Marker showing the direction the unit is facing or moving in real time

[anthonyfromtheuk 6]

How do I make marker showing the direction a unit is facing in real time. I can make a marker to show where the unit is with the code below. but have no idea how to show the direction it is facing, anybody help please?

[] spawn {while{not isnull UNIT} do {"MARKER" setmarkerpos getpos UNIT; sleep 0.1;};};

[Zenophon 110]

Maybe these:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getDir

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setMarkerDir

Depending on the marker type you are using, you may also need to make it asymmetrical with this:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setMarkerSize

[austin_medic 109]

This should work:

while {!isnull UNIT} do {
"MARKER" setmarkerpos (position UNIT); 
"MARKER" setmarkerDir (getDir UNIT);
sleep 0.1;
};

[anthonyfromtheuk 6]

Thats works perfectly, thank you sir! but you can only have one instance of it, why does it only show one unit

while {!isnull enemy1} do {

"MARKER" setmarkerpos (position enemy1);

"MARKER" setmarkerDir (getDir enemy1);

sleep 0.1;

};

while {!isnull enemy2} do {

"MARKER2" setmarkerpos (position enemy2);

"MARKER2" setmarkerDir (getDir enemy2);

sleep 0.1;

};

Edited September 13, 2013 by Anthonyfromtheuk

[Tajin 348]

Because if you write it that way, the second marker will only show up once the first enemy is dead, as the script will be stuck in the first loop until then.

try this:

[this,"MARKER"] spawn {
while{not isnull (_this select 0)} do {(_this select 1) setmarkerpos getpos (_this select 0); sleep 0.1;};
}; 

put it in the init of each unit you want to track, just modify the "MARKER" name.

Or if you need it more often you could put it all in one script that would also handle the creation/deletion of those markers. Mine is just a simple example.

You can also do some searching, I'm sure there are several full functional tracking-scripts available that you could use.

[anthonyfromtheuk 6]

Because if you write it that way, the second marker will only show up once the first enemy is dead, as the script will be stuck in the first loop until then.

try this:

[this,"MARKER"] spawn {
while{not isnull (_this select 0)} do {(_this select 1) setmarkerpos getpos (_this select 0); sleep 0.1;};
}; 

put it in the init of each unit you want to track, just modify the "MARKER" name.

Or if you need it more often you could put it all in one script that would also handle the creation/deletion of those markers. Mine is just a simple example.

You can also do some searching, I'm sure there are several full functional tracking-scripts available that you could use.

That didn't work, says "type script, expected nothing" when I try put it in to unit init. Does that include the direction unit is facing it doesn't look like it to me. but I don't have a good understanding if any of php.

[Tajin 348]

It was just a rough example regarding the problem that only one marker was shown.

The point is that you'll have to run a separate instance of the script for each unit.

Here, try this for example:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=21365

Or look at this topic:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?80967-Attaching-moveable-map-markers-to-units

Like I said: Plenty scripts for that aleady exist, you'll just have to do some searches.