Reveal all enemy units for x seconds?

[ArmaMan360 94]

I need a script which I can call from Radio Alpha to see if any units are left in a town. They sometimes run to the remote corners of the marker area and you gotta spend 40 minutes finding that last guy to clear the area. I tried a lot of different approaches but they would turn the markers on permanently. I just want to have a brief idea of where they at for 5-6 seconds.

 

 

I came across a script that would highlight a small block of area as enemy side colour so one can easily find guys there without exact pinpointing their location. But its code is so loooong I fear lag. Hence I want it to run only when I execute radio call.

 

Any simpler way of revealing enemy units expected positions? to the, lets say, nearest 50 mtrs?

 

Thank you :)

[R3vo 2654]

_nearestUnits = nearestObjects [player, ["man"], 50];

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    _unit = _nearestUnits select _i;
    if (side _unit != playerSide) then
    {
        _marker = createMarker [format ["tempMarker_%1",_i], _unit];
        (format ["tempMarker_%1",_i]) setMarkerType "o_unknown";
        
    };
    sleep 1;
};

sleep (random 6) + 5;

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    deleteMarker format ["tempMarker_%1",_i];
    sleep 1;
};

Tell me what you think about that.

[ArmaMan360 94]

_nearestUnits = nearestObjects [player, ["man"], 50];

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    _unit = _nearestUnits select _i;
    if (side _unit != playerSide) then
    {
        _marker = createMarker [format ["tempMarker_%1",_i], _unit];
        (format ["tempMarker_%1",_i]) setMarkerType "o_unknown";
        
    };
    sleep 1;
};

sleep (random 6) + 5;

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    deleteMarker format ["tempMarker_%1",_i];
    sleep 1;
};

Tell me what you think about that.

 

Wow thank you.

 

But, I am sorry I didnt point it correctly in my original post. I actually need a marker over the alive AI enemy units narrowed down area to know their "expected position". Excuse me for the "nearest 50 mtr confusion".

 

Or I can increase that count "50" in your script to something like 500? And for execution, i put this code in reveal.sqf and inside trigger Alpha init:

nul = [] execVM "reveal.sqf"; 

Right?

Edited November 13, 2015 by ArmaMan360

[R3vo 2654]

Oh okey, so you want to aprox position of the enemy unit with a radius of let's say 50m?
 
 

/*
    Author: Revo

    Description:
    Reveals units which are not on the player's side

    Parameter(s):
        0: number - Size of the area
        1: object - Center of the area to search in
        2: number - Delay between creation and deletion of markers
        3: number - Tolerance of positions in meters
    Returns:
    -
*/

_radius = param [0,50];
_center = param [1,player];
_deleteTime = param [2,10];
_posTolerance = param [3,0];

_nearestUnits = nearestObjects [_center, ["man"], _radius];

systemChat "Scanning in progress...";

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    _unit = _nearestUnits select _i;
    if (side _unit != playerSide) then
    {
        _marker = createMarker [format ["tempMarker_%1",_i], [_unit, _posTolerance, random(360)] call BIS_fnc_relPos];
        format ["tempMarker_%1",_i] setMarkerType "o_unknown";
        format ["tempMarker_%1",_i] setMarkerColor "ColorUNKNOWN";
        format ["tempMarker_%1",_i] setMarkerSize [0.5, 0.5];
        
    };
    sleep 1;
};

systemChat format ["%1 hostile Entities found.",count _nearestUnits];
systemChat format ["Position tolerance: %1 m",_posTolerance];
sleep _deleteTime;

for "_i" from 0 to (count _nearestUnits) - 1 do
{
    deleteMarker format ["tempMarker_%1",_i];
    sleep 1;
};

 

Here's an updated version.

[ArmaMan360 94]

Yes Sir. Where can I buy you a dinner now? :P

[R3vo 2654]

Yes Sir. Where can I buy you a dinner now? :P

 

No need for a dinner I am happy when you are ;)

[ArmaMan360 94]

R3vo your attention is needed here too. Please. Simple waypoint question.

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/177336-create-random-waypoints-on-roads/

[ArmaMan360 94]

By the way, R3vo that reveal enemy script you showed is finding wrong entities. And I am next to those spots but no enemies. Is it because the

 if (side _unit != playerSide) then ...

searches for everything apart from playerside? Animals?

 

Can I safely change this line to

 if (side _unit = WEST) then ...

so that it only reveals units on west side?

 

Thank you.

[R3vo 2654]

Sure thing, if you only want to detect units of a specific side you can do that.

[ArmaMan360 94]

Thanks :)

Im sure this will help a lot of others.. :D

[ppavia 10]

Hi   it was a few night i searching for a script to detect presence of Explosives to allow civilian to give me infos. 

I try to modifie the script above, but for  explosive its not the same things   SO.... how can i detect explosive around me . To simulate a civilian info...  i need to sleep maybe loooool