AI > Headless client > Event handlers (Tracking Kills, etc)

[Col. Ben Sherman 3]

Hi there,

 

I've pretty much just got into headless client and I wonder if there is a way for event handlers to figure out that this guy killed this AI, I had this before and if they're spawned with Zeus they work just fine but when I use headless client it seems it doesn't track the kills. Below you can find how their setup so far.

 

description.ext

class Extended_Hit_EventHandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		hit = "_this call fnc_handleHit;";
	};
};

class Extended_Killed_EventHandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		killed = "_this call fnc_handleKill;";
	};
};

class Extended_FiredBIS_Eventhandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		fired = "_this call fnc_handleFired;";
	};
};

class Extended_Respawn_Eventhandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		respawn = "_this call fnc_handleRespawn;";
	};
};

 

fn_handleKill.sqf

params ["_unit", ["_instigator", objNull], "_instigator"];

if ((isNull _instigator) || {_instigator == _unit}) then {
    private _aceSource = _unit getVariable ["ace_medical_lastDamageSource", objNull];
    if ((!isNull _aceSource) && {_aceSource != _unit}) then {
        _instigator = _aceSource;
    };
};

if ((!isNull _instigator) && {!(_instigator isKindof "CAManBase")}) then {
    _instigator = effectiveCommander _instigator;
};

if (_instigator == _unit) exitWith {
	_instigator setVariable ["deaths", (_instigator getVariable "deaths") + 1, true];
} else {
	_instigator setVariable ["kills", (_instigator getVariable "kills") + 1, true];
};

 

[ezremake 13]

Move your fn_handleKill.sqf to the serverside, make a precompiled function out of it. When you create your ai units, attach the event handlers like this

 

[_aiUnitHere,["killed", {[[_this,(_this select 1)],'FN_HandleKillFunctionHere',false,false] call BIS_fnc_MP}]] remoteExec ["addEventHandler",0,true];

 

[Col. Ben Sherman 3]

On 3/4/2018 at 6:35 AM, ezremake said:

Move your fn_handleKill.sqf to the serverside, make a precompiled function out of it. When you create your ai units, attach the event handlers like this

 

[_aiUnitHere,["killed", {[[_this,(_this select 1)],'FN_HandleKillFunctionHere',false,false] call BIS_fnc_MP}]] remoteExec ["addEventHandler",0,true];

 

 

You wouldn\t maybe know if there is a way to inject that as my AI's are dynamic, mostly through Zeus but CQB is managed through the ALiVE mod. Otherwise thanks for the help, not sure how I will do this as I use a mod to transfer the AI from Zeus to HC.

[Col. Ben Sherman 3]

So I've kinda gone through this process and for some reason can't seem to get it to work completely especially since my entire mission is dynamic I wonder if there is a way for me to loop through NPC/AI in which I can assign a variable to them and assign the data at that point instead. Does anyone have any clue?

 

Maybe something like this would work? (Code is just a concept, not sure if the spawn function keeps looping or not)

[] spawn { 
  if (!hasInterface) then { 
    { 
      if (local _x && (_x getVariable "handlersSet" == true || isNull _x getVariable "handlersSet")) then { 
        [_x,["killed", {[[_this,(_this select 1)],'FN_HandleKillFunctionHere',false,false] call BIS_fnc_MP}]] remoteExec ["addEventHandler",0,true];
        _x setVariable ["handlersSet", true, true];
      }; 
    } forEach allUnits; 
  }; 
}; 

 

[computer 113]

I've been just using this to add to all units(run on all clients on init)
 

["CAManBase", "initPost", {_this call score_fnc_unitInit},true,[],true] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

 

[Col. Ben Sherman 3]

7 hours ago, computer said:

I've been just using this to add to all units(run on all clients on init)
 

["CAManBase", "initPost", {_this call score_fnc_unitInit},true,[],true] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;

 

 

Very good idea, never thought about that the problem I have now is that everything I add to the function that is being called through initPost is giving errors even a simple one such as 

diag_log format["Assigning Events to data: %1", name _this]; // Giving this error, Error in expression < format["Assigning Events to data: %1", name _this];
diag_log format["Assigning Events to data: %1", name player]; // Works but only outputs the HC and not the rest of the players/units spawned on the map

 

Edit:

Figured out the problem, the data transferred ended up in an array

[Col. Ben Sherman 3]

Somehow I managed to get it to work, using CBA I managed to split the event handles both client and headless client. It seems silly but I got no clue why it didn't work before and adjusting it to this it works just fine.

 

Old code (description.ext)

class Extended_Hit_EventHandlers {
	class All {
		hit = "_this call alive_fnc_handleHit;";
	};
};

class Extended_Killed_EventHandlers {
	class All {
		killed = "_this call alive_fnc_handleKill;";
	};
};

class Extended_FiredBIS_Eventhandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		fired = "_this call alive_fnc_handleFired;";
	};
};

class Extended_Respawn_Eventhandlers {
	class CAManBase {
		respawn = "_this call alive_fnc_handleRespawn;";
	};
};

 

New code (initPlayerLocal.sqf)

if !(hasInterface or isServer) then {
	["All", "Hit", {_this call custom_fnc_handleHit;}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
	["All", "Killed", {_this call custom_fnc_handleKill;}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
} else {
	["CAManBase", "Fired", {_this call custom_fnc_handleFired;}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
	["CAManBase", "Respawn", {_this call custom_fnc_handleRespawn;}] call CBA_fnc_addClassEventHandler;
};