Location location?

[NumbNutsJunior 65]

I am just curious on how you might actually use the position  command to find the position of a location of one of the major towns such as Athira or Sofia, clearly the locations are marked out somewhere because the editor already has a list of locations and 3D markers placed. I simply could not find a way to do this, so I've come to the people of the forums to save me.

Just to be clear, I don't want to find the location of the nearest town based on an object or a marker, just if it is possible from the built in game locations

 

Thank you, Pizza Man

[Harzach 2517]

Check the link for the location command you posted - there are a bunch of useful and relevant commands at the bottom of the page, like locationPosition.

[NumbNutsJunior 65]

6 minutes ago, Harzach said:

Check the link for the location command you posted - there are a bunch of useful and relevant commands at the bottom of the page, like locationPosition.

I understand you can get the location of a location, but these are based on the position of an object, a maker or a created location,

If I could use this and do something like locationPosition 'Athira'; that that would be great. Maybe i'm just missing something cause I have gone through all the relevant functions.

Just wondering the game hides the locations of all the built in towns somewhere really

[Harzach 2517]

Looking through the related commands and their descriptions/examples, it seems as though it should be possible to return the position of a specific location. Honestly, I've never done it before, but I'm pretty sure there are missions in the wild that do this. I found a couple of forum topics on the subject that lead me to believe it might not be the most straight-forward process, though.

[Grumpy Old Man 3545]

Not sure if this is what you want, but you can retrieve all locations like this:

_locations = nearestLocation [[worldSize/2,worldSize/2],[],(worldSize/2) * 1.4142];

Then you'd need to further filter for location names if you want a specific one.

 

Cheers

[NumbNutsJunior 65]

On 10/12/2018 at 2:09 AM, Grumpy Old Man said:

Not sure if this is what you want, but you can retrieve all locations like this:

_locations = nearestLocation [[worldSize/2,worldSize/2],[],(worldSize/2) * 1.4142];

Then you'd need to further filter for location names if you want a specific one.

 

Cheers

 

After testing, I don't think this would work sadly

[mrcurry 496]

On 12/10/2018 at 12:27 PM, NumbNutsJunior said:

 

After testing, I don't think this would work sadly

 

It works, really, though add an "s" to nearestLocation so it becomes nearestLocations.

 

Alternatively if you want just one location use nearestLocation:

_loc = nearestLocation [getPos player, "nameCity"];

nameCity might need to be changed to  nameCapital, NameVillage or one of the other classes in CfgLocationTypes.

 

A third option is just to get away with locations all together and just place a game logic where you want it, name it and use getPos. 

[pedeathtrian 99]

On 12.10.2018 at 3:11 AM, NumbNutsJunior said:

Just wondering the game hides the locations of all the built in towns somewhere really

All locations are in config files with their positions. Check entries in this config: configFile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldName >> "Names", filter by type, PROFIT.

{
  diag_log format ["%1: %2", getText(_x >> "name"), str (getArray (_x>>"position"))]
} forEach (
  'getText(_x >> "type") == "NameCity" || getText(_x >> "type") == "NameCityCapital"' configClasses (configFile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldName >> "Names")
)

 

UPD: Output:

17:06:12 "Katkoula: [5684.68,3993.67]"
17:06:12 "Balavu: [2677.42,7441.56]"
17:06:12 "Blue Pearl industrial port: [13523,12134.8]"
17:06:12 "Georgetown: [5396.22,10334.7]"
17:06:12 "Lijnhaven: [11802,2662.98]"
17:06:12 "Tuvanaka: [1579.49,11937.8]"
17:06:12 "Moddergat: [9407.35,4133.13]"
17:06:12 "Doodstil: [12861.9,4691.1]"
17:06:12 "Harcourt: [11122.5,5342.93]"
17:06:12 "Tanouka: [9014.23,10214.2]"
17:06:12 "Lifou: [7080.21,8004.08]"
17:06:12 "La Rochelle: [9549.78,13673.4]"
17:06:12 "Nicolet: [6164.67,12864.7]"
17:06:12 "Ouméré: [12984.3,7321.96]"
17:06:12 "Saint-Julien: [5808.6,11213.3]"

 

[NumbNutsJunior 65]

58 minutes ago, pedeathtrian said:

All locations are in config files with their positions. Check entries in this config: configFile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldName >> "Names", filter by type, PROFIT.

{
  diag_log format ["%1: %2", getText(_x >> "name"), str (getArray (_x>>"position"))]
} forEach (
  'getText(_x >> "type") == "NameCity" || getText(_x >> "type") == "NameCityCapital"' configClasses (configFile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldName >> "Names")
)

 

UPD: Output:

17:06:12 "Katkoula: [5684.68,3993.67]"
17:06:12 "Balavu: [2677.42,7441.56]"
17:06:12 "Blue Pearl industrial port: [13523,12134.8]"
17:06:12 "Georgetown: [5396.22,10334.7]"
17:06:12 "Lijnhaven: [11802,2662.98]"
17:06:12 "Tuvanaka: [1579.49,11937.8]"
17:06:12 "Moddergat: [9407.35,4133.13]"
17:06:12 "Doodstil: [12861.9,4691.1]"
17:06:12 "Harcourt: [11122.5,5342.93]"
17:06:12 "Tanouka: [9014.23,10214.2]"
17:06:12 "Lifou: [7080.21,8004.08]"
17:06:12 "La Rochelle: [9549.78,13673.4]"
17:06:12 "Nicolet: [6164.67,12864.7]"
17:06:12 "Ouméré: [12984.3,7321.96]"
17:06:12 "Saint-Julien: [5808.6,11213.3]"

 

This is exactly what I was looking for thank you