I don't understand {deleteVehicle _x} forEach thislist

[rick rawlings 2]

I am trying to clean up the base after everyone heads out for the mission to save on resources, so I thought I wanted to use

{deleteVehicle _x} forEach thislist

Putting that in a big trigger with a radio alpha activation does nothing (Condition:this). Putting it in a big trigger with a Player not present activation and then walking out of the area does nothing... Putting it with a anybody present activation and repeatable will delete vehicles but not the crew (expected) or troops that I order into the area (unexpected). It also does not delete editor placed objects either. So I clearly don't understand how it works or how to get the desired effect. Thank you for any help!

 

RR

[HazJ 1288]

So it works? Radio Alpha means you need to trigger it manually via radio. Press 0-0-x...

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/allMissionObjects

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/vehicles

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/crew

[Harzach 2507]

17 minutes ago, rick rawlings said:

I clearly don't understand how it works or how to get the desired effect.

 

Currently, it will delete every "vehicle" which satisfies the trigger's conditions. There are a number of "clean-up" scripts out there, might be worth checking them out.

[rick rawlings 2]

4 minutes ago, HazJ said:

So it works? Radio Alpha means you need to trigger it manually via radio. Press 0-0-x...

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/allMissionObjects

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/vehicles

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/crew

No, it did nothing! I made a big trigger that covered half the base, activation radio alpha, condition this and on activation the above code part and triggered it and nothing happened. I was expecting to be Thanos, but I guess I am short a few infinity stones...

[HazJ 1288]

What is in the trigger? Vehicles, units, what?

{deleteVehicle _x;} forEach thislist; hintSilent str thislist;

What does it return?

[Harzach 2507]

Regarding your examples:

• radio triggers return thisList null
• any player not present returns thisList null
• this example is working as intend and expected - anybody present deletes vehicles in the trigger

[Harzach 2507]

Here's a cleanup script by @davidoss:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=30050

[rick rawlings 2]

Thank you, I will look into that. If I just wanted to delete everything in an area after the players have left, is there an easy command for that?

 

Thanks again!

 

[pierremgi 4739]

thislist doesn't work with radio trigger. No chance neither in a deact field (any trigger), nor on act field of a non-presence trigger (what could be the array else than an empty one?)

 

A workaround is to "mark", I mean setVariable on each created object. For example {_x setVariable ["spawnedInBase",true]} forEach yourList you want to manage.

Then, you don't need a "thisList" anymore. Choose your trigger/waitUntil condition and {deleteVehicle _x} foreach (allUnits select {!isNil {_x getVariable "spawnedInBase"}});  // just an example with units.

 

[Harzach 2507]

27 minutes ago, rick rawlings said:

Thank you, I will look into that. If I just wanted to delete everything in an area after the players have left, is there an easy command for that?

 

Thanks again!

 

 

//  {deleteVehicle _x} forEach (nearestObjects [triggerName,["All"],radius]);
//  So, for a trigger named "trigger_01" with a radius of 100 meters - 

{deleteVehicle _x} forEach (nearestObjects [trigger_01,["All"],100]);

 

[rick rawlings 2]

Nice! Thank you!