[SOLVED] eventHandler for opening the parachute

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

Hi,

 

I need help to get this running. I want to call some code on opening the parachute. I didn't found anything matching in the list: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers. I even tried the GetIn-Handlers because the parachute seems to be handled as a vehicle. Any ideas?

 

Thx in advance ;)

[davidoss 548]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Actions#OpenParachute

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

That's not what I'm searching for. I know how to open the parachute. I want to react with a script on opening the parachute. So when the player uses the default mouse wheel menu entry "open parachute", something should happen.

[davidoss 548]

animationState player == "para_pilot"

[Harzach 2294]

^^^

if (animationState player == "para_pilot") then {
    ("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)];
};

You might want to tweak the offset of that smokeshell, though.

 

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

Yep, that code works - but I still don't know whats the best way of checking the current state again and again.

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged", {
    params ["player", "para_pilot"]; hint "hello";
}];

didn't worked. Shall I just use a dumb while-loop?

[Harzach 2294]

I would think the EH would be preferable, but your example is not how they work. Just spitballing, but it should be something like this I think?

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged", { 
    if ((_this select 1) == "para_pilot") then {
        ("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle player)];
    }; 
}];

Most probably wrong, but something like that.

I've got work to do, but I'll give it a shot in the morning, unless a smarter person beats me to it.

[Lucullus 71]

untested

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged",
{	
	params ["","_anim"];
	if (_anim isEqualTo "para_pilot") then
	{
		("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)];
	};
}];

AnimChanged EH

 

edit: too late...

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

Nope. Both don't seem to work. Best working code until now is

while {true} do {
	if (animationState player == "para_pilot") then {
    	("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)];
    	};
	sleep 0.1;
};

 

[Lucullus 71]

Hmm, can´t test it yet...

What about...

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged",
{	
	params ["","_anim"];
	hint format ["%1",_anim];
}];

...to check anim name?

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

2 minutes ago, Lucullus said:

Hmm, can´t test it yet...

What about...

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged",
{	
	params ["","_anim"];
	hint format ["%1",_anim];
}];

...to check anim name?

Nothing happens. I don't really understand AnimChanged yet.

[Lucullus 71]

32 minutes ago, Fastfood4Bigfoot said:

Best working code until now is...

 

Use this instead:

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged",
{	
	if (animationState player == "para_pilot") then
	{ 
		("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)];
	};
}];

"para_pilot" is an action name, not an anim name.

[johnnyboy 3615]

1 hour ago, Harzach said:

You might want to tweak the offset of that smokeshell, though.

hahahaha

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

12 minutes ago, Lucullus said:

 

Use this instead:

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged",
{	
	if (animationState player == "para_pilot") then
	{ 
		("SmokeShell" createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)];
	};
}];

"para_pilot" is an action name, not an anim name.

Nope. Nothing yet.

[Lucullus 71]

Arma vanilla?

41 minutes ago, Lucullus said:

player addEventHandler ["AnimChanged", { params ["","_anim"]; hint format ["%1",_anim]; }];

^^^ this should give you a continual hint as you move...

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

17 minutes ago, Lucullus said:

Arma vanilla?

^^^ this should give you a continual hint as you move...

No mods, newest version. Nothing on the screen, no hint, no error. When I'm landing and walking on the ground, it prints some letters, like "amovpercmstpsraswrfldnon".

[Larrow 2695]

Just use the action menu event handler.

inGameUISetEventHandler [ "Action", "
	params[ '', '_caller', '', '_actionName' ];
	
	if ( _actionName == 'OpenParachute' ) then {
		hint format[ '%1 opened their parachute', name _caller ];
	};
"];

[Harzach 2294]

1 hour ago, Larrow said:

Just use the action menu event handler.

 

Works perfectly (natch),  but I still want to figure out why the AnimChanged EH won't do anything.

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

Code works for me, too, but is also creating new problems.

inGameUISetEventHandler [ "Action", " 
    params[ '', '_caller', '', '_actionName' ]; 
     
    if ( _actionName == 'OpenParachute' ) then { 
            ('SmokeShell' createVehicle (position player)) attachto [(vehicle  player)]; 
    }; 
"];

If I'm using the code above, there's the clicking sound of a thrown grenade when I open the parachute. But nothing happens... until I touch the ground - then the grenade immediately starts producing smoke. I don't know at all what's going on there, quite weird...

[Harzach 2294]

The smoke grenade is being spawned before the parachute exists, I would guess. This works:

inGameUISetEventHandler [ "Action", "
    params[ '', '_caller', '', '_actionName' ];
    
    if ( _actionName == 'OpenParachute' ) then {
        hint format[ '%1 opened their parachute', name _caller ];
        _nul = [_caller] spawn {
            _caller = _this select 0;
            sleep 3;
            ('SmokeShellRed' createVehicle (position _caller)) attachto [(vehicle _caller),[-0.4,0,1.5]];
            ('SmokeShell' createVehicle (position _caller)) attachto [(vehicle _caller),[0,0,1.5]];
            ('SmokeShellBlue' createVehicle (position _caller)) attachto [(vehicle _caller),[0.4,0,1.5]];
        };
    };
"];

[Larrow 2695]

inGameUISetEventHandler [ "Action", "
	params[ '', '_caller', '', '_actionName' ];
	
	if ( _actionName == 'OpenParachute' ) then {
		_thread = [ _caller ] spawn {
			params[ '_caller' ];

			waitUntil { vehicle _caller != _caller };
			
			_emitters = [];
			{
				_x params[ '_pos', '_color' ];
				
				//Following borrowed from BI smoke module
				_color params[ '_colorRed', '_colorGreen', '_colorBlue', '_colorAlpha' ];
				
				_emitter = '#particlesource' createVehicle ( vehicle _caller modelToWorldVisual _pos );
				_emitter attachTo [ vehicle _caller, _pos ];
				_nul = _emitters pushback _emitter;
				
				_timeout = 0;
				_particleLifeTime = 50;
				_particleDensity = 10;
				_particleSize = 1;
				_particleSpeed = 1;
				_particleLifting = 1;
				_windEffect = 1;
				_effectSize = 1;
				_expansion = 1;
				
				_emitter setParticleParams [
					['\A3\data_f\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal_02',8,0,40,1],'','billboard',1,_particleLifeTime,[0,0,0],[0,0,2*_particleSpeed],0,0.05,0.04*_particleLifting,0.05*_windEffect,[1 *_particleSize + 1,1.8 * _particleSize + 15],
				[[0.7*_colorRed,0.7*_colorGreen,0.7*_colorBlue,0.7*_colorAlpha],[0.7*_colorRed,0.7*_colorGreen,0.7*_colorBlue,0.6*_colorAlpha],[0.7*_colorRed,0.7*_colorGreen,0.7*_colorBlue,0.45*_colorAlpha],
				[0.84*_colorRed,0.84*_colorGreen,0.84*_colorBlue,0.28*_colorAlpha],[0.84*_colorRed,0.84*_colorGreen,0.84*_colorBlue,0.16*_colorAlpha],[0.84*_colorRed,0.84*_colorGreen,0.84*_colorBlue,0.09*_colorAlpha],
				[0.84*_colorRed,0.84*_colorGreen,0.84*_colorBlue,0.06*_colorAlpha],[1*_colorRed,1*_colorGreen,1*_colorBlue,0.02*_colorAlpha],[1*_colorRed,1*_colorGreen,1*_colorBlue,0*_colorAlpha]],
				[1,0.55,0.35], 0.1, 0.08*_expansion, '', '', ''];
				
				_emitter setParticleRandom [_particleLifeTime/2, [0.5*_effectSize,0.5*_effectSize,0.2*_effectSize], [0.3,0.3,0.5], 1, 0, [0,0,0,0.06], 0, 0];
				_emitter setDropInterval (1/_particleDensity);
			}forEach [
				[ [0,0,1], [ 1, 0, 0, 1 ] ],
				[ [0,0,0], [ 1, 1, 1, 1 ] ],
				[ [0,0,-1], [ 0, 0, 1, 1 ] ]
			];
			
			waitUntil{ vehicle _caller isEqualTo _caller };
			
			{
				deleteVehicle _x;
			}forEach _emitters;
		};
	};
"];

Adjust particles, their position and colors to what ever you desire.

 

EDIT: Added removal of particles once the player has touch down.

[Fastfood4Bigfoot 0]

@Harzach: Nice offsets for the smoke grenades, although in already saw in videos the smoke grenade to be tied to to a leg:

 

@Larrow: Nice solution, works until the landing - probably I will further improve the smoke grenade with automatically respawning smoke shells. Maybe a little bit too much smoke, thinking about tweaking the parameters.

[Harzach 2294]

1 hour ago, Fastfood4Bigfoot said:

@Harzach: Nice offsets for the smoke grenades, although in already saw in videos the smoke grenade to be tied to to a leg:

That's what @davidoss was going for in your other topic, but of course, the problem is that we can't attachTo a unit in a parachute. Offsetting a smokeshell down to where the player's foot should be would look even worse, as the player's legs are constantly swinging and moving around, while the smokeshell would stay in the same relative position.