Group activated sidechat, not unit activated

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

I know how to use sidechat, but I'm looking to find out how to make a group in general activate the sidechat speech.

For example, I have a group leader named marine1 with trigger:

marine1 sidechat "test";

but when he dies, the trigger will still be activated, but since marine1 is dead sidechat doesn't appear. Is there a way to make the group in general instead of just marine1 start sidechat?

[kylania 568]

I can't imagine that being a good thing... group AI radio spam is bad enough and I'm at a loss to think of a situation where your entire side would want to hear that your AI guys don't know where you are or that they are READY.. READY.. READY.. REA-WHERE ARE YOU? over and over.

Why would AI units be saying anything to SIDE? If it's "HQ" messages there are method for that already.

[shuko 59]

Why not use:

(leader myMarineGroup) sidechat "hi"

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

I used that:

(marine1 Raider 1) sidechat "hi";

But it gives a popup saying "Missing )" so I put ) where it asks and it didn't work.

I also tried:

(marine1 ["Raider 1"]) sidechat "hi";

[shuko 59]

Hmm...

Put this in the init field of each group member:

gRaider = group this; gRaider setgroupid ["Raider"]

then you can do this:

(leader gRaider) sidechat "hi"

And it will print:

Raider 1: hi

or if leader has died:

Raider 2: hi

[Devil Dogs SF 13]

Thanks, that works great.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Or you could place a unit far away from the batlefield and let him do the talking. That's how i do it with planes or single units to ensure that the sidechat appears even if they somehow died.

[ziiip 1]

Can I ask something related? I want a unit called HQ say something, but in sidechat, his name wont appear, only this 1-1-B thing. Also, how do you make multiple "entries" in the chatting? Just place the following messages with triggers that have timeout?

Edited July 25, 2010 by ziiip

[kylania 568]

Just place the following messages with triggers that have timeout?

Yup, or a Gamelogic with waypoints.

[IndeedPete 1038]

Yup, or a Gamelogic with waypoints.

Or for large conversations you could use a script.

To give a unit a name which shows up in conversations add this to its init line:

group this setGroupId ["HQ"];

[ziiip 1]

Hey thanks. :D Didnt expect any answer in the middle of the night. :D

BtW: where did you read all these fancy init commands?

Edited July 26, 2010 by ziiip

[kylania 568]

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_ArmA2

Not all of them work in inits, but that's all of them :)