Multiple Enemy units to ping on the map

[Maguila.gm 0]

I had a script to one enemy unit to ping on the map and have its position updated every 5 seconds and it worked:

 

beaconblip1 = createMarker ["beacon1", v1];
beaconblip1 setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
beaconblip1 setMarkerColor "ColorGreen";
beaconblip1 setMarkerSize [15, 15];
while {true} do {
 "beacon1" setMarkerPos (getPos v1);
sleep 5;
};

 

I wanted do do for multiple units, i did multiple of the exemple 1 but after 20 or so it got very time consuming. So i did this and it is not working:

 

// Define the array of enemy unit objects (replace these with your actual enemy unit objects)
private _enemyUnits = [v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21];

// Create an empty array to hold the markers
private _markers = [];

// Create markers for each enemy unit
{
    private _markerName = format ["enemyMarker%d", (_forEachIndex + 1)];
    private _markerPos = getPos _x;

    _markers pushBack createMarker [_markerName, _markerPos];
    _markers select (_forEachIndex) setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
    _markers select (_forEachIndex) setMarkerColor "ColorRed"; // You can set this to whatever color you prefer
    _markers select (_forEachIndex) setMarkerSize [15, 15];
} forEach _enemyUnits;

// Continuously update the marker positions based on enemy unit positions
while {true} do {
    {
        private _markerName = format ["enemyMarker%d", (_forEachIndex + 1)];
        _markerName setMarkerPos (getPos (_enemyUnits select _forEachIndex));
    } forEach _enemyUnits;
    
    sleep 5;
};
 

 

[pierremgi 4743]

Welcome on forum.

2 errors:

You didn't set _markers before using it (missing line:  _markers = []; )

and your format (for marker name) is wrong : replace it everywhere by: format ["enemyMarker%1", (_forEachIndex + 1)]   (instead of "enemyMarker%d")

Note: you need to spawn this code, using a while true loop.

 

Anyway, you can easily avoid such names for markers. str random 1 will return different strings, no matter the number of markers. Test it.

My suggest (tested):

private _enemyUnits = [v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21];
{
  private _mk = createMarker [str random 1, getpos _x];
  _mk setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
  _mk setMarkerColor "colorRed";
  _mk setMarkerSize [15,15];
  [_mk,_x] spawn {
    params ["_mk","_enemy"];
    while {alive _enemy} do {
      _mk setMarkerPos _enemy;
      sleep 5;
    };
    deleteMarker _mk;
  };
} forEach _enemyUnits;

 

[Maguila.gm 0]

Thank you so much! i will test here

[Maguila.gm 0]

It worked!

[Maguila.gm 0]

private _enemyUnits = [v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6, v7, v8, v9, v10, v11, v12, v13, v14, v15, v16, v17, v18, v19, v20, v21, v22, v23, v24, v25, v26, v27, v28, v29, v30, v31, v32, v33, v34, v35, v36, v37, v38, v39, v40, v41, v42, v43, v44, v45, v46, v47, v48, v49, v50];
{
  private _mk = createMarker [str random 1, getpos _x];
  _mk setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
  _mk setMarkerColor "colorRed";
  _mk setMarkerSize [15,15];
  [_mk,_x] spawn {
    params ["_mk","_enemy"];
    while {damage _enemy < 1} do {
      _mk setMarkerPos _enemy;
      sleep 5;
    };
    deleteMarker _mk;
  };
} forEach _enemyUnits

Sorry to bother, but the code above is not running, do you know what is wrong

[Harzach 2508]

2 hours ago, Maguila.gm said:

do you know what is wrong

 

No closing semicolon and a few corrupted characters:

 

 

When you paste code into a code block, corrupted/invisible characters show up as red dots. You can just delete them then recopy your code out of the code block.

[pierremgi 4743]

Little bit odd naming 50 units as enemies...

Why not replacing this array by a side condition?

[Maguila.gm 0]

9 minutes ago, pierremgi said:

Little bit odd naming 50 units as enemies...

Why not replacing this array by a side condition?

I just wanted armoured vehicles to show up. but yes haha i know nothin to very little of coding and editing so most time i do things that are not the best

[pierremgi 4743]

If all these vehicles are edited (not spawned during the game), you can write something like:

private _enemyUnits = vehicles select {side _x == EAST && _x isKindOf "tank"};

 

[Maguila.gm 0]

19 hours ago, pierremgi said:

If all these vehicles are edited (not spawned during the game), you can write something like:

private _enemyUnits = vehicles select {side _x == EAST && _x isKindOf "tank"};

 

Thanks, i had no idea i could do such a thing...