Creating triggers with radio chatter

[DZGuymed 10]

Basically I have an sqf file with a very simply made radio exchange between two units:

RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 10;
RCT1 sideChat "blah
sleep 3;
playerunit sideChat "blah";
sleep 2;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 4;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 7;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
playerunit sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 7;
playerunit sideChat "Goodbye sir.";

The exchange in game is triggered by a waypoint.

What I want to do is trigger something or create a marker after the exchange is finished, but simply putting a createmarker command in the SQF after it seems to have no effect. What can I do? I'm so used to doing everything in the editor that I got totally bamboozled whenever I try to do pure scripting stuff.

I tried doing this:

RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 10;
RCT1 sideChat "blah
sleep 3;
playerunit sideChat "blah";
sleep 2;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 4;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 7;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
playerunit sideChat "blah";
sleep 5;
RCT1 sideChat "blah";
sleep 7;
playerunit sideChat "Goodbye sir."; 

_markerstr = createMarker ["markername",[_Xpos,_Ypos]]; _markerstr setMarkerShape "ICON"; _markerstr setMarkerType "DOT";

but I'm almost certain that's incorrect because nothing involving markers occurred in game before, during, or after the exchange.

[2nd ranger 282]

The markerType should be "mil_dot" or "hd_dot". "Dot" doesn't exist anymore apparently.

[DZGuymed 10]

Thanks, but now I have another question.

The guy that talks to the player, he has his radio triggered with the on act. field of a waypoint. (the convo is in an sqf file)

I want to make it so that when the sqf file is done being read, he will go to his next waypoint.

I tried making a global variable in the init.sqf file which is basically:

trigvar1 = 0;

And then at the end of the sqf file with the radio conversation I put this:

trigvar1 = 1;

publicVariable "trigvar1";

And then set the condition of the waypoint that he uses to talk to you as:

this getVariable "trigvar1, 1";

So basically I wanted him to get his next waypoint when the variable was changed to 1, but I'm sure I went about this wrong. I am an sqf noobie, or rather someone who hasn't used it in years. Can someone show me a better way?

[dreadedentity 278]

The guy that talks to the player, he has his radio triggered with the on act. field of a waypoint. (the convo is in an sqf file)

I want to make it so that when the sqf file is done being read, he will go to his next waypoint.

I tried making a global variable in the init.sqf file which is basically:

And then at the end of the sqf file with the radio conversation I put this:

And then set the condition of the waypoint that he uses to talk to you as:

So basically I wanted him to get his next waypoint when the variable was changed to 1, but I'm sure I went about this wrong. I am an sqf noobie, or rather someone who hasn't used it in years. Can someone show me a better way?

Did this not work for you? Try this:

1. Change the waypoint you want your unit to stop at and converse to a HOLD type. //HOLD waypoints will make units stay there indefinitely, units will only move for a SWITCH trigger or switch through code

2. Create a trigger. TYPE: Switch, ACTIVATED: None. Place near HOLD waypoint //Creating the SWITCH trigger

3. In it's "CONDITION" field, try: //Trigger will activate if variable is false

conversation = false

4. In the beginning of your .sqf:

conversation = true //So make the variable true

and at the end:

conversation = false //When done talking, make variable false again and trigger should activate afterwards.

5. Synchronize (F5) trigger with waypoint //If you don't do this, your trigger won't have a waypoint to switch.

This should work. However, I tested it by having the trigger set to ACTIVATED: Blufor and "present".

Edited August 29, 2014 by DreadedEntity
weird comment formatting

[2nd ranger 282]

And then set the condition of the waypoint that he uses to talk to you as:

this getVariable "trigvar1, 1";

You don't need to use getVariable, just put trigvar1 in the condition.

[DZGuymed 10]

Thanks for your responses :) I managed to get it working now.