Help with ammunition position with "Fired" EH

[beako 13]

HI All,

 

I'm trying to get the final position of a guided bomb that is dropped from a plane with the following:

_plane addEventHandler ["Fired", {
 _projectile = nearestObject [_this select 0,_this select 4];	
     waitUntil {
	if !(isNull _projectile) then {
	   sleep 0.1;
           hint format ["BOMB _plane nearEntities \n\n _projectile: %1 \n\n getPosATL: %2", _projectile, getPosATL _projectile];};
	   isNull _projectile;
	};
}];

but it only returns the position the bomb was dropped from and does not seem to loop.

 

Then I get an "Error generic error in expression" message with |#|isNull _projectile ?

 

Any suggestion for finding the final bomb position where it explodes?

[Guest]

I don't get it ? There is no loop in your code ??

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Like harmdhast said, your code is very wonky.

Eventhandlers won't allow sleep unless you use spawn inside them.

Why are you using a fired eventhandler but are using nearestObject to get the bomb? I don't get it.

 

Something like this could do the trick:

_plane addEventHandler ["Fired", {

    params ["_firer","_weapon","_muzzle","_mode","_ammo","_magazine","_projectile"];

    _check = [_projectile] spawn {

        params ["_projectile"];
        _bombPos = getposATL _projectile;

        waituntil {if (alive _projectile) then {_bombPos = getposatl _projectile};!alive _projectile};
        systemchat str _bombPos;
        
    }

}];

Cheers

[Greenfist 1863]

I don't get it ? There is no loop in your code ??

waituntil is a perfectly good loop in some situations.

[Guest]

waituntil is a perfectly good loop in some situations.

In this case it does not act as a loop for the bomb pos because it is only executed once anyway.