Random loot spawning woes.

[sasij 1]

Trying to get random loot to spawn in buildings at a random position in the building. The script works in the form of spawning in the loot just fine when I don't have it set to pick a random spot in the building. Hard to explain so I'll just show my simplistic code and hope somebody can give em a good slap in the face at whatever obvious mistake I'm making. If I uncomment the setPos line which sets position according to _i which is just 0,1,2,3 etc the code works fine and will spawn items in the first 4 spots on the building. If I try using the setPos using a random number from the building positions count it doesn't work properly. I will run into buildings and sometimes see a loot pile. Most of the time I see none then I change the one line and see all my loot piles. Sorry for babbling, to the code then..

_buildings    = [List of building classes...];
_loot_weapons = [List of gun classes...];
_loot_ammo    = [List of ammo classes...];
_posCount   = 0;
_max 	    = 4;
_total_loot = 0;

_nearObjects = nearestObjects [[10000,10000,0], _buildings, 20000];


{
while {format ["%1", _x buildingPos _posCount] != "[0,0,0]"} do 
{
	_posCount = _posCount + 1
};

_i = 0;
while {_i<_max} do
{
	_pos           = floor(random _posCount);
	_rand_w        = floor(random (count _loot_weapons-1));
	_rand_a        = floor(random (count _loot_ammo-1));
	_gun_loot      = _loot_weapons select _rand_w;
	_ammo_loot     = _loot_ammo    select _rand_a;
	_spawnedObject = createVehicle ["GroundWeaponHolder", [0,0,0], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
	_spawnedObject addWeaponCargoGlobal [_gun_loot,1];
	_spawnedObject addMagazineCargoGlobal [_ammo_loot, 3];
	//_spawnedObject setPos (_x buildingPos _i);
	_spawnedObject setPos (_x buildingPos _pos);
	_total_loot    = _total_loot+1;

	_i = _i+1;
};

sleep 0.1;
}forEach _nearObjects;

hintC format["Spawned %1 Loot Piles.", _total_loot];

---------- Post added at 01:30 ---------- Previous post was at 23:38 ----------

Oops I forgot to reset _posCount to 0 each iteration of the array. Well I guess that solves that.

[XSOF - Toxx 10]

There's a semicolon missing btw:

while {format ["%1", _x buildingPos _posCount] != "[0,0,0]"} do 
{
	_posCount = _posCount + 1
};

[cobra4v320 27]

There's a semicolon missing btw:

while {format ["%1", _x buildingPos _posCount] != "[0,0,0]"} do 
{
	_posCount = _posCount + 1
};

You wouldnt need a semicolon there.

[-huviline- 10]

Hi!

Very nice script sasij.

I'm not overly familiar with arma scripting but trying to learn some just to create some missions for myself.

I used the script to spawn in stuff with a trigger when player gets near some building, but how would one despawn the stuff after the player leaves the area?

Any help appreciated.

[-huviline- 10]

Ok after about ten hours I got it working. Just for whoever is intrested.

I execute the script with trigger. To the triggers OnAct. field i write _null = [trigger1] execVM "lootspawn.sqf";

trigger1 is the name of the trigger. I use the name to clear the area of spawned loot when player leaves the area. Basicalli just added the code:

_mytrigger = _this select 0;

waitUntil { ( player distance _mytrigger ) > 30};

_objektid = nearestObjects [ _mytrigger , ["GroundWeaponHolder"], 50 ];
{deletevehicle _x} forEach ( _objektid );