Help change civilian clothes

[dum3d0 11]

Hi, I'm trying to make some civilian hostages wear a blufor uniform in a coop mission.

My civilian are called p1, p2 to p6

this code in civilian named p5 init is working (code is not mine I found a similar one in a old post here)

nul = p5 spawn 
        {sleep 1;
         removeAllWeapons p5;
         removeAllItems p5;  
         removeAllAssignedItems p5;  
         removeUniform p5;  
         removeVest p5;  
         removeBackpack p5;  
         removeHeadgear p5;  
         p5 addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";};

Sleep 1 is there because otherwise script don't remove civilan headgear (don't ask me why)

But I would like something simple in unit init so I created an sqf file called civload.sqf

this sleep 1;
removeAllWeapons this;  
removeAllItems this;  
removeAllAssignedItems this;  
removeUniform this;  
removeVest this;  
removeBackpack this; 
removeHeadgear this;  
this addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";

and I call it from every unit init with this:

[this] call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\equip\civload.sqf"

and I got this error:

'this |#|sleep 1;'
error ; missing

If I don't use sleep 1 in civload.sqf I don't have the error but the civilian have his random hat

if I use

null = execVM "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

I got a different error, too long to remember..

Any suggestion?

tnx

[jshock 513]

Firstly in the following line it's not "this sleep 1;" it's just "sleep 1;":

this sleep 1;
//should be
sleep 1;

Secondly it's a local variable "_this" within the .sqf file:

sleep 1;
removeAllWeapons _this;  
removeAllItems _this;  
removeAllAssignedItems _this;  
removeUniform _this;  
removeVest _this;  
removeBackpack _this; 
removeHeadgear _this;  
_this addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";

[dum3d0 11]

Tnx, and should I use

null = execVM "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

or

[this] call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

to run the script file from civilian init?

EDIT:

Both give me errors (trying to translate from Italian):

null = execVM "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

return this error:

Error variable not defined in expression: _this

[this] call compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

return this error:

Error removeallweapons matrix type object expected

In the meantime, I found this working but I still need to punt in each civlian init and it's too much code for this little box

null = this spawn {sleep 1; removeHeadgear _this; removeGoggles _this;_this addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest"};

Edited February 21, 2015 by DuM3D0

[jshock 513]

Your execVM line needs to be:

0 = [this] execVM "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

[dum3d0 11]

Your execVM line needs to be:

0 = [this] execVM "scripts\equip\civload.sqf";

no, error again in line 2

error removeAllWeapons: Matrix type, object expected

civload.sqf

sleep 1;
removeAllWeapons _this;  
removeAllItems _this;  
removeAllAssignedItems _this;  
removeUniform _this;  
removeVest _this;  
removeBackpack _this; 
removeHeadgear _this;
removeGoggles _this;  
_this addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";

[jshock 513]

Hmm, try this:

removeAllWeapons (_this select 0);

I've never seen that error to be honest.

[dum3d0 11]

Maybe I don't traslate good from Italian to english or worse Italian traslation of the game is really bad..

I'll give a try with your last code and let you know

[giallustio 770]

the last should work. You're executing the script with an array of parameters [this], so should be _this select 0 in the script. If you use the code more than few times it's better to load it as fnc

[jshock 513]

Maybe I don't traslate good from Italian to english or worse Italian traslation of the game is really bad..

I'll give a try with your last code and let you know

You know, I just read past the parts about you translating it, I didn't even think that the errors would be in Italian as well :p, and putting some thought into it a "matrix" is basically an array so yeah it should work.

TBH I would just assign (_this select 0) to a variable and replace each instance of "_this" with that variable name, would ensure it all works everytime.

[dum3d0 11]

I'll give it a try and let you know.

Tnx.

[L3TUC3 32]

p5 addUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";

Should be:

p5 forceAddUniform "U_B_CombatUniform_mcam_vest";

Adduniform has restrictions primarily based on side. forceAdduniform does not.