Marking player position on death in the map

[Rawshark 11]

So for a multiplayer session, I want to create a script that will mark the position of any friendly BLUFOR player should they go unconscious/awaiting revive...and upon a successful revive have that maker be deleted. It's not a PvP mission so the marker should only be visible to players on the same side.

This is what I've come up with so far but I haven't been able to test it atm. Can someone point out if there is any glaring errors with it or know a better code I could implement:

_player = _x; _mrk = format ["%1",_player];

_mrk setMarkerTextLocal format ["%1 Injured",name _player]; _mrk setMarkerColorLocal "ColorRed";

I am not certain a) what BIS_func I have to call for checking player state as there only seems to be a 'BIS fnc paramReviveUnconsciousStateMode' option to check before dropping the marker

b) I am not sure how to then remove said "injured" marker if the revive is complete. Could I get away with:

While (true) do { injured marker code; }

else

{deleteMarkerLocal _x} forEach _markers;

Any help would be appreciated as I am not the best at this. thanks.

[pierremgi 4738]

0 = [] spawn {
  while {true} do {
    _allUnits = allUnits select { isNil {_x getVariable "Raw_incap"}};
    {
       _x spawn {
        params ["_unit"];
        _unit setVariable ["Raw_incap",true];
        _unit addEventHandler ["AnimChanged", {
            params ["_unit", "_anim"];
            if (lifeState _unit == "incapacitated" and side group _unit == playerSide) then {
               _mrk = createMarkerLocal [str (_unit), getposATL _unit];
               _mrk setMarkerTypeLocal "mineFieldAP";
               _mrk setMarkerSizeLocal [0.7,0.7];
               _mrk setMarkerColorLocal ([playerSide,  true] call BIS_fnc_sideColor);
            } else {
              deleteMarkerLocal str (_unit);
            };
        }];
      };
    } forEach _allUnits;
    sleep 2;
  }
};

in init.sqf  or initPlayerLocal.sqf

 

[GEORGE FLOROS GR 4206]

1 hour ago, pierremgi said:

createMarkerLocal

 

Pierre , if it is "createMarkerLocal" then the other players will not see the markers right ?

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

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

[mrcurry 470]

35 minutes ago, GEORGE FLOROS GR said:

 

Pierre , if it is "createMarkerLocal" then the other players will not see the markers right ?

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

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

 

I believe it's by design George, the code makes each client manage it's own set of local markers. It's a good way to keep network traffic low since each update needs to be broadcast otherwise.

I am a bit confused as to why the "setMarkerXXX" aren't using the local variant though since AFAIK they would make the local marker go global. @pierremgi Can you clarify?

[pierremgi 4738]

8 hours ago, GEORGE FLOROS GR said:

 

Pierre , if it is "createMarkerLocal" then the other players will not see the markers right ?

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

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

Yep

 

Oups! I copied/pasted a createMarker code from one of my script and forgot to adapt it . For course, you must use local commands everywhere. Yes, creating a maker local and adding some global features will transform it in global version one... And deleteMarkerLocal will work only on the local PC, leaving the marker everywhere else.

 

Corrected above! sorry.

[Rawshark 11]

Thank you so much for the help, you legend!