Question: What is this _vehInit?

[unhappytroll 6]

So I have a script. It is not my script and I believe it was modified form ALiVE or some other mod. this is part of it:

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if (isServer) then {

private ["_veh", "_abandonDelay", "_abandonDistance", "_abandonNotification", "_moveDistance", "_deadDelay", "_startLocation",
			"_respawnCount", "_vehInit", "_safeZones", "_dir", "_pos", "_vehtype", "_vehName", "_lastDriver", "_abandonTime", "_deadTime",
			"_originalStartPosition", "_originalStartDirection", "_vehSide", "_notify", "_notifyUnits", "_notifyGroup" ];

_veh = [_this, 0, objNull, [objNull] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
_abandonDelay = ( [_this, 1, 0.25, [0] ] call BIS_fnc_param ) * 60;
_abandonDistance = [_this, 2, 50, [0] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
_abandonNotification = [_this, 3, false, [ false, objNull, grpNull, sideUnknown ] ] call BIS_fnc_param;		//(group), person, side
_moveDistance = [_this, 4, 5, [0] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
_deadDelay = ( [_this, 5, 0.25, [0] ] call BIS_fnc_param ) * 60;
_startLocation = [_this, 6, true, [true] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
_respawnCount = [_this, 7, -1, [0] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
_vehInit = [_this, 8, {}, [{}] ] call BIS_fnc_param;
if ( [_this, 9, false, [true] ] call BIS_fnc_param ) then {
	_veh call _vehInit;
};

 

it is a vehicle respawn script, that checks if the vehicle abandoned, destroyed and so on.

What I cannot understand, what is called by "_veh call _vehInit;"? Because it is clearly a local variable, initialized from parameters with which this function called, and had a "true" or "false" value. How it can be called?

[sarogahtyp 1104]

If you look at the line where it is initialised then u see that there was used a BIS function. That function does a lookup for the 9th parameter (index 8) of the parameter array (_this) which was passed to the script. Those 9th parameter is just code ([{}]) and code can be just called...

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[unhappytroll 6]

ah, thank you.

[Harzach 2505]

Looks like this is from Evolution-A3. Here are links to the GitHub and the BI Forum topic, either of which which might hold more info for you:

https://github.com/Kolmain/Evolution-A3

 

[Larrow 2794]

Thats NSLVR script. See last sentence in OP of this thread

On 07/11/2013 at 11:32 PM, iceman77 said:

Not So Light Vehicle Respawn Framework ( BY LARROW )

@sarogahtyp is correct. It uses the vehicle as passed in param 0 and the code passed in param 8 ( code to be init on respawning vehicle ) but if param 9 is True it will also run the respawn code on passed vehicle immediately.

Saves doing something like this in the vehicles init...

this setVehicleVarName "MyVehicle";
this call BIS_fnc_objectVar;
this setObjectTextureGlobal[ 0, "someTexture" ];

[ this, /*lots of params*/, {
	_this setVehicleVarName "MyVehicle";
	_this call BIS_fnc_objectVar;
	_this setObjectTextureGlobal[ 0, "someTexture" ];
} ] call NSLVR_fnc_vehRespawn;

Where you repeat the code twice, once in init and then again in a code block to repeat for when the vehicle respawns.

Instead...

[ this, /*lots of params*/, {
	_this setVehicleVarName "MyVehicle";
	_this call BIS_fnc_objectVar;
	_this setObjectTextureGlobal[ 0, "someTexture" ];
}, true ] call NSLVR_fnc_vehRespawn;

Code written out once, automatically run on the vehicle as soon as you start the respawn function up.

[Harzach 2505]

11 hours ago, Larrow said:

Thats NSLVR script.

Ah, of course. The only hits I got were the EVO GitHub and this topic for some reason. 

[unhappytroll 6]

17 hours ago, Larrow said:

 Thats NSLVR script.

Yes, I think so. But it was modified to meet some respawn conditions.

 

Thank you, everyone, who answered me, that was very kind of you.