Check if a unit is inside a trigger area from outside the trigger

[Maurdekye 10]

I've got a script that runs once a second on loop and examines all units each time, and one calculation it ought to apply is to check whether or not they're within the area of a trigger on the map. From what I can tell the only way to get a list of units within the trigger is by using the thisList var inside the trigger's activation, but that only fires once. I was hoping it might be possible to either access this list or query for inclusion in the list from outside the trigger's activation.

[davidoss 550]

Use BIS_fnc_Intrigger or Heeeere's johnny!'s Trigger List Changed.

[haleks 8206]

You could pass the trigger itself as an argument and gather the units present in its radius.

 

In the activation field of your trigger : 0 = [thisTrigger] execVM "someScript.sqf"

 

someScript.sqf :

_trigger = _this select 0;
_radius = (triggerArea _trigger) select 0;

while {{_x distance _trigger < _radius} count AllUnits > 0} do {
	//gather all units
};

[Maurdekye 10]

Use BIS_fnc_Intrigger or Heeeere's johnny!'s Trigger List Changed.

Looking at the page for BIS_fnc_Intrigger, it seems there's an in-engine version that should work better for my needs, inArea. Thanks.

[Maurdekye 10]

The inArea command doesn't seem to work; it keeps giving me a strange error about forgetting a semicolon when I try to use it. Here's an example line in a logic entity;

bluscore = southking |#|inArea contention;

It gives me an error pointing to that character in the code, saying i'm missing a semicolon. What's going on?

[davidoss 550]

Are you sure you are using dev branch?

 

 

Game: Arma 3 Development Branch,

Version: 1.57

[Maurdekye 10]

Are you sure you are using dev branch?

 

 

Oh, it's only available in the dev branch? No wonder.