Change Faction

[Naiss 28]

How would someone change their Faction from west to civilian?

Let's say I'm west now so when I use PlayerSide command it returns west but i wanna change that to return Civ without the player needing to change slot

 

Thanks

[davidoss 552]

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

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

14 hours ago, Naiss said:

How would someone change their Faction from west to civilian?

Let's say I'm west now so when I use PlayerSide command it returns west but i wanna change that to return Civ without the player needing to change slot

 

Thanks

 

12 hours ago, davidoss said:

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

 

PlayerSide will return west, even if the player is setCaptive true.

setCaptive only pretends to change sides, a captive west player will still engage east units.

 

To properly change sides you need to use join or joinSilent:

[player] joinSilent createGroup civilian;

Cheers

[killzone_kid 1333]

10 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

To properly change sides you need to use join or joinSilent:

This will not change playerSide though

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

11 hours ago, killzone_kid said:

This will not change playerSide though

Indeed, weird, the wiki suggests otherwise:

 

Quote

Returns the player's side. This is valid even when the player controlled person is dead (a difference from side player).

 

After reading the comments I decided to do a quick check, playerSide always seems to return the initial side of the player unit (maybe retrieved from Cfg?).

Even after joining east group and setting captive it returns west, the initial side.

So it will be better to check for side player instead.

 

This begs the question of the actual purpose of playerSide, heh.

 

Cheers

[mrcurry 511]

7 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

This begs the question of the actual purpose of playerSide, heh.

 

Cheers

 

I'd argue the purpose is perfectly clear even if the wiki isn't. 

 

side player ( or side group player) is for getting the player's current allegiance. It's a fickle tool which can change it's output based on a multitude of parameters. 

 

playerSide is for getting the starting allegiance, something which prior to playerSide's introduction required a config lookup or similar hackery.

 

Something I'd like to test is if selectPlayer affects the result of playerSide. 

[Naiss 28]

So there is not really any simple way of doing this, i remember back in the arma 2 oa days where you should change by just changing the classname of the player if that make sense but then again you where not able to change your clothing etc like in arma 3 so i guess you can't really do it the same way

[mrcurry 511]

5 minutes ago, Naiss said:

So there is not really any simple way of doing this

Not to be that guy but it helps to read the entire text. 

On 02/01/2019 at 8:05 AM, Grumpy Old Man said:

To properly change sides you need to use join or joinSilent:

[player] joinSilent createGroup civilian;

Cheers

 

[Naiss 28]

Just now, mrcurry said:

Not to be that guy but it helps to read the entire text. 

 

I saw that but then I saw killzone_kid said it would not change playerside result 

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

2 minutes ago, Naiss said:

I saw that but then I saw killzone_kid said it would not change playerside result 

Why do you need to use playerSide?

 

Cheers

[Naiss 28]

I have a lot of codes that has playerside stuff and i just wanna find a simpler way to change side without needing to go into the lobby or change code

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

6 minutes ago, Naiss said:

I have a lot of codes that has playerside stuff and i just wanna find a simpler way to change side without needing to go into the lobby or change code

Uhm maybe you're not following through on this one or I'm confused but have you tried using

side player

to check for a players side?

As stated above by @mrcurry, read the whole thing, heh.

 

Cheers

[Naiss 28]

I will test this later and check

[killzone_kid 1333]

Use side group player this way you can get the current side from dead player

[killzone_kid 1333]

16 hours ago, Grumpy Old Man said:

Indeed, weird

I've added a hack https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playerSide

 

[Naiss 28]

On 3.1.2019 at 9:53 PM, killzone_kid said:

I've added a hack https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/playerSide

 

Tested your code and it changes the "side player" result but it does not change "playerside"

[killzone_kid 1333]

7 hours ago, Naiss said:

Tested your code and it changes the "side player" result but it does not change "playerside"

This says nothing to me. I tested it too and it works. If you give more details maybe I can give you an answer

 

 

[Naiss 28]

10 hours ago, killzone_kid said:

This says nothing to me. I tested it too and it works. If you give more details maybe I can give you an answer

 

 

I ran your code in the debug console from the wiki that you added and before it displayed CIV when I use side player the first time but once I ran your code it showed east but not with playerSide, it does not seem to update the playerSide, it still does only return Civ when I use playerSide but side player returns east as it should if that make sense

[Grumpy Old Man 3549]

1 hour ago, Naiss said:

I ran your code in the debug console from the wiki that you added and before it displayed CIV when I use side player the first time but once I ran your code it showed east but not with playerSide, it does not seem to update the playerSide, it still does only return Civ when I use playerSide but side player returns east as it should if that make sense

Elaborate further on how the initial sides have been set up, was the unit initially civ (editor placed civilian)?

 

Cheers

[killzone_kid 1333]

On 1/7/2019 at 9:44 AM, Naiss said:

I ran your code in the debug console from the wiki that you added and before it displayed CIV when I use side player the first time but once I ran your code it showed east but not with playerSide, it does not seem to update the playerSide, it still does only return Civ when I use playerSide but side player returns east as it should if that make sense

[Naiss 28]

11 hours ago, killzone_kid said:

 

I had the civilian placed down in the editor and ran the code on MP and there is no west or east units placed down, do i need to have west and east placed down or?

[killzone_kid 1333]

48 minutes ago, Naiss said:

ran the code on MP

Duh! The selectNoPlayer doesn't work in MP,. you should have checked wiki

[Naiss 28]

1 minute ago, killzone_kid said:

Duh! The selectNoPlayer doesn't work in MP,. you should have checked wiki

oh wow, my bad