KeyCat 131 Posted March 17, 2007 Hi, Wonder if someone found a way to read the waypoint type from a script? We have a setWaypointType but I need the reverse of it. Any clever way to accomplish it? Appreciate any input... /KC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ColonelSandersLite 0 Posted March 17, 2007 I know, I wish there where more commands available to get various bits of information on waypoints, not just setting them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lethal 0 Posted March 17, 2007 just a shot in the dark but what kind of "object" is a waypoint anyway? is it possible that it's just an array with the various properties as elements? i'll have to check up on that idea nah - forget i said anything. not useful at all :/ unless "WEST 1-1-A" etc. helps anyone what are those two numbers for anyhow? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ColonelSandersLite 0 Posted March 17, 2007 West-1-1-A is the squad indicator. I happen to know for a fact that waypoints are assigned to the group, they're not individual objects (well, they are in the programming sense, but not the it's a tree type of sense), but a property of said group. The way I figured this out is this: You may or may not be familiar with my populate island script. What it does is only draw units that are near the player, or have been overiden by setting a variable. I did some work on a militarised version of this, which I have yet to complete. One of the related side projects I did, attached to the milatarised version, is dynamically reducing/restoring groups that aren't in play but where placed in the mission using the editor (as opposed to dynamically generated in mission). Well, when you remove everyone from a group in arma, the group is actually never removed, it's just empty. If you readd someone to an empty group, they follow the group's old waypoint information. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KeyCat 131 Posted March 18, 2007 Thanks for the input! Yesterday I was playing around with currentCommand and expectedDestination in hope to find a way to accomplish it but found no solution to my problem. So if anyone comes up with something that works let us all know... /KC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
celery 8 Posted March 18, 2007 You could add a variable when setting a type in a script. Like: <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">wp1type="SAD" bla setWaypointType wp1type That way you can check the buddy variable's contents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KeyCat 131 Posted March 18, 2007 You could add a variable when setting a type in a script. That wont work for me. I want to read user assigned waypoints and get their different types (after they are placed in the editor) from my script. But thanks anyway. A "getWaypointType" command would be nice /KC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UNN 0 Posted March 19, 2007 Quote[/b] ]A "getWaypointType" command would be nice Yeah, this would be really useful and help to integrate user made scripts with the mission editor. I was a bit surprised when I read they weren't included. I just took it for granted there would be the equivalent commands for getting info. Anyway, I've added it to the Wish list on the Wiki. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
