arma3_scripting

[drifting portal]

its the most ""logical"" way something like this could be done

remember the script we worked on yesterday with move in/ out?

yeah that

[little raptor]

the more logical way is moving it every frame

[drifting portal]

"ammo_Missile_Cruise_01"
Thats a big payload you know

[little raptor]

but anyway you can't prevent projectiles from exploding. you can use a mod to make a dummy rocket tho

[drifting portal]

damn

2.10 projectile event handlers can't handle that?

[little raptor]

no they don't have override iirc

[drifting portal]

that's sad

should I file a feedback?

[little raptor]

idk. the problem is if you don't make a rocket explode how will it delete then? so if that's the case I guess it'll be denied

but you can still make a ticket

[shell cipher]

If I have a function that runs on init and getin event handlers will it trigger either one if a player JIP directly into a vehicle during a mission?

[little raptor]

at init? functions only have preInit and postInit

[shell cipher]

Sorry vehicle init

[little raptor]

it should trigger yes

but I have never tested it myself so take it with a grain of salt

[shell cipher]

Hehe what Arma should do and does can be two completely different things sometimes 😁

[little raptor]

well I'm about 99% sure in this case. because the vehicle must exist before the player for player to be able to move into it so its init must've run already

[shell cipher]

Thank you

[drifting portal]

hmm, so the shell isn't holding an EH

that triggers an explosion once it collides?

i thought it did it that way?

[warm venture]

I have a throwable EMP script that puts an EH on an IR_GRENADE and that works if u wanna disect it.

[drifting portal]

But IR_Grenade doesn't blow up does it?

Anyways send it why not

[warm venture]

https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/qaqotocopu.pl

player addEventHandler ["Fired", 
 { 
 if (_this select 5 == "B_IR_Grenade")  
  then { 
   _this spawn { 
                _bullet = _this select 6; 
                _newpos = getPosATL _bullet; 
                while {(_newpos select 2) > .1}  
                do { 
                    _newpos = getPos _bullet; 
                    sleep 0.1; 
                    }; 
                      [_bullet] execVM "scripts\emp.sqf"; 
                }; 
        }; 
 }]; 

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/200516-explosion-eventhandler/

maybe the last comment here

[hallow mortar]

Is it actually necessary that the rocket is the means of locomotion? You could make a dummy simple object of a rocket, attach a fake engine flame (particle emitter), and actually move the assembly using setVelocityTransformation, keyframe animation, or addForce
*or by attaching it to an invisible UAV

[little raptor]

I already suggested it

but looks like people are too afraid of per frame EHs 😅

[drifting portal]

well

its basically me eject the pilot and then bringing him back to base strapped on a rocket

so I'm not sure how I can use setVelocityTransformation for that

and keyframe animation is not useful

also this is in multiplayer if that matters

[drifting portal]

thanks a lot

[drifting portal]

this is simply checking the altitude of the projectile, hmm not much else

[hallow mortar]

Using a UAV (invisible or otherwise) would be my call. They're (marginally) smarter than cruise missiles and less eager to explode. Or simply fade to black, teleport the player and say it was done with a rocket

[drifting portal]

its multiplayer I can't fade sadly

[hallow mortar]

You totally can

[drifting portal]

multiple people will watch that happen possibly

they will just see him teleport

[hallow mortar]

So cover it up with some smoke and explosion particle effects

[drifting portal]

how will the uav help tho?

it will take a long time to reach the base

[hallow mortar]

flies (mostly) where you tell it, does not explode

[drifting portal]

so the reason why I'm afraid of exploding is

is that he might eject towards a mountain for example

[hallow mortar]

Doesn't have to be a Darter, you could use one of the bigger ones. Or just an actual jet even

[drifting portal]

in this case UAV won't help

because it will be sent into a mountain?

or even if he ejects towards a tree

this is Takistan map I'm speaking about btw

[hallow mortar]

A non-exploding cruise missile would also not help in those circumstances, and it won't be any better at recovering and returning to flight

[drifting portal]

i don't want it to recover

just to delete itself

and not cause any damage

[hallow mortar]

It seems likely that this is not possible with an actual cruise missile so I am trying to offer you workable alternatives

If you also don't want the alternatives, there is nothing I can say

[drifting portal]

yeah the only one which bypasses these problems is fade

sadly

can't I use intersect commands to figure it out?

see if there is a terrain object close to the player and basically not spawn a cruise missile?

[open fractal]

I don't think there's a way to not spawn the cruise missile but you can have it delete after firing

can you summarize what your goal is?

what do you want the cruise missile to do exactly? Do you want it to follow its entire path and not explode?

[little raptor]

no. empty vehicles can't fire

[drifting portal]

nope, I just want it so that when the pilot ejects and there is an object close to him than can cause the cruise missile to explode, I would just no spawn a cruise missile in that condition

for example if he rolls the plane and ejects in such a way that the ejection seat hits a house, then we won't spawn a cruise missile

or if his ejection seat is really close to a house, then we won't spawn a cruise missile

[open fractal]

i suppose you can do it that way

you can use something like nearestBuilding, don't know how efficient that is

and check if the vehicle is rolled

or do what Leopard said

maybe both

[modern meteor]

Can someone tell me why this produces an error?

player addEventHandler ["OpticsModeChanged", {
    params ["_unit", "_opticsClass", "_newMode", "_oldMode", "_isADS"];
    hint "changed";
}];```

[winter rose]

it is 2.10, not current stable

so dev branch only

[modern meteor]

oh, i see

tx

[drifting portal]

Well another question

How do I know if the object is above the player?

[open fractal]

in what circumstances would a building be above the player?

[winter rose]

getPosASL Z / eyePos comparison?

[warm venture]

figured out my issue with bis_fnc_shownotification

now just trying to fix it.

[drifting portal]

well you know, if he ejects towards a building, it will be on top of him relatively

[warm venture]

i have another script with a .hpp that is apparently overriding it..?

[open fractal]

then check if the vehicle is rolled?

[warm venture]

Would anyone have an idea why this is overiding the base game bis_fnc_showNotification? https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/tuxamaxoge.yaml

[drifting portal]

but he may eject in the air too

[little raptor]

what are you guys even talking about?!

[drifting portal]

Sorry sir

[little raptor]

lineIntersectsSurfaces

[drifting portal]

exactly

[little raptor]

problem solved

[drifting portal]

yes exactly

[drifting portal]

.

[little raptor]

as for the "up" you can use player modelToWorldWorld [0, 0, dist]

[drifting portal]

yeah thought of that too

[warm venture]

@little raptor same issue as last night but now i found a cause, any idea on the fix...?

[little raptor]

remove all those?

[warm venture]

well..i want the script to work still :I

is it just what they are named? or

[little raptor]

it will work

just remove them

[warm venture]

?

then how would it work

[little raptor]

those are already defined by the game

[warm venture]

this is a custom script

[little raptor]

that thing is just overriding and breaking them

[warm venture]

this is a different format from the base game

should be completely separate

[little raptor]

you can't rename it

it's being used by bis_fnc_showNotification

you can compare it with vanilla to figure out what's wrong

[warm venture]

im so confused.

Why is this interfering with the base game

[little raptor]

it has the same name as base game classes

[warm venture]

then it should be fine to change it so my custom script uses this format and the base game uses base format

[little raptor]

do whatever you want

[drifting portal]

so more to this

can I check if the building is in the "upper dome" of the player's vicinity ?

https://imgur.com/4Y2IgEE

so everything below his lateral body median should be ignored basically

[modern meteor]

Is there a way to assign a target to the AI in my squad just by aiming at it as a player?

So basically assigning the target to the AI while staying in ADS.

[hallow mortar]

I'm sure you can use the F-key command menus while aiming down sights

[warm venture]

class UPM_RscStructuredText: Life_RscStructuredText

What are the 2 structured texts?

what purpose do they serve

I think the first is the name of the control and 2nd is the type..?

[modern meteor]

Sorry, what is "F-key command menus"? To access the normal command menus the player has to exit ADS.

[drifting portal]

These are altis life ones I think

[warm venture]

right

they are

but why are there 2

[hallow mortar]

One inherits from the other

There are 2 because they decided to make 2 I guess. They probably look different.

[drifting portal]

Yep

You need to go to altis life framework to find what are these

[warm venture]

The way they wrote these made the custom one overwrite the built in "RscNotification"

so now im just renaming them

is Arma Dialog Creator the best tool to help make dialogs?

WOOOO FIXED!!

thanks guys

[drifting portal]

I personally don't use it

[warm venture]

what do you use

[drifting portal]

In game gui editor

[little raptor]

you can, but what's the point?
plus how are you gonna get the object's geometry bounds?

[modern meteor]

how do I add and and condition to a while loop pls?

while {TargetLoop} do {```

[drifting portal]

Well its because the jet (when player ejects) is underneath him

And so he may also have other objects underneath him that we don't want to be the cause of the cruise missile not spawning

The cruise missile spawns on his back directly

[drifting portal]

while { cond1 && cond2 } do {

[modern meteor]

I have a global string variable called status

status ="red"

status="green"

while {TargetLoop && status="red"} do {```

gives an error

[drifting portal]

So

You need ==

= means you are assigning a value to a variable

== means you are comparing a value

[modern meteor]

Ok

I changed it

Now it says undefined variable

Although i define the variable via an addon which i created

The variable is global

So other scripts should be able to read the variable, no?

[drifting portal]

TargetLoop and status need to be defined before the loop starts working

[drifting portal]

Yes

[modern meteor]

got it, just defined it in the init

thanks

[warm venture]

is "else if" not a thing in arma..?

if ((nearestObject [_pos,"Land_Dome_Big_F"]) == _building || (nearestObject [_pos,_vaultHouse]) == _building) then {
    [[1,2],"STR_ISTR_Bolt_AlertFed",true,[]] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_broadcast",RCLIENT];
    //Kavala Bank Robbery
} else if (_building == _kavBank) then {
    [] call life_fnc_kavBank_Rob;
} else {
    [0,"STR_ISTR_Bolt_AlertHouse",true,[profileName]] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_broadcast",RCLIENT];
};

16:55:01 Error else: Type if, expected code

[still forum]

correct, it doesn't exist

[warm venture]

how can I have multiple conditions and a default then?

or do I need to use a switch

[still forum]

could use switch, or put another if inside the else and nest it

if a then
b
else if c then
d
else
e

is same as

if a then
b
else {
if c then
d
else
e
}

[warm venture]

if ((nearestObject [_pos,"Land_Dome_Big_F"]) == _building || (nearestObject [_pos,_vaultHouse]) == _building) then {
    [[1,2],"STR_ISTR_Bolt_AlertFed",true,[]] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_broadcast",RCLIENT];
    //Kavala Bank Robbery
} else {
    if(_building == _kavBank) then {
        [] call life_fnc_kavBank_Rob;
    }
} else {
    [0,"STR_ISTR_Bolt_AlertHouse",true,[profileName]] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_broadcast",RCLIENT];
};

so then this should work

[still forum]

no

remove the } before the second else

[warm venture]

oh of course

[modern meteor]

What's the best command for the AI to forget its target?

[little raptor]

forgetTarget

[drifting portal]

can you recommend the best way? I'm kinda going deeper and deeper into details without backtracking

[little raptor]

aren't you just creating an ejection seat?

[drifting portal]

alright First I would like to state I'm really sorry for being so vague with my explanation

second:
https://sqfbin.com/uvojibujenetutefajiq

1. Pilot ejects
2. 1.5 seconds later his ejection seat gets replaced by an ejection seat that is attached to a cruise missile

[little raptor]

I know I mean what's the whole intention of the script?

[drifting portal]

3.cruise missile pitches down gradually until 0 pitch

[little raptor]

just ejection seat?

because the game already has a function for that

[drifting portal]

4.cruise missile goes to the air base, carrying the player along with it

basically instead of letting the player eject and get left in the wilderness

[little raptor]

5. cruise missile explodes halfway to the base?! 🤣

[drifting portal]

I came up with a vary bizarre way of returning him back to base

[drifting portal]

lol, it doesn't have a timer

if you meant a timed fuze

[little raptor]

are you sure?

[drifting portal]

yes

[little raptor]

I'm pretty sure all missiles in the game have timers

[drifting portal]

cruise missile seems to either no have one

OR ITS REALLY LOOONG

[little raptor]

it does:

[drifting portal]

so its that

anyways in the code

the speed is 800m/s

thats 2 mach nearly, i think thats more than enough to make him reach the base

in zeus i transport people with cruise missiles across altis too

I have a deep admiration for cruise missiles, anyways lets go back to the main topic lol

[drifting portal]

can you recommend me a way?

I'm kinda lost

        _Roll = ((objectParent _caller) call BIS_fnc_getPitchBank)#1;
        _Height = (getPosATL (objectParent _caller) )#2;
        _cond1 = (_Height >= 40);
        _cond2 = ( (_Roll < 120) && (_Roll > -120));
        _cond3 = (objectParent player) isKindof "Plane";
        _CanEject = (_cond1 || _cond2) && _cond3;

[drifting portal]

its true I do have preventive measures already, like checking the plane roll, checking the height etc

still things can go wrong, so I'm trying to make so that even if these fails, I don't spawn a cruise when the player is too close to a building

because takistan has some weird hills

[little raptor]

BIS_fnc_getPitchBank
that's a shitty slow function

[drifting portal]

:(

[little raptor]

just use vectorUp

2. what was wrong with lineIntersectsSurfaces again?

[drifting portal]

nothing, but how do I use it to check the entire surrounding of the player?

like a sphere of lines

because an object can be anywhere

[little raptor]

you don't need the "entire surrounding"

[drifting portal]

_Missile setPos (_caller modelToWorldVisual [0,-2,0]);

[little raptor]

when you eject you can predict where your player flies to

[drifting portal]

alright just the back

[little raptor]

or is it because of the missile?

[little raptor]

don't use setPos

it's buggy

[drifting portal]

damn

AGLtoASL time

[little raptor]

no

[drifting portal]

damn x2

[little raptor]

modelToWorldVisualWorld

[drifting portal]

why?

[little raptor]

why what?

[drifting portal]

its asl?

correct?

[little raptor]

yes

[drifting portal]

ok cool

[drifting portal]

so the missile spawns at the callers back

how do I scan his backside?

[little raptor]

well there's really no reliable solution
if you use lineIntersectsSurfaces, you're just checking lines and you might miss surfaces
if you use something like nearestObjects, you have to pick a relatively large radius, because that command only considers object centers, so the search radius has to be at least ~MaxObjRadius + intendedSearchRadius
e.g. if you simply want to check 2 meters around him, you should really check +52 m

[drifting portal]

yeah 52m why not

[little raptor]

MaxObjRadius in Arma is ~70m. so it should by 72...

[drifting portal]

darn

is it slow?

[little raptor]

not much. I think Dedmen improved it

but the slow part is that you'll have to iterate over those objects

[drifting portal]

to check their relative angles correct?

or what?

[little raptor]

yes. + their bounds

I'd say use 2-3 lines

it should be good enough

[drifting portal]

Lines extending from player to the object?

[little raptor]

object?

[drifting portal]

building

object

etc

[little raptor]

no I meant the lineIntersectsSurfaces command

[drifting portal]

yeah,
begPosASL, endPosASL
from player to building?

[little raptor]

no. the whole point of line intersection is not to search for objects

let the command take care of it

[drifting portal]

yes but how do I do the lines is what I'm asking

like after nearestObjects, how do I use lineIntersectsSurfaces

[little raptor]

no nearestObjects...

just lines

[drifting portal]

cool, where do these lines start and where do they end?

[little raptor]

in your script you're just throwing the missile "upwards" (in model space)
so you can just do:

count (lineIntersectsSurfaces [_spawnPos, _spawnPos vectorAdd (_plane vectorModelToWorld [0,0,50]), _plane, objNull, true, 1, "FIRE", "GEOM"]) == 0

[drifting portal]

is that checking if there is an object above the missile?

[little raptor]

yeah like this:

[drifting portal]

oh dear

well

I'm trying to check if the missile will clip through an object

so that's why I'm checking the player's back

[little raptor]

you mean only when it spawns?

[drifting portal]

yes

[little raptor]

you don't care what happens later?

[drifting portal]

nope

its sky

there is no brigade in takistan too thankfully

[little raptor]

well you can do the nearestObjects thingy

it won't be fast but it can work

[drifting portal]

sorry sir for the trouble

[drifting portal]

also I got to appreciate the cool plane here, nice drawing

[modern meteor]

How can I turn a local variable into a global variable?

[drifting portal]

by assigning it to a global variable

[modern meteor]

but how?

[drifting portal]

I think leopard got a better method than be but I use this
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVariable

[little raptor]

#define InRange(x) (_mPos#x >= _c1#x - _size && _mPos#x <= _c2#x + _size)
_size = ...;
_isClear = true;
{
  boundingBoxReal _x params ["_c1", "_c2"];
  private _mpos = _x WorldToModel ASLtoAGL _spawnPosASL;
  if (InRange(0) && {InRange(1) && {InRange(2)}}) exitWith {_isClear = false};
} forEach (nearestObjects [....] - [_caller, _plane])

@drifting portal ^ something like that

[drifting portal]

oh dear god

well I never bothered to learn # commands

what does define do here?

it defines what?

[little raptor]

you can't. you just have to assign it to a global var like TROALINISM said

globVar = _localVar

[modern meteor]

does this work?

_target setVariable ["GlobalTarget"];```

[little raptor]

I just wrote that to make the script shorter:
if you expand the macro this is what you get:

if (
_mPos#0 >= _c1#0 && _mPos#0 <= _c2#0 && {
_mPos#1 >= _c1#1 && _mPos#1 <= _c2#1 && {
_mPos#2 >= _c1#2 && _mPos#2 <= _c2#2
}})

[modern meteor]

ah

[drifting portal]

no

you are missing the second param in the array

varspace setVariable [name, value];

you are missing value

[drifting portal]

do I need to feed into this anything other than _spawnPosASL, _caller ,_plane and nearestObjects param?

[little raptor]

no the script should be correct

maybe also private _mpos...

oh I forgot another thing

well the script isn't 100% accurate

[drifting portal]

Damn

Yeah I expected that

[little raptor]

because it doesn't take the missile's bounds into account

[drifting portal]

Its lineintersects

[little raptor]

added _size

it will be a bit overestimated but the script will work properly at least

_size should be the missile's bounding radius

boundingBoxReal _missile#2

[drifting portal]

Oh alright

This is getting more complex by the minute lol

That's why people warned me again checking clipping

Thanks a lot

[open flume]

if i wanted to ban just Thermal NVG's from being used how would i goa bout it?

cause i still want thermals for launchers and such but not nvgs

[open fractal]

don't give them thermal nvg's?

anyhow here's a handy new event handler

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

[open flume]

personal arsenal makes that annoying XD

[open fractal]

i have an idea for you so you dont have to blacklist

give me a minute

player addEventHandler ["VisionModeChanged", {
    params ["_person", "_visionMode", "_TIindex", "_visionModePrev", "_TIindexPrev", "_vehicle", "_turret"];
    if (_visionMode != 2) exitWith {};
    if (!isNull _vehicle) exitWith {};
    _person action ["nvGogglesOff", _person];
}];
``` @open flume if you apply this eventHandler to a player it will disable thermal vision in the goggles

i'll have to check if launchers still work. it might disable it there too

[open flume]

i can do dat, im in eden rn gimme 3 min XD

ty for the help!

[open fractal]

no it works because the nvgoggles action doesn't affect the launchers

the only bug I found is that nvgoggles are turned off when you enter thermals in a launcher

(you can call it an immersion feature)

[drifting portal]

systemchat "Attention dear player, you are now entering immersion, please hold tight";

[open flume]

works perfectly!! ty so much for the help

[open fractal]

yw, let me know if there's an issue. This will only work if the night vision mode comes before thermals, I don't think I've encountered any exceptions to that

[open flume]

all the mods we use rn do that so itll be gooood. will let u know if so tho

[open fractal]

regardless they can just use different goggles anyway

[open flume]

yea, we have alternatives that are the exact same visually so its hard to tell since we use virtual arsenals for player customization

[drifting portal]

The only issue is that you don't have a gaint RscText telling them they entered immersion mode

[open fractal]

oh dear, i forgot that part

[open flume]

i originally used a script that when ppl used thermals it was a black screen saying "cheater cheater"

[open fractal]

yeah i like mine better than that lol

[open flume]

but it was EVERY thermal

[open fractal]

tbf my method only works for version 2.08 onward

[open flume]

works fine for me XD

[drifting portal]

Honestly if I was you
I would just loop createVehicleLocal to spam submarine on their location

Nobody would ever just thermals in that case

[open fractal]

ruin their gaming experience

[drifting portal]

Its not gaming if I'm doing the sqf

[warm venture]

How can I execute a script for all players WITH suspending?

it told me im not allowed to suspend in remoteexeccall..

[open fractal]

delete call

done

remoteExec

[warm venture]

deadass? LOL

[open fractal]

remoteExecCall is specifically for running code unscheduled which does not allow suspending

[warm venture]

gotcha thanks

[open fractal]

remoteExec is the regular command

[warm venture]

Current situation
Player A needs to run a script on player B and return a value back to player A, that possible?

[granite sky]

Not trivially.

[warm venture]

if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {"This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop]};

[granite sky]

Usually you're better off with player A firing off a script on the server which knows everything.

[warm venture]

like, player A goes up and clicks a button in an interaction menu to call a script on player b

[granite sky]

I know what you mean, but if you run into that sort of problem you generally want to redesign.

[open fractal]

if all you need is the hint you can write a function to return the value in the form of a hint

via remoteExec

//your_fnc_levelCheck_checkPlayer
params ["_caller","_levelType"];
_level = [_levelType] call life_fnc_levelCheck;
_message = format [["This player does not have %1","This player has %1"] select _level, _levelType];
_message remoteExec ["hint",_caller];
``` something like this?

[_cop,"license_civ_pot"] remoteExec ["your_fnc_levelCheck_checkPlayer",_testedPlayer];

of course I don't know what life_fnc_levelCheck does but I assume it returns bool and is run locally

you can use an array or hashmap or whatever to replace "license_civ_pot" with the text you want

[warm venture]

Thanks for that... im doing basically that and its just not doing anything

params [
    ["_unit",objNull,[objNull]]
];

if (isNull _unit) exitWith {};

if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {"This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _unit]};

_Btn9 buttonSetAction "[life_pInact_curTarget] spawn life_fnc_checkPotAction; closeDialog 0;";

That should call that on the player

[open fractal]

is life_pInact_curTarget the target player or the player clicking the button?

[warm venture]

The target player

[open fractal]

you're showing the hint to the target player?

[warm venture]

.....oh.

heh

params [
    ["_target",objNull,[objNull]],
    ["_cop",objNull,[objNull]]
];

if (isNull _cop || isNull _target) exitWith {};

if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {"This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop]};

_Btn9 buttonSetAction "[life_pInact_curTarget, player] spawn life_fnc_checkPotAction; closeDialog 0;";

[warm venture]

think this will work then?

[open fractal]

what will work?

[warm venture]

the scripts i just posted above

[warm venture]

If I run a remoteExec on RCLIENT with a 30 minute sleep, will the code still run if players disconnect?

[open fractal]

oh my bad i didnt realize you posted another block

and no I don't think that code will work

you haven't really explained what life_fnc_levelCheck does though

_Btn9 buttonSetAction "[life_pInact_curTarget, player] spawn life_fnc_checkPotAction; closeDialog 0;"; I've never worked with gui, but isn't this code executed locally for whoever clicked the button?

you're passing the target to the code and not using it

as it stands, if I'm assuming correctly about what life_fnc_levelCheck is, it's checking a value on _cop and not the target

["_cop",objNull,[objNull]] _cop is not going to be defined because you're passing player as if it's an array

I'm assuming life_pInact_curTarget returns an array which is why you had that syntax originally

do you understand the difference between spawn and remoteExec?

[warm venture]

the life_fnc_levelcheck just checks if the local player has a license

returns true or false

[warm venture]

no

[warm venture]

returns a player

[open fractal]

then what's with the objNull stuff?

[warm venture]

I need to run the check code on the target player and return the value to the caller

thats how the framework had it

so im just rolling with it.

[open fractal]

ok so does it return a player or an array with the player in it

[open fractal]

frankly, this is why it's not working at all. I'll be back later to help you

[warm venture]

ok heres one that does work:

_Btn6 buttonSetAction "[life_pInact_curTarget] call life_fnc_arrestAction; closeDialog 0;";

#include "..\..\script_macros.hpp"
/*
    File: fn_arrestAction.sqf
    Author:

    Description:
    Arrests the targeted person.
*/
private ["_unit","_id"];
_unit = param [0,objNull,[objNull]];
if (isNull _unit) exitWith {}; //Not valid
if (isNil "_unit") exitWith {}; //Not Valid
if (!(_unit isKindOf "CAManBase")) exitWith {}; //Not a unit
if (!isPlayer _unit) exitWith {}; //Not a human
if (!(_unit getVariable "restrained")) exitWith {}; //He's not restrained.
if (!((side _unit) in [civilian,independent])) exitWith {}; //Not a civ

if (life_HC_isActive) then {
    [getPlayerUID _unit,_unit,player,false] remoteExecCall ["HC_fnc_wantedBounty",HC_Life];
} else {
    [getPlayerUID _unit,_unit,player,false] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_wantedBounty",RSERV];
};

if (isNull _unit) exitWith {}; //Not valid
detach _unit;
[_unit,false] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_jail",_unit];
[0,"STR_NOTF_Arrested_1",true, [_unit getVariable ["realname",name _unit], profileName]] remoteExecCall ["life_fnc_broadcast",RCLIENT];

if (LIFE_SETTINGS(getNumber,"player_advancedLog") isEqualTo 1) then {
    if (LIFE_SETTINGS(getNumber,"battlEye_friendlyLogging") isEqualTo 1) then {
        advanced_log = format [localize "STR_DL_AL_Arrested_BEF",_unit getVariable ["realname",name _unit]];
    } else {
        advanced_log = format [localize "STR_DL_AL_Arrested",profileName,(getPlayerUID player),_unit getVariable ["realname",name _unit]];
    };
    publicVariableServer "advanced_log";
};

[open fractal]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Multiplayer_Scripting here's info on scripting for multiplayer

param and params are two different commands

[warm venture]

🤔

I also dont know the difference between isNull and isNil

[open fractal]

you're copying random code and making a weird frankenfunction

I'll be back in 30 minutes or so

[warm venture]

k

the main thing i dont understand is spawn/remoteexec

[open fractal]

Check the link I think it explains the purpose of remoteexec

[warm venture]

somewhat

its just weird trying to run that script on another player and return the value.

[open fractal]

i don't see why you need to do this

you can just remoteExec hint back to the caller

_Btn9 buttonSetAction "[player] remoteExec [""art_fnc_life_checkPotAction"",life_pInact_curTarget]; closeDialog 0;";


//art_fnc_life_checkPotAction
//you should define functions with your own prefix if you wrote them, life is the mod's prefix, art is my prefix
params ["_caller"];
if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {"This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _caller]};

so this originates on the machine of the player clicking the button. the first remoteExec sends a message to the target's machine that says "hey, run art_fnc_life_checkPotAction". The target client then decides if ["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck returns false and, if so, sends a message back to the machine of the player who clicked the button that says "hey, show this text on the screen"

I don't see why this needs to be complicated. So long as you have this functioned defined on every client (like in description.ext) there shouldn't be an issue

quick caveat buttonSetAction has a quirk where it takes SQS syntax instead of SQF. I can't guarantee that what I wrote is correct SQS syntax but im about 80% sure it will work.

[warm venture]

_Btn9 buttonSetAction "[player] remoteExecCall [""life_fnc_checkPotAction"", life_pInact_curTarget]; closeDialog 0;";

yeah I have the first part

so ur example matches what I tried last

[open fractal]

what is in life_fnc_checkPotAction then?

did you write this function?

[warm venture]

yes

#include "..\..\script_macros.hpp"

/*
    File: fn_checkPotAction.sqf
    Author: ?Nitro

    Description:
    Checks for a pot license
*/

private ["_cop","_target"];
_cop = param [0,objNull,[objNull]];
if (isNull _cop) exitWith {}; //Bad entry

if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {
    "This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop];
};

basically the same as the long one I sent earlier

[open fractal]

you wrote it completely wrong so, no it does not match

[warm venture]

?

[open fractal]

wait hold on, this is different

[open fractal]

is this before or after you changed it to spawn?

[warm venture]

I never changed it to spawn

[open fractal]

???????????

[warm venture]

the one I just sent is current

[open fractal]

ok, so after

[warm venture]

#arma3_scripting message #arma3_scripting message

this is exactly how it is currently

[open fractal]

where are you defining this

[warm venture]

Functions.hpp

[open fractal]

and you really should use a different prefix from the mod

[warm venture]

cant

[open fractal]

unless it's your mod

wait are you editing the mod itself?

[warm venture]

well I guess I could but its the norm to use the life_ prefix.

No

[open fractal]

then where are you putting Functions.hpp?

[warm venture]

the main mission file directory

same place as description

[open fractal]

you can do that?

[open fractal]

says who?

[warm venture]

ever played altis life?

every core script uses it and every addon script uses it.

I forgot to add the function to my CfgRemoteExecute..

that might do it.

[open fractal]

literally no

[warm venture]

its an rpg framework

thats heavily modifyable

[open fractal]

if you put ```sqf
isNil "life_fnc_checkPotAction"

class CfgFunctions {
    #include "Functions.hpp"
};

OH

man you had me confused, I looked at the source code

Functions.hpp is just a header file included in Description.ext

[warm venture]

yeah

its just a place to define the functions at

its a confusing framework

[open fractal]

no I see why they did it this way

it just didnt make sense out of context lol unless that's standard practice for complex mission files that i'm not aware of

[warm venture]

its hard to get support on this stuff cause its pretty nonstandard lmao

still not working.. omfg

[open fractal]

@warm venture what happens if you do this

[warm venture]

in a debug console or something?

[open fractal]

yeah

[warm venture]

"type bool expected string"

[open fractal]

ok but can you do exactly what I wrote

[warm venture]

hint isNil "life_fnc_checkPotAction"?

[open fractal]

no dude

nix the hint

isNil "life_fnc_checkPotAction"

in the console

[warm venture]

It wont give me an output if I dont put the hint

[open fractal]

your debug console doesn't give you a return?

wait is that a CBA thing?

hint str (isNil "life_fnc_checkPotAction") in that case

[warm venture]

oooh, str

didnt know about that

returns false

[open fractal]

then your function is defined

[warm venture]

right

[open fractal]

try [player] call life_fnc_checkPotAction;

[warm venture]

nothin

I think it needs the other arguments

[open fractal]

what other arguments

that's the only one you reference

[warm venture]

[player] remoteExecCall [""life_fnc_checkPotAction"", life_pInact_curTarget];

the target?

[open fractal]

did you do this local or server exec

[warm venture]

local

[open fractal]

it should have run locally for yourself and then remoteExec'd a hint to yourself

try adding a systemChat line at the start of the function

[warm venture]

ok so

private ["_cop","_target"];
_cop = param [0,objNull,[objNull]];
if (isNull _cop) exitWith {}; //Bad entry

if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {
    "This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop];
};

that's the funcftion

I dont think _target is even needed

[open fractal]

it's not

params ["_cop"];
if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {
    "This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop];
};

this is your function without all the junk

[warm venture]

https://i.gyazo.com/7bf3578cb3b7b092978d979b98434ca6.jpg

alright, so the levelcheck works to tell me that I dont have the license, which is correct

so I know that part works

[open fractal]

you're making sure the functions recompile right?

[warm venture]

so my full function call would be...

[player] remoteExecCall [""life_fnc_checkPotAction""];

it's just simply saving the sqf file and making the mission a .pbo

[open fractal]

No.

[warm venture]

no manual compiling needed

[open fractal]

that will run the function on every client

[warm venture]

oh wait

[open fractal]

I mean when you're testing.

[warm venture]

ok think i get it.

When I make changes I remake the mission and reload it yes

[open fractal]

I don't see what the issue is

try ```sqf
[player] call {params ["_cop"];
if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {
"This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop];
};}

I can tell you I just ran this (replacing the levelCheck call with false) and it's working fine for me

[warm venture]

So why do some people use params and some use private?

[open fractal]

they're different commands

params defines variables and private declares them

params takes the arguments you passed (in this case the player object) and defines them locally for use within the function

[warm venture]

so you dont need to also define them in private[] if they are in params

[open fractal]

correct

[warm venture]

my brain is melting

[open fractal]

this is only half true though

the syntax you were referring to declares local variables

[warm venture]

https://i.gyazo.com/ed83dd99d748a1e1e626ec4ce4fd16f6.jpg

this is doing nothing

[open fractal]

but nowadays (post-altis life development) you can define variables like private _myVar = value

[warm venture]

I can try the other thing you had above..

[open fractal]

please for the love of all that is holy tell me that's a player

and not an ai

[warm venture]

yes...

its my friend..

[open fractal]

ok

thank you

still executing locally and not on the server?

[warm venture]

right

[player] call {params ["_cop"];
if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith {
    "This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", _cop];
};};

try this you said?

[open fractal]

yeah see if that checks your own license

[warm venture]

REEEE

[player] call {params ["_cop"]; 
if !(["license_civ_pot"] call life_fnc_levelCheck) exitWith { 
    "This player does not have a pot license!" remoteExec ["hint", player]; 
};};

Running this locally does absolutely nothing

[open fractal]

_cop = player; does nothing btw

not sure why you wrote that

[warm venture]

to use the same variable name for consistency

but changing it to just player doesnt work either

edited above.

[open fractal]

no dont do that

stop

why

[warm venture]

this is debug console

oh what the f***

hint isnt in my functions.hpp

[open fractal]

hint is a command

unless it's blacklisted by default

[warm venture]

yes but were remote executing it

wait

yep

not in my CfgRemoteExecute.

it needs to be

in order to remoteexec

is hint client or server? client right?

[open fractal]

you have to whitelist commands?

[warm venture]

"alkwfjoawjfiawjfojawofaw" remoteExec ["hint", player]; this doesnt do anything even on its own so its def not liking the remoteexec on this

[open fractal]

client i guess

for future reference if you write systemChat or diag_log in a commands in a function it will write to the chat and the log respectively

[open fractal]

which is why i said this

that will help you diagnose your code

[warm venture]

I tried it, told me there was a missing ] or something

[open fractal]

then you got the syntax wrong

[warm venture]

after adding it to my CfgRemoteExecute...

it now KINDA works, it sends the message to the wrong person tho

i think ik why

IT WORKSSSSSS

THANKSSS

[modern meteor]

Can someone please remind me how I select a AI unit from my squad in sqf (eg. unit 2 of the squad)?

The unit is part of the player's squad

[brave dome]

_unitList = units player will give the list of the units in the players group
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/units

[modern meteor]

Thank you. Do you also know if there is a command which returns the units which are currently selected (via F2, F3, F4.....) so that I could store them in a variable?

To be more clear, I have the code below:

{
_x doTarget _target;
GlobalTarget=_target;
}forEach units group player;```

Instead of running this script for the whole group, I only wanted to run it for the 4th unit in the group (selected by F4 ingame).

[brave dome]

i'm not sure, but seems like this might be the command you are looking for https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/groupSelectedUnits

[modern meteor]

Yea, found this before too. Still not sure how to make it work though

[open fractal]

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

I've never used that command but if it does what you're looking for you need to use select to get a unit out of the array

[brave dome]

so, if you always want, the 4th unit in that group your command will be: (units player) select 3
If you want to select the unit yourself with the F4 and then execute some sort of script, you can add a waituntil F4 key is pressed and then do your stuff.

[modern meteor]

{
_target = CursorTarget;
(units player) select 3 doTarget _target;
GlobalTarget=_target;
};```

trying this

somehow this does not work it seems

[warm hedge]

Because is not executed?

[modern meteor]

yea, it does not get executed

[brave dome]

your code works just fine, just tested it

[brave dome]

seems like your trigger isn't doing its part

[modern meteor]

Hmm, weird. I will try again.

I added a hint to it and it does not get executed

I’ll look into it

[brave dome]

when executing in the debug console, i'm getting the target in the GlobalTarget variable

how are you calling the script then?

[warm hedge]

  // the inside of it won't be called, unless you put any commands like call, forEach, etc, etc
}```

[brave dome]

i thought he putted that just to demonstrate it as a code

[warm hedge]

But that's what I assumed

[brave dome]

_handleTarget = { _target = CursorTarget; (units player) select 3 doTarget _target; GlobalTarget=_target; };
Then call it with 0 spawn _handleTarget; just to give you an example how to make it work
here are some ressources to this: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Functions

[modern meteor]

no i did not

sorry

that's where i am struggling

what would i need to add to make my code work pls?

[brave dome]

ok,so basic question, when exactly should your script trigger then?

[modern meteor]

It triggers from an sqf

On a keypress

[brave dome]

how does that code looks like?

[modern meteor]

It’s from addiction. Init field of the unit

[brave dome]

can you post the addAction code and your sqf file then?

[modern meteor]

Yes, will do. Back in 20 minutes to paste the code.

[coarse dragon]

Is it possible to get a bunch of helicopters to fly to a point. Hold position and fire from there?

[brave dome]

have you tried the "move" and "destroy" waypoints?

[coarse dragon]

Yea they fly to target then over ect ect

Basically they don't stop

[brave dome]

hold waypoint?

[coarse dragon]

Same thing

[modern meteor]

Managed to solve it

Thanks for your help eveyone

Is there a command to return the unit's current target?

To use it in forgetTarget

_x forgetTarget assignedTarget _x;

maybe this works

[winter rose]

assignedTarget, getAttackTarget ← that one?

[drifting portal]

player setVariable ["Array",[objnull,nil,objnull]]; 

if this was placed in an object init, it should be executed locally on every joining player, right?

[hallow mortar]

Yes. Be careful; if the variable is supposed to change mid-mission, players joining after that might see this initial value rather than whatever it got changed to.

[drifting portal]

No it will not change during the session

But it seems like when I run client server (eden editor MP preview) i don't have the variable defined on me

Why is that?

so when on debug I locally execute:

player getvariable 'array'

it returns nothing

also
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/BIS_fnc_fire
is not firing in MP? (fires normally in SP)

[hallow mortar]

first of all naming your variable after a data type is a bad idea, I wouldn't recommend it. Having one of your array elements be nil is also probably not super smart, I wouldn't bet on that working properly.
If you want to do something like this, it would also be best to use init.sqf or initPlayerLocal.sqf rather than an object init.

I'm not aware of BIS_fnc_fire having trouble in MP, other than the note on the wiki page that it's a global function so it shouldn't be executed from init fields.

[drifting portal]

I changed the actual variable name to array just for the sake of giving an example

And nil works normally?

For me Bis_fnc_fire doesn't seem to work when called from MouseButtonUP Eventhandler in MP

Is there a better homologous to that function that I can try?

[granite sky]

Depends what exactly you're using it for.

There's fire, fireAtTarget and forceWeaponFire that do slightly different things.

[proven charm]

why not use initPlayerLocal.sqf for client init?

[little raptor]

player is not necessarily defined in object init

[drifting portal]

just fire

no targeting

[drifting portal]

making an eden composition

[drifting portal]

makes sense

[proven charm]

you need scripting for that? 🤔

[drifting portal]

yes its a box with an action

that runs a script

[proven charm]

ok

you could always just loop thru the spawned objects and add scripts then

[drifting portal]

that's what I intend on doing

[proven charm]

ok 😄

[brazen lagoon]

hey anyone have any good script options for building stuff? ideally something that doesn't require ACE. I want to have there be a list of buildings you can build, and then you have to actually 'build' it by doing an action that locks you in an animation while it builds

does this exist?

[drifting portal]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2798288886&searchtext=

[brazen lagoon]

@drifting portal true but thats not exactly what i meant

I was thinking something where you have to like, build it with an animation for a bit

hmm... ill think about it more

[drifting portal]

did you check the videos in the steam page?

it also has point system

[brazen lagoon]

thats good but I meant like... you know that one addon that does trenches for ACE?

where you take the tool out and dig

i was hoping something like that where you have to actually do an action to build it

🤷‍♂️ not sure though

[drifting portal]

this one uses the repair action for vehicle

[brazen lagoon]

ah i see i see

ill take a look then

[drifting portal]

https://sqfbin.com/ficoculavijexelazudi
why is bis_fnc_fire not working in MP in this script?

[granite sky]

huh. I'm surprised that works in SP.

[drifting portal]

what

there is two types of people

[drifting portal]

well it works perfectly in SP

in MP it doesn't seem to fire

[granite sky]

oh I see. That's pretty funny stuff.

[drifting portal]

Ain't funny to me tho :(

[tacit tartan]

Hey, does anyone know the hitpoints for vehicles when they blow up, as i want to make it so when a vehicle 'blows up' it just doesnt do the blowup animation as it causes FPS drops

[drifting portal]

I think you better use handledamage for such thing

[granite sky]

Ok, this really is quite weird. Apparently BIS_fnc_fire uses a remoteExec for the actual forceWeaponFire call, which executes after the SPG is deleted in MP.

Seems like it's a frame order timing difference between SP and MP

deleteVehicle is typically a next-frame thing, not immediate.

you can workaround it with a spawn + short sleep.

@tacit tartan There's second version of setDamage that has a toggle to skip destruction effects, although I seem to remember that this is... partial.

@drifting portal Direct use of forceWeaponFire might work too, but I only tested delaying the unit delete.

[grim cliff]

testarray2 = [];
cfg = configfile >> "CfgMagazineWells" >> "HunterShotgun_01_12GA";
if (configproperties [cfgarray] isNotEqualTo []) then
{
{cfgentryarray = getarray (_x);

 if (cfgentryarray isNotEqualTo []) then
  { testarray2 pushBackUnique _x; 
   }foreach cfgentryarray; ############################## ERROR HERE: type number, expected code
}foreach configproperties [cfg];
};

can anyone tell my why this is throwing an error?

[drifting portal]

sleep is good enough for me, thanks

[granite sky]

@grim cliff The then statement is lacking code brackets.

[grim cliff]

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

5th time ive done that specific mistake and spent 3 hours debugging it

[granite sky]

I am also disturbed by your lack of local variables :P

[drifting portal]

my man is very compact with his lines you know

[tacit tartan]

Yeah i used that on the vehicle but still seems to not blow up with out the animation even when i set the setDammage animation to false

[grim cliff]

me?

i was constructing this in arma 3 debug console. the script uses _ before each variable name if thats what you mean

[drifting portal]

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

does this work for arma 3?

[hallow mortar]

"Introduced in Arma 3 0.50" says yes, but I wouldn't count on it working well or in MP

[drifting portal]

Looking at its source code

made me confused

what parameters does this function take?

[hallow mortar]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[drifting portal]

damn

I can't read FSM

[warm venture]

something in arma working well?

[drifting portal]

its source code:
https://sqfbin.com/tonicabifovoluhohoqa

[little raptor]

you're not supposed to read FSM. you should open it with an FSM viewer

[drifting portal]

darn

Its missing classes for vehicles

[lapis ivy]

Hello. In my missions I use Respawn, the game is in multiplayer between players. I need to make 2 game slots (units) without respawning. I am using ACE spectator and tickets. I need that when dying, playing as one of the two units, this player does not respawn, but can only observe, and all the other 25 players continue to respawn as usual.

[grim cliff]

I have an issue that totally has me stumped

    _MagsArray = [];
    {
        _magwell = _x;
        diag_log "current magwell itteration:";
        diag_log _magwell;
        _cfg = configfile >> "CfgMagazineWells" >> _magwell;
        _cfgArray = configProperties [_cfg];

        if (_cfgArray isNotEqualTo []) then 
        {
        diag_log "check passed, array has entries";
        {
        _cfgentryarray = getarray (_x);
        if (_cfgentryarray isNotEqualTo []) then
        {
            {
            diag_log "pushing this value to array:";
            diag_log _x;
            _MagsArray pushBackUnique _x;
            }    foreach _cfgentryarray;
            };
            }foreach _cfgArray;                
            };
            } foreach _MagWells;
            diag_log "setting Undermuzzle array alias:";
            diag_log _MagsArray;
            _UndermuzzleMags = _MagsArray;
            diag_log _UndermuzzleMags;
            }
            else
            {
            diag_log "magwells array empty, using default magazines";
            _UndermuzzleMags = getarray(_loot >> _Undermuzzle >> "magazines");
            diag_log _UndermuzzleMags;
            };
                            
/*error*/_UndermuzzleMags = _UndermuzzleMags - LOOT_bannedItems;
    _mags = selectrandom _UndermuzzleMags;
    _holder addMagazineCargoGlobal [_mags, _count2];
    };

at the bottom here i keep getting an error in the .RPT file saying this:

18:58:38 "setting Undermuzzle array alias:"
18:58:38 ["1Rnd_HE_Grenade_shell","UGL_FlareWhite_F","UGL_FlareGreen_F","UGL_FlareRed_F","UGL_FlareYellow_F","UGL_FlareCIR_F","1Rnd_Smoke_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeRed_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeGreen_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeYellow_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokePurple_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeBlue_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeOrange_Grenade_shell"]
18:58:38 ["1Rnd_HE_Grenade_shell","UGL_FlareWhite_F","UGL_FlareGreen_F","UGL_FlareRed_F","UGL_FlareYellow_F","UGL_FlareCIR_F","1Rnd_Smoke_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeRed_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeGreen_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeYellow_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokePurple_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeBlue_Grenade_shell","1Rnd_SmokeOrange_Grenade_shell"]
18:58:38 Error in expression <UndermuzzleMags;
};

_UndermuzzleMags = _UndermuzzleMags - LOOT_bannedItems;
_ma>
18:58:38   Error position: <_UndermuzzleMags - LOOT_bannedItems;
_ma>
18:58:38   Error Undefined variable in expression: _undermuzzlemags
18:58:38 File LOOT\Functions\fn_chooseLoot.sqf..., line 258

so i know that _MagsArray is receiving the pushback, and that _UndermuzzleMags is populated, so why is it telling me that the variable is undefined!?

[little raptor]

I see these errors in your code when I throw it in a linter:

also you might want to work on your indentation skills...

[granite sky]

If you're writing anything more than a few lines long in the debug console, write it in a proper editor first.

[long bloom]

Anyone know any consistent ways to apply velocity to an AI that'll throw them in a direction - I've got it working about 50% of the time with this, but the other 50% they just ragdoll on the spot:

[]spawn{
_Launch = "RoadCone_L_F" createVehicle [0,0,0];
_Launch attachTo [player,[0,0,0],"leftHand",true]; 
_Launch enableRopeAttach true;

[player, "Katarn_Punch"] remoteExec ["playActionNow", 0];
 
_Targt = "RoadCone_L_F" createVehicle [0,0,0];
_Targt attachTo [u1,[0,0,0],"pelvis", true]; 
_Targt enableRopeAttach true;
_length = _Launch distance _Targt;

_rope = ropeCreate[_Targt, [0, 0, 0], _Launch, [0, 0, 0],_length +2];
 
_vel = velocity _Targt;
_dir = _Targt getDir _Launch;

_speed = 110;
u1 setVelocity [ 
 (_vel select 0) + (sin _dir * _speed), 
 (_vel select 1) + (cos _dir * _speed) + 5, 
 (_vel select 2) 
];
ropeUnwind [_rope, 35, (_length * -1), true];
};

[little raptor]

use syntax highlighting

[wicked roost]

How to use SQF syntax highlighting in Discord

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

// your code here
hint "good!";

[long bloom]

Fixed.

[granite sky]

Maybe if you hit them a bit up as well as along. Otherwise they might just catch on nearby terrain.

Haven't tried it though.

[long bloom]

They are thrown up a touch.

_vel select 1 is up.

Goes x, y, z.

[little raptor]

no, y is towards north

not up

[long bloom]

I'm telling you from FLAT number testing, (0,10,0), that second value, y, is throwing the target up.
I'm aware it's not meant to be doing that - but it is.

[grim cliff]

i had to cut it down otherwise discord wont let me send it

[little raptor]

use sqfbin then

[granite sky]

@long bloom I literally checked the same thing in debug console just to check I wasn't going mad, and Z is clearly up.

[grim cliff]

where do i find that?

[little raptor]

well idk where you're testing but your object is probably getting thrown off something into the air

[long bloom]

VR Map.
No objects placed.

[little raptor]

sqfbin.com

[grim cliff]

https://sqfbin.com/ogemebozavoziwenayaz

[little raptor]

well yeah it's definitely not defined:

because it's defined in the if's scope

not outside it

[grim cliff]

So how do I get it of the scope

[little raptor]

you can use private

either declare them or even better, also initialize them with default values

private ["_count2", "_blabla"];
if (_Bla) then {
  _count2 = ...;
  _blabla = ...;
};

or:

private _count2 = 0;
if ...

[drifting portal]

https://imgur.com/fikrRiU

https://sqfbin.com/ukaketugesubobemuqic

directly pasting the code in the debug gives this?

tried putting the macro at the line 1, same error

probably something I'm missing

[little raptor]

yeah I forgot you can't use # in macros

[drifting portal]

that's sad

[little raptor]

#define InRange(x) ((_mPos select x) >= (_c1 select x) - _size && (_mPos select x) <= (_c2 select x) + _size)

use that instead

nearestObjects [ASLtoAGL _spawnPosASL ,["TREE", "SMALL TREE", "BUSH", "BUILDING", "HOUSE",
"CHURCH", "CHAPEL", "CROSS", "BUNKER", "FORTRESS", "FOU
that's nonsense

just leave the types array empty

also those stuff you put there are terrain obj classes

not obj classes

[drifting portal]

I want to avoid terrain but object is good too so yeah I will do that

alright its working perfectly

great job

all of this just to launch someone safely in a cruise missile

many thanks, here have a Lou certificate

[little raptor]

I don't think you understood what I meant. read this:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Named_Properties#class

nearestObjects doesn't use LOD classes

what you put there are only used by nearestTerrainObjects

[drifting portal]

true that's where i got it from

before I have done that silly array I had ran nearestobjects with []

and it brought up rocks and stuff

so I thought it can be filtered the same way

[little raptor]

there's no good filter for nearestObjects

it uses config classes

[drifting portal]

I'm just afraid of something

there is butterflies in the map

which caused me to do this

would they affect the launch?

[little raptor]

the game doesn't spawn "butterflies" when you're in the air

[drifting portal]

but when you are in the eject seat?

[little raptor]

you're still in the air

[drifting portal]

so there is no altitude that determines if you are going to have butterflies or not

because eject seat can still be like 3 meters from the the terrain you know

3 meters in air

[little raptor]

I'm pretty sure the game doesn't spawn any insects when you're in a vehicle

but I'll test

[drifting portal]

alright

hopefully it doesn't

[little raptor]

it does...

[drifting portal]

darrrn

can't we exclude agents....lol?

or butterflies are not agents?

[little raptor]

insects are not agents

[drifting portal]

dammit

[little raptor]

you can exclude them tho

!isClass (configFile >> "CfgNonAIVehicles" >> typeOf _x)

[drifting portal]

so this here

should return true if _x is butterfly or false

[little raptor]

false

[drifting portal]

if (isClass (configFile >> "CfgNonAIVehicles" >> typeOf _x) then {continue};

I will go ahead with this then

[granite sky]

missing a bracket

[drifting portal]

those damn brackets

alright looking good hopefully

Thanks yet again

Well I'm planning on make a MP mission that involves "extensive" cutscenes
is there any advice on how to sync camera sequences for all players involved? (4 max)

I plan on using remoteExec spawn

there will be a long cutscene (like 3 minutes I know its a lot lol)
That's what is worrying me honestly not anything else "simpler"

[hallow mortar]

Make all the camera stuff local. Put it in a CfgFunctions function. RemoteExec the function.

[drifting portal]

that's really sound

I'm wondering, is it better to section the cutscene?

so like 1 function for every 30s

3 minutes = 6 functions?

[hallow mortar]

Not really. That just means you have to worry about timing the changeover properly. And of course, 30 seconds of mostly static camera is not equivalent to 30 seconds of action camera with rapid cuts.

[drifting portal]

it will be all rapid mostly

[hallow mortar]

You could have separate functions for the camerawork and for the things that happen for the camera to watch. That would make it easier to keep track of things. But it's not ultimately necessary.

[drifting portal]

well here comes the tricky question and I do hate trickery by the way

say somebody disconnects mid cutscene then rejoins, is there a possible way to actually sync him?

and not start the cut scene from the very start for him?

[hallow mortar]

That would be where multiple functions (or, more likely, multiple calls of different parameters in the same function) would be helpful. However, the player would still be cutsceneless for however long it takes for the next section to start (up to 30 seconds in your example).

[drifting portal]

yeah its the cutsceneless part I'm afraid of

he just joins to stare into any empty desert

lol

for like 30 seconds

[hallow mortar]

There aren't too many good solutions to that. Players disconnecting is always a trip-up point and there's only so much you can do to mitigate it.

[drifting portal]

if there is only a way to remove the abort button from pause menu

well obviously there is but I don't know the control name

wait I forgot I'm using userdisableinput

they can't reach pause menu anyways lol

[hallow mortar]

You're still not safe from technical disconnects

and you never will be

[drifting portal]

Disconnects : resembles the dark parts of human mind

I guess I will have them staring at a rotating submarine

until the next 30s hits

[analog siren]

_car = _this select 0;

private ["_songlist","_songsel"];

_songlist = ["song1", "song2", "song3"];
_songsel = _songlist select floor random count _songlist;


playSound [format["%1",_songsel],false];
_car remoteExec ["removeAllActions"];

[] spawn
{
    _sound = ASLToAGL [0,0,0] nearestObject "#soundonvehicle";
    waitUntil {vehicle player == player};
    sleep 1;
    [_car,["Speaker Radio On","Speaker.sqf",[],1,false,true,"","",3,false,"",""]] remoteExec ["addAction",2];
    [_car,["Headphone Radio On","Headphone.sqf",[],1,false,true,"","",3,false,"",""]] remoteExec ["addAction",2];
    deleteVehicle _sound;
};

How do I get the addAction to target individual vehicles automatically, so I don't have to manually copy, paste and rewrite this 6 times?

[brave dome]

A foreach loop?

[open fractal]

your code doesn't make much sense especially without context

[analog siren]

Basically its an outside speaker radio for a car
The car has ab addAction Speaker On

I have a song list of 3 it randomly plays 1
Then it removes the addAction from the car.
It defines the playSound _sound and if you get out of the vehicle the music cuts.
My problem is how do I add a new addAction for difreant cars since it will work for one if I replace the _car at the bottom with a variable name like A_car but then if I run the script on a difreant car it will not give its addaction back.
How can I make it so the script always applies the addaction back to the one that is running the script

[analog siren]

How do i do that?

[analog siren]

Yep just realised I shouldn't be trying to put it into the [] spawn
now it works with _car

[eternal frost]

Anyone know how to make it so your friends can see the vehicles you spawn in DCON Multiplayer Vehicle Spawner or Virtual Garage? If you do DM me or Ping me.

[winter rose]

@eternal frost do not crosspost your question - stick to one channel, thank you

[eternal frost]

Okay where would this question be best to ask?

I’m assuming Arma 3 questions?

[winter rose]

it would be here I think, as it involves scripting and functions

[eternal frost]

Oh ok thank you sorry for that I just didn’t know where to put it.

Won’t happen again sir.

[winter rose]

hey thanks, and no worry 🙂 (sorry I don't know the answer)

[eternal frost]

It’s alright.

[tough abyss]

quick question ive heard many people call sqf other things but what does it stand for?

[tough abyss]

could just be a case of searching through the code (if its a script) then changing createvehiclelocal to createvehicle

[eternal frost]

Uuu

Do you have DCONs Vehicle spawn menu

[tough abyss]

no

is it a mod

or a script?

[eternal frost]

Hold on

[tough abyss]

its a mod i cant help ya sorry but check out www.zamarma.com download ezm then follow steps they have essentially that loaded into a zeus module

[open fractal]

why are you doing remoteExec to the server for addAction?

you can use spawn if you need to, you just have to pass local variables to it

[drifting portal]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SQF_Syntax ?

[analog siren]

I'll try out spawn

[open fractal]

why

I said you can if you need to but why do you need to

your code doesn't make much sense to me ngl I don't understand why you're adding an action and playing a sound in the same script, and you want to loop it for multiple objects??

are these multiple script files thrown into one code block?

[spark turret]

how would i test if the zeus UI Overlay is hidden for the zeus?
Trying to time "hideobject" with it

an alternative would be to check which object the zeus has selected currently

aha! https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/curatorSelected

guess that should work

[granite sky]

curatorSelected is probably local to the curator. IIRC it doesn't even persist if the curator selects something and then closes the interface.

local to the zeus player rather than the curator object.

[spark turret]

thats alright, the selected object is a local object to the zeus too

so it should work

[spark turret]

can someone give a hint on what im doing wrong?
_anchor spawns, but is not added to me as zeus.
addCurator..Obj is server execution tho according to biki, thats why im remotely calling it on server

//LOCAL CODE TO ZEUS
    //spawn anchor object
    _anchor = createVehicle ["Sign_Pointer_Blue_F",_pos];    //anchor is global object, but local to zeus
    _anchor hideObjectGlobal true;
    _anchor setPosASL _pos;
    {
        [_x,[[_anchor], true]] remoteExec ["addCuratorEditableObjects",2,false];
    } forEach allCurators;

was a bug.
Calling "JIP true" but targetting the server just makes the command fail.
20:19:30 Trying to target client #2 during JIP when calling RemoteExec(Call) 'addcuratoreditableobjects'. Target must be 0 for JIP

[hallow mortar]

Well yes, if the server joins the mission after it starts you've done something weird to the fabric of space-time :P

[drifting portal]

Remove false from JIP

[hallow mortar]

Why do you think that would make any difference?

[drifting portal]

Idk about you man but I have server on my steam friendlist

[drifting portal]

Well the version I use doesn't have the JIP parameter

And works normally

[hallow mortar]

JIP false and no JIP parameter are exactly the same; the default is false.

The problem was caused by JIP true. They edited the message after discovering this to correct it.

[drifting portal]

Alright I came late then

[stuck palm]

anyone know the path to arma tower markers (tower 1, tower 2, etc etc)

[drifting portal]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_CfgMarkers ?

[stuck palm]

yeah its not there

[drifting portal]

try

going to these directories manually

and searching every folder

that's if

what you are looking for is a map icon

[warm venture]

Does anyone here use arma dialog creator?

having issues.

[drifting portal]

try #arma3_gui

[warm venture]

tried

no response, over an hr

[warm hedge]

1. Because your question doesn't make sense
2. Over an hour of no response is normal, especially it is a midnight in Europe
3. If you have a question, describe it like everyone can understand

[warm venture]

Well im trying to import my custom control classes with arma dialog creator and its not finding them with the description.ext.

[warm hedge]

Its not finding them, what does it mean

[warm venture]

there is an "import" button and its supposed to read a description.ext file which would have #include "file.hpp" and pull the dialogs from it but its not working.

[warm hedge]

Its not working, at what context? You can't load Dialogs you made? Did you do Ctrl+S?

[warm venture]

It is supposed to find dialogs inside the file and put them into a grid type thing for you to see "look at the ones it found" its finding nothing.

[stuck palm]

did that. even browsed icons with a script in debug console. Maybe they are custom .paa, but I'd have sworn I'd seen them reference at bi forums.

for reference this is what i am referring to:

https://i.ibb.co/5FYQQjw/Untitled.png

[drifting portal]

tbh I have never seen this

[open fractal]

where did you find these icons?

[stuck palm]

seen them on koth servers.

[drifting portal]

probably custom made then

maybe they took it from a mod

idk

[stuck palm]

right on

[drifting portal]

save your time and go try to check KOTH framework

[stuck palm]

thanks. ill conjure something up

[drifting portal]

looking for these

[stuck palm]

is there a site?

found one

thanks again

[drifting portal]

probably github idk

[open fractal]

Is it open source?

there's a koth discord and the dev is in this server (probably EU time) if you want to ask about it directly

I'm going to hazard a guess that the icons are made specifically for the gamemode and are not otherwise distributed

[drifting portal]

my precious 64x64 icons

[opal zephyr]

@warm venture I tried using Arma dialog creator when I started making gui and I ran into a plethora of problems that all stemmed from the program itself. I would reccomend just using the one built into arma

[drifting portal]

to be honest it was more of the dev having fun making the program than actually making it

I think he left it unpatched for 2 years?

he got no time for it sadly

[warm venture]

the arma dialog editor is the single worse thing ive ever seen

[opal zephyr]

Ya it isnt super user friendly, but it works 🤷‍♂️

[drifting portal]

I have yet to see a good 3rd party GUI editor lol

it so sad because there is so many classes both In game editor and Arma dialog editor doesn't include

[warm venture]

https://i.gyazo.com/b59f96aea68052a2e077f06fbd1561f9.png

this took me about an hr with arma dialog creator

[drifting portal]

bruh

add a camera button later

[warm venture]

perhaps

[drifting portal]

use screenshot command

[warm venture]

gonna add labels to all the buttons

[drifting portal]

add tooltip

not labels

[warm venture]

hmmmm smort

[drifting portal]

always try to minimise with GUI

[warm venture]

any idea why my phone background image wont load ingame but the rest do? If I convert it to a paa instead of a png it loads but its ghostly looking, transparent

[tough abyss]

could use the background to make a ied detonater if you add an insurgent faction (im assuming this is altis life)

[warm venture]

it is yes

[tough abyss]

yeah would be a cool not common faction

wait

isnt it common af?

[warm venture]

but im confused about the phone background thing lmao

[tough abyss]

use the same template to make an ied trigger

[warm venture]

ohh

that would be cool. never seen it

[tough abyss]

for rebel or something

yeah

[warm venture]

idk why my image is transparent though

[tough abyss]

wouldnt be too hard either simply setting somethings damage on button press

[versed widget]

is it possible to check if the action menu is opened ?

[versed widget]

...nvm i figured it out :p

[rough dagger]

hi all, I'm looking for some help with something that I am blocked on. In my mission, I would like to have the AI copilot drive the heli back to base if the player pilot is KIA. I've been playing around with 'assignAsDriver', 'addVehicle', and '_coPilot action ["TakeVehicleControl", vehicle player]' to no avail.

Eventually I'd like the AI to land, extract and heal the player pilot if incapacitated, but wanted to start with a simple KIA situation - this way at least the asset can be reused by another player.

I am running these experiments from within onPlayerKilled btw

Can anyone offer some advice on how I can get an AI copilot (who is not in the player's group), to wave off on player KIA, and have them land safely at a designated location?

if !(isNull objectParent player) then {
    systemChat "player died while in vehicle";
    _vic = vehicle player;
    if (currentPilot _vic == driver _vic) then {
        systemChat "The dead player was the pilot";
        private _fnc_getCoPilots = {
            private _copilotTurrets = allTurrets _this select { getNumber ([_this, _x] call BIS_fnc_turretConfig >> "isCopilot") > 0 };
            private _copilots = _copilotTurrets apply { _this turretUnit _x };
            _copilots;
        };
        // thank you KK!

        _cp = (_vic call _fnc_getCoPilots);
        _coPilot = _cp select 0;
        _coPilot assignAsDriver _vic;
        _cpGrp = group _coPilot;
        _cpGrp addVehicle _vic;
        _coPilot action ["TakeVehicleControl", vehicle player];
        _cpGrp move [10482.9,6510.67,0]; 
        // [_cpGrp, [10482.9,6510.67,0], _vic] spawn BIS_fnc_wpLand;
    };
};

This is as far as I could get - if the heli is on the ground and the player is killed, the AI cp will get out, get into the drivers seat and fly to that point (but not land).

If the heli is in-flight, it crashes sadly

Can an AI copilot take control, go somewhere and land without having to change into the driver seat (in this case managed within onPlayerKilled)?

[meager granite]

How can I tell a reliable moment to start adding title displays with cutRsc?

[drifting portal]

Alright I know exactly why that is

[meager granite]

Right I'm doing unscheduled each frame waiting for findDisplay 46 and first PreloadFinished and sometimes cutRsc doesn't appear.

[drifting portal]

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

Important note: All input textures must have resolution 2^x / 2^y (e.g. 16 / 16, 32 / 32, 64 / 64, 256 /256). The largest texture size commonly supported by graphics cards and RV engine is 4096x4096

[drifting portal]

What?

[meager granite]

  if(isNull findDisplay 46) exitWith {};
  if(isNil"client_preloadFinished") exitWith {};
```With cllient_preloadFinished getting defined with
```sqf
onPreloadFinished "client_preloadFinished = true; onPreloadFinished """";";

[drifting portal]

You are referring if you can't add it while they are in the zeus interface/respawn menu?

Because you can

[meager granite]

No, I'm talking about client initialisation.

[drifting portal]

Well if you do remoteExec with JIP enabled it will work normally

But yeah I think you better add it when display 46 is not null, in case you don't want to remoteExec

[meager granite]

You don't get my question at all.

[drifting portal]

Sorry