Where am I going wrong with "BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle"

[Chief_Wiggum 10]

This is what I have in "troopDrop.sqf"

_planeType = _this select 0;
_amountOf = _this select 1;
_startingPoint = _this select 2;
_wayPoint = _this select 3;


_planes = createGroup west;

for "_i" from 1 to 3 do {
_newPlane = [(getPos _startingPoint), 0, _planeType, _planes] call BIS_fnc_spawnVehicle;

};

hint format["%1",_newPlane];

I of course have placed a "functions" module onto the map and execute the code in the init field of a gamelogic that I have placed on the map and 100m in the air:

GAMELOGIC

this setPos [getPos this select 0, getPos this select 1, 100]; null = ["C130J_US_EP1",3,this,dropZone] execVM "troopDrop.sqf";

Yet, I get nothing.

Little help? trying to make the transition between sqf and sqs.

[shuko 45]

Function module takes a moment to be loaded/initialized.

To wait for it to be ready do this in your script before the function call:

waituntil {!isnil "BIS_fnc_init"};

[galzohar 28]

Might want to run -showScriptErrors parameter or look at your RPT file for errors.

[Chief_Wiggum 10]

Yeeeh, Im using that paramater, no script errors :).

Here's hoping that it is just becasue the function module isn't up to speed.

Tell me, what is the difference between preProcessFile and call and spawn etc. etc. etc. Isn't execVM a bit old school?

[shuko 45]

Spawn is same as execvm. Difference is that spawn takes code while execvm takes an eternal file.

Call is same as spawn, but doesn't create a new, separate, "thread" to run it in.

Preprocessfile just reads/loads a file into memory so it's ready to be compiled and executed.