Preventing players from switching active task ?

[YattaYatta 10]

How do you prevent a player from selecting his active task (map > task > set as current task) ?

[RegEdit 10]

Well, you can create new task after current is completed. I don’t think you can somehow prevent player from doing this.

[YattaYatta 10]

I just wanted all the task to be visible in the briefing / map - since the mission plan is already known, but force the player to do each in the right order.

Imagine a mission where you have to find the hostages, then escape with them : the player can set his task to "escape" before finding the hostage. Sure the conditions wont be met for task completion, yet its strange to allow the player to pick the task he wants.

Thanks for the answer tough.

[RegEdit 10]

Maybe not the best solution, but you can check current player’s task in a loop and change it when you need, like this:

currentTask = "task1";
while {true} do
{
   if (player call BIS_fnc_taskCurrent != currentTask) then
   {
       currentTask call BIS_fnc_taskSetCurrent;
   };
   sleep 3;
};

Edited September 7, 2013 by RegEdit

[kylania 568]

Just don't create tasks until you want them created. For the briefing use the actual briefing and on map markers instead of tasks.

[galzohar 31]

Yeah, usually the way it works is tasks are the things you should be doing *right now*, and add new ones as new tasks become do-able. Briefing should have the general plan from start to finish.