Formation direction

[gc8 981]

Hi

can you change the formation direction somehow using zeus?

 

thx

[RCA3 593]

Left shift drag?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Field_Manual_-_Zeus#Editing

[gc8 981]

6 hours ago, RCA3 said:

Left shift drag?

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Field_Manual_-_Zeus#Editing

 

ty for that but it only works inside editing area and it instantly sets the new direction. I need this outside the editing area and not instant but instead the soldiers should walk to new formation position

[RCA3 593]

You can select the leader and Lshift drag, the group will move by walking.

For outside editing area I tried Zeus Enhanced and you can execute code (_this setFormDir <direction>) on group leader and they will also walk.

[beno_83au 1369]

I know where you're going with this gc8. If zeus enhanced doesn't do it for you, maybe a combination of getMousePosition and screenToWorld, used with a UI event handler for mouseButtonDown/Up to get the direction you want then to face, like you would any normal RTS when clicking and dragging to set formations and directions. Seems a little unnecessarily complex though 😁 so hopefully there's a better way.

[gc8 981]

yep trying to use zeus for RTS... will see if I can figure some good way to rotate those squads , setFormDir  was just what I was looking for

 

not sure if zeus enchanted is for me because I need to disable some of the features already for RTS

[gc8 981]

I'm planning to implement this so that when you click on ground the group will face the position you clicked. This works well, except I cant seem to override the default zeus move on right click. 

 

I tried this:

finddisplay 312 displayAddEventHandler ["MouseButtonDown", { true } ];

tried "MouseButtonUp" too and with display 46 / 313

 

but to no avail

[beno_83au 1369]

What about using a shortcut key instead of mouse click?

[gc8 981]

11 hours ago, beno_83au said:

What about using a shortcut key instead of mouse click?

 

I was thinking that too but mouse click would be better IMO. maybe I use both 🙂

 

[gc8 981]

It seems that the zeus does not use onMouseButtonDown etc EH but the calls to CuratorWaypointPlaced etc come straight from the engine (addEventHandler).

 

I was able to get the squad rotation to work but had to use inputaction "curatorRotateMod" (Shift) because I couldnt get KeyDown to fire (but KeyUp does!)

 

Code that I couldn't get to work:

 

_display = finddisplay 312;
_display displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown", 
{
params ["_displayorcontrol", "_key", "_shift", "_ctrl", "_alt"];

systemchat format["DOWN %1 %2", _key,_shift];

}];

 

Any ideas/workaround to get the keyDown to work?

 

Edited March 12, 2021 by gc8
addEventHandler

[pierremgi 4912]

Perhaps some hints here:

 

[gc8 981]

@pierremgi thx for the link but I just cant get KeyDown EH to work...

 

Nvm I had another KeyDown EH which seems to have the priority 😄

 

got it working now...

 

Edit: I don't know why I cant have two KeyDown EHs but I guess I'll just put the code to one EH

 

Edit2: Got two Keydown EH working now, not sure what I did lol

 

[pierremgi 4912]

As side note: For these EHs (keydown , keyUp but also inGameUISetEventHandler ) , it's important to end the code by FALSE (for added behavior) or TRUE (overriding the key binding) Best example.

[gc8 981]

On 3/14/2021 at 3:03 PM, pierremgi said:

As side note: For these EHs (keydown , keyUp but also inGameUISetEventHandler ) , it's important to end the code by FALSE (for added behavior) or TRUE (overriding the key binding) Best example.

 

I have tried to override some of the zeus camera behaviour by using "MouseMoving" & "MouseButtonDown" EHs and returning true from them but to no avail. is zeus unmodifiable then in this case?

[gc8 981]

still trying to do this (override zeus cam turning), I have this code running:

 

{
(finddisplay _x) displayAddEventHandler ["MouseMoving",
{
 true
}];

} foreach [0,12,46,312,313];

 

But zeus still turns the camera when holding right mouse button down and moving.

 

any tips of what to try?