Scripting Discussion (dev branch)

[killzone_kid 1331]

I'll take that as a 'no' then.

Is it even in game?

 

Cheers

It's a YES! https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers/addMissionEventHandler#PlayerViewChanged

[Grumpy Old Man 3546]

It's a YES! https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers/addMissionEventHandler#PlayerViewChanged

Player view changes when player is changing body

Wouldn't that be PlayerBodyChanged EH then?

Bohemia really nailed it with their naming conventions this time...

 

And there I thought we could get an eventhandler that triggers when changing the CAMERA VIEW from gunner to third person/first person etc.

 

A man can only dream.

 

Cheers

[killzone_kid 1331]

Wouldn't that be PlayerBodyChanged EH then?

Bohemia really nailed it with their naming conventions this time...

 

And there I thought we could get an eventhandler that triggers when changing the CAMERA VIEW from gunner to third person/first person etc.

 

A man can only dream.

 

Cheers

No it is about view change so the name is correct. Body change leads to player view (what player sees) change

[.kju 3245]

Does selectPlayer not trigger it?

[commy2 188]

So when does the event handler come that fires when the player changes the actual view and how will it be named? (GUNNER -> INTERNAL -> EXTERNAL etc.)

[killzone_kid 1331]

Does selectPlayer not trigger it?

It should

[killzone_kid 1331]

So when does the event handler come that fires when the player changes the actual view and how will it be named? (GUNNER -> INTERNAL -> EXTERNAL etc.)

CameraSwitched perhaps

[inlesco 233]

CameraSwitched perhaps

You mean PlayerCameraSwitched? Thus, we get to know the entity this is being triggered on.

[killzone_kid 1331]

You mean PlayerCameraSwitched? Thus, we get to know the entity this is being triggered on.

No idea TBH, I was referring to switchCamera command https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/switchCamera

[commy2 188]

The load(Abs) commands seem to be broken. They count loaded magazines twice. Extreme example:

// getUnitLoadout player
// loadAbs player

// no PCML missile
[[],["launch_NLAW_F","","","",[],[],""],[],[],[],["B_AssaultPack_rgr_LAT",[]],"","",[],["","","","","",""]]
120

// 1 PCML missile in backpack
[[],["launch_NLAW_F","","","",[],[],""],[],[],[],["B_AssaultPack_rgr_LAT",[["NLAW_F",1,1]]],"","",[],["","","","","",""]]
200

// 1 loaded PCML missile
[[],["launch_NLAW_F","","","",["NLAW_F",1],[],""],[],[],[],["B_AssaultPack_rgr_LAT",[]],"","",[],["","","","","",""]]
280

[Senfo 28]

Can we have a "removeMagazines" for Containers? or like I mentioned earlier get/setContainerLoadout (Container variant of get/setUnitLoadout)

With the bug that Weaponholders are deleted as soon they have no inventory, even if added afterwards, its just really annonying and needs a hugh workaround

(read all inventory then manipulate the read data, then remove the old inventory stepwise to not get the WH deleted and add everything back)

[commy2 188]

Seems like such a simple thing is still to complicated. If only Arma were open source this could've been fixed years ago and without much effort to be honest.

[Senfo 28]

Well they have got time for so many things, but the most basic seems to be too "lame"
which is understandable... kind of

however, either the weaponholder cleanup needs to get fixed or one of the said commands needs to be implemented

I would prefer both, but the commands over the bugfix tbh

[commy2 188]

Are we allowed to delete blatantly false comments on the scripting wiki?

 

E.g. this comment from disat:

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

 

>This command returns a PositionAGL. Apparently, Position and PositionAGL are the same thing.

 

getPos reports AGLS, not AGL. He left the same comment on setPos and there exists this misconception that setPos and getPos actually use the same reference system for the z-axis, which they don't. A clean wiki could avoid such misconceptions.

 

 

[killzone_kid 1331]

1 hour ago, commy2 said:

Are we allowed to delete blatantly false comments on the scripting wiki?

 

E.g. this comment from disat:

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

 

>This command returns a PositionAGL. Apparently, Position and PositionAGL are the same thing.

 

getPos reports AGLS, not AGL. He left the same comment on setPos and there exists this misconception that setPos and getPos actually use the same reference system for the z-axis, which they don't. A clean wiki could avoid such misconceptions.

 

 

 

Of course you can remove or edit incorrect or misleading information on the wiki. The game evolves and what once being true might not be any more. If not sure, you can always start Talk on the subject in question on wiki instead of posting this here.

As it stands I removed that old comment.

[haleks 8212]

Hi guys!

I'm currently reviewing event handlers, trying to make a list of those that persist after a respawn, and found a somewhat strange behaviour.

 

The "AnimDone" EH is persistent and will apply to a respawned player, but it will also keep firing constantly on previous corpses. Is that intended behaviour? I can't see any reason to keep an EH active on a dead entity.

[commy2 188]

They all persist after respawn in Arma 3 and they stay on the corpse too, although "Respawn" and "Killed" obviously won't be triggered again.

[haleks 8212]

Oh boy, you spared me a lot of time. I guess the wiki descriptions could use an update on this.

[road runner 4344]

The last few updates seem to have broken the transport unload waypoint, using a trigger to eject everyone in your team, I have a helo cast mission by Myncok, that works perfect on stable build, he created a simple helo cast just now for me, that worked perfect for him on stable, but it will not work for me, on Vanilla no mods, 32 or 64 bit on dev build.

Even the Parascript from Beerkan using "eject" doesn't work any longer on dev build, has anyone else face similar issues?

[bad benson 1733]

nvm.

 

[bad benson 1733]

is it intended behaviour that the "loaded" mission EH is not firing after the game is fully restarted and you resume a mission from the last save?

 

might be me fuckign up debug again but everything i see points to it not firing there.

 

i'd either like an explaination why this is intended behaviour or confirmation that it is not so a proper bug report can be made.

[commy2 188]

How to make lineIntersectsSurfaces report more than one result? I can't get it to return more than one

 

 

_pos0 = getPosASL player vectorAdd [0,0,-100];

_pos1 = _pos0 vectorAdd [0, 0, 1000];

lineIntersectsSurfaces [_pos0, _pos1, objNull, objNull, true, 10];

 

It's always just one result. Either the ground or once for the multi story building I'm inside (when I replace -100 with 0).

Replacing the 10 with -1 like the wiki says results in an empty array.

-2 and other negative numbers makes it report one intersection again, but not all. I guess that's just unexpected behavior.

[killzone_kid 1331]

6 hours ago, commy2 said:

How to make lineIntersectsSurfaces report more than one result? I can't get it to return more than one

 

 

_pos0 = getPosASL player vectorAdd [0,0,-100];

_pos1 = _pos0 vectorAdd [0, 0, 1000];

lineIntersectsSurfaces [_pos0, _pos1, objNull, objNull, true, 10];

 

It's always just one result. Either the ground or once for the multi story building I'm inside (when I replace -100 with 0).

Replacing the 10 with -1 like the wiki says results in an empty array.

-2 and other negative numbers makes it report one intersection again, but not all. I guess that's just unexpected behavior.

No Intersect commands work under ground, so the fact that you have ground intersection and not [] is something added extra to the command when you have no intersections at all. So either start your intersection above ground and up or do from top down.

As for -1 not returning all entries, thanks for reporting it. Amazing how long it took ;). This will be fixed, it should accept -1 or <0 as a matter of fact as unlimited return.

[commy2 188]

I figured it out that it doesn't work if the line starts underground. Always check from top to bottom to get results I guess.

The command also seems to only report the first intersection of any object. I wanted to use to to figure out how many floors a multi story building has. Sadly the command doesn't seem to support the RoadWay LOD either.

 

In the mean time anyone can just use 1E6 or some huge number like that to get all results.

[killzone_kid 1331]

1 hour ago, commy2 said:

I wanted to use to to figure out how many floors a multi story building has

 

You can always count building positions:
 

_floors = []; 
{
  _floors pushBackUnique round (_x select 2);
} 
forEach (cursorObject buildingPos -1); 
hint str count _floors;

returns 6 for offices