights you can make a feature request on Feedback Tracker: https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/1/

[drifting sky]

Actually, the problem was I was using _thiseventhandle inside of code spawned during the event handler.

However, now my problem is the method I was using in A2 to force AI to fire their grenade launcher, isn't working in A3. _unit selectWeapon _muzzle; _unit fire [_muzzle,_muzzle,_mag]; Any suggestions?

[south swan]

[aaaa, "GL_3GL_F"] call BIS_fnc_fire;
aaaa forceWeaponFire ["GL_3GL_F", "Single"]; both seem to work in my (limited) testing

[drifting sky]

I'm going to try that. But also, right now I'm setting the velocity of the projectile to get it to go where I want them to shoot it. Is there any simple way to get Ai to fire upon a specified position?

[south swan]

_unit fire [_muzzle, _mode, _magazine];``` seems to work (at least to some extent) for me 🤔

[wooden torrent]

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

[little raptor]

this works in A3

if not that then try forceWeaponFire

[drifting sky]

I want them to shoot at a position, not at an object.

[wooden torrent]

invisible object

:)

make them shoot at a grass cutter

[south swan]

given that official tracers module spawns an agent, disables its animation and just rotates the entire model...

[drifting sky]

I can't get them to successfully shoot at invisible targets. Also, the ones built into arma 3 block both bullets and unit movement, so they're useless.

[wooden torrent]

yez, because I am not talking about actual invisible object

like i said

grass cutter, helipad (invisible)

[drifting sky]

grass cutter?

[little raptor]

it's an object that hides ingame grass

it's a decal

[open fractal]

invisible helipads are seen and used by AI. It's better practice to use createVehicleLocal and hideObject if you absolutely need an object

or check the box in the editor to hide it

[drifting sky]

can either of those objects have a side so that ai automatically can detect them and fire upon them on their own?

[little raptor]

no

they're empty objects

[open fractal]

you can set your own variable to them

[wooden torrent]

thank you

[wooden torrent]

thanks

[wooden torrent]

I don't get it

what's the point of it

[drifting sky]

It's a separate question related to my suppression system, which I haven't mentioned yet.

I've got an awesome suppression system I was using in A2, but it uses invisible targets with a side that AI can detect and fire upon on their own.

Tried using CBA invisible targets, but they don't seem to work.

[wooden torrent]

I think CBA or ACE3 have a suppression module already

[drifting sky]

Mine's better. Presuming I can get it to work in A3.

Ok, so I've got them to shoot smoke grenades like this: isNil { _unit setVariable ["SMOKE_EVENT_CONSTANTS",[_vel,_vv] call func_VEC3_scale]; _unit addeventhandler ["fired",{ (_this select 6) setVelocity ((_this select 0) getVariable "SMOKE_EVENT_CONSTANTS"); player sideChat format["shooter: %1, projectile: %2, event handler: %3", (_this select 0), (_this select 6),_thisEventHandler]; }]; _unit selectWeapon _muzzle; [_unit, _muzzle] call BIS_fnc_fire }; However there's a problem. They don't fire the nade immediately, meaning the fire event is capturing other projectiles apart from the intended smoke grenade.

[south swan]

filter by ammo/magazine? params ["_unit", "_weapon", "_muzzle", "_mode", "_ammo", "_magazine", "_projectile", "_gunner"]; so _this select 4/5

[drifting sky]

Oh my god, nade rounds are absurdly bouncy.

[open fractal]

@drifting sky https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/doSuppressiveFire have you seen this command introduced in a3

[drifting sky]

I want control over the size of the area they fire upon

also over the length of time they're firing

[open fractal]

you can give each unit a random pos within a radius to fire upon

yeah looks like time is always going to be random

[drifting sky]

is the fourth element of the position parameter its size?

also, will they fire grenades and rockets?

my A2 version they fire anything they got, grenade rounds, hand grenades, rockets. The works.

[south swan]

i don't think doSuppressiveFire takes 4-element arrays, docs ask for PositionASL. I believe they meant "assign a different targets with random offsets from the center to different units". Also i don't think bots would use everything, at least in my (limited) testing grenadier was only shooting his rifle. And with the rifle mags removed he refused to shoot;

[drifting sky]

I really need to find a way to get invisible targets to work correctly.

[lapis ivy]

Tell me, is it possible to make it so that the players in the north of the Arma 3 game have the same nickname in Discord, Team Speak and in the game itself? Something like a white list, but I need to implement a discord.

My players use out-of-game communication between themselves, although we use TFAR. I can't find these players in my Discord channel because their username is different from their in-game and Team Speak nicknames

[hallow mortar]

An automatic integration between Discord and Arma is not something I've ever heard of and I think it's unlikely to be possible.
As a Discord server admin, you could change the players' server nickname to match their ingame name, after asking them.
Or just ask people to use the same name.

[cold flower]

You could just enforce your rules and tell them to conform

Sounds like an organizational issue

[lapis ivy]

This does not work. There are rules, but it is not always possible to track everyone. I'm thinking about the procedure for registering and manually adding player names to the white list of the server.

[open fractal]

Possible? Yes, but it would be much more effort than just enforcing your rules as the above said

[lapis ivy]

But I would like to know if there is a discord bot that can do this?

[open fractal]

that can do what, precisely?

[lapis ivy]

Add player names to whitelist

[open fractal]

yes

[cold flower]

He wants to automate name recognition across all three platforms. TS, Discord and Arma

[open fractal]

you can make a bot to add names to a list pretty easily

[lapis ivy]

Yes Yes. right.

[open fractal]

it's getting that data from elsewhere that's the hard part

[cold flower]

No

You should have enforced your rules from the beginning

[lapis ivy]

Oh, I'm glad it's possible!

[lapis ivy]

They've been fixed right from the start.

The fact is that a lot of people come every day.

[cold flower]

Then I really don't know what to tell you

You could find a bot that enforces or changes names on Discord and maybe extract the data. You could do a server whitelist that looks for specific names

But you're going to end up making people pissed no matter the decision you decide

[lapis ivy]

Why will they be angry? They violate the rules of the game project, and the rules have long indicated everything and they are.

[cold flower]

Because your people are not following the rules and want to do what they want

[lapis ivy]

There are problem players everywhere, this must be accepted as a fact. My task is to minimize their number. Thanks for the reply, I'll try to come up with something.

[open fractal]

The only way I can think to do that is by requesting steam id's from discord users and pulling profile name data from the server to be sent back to the bot. On the other hand, you can require users to submit their arma profile name upon joining your server and turn off the ability to change nickname. One of these is the better choice.

You can make them having permissions to join your discord server/game contingent on them providing you this data if it's that important. This is not something that should involve arma scripting. @lapis ivy

you can either sacrifice dozens or more hours of your time coming up with an "automatic" system that needs upkeep or enforce your rules.

[rich rover]

So I’m trying to make a wave combat scenario for some people and I’m struggling at keeping the wave part of it. I have the teams set up and the tutorial I watched gave me a script that I put into a trigger synced to a show/hide module, but the OPFOR still all spawn in at once

[open fractal]

You need to send the script if you want help

!code

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[lapis ivy]

Do not quite understand. That is, can you make it so that when a player connects to the server, his nickname in my discord server will automatically change to the one he has in the game?

[open fractal]

YOU HAVE TO INVENT THIS YOURSELF

it's not worth it dude

just enforce your rules

you're thinking of what teamspeak does with plugins. discord is not teamspeak.

[lapis ivy]

It's a pity, of course, I'm just familiar with one project where they have automated registration. BUT, they don't have Discord, they use site registration.

[open fractal]

literally

[lapis ivy]

OK I understood. Thank you.

[open fractal]

just take away the ability to set nicknames

it's that simple

you don't need anything that automatically updates

make a google form or a python bot or something

[rich rover]

//({ alive _x } count units W1G1 == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G3 == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G4 == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G4 == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G4 == 0) && ({ alive _x } count units W1G5 == 0);

This is my code

W1G1 stands for the Wave and Group

The units have this as their variable names too

[open fractal]

you might want to stop getting your advice from that youtuber

this code is fucked

[rich rover]

That’s pretty much what I did when it didn’t work

And I think the video is already 4 years old?

[open fractal]

literally don't know what they're doing and giving advice, like me but worse

[rich rover]

So is there a better way?

[open fractal]

let me decipher that mess and go from there

[rich rover]

Alright

[south swan]

looks like a trigger/whatever condition "if all members of all groups are dead", i suppose?

[rich rover]

Yep

[open fractal]

yeah

it's done in like the worst way though

im sorry it's really not that bad i'm just offended by that code for whatever reason

are the variables units or groups

[south swan]

i'd call that a surprise effect

[rich rover]

3 man units

Or groups

Not very sure on the difference

[open fractal]

and you want the condition to be that they're all dead?

[rich rover]

Yep, once the first wave dies, the second wave spawns

Then repeat

[open fractal]

can you send all the trigger statements

[rich rover]

That's the only trigger

[open fractal]

yeah but what's in the activation field

[rich rover]

Nothing I believe

[open fractal]

so the trigger fires and then what?

[rich rover]

It is synced to a show/hide module

[open fractal]

oh

oh

how are the units spawned

[rich rover]

They're originally hidden, then once the trigger is done, the second synced show/hide sets the wave to show

And you're supposed to repeat this for every wave

[open fractal]

are there specific units that you placed down or did you just place a group from the editor

[rich rover]

It's a modded group, each group has their leader synced to the show/hide

[open fractal]

what do you mean modded group

[rich rover]

But yes, they're technically from the editor

It's a mod

[open fractal]

did you place down a pre-made group or not

[rich rover]

Yes

[open fractal]

what mod is it?

[rich rover]

COXHOUND

[open fractal]

if I had that addon downloaded I'd just write a script to spawn the group but we can stick with your hideObject method

[rich rover]

Oh, I'm fine removing it

tbf, I feel like it's more work keeping it

[open fractal]

I'll dm you because i got a plan

[rich rover]

Ok

[open fractal]

you should delete your post in #arma3_editor btw

no crossposting on this server

[rich rover]

Yep

I only transferred here because it seemed better

[south swan]

just asking: "write a script" as in "a bunch of createUnits" or is there a better way of working with groups?

[haughty bone]

greetings everyone. I am trying to work on a simple create a unit on top of a specific marker. I have placed this marker in my mission. Which is called spawnmarker_01. However it throws back an error at me. This is my code: ```_spawnPos01 = getMarkerPos "spawnmarker_01";
_createAttackGroup = createGroup [west, true];
_unit = "B_Soldier_lite_F" createUnit [position _spawnPos01 , group _createAttackGroup];

if (alive _unit) then{
//move unit to waypoint marker 01

// move unit to waypoint marker 02

// move unit to attack marker 01
};``` and the error i get thrown back at me is: Error position: Type Array, expected Object,Location. I am not sure as to what i am doing wrong here.

could it be because i am using Empty markers that dont show up on the map when i start the mission?

[winter rose]

you are getting marker pos, then are getting the pos of the pos

[haughty bone]

ahh i see. so it should just be _spawnPos01

[winter rose]

bingo!

[haughty bone]

ofcourse. makes sense.

thank you!

[granite sky]

That code's also using the wrong createUnit. That one doesn't return a unit reference.

and similarly to the position, group _createAttackGroup should just be _createAttackGroup

[haughty bone]

yea i saw that and changed it aswell. It spawns the unit now and now i can go further with the if statement which is throwing an error now

[granite sky]

Probably because it's using the wrong createUnit so _unit is nil.

[haughty bone]

which is saying: undefined variable in expression: _unit

[granite sky]

yes.

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

You want the standard syntax, not the alt.

[haughty bone]

_unit = group player createUnit ["B_RangeMaster_F", position player, [], 0, "FORM"]; this one?

[granite sky]

yes.

[haughty bone]

got ya thank you!

so what does the "FORM" do ? I thought it was part of the rank string but it doesnt seem to be?

[elfin comet]

I'd venture to bet that it deals with the formation of the group

[south swan]

I believe it's supposed to create a unit in its place in formation this way

[haughty bone]

yea looks like it indeed. am just reading through the wiki to make more sense of it

[elfin comet]

So, looking on the wiki now for createUnit, I don't know what "FORM" specifically does, but the section is pretty much meant to decide how the unit is spawned to some extent. I agree with artemoz that it likely spawns them on the location of where that unit would be in formation but you could also do "CARGO" if you wanted them to spawn in a passenger seat of the player vehicle.

[haughty bone]

i am going to see if it's the case by testing something right now

[grave jungle]

Can I limit availability of custom communication menu items to Admins only? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Communication_Menu I want to put admin script commands in the communication menu instead of making a GUI or keybinding...

[hallow mortar]

Depending on how your script is structured, you could use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/admin on the server to instruct admin clients to create the menu (i.e. remoteExec a function on admin clients), or use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/serverCommandAvailable on the client to determine whether it's an admin. Alternatively, if it's only for use on a server you control, you can keep a list of admin Steam IDs and check whether the client is one of those, which would allow access for admins other than the logged-in admin.
If you use a method other than Steam ID whitelisting, bear in mind that admin status can change mid-mission, so if you'd like the script to account for that you'll need to check multiple times over the course of the mission - otherwise only the admin who was logged in at mission start will have the option.

Also keep in mind that the communication menu may not be available to players in spectator mode or Zeus, whereas a custom GUI & keybind will be.

[grave jungle]

^^^ pin that +100

I will do whitelisting since it is the simplest for me to personally accomplish. I am the admin and it's just for my own streaming and fun

[opal zephyr]

Hi, I need to accurately get the unit name of the local player even in mp on a dedicated server. I don't have access to this kind of server to test if just using "player" works. I've seen some stuff online that suggests it can work in certain scenarios, but my general understanding was that "player" doesnt work in mp.

My goal is for the player to press a button and then I get a list of all the units in their group.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[granite sky]

player works fine, if there is a local player (client for example). name player would give you their name.

[opal zephyr]

name player would give me like their profile name? Where as player would give me the unit name right?

[granite sky]

However in multiplayer name always returns profileName

There's no difference for MP apparently.

[opal zephyr]

hmm

[granite sky]

player is the object. It converts to the object's name (if any) in debug console output but in script it's still an object.

[opal zephyr]

so if it returns profileName, can I still use that for like "units" as the type parameter?

[granite sky]

hmm, I guess str _unit is potentially something else.

No, you have to keep the object to use it for commands that require an object as input.

[opal zephyr]

So "player" would not work in a multiplayer setting is what you're saying

[granite sky]

No...

My goal is for the player to press a button and then I get a list of all the units in their group.

units player works fine for this. Then you can do units player apply { name _x } or units player apply { str _x } depending on which you want.

[open fractal]

player works in multiplayer, it just does a very specific thing. check the wiki page for player, it returns the player unit belonging to the machine executing the command

if the script is not executed local to the player unit you want then use another method

[opal zephyr]

Thanks for the help, ill look into it some more

[left coral]

Hi I'm new here there's a way to move whit acceleration an object to point A to point B?

[tacit glen]

Does anyone know the display IDD or even if there is one for being in the virtual arsenal, im trying to get a keybind to trigger when the users presses enter in the VA and it isnt working for display IDD 46?

[granite sky]

actually came up yesterday if you search for "arsenal"

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

"arsenalOpened" has a display parameter.

@left coral setVelocityTransformation probably.

You can also use setVelocity or even addForce for increasingly manual control but I suspect that's not what you're after.

[tacit glen]

thanks had a look does exactly what i need, turns out there is no IDD for arsenal, RIP 2 hours of my life

[open fractal]

relatable

[drowsy geyser]

you will get used to it

[still forum]

If you make a Discord Bot you can do anything you want.

I have a system that connects our website accounts with TeamSpeak, Arma, Discord.
It can see names on all platforms and could enforce same name everywhere if we wanted to (but we don't bother).
If you have time and know programming theres little stuff you can't do 😄

Every player has a account in our system, and the server has a discord bot and a teamspeak bot to interface with both.
And Arma I could make but didn't have any need to do so, so far it can only read the logs.

The discord bot could change their nickname, the teamspeak bot could poke/kick them if they join with wrong account, Arma side could also kick if name doesn't match.
But so far I didn't bother, telling people to be reasonable mostly works fine

[ebon citrus]

Can we have renaming players in mp environment, please?

[still forum]

no

[left coral]

Hi I'm new here there's a way to move whit acceleration an object to point A to point B? I Find that i can use KeyFrameAnimation to move the object, but it need to start when the player reach certain point (like a spot on the map) , there's a way to combine the start of the animation whit a trigger on the terrain?

[ebon citrus]

i tried

[ebon citrus]

Dont repost your question. It was already answered

And yes, you can use triggers. If youre going to use 3den keyframes, then a better place is #arma3_editor

[lapis ivy]

Wow! Can I somehow ask you for this system? I can even pay you.

[still forum]

No. Would need alot of time to make it adjustible and I don't have that time

[digital rover]

Does setVelocityTransformation velocity interpolation in MP work for static objects? Or only for physx objects

[winter rose]

I would say static objects do not have velocity, so no?

you can fake it by attaching them to other velocity-friendly objects

[tough abyss]

Is it scheduled to make findIf command compatible with hashmaps in the next Arma update?

[little raptor]

why do you want to use findIf with hashmaps?

[tough abyss]

for stuff

[little raptor]

a hashmap already does finding

[winter rose]

use case plz (or no effort will be made this way)

[little raptor]

if you want to iterate through values use forEach

[tough abyss]

yeah but still less efficient than findIf

[winter rose]

use case please

[tough abyss]

what do you mean by case?

[winter rose]

a case where it would be useful

[tough abyss]

I don't have such case, it was just a random question

[little raptor]

not really. findIf performance is nearly the same as forEach

[winter rose]

then no 😄

[tough abyss]

I was aiming to use it but as it is not available, I have chosen another way to do it

[little raptor]

if you want findIf convert to array first

[winter rose]

{
  if (_condition) exitWith { _result };
} forEach _hashMap

[drowsy geyser]

is it possible to have multiple drawIcon3D in a single Draw3D missionEventHandler ?

[little raptor]

yes. use arrays

@drowsy geyser here's an example 👆

[drowsy geyser]

i need to display different icons on different objects and i guess it wouldn't be good performance wise if i added multiple missionEventHandlers for all the objects?

[little raptor]

yeah

though performance is not the only concern here

you shouldn't add too many event handlers, because event handler IDs are limited

because numbers in SQF are floats, and any ID greater than ~16.7M becomes meaningless

[drowsy geyser]

okay thank you, i noticed fps drop after i added like 7 missionEventHandler

[little raptor]

let me guess. do you use getPos/position/getPosVisual?

[drowsy geyser]

yes some of them

[little raptor]

they're slow

for drawing, use ASLtoAGL getPosWorldVisual _obj
or unitAimPositionVisual for units

[drowsy geyser]

i just looked im using these getPosWorldVisual/modelToWorldVisual

[little raptor]

ok they're good

[little raptor]

you shouldn't notice FPS drops with just 7 EHs tho

there's probably something else wrong here

[granite sky]

Maybe if they were drawing something huge :P

[winter rose]

you shouldn't add too many event handlers, because event handler IDs are limited
because numbers in SQF are floats, and any ID greater than ~16.7M becomes meaningless

I'd say you have another problem before you reach that value 😄

[little raptor]

well IDs are always incremental and don't reset 😛

even if you delete all of them you still run out

[drowsy geyser]

for many objects, maybe thats why?

[little raptor]

but you said 7 EHs? were you drawing more than 1 obj per EH?

[drowsy geyser]

idk here an example (sry for bad scripting)

allBatteries = (allMissionObjects "Land_BatteryPack_01_battery_black_F");
{_x setVariable ["batteryEmpty",false,true];
} forEach allBatteries;


batteryIcons = addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", {    
      {     
      if (!(_x getVariable ["FlashActive",true])) then {    
     alphaText = linearConversion[1.9, 2, player distance _x, 1, 0, true];           
        drawIcon3D [getMissionPath "images\BatteryIcon.paa", [1,1,1, alphaText], _x modelToWorld[0.04,0,0.02], 3, 3, 0, "SPACE", 0, 0.04, "LCD14","center",true,0,-0.02];  
              };    
      }forEach allBatteries;    
}];

[ebon citrus]

You had me scared here until you pulled 16 mil out of your pocket

[little raptor]

I'd say maybe getMissionPath is the thing slowing it down

no it's fast

alphaText
don't use global var

I guess as John Jordan said maybe your icon is too big

also you can just not draw if alpha is 0

[granite sky]

How many batteries is this?

[drowsy geyser]

50 xD

[little raptor]

and you were doing 7 EHs? i.e 50 * 7 = 350?

[granite sky]

oh, the alpha 0 optimization is looking pretty strong here.

actually maybe do inAreaArray on the things first...

[drowsy geyser]

not for the batteries , i have different objects

[granite sky]

If you don't care about stuff >2m away, pre-cull it.

[little raptor]

yeah this is the best solution

[ebon citrus]

Or jsut look for batteries within 2m inside the EH

Eliminates inAreaArray and makes it a bit more dynamic

[little raptor]

you do that in the EH

not outside

[ebon citrus]

nearEntities or whatever was the fast one

[little raptor]

it's already dynamic

[little raptor]

that won't work with "batteries"

[ebon citrus]

The array doesnt include nrw added batteries

[little raptor]

or static objects

[ebon citrus]

I dont remember

NearestObjects

There are 100 of them

Read the dock and pick one

[granite sky]

oh wait, is the allMissionObjects inside the EH...

[ebon citrus]

No

[little raptor]

god no 🤣

the game would probably be at 1 FPS at that point...

[ebon citrus]

Tbh, i just recommend looking for the items within 2m raidus inside the EH

[little raptor]

oh it's just 2m?

then yeah nearestObjects is fast enough

[ebon citrus]

Much faster than iterating and measuring area distance over an array of 50 objects

[granite sky]

Oh, inAreaArray is surprisingly fast. Probably not much different there.