weaponslots help

[das attorney 858]

Sup

I'm writing a reloading script and at one point, the script needs to determine how many total slots for magazines the unit has. I'm currently doing this by the following method:

if (getNumber (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf _unit >> "attendant") == 1) then
{_total_slots_main = 8} else {_total_slots_main = 12};

if (getNumber (configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf _unit >> "attendant") == 1) then {
_total_slots_sec = 4;
} else {_total_slots_sec = 8};

This is great, but when I was testing the script in a mission the other night, I found that the US_Pilot_Light_EP1 has only 6 main magazine slots and also the Bonesetter in Takistani locals is a medic but has 12 slots in main inventory. I guess I could put an exception in for these units and use SWITCH DO but it seems a bit specific.

I want to find a method of determining the number of available slots for a unit based on it's config. Then the script would be compatible with any custom modded units too.

I was looking at the weaponSlots config entry, which determines what equipment a unit can carry, but I can't work out how to read/manipulate it so I can get the information out of it.

If I use:

diag_log format ["%1", getNumber(configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> "US_Pilot_Light_EP1" >> "weaponslots")];

then I get something like the following returned:

1.58266e+006

I don't know what this number is (integer perhaps??).

Also I tried:

diag_log format ["%1", getText(configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> "US_Pilot_Light_EP1" >> "weaponslots")];

which returns this string:

"1 + 4 + 6 * 256 + 2 * 4096 + 2 + 4* 16 + 12*131072"

I know the numbers I'm interested in are these:

"1 + 4 + 6 * 256 + 2 * 4096 + 2 + 4* 16 + 12*131072"

Which is primary mags and pistol/GP25/M203 slots.

I can do a bit with this, but I'm still stuck.

I wrote a little script to convert it to array, remove the spaces, + and * characters:

_weaponslots_text = getText(configFile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf player >> "weaponslots");
_weaponslots_chars = toArray _weaponslots_text;
_elements_to_erase = [32, 42, 43];
_na = _weaponslots_chars - _elements_to_erase;
_nas = toString _na;

and then I can return the _na and _nas values, but it hasn't helped. I get:

"[49,9,9,52,9,54,9,9,50,53,54,9,50,9,52,48,57,54,9,9,50,9,52,9,49,54,49,50,49,51,49,48,55,50]"

"1 4 6 256 2 4096 2 4 1612131072"

The problem is I can't look through the elements of _na because the main slots might be 12 on a different unit, which would throw everything else out after by one element. I don't really know much about reading and manipulating strings either so I'm stuck there too.

Has anyone got any ideas how I could manipulate the data in a better way. I've searched around but all of the threads I could find were concerning defining the slots and not taking data from them.

Thanks for reading.

Edited February 15, 2012 by Das Attorney

[thebarricade 7]

Could BIS_fnc_invSlots be of any use to you?

Although it takes a unit as an in-parameter I suppose the code could be adapted for your use...

It returns an array of slots [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

in this order:

#define WeaponSlotPrimary 1 // primary weapons

#define WeaponSlotHandGun 2 // HandGun

#define WeaponSlotSecondary 4 // secondary weapons

#define WeaponSlotHandGunItem 16 // HandGun magazines

#define WeaponSlotItem 256 // items

#define WeaponSlotBinocular 4096 // binocular

#define WeaponHardMounted 65536

#define WeaponSlotInventory 131072 // inventory items

[das attorney 858]

Thank you very much for your help. This works great :)

Just ran a test to reload a few units with different sized inventories and all working perfectly.