Find stance of unit

[bangabob 45]

Hi. Im adapting a respawn script that spawns the player on a units position.

I have been trying this code to poll the stance of a unit... ("Middle", "up", "down")

_return = _unit1 call getStance;
hint format ["unit1 stance is %1",_return]; 

However, this script just returns the hint "any".

Maybe Arma 3 doesnt understand getstance yet because of the new stances implemented. Just wondering whether anyone has any ideas.

[bad benson 1733]

try this:

_return = stance _unit1;

always check the biki for correct syntax http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/stance

this will return "stand", "crouch" or "prone". there might be more but those came up after a short test.

"middle", "up" and "down" are the values returned by unitpos http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/unitPos

example:

_return = unitpos _unit1;

stance is a new command. i don't see how it's useful yet. maybe they will add more values for all the stances in between the major ones.

[R0T 1]

Try

_return = stance _unit1;

But im also new too this stuff so ....

Zzzz too late ;)

[bangabob 45]

Okay thanks.

So stance returns "stand", "crouch" or "prone".

But unitpos returns "auto". Which doesn't make any sense.

I would prefer to get unitpos working so i can use the _return to setunitpos eg.

_unit1 = (_this select 0);

_return = unitpos _unit1;
hint format ["%1 stance is %2",_unit1,_return];

s1 setunitpos _return;

But maybe there is similar command for stance eg.

_unit1 = (_this select 0);

_return = stance _unit1;
hint format ["%1 stance is %2",_unit1,_return];

s1 MISSING COMMAND _return;

---------- Post added at 17:46 ---------- Previous post was at 17:33 ----------

I have found a workaround

_unit1 = (_this select 0);

_return = stance _unit1;
hint format ["%1 stance is %2",_unit1,_return];


if (_return == "stand") then {_return = "up";};
sleep 0.02;
if (_return == "crouch") then {_return = "middle";};
sleep 0.02;
if (_return == "prone") then {_return = "down";};
sleep 1;

hint format ["%1",_return];
s1 setUnitPos _return;