How do you remove nightvision goggles from a unit

[Rossrox 10]

Okay, so really enjoying the alpha, doing some mission editing, but I cannot remove the night vision goggles from the OpFor units.

I placed this removeweapon "NVGoggles"; in the init sections of the units, but it does not work, I can only assumed that its not a weapon anymore, or the classname has changed.

What am I doing wrong!?:mad:

[Ryousuke 1]

Have you tried removeheadgear?

[Rossrox 10]

Placing removeHeadgear unit; in an OpFors init?

Does not work, on its own at least.

Do I need to change the unit variable?

[tonic-_- 53]

To remove NVG's for a unit via editor you put in their init field:

this unassignItem "NVGoggles";

this removeItem "NVGoggles";

You must first unassign an item that is in use by the unit before you can remove it.

[Rossrox 10]

To remove NVG's for a unit via editor you put in their init field:

this unassignItem "NVGoggles";

this removeItem "NVGoggles";

You must first unassign an item that is in use by the unit before you can remove it.

You absolute legend.

[Orion987 1]

Great find! Thanks Tonic. I tried using the removeGoggles script but that didn't work at all.

[nedley 10]

On a similar note: How to remove optics!

this unassignitem "optic_Arco"; this removeweapon "optic_Arco" does not work

[tonic-_- 53]

On a similar note: How to remove optics!

this unassignitem "optic_Arco"; this removeweapon "optic_Arco" does not work

The optic's are not considered as a weapon, they are a item. All attachments, clothing, headgear, backpacks, vests are all items. If you wanted to remove the attachments / optics you use the following format:

    this removeItemFromPrimaryWeapon "optic_acro";

[Walsh.D 0]

Ah, was struggling with this for awhile now, thanks Tonic :)

[reclusive7 10]

this unassignItem "NVGoggles"; this removeItem "NVGoggles";

[AnGeLo 1]

guys i make 1 mission and i want to play in the night without nv googles and in my waepon flashlight so i add in all players init this unassignItem "NVGoggles"; this addPrimaryWeaponItem "acc_flashlight"; and work good but if i die and i make respawn the waepon return to deafault and i have again nv and no flashlight :( so what i need to do anyone can help here??? this probelm is in arma 3

[HKFlash 9]

The optic's are not considered as a weapon, they are a item. All attachments, clothing, headgear, backpacks, vests are all items. If you wanted to remove the attachments / optics you use the following format:

    this removeItemFromPrimaryWeapon "optic_acro";

What about adding the Item? addItemForPrimaryWeapon?

EDIT: Found it. addPrimaryWeaponItem

Edited March 22, 2013 by HKFlash

[rtek 10]

I went through each individual opfor soldier i put down and put in the script. How do I remove nvg's from soldier put down in a Site? You know, the ones we can't see in the editor but spawn in because there's a site there. I tried to put in the init but there's not enough space for the whole script.

[tonic-_- 53]

I went through each individual opfor soldier i put down and put in the script. How do I remove nvg's from soldier put down in a Site? You know, the ones we can't see in the editor but spawn in because there's a site there. I tried to put in the init but there's not enough space for the whole script.

Something like this on mission start via init.sqf

{
if(side _x == east) then
{
	_x unassignItem "NVGoggles";
	_x removeItem "NVGoggles";
};
} foreach (allUnits);

Change east to whatever side it is.

[headswe 17]

If they are spawned from a site, add a small sleep for a second or two otherwise it might become a issue where the code is run before the units are spawned in.

[rtek 10]

I'll try that.

How do I add a small sleep? Not sure I follow what you mean.

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Something like this on mission start via init.sqf

{
if(side _x == east) then
{
	_x unassignItem "NVGoggles";
	_x removeItem "NVGoggles";
};
} foreach (allUnits);

Change east to whatever side it is.

What do I put if I want to remove nightvision from all opfor on the entire map? Do I have to put this script 5 times for N, E, S, W, and Center?

I've copy/pasted this into my init.sqf and went in to see, but it doesn't work. It did however, remove the nightvision from my character I was using to move around, but all the A.I. from the site had their night vision. I just want to assign this removing of nvgoggles to the sites. There has to be a way.

I wish it was as easy as putting in Remove all nightvision from all opfor; and it actually work.

Edited June 30, 2013 by RTEK

[kylania 568]

That code you quoted does exactly that, removes all the NVGoggles from all east units on the map. Note that "east" refers to OPFOR/Red/TheBadGuys and not "units on the east side of the map".

Make sure your init.sqf isn't

which might explain why it wasn't working for you.

[RushHour 11]

To remove NVG's for a unit via editor you put in their init field:

this unassignItem "NVGoggles";

this removeItem "NVGoggles";

You must first unassign an item that is in use by the unit before you can remove it.

I tried this but it won´t work. I´m on Dev Build.

http://i.imgur.com/0FDwraL.jpg (167 kB)

Edit: i found it, turns out you need to specify the fact that you are an independent......brilliant stuff..

Here is the code for Independents removing NV Goggles.

this unassignItem "NVGoggles_INDEP";

this removeItem "NVGoggles_INDEP";

Edited September 2, 2013 by RushHour

[kylania 568]

You can now use this:

this unlinkItem "NVGoggles_INDEP";

To unassign and remove at the same time.

[Von Quest 1163]

...and now OPFOR is: "NVGoggles_OPFOR";

[phil671 12]

...and now OPFOR is: "NVGoggles_OPFOR";

Thank you for the trick , adding OPFOR ............

But regarding BLUE this is not needed, correct?

[tmp95 16]

To remove NVG's for a unit via editor you put in their init field:

this unassignItem "NVGoggles";

this removeItem "NVGoggles";

You must first unassign an item that is in use by the unit before you can remove it.

Thank you for this! - Also, if I put this into the Group leaders init field (will it remove NVGs from all men within his unit? or do I need to do it for each individual man?) Thanks again

[kylania 568]

Each unit.

[phil671 12]

Thanks,

[tmp95 16]

Something like this on mission start via init.sqf

{
if(side _x == east) then
{
	_x unassignItem "NVGoggles";
	_x removeItem "NVGoggles";
};
} foreach (allUnits);

Change east to whatever side it is.

Excellent - So this is the quickest way to set all OpFor units to having no NVG. Thank you!