setGroupID in multiplayer?

[galzohar 31]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setGroupId

To save myself some nasty multiplayer testing, does anyone know if setting this is synchronized on all machines (in which case I still need to know which machine to run it on), or if I need to run this on every machine for the command to take effect?

Thanks.

[neokika 62]

Global arguments and local effect, I've updated the wiki info!

[SavageCDN 231]

I've actually been fiddling with this recently and the custom id does show on dedi with me connected as client.. but I guess the real test is for >1 players. Also note the colour parameter does nothing :p

[galzohar 31]

Are you running the command in init line (= runs for all machines, but not always due to some bugs with init lines in some situations), or on an if (isServer) then {...} block?

[SavageCDN 231]

I am running it in group leader's init line... but I would think the other way would work as well as long as you name the group first?

[cuel 25]

If there's no leader it won't run, set the same init for all grouped units

[SavageCDN 231]

How could there not be a leader? I thought even individual units were considered 'groups'? So a one-man group is still a group and has a leader (the one man)? Or have I not had enough coffee yet today?

[cuel 25]

You're correct on that one, but I was talking about if the group leader unit placed in the editor was not selected during role selection when the mission started.

To clarify, use:

(group this) setGroupID ["ALPHA-1"];

for each unit in the squad

ARMA will still assign a number after the group ID IIRC.

[SavageCDN 231]

ok that makes sense now :p Thanks that is good to know.

So in your example it should be displayed as ALPHA-1-1 correct? (assuming we had selected the leader)

[cuel 25]

Yes, for example

(group this) setGroupID ["ALPHA-ACTUAL"];

Woud look like:

ALPHA-ACTUAL 1 (Cuel) : "Hello"

In sidechat.

[TRIUMF 1]

me too interesed

[whiztler 137]

Global arguments and local effect, I've updated the wiki info!

So the setGroupID needs to be applied on all connected clients including the server. If you have 50 players (30 groups) and you run below script on/after mission init this will create a lot of net traffic. Is there a better way?

Ps. I do not want to set the groupID in the units init in the editor.

{[[myGroup,["myCallSign"]],'setGroupID',true,true] call BIS_FNC_MP;} forEach Units myGroup;

Edited April 17, 2015 by whiztler