magazines array

[SilverRanger 11]

I'm having some trouble understanding why the magazines command returns an array that doesn't seem to function properly. I'm writing a small script that needs to count the number of a specific magazine, but the magazines array, while formated properly, doesn't seem to work

I did a quick search in the forums but couldn't find any relevant posts so I wrote this script to test it

_magazines = magazines player
hint format ["%1",_magazines]
_handgrenades = "handgrenade" count _magazines
_string = format ["%1",_handgrenades]
cuttext [_string,"plain down",1]
~1
? "handgrenade" in _magazines : hint "player has handgrenades"

the hint box correctly shows all magz the player holds, but the _string returns a 0 even though the player has handgrenades on him. in _magazines doesn't seem to work either

am I doing something wrong? is there a workaround to this problem?

[ProfTournesol 956]

Well, if you just wanna count and display the number of handgrenades, just try :

_handgrenades = "handgrenade" count magazines player
~1
if (_hangrenades != 0) then {call format [{titletext ["player has %1 handgrenades","PLAIN"]}, _hangrenades]}
exit

If you prefer a hint, then :

_handgrenades = "handgrenade" count magazines player
~1
if (_hangrenades != 0) then {hint format ["player has %1 handgrenades", _hangrenades]}
exit

[SilverRanger 11]

my problem is not how to display the result, but the result itself

"handgrenade" count magazines player returns 0

[ProfTournesol 956]

Ha yes, of course, this works :

{_x == "handgrenade"} count magazines player 

[SilverRanger 11]

you my friend are a god damn genius! :notworthy: it worked! :D

however, I now have a more disturbing problem... when I throw all my handgrenades, the script still returns 1! oddly enough, it returns 0 if I just drop them :(

_magazines = magazines player
hint format ["%1",_magazines]
_handgrenades = {_x == "handgrenade"} count _magazines 
_string = format ["%1",_handgrenades]
cuttext [_string,"plain down",1]

any thoughts?

[faguss 65]

That's how magazines command work. Last mag stays in the array.

You can combine it with player ammo "throw" but that will only work with CWC weapons.

[SilverRanger 11]

I have already considered the ammo command, but it's not reliable for my purpose

the "throw" weapon uses both handgrenades and smokeshells as mags so if you have 0 handgrenades and 1 smokeshell, the script will return 1 and 1, while "throw" ammo player will return 1.

I need a way to tell if the given unit is carrying more handgrenades or more smokeshells. I already wrote a simple config to add two separate throw weapons (1 for grenades and 1 for smokeshells), but I now need to add more grenade types and I really don't want to be adding more throw weapons for each new type...

[robertoHrvat 10]

I have one ammo command

#magazines
_magazines = magazines player
_m16a2 = {_x == "M16"} count _magazines 
_string = format ["%1",_m16a2]
cuttext [_string,"plain down",1]
titletext ["      you have    M16 magazines","plain down",1]   
~4.44
goto "magazines";

IMPORTANT!!!

don't change nothing in this code, if you wanna use them!