How to refer to/modify pre-placed buildings on a map (Chernarus)

[maturin 12]

To make a long story short, I want to prevent the player from demolishing the hospital in Berezino. It is an unrealistically fragile building amongst very durable apartment buildings that lack wreck models, and I don't want bits of it falling off for gameplay reasons.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

[marker 1]

Possibly place a couple of protections zones over it?

Search for protectionzone_ep1 and a few threads will show you what to do..

[qbt 10]

Sure! Take a look at these commands:

allowDamage

enableSimulation

When you disable the simulation of the object, no damage values will be broadcasted over the network and allowDamage will stop the building from taking any damage at all. You can get the object with the command nearestObject.

Here's an example:

_objHospital = (getPosATL player) nearestObject [i]<id>[/i];
_objHospital allowDamage false;
_objHospital enableSimulation false;

You can get the object id in the editor by clicking the "IDs"-button on the right and zooming in to a building. In this case, the ID of the hospital in Berenzino is 261904.

[A-SUICIDAL 11]

You could also do this:

Place a "Game Logic" on the hospital.

Class: Locations

Unit: Location

And put this in the init:

hospital = (position this nearestobject 261904); hospital addEventHandler ["HandleDamage", {false}];

[maturin 12]

Works like a charm. This community will really spoil you sometimes!