Can you enable a player to place sandbags during a mission?

[sic-disaster 311]

I'm working on a defense mission, and I would really like to enable the player to place his own (limited amount of) fortifications like sandbag walls, objects to block vehicle movement etc.

I remember this type of mission from a Red Hammer campaign and always loved it, so I wanted to recreate something similar. Is it possible in ArmA 3?

[alky_lee 276]

You should be able to. One of the groups put up a video on youtube demonstrating just this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FlY6-v10w

[sic-disaster 311]

Interesting. Wonder if there are any other ways too, as this looks a bit too complicated for what I have in mind.

[tinter 184]

Maybe just adding an action to the sandbags that attaches it to the player, forcing walk and putting them into an animation.

[iceman77 18]

Hi. Maybe something like this can give you some ideas.

SiC_fnc_placeSandBag = {
_sandBag = createVehicle ["Land_BagFence_Round_F",(_this select 1) modelToWorld [0,2,0], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_sandBag setDir getDir (_this select 1) - 180;
(_this select 1) removeAction (_this select 2);
_id = _sandBag addAction ["Remove Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_removeSandBag}]; 
};

SiC_fnc_removeSandBag = {
deleteVehicle (_this select 0);
_id = (_this select 1) addAction ["Place Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_placeSandBag}];
};

_id = player addAction ["Place Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_placeSandBag}];

Edited January 8, 2014 by Iceman77

[SavageCDN 231]

by no means simple but this works for A3

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9285

[hansson0728 12]

iceman where did you find that script ?? i would like to get a look at the complete script, if it is possible. ?

[iceman77 18]

iceman where did you find that script ?? i would like to get a look at the complete script, if it is possible. ?

Hi. I wrote it after reading the original post. There is no additional code.

[hansson0728 12]

aha okej ;) i thought you found it somewhere :) someday i will be able to pull of functions freestyling like that to :)

[sic-disaster 311]

Hi. Maybe something like this can give you some ideas.

SiC_fnc_placeSandBag = {
_sandBag = createVehicle ["Land_BagFence_Round_F",(_this select 1) modelToWorld [0,2,0], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_sandBag setDir getDir (_this select 1) - 180;
(_this select 1) removeAction (_this select 2);
_id = _sandBag addAction ["Remove Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_removeSandBag}]; 
};

SiC_fnc_removeSandBag = {
deleteVehicle (_this select 0);
_id = (_this select 1) addAction ["Place Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_placeSandBag}];
};

_id = player addAction ["Place Sandbag", {call SiC_fnc_placeSandBag}];

Thanks Iceman! How would I go about implementing this? I assume I need to copy that into an .sqf file and call for it in a unit init line?

[iceman77 18]

Copy and paste it into your init.sqf. Hit preview.

[ricko3 19]

Yea that's great, I just loaded it up instead of using it in the init.sqf I put It in a separate file and called it from an engineer. But to no avail for what I was trying to do. I want it so only the engineer class can use it I assume I have to edit the script to change it.

Thanks for the great codE!!!

Edit - Sorry being really stupid - Changed - player to engineer instead and got it to work exact!!!!!

Edited January 15, 2014 by ricko3