Detect Flight Recorder

[_-xXShArK_OGXx-_ 6]

Holy Moly, a plane has been shoot down and we need to recover the flight recorder!!,,

 

so I  made a trigger with the condition :
({_x isKindOf "rhs_flightrecorder"} count thisList) > 0
and it works if I spawn a rhs_flightrecorder in the area, but if I pick it up and go in the trigger and drop it nothing happens.
I also tried a box using:

{_x =="rhs_flightrecorder"} count ItemCargo FLR_box >0 

how do i detect the flight recorder?
thx.

[beno_83au 1362]

When you carry it into the area and drop it onto the ground, and this goes from anything being moved from an inventory to the ground (at least, I can't think of anything that wouldn't do this), the item gets placed into a "GroundWeaponHolder" object. You can test this yourself by pointing your cursor/weapon at the object you just dropped, bring up the debug menu, and put this into one of the "Watch" boxes:

typeOf cursorObject

So the "GroundWeaponHolder" acts as a container for the object. So you need to search for any "GroundWeaponHolder" that are in the trigger, then check to see if there's a "rhs_flightrecorder" in their inventory. BUT, it seems like triggers don't get triggered by a "GroundWeaponHolder". So you need to get a bit creative:

_radius = selectMax ((triggerArea thisTrigger) select [0,2]);
_holders = (nearestObjects [getPos thisTrigger,["GroundWeaponHolder"],_radius]) select {_x inArea thisTrigger};
({(((getItemCargo _x) select 0) select 0) == "rhs_item_flightrecorder"} count _holders) > 0

Put that into the trigger's "Condition" field and it should detect when someone has placed a flight recorder onto the ground from their inventory.

[_-xXShArK_OGXx-_ 6]

Awsome!!!! just tested it out and it works like a charm 🙂 
Maby we will know who shoot down the plane after all 😉 

[_-xXShArK_OGXx-_ 6]

but there seems to be something i'm not getting,
how do i detect it in a box or backpack?
i tried:
({_x == "rhs_flightrecorder"} count ItemCargo box_1) > 0
as a condition on a trigger, but it does not trigger when i put it in.
if i use >> hint str getItemCargo box_1;

i get >> [["rhs_item_flightrecorder"],[1]]
 

[_-xXShArK_OGXx-_ 6]

On 2/13/2021 at 3:22 AM, _-xXShArK_OGXx-_ said:

but there seems to be something i'm not getting,
how do i detect it in a box or backpack?
i tried:
({_x == "rhs_flightrecorder"} count ItemCargo box_1) > 0
as a condition on a trigger, but it does not trigger when i put it in.
if i use >> hint str getItemCargo box_1;

i get >> [["rhs_item_flightrecorder"],[1]]
 

LOL!!! looking for the wrong class name is not the way to make it work 😉 
Got it now,, thx 
({_x =="rhs_item_flightrecorder"} count ItemCargo box_1) > 0


Solved

[beno_83au 1362]

7 hours ago, _-xXShArK_OGXx-_ said:

LOL!!! looking for the wrong class name is not the way to make it work 😉 

Haha yes, caught me out for a little bit too 😁