Marker icons floating above units?

[alleycat 28]

Saw in a random mp mission that certain units had marker icons float above them in the 3d view. How would I do that?

[Zatan13th 10]

drawicon3d

[alleycat 28]

Thanks.

When using it in a foreach it wont work:

{



addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", { drawIcon3D ["\A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\military\destroy_ca.paa", [0.5,0,0,0.4], getPos _x, 0.3, 0.3, 360, "", 0, 0.03, "Purista"]; }];

} forEach allUnits;

The error is caused by getPos _x. In the init.sqf

[Polygon 11]

Have you tried "{ _x addMissionEventHandler ... } foreach allUnits; " ?

[Larrow 2822]

addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", {
{
	drawIcon3D ["\A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\military\destroy_ca.paa",
	[0.5,0,0,0.4],
	[getPos _x select 0, getPos _x select 1, 2],
	2, 2,
	360,
	"",
	0,
	0.03,
	"PuristaMedium"
	];
}foreach allunits;
}];

foreach needs to be inside the EH code block, changed the getpos so its 2m up so it shows above units head, resized the icon to 2,2 as 0.3 was tiny, Purista as a font seems to no longer exist changed to PuristaMedium.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Larrow
readability of code

[alleycat 28]

When I attempt this

	_x addMissionEventHandler 
[
"Draw3D", 
{ drawIcon3D ["\A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\military\destroy_ca.paa", 
[0.5,0,0,0.4], 
(getPos _x), 
0.3, 0.3, 360, 
"", 
0, 
0.03, 
"Purista"
];
}



];

It says missing ; on the first line

[dcthehole 1]

onEachFrame would probably work better

{
onEachFrame {
	drawIcon3D ["\A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\military\destroy_ca.paa", [0.5,0,0,0.4], (getPos _x),0.3,0.3,360,"",0, 0.03,"Purista"];
};
} foreach playableunits;

Edited September 15, 2013 by dcthehole

[alleycat 28]

I will try that, thanks. However how costly are these icons?

[johnnyboy 3797]

On 9/15/2013 at 9:37 AM, dcthehole said:

{ onEachFrame { drawIcon3D ["\A3\ui_f\data\map\markers\military\destroy_ca.paa", [0.5,0,0,0.4], (getPos _x),0.3,0.3,360,"",0, 0.03,"Purista"]; }; } foreach playableunits;

The solution posted above works great for using a military marker icon floating over a unit. 

 

I want to use one of the Task Icons found at the bottom of the Task Overhaul page as a floating icon.

 

Does anyone know the path structure to these Task icon .paa files?

[HallyG 239]

17 minutes ago, johnnyboy said:

 

Does anyone know the path structure to these Task icon .paa files?

 

You can use BIS_fnc_taskTypeIcon:

_icon = ["land"] call BIS_fnc_taskTypeIcon;

 

Or,  if you want to get every the path for every single task icon then:

copyToClipboard format ["[type, file path]%1%2",
	endl,
	"true" configClasses (configfile >> "CfgTaskTypes") apply {[configName _x, getText (_x >> "icon")]} joinString endl
];

which will give:

...
["kill","\A3\ui_f\data\igui\cfg\simpleTasks\types\kill_ca.paa"]
["land","\A3\ui_f\data\igui\cfg\simpleTasks\types\land_ca.paa"]
...

 

[johnnyboy 3797]

Thanks much @HallyG, your suggestion worked perfectly.