Drug Cooking Script Help

[Haymaker 13]

Okay so I've been working on a script for cooking drugs... yeah...

 

Meth specifically actually. I'm becoming a little more skilled with scripting but I'm having trouble with one thing I can't quite wrap my head around. 

 

The script works mostly correctly, but when I try to stop the script from running in the else statement, I'm not having luck. I'm actually quite confused because it worked a few times, but then when I restarted my game it stopped working. I'm thinking I must have accidentally unsaved it or something.

 

private ["_building","_stove","_chemicals","_chemicalsUsed","_meth","_smoke","_cooking"];


_building = nearestObject [player, "house"];
_stove = nearestObject [player,"CUP_Kitchenstove_Elec"];
_storage = nearestObject [_stove,"Box_NATO_AmmoVeh_F"];
_chemicals = nearestObject [_stove, "Land_MetalBarrel_F"];
_meth = "arifle_Mk20_F";
_cooking = _stove getVariable "_cooking";
//* _smoke = "";




if (_stove distance _building <= 8) then


{
if (_stove distance _chemicals <= 8) then {


if (_cooking < 1) then {


//* _smoke createVehicle (position _stove);
Hint "Meth is cooking";
_stove setVariable ["_cooking", 1, true];


sleep 60;


Hint "Meth has been cooked";
//* deletevehicle nearestObject [_stove, _smoke];
_storage addWeaponcargo [_meth,10];
deleteVehicle _chemicals;
_stove setVariable ["_cooking", 0, true];


} else {
Hint "Meth is already cooking!"
};
}


else {
Hint "You need to have chemicals and a stove in a building to cook meth!"
}
};

What I'm confused about is setting up "_cooking" as boolean... I've tried a few methods. Also it's worthy to be noted that I have this in my init.sqf:

_stove = nearestObject [player,"CUP_Kitchenstove_Elec"];
_stove setVariable ["_cooking", 0, true]; 

I don't plan on keeping this as my init.sqf I plan on moving it to an eventhandler init, where I will also give the stoves an addaction to execute this script. I'm pretty confused on how to set _cooking as a default 0 or false and then it would be changed accordingly during the script.

[kylania 568]

You probably shouldn't call the variable "_cooking", since that's very easy to confuse with a local variable.  You can also set it directly to true/false.

/*

this setVariable["hay_stoveCooking", false, true];
this addAction["Cook Meth","meth.sqf", [], 0, true, false, "", "(count nearestObjects [_target, ['House'], 8] > 0) && (count nearestObjects [_target, ['Land_MetalBarrel_F'], 8] > 0) && !(_target getVariable 'hay_stoveCooking')"];

*/

params["_object", "_caller", "id", "_args"];
_args params[
	["_cooktime", 60],
	["_batchsize", 10]
];

_storage = nearestObject [_object,"Box_NATO_AmmoVeh_F"];
_chemicals = nearestObject [_object, "Land_MetalBarrel_F"];
_meth = "arifle_Mk20_F";

_object setVariable ["hay_stoveCooking", true, true];

Hint "Meth is cooking";
sleep _cooktime;
hint "Meth has been cooked";

_storage addWeaponcargo [_meth, _batchsize];
deleteVehicle _chemicals;

_object setVariable ["hay_stoveCooking", false, true];