Automated Minarets

[dreadpirate 173]

OK, I found myself putting the Muslim prayer sound on every minaret in every mission that I made. So I decided to work out how to automate the process and here's what I came up with:

1. Place a Game Logic in the centre of the map and name it "centre".
   
2. Place the Functions Module on the map.
   
3. Add the following to your init.sqf:

    [true]execVM "scripts\initMinarets.sqf"; //use [false] if you don't want debug markers on the minarets

   
   

4. Create a file in your scripts folder called initMinarets.sqf and paste the following:

    if (!isServer) exitWith {};
   
   
   waituntil {!isnil "bis_fnc_init"};
   
   
   _debug = _this select 0;
   
   
   possibleMinarets = ["Land_A_Minaret_Porto_EP1","Land_A_Mosque_big_minaret_2_EP1","Land_A_Minaret_EP1"];
   
   
   includedMinarets = [];
   
   
   {
      includedMinarets = includedMinarets + (getPos centre nearObjects[_x,10000]);
   }forEach possibleMinarets;
   
   
   _i = 0;
   {
      call compile format ["
      if (_debug) then {
          _m%1 = createMarker[""myMinaret%1"",[position _x select 0,position _x select 1]];
          _m%1 setMarkerShape ""ICON"";
          _m%1 setMarkerType ""mil_triangle"";
          _m%1 setmarkercolor ""colorred"";
          _m%1 setmarkerDir direction _x;
      };
   
      _t%1 = createTrigger[""EmptyDetector"",getPos _x];
      _t%1 setTriggerArea [0, 0, 0, false ];
      _t%1 setTriggerActivation [""NONE"", ""PRESENT"", false];
      _t%1 setTriggerStatements [""true"", """", """"];
      if (random 1 < 0.5) then {
          _t%1 setSoundEffect [""$NONE$"", """", """", ""Muslim_prayer1""];
      } else {
          _t%1 setSoundEffect [""$NONE$"", """", """", ""Muslim_prayer2""];
      };
      ",_i];
      _i = _i + 1;
   }forEach includedMinarets;
   

   
   

I haven't got it to work with minarets created by the Town Generator.