Deleting markers ingame

[acidcrash 0]

righty, im working on a mission which i have markers that follow units on the map, here is the script so far and all works fine

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">#loop

"outpostmarker" setMarkerPos [(getpos outpost select 0), (getpos outpost select 1), 1]

~2.5

goto "loop"

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now what i want to do is that if the unit is wiped out the marker is deleted, on a side note, how do you make it so that the marker follows the group, not just the unit with the name. I tried using a group name, outpost=group this, but this didnt work

[Spinor 0]

Properly deleting a marker is not possible, but you can simply move it offmap by using negative xy values like

"outpostmarker" setMarkerPos [-100, -100, 0]

Alternatively, you can resize it to zero:

"outpostmarker" setMarkerSize [0, 0]

A group as such does not have a well defined position (the units are scattered). Instead, the easiest is to you use the position of the groupleader:

_groupPos = getPos (leader groupName)

[acidcrash 0]

hi, thanks for the reply, the marker size worked perfect, but not sure how to implement the group part. as it is now, this is my script

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">#loop

"outpostmarker" setMarkerPos [(getpos outpost select 0), (getpos outpost select 1), 1]

~2.5

?not (alive outpost):"outpostmarker" setmarkersize [0,0]

goto "loop"

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i was thinking maybe it would be

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_groupPos = getPos (leader outpost)

#loop

"outpostmarker" setMarkerPos [(getpos _groupPos select 0), (getpos _groupPos select 1), 1]

~2.5

?not (alive _groupPos):"outpostmarker" setmarkersize [0,0]

goto "loop"

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but when i tried it it didnt work

[Spinor 0]

hi, try this

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">#loop

_groupPos = getPos (leader outpost)

"outpostmarker" setMarkerPos [_groupPos select 0, _groupPos select 1, 1]

~2.5

?"alive _x" count (units outpost) == 0: "outpostmarker" setmarkersize [0,0]

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_groupPos is already a position array [x,y,z], so it is not necessary to use getPos on it.

I also changed the condition for the marker-deletion. Now it becomes true when all units of the group outpost are dead.

The "alive" command can not be used on groups directly.

Hope this works,

Spinor

[acidcrash 0]

hi, works perfect, thanks

[seedhe 0]

You could set the marker type to "empty".

From the comref-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">markerName setMarkerType markerType

Operand types:

   markerName: String

   markerType: String

Type of returned value:

   Nothing

Description:

   Set marker type. Type may be any of: "Flag", "Flag1", "Dot", "Destroy", "Start", "End", "Warning", "Join", "Pickup", "Unknown", "Marker", "Arrow", "Empty".

Example:

   "MarkerOne" setMarkerType "Arrow"

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eg. "MarkerOne" setMarkerType "Empty", an empty marker is invisible on the map.