SP Respwan

[jcae2798 132]

Hey all,

I'm working on some custom self missions and was looking to see if there was a way to respawn myself and/or groups of AIs.

For example, I am setting up an Alive mission. I have a group of 6 people. As the units start to die or if i die myself, i would like to respawn at base. A good example of a respawn i love is Saok's version he used in his Lotta missions.

I understand this can easily be done in COOP/MP modes by opening mission in MP but this disabled SP features which i want to use during this time so not an option. THanks all

[Mamba Six 11]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Respawn

Try this link, I think you're looking for a custom onPlayerKilled.sqf in your mission.

[jcae2798 132]

Interesting....having a hard time getting it to work...i think i am doing something wrong.

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Let me calrify, i am using this:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?121820-Single-Player-Respawn-with-KillerCam-Script

And testing it in editor and when i get killed it goes to death screen to restart...however i see the unit getting created a few seconds later... How do i avoid the death screen?

[Mamba Six 11]

My bad, as per this thread, that no longer works for A3.

As you can see in that thread, they are using a "killed" event handler, and then switching the playable unit to another unit. Here are the commands related to switching your unit to a new unit. Also, I noticed you mentioned Saok's Whole Lotta mission. Try dePBOing his mission and see how he accomplished it.

[jcae2798 132]

Hey thanks for the info man. I been playing around with this since you pointed me to it and got it somewhat working enough that it will work or me. BTW since it was for myself i did try that but his mission files are crazy lol.

BTW here's how it got it working:

On onPlayerKilled.sqf file:

private ["_plyr","_kilr"];

_plyr = _this select 0;

_kilr = _this select 1;

nul = [_plyr,_kilr,"wrespawn0"] execVM "onPlayerRespawn.sqf";

Then on a file called "onPlayerRespawn.sqf":

private ["_plyr","_kilr","_type","_group","_dist","_camera","_found","_rand","_unit"];

_plyr = _this select 0;

_kilr = _this select 1;

_mrkr = if (count _this >2) then {_this select 2};

if (isNil "_kilr") then {_kilr = objNull};

//grab some stuff we need later

_type = typeOf _plyr;

_group = group _plyr;

_dist = _plyr distance _kilr;

if (count _this > 2) then {

//if (not (isNil _mrkr)) then {

//create the new unit.... same group

_unit = _group createUnit [_type, (getMarkerPos _mrkr), [], 0, "NONE"];

sleep 3;

addSwitchableUnit _unit;

selectPlayer _unit;

waitUntil {_unit == player};

_found = true;

} else {

//try to find a random playable unit

while {(not (_found)) and ((count switchableunits) >=1)} do {

_unit = switchableunits select (floor (random (count switchableunits)));

if (alive _unit) then {

_found = true;

selectplayer _unit;

};

sleep 2;

};

};

Hope this helps others :)

[Mamba Six 11]

No problem, thanks for sharing the code! :)