Can't count civilians with ALICE placement?

[JacobJ 10]

Hey all

I have made a trigger with civilians present and repeatable. This trigger covers a village. I have ALICE placed in the village and only in that village.

When I make a call for how many civilians there is present in the trigger I get 71, but there is only 35 civilians, 5 wreaks and some SLIVE cars.

This is what I use to call the count:

_pop = civilian countSide list countzone;

hint str _pop;

I have found a script that seems to do what I want, but it only works on civilians you place in the editor and not the once generated by ALICE.

Here is the script(s):

civ_init.sqf

/*
trigger act by Civilians Present

nul = [thisList, side] execVM "nokillciv\civ_Init.sqf";

side = WEST, EAST
*/

private
[
"_civLista"
];


_civLista = _this select 0; // list of all civilians
RAF_KilledBySide = _this select 1; // side which count the kills

{
if (_x isKindOf "civilian") then 
{
	_x AddEventHandler ["killed", {nul= _this execVM "nokillciv\CountKilledCiv.sqf";}];

};

} forEach _civLista; 

cyw = 0;  

Countkilledciv.sqf:

private

[
"_killerSide", "_side"
];

_side = RAF_KilledBySide;

_killerSide = side (_this select 1);

if (_side == _killerSide) then {
cyw = cyw + 1;

};

Is there another way to display how many civilians there is in the town or even in the whole map (because I have no other civilians in the mission and I dont have ALICE in other towns)?

/Jacob

[roguetrooper 2]

Is there another way to display how many civilians there is in the town or even in the whole map (because I have no other civilians in the mission and I dont have ALICE in other towns)?

Whole map:

_center = position objectName / or [x,y,z];
_distance = 500;
_amount = 0;
_side = civilian;

{ if ((alive _x) and (side _x == _side)) then { _amount = _amount + 1 } } forEach allUnits;

hintsilent format ["%1: %2", _side,_amount];

Within an area with _center as center:

{ if ((_x distance _center <= _distance) and (alive _x) and (side _x == _side)) then { _amount = _amount + 1 } } forEach allUnits;

hintsilent format ["%1: %2", _side,_amount];

Concerning a limited area, you could place a trigger on the map (Activation: once, Condition: true, without any functions), give it a name (= _center) and the radius/area (= _distance) you are looking for. So you can see directly within the editor the area that is searched for civilians.

For creating civilians in a town, I use my own scripts, such as:

if !(isServer) then { exit };

_amount = paramsArray select 11;
if (isNil _"amount") then { _amount = _this select 0 };
if (_amount <= 0) then { goto "end" };

_possible1 = ["TK_CIV_Takistani01_EP1","TK_CIV_Takistani02_EP1","TK_CIV_Takistani03_EP1","TK_CIV_Takistani04_EP1","TK_CIV_Takistani05_EP1","TK_CIV_Takistani06_EP1"];
_possible2 = ["TK_CIV_Woman01_EP1","TK_CIV_Woman02_EP1","TK_CIV_Woman03_EP1"];
_possible3 = ["TK_CIV_Worker01_EP1","TK_CIV_Worker02_EP1"];
_possible  = [] + _possible1 + _possible2 + _possible3;

_number = 0;
_radius = 225;
_pos    = position wpc1;
_grp    = group dummy_civ;
_skill  = 0.2;
_rank   = "private";
_form   = "NONE";

#start

_number = _number + 1;
_type   = _possible select (random ((count _possible)-1));
_name   = format ["civ%1",_number];
_name   = _grp createUnit [_type, _pos, [], _radius, _form];
_name setdir random 360;
[_name] joinSilent grpNull;
[_name,wpc1,225,"MOVE"] exec "waypoints.sqf";

_name addEventHandler ["Killed", {[_this select 0,_this select 1] exec "civkilled.sqf"} ];

removeallweapons _name;
_name removebackpack;
_name setcombatmode "blue";
_name setbehaviour "careless";
_name setunitpos "up";
_name setspeedmode "limited";
_name allowfleeing(random 0.25)
_name setskill _skill;
if ( random(100) < 10 ) then { _name setspeedmode "normal" };

if (_number < _amount) then { goto "start" };

#end
deletevehicle dummy_civ;
exit;

waypoints.sqf:

_man    = _this select 0;
_grp    = group _man;
_pos    = position (_this select 1);
_radius = _this select 2;
_type   = _this select 3;

if ((isNil "_man") or (isPlayer _man)) then { exit };

_array = [];
_wps   = 30;
for "_x" from 1 to _wps do { _array = _array + [_x] };

{ wp = _grp addWaypoint [_pos,_radius]  } forEach _array;
{ [_grp, _x] showwaypoint "never"  } forEach _array;
{ [_grp, _x] setWaypointType _type } forEach _array;
[_grp,_wps] setWaypointType "CYCLE";

#end
exit;

This is just an example. So I can create an variable and desired amount of civilians in a definable area around a definable center. They all move in a realistic and civilian way (pedestrian walks and such) randomly through the town. This makes a town realistically inhabited. To make it work, you need a civilian placed anywhere in the editor with the name "dummy_civ" (my example). It gets deleted when all civilians are created. This example creates civilians around an object (invisible helipad or gamelogic or sth like this) in a radius of 225 meters. Each civilian walks his/her own ways within a radius of 225 around the center.

Edited April 15, 2011 by RogueTrooper

[JacobJ 10]

Okay, that is one cool script you got there. Very nice! I will defenetly use this in my mission now. Thank you very much!