ZBE_Cache AI & Vehicle caching script/addon

[zorrobyte 30]

I see this sort of thing made it into the A3 engine officially! 🍻

 

Happy to see some of you still around after all these years.

 

All the best,

zorro

[kremator 1065]

Still here and still using it! 

[SavageCDN 231]

Just us old farts really 😁

[whiztler 137]

I prefer the ZBE_Cache script over the BIS engine solution. The fact that it does not cache the leader of a group make real-time simulation much more realistic. 

 

See you in a few years 😁

[kgp227 0]

Not sure if forum is dead or not bc no post in over a year, but i'm trying to make ZBE uncache an entire side. If anybody knows a script that will do this and where/how to implement it, your help will be greatly appreciated. 

[kremator 1065]

Surely you don't cache it in the first instance then?

[kgp227 0]

I'm trying to make a limited zeus vs AI scenario, the only issue is everything zeus spawns in gets cached, rendering remote control of those units broken. 

[whiztler 137]

You can set the variable zbe_cacheDisabled to true for units that should not be cached. E.g. to exclude all blufor units:

{_x setVariable ["zbe_cacheDisabled", true]} forEach allUnits select {side _x == west};

 

[kgp227 0]

Awesome, should that go in the init of the mission file? 

[whiztler 137]

1 hour ago, kgp227 said:

Awesome, should that go in the init of the mission file? 

 

If you have a file "initServer.sqf" in your mission root folder then you can copy it in there. But the init.sqf will do as well. Player clients will ignore it. This would only work when all the blufor units have been created. If you create more units later in the game you would need set the variable for these units as well. In  the init of the group leader:

 

(group this) setVariable ["zbe_cacheDisabled", true];

 

[kgp227 0]

That's too bad, as the mission I'm making revolves around spawning units in with Zeus, and running a script on the init of every single group is rather un-intuitive for my purposes. Thanks for the help anyway, I still might be able to make use of it in a different type of mission. 

[kgp227 0]

The good news is I think I just found a workaround, it seems that splitting the ai apart and regrouping them uncaches the entire group. 

[comradeguy 10]

Hello. Is is possible to make friendly AI stay cache even if player is nearby?

[whiztler 137]

On 9/7/2020 at 2:25 PM, comradeguy said:

Hello. Is is possible to make friendly AI stay cache even if player is nearby?

 

You want them to remain cached forever? Why just not delete them?

[comradeguy 10]

On 9/9/2020 at 3:55 PM, whiztler said:

 

You want them to remain cached forever? Why just not delete them?

No. I want them unchache only if they engage hostile AI

[whiztler 137]

13 hours ago, comradeguy said:

No. I want them unchache only if they engage hostile AI

 

How can they engage anything while they are cached? It seems you're better off with a spawn-on-demand script that spawns AI's when required.

 

ZBE_Cache checks distance from players and caches/uncaches AI's based on pre-defined distance params.

[comradeguy 10]

Another issue i found , chached motorized and mechanised groups refuse to move. Also if i try to load seperated infatry group into vehicle (which is part of different group) they won't do it. 

P.S. sorry for my english.