enfusion_scripting

[restive island]

yea still looking through that

[restive island]

Looks like it's registering to the coordinates of the command tent. annoying, but I could probably use that instead of base names
SCRIPT : GenericEntity<0x000002A6BCE7A340> @"ENTITY:6917529027641083271" ('GenericEntity') at <2769.705322 76.283035 1638.779663> @"{C02498D55CF377AF}PrefabsEditable/Auto/Systems/Compositions/BaseLogic/E_MilitaryBaseLogic_US.et"

[river imp]

Continue to look through the scripts, that logic is attached to a military base at some point.

[restive island]

SCR_MilitaryBaseLogicComponent or SCR_MilitaryBaseComponent? Pulling the unique ID for them from SCR_MilitaryBaseLogicComponent .RegisterBase(), guess that's better than XY coords. SCR_MilitaryBaseComponent.GetCallsignDisplayNameOnly() probably has something, gonna need to make a whiskey run

[river imp]

Still not sure what you're trying to actually do, if this is in regards to the fuel stuff, I pointed you in the right direction for that in vc that one day.

[restive island]

yea we got the prefab localstring being spawned (changed it to the filename since updates change my prefab configs), but i dont think we finished what base name they're registered to 😄

[river imp]

Well, the U.S. ones can only be spawned by the U.S, if you're wanting to have only the first one be full and the next ones to be empty the logic is pretty simple, it seems as though now you're trying to limit based on the specific "FOB" that's spawning them?

[restive island]

that's correct, the first built at each base is set to 100%...otherwise they're empty.

so if it's the first fuel depot/light veh depot/heavy veh depot/helipad built at each base, it's at 100%. Else they're empty

future version will let GMs turn that on/off/custom setting, but thats off in the future

[hallow portal]

Anyone have the script location to disable players from commanding AI into entering a Vehicle/emplacement

[leaden quartz]

Real quick question, are there any ways I can add lines to a script without outright replacing the whole script? I see this being an issue for mod compatibility, so I'm asking. I know in modding software, you can usually add hooks, but im not too sure how to do something similar here.

[midnight talon]

you can do a partial override only replacing specific methods of a class

[candid garnet]

modded keyword is like the partial keyword in c# for class modification. If you want to mess with a method, you would override it with possible super if you want to use it.

[leaden quartz]

Okay so, i just need to spend more time learning c# keywords
thank you!

[candid garnet]

C# translates well. There's a few missing features but the gist is there

[midnight talon]

yeah general best practice with overrides is you should call super.Method(args) of the same method so you don't "clobber" any underlying logic from vanilla game or other mods, unless you specifically want to skip logic from the inheritance ancestry you're overriding

in some cases there is a script invoker or event you can bind a callback method to which is ideal to hook logic into something, but a lot of classes don't have them so you'll either need to add your own or add your logic to method overrides directly in those cases

[leaden quartz]

okay yeah. i should've just watched forward in the dev video. I really like getting ahead of myself lol

[restive island]

Is there a way to add components to prefabs (vanilla and editable) via scripting? Right now I have to add 2 components and alter 1 existing one via GUI.

[pliant ingot]

no, just override prefab

[river imp]

Yes, through a workbench plugin, at runtime no.

[restive island]

Unfortunately that does not work, I found a bug that @minor agate confirmed that essentialy borks the Editable prefab I need working: https://feedback.bistudio.com/T195843

[river imp]

Are you using the plugin for making changes to editable entities or are you just trying to edit them?

[restive island]

For making changes to the Editable entries. I modify vanilla first, then generate the Editable. Then edit the spawning items that Editables have

Both variants use the same Component settings, but the Editables don't always work like their counterpart does.

[river imp]

There are plugins for that.

[restive island]

Yes I know. The Editable does not generate properly when using Override, and with Duplicate the Editable prefab won't always work the same like the vanilla prefab.

so if i can set it all via script, I can avoid dealing with the prefabs directly and hopefully that works

[river imp]

You can't add components to prefabs from script at runtime.

That will never be a thing you can do.

[restive island]

dang it

[grave vessel]

anyone got any clever ideas on how to remove clouds at a specific time with scripting (or any other way)? I tried this which works perfectly in the editor, but does not work in the actual game.

[midnight talon]

Can you not just override the existing editable prefabs or their ancestor directly? Why do you have to generate new ones?

Tbh I always found most of the generator plugins unreliable so always created my editables by hand

[midnight talon]

You are changing the material directly on the local client, so you need replication for it to be synchronised. Look at logic of time and weather component for an idea of how vanilla game sets and syncs weather

[restive island]

That's a question that I've been asking ever since I started my mod. I've accepted that the prefabs just won't work correctly without doing Workbench gymnastics.

[grave vessel]

Should have specified, but this is in a 2dsight component so i want the effect to be local to the player using it

[smoky sphinx]

Does anyone know any good videos over understand scripting in a simple way

[restive island]

Not really, I watched the modding bootcamp and RS vids on YT and it still takes time getting used to. You just have to keep poking at things and working in the editor.
If you aren't familiar at all with C++/C#, it's gonna be even more difficult x10

[trim nexus]

can someone help me out with this it keeps brakeing

[red cedar]

I assume it's a dictionary? To get a value you only feed it one key

[trim nexus]

do you know how i can fix this bc i try chatgpt to fix but it to dumb to fix it

[red cedar]

-_-

I can't help you when you only share one like, i don't even know what you use as key, well what gpt uses

[trim nexus]

bc this is the script and it keeps brakeing

[red cedar]

"it" doesn't "keep brakeing", it doesn't work because it's poorly made AI slop, in the case of the dictionary to fix it simply use the key, change GetBankMoney to

int GetBankMoney(IEntity player)
{
  return BankBalances.Get(player);
}

Now for the rest i am sorry but I am unwilling to debug AI code as from that screenshot alone i can see it hallucinated a LOOOT and basically made up a bunch of code that will never work and isn't even close to working.

Best of luck !

[red cedar]

You're welcome

[clever oxide]

Is there a function for check entity inside building? Like A3 "insideBuilding" command
I don't find example how AR check where need rain effect.
Closest match the SCR_DestructibleBuildingComponent's bool IsInside(notnull IEntity entity) function, but need find the closest building for it.
Its too many performance drop in user action's CanBePerformedScript function.
Or just need use TraceMove or TracePosition or UP vector?

[restive island]

avoid using AI for scripting. >75% of it is wrong, or a ridiculous hallucination. It provides no benefit except to see what sloppy code looks like

[red cedar]

🚀 The system has started successfully (optimized version)

[shrewd nova]

You end up spending way more time correcting it than actually producing anything that works

[cobalt shadow]

NONE = 0,
BANDAGE = 1,
MORPHINE = 2,
SALINE = 3,
TOURNIQUET = 4,
AMMO = 10,
MG_AMMO = 11,
AMMO_MORTAR = 12,
FOOD = 20,
FLARE = 30,
BINOCULARS = 50,
COMPASS = 51,
FLASHLIGHT = 52,
RADIO = 53,
WATCH = 54,
BAYONET = 55,
EXPLOSIVE_CHARGE = 56,
MINE = 57,
DETONATOR = 58,
NIGHT_VISION = 59,
GPS = 60,
HAND_SLOT_ITEM = 61,
IDENTITY_ITEM = 70,

What do the numbers represent?

[red cedar]

If it's an enumerator it really doesn't matter

[river imp]

Unless it's used as a bitmask.

[red cedar]

fair didn't think of that

[red escarp]

I’m evaluating different data storage approaches for a growing multi-server RP network: JSON files, MongoDB via Enfusion DB, or external MySQL through an API.

From a performance, async handling, and long-term scalability perspective, which architecture would you recommend?

Would waiting for 1.7 make sense in case there are improvements to persistence or database systems?

[ocean kernel]

FOOD | DETONATOR

Taco bell be like

[restive island]

What's the best way to cast one object to another in enfusion if I know what the type is? e.g. from type Resource to type EntityID:

Class Example
{
    void foo(Resource in)
    {
        Print(in);
        EntityID in2 = in;
        Print(in2);
    }
};

[static tangle]

Where do i start learning scripting?
I want to make new animations

[pliant ginkgo]

I know arkensor is hard at work for persistence improvements for 1.7.

Right now the server I'm with is using json since that was patched recently to allow more than one 16mb file, but we'll be swapping to MongoDB or an external source as soon as its officially stable in workbench. I'd recommend an external source or mongo, but only after 1.7 sees some improvements to persistence.

[pliant ginkgo]

Scripting isnt exactly the same as animations, animations and its related workflows are a bit more down the creative software pipeline, i.e. blender. There are a handful of youtube tutorials, some officially by Arma, titled 'Bootcamps' that might be able to help you out

[static tangle]

i can animate, and have followed the bootcamps, but not sure how to do the technical side of for example a 'drag person' animation

[sweet badger]

I think you are confusing some terms here.
IEntity is an thing in the world, this is very distinct from a Resource (which is basically though not technically a file, like e. g. a prefab, a material or a config).

You can cast classes using the Class::Cast(Class from) method, here is an example:

IEntity e; // some entity
SCR_ChimeraCharacter cc = SCR_ChimeraCharacter.Cast(e); // cast entity to character (SCR_ChimeraCharacter inherits from IEntity)
Print(cc); // will print a character entity, or NULL if either e was not a character or e was NULL itself

If you want to check simply whether a class inherits from another class, you can also use Class:IsInherited(typename type) instead of casting.

If you want to actually check what class a Resource contains (different thing), like for example whether a prefab is a character, you can do:

Resource r; // some resource
BaseContainer bc = r.GetResource().ToBaseContainer(); // base container

Then use BaseContainer methods like GetClassName().

However if you are indeed still confusing these terms, I recommend getting a more solid understanding of the foundations first, e. g. by reading https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Scripting.

[restive island]

Thx, was trying to get the unique in-world ID from a spawned prefab. I think I found what holds it while doing some print debugging 🕺

[sweet badger]

You mean the ID of an entity - IEntity::GetID()? This is not directly related to prefabs or resources.

[restive island]

No, not the prefab ID...was looking for something that ties back to the base a spawned asset is registered to (long discussions about it if you scroll up)

[sweet badger]

You are looking to find the prefab an entity was created from? Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean.

Oh you mean base in terms of Conflict, nvm

[restive island]

I can't find the correct output where I found the ID that relates to the base it was spawned at, but it was similar to the below:
"GenericEntity<0x000002A6A9C86760> @"ENTITY:6917529027641082754" ('GenericEntity','Assets/Props/Military/Fuel/FuelPump_US_01/FuelPump_US_01.xob') at <1012.185730 37.873810 2817.788818> @"{2DF0C0623E207C7E}PrefabsEditable/Auto/Props/Military/Compositions/US/E_LFD_FuelService_US_Conflict.et"

[sweet badger]

I think you're better off just generally describing what you're doing and want to achieve.

[restive island]

My mod makes fuel depots have limited gas. When a player builds a fuel depot or any service station that provides gas, I want to know what base it was created at and add the base name to an array. If it's the first fuel pump station built at the base, it's full of gas. Otherwise it's empty.

Setting the gas level is already figured out, it's grabbing the structure that was built and which base it was built at that I'm working on

Mod: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1443833721055608954

[desert escarp]

How do I add custom attributes to an entity for GM to chage

[candid garnet]

post the github of what you have so far

[restive island]

I dont use github, but I'll post tomorrow when I can. Heading off for the night

[static tangle]

do i need to learn scripting to make a new option for dragging and carrying someone?

[timid citrus]

Yes

[static tangle]

how indepth is it? how long will it take me to learn?

[timid citrus]

It will take awhile I don't know how long but it's not just a simple couple buttons thing. Nothing really is.

You have to see how all the different files work together.It will seem convoluted at first, and it's boring tedious stuff.

[static tangle]

ok, where would one even start? at this rate i might ask someone to do the scripts for me if theyre interested in my mod

[timid citrus]

Start where the video starts, and learn about overrides and duplicates and inherited data. There is a page for it on the bohemia site

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Data_Modding_Basics

[fervent stirrup]

If a dev can answer me this. Are the new Attribute reflection functions part of typename staying for the future? And is .Spawn() staying?

[minor agate]

Yeah

x2

[fervent stirrup]

ScriptModule staying?

[minor agate]

What are you doing exactly?

😅

[fervent stirrup]

I like experimenting

I have made some very interesting things

[minor agate]

They are staying

[fervent stirrup]

Yippie

I recall in the past there was a comment on the .Spawn function saying it was bad or something and that brought my mind to asking about it

[minor agate]

As long as it's not abused

[fervent stirrup]

wdym

Like for bohemia standards yeah

[minor agate]

it's better to create with new keyword

It's never better even on other languages to do similar

plus spawn does no respect all constructors

[timid citrus]

Any chance of getting a better physics api for modders?

[minor agate]

But spawn is useful if you for whatever reason got some typename from a string

And you are unable to do some switch with cases for them

[minor agate]

You get pretty much the same as devs on that

What do you feel it is missing?

[fervent stirrup]

To add on to my "experiments" I have found a way to work with threads even after the script module is reloaded so they don't leak uncontrollably

[minor agate]

It's plain Bullet API

Some things like joints are missing though

[timid citrus]

Ok i'm not sure exactly.It just seemed like the public methods were very few.

[minor agate]

Why are you using everything we tell people to not use

but combined?

[fervent stirrup]

Oh you'd hate me

[minor agate]

Time for removals

[fervent stirrup]

NOOOO

[minor agate]

[fervent stirrup]

im having fun

[timid citrus]

But yeah, bone joints for things like hair and ropes would be dope

[minor agate]

Your workshop account too, due to unsafety.

It won't be removed but don't do features with that

At any point if it causes issues

We do go behind you and tell you to fix, help you fix it or whatever

if no fix and the thing is decreasing game stability then it gets banned

[fervent stirrup]

I wouldnt be running these things on clients

My server side stuff

[minor agate]

Servers count too

In fact server is worse

Unstable servers => Players unable to play in mass

But it has to be quite bad for that

Usually the issue can be resolved quickly

[fervent stirrup]

Well lets just say it will only work on my servers because its loaded by ScriptModule. And actually it seems pretty stable right now the way im handling it.

The stuff I release for public workshop use by other servers/players wouldn't have these things

[minor agate]

@fervent stirrup btw I am just teasing with this

||Or maybe I am half serious||

[fervent stirrup]

It feels like a minefield sometimes lol.

Don't worry I won't crash people's games when this stuff comes out one day

[timid citrus]

Like that Sum41 song haha

[inland bronze]

Kinda losing my mind a little, I can't get this area mesh's material for a trigger entity to properly replicate. I've looked at the RplDocs and examples on the biki, but still can't nail it. Anything I'm missing or not understanding correctly?

class CONVICT_CapturePointAreaMeshComponent : ScriptComponent
{
    [RplProp(onRplName: "OnCurrentMaterialChanged")]
    protected ResourceName m_sCurrentMaterial;

    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    override void OnPostInit(IEntity owner)
    {
        if (GetGame().InPlayMode())
            SetEventMask(owner, EntityEvent.INIT);
    }

    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    override void EOnInit(IEntity owner)
    {
        m_Owner = SCR_ScenarioFrameworkTriggerEntity.Cast(owner);
        
        if (m_Owner)
        {
            m_Owner.s_OnTriggerUpdated.Insert(OnUpdate);
            m_Owner.GetOnActivate().Insert(OnActivate);
            m_Owner.GetOnDeactivate().Insert(OnDeactivate);
        }
        
        GetGame().GetCallqueue().CallLater(SetRadius, 1000);
        GetGame().GetCallqueue().CallLater(DelayedInit, 1000);
    }
    
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void DelayedInit()
    {
        SetCurrentMaterial(m_sVacantMaterial);
    }
    
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void OnUpdate(float activationCountdownTimer, float tempWaitTime, int playersCountByFactionInside, int playersCountByFaction, string playerActivationNotificationTitle, bool triggerConditionsStatus, float minimumPlayersNeededPercentage)
    {
        if (!m_Owner)
            m_Owner = SCR_ScenarioFrameworkTriggerEntity.Cast(GetOwner());
        
        if (m_Owner)
        {
            if (playersCountByFactionInside > 0)
            {
                if (playersCountByFactionInside > 1)
                {
                    SetCurrentMaterial(m_sEnemyWithinMaterial);
                }
                else
                {
                    SetCurrentMaterial(m_sInProgressMaterial);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void OnActivate()
    {
        m_Owner.s_OnTriggerUpdated.Remove(OnUpdate);
        m_Owner.GetOnActivate().Remove(OnActivate);
        m_Owner.GetOnDeactivate().Remove(OnDeactivate);
        
        SetCurrentMaterial(m_sFinishedMaterial);
    }
    
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void OnDeactivate()
    {
        SetCurrentMaterial(m_sVacantMaterial);
    }
    
    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void OnCurrentMaterialChanged()
    {
        GenerateAreaMesh();
    }

    //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    protected void SetCurrentMaterial(ResourceName material)
    {
        if (m_sCurrentMaterial == material)
            return;
        
        m_sCurrentMaterial = material;
        Replication.BumpMe();
        GenerateAreaMesh();
    }
}

[desert escarp]

On this what's the whole situation on importing images from the web? Rough draft I made of importing external images

I believe Ark said so long as it wasnt abused and allowed players to import material against the games rating itd be fine. In this case itd just be offloading briefing images to a webserver the players can request from so our mod isn't bloated with gb of images.

[red cedar]

I have this little method of mine that's guilty of causing memory leak impacting mostly server with lower ram available

[RplRpc(RplChannel.Unreliable, RplRcver.Server)]
    void SyncCameraData(KE_CameraData data)
    {
        if(!m_spectateComps ||
        m_spectateComps.Count() == 0)    {return;}

        foreach(KE_SpectateUserComponent spectateComp : m_spectateComps)
        {
            spectateComp.RpcDo_UpdateCameraData(data);
        }
    }

I assume the reason is because the data is sent every post fixed frame and that the server is basically instanciating ~30 instances a second of KE_CameraData , would there be a more optimized way to go about doing the same ?

Maybe rplprops with rplconditions ???
But even then the data still has to be sent from the first client to the server.

idk if that qualifies as an actual memory leak but it's def spiking up the ram usage a bit.

[minor agate]

This won't work on consoles iirc

[desert escarp]

We already use TS for VON so thats not an issue haha

[minor agate]

I mean the images

from web

But yeah if it becomes vector of abuse that could cause issues with the ratings, then it will be handled somehow

We'll deal with it if it happens

for now we want to just keep it open

[desert escarp]

Alright Ill have it locked down so there's not a rainbow six siege situation

[solid hearth]

Time to make a problem out of nothing, I love chaos.

[fringe prairie]

@minor agate does set target transform work on non kinematic entities? I think an entity has to be kinematic for it to function because it’s the process of taking something that is physical but does not react to physics, and moving it to a different place. I think that’s why it did not work for the helicopters when I tried using it.

[pliant ingot]

What is CameraData?

[pliant ingot]

I don't know anything about scenario framework trigger, but mb it's triggers on both sides? Did you try to set event handles only on server?

[red cedar]

I should rename the class as it's kind of more general now, but it's a class that implements a codec and is meant to send client sided data from a player being spectated to "spectators"

Would it help if i send the whole class or not really?

[pliant ingot]

At least we will know how much data you send and how encode it

[red cedar]

fair, here it is (sent as a file to avoid textwalls)

[inland bronze]

Will give it a shot and see what it comes up with

With setting it to authority, the material does not change at all now, but seems that it's because OnUpdate isn't firing for authority?

[pliant ingot]

1. I think it will be better to make size static
2. How you create, fill and pass to Rpc? Also it's Managed?

[red cedar]

The way I'm filling it isn't really the issue, on the client's side i reuse the same instance the whole time, it's really just the server side that takes a slap from it, for most communities it's fine, it's an acceptable trade off but to others that don't have a whole lot of spare ram it becomes more of an issue

[pliant ingot]

3. Not sure how enforce align members, but if it's same as C/C++, it will be better to sort members from big to small

[red cedar]

Hmmm

I'll test it out and see if i can see any difference

Thank you for your help, was kind of hoping there would be a magic trick to get around my problem 😭

[pliant ingot]

You can try to pass arguments directly to Rpc without your own class... at least it will not call custom codec

[red cedar]

Then maintainability would suffer and i think i have too many variables now to send it all using params. I'll try out your suggestions and see if they help and if not then it's joever

[inland bronze]

okay so, it seems like the s_OnTriggerUpdated invoker is just proxy side (I guess would be the right term) through a network component in the scenario framework player controller. So what would be the best way to handle syncing it from proxy to authority?

[inland bronze]

I finally got it

Had to create a world system with a world controller to sync the info from the proxy to authority. For reference, more info can be found here: https://community.bistudio.com/wikidata/external-data/arma-reforger/EnfusionScriptAPIPublic/Page_WorldSystems.html

[pseudo merlin]

Someone know's if the QueryEntitiesBySphere has a minimum radius?
Somehow it feel's like it doesn't go below 1.0.
I tryed 0.05 but it's still finding stuff not even close to this range.

[ocean kernel]

If I remember correctly it filters bounding boxes, not physics collision. Some entity can have bounding box in places where nothing touches it. There is a bounding box diag somewhere.

If you want physics then do a line trace maybe?

[pseudo merlin]

Yeah that make's sense.
Many thank's.

[red cedar]

My dumbass sent this to the wrong channel

-> Would this be a proper way to implement request callback now since OnSuccess it obsolete ?

class SDS_ConnectUserCallBack : RestCallback
{
    private int m_playerId;
    

    
void SDS_ConnectUserCallBack(int playerId)
    {
        m_playerId = playerId;
        SetOnSuccess(ConnectUserOnSuccess);
        SetOnError(ConnectUserOnError);
    }
    
    private void ConnectUserOnSuccess(RestCallback cb)
    {
      // do stuff
    }
private void ConnectUserOnError(RestCallback cb)
    {
        LogBackend("SDS_ConnectUserCallBack.OnError " + cb.GetHttpCode(), LogLevel.WARNING);
    }
}

also i noticed that if we disconnect a user shortly after a user is connected we get this silly error and some really cool nullptr spam at

    SCR_PlayerFactionAffiliationComponent GetPlayerFactionComponent_S(int playerId)
    {
        return SCR_PlayerFactionAffiliationComponent.Cast(GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayerController(playerId).FindComponent(SCR_PlayerFactionAffiliationComponent));
    }

nvm for the assertion failed, it just trigger whenever the peertool leave the game

[torn bane]

basically yes

[static tangle]

How long would it take someone (A complete beginner) to make a script for reforger?

[red cedar]

Do you have coding experience? In other languages?

[static tangle]

Yeah, i know how to code in HTML, CSS, C++ So far, i understand python

[red cedar]

In that case if you have c++ experience it shouldn't be too hard(assuming you have actual experience on it not just printing hello world).

I think within 2 months you can learn the basics, how replication works etc. And after maybe 3-5 months you'll start feeling confident in the workbench and feel like you can pretty much do "anything you want".

You'll be able to get features done before that, but there will be a lot of guessing and banging your head against the wall

[static tangle]

Anything you can recommend to speed up the process?

[red cedar]

Watch the bootcamp videos, especially the ones relating to scripting and replication.

Watch it fully and pay attention/follow along, it's basically like a lecture.

Do not use AI it will sabotage you.

And also do not hesitate to ask questions, i learned literally by asking the stupidest question out there(just above there is an example of one)

[static tangle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06cfuZ4nCFY ?

is SQF also like C#?

[boreal swan]

If you want to learn the fundamentals of programming and object-oriented programming (which is the paradigm of Enforce Script too), my uni offers a free deep dive online course https://java-programming.mooc.fi/ The language used on the course is Java, which is very similar to C# and Enforce Script indeed

[red cedar]

https://youtu.be/Fgl_mAHReP4

[static tangle]

@red cedar @boreal swan im learning scripting for animations and keybinds, so i have an early goal to achieve, so think that will help

[red cedar]

Well for the keybinds you will definitely need to save that
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Input_Manager

[static tangle]

What can i do with enfusion scripting? what does it cover?

• mission making
• gui
  ??

[open pier]

the sky is the limit. Pretty sure theres a showcase of them making an entirely different game in arma through their modding tools

[restive island]

• game logic for vehicles, building services, GM abilities, spawning, weapons, creating abilities not in base game (like sling loading, fire spreading) etc.

[static tangle]

@open pier Sounds like its worth the effort, especially if it is transferable

[candid garnet]

No. Sqf is procedural. Not OOP.

[static tangle]

@red cedar
1)Where should i start? i understand all of the enfusion tutorials and biwiki tutorials
2) How much faster can i learn following someone who can enfusion script?

[candid garnet]

If you learn how ECS works, you can jump right in.

[static tangle]

What does ECS mean/stand for?

[candid garnet]

Entity Component System

It's how you'll find your entry points

Most game engines use ECS

[static tangle]

Where do i learn this please

[lean moth]

Use the AI tools to your advantage

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1475507824044806344

You’ll still need to watch the bootcamps, or other tutorials to figure out how the workbench system works, but it’s all fairly easy.

[candid garnet]

Just so you know, if the LLM doesn't do it fully right, almost all of us won't spend time to fix it for you. You're on your own with it.

And before anyone comments on the LLM hate in this discord, it's not LLM, it's the "I asked chatgpt and it's not working, how do I fix" questions.

[ocean kernel]

AI bad

[red cedar]

Honestly i can't tell you, it really depends on you

Personally what taught me a lot is trying to make something that's similar to what already exists

For example you can flush toilets in the game, look how it works in the workbench and do something like being able to "wash your hands" using a sink

[static tangle]

where do i find the flush toilet script? will give it a look

[red cedar]

Create a blank mod,

find one of the toilet prefab(won't tell you how).

Override it in your mod and open it.

Open "ScriptedUsetActionsManager" or "ActionsManager" and try to find it inside.

Alternatively you can open the script editor, set the search scope to "entire solution" and search by keywords like "flush" "toilet" etc, etc.

That's how you'll learn a lot

[static tangle]

found it, but cannot open it? or duplicate it

[red cedar]

You can open the script in read only

[static tangle]

yeah but how

[red cedar]

You should be able to just double click it?

[static tangle]

ah my bad

[static tangle]

ok im looking at the code, what do i do now? a nudge in the right direction please

[red cedar]

look at the code.. try to understand it, etc..

If you haven't watched any of the bootcamp vid there isn't really a point to try and make features of your own, you've got to learn how to crawl before you can fly

[static tangle]

have only watched the animation ones (#8..#9, #10), so starting from #1

[red cedar]

watch the bootcamp

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Modding patterns
• 5 Replication basics
• 6 Advanced replication
• 4 User interfaces

And then the animations etc (if you want to focus on scripting first)

[static tangle]

At the moment yes i want to focus on scripting first (animation design im pretty sure im ok), thankyou

[red cedar]

best of luck, it's a bumpy road

[static tangle]

you still think its a 2-5 month journey?

[restive island]

do you have any coding experience?

[red cedar]

before you feel comfortable in what you're doing and can pretty much do features you want then yes, once again before that you'll probably get a few things done but with a lot of banging your head against the wall, and eventually you'll know where to look for to find exemple of code you can reuse etc.

[static tangle]

yeah

[restive island]

then maybe not 2-5 months, all depends on how much you spend in the enfusion editor tbh.

[red cedar]

That's also a good point, for me it took me about that time before i started feeling comfortable with replication etc, but i'm also studying on the side and don't have a whole lot of free time

but regardless it won't be a two week kind of thing

[restive island]

what are you studying?

[red cedar]

Data science

[ocean kernel]

new pfp

[restive island]

ive never had to deal with OOP but I know python and some powershell. OOP is just more sophisticated data management and control, i dont think enfusion script has pointers though FWIW

[red cedar]

omg haii

[restive island]

using any spyder or jupyter?

[red cedar]

you mean notebook ? yeah a bunch of it, tho i use the VScode extension because i hate the jupyter environment

and also a whole lot of lovely math !

[ocean kernel]

Jupyter's biggest advantage is inline rendering of plots

Idk if it has any other advantages tbh

[restive island]

i mean, Jupyter looks and sounds cool

[red cedar]

Slapping markdown documentation and being able to make python understandable to someone with absolutely no coding background

[static tangle]

lets say i have finished watching the tutorials, what do you suggest i do then? just read code, like the flush toilet, and make my own like 'wash hands in sink', and keeping doing that until it all clicks?

[midnight talon]

Yeah aide from the modding bootcamp and resources on BIKI most of the learning happens by reading vanilla scripts and asking questions

For simpler scripts most of the work is finding the best entry point for your logic, so a good place to start is deciding on some small thing you want to change then dive in trying to find where/how you can change that

For most common things modders could want to do there is likely some example of similar behaviour in vanilla scripts you can use as a reference

[fringe prairie]

ef328637-4efd-4d71-84e2-bf25a05f920d

Can someone (at BI) help me with this crash ID by chance? Seeing some more crashes with my mod and not sure what is instigating it. This happened in workbench while fiddling through the debug menu. Maybe it was related to that, maybe not.

[candid garnet]

this a fatal crash? unable to debug?

[fringe prairie]

Yeah, console log showed the typical "illegal access violation" with addresses

[ocean kernel]

Doxxed

[boreal swan]

Would it be possible to use dependency inversion principle (from SOLID) easily in Enforce Script? I'd assume that nothing prevents it but just wanted to make sure

[red cedar]

I'm trying to set up DSTool to be able to try and implement my own RCON commands however it says my config is invalid, any idea what i'm doing wrong ?

I haven't really toyed with server configs a lot so i assume i'm doing something wrong but no idea what.

[torn bane]

It is crashing while trying to show some visualizer mesh, so maybe some debug shapes you added or something. Can not really tell what it is in more detail

[midnight talon]

shouldn't modId be the UUID not a name?

also try pasting it into a JSON validator (tons of online tools and browser extensions) to make sure it's valid JSON

[red cedar]

For published mod yes

Mine isn't on the workshop

[midnight talon]

I think even unpublished mod should have a UUID in its .gproj file right?

anyways if it detects and loads your mod probably that isnt the problem

[red cedar]

They do, but the mod id is what i wrote in it.

It's also literally what you'd use to specify which mod with peertool and under the project settings tab it says "modId" that

The mod id is likely not the issue in here

It just says that the config is not valid then closes the server

[static tangle]

Does scripting and config go hand in hand? or overlap? or?

[torn bane]

You are mixing mod ID and name. We talk about the short unique ID that is generated when the gproj file is first created

[torn bane]

A lot of configs are based on script classes because they are used by scripts later then. But a config must not necessarily be a script class

[red cedar]

so i should use the GUID instead ? fair

[static tangle]

So i can start tweaking configs once i learn scripting?

[red cedar]

uh oh NUCLEAR BOMB

[torn bane]

You can handle configs without knowing scripts at all.

[pliant ingot]

I once launched ~20 instances at once to just fill up server with as much as possible clients (+few other people do same)

[red cedar]

I launched them by mistake on my lapbottom was running at 2 polaroids by seconds

[inland bronze]

Is there a way to spawn a turret already being manned through script?

[clever oxide]

BaseCompartmentManager Component's SpawnDefaultOccupants or BaseCompartmentSlot :: SpawnCharacterInCompartment

[inland bronze]

awesome, thanks!

[static tangle]

Where do i start? i want to learn scripting? animation based? Have watched the Bootcamps

[red cedar]

any idea on what can cause my client to be stuck loading here (dedicated server tool), most relevant log i can find is Can't open config file "" but other than that i don't really know

[red cedar]

ok so i got it to spit out logs, now the issue is.. it says -config cannot be used together with addons! yet i don't use addons in my cli params my cli params are
-addonsDir "" -nopause -debuggerPort 7778 -noBackend -config ""

and if i can't specify the addonsDir then i'll crash out

[static tangle]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Create_a_Component
whats it asking me to do here?

[red cedar]

making progress, now my issue is Addon 'KittenEyeCore' not found but i am pointing to the correct folders so i'm kind of confused.

I also tried renaming the folder so it match exactly the "KittenEyeCore" thingy but to no success

[red cedar]

ok so the greedy ahh server was expecting to get the addons in HIS profile's mod folder ? even tho i pointed it to the workbench addon folder....

This greed is sickening

still the same loading error i give up

[static tangle]

@red cedar Hi, anything else i should do to learn scripting quickly? im currently on this;
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Scripting/Tutorials

[crimson star]

dddddddddddd

[timid citrus]

There's no way to learn it quickly dude. Lots and lots of hours it is the only way to do any of this stuff.

[static tangle]

ahhhh, what do i do then once ive finished the tutorials @ https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Scripting/Tutorials ?

[red cedar]

Furbezzy, i'll be fully honest with you i find it pretty rude that you ping me all the time, and in multiple channels.

I understand that you're in the middle of a lengthy learning process, but still. I'm not paid for helping out i do it on my own free time when i feel like it.

Sometimes like now i work on my own stuff because i want to.

I also don't want to walk someone through the entire process, i gave you the basic to get started, now you're the one who has to put in effort to learn.

If you have specific questions or issues and need help i'll be happy to guide you a little (when i'm free ofc) but you can't just ping people to get assistance that's disrespectful.

[static tangle]

Ok, will take the advice and know that it will take me months to learn, and there is no fast work around, 👍

[ocean kernel]

Weird approach tbh. More efficient to set some kind of specific goal (I want to make this or that) and try to work toward it than "just learn scripting"

[static tangle]

i want to learn how to script for animations primarily

[red cedar]

I don't think animations require scripting?

Tbf i never toyed with them but i'm pretty sure they have their own tool for that

[static tangle]

scripting is required even in animation editor, plus, i want to include new animations that have actions behind them, e.g dragging a person, and medical

[red cedar]

Oh okk fair

[ocean kernel]

Signals and animation commands, events I guess

Animation system is much tougher to learn than scripting since it's designed to be annoying

[red cedar]

I'm glad i haven't toyed with those yet then

btw bacon, if you have the time. do you have any idea what can be causing my dedicated server tool users to be perma loading ?

Im knid of crashing out i've been stuck at it for hours now :(

[ocean kernel]

whatever the logs say it is

does peertool work?

[red cedar]

yeah peertool works fine

[ocean kernel]

do you really need dedicated server tool?

[red cedar]

I'm trying to set up RCON commands so yeah ig

[ocean kernel]

just test them in chat

[red cedar]

i want them to be ran from tools outside of reforger

for example a backend

[ocean kernel]

wait in this case why do you need users

[red cedar]

to kick them out

but ig i could a command that print it out

[ocean kernel]

rcon commands and chat commands work the same way just different method

mostly

you can also try just running the server using diag server exe

and connecting using diag client exe

[red cedar]

i'll give it a try then

ty

i hate this DSTool... too complicated for my smooth brain

[ocean kernel]

chances are it just doesnt work

[red cedar]

well it did work until i introduced the config.json that i need to set up the listening adresses etc.

Now it doesn't so it's most likely a mistake on my end (probably?) idk i'm pretty confused

when i was simply sticking to giving it a world, scenario using the UI of the tool it was fine

[midnight talon]

Possibly a networking issue, check ports being used are open on loopback/localhost

[red cedar]

welp seems like RCON isn't listening on DSTool ?? I could only see the port occupied with the actual ArmaReforgerServer thingy

HELL YES

i love you bacon

[pseudo merlin]

Me 2!

[serene fox]

What is better to update a Camera Transform on Proxy side?
GetGame().GetCallqueue().CallLater(REAPER_UpdateDisplayData, 1, true);
Or
SetEventMask(owner, EntityEvent.VISIBLE);

[upbeat lion]

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well. I have a question. I am trying to write a script that makes changes using slots (enable/disable), and I get the impression that it is not possible to completely disable slots in the game. Have you ever tried this? If so, were you successful?

[red cedar]

Second, tho i'd use onpostfixed frame

The first solution would be a war crime

Every server running your mod would make you EXPLODE with their MIND

[serene fox]

I had it OnPostFrame, but such event is not running on proxys

[red cedar]

But also depending on what you're trying to achieve, you could just add the camera to the entity's hierarchy and it'll move with it

[serene fox]

Its a pipCamera and its already added as child. But if i not call ApplyTransform, it will not updated

[serene fox]

i now use PostFrame with a limit to 25 FPS and will only run local on proxy.

[red cedar]

postfixedframe is 30hz

so.. could do that

issue with the normal post frame is you can easily crash a client

(trust me i'd know)

[serene fox]

i tryed "postfixedframe" but this will also not start. only PostFrame

[red cedar]

oh ok

weird

[serene fox]

i also run it on the Character itself. But:
```event protected void EOnFixedPostFrame(IEntity owner, float timeSlice)````
Do nothing when Set the mask as enabled

[red cedar]

override void EOnPostFixedFrame(IEntity owner, float timeSlice) *

[serene fox]

Error.. Override but no method

[red cedar]

guhh

are you modding arma 4 😭

[serene fox]

😛

Its a simple ScriptComponent attached to the main character

[red cedar]

is your thing meant to work on AI too ?

[serene fox]

Nope but it get only activated while joining my Vehicle as Pilot and if your the localPlayer (LocalControlled entity)

[red cedar]

fair ig, in those cases i usually attach them as playercomponent component but that's just me, regardless even with postframe it should work

just make sure to rate limit it to avoid causing crashes etc

[serene fox]

playerComponent?

[red cedar]

player controller

override DefaultPlayerController

[midnight talon]

If you're talking about character loadout slots yes they can be blocked/disabled

[upbeat lion]

My future system is for vehicles, with the SlotManagerComponent

[pseudo merlin]

Someone know's if a trace is more expensive based on distance?
So the further it has to travel, the more expensive it get's or doesn't matter?

[granite tendon]

is it possible to hide mouse cursor at GM EDIT mode? anyone know? I was trying different ways but no effect. for example:

{
    override void EOnCameraFrame(SCR_ManualCameraParam param)
    {
        super.EOnCameraFrame(param);
        param.isCursorEnabled = false;
    }
}

[tawny lotus]

Funny thing, I want to do the same. Could not find a way to do it so I'll try with a ticket.
https://feedback.bistudio.com/T197639

[granite tendon]

😅 give me message if you get answer, please.

[river imp]

What are you tracing for?

[pseudo merlin]

Trees.

I like to know if there are trees at a specific position.
Within 1 meter to the character.

[river imp]

Oh, If it were other characters I was gonna suggest a more optimized way to do it

[pseudo merlin]

You can tell anyway's if you like.
maybe i need it at some point in time.

[river imp]

This won't work with trees.

[pseudo merlin]

Doesn't matter.
IMaybe i learn something new. 😉

[river imp]

But are you specifically wanting to know if one is behind the player or what?

[pseudo merlin]

I need to know if a cover position is a tree or a rock.

To determine the offset.

Rocks are bigger, so they need a bigget offset to make the A.I. get behind it.

[clever oxide]

What is the closest Event when streamed vehicles spawning, or JIP player get vehicles nearby?

[pseudo merlin]

My question was wrong.
I would guess the trace is doing some stuff/checks in the background while traveling.
So the longer it has to travel, the longer it will do thouse checks?
Or how does it work in the first place?

[timid citrus]

Raycast is what you mean

There are also sphere checks

[pseudo merlin]

Yes i used them but they are not precise enough due to big bounding boxes.

They always return stuff which isn't there but the bounding box is.

[static tangle]

Anyone got any ideas where i can start to learn script modding? have learnt the tutorials and what not

[pseudo merlin]

Jump right into "Script Editor" and practice.

Trial and error is the best teacher.

Maybe if you tell, what's your goal is you will get a more specific answer.

[static tangle]

well right know im looking at the flush toilet script, aha, but my main goal is scripting for new animations

[pseudo merlin]

Okay.
Well i don't know about animations but may you better suited in here: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/976155605100294224

[static tangle]

i also want to learn scripting in general, as its very beneficial and it covers alot of stuff

[pseudo merlin]

True.
Well best is to just start practicing step by step.
If you already watched the Modding Bootcamps.

[static tangle]

so literally dive in headfirst, and hope the water is deep enough lol

[pseudo merlin]

There is a wiki about it as well.

Yep 🙂

[static tangle]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_Reforger/Modding/Scripting/Guidelines

i found this

[pseudo merlin]

That's how most learn it.
There isn't really a step by step tutorial.
It's simply not possible to cover everything.

[pseudo merlin]

Yes that's it.

[static tangle]

I'm going to try and give this sink the same 'flush toilet' action the toilet has.
But does the sink have a name? how would i find out?

[pseudo merlin]

That's something i don't know.

[cobalt shadow]

Where can I find the location of these names? I'm looking to add the names of my own ammo to them so the action manager will register them on the UI.

[cobalt shadow]

Its an action that's applied to an object using the actionmanager. Look up Toilet in the prefabs to see how its done. It adds an audio source to the object when the action is used.

[static tangle]

i looked up toilet in prefabs, i did find it, but the entity instance gave me object name in end, anywho, read the ActionsManagerComponent, but it mentions nothing about audio, compared to if i search 'flush' on workbench resource browser...i find the script and the sound file, i try to find a reference to toilet_01 but nothing

[cobalt shadow]

This is in the toilet prefab in the actionmanager.

[static tangle]

ok so i found that, what do i do from here if i want the skin to have the same action and sound effect?

[cobalt shadow]

You'd add an actionmanager component to the sinks prefab, then add everything from the toilets actionmanger component into the one you placed on the sink.

[static tangle]

ah, that makes some sense

[pseudo merlin]

See already improved compared to 10 minutes ago. 😉

Easy.

[static tangle]

i cant find a way to duplicate the actions manager component and put it on the sink? dont i need to duplicate a file?

[static tangle]

not quite there just yet, if i put aside a few hours a day, will get there

[pseudo merlin]

Sure thing. 😉

[cobalt shadow]

You don't duplicate you add a new, with the sink selected click "+ Add Component" then search for "Actions Manager"

[static tangle]

i think i meant the faucet when i said sink tbh

not sure what to do here, as 'add component' is grayed out

[cobalt shadow]

Have you created an override or duplicate of the faucet into your project?

[static tangle]

one of these? which one should i do, duplicate i think?

[cobalt shadow]

If you want to apply your change to every sink in the game without having to swap them all I'd use override.

[candid garnet]

would you guys consider making a thread?

[static tangle]

can others jump on the thread?

[candid garnet]

anyone can. but you have days of questions on the same topic, which is good for a thread

and there needs to be a level of self discovery for you to learn effectively as well. you've already pushed away one person I see #enfusion_scripting message.

[trim nexus]

how would i start making my first life game mode im new doing scripting

[trail wing]

You can make modded maps persistent right?
For online play?

Is there a proper script for it?

[restive island]

These are in the string table in the WB string editor. I have not been able to figure out how to get the string table myself, maybe try #enfusion_gui

[cobalt shadow]

In my digging through the rabbit hole I discovered RHS has made their ammo show in the same format, alas looking through that mod was fruitless. I couldn't find any script, config, or anything that looked like it was the cause. I did get a hit from an old post in this discord that also had a link to the string editor biki.

[restive island]

Might be of some use? https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/61B361DAAC593B43

[pseudo merlin]

Just found another "stupidity" flaw in the compiler.
If i miss the ; at the end of a line, it will not give an error but skip this line while executing.
So for example this: m_ConfigComponent.m_bConfigFilesSettingsOverrideExclude = m_bConfigFilesSettingsOverrideExclude will not give an error but it will be completely skipped.

[torn bane]

Provide a full reproduceable example on the feedback tracker.

[pseudo merlin]

Okay.

[pseudo merlin]

I have made the ticket. 😊

[torn bane]

link it please so i can speed up the process of getting it before the eyes of script dude

[pseudo merlin]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T197646

@torn bane

[torn bane]

This is not a good ticket. please include a full example script file that if loaded in vanilla will cause the issue

[pseudo merlin]

Okay....

That's why they say silence is gold... 😄

[pseudo merlin]

@torn bane not sure, if the breakpoint always skips the bool isTrue; ?
Somehow it does even with ; at the end.
So not sure if this is intended?
I did expect the breakpoint to break at every line/variable?

I updated the ticket.

And i don't know how to make this in a good vanilla example... 🥲

[torn bane]

the line does not do anything with the variable so you can not set a breakpoint on it

[pseudo merlin]

Okay.
But the example i gave above from the mod should.

I have no clue...

It should be false or true.

[torn bane]

This is hard to understand what you are actually on about. skipping some unused bool variable is hard to evaluate. a string would be better so you know if it actually ran or is random memory

and the formatting is not good either, why not wrap it all in a code block

[pseudo merlin]

Okay.

I will try to get this done with a string.
I have no clue about the feedback tracker.

I will try to do better. 😉

Sorry may i wasted your time... 🙁

[cloud rock]

Is there a way to get a item that a character has equipped in a specific slot?

[pseudo merlin]

It's a lot of fiddling around.
You can use BaseInventoryStorageComponent.
BaseInventoryStorageComponent has a lot of methodes to get specific stuff.
Then there is InventoryStorageSlot for slot stuff etc.

Best is to look for the methodes in vanilla and how they use it, to get an idea.

[cloud rock]

thanks i will take a look

[shell quarry]

i got an headache while understanding the process ahah

[pseudo merlin]

Same. 😉
Guess it's by far one of the most annoying things i have messed around with. 😁
Casting stuff back and forth all over the time...

[shell quarry]

yeah i dont really know why they choose this path... it may be simple than that

[cloud rock]

well for my use case it was fairly simple (at least i hope - testing in the following days will tell)

[pseudo merlin]

Lucky. 😉

[open pier]

Everything is as modular as possible. If you want to change something very specific you can. Rather than changing the base class and it affecting every type of inventory

[kind widget]

quite old problem, missing ; which compiles just fine are present even in vanilla code

[pseudo merlin]

Yeah i never really breakpointed them and was kinda suprised, when i saw the code/line was skipped, until i noticed the missing ; which i thought was the reason for the skip.

Unfortunate coincidence.

[pseudo merlin]

Good point. 😉

Never really thought of it this way.

[elder wigeon]

Good day fellow scripters

Could anyone help me improve a deployable squad radio a bit? I'm having a hard time understanding how the dropped radio turns into a deployed radio and how I can pass a variable to a deployed radio when interacting with dropped radio 😅

[wintry sable]

can somebody explain to me input contexts. I'm at a loss. Lack of documentation is not really helping. I want to add custom action, I've figured the best place for it would be overriden chimerainputconfig. New custom action + new custom context. Both activated and listened to inside OnPostInit handler of my ScriptComponentClass and nothing happens. Change of priority didn't help. I just want to have global custom keybind that will activate scripts handlers.

[red cedar]

Context are only activated for one frame unless you specify how long it should be activated for

In most cases you will just add your keybind to a currently existing context

[shell quarry]

am i missing something? i duplicated a prefab but canot delete its components...

workbench allows me only inside the original prefab...

[wintry sable]

oh, my god. Thanks that did make it work. what an odd behaviour for a scripted action

[red cedar]

I mean it's only odd when you're not aware of it, as soon as you are it "kind of makes sense" but glad it helped !

[fading arrow]

anyone?

[restive island]

Try it without the this. keyword

[fading arrow]

Same result

[torn bane]

If he can't find a component then it's not there. I am not sure what variable you are checking but there is a difference between Playercontroller and the character entity

[elder wigeon]

Quick question: can persistence framework save tickets/score for both teams, buildings and supplies stored at each base and base locations if bases are randomized? Is there anything it cannot save? Thank you for your work!

[open pier]

Try to get it through the player manager. Not at my computer rn but play around with GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayerController()

It might take the playerId as an argument, cant remember off the top of my head though

[fading arrow]

Will do, been a while since I touched this mod (since Reforger release lol) so some things have broken in general, such as custom keybinds

[red cedar]

Ientity entity;

SCR_ChimeraCharacter char = SCR_ChimeraCharacter.cast(dntity);

Char.GrtCharacterController(); or something like that

[open pier]

Yes there have been quite a lot of changes so expect to fix some things

[midnight talon]

Yeah just use the player manager or if you explicitly only want local client one you can do SCR_PlayerController.GetLocalPlayerController()

[restive island]

i think it's IEntity

[glossy palm]

I am trying to make a trigger that basically just removes bullets the second they are fired, I have a base trigger entity and I want it to activate when it detects a bullet. is that possible?

[glossy palm]

Ok, so with it being an event, how does that impact a trigger entity? Or at least how can I manipulate the trigger entity to activate in the case of that event?

Sorry if these questions are strange, this is my first project in en fusion

[candid garnet]

are you familiar with oop and c# events?

[glossy palm]

Yes mostly

[candid garnet]

oh I see, you are using the scenario framework? I haven't really messed with that and I don't want to give you a way more advanced guide when the scenario framework probably does it for you somehow

[red cedar]

I was on my phone a missing capital E is the least of my concerns

[red cedar]

Player controller isn't the same as char controller

[torn bane]

It saves all these out of the box already. If can save anything if you add support for it. It's not magically gathering the information. Scripts tell it what and how to handle

[inland bronze]

For some reason, when using my custom component to spawn an optic rail on a rifle when an optic is attached, the optic rail lines up perfectly on authority (1st image), but not on client (2nd image). What could I be missing? The rail positioning is being handled through the SlotManagerComponent (3rd image).

Additionally, here's my script

[solid hearth]

I've seen a lot of ickyness trying to utilize SlotManager on a weapon entity. I've found it better to just make use of the AttachmentSlotComponent.

[elder wigeon]

Is there an exhaustive example of how to pass all the things I need to the framework so that it would work? E.g. scenario randomly spawns bases on restart, is there an example how to preserve the same bases in the framework? Vanilla conflict is easier I believe, same bases, just different values, but with randomized it must be much harder?

[torn bane]

The same logic that randomizes selection needs persistence added for it. If the mode was built on scenario framework as basis its already handled.

[clever oxide]

Hi! How can i ensure which code runs when i have 2 dependencie mod with same modded class, same modded function?
Breakpoint catch the wrong one, and what i need never runs.

[elder wigeon]

Please ping me when you find out, I'm interested too

[clever oxide]

First idea is: Disable original manager or component in editor and change to my own inherited one, then maybe i can use override keyword on fuction and use my own codes without .super call. Main problem with this, need own world where i can change manually.
I try find other way for disable something in dependencies or use priority rules in mod hierarchy.

[open pier]

might have something to do with mod hierarchy if the one that is running doesn't do a super call

[torn bane]

If you depend on the other mod it should go you -> mod -> vanilla. you could decide to go through vanilla directly by calling vanilla.blah instead of super, skipping what ever the other mod does. If you do not depend on the other mod you simply can not influence if and what it will do. you could tell the author of the other mod how to improve so their mod is not breaking others

[haughty fractal]

Hello, has anyone managed to deactivate the function that can be built even if there are enemies in the area?

[lone glen]

RPL : rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
RPL (E): IReplication::JIPError: Inconsistent item table on Slave connection. Item is missing or different item was loaded in its place. (con=0x0)
WORLD : UpdateEntities
RPL : rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame
RPL (E): IReplication::JIPError: Terminating connection. (identity=0x00000000)
WORLD : UpdateEntities
RPL : rpl::Pip::ProcessNetToGame

Need some help on this if at all possible

[cloud rock]

Am i seeing it right that actions on the ActionsManager are static and can not be added or removed by script?

[midnight talon]

Yeah generally components not prefixed with SCR_ seem to be close to cpp code (often just sealed interfaces with no implementation to read or override) and have limited scriptability. In most cases like this alternatives seem to be things like creating your own custom class that inherits from the base one, or spawning a barebones entity with your custom action on its manager attached as a child entity to the bone of the parent you want the interaction on

[cloud rock]

yeah for what i wanted to do i would have needed to create actions by script but i guess i have to create a UI for this and not use UserActions at all. Would have been really cool because of immersion but seems i have to go the UI way.

[versed remnant]

What are you trying to achieve exactly ?

You could always have the actions be there already but disabled until they meet the right conditions

[cloud rock]

i am trying to create a presentation system where a controller can switch the screen thats displayed on monitors

[cloud rock]

would be possible yeah i have to think about this some more thanks for the input

[midnight talon]

yeah even though you can't dynamically add actions at runtime you can add them to base prefab and dynamically filter their usability/visibility (look at implementation of vanilla scripted actions for an idea), or dynamically spawn and attach a child entity with your desired actions

[forest arrow]

Hello. Maybe someone already implemented something simillar and can help.

I need to create a restriction system for some specific items in arsenal for specific players.

For example: Item1 is available to pickup to his inventory only for Player1. If Player2 will pickup this item from arsenal, or from world, or from trunck, system should delete this prefab from his inventory, or dissallow item creation in inventory

I implemented it with override SCR_UniversalInventoryStorageComponent.CanStoreItem, but it works good for vanilla arsenal UI by blocking user to drag this item. But it doesnt work for bacon loadout editor.

In bacoon I can see using of SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent.TryInsertItem, but I cant override it, as its proto external. I tried to use override for

protected void OnItemAdded(BaseInventoryStorageComponent storageOwner, IEntity item)

like this:

super.OnItemAdded(storageOwner, item);
if (item.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName().Contains("Admin_Patch"))
{
Print("SteelPath >> Admin patch call");
if (!IsOwnerAdmin(storageOwner))
{
Print("SteelPath >> Not allowed");
super.TryRemoveItemFromStorage(item, storageOwner);
return;
}
Print("SteelPath >> Allowed");
}

But it doesnt work with vanilla or bacon arsenal. In logs I can see "Now allowed", but item is not removed from inventory

[open pier]

Can you paste the whole method override?

[forest arrow]

Which one? SCR_UniversalInventoryStorageComponent.CanStoreItem or OnItemAdded from SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent

[restive island]

try doing ```cpp CODE_HERE ```

[open pier]

My b im on my phone so was kind of hard to read. Why are you calling super.TryRemoveItemFromStorage

Remove the super.

[forest arrow]

super.OnItemAdded(storageOwner, item);
if (item.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName().Contains("Admin_Patch"))
        {
            Print("SteelPath >> Admin patch call");
            if (!IsOwnerAdmin(storageOwner))
            {
                Print("SteelPath >> Not allowed");
                super.TryRemoveItemFromStorage(item, storageOwner);
                return;
            }
            Print("SteelPath >> Allowed");
        }

[inland bronze]

hmmmm, even with using the AttachmentSlotComponent, it still doesn't align correctly on peer

[forest arrow]

Looks better. thanks for hint

[restive island]

hit enter after the cpp

[forest arrow]

Why remove super? super is a SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent main class

[restive island]

^ Like that

[forest arrow]

modded class SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent
{
  override protected void OnItemAdded(BaseInventoryStorageComponent storageOwner, IEntity item)
    {
        super.OnItemAdded(storageOwner, item);
        if (item.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName().Contains("Admin_Patch"))
        {
            Print("SteelPath >> Admin patch call");
            if (!IsOwnerAdmin(storageOwner))
            {
                Print("SteelPath >> Not allowed");
                super.TryRemoveItemFromStorage(tem, storageOwner);
                return;
            }
            Print("SteelPath >> Allowed");
        }
}

[forest arrow]

did like this, no color formatting

[restive island]

i think you're leaving in the code block from the default Discord code formatting. its just 3 back ticks

[forest arrow]

modded class SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent
{
  override protected void OnItemAdded(BaseInventoryStorageComponent storageOwner, IEntity item)
    {
        super.OnItemAdded(storageOwner, item);
        if (item.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName().Contains("Admin_Patch"))
        {
            Print("SteelPath >> Admin patch call");
            if (!IsOwnerAdmin(storageOwner))
            {
                Print("SteelPath >> Not allowed");
                super.TryRemoveItemFromStorage(tem, storageOwner);
                return;
            }
            Print("SteelPath >> Allowed");
        }
}

[open pier]

You're calling it inside of a different method. Just the remove item one

[forest arrow]

Cant understand. I have call to OnItemAdded, I'm verifying that items is not allowed and then i'm calling to remove it using same class, same component.

What do you mean by remove item one?

[open pier]

When you call super on a method, it's supposed to be there to ensure the base functions also run of that same method. So you don't need it on the TryRemoveItem

[forest arrow]

Oh, you mean just TryRemoveItem. Let me try

[open pier]

modded class SCR_InventoryStorageManagerComponent
{
  override protected void OnItemAdded(BaseInventoryStorageComponent storageOwner, IEntity item)
    {
        super.OnItemAdded(storageOwner, item);
        if (item.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName().Contains("Admin_Patch"))
        {
            Print("SteelPath >> Admin patch call");
            if (!IsOwnerAdmin(storageOwner))
            {
                Print("SteelPath >> Not allowed");
                TryRemoveItemFromStorage(item, storageOwner);
                return;
            }
            Print("SteelPath >> Allowed");
        }
}

Something like that

[torn bane]

On item added is too late for such thing. Then the item is already in transfer and it's hard to undo. Instead override the CanX checks

[forest arrow]

But can doesnt work for bacon.
The one option which I can see is to overrida CanX to cover vanilla arsenal and separatly override method from Bacon which is responsible for item insert.

But expected to have some generic solution on arma side, to cover all loadouts mods

[forest arrow]

Also doesnt work. Looks like ArkensoR is right, its too late phase for intercepting this

[torn bane]

I don't know what he did. Permission to take items from arsenal should not be tied to storage. It's its own thing. The same way we check for sufficient supplies. CanX checks know nothing about it being an arsenal item with rank restrictions or cost. It only checks if the item can fit into the inventory due to volume and weight. The only thing that can fail afterwards is some unexpected things which is usually a programming or config error

[forest arrow]

But its not only arsenal. I think in my case it should be in storage. It could be pickup from world for example, from ground.

So its better to hadle in incoming storage, then all sources

[open pier]

Even if its not an override in his mod doesn't make the scripts in the components not run. Try to implement the same behavior where arkensor is saying to. The CanX scripts still run before the TryX

[forest arrow]

I already tried and it doesnt work with bacon

It works perfectly with vanilla arsenal, but not bacon 🙁

[torn bane]

If the source is what makes the rule and it's always some storage you can avoid it being taken. If the item can be on the ground then you can avoid picking it up.

Either way I think there is a central method called in script by both inventory UI and pickup action. Maybe not. Check what the pickup action code does in script and see if there is a place to mod. I would normally say prevent pickup in the inventory but the actions would maybe bypass it if not also handled

[inland bronze]

maybe a dev has some possible input on this? I've swapped over to using the AttachmentSlotComponent for attaching and it's still an issue. Unsure where to go from here with it

I've set it to a Pivot ID, messed around with the RplComponent of the rail, tried various configurations in the AttachmentSlotComponent, and still is an issue

It's positioning when attached is seemingly just not synced to the position of the weapon, because it'll follow the weapon correctly, just not in the position that is set in the AttachmentSlotComponent

[hollow oak]

SCR_EntityHelper.DeleteEntityAndChildren doesn't kill all children for some reason

And I don't understand why

[red cedar]

They need to have the Hierarchy component

[hollow oak]

Wow! thank you so much!!

[red cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-exercise-bed-kitty-gif-17932354043745241231

[sleek moat]

do map placed entities have const unique id's that can be referenced and found every runtime? I'm wanting to store then find some entities that aren't persistent and then do something with them on startup. I have a custom component on the relevant entities too

[restive island]

If you can identify the structure I'd think you'd be able to get a unique id for it at run time. i know for player/gm built structures they get a unique id.

I'd think everything gets a unique ID to differentiate itself from other entities of the same type

[river imp]

Store a static array of the entities in your component, when the component initializes add it's owner to the array, when it's deleted, remove the owner from the array. You now have an array that you can get that have your items in it.

[torn bane]

no. they change on map edits

[ocean kernel]

they have names tho, but if you have a component on them then you can register it in some system

[minor agate]

This not being there is why maps are not moddable, only extendable

[mighty glacier]

I’m about to start looking through all the resources and any YouTube videos on scripting.

But before I start, any key things I need to know?

[static tangle]

im in the same boat as you, i just started learning/scrubbing up on c# in youtube videos

[mighty glacier]

Nice. If you’re down, we could share resources and help each other figure things out. I’m getting more ambitious with what I want to build, but it’s still a bit overwhelming figuring out where to start.

[static tangle]

Sounds good 👍

[tawny lotus]

How can I find the direction vector of where GM is looking?

[clever oxide]

you can get SCR_CameraEditorComponent and the SCR_ManualCamera is the GM's cam

[sleek moat]

Would this still have the issue of being different every startup or will it find it from the previously registered occurrence? Say the owner in a static array like zelik mentioned, would the owner be able to be found next start up from that array or would it change?

[tawny lotus]

Thank you very much!

[serene fox]

Hi, i attached a pipCamera to a Vehicle which will refreshed localy on FIXEDPOSTFRAME (30hz). But now i have the problem, that the camera clips into the Vehicle if you driving fast. I already set the nearPlane to 0.5. I do not like to refresh EachFrame, to save resources. Does anyone have a good solution? Thanks

[open pier]

Someone might know a bit more but it sounds like you'll have to do some compensation on the camera location depending on the vehicles speed. With the refresh rate being what it is instead on every frame it sounds like theres some desync happening

Is the camera even meant to move closer to the vehicle as its driving faster?

[serene fox]

Yeah, because game is running with 120 FPS, but Transforms only 30 FPS. The idea with the speed is good! I will implement this

[serene fox]

Working.. ty

[open pier]

heck yeah glad to hear it

[ocean kernel]

Ah if you want to identify it between sessions then I guess entity name

[torn bane]

Entity name is great, sadly you can't assign one to base scene entities.

[fringe prairie]

Gotta do it at the right time in the frame, or parent it under the vehicle via child with auto transform

You can try looking at Tactical Data Link, I have a dirt simple camera prefab I attach to devices that seems to sync well, however for PiP display, it seems that even with such tricks, the vehicle you see and the data for where it is disagree and skip frames can cause camera lag. LODs are bad at distance anyways and limited by replication so might as well only use PiP in close by situations.

Engine quirk is what I chalked it up to since the PiP camera is almost like a ghost world that reuses what the “real world” is doing so there’s like a frame to frame delay with world renders > camera gets data and generates render data in copy world > data not ready to display that same frame > next frame the data generated in the previous frame is displayed on render target

For your use case though definitely attach the camera using add child with camera prefab like TDL, it will save you so many headaches. You will never get the timing right so let the engine do it for you.

[inland bronze]

How is damage handled after ComputeEffectiveDamage()?

I've overridden ComputeEffectiveDamage() to limit the amount of damage to not allow health to go below 5, but it just seems like there's some calculation to it afterwards that causes it to go below that threshold.

Going crazy a little bit trying to figure out why lol

[pseudo merlin]

What kind of damage exactly?
Projectiles have penetration which will trigger multiple time's iirc.
But not sure if/how this get's handled in term's of damage.

[inland bronze]

Testing with projectile damage currently. Basically just having a peer open and shooting it in the chest lol

[pseudo merlin]

I know this from the "Projectile Hit" event, where i went crazy cuz it always triggered multiple times, till i asked a dev and he told me the 2. event is from penetration.

But idk if this is handled somewhere else.

[inland bronze]

Knowing my luck, it's probably all handled in C++

[pseudo merlin]

Possible. 😅

What is your goal by doing this?

[inland bronze]

Goal is to not have the character die initially, but always go unconscious first

No matter how much damage is dealt to them

[pseudo merlin]

Got it.

For testing something or in general?

[inland bronze]

Want to give time for character to be defibbed within my custom gamemode

It was all working at one point in time, but I guess the devs updated something somewhere along the way that breaks respawning because of how I was handling it

[pseudo merlin]

I mean you could make him kinda invincible once ComputeEffectiveDamage() is triggerd and set the uncon state yourself?

After he is uncon you can apply the damage to what you like it.

[inland bronze]

Hmmm, could. Will give it a shot, thanks!

now I'm even more confused. I'm calling for disabling damage handling within ComputeEffectiveDamage(), and to return a damage value of 0, and it still drops my character's health to zero (but doesn't kill them)

[pseudo merlin]

So that's pretty much what you were looking for.
But yeah strange behavior.

I haven't messed with this part for a long time, but when i did it worked as expected iirc.

[bright rain]

yea

[pliant ingot]

Did you read this: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Damage_System ?

[inland bronze]

I’ll probably just have to either tackle it a different way or accept that it may not be fully possible now.

I’ve got it to a point now where it does what I want mostly, sometimes damage still passes through the invincibility when the character is being riddled with bullets and breaks it though.

I’ll look again when I wake up, it’s almost 4am so brain is fried

[inland bronze]

Maybe that Hijacking method is what I’ll need

[elder wigeon]

Hey everyone! In a prefab a vanilla class sets a hardcoded value to some variable.

I want that value to adjust to player numbers online.

How can I achieve that?

• I modded the vanilla class including that variable to calculste the value
• I didn't change the vanilla component in the prefab
• I tried to manually change the hardcoded value

What I get is the new hardcoded value in game, not the calculated one. Where could I go wrong?

Should prefab show a formula for the calculated value, not the hardcoded value, if i did it right?

In et file I see hardcoded one

[clever oxide]

Maybe show example, how you change vanilla variable to your variable?

Declared vars not changing by manual, you can override the calc methods.

[elder wigeon]

Got it sorted, it was a wrong order of checking vslues and setting values 😅

[pseudo merlin]

Nice read. 😉

[clever oxide]

Hi! I have a math question. How can I scale DotCircle radius in different resolutions?
DotCircle's m_fRadius = 4000;
its 4000m on map at 1920x1080 resolution in my tests. (The marker's handler keep this size by mapzoom value.)
Horizontal scaling works but when i change vertical resolution too, the DotCircle changes.
How can i ensure the dotcircle keep 4000m in all resolutions?

[serene fox]

Its already attached to a bone... But you had to all ApplyTransforms (see 2DPIPSight)

[static tangle]

Will learning c# for unity help with enfusion and reforger/arma 4?

[torn bane]

Only if you don't know much about object oriented programming. Otherwise it won't help you

[full spindle]

Also "learning" C# with unity is gonna be mostly engine specific nonsense. If you are a noob to programming you may as well work on something a lot simpler like winforms or a console app.

[sour prawn]

I am actually going to hang myself wtf is that ? suddenly ALL the script got these errors on my project even dependencies scripts ?! wtf ?

[static tangle]

what about experimenting with existing code and trying to mod? that the best way?

[sour prawn]

can someone plss help me

[open pier]

double left click the error and it should bring you to the line causing the code, its exactly what it says it is, you're missing a ; somewhere

[sour prawn]

brother it's on EVERY scripts, even the scripts of the dependencies like not my mods etc...

it appeared suddendly

i'm stressing rn

[open pier]

the ; errors are weird, check above where it says the error is at. Try restarting your workbench if you havent

If that doesn't work then whatever line you changed last, even if unrelated to the error, check that.

[sour prawn]

i restarted the engine removed the temp cache, restarted my pc

[sour prawn]

I also tried that

[open pier]

You'll have to look real close at your scripts then, can't pinpoint an error purely based off the error log without seeing the scripts that might be throwing it

[full spindle]

It's pretty easy, assuming the workbench doesn't break on you and lie about what doesn't work

But like you should probably understand at least one language, and be willing to give up if something is too big for you to chew

[modern aspen]

Hey guys, I was wondering if you have any recommendations on what to watch or read when learning scripting.
Are there any tutorials, guides, or resources you’d suggest for getting better at scripting?

[inland bronze]

I believe I have it solved. Had to override HijackDamageHandling() in the character damage manager, calculate effective damage and the remaining health after the effective damage, then force unconsciousness and setting health to whatever value I'd like while returning true for hijacking.

As well (for what I wanted), I had to not permit unconsciousness on the character damage manager, then permit uncon through script before forcing uncon

took WAY longer to do than I feel like it needed lol

[red cedar]

If you share no code no one can help you with syntax errors

[sour prawn]

you are right sorry, i was trying to troubleshoot and I think i've found the problem, i'll share it soon

sorry again

[midnight talon]

It seems like one of those odd cases where compiler errors do not give an accurate trace to what actually causes the issue, like when you try to RplProp a type that doesn't have native serialisation and get an error that takes you to base Rpl class instead of the class with bad RplProp

Generally when that happens the fix is to just undo your most recent change, using version control like Git will help a lot with these things

[static tangle]

Hey, i get what you mean by its pretty easy, its readable, but the 'willing to give up if something is too big for you to chew', im sure, with time, ill get around it, but, what is this something id give up on, is it a part? or...

[full spindle]

I have stopped making whole mods cause I wasn't ready for it yet. Some changes will just be a simple file edit, and some will be multiple files and tons of custom new code.

Cause you learn from failure sure, but if you can't get past that failure it doesn't help grinding gears

[static tangle]

ah right yeah, dont bite off more than you can chew/grinding gears, will bear that in mind 👍 , was and still am looking for a scripter for my mod, and hopefully learn from
#creators_recruiting message

[toxic pier]

If I read your post right you are just adding animations? That requires very little scripting (usually).

[midnight talon]

Watch BI's modding bootcamp videos on scripting topics, read through BIKI pages on scripting will give you a general understanding of how most things work. From there you can search vanilla scripts for examples of similar things to what you are trying to do / usages of things you are trying to interact with in your scripts

For example if you want to learn how to do things with the inventory, search codebase for usages of inventory manager class etc

[static tangle]

i want to learn scripting for animations and the rest, the rest meaning implementing the function behind the animation, e.g drag, a new medical animation,etc*

[toxic pier]

That's wouldn't be to terribly hard to learn, at least I don't think so. If you've done any programming before you could more than likely figure it out.

[open pier]

this especially when missing a semicolon, it sends you to the next line that tries to compile instead of where the error is actually at. God forbid you close a function right after that then you have more syntax errors

[tawny lotus]

Or adding one by mistake:
for (...);. One can be quite blind to such.

[pseudo merlin]

There are also thouse error's, which appears in the log only but not directly as an error message.
If you don't know/notice, it's pretty much ⚰️

[ocean kernel]

Just dont write bad code

[pseudo merlin]

Easy fix. 😉

[fading heron]

Quick question: Is there a way to check if a player has the map in their hand? So, a kind of gadget check.

[elder wigeon]

Is there any way to prevent auto waking up from uncon without healing? Making it very slow would work too

I couldn’t find any clear info on what makes a player wake up and how to slow it down or disable

[red cedar]

Jfc

[pseudo merlin]

Yes there is.
If you need the code i can post somewhat later.

[fading heron]

yes gladly

[clever oxide]

Try this in remote console when play in viewport:
int playerId = GetGame().GetPlayerController().GetPlayerId();
IEntity player = GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayerControlledEntity(playerId);
SCR_GadgetManagerComponent gmc = SCR_GadgetManagerComponent.GetGadgetManager(player);
IEntity gadget = gmc.GetHeldGadget();
Print(gadget);
if map in hands you will get map entity, then you need only compare of the 3 types of map entity.

or just check there is SCR_MapGadgetComponent in entity

[red cedar]

Why go through the playermanager to get the controlled entity?

You realize the player controller does that?

[pseudo merlin]

Not tested but "should" work:

SCR_GadgetManagerComponent gadgetManagerComponent = SCR_GadgetManagerComponent.GetGadgetManager(owner);

if (gadgetManagerComponent)
{
    SCR_GadgetComponent heldGadgetComponent = gadgetManagerComponent.GetHeldGadgetComponent();
    
    if (heldGadgetComponent)
    {
        EGadgetType type = heldGadgetComponent.GetType();
        
        if (type == EGadgetType.MAP)
        {
            //! Map in hand
            // Continue...
        }
    }
}

[pseudo merlin]

Oh... 🤪

[static tangle]

What should i learn first/more, C# and/or Java, and why, before i spend a ton of hours learning and headbanging please 😂

[fading heron]

works like a charm, thanks

[solid hearth]

Depends on the purpose, if you're learning it just for the sake of trying to use that knowledge in enfusion then it really doesn't matter, they flow the same way at the end of the day. If you're learning it to use it in a practical sense then I vote C#, java's environment is ass, setting it up is ass. Everything about it in my view is ass. But that's just my opinion that comes with a deep seeded hatred for it for over 14 years.

[full spindle]

C# just works, java will make you hate programming for the wrong reasons

[clever oxide]

It's only one fast way for get player controlled entity in remote console. Have several ways, its only example.

I could have used camera manager to get the cursor target entity if want check other entity not own player.

[static tangle]

My purpose for now is for animations, but then i want to learn more than just that, for giving function to animations, and also for cinematics and, new features, what not

[red cedar]

Oh fair

[agile bloom]

I wrote so much garbage code (over two thousand lines) in one file that Workbench crashed immediately when I opened my project. It seems this isn't very friendly to someone like me who likes to write mountains of code....

[red cedar]

AI code ?

i assume

[agile bloom]

That's partly the reason, but I think the main reason is that Workbench is inadequate, especially since I've done a lot of modularization work.

[red cedar]

it is but tbh i have never seen a component of 3000 lines that wasn't written by AI, issue with AI is that when it fails somewhere it will keep appending new stuff to the file making the script further impossible to read or maintain and eventually reach that workbench limit

@shell quarry
m_fFoo

m_ -> class attribute
fFoo -> float foo (i usually skip that part)
you can also make sFoo for string bFoo for boolean etc but i feel like it is unnecessary

[agile bloom]

Program: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma Reforger Tools\Workbench\ArmaReforgerWorkbenchSteamDiag.exe
Reason: SEH exception thrown. Exception code: 0xc0000374 at 0x7ffd4e057665😅 Currently, the largest file in this project has approximately 1900 lines.

[abstract nymph]

Hello! Do you know which script or method to call so that the AI cannot PerformAction to open the door?

[shell quarry]

thanks ❤️

it was a simpel google search ahahah

[ocean kernel]

1000 of it is comments every third line

[cunning minnow]

Anyone got any experience with tweaking the respawn system customly? in short i've built a menu fot you to select your faction Civ EMS and police. after that it takes you to your faction you have selected and shows the spawns available for those factions. On death I tried just making the Faction based respawn system pop up but it seems to flicker / break and can't click anything on that UI. I had made my own custom gamemode, I have made my own custom MenuSpawnLogic is there something I am missing tweaking for respawning?

[torn bane]

The general idea of menu spawn logic is correct, but you may be faced with refreshs that our vanilla menus do. i think you could make a similar one but inherit from the base logic, and stay closer to what auto spawn logic does.

[cunning minnow]

Any idea would could be causing the respawn (2nd image) to open and close?

I just don’t know where to inherit from either haha

I can get it to open but

It just flickers at like 60 times per second

[torn bane]

maybe you are listening on the wrong the events on the client. hard to tell without seeing the setup. all i can tell you is the respawn system in reforger is a very fragile thing and not very nice to mod, so you need to fully understand what you are doing to get things working in the way you want it to be.

[serene fox]

Is there a smart way to sort a SET ?

[boreal swan]

What are you trying to achieve in this case?

[serene fox]

Alphabetical sorting, but i found a soloution

[torn bane]

Sets are sorted by the type they contain to ensure uniqueness. Strings are sorted by alphanum, complex type by their unique instance adress. If you want a sorted array instead there is an SCR class for it you can use. and to turn it into a set you can inherit and add a check to not insert if already present

[serene fox]

How can i convert a string (vector) back to a Vector?

        vector vOrigin = localChar.GetOrigin(); 
        string sOrigin = vOrigin.ToString(); 
        vector vString2Vector = sOrigin.ToVector();
        Print(vOrigin);
        Print(vString2Vector);

SCRIPT : vector vOrigin = <1160.47,39.573,2825.63>
SCRIPT : vector vString2Vector = <0,0,0>

[torn bane]

The ToString method has parameters for the vector to make them pretty or not. You need the format with "X space Y space Z". Then you can assign it from string back into vector automatically

[shrewd nova]

Is there anywhere that fully explains how it works?

[torn bane]

It's all documented in the code. Start at the gamemode player events, that calls the respawn system, that calls logic which calls consequent requests on the player controller whose responses get handled by the handlers attached as components to the respawn system.

[gleaming phoenix]

Are any folks here doing development with Claude, Copilot etc. assistance? Is there enough Enfusion Script out there to enable the agents to write decent code? I've done a few tests in VSCode but the results aren't great. I wonder if an extensive set of skills prompts might help

[pseudo merlin]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1467602881887731853

And

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1475507824044806344

Probably some more.

[pseudo merlin]

He is messing with it as well i think: https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1463106316510695514

At least to some extend.

[amber moat]

I tested enfusion mcp yesterday with some random stuff and it actually works… don’t know about complicated stuff but for basic thing seems to work, I used opus 4.6

[gleaming phoenix]

Thanks folks, I will have a look this evening when I get some time.

[amber moat]

Sorry I posted this in external tools too but I can’t find a real answer anywhere. Can I capture a camera frame as image data from Enforce Script at runtime and POST it via REST?

[torn bane]

Maybe, but it would be via a lot of code to manually get the data and encode it as string to send via http. Probably too big for a payload

[amber moat]

Yes I know there is a limit at 8k something bytes

I reached it already with some stuff but I basically repair the truncated json on my end

But if u think that’s possible I will try.

[amber moat]

Is there any way to chunk the image data across multiple REST calls and reassemble on the other end? Or is there a better approach you’d suggest for streaming visual data out of the engine at runtime?

Is there a way to write image data to a local file from Enforce Script at runtime that an external process could read?

[maiden goblet]

Something that always comes up with rest API is someone will mention it don't work on Xbox/PS5. You can use regular file api for read/write in profile folder

[amber moat]

I already use the rest api. Works on all consoles and pc. Both ways.

[river imp]

Saving local files is PC only

[maiden goblet]

Ok, well, BI people like saying it doesn't work on console even if it does lolol

[river imp]

Rest api is server only

Clients can't use it. Unless there's been an undocumented change

[amber moat]

I run my own dedicated server does that change anything? The REST calls we already have work fine server side

[amber moat]

Can the server write binary/image data to a local file using the file API or only text?

Scratch all this I understand what u mean, so the real question is: Can Enforce Script on a dedicated server capture a camera frame as raw data and split it across multiple REST calls?

[river imp]

Servers are headless. How are the capturing the "camera frame"?

[amber moat]

REST calls work bidirectionally already, confirmed. The camera feed would need to be client side since the server is headless. can the client side of a mod capture a rendered camera frame as data and POST it via REST to an external URL?

[pliant ingot]

rest works on pc clients accidentally

it can be removed at any time

[amber moat]

But I have my system working for everybody… I can literally show you the data.. I posted a video a few days ago in external tools too

At this point my question is if there is an official supported method for this….

[maiden goblet]

Vlad is correct; not officially supporte

[amber moat]

Omg 😭

[river imp]

Are you sure that it works on pc clients and it's not specific to diag executables?

[pliant ingot]

#enfusion_scripting message

[pliant ingot]

now - idk, at some point in past - yes, one of my friend already do some stuff using this when I send him message from above (but it was after few days)

[amber moat]

I’ll have to change everything 😭

But it worked great just letting devs know.. this was perfect

No performance issues at all

Thanks for the knowledge though ❤️ will fix this asap

[torn bane]

We have no reason to remove it right now, but we simply can't assure you it won't be revisited in some update. We have a larger refactor planned to make it nicer for modders but that might be also the time it's switched to a new internal API handler for web requests which is definitely platform locked.

[amber moat]

Hey guys sorry for the confusion I panicked reading the conversation. Just reviewed my code and all my REST calls run server side behind a Replication.IsServer() check. The server makes all the calls, clients never touch REST directly. So I think I’m actually fine? The accidental client REST thing doesn’t affect me. Thanks for the help anyway, learned a lot!

[torn bane]

But you can't take screenshots on the server. But in theory you could take on on the client and try to send it via an RPC, but it's going to be a lot of work to split it to not choke up networking.

[amber moat]

Im trying to do it first with a simple script that takes a single screenshot tries to encode it and POST it. Lets see

Ok wait if you say that then I had this pipeline in mind already:

Client takes screenshot
→ splits into chunks
→ sends chunks via RPC to server
→ server reassembles
→ server POSTs to Firebase
→ app displays it

And from what I just read you guys lifted the 4k prc call cap

[torn bane]

Yes but that does not mean you can send it all in one go. It will take for ever to transmit reliable which totally chokes out your server for the entire time

[calm sluice]

Guys, is there any advanced/specific tutorials about connecting scripts into animation editor? I need to get variable from scripts into animation graph, but official tutorial video only shows how to override existing one and not create new one. Maybe theres some text tutorial on bohemia site i missed that can help me

[amber moat]

Thanks a lot, really! I i will update you 🫡

[quasi osprey]

can someone come answer a few questions i have in a vc ADHD doesn't help me with reading so vc would be faster and better

[river imp]

People are more inclined to help if you just ask your questions here.

[quasi osprey]

thanks for the reply

did something change regarding how to get components to appear under the script section for ui

[quasi osprey]

^

[river imp]

I don't know what you mean by that exactly but, all scripts need to be in the correct module and you have to validate and reload(Shift-F7).

[quasi osprey]

maybe a better question would be is there an already made component in the base game already that would allow me to put a character preview into my ui

[river imp]

Not really, that consists of using a ItemPreviewWidget and then using custom functionality to then render the character on it

[quasi osprey]

hmm so then you cant just use the one used in the inventory

[river imp]

All of that functionality comes from the menu.

Not a component.

[quasi osprey]

ahhh of course it does

[river imp]

If you want it to be controlled by a component then you must write a custom component.

[quasi osprey]

ok i did that but when i tried to find the component in the place where you add a script to a widget it dident show up thats where my original question come in

[river imp]

Then either A) it's not in the correct module or B) you didn't validate and reload.

[quasi osprey]

cross b off um give me a sec let me look at sum

here's my script

[quasi osprey]

^

[river imp]

Don't use SCR as your prefix. That's for scripted classes provided by B.I.

Meaning, if they every decided to have a class with that name, your mod would break.

[quasi osprey]

class CharacterPreview : ScriptedWidgetComponent

[river imp]

Use your own prefix.

DXS_Thingy

or whatever.

[quasi osprey]

oh

lol

ok issue is still it wont let me attach it to a widget it wont show up in the list

[river imp]

There's no need to have the preview widget name as an attribute.

Put it in the correct script module.

In 99% of cases, it's the game module.

[pliant ingot]

It's common for UI

[river imp]

Doesn't make it any less uncalled for.

[quasi osprey]

i do so alot and it make everything so much harder

prolly from not having full understanding

[quasi osprey]

also what do you meen by this im sorry

Put it in the correct script module.
In 99% of cases, it's the game module.

[pliant ingot]

If you will make entire UI by your own, then yes, you can. But when you try to use 3rd party widgets and/or provide others to use your - it just blows up without simple widget name

[pliant ingot]

Place all your scripts inside scripts/Game folder

[quasi osprey]

ngl i think i dident even do the folder structure right if thats what your saying

[river imp]

Was pretty sure script modules were explained somewhere on the wiki in the scripting section.

[quasi osprey]

ADHD doesn't help me with reading so vc would be faster and better
^
this

i learn from vids

[river imp]

Okay.

Good luck,

99% of this isn't in a video

[quasi osprey]

ive tried to read small parts at a time ive picked up some parts but like i said reading doesent do anything for me in through my eyes and out of my head

[river imp]

That's unfortunate. Having ADHD myself, it isn't an issue for me.

[quasi osprey]

ok i get that but i have it here
YourModName/Scripts/Game/UI/MSFT_CharacterPreview.c
your saying it goes up one dir

and your also saying i dont need this [Attribute("CharacterPreview")]

maybe i dont have adhd i got the hard tism

ohhhhhhhhh

[tidal elm]

Hello folks.

I'm kinda new to Enfusion, and I'm facing a wall I can't find any information about.

I'm trying to make a new class inheriting from the built-in VehicleControllerComponent, which is a somewhat normal class as far as I can tell, but even tho the boilerplate looks correct according to what I can see on the wiki, I can't see my component at all when I try to attach it to a any prefab, even while inheriting (or overriding) it from the built-in Vehicle_Base prefab.

The script compiles fine, my other components appears to consider the class valid, but it's not getting listed as an attachable component, while engine's built-in components (inheriting from the same class, such as CarControllerComponent, ect...) do have the same file structure as mine, except they work fine.

I saw that these working classes are apparently generated, but once again, I can't find anything documenting it, and don't really understand what makes them work correctly while mine isn't.

Does anyone have any idea what am I doing wrong?

[minor agate]

Share the code

You are probably missing the class decorator to make it available for editor use

[pliant ingot]

Most likely your script is outside of /scripts/Game folder or missing *Class variant of your component

[tidal elm]

I got other components in the same folder that are inheriting from ScriptComponent instead and those are listed just fine

[pliant ingot]

Then do what mario says

[pseudo merlin]

Nice pfp Mario. 😉

[tidal elm]

Alright, just don't pay attention to the subject, I just wanted to try my way of doing it

Non-attachable component :

class JetControllerComponentClass : VehicleControllerComponentClass
{ }

class JetControllerComponent : VehicleControllerComponent
{ }```

Attachable component : 

```[ComponentEditorProps(category: "GameScripted/Vehicles/Jets", description: "N/A")]
class JetBaseComponentClass : ScriptComponentClass
{ }

class JetBaseComponent : ScriptComponent
{ }```

From my perspective, the only difference I can see is the component I inherit from

[clever oxide]

is it not SCR_ marked?

in my tests SCR_CarControllerComponent inheritable but if you use CarControllerComponent not showing on "add component" or "change class" list at prefab @tidal elm

[fiery owl]

So I am trying to create a cinematic with a scene involving a helicopter crashing into the water. The problem is im having a hard time making a script to control the helicopter crashing. This is the script that i currently have that does work class Scene_1_Class: CinematicEntity
{
// user script

void OnKeyFrame_Heli_Movement_0()
{
    vehicleGO("Cinematic_Flying_Mi1");
}

void vehicleGO(string entityName)
{ 
    GenericEntity vehicle = GenericEntity.Cast(GetWorld().FindEntityByName(entityName));

    if (!vehicle)
    {
        Print("Helicopter not found"); return;
    }
    
    SCR_HelicopterControllerComponent heli = SCR_HelicopterControllerComponent.Cast(vehicle.FindComponent(SCR_HelicopterControllerComponent));
    
    if (!heli)
    {
        Print("Helicopter controller missing"); return;
    }
    
    heli.StartEngine();
}

};

What im trying to do is make it veer to the right and decened rapidly in a autohover style decend.

[tidal elm]

So I should inherit twice (VehicleControllerComponent -> JetControllerComponent -> SCR_JetControllerComponent), and this last one should work ?

[tidal elm]

I did tried that path, and still the same result

I also tried to inherit from the built-in "AirplaneControllerComponent", which crashed the editor during script validation and made the project impossible to load

And after that, I did go check out the R3DCore addon, just out of curiosity, and they did inherit from SCR_CarControllerComponent, so I'm assuming that it really is the only way to go to this date

[modern marlin]

Hi. For some context, I'm using client side modded SCR_MuzzleEffectComponent to detect shots from certain modded vehicles where normal server side approaches have not worked (eg most pilot operated guns in WCS tha don't raise the normal shot events on the server ). I use these for stats collection and it works fine. However, I've noticed that it is possible for multiple clients to report the same shots which i guess makes sense. the problem is that it is not easy to filter these as i can't get information about the vehicle /occupant who is shooting.
In order to filter out clients that aren't actually shooting, I need to be able to detect the vehicle that the muzzle effect is attached to, so i can then find the occupant. So far I have not worked out how to do this (I can get the owner of the SCR_MuzzleEffectComponent, but so far have not been able find an attached vehicle).
Can anyone tell me how I can find the related turret/vehicle (if this is even possible on the client side)?

[umbral spade]

Hello!
I have a strange error. If I add this code to a prefab and recompile the game, this error appears.

[BaseContainerProps()] class ARMST_ITEMS_REPAIR_COMPONENTS : GameComponent { [Attribute(ResourceName.Empty, UIWidgets.ResourcePickerThumbnail, desc: "Что спавнить", "et", category: "Repair")] protected ResourceName m_PrefabRepairs; }

I can add this ResourceName to any component and still get the same error.

There are no errors upon first launch. If I recompile the game, the item disappears from the world at launch, causing an inventory error, for example.

This code is not even used anywhere, it's just that because of the reference to ResourceName, the item disappears from the world after recompilation.

Maybe that's why? When I recompile the code, I get this error. If I run the tools without mods, it's the same.

[coarse bane]

just ignore

[tawny lotus]

I have a vehicle where I've added my own component. Player GM spawns the vehicle via GM entity browser. The GM player is looking in to certain direction (camera direction) and I can find this information in e.g. OnPostInit().

How can I store the camera direction (vector) in component for future use? Storing it in a member variable in OnPostInit() while on client side does not work.

What approach should I take?

[torn bane]

I believe this approach is flawed, because a GM can freely rotate the entity while placing in the ghost mode. Your camera perspective on it has little to do with it. the camera is fully local, a dedicated server does not know about where you are and what you look at specifically. If you absoletly need to you need to grab the information on your client and nicely ask the server to handle/broadcast it for you by sending an RPC to it via your own player controller. you can not send rpc from the vehicle, as you do not own it, the server does

[tawny lotus]

Thanks, makes sense and explains why RPC does not work.

I want GM to be able to spawn the vehicle and have the first waypoint towards the direction he is looking at. It is enough to know that we're looking 'north'. I turn the vehicle to that direction so I ignore any rotation the GM has done.

I need to send the information the other way around. I want server to know the camera direction when the vehicle was spawned. The direction to move to is vehicle origin towards the camera direction. Works perfectly in WB, but not when we have clients in the mix. 😕

[torn bane]

As I said, only the person who spawns it knows. So you need to hook into the placement process and grab the current camera info before the placement continues. Send it to server via your local player controller as new rpc you add there on a component. then on the server you can store the info. to apply on the next spawn. doing it on the entity post init might be too late because by then you can have already moved your camera.

In general this setup sounds strange and should not be something you do. If you want to auto setup something, use the direction the vehicle is facing, not the camera.

[tawny lotus]

Thanks for the time to respond. Using the vehicle direction is so much easier, so I'll change.

[amber moat]

Hello quick update, I made the image/video stream possible via base 64 encoding and endpoint decoding. Video is like 2 fps but it’s fine for what I’m trying to do now The images arrived intact at the webhook. 63.1 KB. 0.002 seconds.

[torn bane]

Brilliant. Now never show the code to anyone from the enfusion engine team so they do not die of shock. We need them alive.

[maiden goblet]

Sounds a bit silly hearing BI employees allude to code quality when Reforger is the least stable and most buggy piece of software I've ever played with

[torn bane]

Sir I am a programmer not a script writer, I am allowed to rant about them.

[amber moat]

😭😭😭

Thanks for the great advice btw!

[sonic forum]

Hey guys
Can you tell me how GetHealth works in HitZone? Limbs have HP, and if you add them all up, what's the character's HP? I can't figure it out.

[inland bronze]

You’ll want to get the characters Health hit zone for overall health. Can use “GetHitZoneByName(“Health”)” or “GetDefaultHitZone()”, I believe

[sonic forum]

I'm probably talking about something a little different.
The HitZone class has GetHealth.
And DamageManagerComponent has GetHealth.
The second one definitely displays the character's total HP, but what about the first one? Does it show HP from arms or just anything?

[inland bronze]

I believe the hit zone GetHealth() will show the default hit zone, which would be the health hit zone for a character, or a specified hit zone if you’ve casted to it

[full spindle]

So is the difference between modded and override in classes just that modded is for adding functionality/data while override is for method overrides?

Like modded works with multiple mods, but override overwrites the function?

[open pier]

Modded class can let you change base game functionality/a mods custom class functionality(so long as licensing allows it). Inheriting from a class should be used if you plan to make your own custom functionality.

Like I mod the base game inventory classes for logging.

[full spindle]

Yeah but what's the override keyword for?

I'm trying to change my classes to modded, and I haven't needed inheritance yet

For context most of what I'm doing is modifying another existing mod, not reusing it's components

[amber moat]

modded is about the class itself — how it integrates with other mods.
override is about individual functions inside that class — replacing specific behaviour.

[open pier]

Overrides are more for the functions themselves.

modded class SCR_ChimeraCharacter
{
   override void EOnInit(IEntity owner)
{
   // super will run the base class/inherited functionality
    super.EOnInit(owner);

    // do your custom functionality here
}
}

Looks trash since I'm on my phone but thats the basics

[full spindle]

Thank you, that is helpful

[river imp]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Scripting:_Keywords

[full spindle]

Oh that also explains why my own mod works now, I was using override on the class level, and at some point I swapped it for modded and it worked. gd

Well there's a time to learn everything

[river imp]

Well you kinda need to know how the scripting works before you can actually do it. Read everything you can about the topic on the wiki.

[primal vault]

How can i make certain lights pulse/flash?

[open pier]

Nah we dive in with no knowledge and 0 direction. Docs? Who's that?

[clever marlin]

from script

[minor agate]

EDoom renderer didnt kill them

So i dont think this will

[minor agate]

Think about it this way. Whatever you have could be way worse

And it is always positive to aim for higher quality regarless of the situation.

[amber moat]

Look at Cain library flickering light

[ocean kernel]

Overall modders do very well but the bar is pretty low considering y'all release updates that crash the game when a number goes from 999 to 1000

[wintry sable]

can somebody enlighten me please. I'm kinda at a loss here. Does reforger not have any server side capabilities? And the only thing I can do is REST APIs ? So any script kid can just rip the whole server + client at any point ? Like everybody forced to do an opensource project ?

sorry if this has been discussed before, haven't found the definitive answer to this

[torn bane]

You can put some capacity of code into scriptmodules and dynamically create them at runtime, but there are limitations with that and it is not worth the effort.

[wintry sable]

I see, thanks for the answer!

[elder wigeon]

Hey everyone, I've found a GM action to disarm heli rocket pods. Can anyone help to implement a script to apply this action to every spawned heli with pods?

Same as if I called it on a newly purchased heli, but automated

[red cedar]

#creators_recruiting

[elder wigeon]

I just need some guidance on my question, not someone to do it for me

[red escarp]

Custom ELightType not working with SCR_LightSlot and emissives. Script recognizes it, but no glow. Do I need to override something to register it?

modded enum ELightType
{
Age_test,
}

[fringe prairie]

Video encode from game and decode on browser or vice versa?

[fringe prairie]

Light enums are handled in engine so while you can add your own there is no code accessible to you to turn them on/off

[errant fog]

Hi.
Im looking for somewhere i can hook in and catch when an entity fires its weapon.
I am interested in catching from both player and AI entities.
Anyone know where i can do that?

[inland bronze]

I think the MuzzleEffectComponent on weapons has a OnFired() method, and a subsequent scriptinvoker in the SCR_MuzzleEffectComponent class.

Might be a better way, but that's from a quick symbol search in script editor

[dire sinew]

Much cleaner approach is the "OnProjectileShot" event handler on the character. Have a look at SCR_DataCollectorShootingModule::AddInvokers for an example on how it can be used.

[gloomy lynx]

make sure the material you want to glow isnt set to 0,0,0 on the emissive value (not LV) you want it to be 1,1,1 and then it will glow

[amber moat]

Encode in game, decode on the receiver side. Screenshot captured in Enforce Script, converted to base64 inside the engine, POSTed via REST to an endpoint. Receiver decodes the base64 back to PNG.

[fringe prairie]

Interesting, didn’t think you could send screenshot data from the game since it always crashed me on next frame

Please let me know how! Haha

[amber moat]

The trick is CallLater wait 1000ms after MakeScreenshot before you try to read the file. If you read it on the same frame it crashes. Give the engine time to finish writing first.

[primal vault]

Found it but changing color doesn't do anything.

[amber moat]

never played with that to be honest, just remmebered there was that light

[elder wigeon]

Does anyone knoe how to apply a script to a newly spawned helicopter? I can't find how to catch that new heli to attack a script to it

[pseudo merlin]

Somewhere here: SCR_EditableEntityComponent i think.

GM spawned?

[elder wigeon]

Purchased in a helipad

The idea is disarm all new spawned helis

I have a disarming script

But can't find how to apply it to a heli so that it's disarmed

Maybe there is a simpler way though

Adding this script to every heli prefab though migh be even wirse

[pseudo merlin]

Well shouldn't be that hard.
Simply check for example if the IEntity owner is a helicopter and if yes let it execute the script.
Maybe there is something more specific to helicopers/air vehicles, but this is the way i know of doing things like this.

[elder wigeon]

I'm not sure what would be the most crash/fail proof solution to spawn a heli in a specific condition, e.g. without rockets and ammo. Before now the prefabs were edited that way but it requires to edit every prefab

[tawny lotus]

I'm trying to spawn an entity flat on the XZ plane. Dropping it via GM aligns it to ground. I want to straighten it.

I've tried SetAngles(), SetYawPitchRoll(), SetWorldTransform() and then Update(). Nothing seems to have an effect on the orientation. What am I missing?

Doing this in OnPostInit and EOnInit has the same result.

[clever marlin]

vector it

[tawny lotus]

What?

[clever marlin]

have you tried EntitySpawnParams?

[ornate sonnet]

Not sure if this is the right place to post or not, but… I’m trying to inherit and edit EditorModeBuilding.et so that it calls custom prefabs for helipad compositions which have a subclass on them in place of SCR_CatalogEntitySpawnerComponent, so I can script my own additional cooldown timer for vehicle spawns. Only problem is: when I run it, the game continuously calls the GUID for the vanilla editormodebuilding prefab instead of my inherited one. Is there any way to make it call my inherited editormodebuilding prefab?

[calm sluice]

Can someone explain to me how i can get this variable out of eventhandlermanagercomponent, i need to check it in my sript when event raised but all i can find is just how to perform script when event raised and not how to get this bool out

[unique bolt]

I found a workaround for the editor stalls when working with large amounts of plugins in enfusion and opening the script editor -> That work around was to use VSCode with the enfusion plugin.

[tawny lotus]

Is there a GetSurfaceY() function that takes in to account any entities at that spot and returns the height including entity height?

[tough orbit]

New to scripting. Trying to add two new area types. I’m unable to inherit loadoutareatype I can only duplicate. Is this a thing or am I missing something?

[torn bane]

Not to my knowledge, but you could cast a ray from the sky downwards

[tawny lotus]

Ok. I succeeded with world.TraceMove().

[visual atlas]

how'd you fix this? also trying to turn on rcon in dedicated server tool

[graceful sleet]

Hi , I have a question about the loadoutinventory. I created a script to insert, for example, the helmet cover into the helmet slot. The script inserts the cover, but once inserted, I can't see it in the helmet storage, so I can't remove it. Do you know which script I need to modify? Or is it just a simple prefab setting?

[red cedar]

DStool doesn't listen to RCON you need to start arma reforger server on it's own as if you were hosting an actual server or get a server running and use it there

[torn bane]

I just ran a local dev server using this -config and could connect with battlewarden, though that tool is hard coded to use commands for older arma games so it is not as useful.

{
    "region": "EU",
    "publicAddress": "local",
    "publicPort": 2001,
    "game": {
        "name": "Arkensors little corner of fun",
        "passwordAdmin": "xxxxxxx",
        "scenarioId": "{68D1240A11492545}Missions/23_Campaign_HQC_Arland.conf",
        "visible": true,
        "gameProperties": {
            "fastValidation": true,
            "battlEye": false
        }
    },
    "rcon": {
        "address": "0.0.0.0",
        "port": 5001,
        "password": "xxxxxx",
        "permission": "admin"
    }
}

[visual atlas]

thanks for that tip. is it still not possible to combine this with local addons though? only way i've been able to get this to work is to publish my mod and add it to the config

[torn bane]

No

[visual atlas]

thanks

[wintry sable]

Is there a Format Document option like in VSC ? I see only Basic Code Formatter which just does something and don't really format anything for me

[pliant ingot]

You can open in vsc and format it)

[radiant robin]

Am I able to force a client to equip something in their hand through script? It seems no matter what I do it is getting blocked

Please ping me if you can help

[torn bane]

If the character is controlled by a player you must send them an RPC so they take it in their hand, you can not manipulate their storage from the server side sadly

[radiant robin]

hmmm I have been doing rpc. I am trying to achieve equip item > use item > put new item in inv > delete original item > put new item in hand as a way to replace an item the player is holding. I can do all of it except for the last part. I am not sure if gadgetManager.SetGadgetMode(newItem, EGadgetMode.IN_HAND); is what I should use but it will work in the workbench just not on a server.

[shrewd nova]

Call it from player controller

[inland bronze]

Trying to wrap my head around something.. I have a SCR_ScenarioFrameworkGet action that's supposed to pull an array of SCR_TaskExecutors from my missions entity in the world. It does so seemingly fine, so then I need to get the playerId and such from the SCR_TaskExecutorPlayer.
I'm able to pull the playerId, but GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayerControlledEntity(playerID); to get the character entity always returns null for a client-controlled entity.
What direction would I need to go in to fix it?

script is based originally on how SCR_ScenarioFrameworkGetArrayOfPlayers is set up

[torn bane]

A player is the player controller. It does not mean that when you ask it controls any character. The task executor could have an old player id inside too.

[sonic forum]

How can I trigger a custom effect? ​​It needs to be added to the DefaultPlayerController in the HUDManagerComponent, right?

[inland bronze]

Theoretically they should be controlling a character, as they’re only added to the main entity’s array if they have a gadget equipped, and removed when unequipped, etc.. And even in the case of testing with peer tool, when the peer definitely is controlling an entity and has that gadget equipped.

It’s recognized in everything prior to getting the controlled entity from player manager (which could just be a workbench issue, but it doesn’t work in a DS either, which is why I’m working on it)

Might be a little deeper than that though, thinking now, because I can’t get DS to print certain test prints I can get in peer tool

[tawny lotus]

I want to do things on player side when their GM view is open. I'm looking at SCR_EditorBaseEntity and related classes like SCR_EditorManagerEntity. I have a system that in Init() would do GetOnOpened() and GetOnClosed(). Works nicely in WB. With Peertool I can get the Init() to trigger in client side.

On the client side I just can't find SCR_EditorManagerEntity or SCR_EditorBaseEntity (...GetInstance() ). Returns null.

What entity should I look for?

Or should I have some other approach?

[pseudo merlin]

SCR_EditorManagerEntity is client side and override bool IsOpened() will trigger whenever GM U.I. is open.

Local for the GM client.

[sweet badger]

I found that when running sphere queries, if you delete found entities in the callback method, the query will fail to find unrelated entities that would otherwise have been detected.

int c = 0;
private bool AddEntity(IEntity e)
{
        c++;
        delete e; // c will be different if this line is removed
        return true;
}

GetWorld().QueryEntitiesBySphere(GetOrigin(), m_fRadius, AddEntity);
Print(i);

Without the deletion line, the game prints c=10, with the game prints only c=6.
The issue is not that I am deleting child entities, it's regular independent prefabs like trees or props that are not found! The entities that were not found do in fact remain in the game and are not deleted. I can reproduce this reliably.
It would seem that deleting entities during a sphere query can somehow prevent the query from working correctly. Is this a known issue?

[tawny lotus]

Thank you!

[torn bane]

As expected, if you delete while traversing the entity query structure you will not find the rest as it skips indicies. This is per design. The vanilla prefab deleter needs to be reworked for the same reason. Collect every entity you want to delete and do that. Also do not use delete keyword unless you are 101% sure the entity is not replicated. use the DeleteEntityAndChildren helper method instead

[sweet badger]

Ah, makes sense, thanks. I already use DeleteEntityAndChildren, just used delete for the simplified example.

[shrewd nova]

Ds tool / peertool does not perform like a live server. No matter how adamantly the devs say it does. It does not.

Best test results come from a actual dedicated server

[torn bane]

There are a few differences, it comes down to being server and client at the same time. RplProp callback methods for example wont he invoked - as documented - so if you don't write your logic accordingly it won't work. But neither would it if you host a server from main menu.

[sweet badger]

Also, one more thing since you mentioned the needed rework for the SCR_PrefabDeleter.
It uses a CallLater from EOnInit to delay the query. In my own entity deletion script, if I omit this delay, there will be a mismatch when clients join.
Is the CallLater delay sufficient for avoiding this, or is there also a better way, like using another event or waiting for something specific?

[torn bane]

No deleting until world post process event is raised. Afterwards it's safe

[inland bronze]

I still can't solve this. I've completely moved the entity script to a server-side WorldSystem, so that part has changed. But GetPlayerControlledEntity() continues to return null when there is clearly a character entity.

Anyone have an example I could look at?

[clever oxide]

in server side you need determine which player controlled entity

GetGame().GetPlayerManager().GetPlayerControlledEntity(playerID); is ok, always working in server side

[clever oxide]

i suggest print out varaibles and arrays step by step

[inland bronze]

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ll post my code in a moment and see what I could be missing

[scenic kernel]

I need some help,

I want to create an script that when you click on a button on the car, the smoke launchers of the car get fired.

I have the car with the switch already created and working, and connected to the script, but I don't know how to call the weapon's fire trigger..

(right now, script shows the weapon to be use on console).

(Smoke launchers were already working from turret, but we want to fire them from vehicle console panel).

Any help is really welcome.

Thanks

[inland bronze]

omfg I finally got it lol. Issue was because playerId was invalid, but only on DS, and not peer tool. Peer tool kept saying the playerId was fine when it wasn't. All my replication script I had was correct for getting the player controlled entity, it just wasn't correct (or missing, rather) for registering the playerId to the system

[ocean kernel]

relatable

[pseudo merlin]

I say forget about Peer Tool for a very long time.
ArmaServer.exe is always giving the best results.
I was pretty much in the exact same situation, where stuff worked in Peer but did not on Server.
When i found out it did not on Server i was already pretty far with all the stuff, so i had to start from scratch. 💀

[open pier]

So many things I've built that works in workbench but not on a DS. I've found the best way to test my stuff is uploading every patch and trying it on a test server in the same exact env as my main server

[solid hearth]

It's always recommended to stay away from peertool, 9 times out of 10 it's a trap. Though I have had some instances where DS or atleast the diag clients were a trap. Something could work perfectly fine on the diag client/server but the moment it went to a production environment it would crash

[tawny lotus]

Been there so many times. 😕

[inland bronze]

What's the best way to lock a storage container so nothing can be inserted? RequestUserLock() doesn't seem to do the trick, unless I'm using it wrong

Goal is to just prevent items from being inserted before calling for deletion of the entity

But if the player is already in the storage when it's called, seems to still allow inserting items which ultimately get deleted along with it

[shrewd nova]

Remove vicinity ability then gate the storage through An open storage action

It’s like ten lines

[inland bronze]

Gotcha, seems easy to do, just figured there'd be a specific method for it

[shrewd nova]

As far as I’ve seen I don’t think there’s vanilla stuff for that

[sweet badger]

What can cause BaseContainer::GetResourceName() to return an empty ResourceName string ('')?

It happened for instances of a particular but normal prop prefab that is placed in the map, it does not appear to have anything wrong with its resource name.

[shrewd nova]

Is the inventory manager blank? If it has one?

[sweet badger]

It's a regular vanilla prop, {CC66836BF4E211F9}Prefabs/Props/Military/Camps/Duckboard_01.et
I can get the BaseContainer successfully, but when I called GetResourceName(), it returned an empty string

[river imp]

How are you getting it to begin with?

[sweet badger]

Sphere Query finds the entity, GetPrefabData(), GetPrefab()

[river imp]

BaseContainer doesn't even have a function to get a prefab name.

Unless you're using a helper function

[sweet badger]

It does, via inhertitance from BaseResourceObject

[river imp]

ohh I missed that

Regardless, if you get the prefab data you can just get the resource name from it.

IEntity PrefabThing = GetGame().FindEntity("PrefabThing");
Print(PrefabThing.GetPrefabData().GetPrefabName());

[sweet badger]

Right, but I want to use the BaseContainer one because I'm also checking ancestor names

I also wouldn't be surprised if GetPrefabName has the same problem

[river imp]

it doesn't

using the base container, if it doesn't inherit from anything it doesn't return a resource name

[sweet badger]

I am not sure what you mean by this

This method works for all kinds of other props

[river imp]

Props that inherit from things

No inheritance

Just has a component prefab on it.

[sweet badger]

It has inheritance, you selected the component

[river imp]

oof

That's odd then.

[sweet badger]

And even if it didn't, GetResourceName should work regardless of that

[river imp]

IEntity PrefabThing = GetGame().FindEntity("PrefabThing");
BaseContainer BC = PrefabThing.GetPrefabData().GetPrefab();
Print(BC.GetResourceName());

That works for me.

[sweet badger]

I know, this works for me too, it's just that with this one particular entity it returns an empty string for some reason

[river imp]

The example i'm using is that prefab....

[sweet badger]

Maybe something else is interfering, I might do more testing tomorrow

[river imp]

After doing a few test, I am running into the same issue.

[inland bronze]

Trying to disable all actions on an entity, except ones matching a certain name, but calling SetActionEnabled_S(false) through server Rpc doesn't seem to make a difference, despite it being called on server (proven by prints).

Anybody else ran into this issue or see what I could be doing wrong?

[river imp]

Rpcs can only be sent to the server by the owner of the thing

Owner being the owning client not "GetOwner()"

OnBuriedStatusChange has to be called by the owner of the thing.

[inland bronze]

It is being set buried through a user action, which calls this from the action:

void SetIsBuried(bool buried)
{
    m_bIsBuried = buried;
    OnBuriedStatusChange();
    Replication.BumpMe();
}

so would it not be called from the owner, being the server...? Or am I mistaken?

The OnBuriedStatusChange() and SetIsBuried() is within the component of the entity

Also, in the original code posted, I get those prints in the server logs and not the client, wouldn’t that indicate the call is not being dropped by the server?

[magic pagoda]

Hello. I am not new to scripting or programming itself. Coming from 5 years of the gta modding community. I am having a bit hard time to understand how server/client work and how to write code. In the other games we usually have like separate client and server files and they communicate via events. Now in Enfusion looking at it seems like it’s all in the same c file. How do I approach this without it turning into a mess what’s client and server stuff. Thanks

[sweet badger]

If you haven't yet, I recommend watching the Bootcamp replication videos (https://youtu.be/asWxIIHT6d0?list=PLfUcrRpCM_fKjkTrkV-bqnknVbFCPA3YU) and looking at the Script API replication pages (https://community.bistudio.com/wikidata/external-data/arma-reforger/EnfusionScriptAPIPublic/pages.html).

[magic pagoda]

Oh okay thanks I will look! 👍 Btw in the enfusion is it possible to spin up a local host server + you as a client with separate consoles for server / client.

[sweet badger]

You can start both a local dedicated server and a listen (player hosted) server directly from the Workbench, using the Dedicated Server Tool and Peer Tool respectively.

[magic pagoda]

Okay cool! First day today when I found out about arma reforger and enfusion. So just trying to get some stuff into my head about basics. Didn’t see no extra console when I selected “Localhost server” . Perhaps could be that I haven’t got server package installed from steam.

(Selected it from the world editor or something at that play button in green)

[sweet badger]

Usually you don't select the "Server localhost" option, but the one with "+ PeerTool" which is first configured under Plugins->Settings->PeerTool.

If you want to start a proper dedicated server, which behaves differently in some ways, you can do it via Plugins->Dedicated Server Tool.

[magic pagoda]

Gotcha, good info. Yeah I was thinking it might be good test with a dedicated server as my mods I plan to create will be for mp servers.

And will be easier to debug if I get a console for server and one for the client. So I can actually know what is what.

For example a medical system. I think of it as having your own vitals always “synced”. But you wouldn’t need all the data from every other user unless you are interacting with him (treating or checking injuries for example). That’s at least how i would have done it on other platforms.

[river imp]

Why are you digging through the actions manager instead of just handling it from the action in CanBeShownScript or CanBePerformedScript?

You're making this way harder than it needs to be.

BuryableItemComp with RplProp on m_IsBuried, Action for Burying, Action for Unburying, Bury Action, (if it's not buried, show and allow performing) Unbury Action (if it is buried, show and allow perform), in the perform of both of those move the item (bury or unbury it) and then have the server toggle the m_IsBuried on the BuryableItemComponent.

[inland bronze]

Because I want to disable ALL actions when the entity is buried. I’ve already got the buried/unburied part handled. This is for when it is buried, and to not show any actions but the unbury action