I need help at cheking if my unit is inside a vehicle. "while loop"

[zombov 11]

HI all, I am making a script that checks if my soldier is inside a vehicle before 20 seconds has passed.

This is my script:

_Soldier1 = _this select 0;
_Vehicle1 = _this select 1;
_MyTimer = 0;

while { _MyTimer <= 20 } do
{
if ( _Soldier1 in _Vehicle1 ) then 
{ 
hint "you are in to the vehicle";
} else 
hint format ["You must get in to the vehicle in less than %1 seconds", _MyTimer];
_MyTimer = _MyTimer + 1;
sleep 1;
};
hint "this is over";

The problem is that when I am inside the mission I only see the hint

hint "You must get in to the vehicle in less than %1 seconds"

even when I am inside it..

I guess that since no error is displayed ( I am using the -showScriptErrors command) the problem would come from this condition

"if ( _Soldier1 in _Vehicle1 ) "

.

I would like to know why this happens and how to fix it? :confused:

I got that command from here:

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/in_vehicle

btw: I am new to scripting and sorry for my not so good english.

EDIT: The Problem got resolved, scroll down to see how the whole script ended.

Edited June 10, 2014 by ZomboV

[Lala14 135]

so I am summing your using execVM so it would be

[player,Hunter1] execVM "script.sqf"

_this select 0 represents the first part of the array which you defined as _Soidler1 and then _Vehicle1 is Hunter1.anyway one thing is that after the else there should be a { too other wise that bracket at the bottom is useless oh and also add another one at the bottom so example

// player init null = [this,Hunter1] execVM "script.sqf";
_Soldier1 = _this select 0; 
_Vehicle1 = _this select 1; 
_MyTimer = 20; 

while { _MyTimer <= 20 } do { 
if ( _Soldier1 in _Vehicle1 ) then {  
	hint "you are in to the vehicle"; 
} else { 
	hint format ["You must get in to the vehicle in less than %1 seconds", _MyTimer]; 
	_MyTimer = _MyTimer - 1; 
};
sleep 1; 
}; 
hint "this is over";  

also I made it - 1 and defined _MyTimer at 20 since the script will only execute once My timer isEqualTo or less than 20.

[zombov 11]

I had just tested it and it works great!!!... thank you for the help and the fast reply :)

[zombov 11]

After the help of Lala14 and reading a lot more I perfected my old script and made this one.. fell free to do anything with it.:)

This script obligates a unit to be inside a vehicle or die after 20 seconds( the time left will be displayed at the screen as a hint).

////////Put this in a SQF in your mission's folder and name the SQF as "MustInVehicle.sqf"
/////Put this in the "init" of any unit: script1 = [_Soldier1,_Vehicle1] execVM "MustInVehicle.sqf"
// _Soldier1 = here goes the name of the unit you want to die if out of the vehicle
// _Vehicle1 = here goes the name of your vehicle

_Soldier1 = _this select 0;
_Vehicle1 = _this select 1;
_Time = true;
_TimeToGo = 20;

while { _Time } do {
       If ( _TimeToGo <= 0 ) then {
	    _Soldier1 setDammage 1;
	};
       If ( _TimeToGo <= 0 ) then {
	     _Time = False; };
	If ( _Soldier1 in _Vehicle1 ) then {
           hint"The Soldier is in the vehicle";
		_TimeToGo = 20;
	} else {
	     hint format ["Get into the vehicle in %1", _TimeToGo];
		 _TimeToGo = _TimeToGo - 1;
    };
	sleep 1;
};


////You can modify the hints to display anything you want or just delete them
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//You can also modify the _TimeToGO = 20; to any value you want.that will
//change the time before the unit dies , (you will have to make the values
//from the 4th line and from the 13th line equals to do so)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

As you can see I made some comments to help editing it at some parts.