waitUntil alternatives

[Rook Mk1 46]

Since waitUntil no longer does anything outside Booleans, what are some other good ways to wait in a script until a certain condition is activated?

 

while do works for certain things but it's not 100% reliable.

 

for instance originally you would have

waitUntil {speed _object < 20};

 

so i would try something like: 

while {speed _object  > 19} do {sleep 0.1};

 

But it was returning errors.

[alpha993 122]

waitUntil should work just fine for what you're trying to do. I would just make sure you put the script command and variable within parentheses before the < operator.

 

try using:
waitUntil {(speed _object) < 20};

 

Whatever is after that should fire whenever _object's speed drops below 20.

[Dedmen 2716]

16 hours ago, Rook Mk1 said:

Since waitUntil no longer does anything outside Booleans

it never really did, so what was the problem?

 

16 hours ago, Rook Mk1 said:

for instance originally you would have

waitUntil {speed _object < 20};

why would you not have it now?

 

10 hours ago, alpha993 said:

try using:
waitUntil {(speed _object) < 20};

Thats the same as above, just with needless parenthesis added.

[hcpookie 3770]

Depends on what you are trying to do.  waitUntil is laggy as hell in MP and I would completely redo your script to remove it altogether.

[Dedmen 2716]

1 minute ago, hcpookie said:

waitUntil is laggy as hell in MP

waitUntil works just as any other scheduled script.

[Rook Mk1 46]

@Dedmen

 

Yeah I realise that it works now, it was a problem with the script.

I was just under the impression that including anything other than true or false into a waituntil condition didn't work after update v1.93.145618

 

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Since Arma 3 v1.93.145618 returning anything other than true or false from condition will result in appropriate type error

 

[Dedmen 2716]

20 minutes ago, Rook Mk1 said:

I was just under the impression that including anything other than true or false into a waituntil condition didn't work after update v1.93.145618 

Well yes, thats correct. It will throw a warning.

[killzone_kid 1332]

It will still work just log warning every 10 seconds or so. Also not to address anyone in particular, if you are not sure how waitUntil works, please do not spread misconception