Get direction of marker?

[Petethegoat 10]

Solution: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/markerDir

There's a function to set the direction of a marker, but not to get the direction (except in VBS2, where this function does apparently exist).

Is there any other way I can get the direction of a marker?

Or a way to get a reference to the marker object?

I'm creating a script to randomly place a unit at one of four markers, but I would like it to be able to set the unit direction as well.

_unit = _this select 0;
_pick = ((floor random 4) + 1);
_marker = _this select _pick;
_unit setPosATL getMarkerPos _marker;
//_unit setDir [b][color="#B22222"]getMarkerDir[/color][/b] _marker;

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Petethegoat
Solved

[ProfTournesol 956]

There is no need for a script for this : simply group (F2) the unit with the markers, and it'll place the unit randomly at one of the markers positions.

But that doesn't answer the main question :o

[Petethegoat 10]

Huh, that's new to me!

That said, it still doesn't align the unit with the marker when you group it, so I'm still stuck for the moment.

[dwringer 45]

I have indeed struggled with this exact issue and determined that the best solution was to use Game Logic units instead of markers. Although if anybody has further details I would be interested to know as well :)

[trnapster 12]

markerDir

[Petethegoat 10]

Ah, well that's simple! I wish the function naming was more consistent, but oh well.

Thanks very much, trnapster.

[ProfTournesol 956]

Yes, it could have been name "getmarkerdir" instead...