Friendly Fire / Civilian kill penalty (SP) ?

[dar 12]

Hey guys,

I'm working on a SP mission with lots of civilians around and of course you are not allowed to shoot it. To ensure that, I want the mission to end on such an incident as A: a civilian was shot by you, B: A friendly unit was shot by you.

I tried several Arma 2 scirpts, but none of them worked, as some depended on ALICE and some didn't work for other compatibilty issues.

I found the "Friendly Fire module" in the editor, but it doesn't seem to have any effect the way I use it: Module placed. Module synched to mission end trigger. When I now kill a civilian or henchman, nothing will happen. Is this for MP only?

So what I need would be a simple script or an explanation on how to use that module properly.

Anybody around who can give me hand on this?

[mikie boy 18]

how are you adding the civillians?

if you are placing them yourself a simple eventhandler killed on each of them will do the trick.

scripting wise, you could try adding the eventhander using foreach command and units civillians - methods...

[dar 12]

I placed the civilians by myself. What would I have to wirte in thier init line?

[mikie boy 18]

in the civvy's init. (may need a handle before.. - civvy = [this] addeventhandler....)

this addEventHandler ["killed", "hint format['Killed by %1',_this select 1]"];

whack this in first as a tester. shoot a civillian and hopefully the hint will appear saying that you killed him.

then replace with the below code...

this addEventHandler ["killed", {[_this select 0, _this select 1] spawn identifyKiller}];

//make a function in a file that is preloaded prior to the game starting...

identifyKiller = {

_unitKilled = _this select 0;
_killer = _this select 1;
 if (side _unitKilled == independent && side _killer == West)
   {
        hint "you killed a civillian numpty!";
        _killer setdamage 1; //if you want to kill the player   

         //if you want to have alimit to the amount of civies you can kill then - something like this...

        //(globalVariable) - need to add in init -  //if (isnil "civillianKillCount") then {civilliankillcount = 0};


        civillianKillCount = civillianKillCount + 1;
        if (civillianKillcount == 4) then { _killer setdamage 1; //if you want to kill the player} else {hint " carefull you are close to being punishedfor civivy killin"};


   };

};

not tested of course but it should be there or thereabouts

[dar 12]

Thank you, man I altered it a little and now it fits my need exactly.

identifyKiller =

{ _unitKilled = _this select 0;

_killer = _this select 1;

if (side _unitKilled == civilian && side _killer == West)then

{ hint "You shot a civilian! Your mission is over, Captain.";

fail = true;

};

};

Shortened it a little. Fail is the variable triggering the mission ending.