waitUntil with sleep or just sleep?

[GuideZ 1]

I have a bunch of units lined up, and have them firing on a radio trigger. I would like to do something like:

Unit1 fire "m16a4"; sleep 2.0; Unit2 fire "m16a4"; sleep 2.0;

But both units fire at almost exactly the same time when I preview the mission. Do I have to export the mission in order to get the sleep functionality, or am I missing something? I also tried something like:

Unit1 fire "m16a4"; waitUntil {sleep 2.0; Unit1 fire "m16a4"}; Unit2 fire "m16a4";

As it stands right now, I have 8 units firing on separate radio commands. A little annoying.

Here is what I want my final outcome to be: I setup 8 units in a line, 50 meters between each one. I want them to fire three shots each, with the next unit firing only when the previous unit fires first.

[f2k sel 145]

this

null=[] spawn { Unit1 fire "m16a4"; sleep 2.0; Unit2 fire "m16a4"; sleep 2.0;}

or this where you can just add units to the array

null=[] spawn {{ _x fire "m16a4"; sleep 2.0;} foreach [uni1,unit2,unit3];}

[GuideZ 1]

Omnigosh, I had to lookup "spawn" to see what it does. I would have never guessed :p , I will give that code a try.

Spawn

"Starts running a new script (SQF). Additional arguments are passed in local _this variable.

*edit*

For those wondering, here was the final output:

null=[] spawn {{ _x fire MWeap; sleep 2.0; _x fire MWeap; sleep 2.0; _x fire MWeap; sleep 3.0;} foreach [Fire1,Fire2,Fire3,Fire4,Fire5,Fire6,Fire7,Fire8];}

Edited August 13, 2012 by GuideZ

[samatra 81]

Some script scopes don't allow use of sleep and will throw errors. If this is the case, then just wrap your code into spawn and it will work.