Automatically find suitable vehicle attach point

[Nicoman35 2]

I am thinking about making an action allowing the player to attach a parachute to a vehicle. I would like to use the bergen backpack as 'container' for the visual representation. 

Problem: How do I find an attach point automatically for any kind of vehicle, so that the look would make sense. It should look more like this

https://www.mediafire.com/view/qep962tjtznudmw/1.jpg/file

And not like this

https://www.mediafire.com/view/vzhk4j6fq3n9d1a/2.jpg/file

 

Has anyone made a nice funktion for such a purpouse already?

[sarogahtyp 1105]

On 5/23/2022 at 2:06 PM, Nicoman35 said:

find an attach point automatically for any kind of vehicle

simply not possible. you ve to create some kind of configuration array for every single vehicle you want to support.

[pierremgi 4739]

You can use the sling load memory points:

getArray (configOf yourVehicle  >> "slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints")

Note: configOf yourvehicle (object)     is same as     configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> typeOf yourVehicle   (where typeOf yourVehicle is a class name)

 

Not sure that works on any vehicle. Test it.

 

For a quadBike you'll get:

getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> "B_Quadbike_01_F"  >> "slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints")  // returns: ["SlingLoadCargo1","SlingLoadCargo2","SlingLoadCargo3","SlingLoadCargo4"]

 

same with getArray (configOf cursorObject  >> "slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints") // when you point at a quadBike.

 

Problem: Getting their positions:

If I'm right, you need to work with the objects, with command like selectionPosition. I'm not sure you can find a command or a function working with classes.

 

getarray (configOf cursorObject >> "slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints") apply {cursorObject selectionPosition _x} // will return now: [[-0.447043,0.918197,-0.400729],[0.44327,0.918896,-0.400729],[-0.255609,-1.13709,-0.368357],[0.258668,-1.14754,-0.368357]]

Now you have 4 relative positions for sling load. Feel free to work for a mid-point attaching a unique parachute. You catch the principle.

 

 

[Nicoman35 2]

Thank your for the information, pirremgi

[NunesSergio 17]

Point to any vehicle (a vehicle able to be slingloaded) and run the following code. The nearest sling loading position to the player will be highlighted in red:

_veh = cursorTarget;
_selections = (_veh selectionNames "Memory") select {"slingloadcargo" in _x};

addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", {
	_thisArgs#0 apply {
		drawIcon3D [
			"",
			[1,1,1,1],
			_thisArgs#1 modelToWorldVisual (_thisArgs#1 selectionPosition [_x, "Memory"]),
			0,
			0,
			0,
			_x,
			2
		];
	};
}, [_selections, _veh]];

_distances = [];
for "_i" from 0 to ((count _selections) - 1) do {
	_distances pushBack (_veh modelToWorldVisual (_veh selectionPosition [_selections#_i, "Memory"]));
	_distances set [_i, [player distance _distances#_i, _distances#_i, _selections#_i]];
};
_distances sort true;

addMissionEventHandler ["Draw3D", {

	drawIcon3D [
		"",
		[1,0,0,1],
		_thisArgs#0 modelToWorldVisual (_thisArgs#0 selectionPosition [_thisArgs#1, "Memory"]),
		0,
		0,
		0,
		_thisArgs#1,
		2
	];
}, [_veh, _distances select 0 select 2]];

 

[Nicoman35 2]

Ah, nice script. Thank you.

 

[h4wek 41]

Why is not possibile to use in config to add slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints array as model coordinates points, example slingLoadCargoMemoryPoints[] = {{0,0.45,1.08},{0,-4.25,0.23}};  this could be done like in transport vehicles class 😞