Mp mission problems

[talkinBEERmug 0]

New to the forums here, Im about 15 hours into my first mission, im new to the whole ofp and arma editing, but I have figured out enought to make this mission really cool, random spawn points for my hostages, hostaged script, calling helo for pickup, insertion, extraction, now I get this all to work when I test it, and when I host and im the leader everthing works fine.  The problem starts when im hosting, and some one else takes leader, or when I put it on a dedicated server. Alot of my scripts and AI dont work right.  

Ill give you one of the examples off the top of my head.  

When I host and some one else is leader, or im running the server on a dedicated server, you can order the ai into a chopper and they get in, but you cant get them out of the chopper.  This works if im host, and im leader, or when I test it in the missions editor.

I have tried to trigger dogetout, commandgetout, even telling them in game to disembark and they dont get out, the only thing I can think is that the chopper is set to land "get in" so if it is on get in they wont get out, but why would it work if I lead, or if im in the missions editor.

Can anyone help me with this script, or tell me why MP reacts differently then SP.

Here is the example of the script:

Trigger:

on: RadioAlpha

on Act: chopper domove pickup(trigger)

Trigger:

on: none

condition: (chopper alive) and (chopper distance p1 < 100)

on Act: chopper land "get in"

[HulkingUnicorn 0]

Have you tried unAssignVehicle (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/unassignVehicle)?

[norrin 9]

For some reason I found I had to combine two commands to get AI units to disembark from a vehicle on a dedicated server for instance <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{unAssignVehicle _x} forEach units _grp1

~1

{doGetOut _x} forEach units _grp1

where _grp1 was the group the units were a part of.

[talkinBEERmug 0]

Thx ill try that tonight when i get home from work.

[talkinBEERmug 0]

I put this in a sqs file that I call buy a trigger radio alpha

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{unAssignVehicle _x} forEach units _grp1

~1

{doGetOut _x} forEach units _grp1

I put this code in my init.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">grp1 = group p1

Still not working in dedicated server, even when I was testing in the editor it was not working.

[HitmanFF 6]

I put this in a sqs file that I call buy a trigger radio alpha

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{unAssignVehicle _x} forEach units _grp1

~1

{doGetOut _x} forEach units _grp1

I put this code in my init.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">grp1 = group p1

Still not working in dedicated server, even when I was testing in the editor it was not working.

You're using _grp1 (local var) and grp1 (global var). Replacing _grp1 by grp1 in your sqs file should do the trick

[talkinBEERmug 0]

As it is now, I have this in my init.sqs

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">grp1 = group p1

and I know it is putting me in the right group because when I do some of my triggers it executes the following:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">leader grp1 sidechat "blah"

this does work, and it finds the leader of grp1 and does the side chat. Now should my init.sqs read like this:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_grp1 = group p1

or do I have to list both like this:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_grp1 = group p1

grp1 = group p1

[HitmanFF 6]

The difference between a local and a global variable is called the scope. A local variable is only known within the structure it was created in, e.g. created in a script and thus only known within this script. If you want to use data across different structures (like in your case both within a script and a trigger), then you have to use a global variable. Defining a local var in ArmA means you add an underscore to the name (e.g. like in your case _grp1), a global var starts with an alpha character, not with an underscore (e.g. grp1).

Since you want to share the data between the init.sqs and the trigger, you have to use a global var, grp1. There shouldn't be mention of _grp1 anywhere, since that is a different variable, with nothing in common with grp1.

So be sure to use grp1 everywhere:

init.sqs: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">grp1 = group p1

trigger: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">leader grp1 sidechat "blah"

HTH

[talkinBEERmug 0]

So the _ means local, and the name is global, so in this code:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{unAssignVehicle _x} forEach units _grp1

~1

{doGetOut _x} forEach units _grp1

it should be this:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{unAssignVehicle _x} forEach units grp1

~1

{doGetOut _x} forEach units grp1

right?

Thx for the help