Force lowered weapon?

[D. Patterson 14]

Is there a way to force a player to lower their weapon, and keep it that way, until it's unforced?

[dreadedentity 278]

I believe setBehavior "SAFE" can mimic the effect you are looking for. Units should have their weapons lowered until they spot an enemy or get fired upon.

EDIT: if that doesn't work you could use:

while {true} do
{
waitUntil {behavior GROUP != "safe"};
GROUP setBehavior "SAFE";
};

Might do the trick

[iceman77 18]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_3:_Actions#WeaponInHand_.2F_WeaponOnBack << Doesn't actually place weapon on back, but lowers it rather.

[D. Patterson 14]

Im trying to make it so the player cannot raise their weapon. The weapononback allows the player to raise their weapon immediately after.

[iceman77 18]

Yup. I posted an action to lower your weapon. You'd need to check if the weapon isn't lowered and activate the action on the player object if it's true. Something like a loop or stacked EH onEachFrame.

Untested. Add sleeps where you see fit (except in stacked EH). Or not.. W/e.

loop #1

if (isDedicated) exitWith {};
waitUntil {!(isNull player)};

while {true} do {
waitUntil {!(weaponLowered player)};
player action ["WeaponOnBack", player];
};

loop#2

if (isDedicated) exitWith {};
waitUntil {!(isNull player)};

while {true} do {
if (!(weaponLowered player)) then {
	player action ["WeaponOnBack", player];
};
};

stacked EH

if (isDedicated) exitWith {};
waitUntil {!(isNull player)};

["WOBID", "onEachFrame", { 
if (!(weaponLowered player)) then {
	player action ["WeaponOnBack", player];
};
}] call BIS_fnc_addStackedEventHandler;

---------- Post added at 01:18 ---------- Previous post was at 00:02 ----------

Alternatively, I just noticed there are animation eventhandlers. I'm unfamiliar with these particular Ehs and animations in general, but maybe something like this could work :confused:

if (isDedicated) exitWith {};
waitUntil {!(isNull player)};

player addEventhandler ["animDone", { // also available: "AnimStateChanged", "AnimChanged"
   if (!(weaponLowered player)) then {
       player action ["WeaponOnBack", player];
   };
}];  

Edited November 5, 2014 by Iceman77

[Tajin 349]

I'm not sure if the anim-Events trigger for "gestures". I think they're a separate system.

[iceman77 18]

Ahh shame =/

[tpw 2315]

I tried something similar to Iceman77's last bit of code a while ago and ended up with AI just sliding along the ground in a frozen stance. I would dearly love a way to have squad AI not constantly run around with raised weapons. Probably needs some kind of FSM editing, which I have no smarts with.

[iceman77 18]

It's for players.

[tpw 2315]

I know mate. I wasn't dissing your code ideas, merely saying that using eventhandlers to switch between animation states can lead to player/AI apparently not animating at all.

[iceman77 18]

Ahh okay gotcha. Thought you meant it was Ai specific =)