Help with array.

[Robustcolor 30]

Hi, I'm trying to have an array with editor placed map markers inside. My goal is to have main markers attached with sub markers, something like below. Tips?

_markers = [["1",["m1_1","m1_2"]],["2",["m2_1","m2_2"]]];

_target = selectRandom _markers;

/example/

_target = ["1",["m1_1","m1_2"]];

From here, i can't seem to fetch the positions of the markers.

_mainTarget select 0 gives me "1" but i can't use getMarkerPos on it.

Same here,

_subTargets = _target select 1;

selectRandom _subTargets;

_subTarget gives me "m1_1";

 

[gc8 970]

I think this should work in the end:

 

_subTarget = selectRandom _subTargets;

_mpos = getMarkerPos _subTarget;

[Schatten 268]

@Robustcolor, if you don't need main marker names, then you can simplify the code:

_markers = [["m1_1", "m1_2"], ["m2_1", "m2_2"]];

_subTarget = selectRandom (selectRandom _markers);

If you need main marker names, then you can use either this code:

_markers = [["1", ["m1_1", "m1_2"]], ["2", ["m2_1", "m2_2"]]];

_subTarget = selectRandom ((selectRandom _markers) select 1);

or this one:

_markersHashMap = createHashMap [["1", ["m1_1", "m1_2"]], ["2", ["m2_1", "m2_2"]]];

_subTarget = selectRandom (_markersHashMap get (selectRandom (keys _markersHashMap)));

 

[Robustcolor 30]

Is it possible to store positions inside the array with apply {getMarkerPos _x} when the array looks like this?

_markers = [["1",["m1_1","m1_2"]],["2",["m2_1","m2_2"]]];

Because this will be in a loop and it will fetch the position again for each check.

5 hours ago, gc8 said:

_subTarget = selectRandom _subTargets;

_mpos = getMarkerPos _subTarget;

[gc8 970]

13 hours ago, Robustcolor said:

Because this will be in a loop and it will fetch the position again for each check.

 

If you are thinking about speed I wouldn't bother. Now the code would be smaller and easier to read, without extra loop.

That's just my opinion of course