help Creating Vehicle Spawn Menu with Specific Vehicles

[somenoob240 3]

Hello,

I'm very new to Arma 3 scripting. I'm trying to figure out how selections in a dialog work (I'm just using the GUI editor via debug menu), and how pulling certain vehicles to assign to each selection (then spawning at marker) would work. Figured I'd ask since I'm not really sure what to even search for. If my prior knowledge of basic HTML coding is correct I'd need to assign some kind of variable to the selected item(s) then pass that to the spawn script, but I just don't know how that works with Arma's code 😛

 

What I've got so far is my defines and all the code from the dialog I needed to paste into a file, plus the description.ext. 

 

Anything helps! Cheers.

[Harzach 2507]

I don't have any specific help for you at the moment, but here are some handy bookmarks for you:

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

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Functions

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Mission_Event_Handlers

 

Also, check the pinned topics in this subforum, most notably the Scripting Introduction and Scripting Guides posts.

 

Good luck, have fun!

[somenoob240 3]

1 hour ago, Harzach said:

I don't have any specific help for you at the moment, but here are some handy bookmarks for you:

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

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Arma_3:_Functions

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Event_Handlers

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Mission_Event_Handlers

 

Also, check the pinned topics in this subforum, most notably the Scripting Introduction and Scripting Guides posts.

 

Good luck, have fun!

Checked them out, found a bunch of useful stuff. Only issue I've got now is I have no idea how assigning a value (in this case classnames) to a variable that isn't simply just text.

 

For example I've got:

_charger10 = 
	{
	lbAdd [1500, "Dodge Charger '10"]; 
	lbSetData [1500, _index, "Fox_Charger10"];
	};

Not sure if that's the right formatting to use to execute multiple lines of code in one var.

Edited November 24, 2021 by somenoob240
typo correction

[somenoob240 3]

Also, I've been trying to figure out how to use the cursor selection to assign the index value to the lbSetData lines, but I don't know how to do that since the way I'm trying to do it is:

while {true} do
	{
		_index = lbCurSel 1500;
		_vehicleSel = lbData [1500,_index];
	};

Should I execute before or after defining the other variables?