Scripting a Random site selector

[H4mmersticks 0]

I am creating a scenario for the new Spearhead 1944 update that I plan to publish to the workshop. I want to use the Random sites selector module from SOGPF to make the scenario less predictable. However, I don't want to create a dependency for the scenario. What would be the best way to script something that would be similar.

[h34dup 148]

I did something like this many years ago. You organize your random sites (props and units together is likely easiest) into layers, give each layer name a number (eg. Layer_RandomSite_1), then generate a random number set from 1 to however many sites you have and selecting the number of sites you want to make visible (eg. if it's 3 sites of 6, select the first 3 values of that random number sequence), then you can use enableSim and hideObject to selectively show or hide the corresponding layers.

[h34dup 148]

For example, you can hide and de-simulate everything in a specified layer with:

{ _x hideObjectGlobal true; _x enableSimulationGlobal false; } forEach ((getMissionLayerEntities "YOUR LAYER NAME HERE") select 0);

To show and simulate, you just change the boolean values above.