Groups

[talkinBEERmug 0]

This is kind of a noob question but I do need to know.

How do you set the name of your group, I have a group with 1 leader, do I just do this script in the init of the leader:

p1 setgroupid ["Delta","GroupColor4"]

Or do i have to do this in each soldier

on the wiki it says this

group1 setGroupId ["Delta","GroupColor4"]

that says to me that some one has named there group "group1", but how do you name your group. I dont remember when you add a group if there is settings page that pops up, and even if there is what if you grouped people your self how do you give them a group name to setgroupid.

[charonos 0]

It goes:

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

NAMEOFYOURGROUP = group player

or

NAMEOFYOURGROUP = group unit1

You have to state a member of the group after the group command

Group command

[talkinBEERmug 0]

player, or unit1 is the leader of the group correct?

thx for the reply

[charonos 0]

It can be the leader but any member of the group is a valid argument.

FYI:

You can retrieve the leader later with the command:

leader GROUPNAME

[talkinBEERmug 0]

Thx again.

[norbre 0]

hi.. Id like to the same, but I get always error messages like this:

Error missing;

I'd tried this in init.sqs:

playerGrp = group player

playerGrp setCaptive true

removeAllWeapons playerGrp

what is the problem?... pls heeelp

[ck-claw 1]

try:-

removeallweapons this

[norbre 0]

I tryed : removeallweapons this, but it causes error..

The error message was not "Error missing;", but:

"Error removeallweapons type group expected object"

in the editor I have 5 players in one group

the init.sqs:

playerGrp = group player

removeallweapons playerGrp

[frederf 0]

You cannot removeAllWeapons from a group, but only from individuals.

removeAllWeapons soldier;

OK

removewAllWeapons group1;

NOT OK

removewAllWeapons forEach units group1;

OK

[Big Dawg KS 6]

hi.. Id like to the same, but I get always error messages like this:

Error missing;

I'd tried this in init.sqs:

playerGrp = group player

playerGrp setCaptive true

removeAllWeapons playerGrp

what is the problem?... pls heeelp

You're using 2 commands (setCaptive and removeAllWeapons) that only take individual units as an argument. You can't simply replace the group with a unit for any command. If you want to execute commands that only work on a single unit for a whole group use forEach.

Quote[/b] ]removewAllWeapons forEach units group1;

OK

I seriously question how often you successfully use forEach... with that syntax at least. I don't know who gave you the idea that forEach magically converts an array of many units into a single unit, but forEach doesn't work that way; instead it executes the code 1 time for each item in the array. So an array of 3 items executes the code 3 times, that's once time for each item. Proper syntax includes curled braces (they look like this: {} ) ONLY (because quotes don't work where CODE is required now, unlike OFP where quotes and curled braces were interchangable) and the local variable '_X' to represent the current item of the array. You can also use any number of commands seperated with semicolons (;). The end result is:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">{_X setCaptive true; removeAllWeapons _X} forEach units playerGrp

[NeZz_DK 1]

I always name my player units aP,aP1... so I would use this code.

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

{removeallweapons _x;}forEach units playerGrp;

if you use 'player' the group could be different on other client mashines, because player represents the local player unit.

ups didn't read the post over mine.