Check Vehicle Ammo

[carlostex 38]

Hey guys i need to check a vehicle ammo so that i can save that value in a variable and then pass it on to the new respawned unit via setvehicleammo command. I was unable to find.

Is there any command that will return vehicle ammo value range from 0 to 1?

[sxp2high 23]

This should do.

_Magazines = magazines _Vehicle;

{ _Vehicle addMagazine _x } forEach _Magazines;

[twirly 11]

I've been looking at it.... and if sxp2high's code above doesn't work as you'd like.... then it gets more complicated with turrets, weapons, magazines etc.

EDIT: There's no command to get ammo amount from 0 to 1 as far as I know.... if you want to transfer the vehicles ammo to the respawned vehicle....that's when it gets messy!

Edited September 16, 2011 by twirly
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[carlostex 38]

The problem is i want the respawned unit to inherit the value of ammo set in the editor (the ammo slider). So yeah sxp2high's code does not work for me (thanks anyway).

My opinion is, if there is a setvehicleammo command there should be a getvehicleammo as well. These commands are and would be good to set generic values and you don't want to be too specific.

[twirly 11]

if there is a setvehicleammo command there should be a getvehicleammo as well.

Agreed....you'd think there would be!

[carlostex 38]

Agreed....you'd think there would be!

Another one we should have is setUnitSide. So we could do something like : this setUnitSide WEST

Maybe in Arma 3

[sxp2high 23]

What's wrong with my suggestion?

_Mags = magazines _Vehicle;

// wait until respawn...

if (count _Mags > 0) then { _Vehicle setVehicleAmmo 0; { _Vehicle addMagazine _x } forEach _Mags; } else { _Vehicle setVehicleAmmo 0; };

This is what magazines return for an Abrams if the slider is full:

And the slider at ~50%

[twirly 11]

What's wrong with my suggestion?

I don't think that will work for vehicles with multiple turrets. Try it on a UH 60-M chopper for instance.