Add objective during mission

[Antonoo 10]

Hello!

This is the setup:

Team is inserted to outside a building, they then proceed inside to find a map. When they are close to the map so that one may look at it I want an objective to be added. The objective will be to kill a Taliban Warlord in an area near. I want the objective to be added later because if the players had the objective marker on the map earlier they might as well just go there and complete the mission.

Ive searched and I found a guy being pointed to taskmaster 2 because he wanted to do what I do, but I dont really understand it. Would appreciate the most simplest way to do this but if there isnt any please help me by making a stepbystep tutorial kind of I am very new to mission editing so bear with me :)

[Craig_VG 20]

Hey Antonoo, welcome!

A simple way of doing that is having a trigger by the map so when the person is close to the map the trigger will fire and the task will be created.

To create the task use this: OFPEC tutorial by Mikey

It is fairly simple and straightforward (and how I learned how to use tasks). You don't have to create all your tasks in the briefing. I create them on the fly in most of my missions.

Edited February 27, 2011 by bobtom

[Antonoo 10]

Hello bobtom!

Thank you for answering so quickly and giving me the answer I was looking for. I will come back if it doesnt work or if I have any other questions! :) Thank you so much!

One last question though: Is there any way to change the task marker? Instead of having a Circle with a ! can I have for example a Red X? How do I change this?

EDIT: Its not working. Im using this:

tskExample3 = player createSimpleTask ["Task Title 3"];tskExample3 setSimpleTaskDescription ["nje", "nje", "nje"];tskExample3 setSimpleTaskDestination (getMarkerPos "Obj3");

But it says briefing.sqf not found when I run over the trigger.

Edited February 27, 2011 by Antonoo

[Craig_VG 20]

As far as I know the only way to change that is to set it as failed/succeeded/assigned/etc. I don't know of any other way to change the icon besides that, but there may be one.

[Antonoo 10]

Nevermind got it to work thank you so much!

Edited February 28, 2011 by Antonoo