Hint not showing up

[mercerqc 10]

So I'm trying to set up a flagpole that let's player who died to Teleport them back on a chopper that will land them back in the action.

 

The flagpole activates this script.

 

h1 is the variable name I gave to the chopper

 

       if ((h1) emptyPositions "cargo"==0) then
       {hint "The helicopter is full"}
       else
       {
       player moveincargo h1;
       };

 

The teleporting works fine, but it doesn't hint the player when the vehicle is full.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks a lot

[Harzach 2518]

There is no semicolon closing your hint line. Expand it the way you did your moveincargo line and you'll see the error.

[mercerqc 10]

Thanks for the answer, I tried this and it's still not working.

 

Is it what you meant?

       if ((h1) emptyPositions "cargo"==0)
       then
       {
       hint "The helicopter if full!";
       }
       else
       {
       player moveincargo h1;
       };

 

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

5 hours ago, Harzach said:

There is no semicolon closing your hint line. Expand it the way you did your moveincargo line and you'll see the error.

You don't necessarily need closing semicolons before a closing bracket.

 

The snippet should work fine as is, are you sure there's a chopper named h1 on the map?

Is this in MP or SP or dedicated?

 

Cheers

 

[Mr H. 402]

Quote

if ((h1) emptyPositions "cargo"==0)

try
 

 if ((h1 emptyPositions "cargo") ==0)

 

[mercerqc 10]

Mr H. I just tried that, doesn't work either.

 

Grumpy old man, yes there is, the teleportation works fine when there's an empty spot in cargo.

 

The problem is with the hint if the helicopter is full, it doesn't appear and I am not getting any error messages.

 

I'm currently trying just in the mission builder start a MP mission.

[Harzach 2518]

7 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

You don't necessarily need closing semicolons before a closing bracket.

 

Sometimes I should just back away from the keyboard :D

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

2 hours ago, mercerqc said:

Mr H. I just tried that, doesn't work either.

 

Grumpy old man, yes there is, the teleportation works fine when there's an empty spot in cargo.

 

The problem is with the hint if the helicopter is full, it doesn't appear and I am not getting any error messages.

 

I'm currently trying just in the mission builder start a MP mission.

 

Try your snippet in an empty mission just with the h1 named chopper, it works.

Looks like the error is someplace else.

 

Cheers

[mercerqc 10]

I don't have anything else then the chopper, the flagpole with the action and a guy with Zeus.

Is it possible that my game is blocking hints for some reason?.

 

Anyway, I guess the guys will have to do with it.

The TP works.

[Harzach 2518]

OK, just tested in MP hosted and dedi and it works fine. You might want to consider sharing some more information, or even your mission file. Something is wrong.

[mercerqc 10]

We have quite a lot of mods, so it would be a problem for you to launch it.

None of the mods we have tho can really interfere with that, other then ACE or Acre, the others is just weapons and uniforms.

 

Could it be my game? Like maybe the difficulty? Or some settings that blocks hints?

[HazJ 1289]

Show the code at least. Not sure why you're having issues. It works for me.

// where h1 is the name of the vehicle
if (h1 emptyPositions "cargo" isEqualTo 0) exitWith
{
	hintSilent "NO ROOM FOR YOU, SUCKA! ON YE BIKE...";
};

 

[Harzach 2518]

We don't need to load it to look at your scripts. That said, and as HazJ suggested, post the entire script that you are calling with your addaction. There are some very smart people here (not claiming to be one of them), but I can guarantee that exactly 0% of the members of this forum are clairvoyant.

[mercerqc 10]

Ok so on my flagpole I have this in the init

 

this addAction ["Teleport to Chopper", "teleport\teleport.sqf"];

and this is my teleport.sqf file

 

       if ((h1) emptyPositions "cargo"==0)
       then
       {
       hint "The helicopter if full!";
       }
       else
       {
       player moveincargo h1;
       };

I tried with if (h1 emptyPositions "cargo"==0), didn't work

 

And I have a littlebird named h1

 

Sorry I thought it was clear and like I said, If the vehicle is empty or have space in the cargo, the Teleport works.

It's the Hint if the chopper is full that doesn't.

 

Thanks a lot for your help, I appreciate it!

[Harzach 2518]

Works perfectly on my end. Do other hints appear for you?

[mercerqc 10]

Yes I just tried a simple hint on a radio trigger and it worked.

[mercerqc 10]

Oh my god, I figured it out.

I just tried running the script like this

_freePosCargo = (h1) emptyPositions "cargo";
hint str _freePosCargo;

 

Just to see what was the variable and it showed me 2, when the vehicle is full...

I guess the CUP Littlebird is like that

 

So I just changed my script to

 

_freePosCargo = (h1) emptyPositions "cargo";
hint str _freePosCargo;
if ( _freePosCargo > 2) then {
player moveInCargo (h1);
} else {
hint "The helicopter is full!"
};

 And it works now!

 

Lol fuck Arma!!!

 

Thanks for your help guys

[pierremgi 4912]

see also this post as related cargo capacities...

[Harzach 2518]

21 minutes ago, mercerqc said:

Oh my god, I figured it out.

I just tried running the script like this

_freePosCargo = (h1) emptyPositions "cargo";
hint str _freePosCargo;

 

Just to see what was the variable and it showed me 2, when the vehicle is full...

I guess the CUP Littlebird is like that

 

 

I just tried with a full CUP LB, and it returned 0.

 

The CUP LB holds a total of ten: pilot, copilot, two in back, six on the benches.You might be forgetting the rear pax seats.

 

 

[mercerqc 10]

Ok weird, cause I used Zeus and just dragged people in this, those 2 seats are probably not considered Cargo

[Harzach 2518]

Not sure what you mean. I'm saying that with a full bird, emptyPositions "cargo" returns 0. Are you sure you have ten units in the bird?

[mercerqc 10]

Yeah that's weird, mine only fits 8 total, including pilot and copilot.

Maybe our CUP version is different then yours, I'm not sure.

I'm not able to sit myself or AI through Zeus in those PAX Seats.

But it's not a big deal.

 

Thanks for your help

[Harzach 2518]

I'm using latest version. It's clear that the issue is those two seats being empty in your bird. You have no units there, so emptyPos is returning 2. The question now is why you can't place units there in Zeus. It works fine in the editor.