Setting allowed damage for buildings (using AiA TP mod)

[nullrick 10]

Is there a way to (within the editor) disallow damage to buildings specifically? I don't want to affect damage received by vehicles at all. I'm using the Zargabad terrain in the All in Arma Terrain Pack mod.

Right now I'm focusing on the main mosque building in the center of the town as well as everything inside the surrounding walls. The surrounding walls are a focus as well.

[jshock 512]

You could get the IDs of all these things in the editor then loop through them with nearestObject, and allowDamage false to each of them.

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

[nullrick 10]

Is this done with a trigger or game logic?

This is what I've come up with so far. (position this nearestobject XXXXX) allowDammage false

I have no idea if it will work yet though.

[jshock 512]

Getting the IDs is done with your eye balls, but actually looping through them I guess could be done in a trigger, though it would be a short easy script to execute on mission start.

{  _x allowDamage false} forEach _arrayOfObjectIDs;

EDIT: Just kinda realized nearestObject is kinda redundant if you use the code I just put above :p.

Edited February 7, 2015 by JShock

[nullrick 10]

Hah, I knew how to find the IDs just fine. I should have been more clearer. I needed to know about the trigger or logic bit, so thanks. But now I don't know what you mean by "execute on mission start". Are we still talking about a trigger or a separate txt document thing? And is your code definitely one that works in comparison to mine? Would I just paste that in a trigger and list the IDs in question after the semicolon?

----Edit

Oh ok. Good to know. Still typing in IDs in different places in your code to see how it works.

[jshock 512]

In my code where you see "_arrayOfObjectIDs" you would replace that with something like this (psuedo):

[12345,67891,01234,...]//all are object IDs

[nullrick 10]

When you said that "I guess could be done in a trigger" did you mean that you were actually guessing, or were you saying it would work but there was an easier way to do it?

[jshock 512]

The latter, I avoid triggers like the plague.

[nullrick 10]

Ah. I still don't know of any other alternative. I've gotten a few hints from what you've said earlier that there is some other magical way of doing this. But it's still beyond me it would seem.

[jshock 512]

Yeah, create a file named initServer.sqf and put the following:

{
  _x allowDamage false;
} forEach [12345,67891,01234,...];//all of your object IDs

[nullrick 10]

And I'm supposed to just put that sqf into the mission folder?

[jshock 512]

Yea, should work, not 100% since it's a mod.