Help with mission ending for seperate sides

[troster 10]

Hey all, I've made a PvP mission for a few friends and I for a LAN party.

BLUFOR needs to extract two hostages (civillians, host1 and host2) back to their base while OPFOR attempts to fight off BLUFOR. If all BLUFOR units die I want OPFOR to get the Mission complete screen and BLUFOR to get the mission failed screen.

But if BLUFOR extracts the hostages successfully I want OPFOR to have the Mission Failed screen and BLUFOR to get the mission success screen.

Initially, I had a trigger that detected the civilians and once the civilians were detected it would end (The type was End #1) however I figured that this would display mission complete for every unit regardless of what faction they were. I was wondering how to display a mission success and a mission failed for the necessary units.

In Arma 2 I remember making what I guess you could call 'properties' for each End type but it's been a long time since I last did that and I cannot remember how to do it at all.

Everyone's help is appreciated.

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

You can define different endings in the description.ext

Create the file in the missionfolder and add something like this:

class CfgDebriefing
{  
class End1
{
	title = "The Hostages got rescued!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "The Hostage-takers got annihilated!";
	pictureBackground = "";
	picture = "b_inf";
	pictureColor[] = {0.0,0.3,0.6,1};
};
class End2
{
	title = "The SWAT Team got wiped out!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "No dinner at home tonight for these hostages.";
	pictureBackground = "";
	picture = "b_inf";
	pictureColor[] = {0.0,0.3,0.6,1};
};
class End3
{
	title = "Everyone died!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "Suicide statistics going through the roof!";
	pictureBackground = "";
	picture = "b_inf";
	pictureColor[] = {0.0,0.3,0.6,1};
};
};

In the mission you can call each individual ending with this simple line:

"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;

[troster 10]

Thanks, I thought it had something to do with the init.sqf or the description.ext but I couldn't remember what to write.

How would I define End 1 as a BLUFOR win and an OPFOR loss so that it will actually say in game that they've won / lost? Or can I not do that?

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

I don't think this is possible, since you would need to call 2 endings at once.

I might be wrong though.

[bangabob 41]

"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;

Ammend this so it calls a different ending depending on your side.

 if (player ==WEST) then {
"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};
if (player ==EAST) then {
"end2" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};

Havnt scripted in several months but you get the idea.

[troster 10]

Thanks Banga, just curious as to where the script goes?

[bangabob 41]

You could make a script called

endMission.sqf

inside put

if (player ==WEST) then {
"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};
if (player ==EAST) then {
"end2" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};

Inside your trigger that determines the end of the game on ACT have

null=[]execVM "endMission.sqf";

Is wont this will work in a dedicated server though.

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Is this possible?

That's a nice find, BangaBob, thanks for sharing!

[troster 10]

You could make a script called

endMission.sqf

inside put

if (player ==WEST) then {
"end1" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};
if (player ==EAST) then {
"end2" call BIS_fnc_endMission;};

Inside your trigger that determines the end of the game on ACT have

null=[]execVM "endMission.sqf";

Is wont this will work in a dedicated server though.

Shit, the mission will be hosted on a dedicated server. :(

I might just do the different endings Grumpy posted earlier. Otherwise, thanks for the help guys. :)

EDIT

Would you guys by any chance know the color coding for OPFOR? For BLUFOR it's 0.0, 0.3, 0.6, 1 but I have no idea what it is for OPFOR.

Edited December 10, 2013 by ChunkyTomato

[Larrow 2793]

Could take care of it all from the server, something like ...

_endGameThread = [] spawn {
if (isServer) then {
	while {true} do {
		_bluUnits = [];
		{
			if (isPlayer _x && side _x == west ) then {
				_bluUnits set [count _bluUnits, _x];
		}forEach playableUnits;

		if ( {alive _x} count _bluUnits == 0 ) exitWith {
			[ ["DeadLost", false, 2], "BIS_fnc_endMission", west, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //fade to black
			[ ["DeadWon", true, true], "BIS_fnc_endMission", east, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //signature shot
		};

		if ( triggerActivated HostagesEscapedTrigger ) exitWith {
			[ ["HostageWon", true, true], "BIS_fnc_endMission", west, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //signature shot
			[ ["HostageLost", false, 2], "BIS_fnc_endMission", east, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //fade to black
		};
	};
};
};

Description.ext

class CfgDebriefing
{  
class HostageWon
{
	title = "The Hostages got rescued!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "The Hostages were successfully resscued!";
};
class HostageLost
{
	title = "The Hostages got rescued!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "Time to go AWOL your surely lose you head for this";
};
class DeadLost
{
	title = "Your extraction team got wiped out!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "No dinner at home tonight for the hostages.";
};
class DeadWon
{
	title = "The extraction team was eliminated";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "Order more bread and water for the infedel captives";
};

};

[troster 10]

Could take care of it all from the server, something like ...

_endGameThread = [] spawn {
if (isServer) then {
	while {true} do {
		_bluUnits = [];
		{
			if (isPlayer _x && side _x == west ) then {
				_bluUnits set [count _bluUnits, _x];
		}forEach playableUnits;

		if ( {alive _x} count _bluUnits == 0 ) exitWith {
			[ ["DeadLost", false, 2], "BIS_fnc_endMission", west, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //fade to black
			[ ["DeadWon", true, true], "BIS_fnc_endMission", east, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //signature shot
		};

		if ( triggerActivated HostagesEscapedTrigger ) exitWith {
			[ ["HostageWon", true, true], "BIS_fnc_endMission", west, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //signature shot
			[ ["HostageLost", false, 2], "BIS_fnc_endMission", east, false] call BIS_fnc_MP; //fade to black
		};
	};
};
};

Description.ext

class CfgDebriefing
{  
class HostageWon
{
	title = "The Hostages got rescued!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "The Hostages were successfully resscued!";
};
class HostageLost
{
	title = "The Hostages got rescued!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "Time to go AWOL your surely lose you head for this";
};
class DeadLost
{
	title = "Your extraction team got wiped out!";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "No dinner at home tonight for the hostages.";
};
class DeadWon
{
	title = "The extraction team was eliminated";
	subtitle = "";
	description = "Order more bread and water for the infedel captives";
};

};

Cheers Larrow, much appreciated. I'll give it a try.

[jinker 19]

The colors are RGB so, R,G,B. 1.0,0.0,0.0 would be red. 0.0,1.0,0.0 would be green and 0.0,0.0,1.0 would be blue. The last number is alpha or transparency.

[carpetburns 10]

Cheers Larrow, much appreciated. I'll give it a try.

ChunkyTomato, did you get this to work? If so where did you put the first bit of code, the _endGameThread part?

Thanks for any help.

[the_uberzer 0]

On 5/2/2015 at 12:52 PM, carpetburns said:

ChunkyTomato, did you get this to work? If so where did you put the first bit of code, the _endGameThread part?

Thanks for any help.

Were you able to figure this out?