Simple Mine System - A Fix for A3 Mines & Explosives

[voiper 18]

Simple Mine System

Replacement Mine & Explosive System for Arma 3

Description:

Frustrated with A3's mines? This in-mission system makes mines both safer (to the user) and deadlier (to the enemy), while adding lots of gameplay potential.

Better description:

Features:

-No addons needed. Simply plug into your mission.

-Place mines & explosives, adjust them, arm, disarm, and detonate them in a controlled and safe manner.

-Flexible placement allows you to put mines on almost any surface.

-What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) triggering: no more walking into invisible trigger radii.

-Each mine has been adjusted to bring it closer to reality:

-Bounding mines no longer arm and trigger strangely, nor can be buried in concrete or steel.

-Tripwires don't float in mid-air, and can be put anywhere within reach.

-APERS mine replaced with custom proximity sound alarm.

-APERS Tripwire mine replaced with custom tripflare (don't worry, Claymores still use tripwires).

-AT mine can be partially buried in earth.

-Charges can be detonated selectively and attached to vehicles.

-Compatible with CSE Interaction.

-MP & JIP compatible.

Installation Instructions:

1. Place the "vip_cmn" and "vip_sms" folders in the ROOT of your mission folder. If "vip_cmn" already exists, use whichever folder is the latest version.

2. In the mission's Description.ext, add (or insert, if the cfgFunctions class already exists):

class CfgFunctions {

#include "vip_cmn\fn\vip_cmn_fnc.hpp"
#include "vip_sms\fn\vip_sms_fnc.hpp"
};

#include "vip_cmn\resource\vip_dlg_defaults.hpp"
#include "vip_sms\resource\vip_sms_dlg.hpp"

3. Done!

***WARNING***: As of Arma 3 1.40, there is still no way to remove default object actions (such as "Deactivate mine"). This means that if a player is of the "Engineer" or "Explosive Specialist" class and is carrying a Toolkit, they can remove the mines using the default Arma system, which BREAKS the scripts of SMS. Use at your own caution, and design your missions accordingly.

Changelog:

v1.01 (hotfix):

-fixed: error in AT mine loop

-fixed: on respawn without CSE, player loses menu

v1.1:

-fixed: removed cfgRemoteExec requirement (no more BIS_fnc_MP errors)

-fixed: should be actually possible to place mines on building floors

-changed: added basic documentation for the functions

-changed: tripwires can be disarmed from tripwire peg

Compatibility

Not compatible with:

-AGM (AGM already redoes mines)

-Epoch/Overwatch/Overpoch (does not allow new mission-defined functions in BIS_fnc_MP)

Compatible with:

-CSE Interaction

Download

v1.1

Edited March 10, 2015 by Viperidae
Update

[austin_medic 109]

So did the length of the rope on the tripwire mines always adjust itself so it fits the distance between the explosive andthe stick at the other end perfectly? Or was that scripted too? Just curious

[SilentSpike 84]

I'd guess (based on the video) that a black line is being draw between the two and then it just uses the line intersect command for activation. Also interested to know though.

[epicgoldenwarrior 11]

Looks awesome tho.

+1

[Larrow 2820]

Looks really good. GJ Viperidae.

Have not played with it yet but does it give you the ability to add group detonations? Like place five explosives, have 1,2 and 3 on one trigger and 4 and 5 go off on another?

Would be a nice feature to have.

[Guest]

Thanks for sending the release our way :cool:

Release frontpaged on the Armaholic homepage.

Simple Mine System (SMS) v1.0

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[bilu90 10]

Hi,

Very interesting !

Will it be AGM compatible ?

And is it possible to defuse the mine ?

This mod can add some importance to the explosive specialist role

[petek 62]

Looks really good mate - off to try it out now!

Thanks for creating

[CyDoNgr 28]

Hi,

Very interesting !

Will it be AGM compatible ?

And is it possible to defuse the mine ?

This mod can add some importance to the explosive specialist role

Your work is great

+1 Make it AGM compatible pls

[mrewok 47]

Looks freaking awesome man!

[TheConen 78]

Dude, this is awesome. Are you planning on doing a mod version as well or do you stick with script only?

[DaViSFiT 21]

one +AGM ;)

Very nice one. AGM already have some kind of stuff already, would be very cool to merge this somehow. What are the plans for the future?

[kimi_uy 135]

when I saw the tripwire I was like WHHAAAAAAT?

This is really awesome.

Congrats on the release :)

[legolasindar 3]

Good script, is AGM compatibile?

[oksman 37]

Compatability with AGM next? :) Awesome! Need a mine sweeper!

Hahah I just realized everyone is asking for AGM Comp. Good stuff, about the Mine Sweeper, remember those things in ACE with Arma 2? Those were awesome!

[thecoolsideofthepillow 22]

As someone who loves playing Demolition/EOD, this looks like an awesome addition. I always hate trying to see if I can disarm a mine that has spawned under the foundation of a house.

[xoo 10]

Really nice !! i just tried it a bit but it's all good. Good job. ;)

[Von Quest 1163]

What a blast! Lol. Looks great. Can't wait to dig into this tonight.

Loving the option to actually place the stick/wire anywhere.

Wow. This is sooooo cool. Great job man!

[CoA|Saint 5]

awesome work mate!

[voiper 18]

So did the length of the rope on the tripwire mines always adjust itself so it fits the distance between the explosive andthe stick at the other end perfectly? Or was that scripted too? Just curious

There's never slack in the wire (far too costly/complex to do). It adjusts to wherever the peg currently is.

Have not played with it yet but does it give you the ability to add group detonations? Like place five explosives, have 1,2 and 3 on one trigger and 4 and 5 go off on another?

Would be a nice feature to have.

Not currently. I'll consider it. :)

Dude, this is awesome. Are you planning on doing a mod version as well or do you stick with script only?

The purpose of this is to enable mission makers. Half the code is workarounds to make the Arma 3 mine ammo types play nice. If I were to make it into an addon, I would just create new ammo classnames and configs, thus making most of the scripts somewhat pointless. :) That's not to say it won't be compatible with other addons' mines in the future.

Hahah I just realized everyone is asking for AGM Comp.

Indeed. I'll look into it.

[osu_apoc 10]

So I've added this to our A3 Wastelands test server, and I've come up with a couple of issues.

1) In fn_sv_armedAT.sqf, Line 30, the call for vip_sms_fnc_sv_remove is using local variable _d. However, I do not see that variable being declared/defined anywhere. I'm assuming that it was meant to be _dummy.

2) After a player is killed, they no longer have the action menu option for explosives. I'm guessing that has to do with the calls for the menu being in the description.ext. That being the case, the menu would only load on mission load, but something within the Wasteland mission is probably removing all action menu options, thereby "disabling" the SMS menu.

EDIT - Hours later -------------------

The change in the _d --> _dummy seemed to fix that error being thrown.

Also figured out how to integrate into A3Wasteland mission.

Very nice script! Thanks for all of the hard work!

Edited March 1, 2015 by osu_apoc
Updated Progress

[Janez 530]

They need to improve vanilla explosives handling so much. Very nice script.

[twisted 128]

thanks a lot, this makes explosives more flexible and believable.

[voiper 18]

So I've added this to our A3 Wastelands test server, and I've come up with a couple of issues.

1) In fn_sv_armedAT.sqf, Line 30, the call for vip_sms_fnc_sv_remove is using local variable _d. However, I do not see that variable being declared/defined anywhere. I'm assuming that it was meant to be _dummy.

2) After a player is killed, they no longer have the action menu option for explosives. I'm guessing that has to do with the calls for the menu being in the description.ext. That being the case, the menu would only load on mission load, but something within the Wasteland mission is probably removing all action menu options, thereby "disabling" the SMS menu.

EDIT - Hours later -------------------

The change in the _d --> _dummy seemed to fix that error being thrown.

Also figured out how to integrate into A3Wasteland mission.

Very nice script! Thanks for all of the hard work!

Thanks for the heads up. I'll add those fixes in the next update. :)

I'll also look into what Wasteland is doing.

[xoo 10]

It's not only for wasteland, it's the same with A3 vanilla... after respawn you no longer have the action.

And it lacks a group détonation for C4 and satchel.