How to retrieve the actual number of a squad member

[zbug 160]

This sounds so simple it hurts, yet I wasn't able to find any answer or hint anywhere

 

You've got 3 dudes in your squad: number 1, number 2, number 3.

In the group units array, number 1 is at index 0, number 2 is at index 1, number 3 is at index 2.

Everything's good, I can easily retrieve the actual number by doing array index + 1.

 

However, something bad happens to number 2, so now you've got 2 dudes in your squad: number 1, number 3.

In the group units array, number 1 is at index 0, number 3 is at index 1, so I can't retrieve the number based on the array indexes anymore.

 

Yet the UI keeps displaying the correct squad numbers so the info must be somewhere.

Any idea?

 

Thanks!

[terox 316]

call this function on the unit

 

fget_UnitNumber.sqf

// MP MACHINE : All
// Called from : various
// Called using :  [unit] call ZEU_AD_fget_UnitNumber
// Description : Returns the Unit's group number as seen in the command gui
// removes the first 2 elements from that array and then recompiles as a string
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///// PRELIMS /////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
private["_u"];
 
  _u = _this select 0;
  parseNumber(([[str _u, count(toArray(str group _u))+1] call BIS_fnc_trimString, " "] call BIS_fnc_splitString) select 0)

[killzone_kid 1331]

joinAs page has an example of how to do that https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/joinAs

[cuel 25]

What are you trying to do that requires that you know their index?

[zbug 160]

Thanks for the answers!

 

What are you trying to do that requires that you know their index?

 

Spotting the squad members with map markers, and a simple squad management UI. Everything works except the numbers that were wrong, until now ;)

[terox 316]

Thats what I use it for too