Arma 3 Trouble in Terrorist Town

[LolIHateMyself 0]

So I've been trying to recreate the Gmod gamemode Trouble in Terrorist Town into ArmA 3 (because ArmA's combat engine is way better than Source in my opinion), however I am not a scripting wizard, and I was wondering if I could get some tips on selecting the roles of players (Innocents, Traitors, Detectives) without just displaying to the entire server who is a traitor, or manually hitting a random number generator. As a secondary Objective, I'd like to also know how I can create or find a premade menu interface for Traitors to buy traitor items. If you have any leads like youtube tutorials or some open source scripts it would be greatly appreciated

[MrSanchez 243]

Hi,

 

If you have access to the gmod files you could take a look at the lua scripts used for some of the original TTT's components such as the selection system.

I think that for the selection part you should let the server do that and once that's done, broadcast the players' roles to them using _unit setVariable ["ttt_role", 2, true] or use remoteExec.

The selection logic could be as follows: (pseudoish code)

 

// Many different ways to approach this.
// Below defaults everyone to role 0 (innocent) and then sets the role IDs.

_innocentPool = allPlayers;
{
  _x setVariable ["TTT_Role", 0, true];
} foreach _innocentPool;

// Determine traitors
for( int i = 0; i < amountOfTraitors; i++) {
	_traitor = selectRandom _innocentPool;
	_traitor setVariable ["TTT_Role", 1, true];
	_innocentPool = _innocentPool - [_traitor];
}

// Determine detectives
for( int i = 0; i < amountOfDetectives; i++) {
	_detective = selectRandom _innocentPool;
	_traitor setVariable ["TTT_Role", 2, true];
	_innocentPool = _innocentPool - [_traitor];
}

{
	_x call TTT_fnc_initializeRole; // Uses TTT_Role variable
} foreach allPlayers;

 

As I commented, many ways to approach this. I'd recommend you write some pseudo code to figure out what you want, how you want it and how to get there :)

 

Kind regards,

Sanchez

[HazJ 1289]

for( int i = 0; i < amountOfTraitors; i++) {

Note: This isn't ArmA syntax.

ArmA Syntax:

for "_i" from 0 to (count amountOfTraitors) do
{
	// do stuff...
};

 

[MrSanchez 243]

16 hours ago, HazJ said:

for( int i = 0; i < amountOfTraitors; i++) {

Note: This isn't ArmA syntax.

ArmA Syntax:

for "_i" from 0 to (count amountOfTraitors) do
{
	// do stuff...
};

 

This is true. For Mr. HateMySelf, note that I tagged the code I provided as pseudoish code. It is not code to be directly copy pasted without adjustments :)

 

Kind regards,

Sanchez

[HazJ 1289]

Yeah I know. I was just noting further and providing example using the correct syntax. (: