Best way to change side?

[gc8 977]

Hi

Does anyone know what is the best way to change player's side. For now I have always created a new group and used joinsilent to put player in there so that he's side changes. But is there a better way, anyone knows?

 

the reason I need better way is because I want to add respawn point for the player's group.

 

thx!

[gokitty1199 225]

10 hours ago, gc8 said:

Hi

Does anyone know what is the best way to change player's side. For now I have always created a new group and used joinsilent to put player in there so that he's side changes. But is there a better way, anyone knows?

 

the reason I need better way is because I want to add respawn point for the player's group.

 

thx!

a thought but doubt it will work, create a new opfor unit on a east group and switch the player to it. delete the players unit after he is switched

_gear = getUnitLoadout player;
_grp = createGroup east;
_newUnit = _grp createUnit [ “O_G_Survivor_F”, position player, [], 0, "FORM"];
_newUnit setUnitLoadout _gear;
selectPlayer _newUnit;

 

[HazJ 1289]

Depending on what you are doing, creating a new unit and using selectPlayer isn't ideal. Read the notes:

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

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Most of the notes above do not apply to Arma 3 anymore.

Some still do. It is possible to use the command but may require some work. What side are you wanting to change to? What's wrong with the joinSIlent command? You can create the four groups at the start and change on the fly.

[gc8 977]

@HazJ I said what for I need it in my post :) respawning places

[HazJ 1289]

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the reason I need better way is because I want to add respawn point for the player's group.

Why do you need to even change the side for this?

[gc8 977]

12 hours ago, HazJ said:

Why do you need to even change the side for this?

 

I need to make the player hostile to resistance by changing side to east and not hostile by changing side to west.

 

[HazJ 1289]

Check out:

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

 

[nomisum 129]

I did some testing years ago and at least back then setFriend was quite unreliable when changing back to enemy (AI wouldnt recognize if they "knew" about the unit before or only after many seconds). The only thing working instantly was joinGroup in opposing side.

[gc8 977]

1 minute ago, HazJ said:

Check out:

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

 

 

The problem is I'm making MP mission so I don't think I can use setFriend because only some players are supposed to be hostile to resistance.

 

[HazJ 1289]

Do you make use of AI? You could use addRating on player to make them hostile.

[gc8 977]

7 minutes ago, HazJ said:

Do you make use of AI? You could use addRating on player to make them hostile.

 

The player may have AIs in his group.

[stanhope 411]

What I usually do for this is create a new group of the desired faction, create a unit of that faction and add him to that group.  Now have whichever units from any other faction join this group.  They'll all become the side of the group leader, the first member in the group.  Once all are added delete the first unit and job's done.

Example:

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private _priorityGroup = createGroup east;
"O_officer_F" createUnit [_position, _priorityGroup];
priorityObj1 = createVehicle ["B_AAA_System_01_F", _position, [], 0, "NONE"];
createvehiclecrew priorityObj1;
(crew priorityObj1) join _priorityGroup;
deleteVehicle ((units _priorityGroup) select 0);

 

 

There're probably better ways of doing this, but this works reliably.