Time Paradox

[moricky 210]

Hello everyone,

I found pretty interesting bug in ArmA - it freezes everything, just like setacctime 0 - but you can still move around and do nasty things

It can be useful for taking screens or videos, but makers of horror missions can find it interesting too

Look at

or DOWNLOAD demo mission for more information.

[luki 53]

Nice Find its realy a strange feeling when u stop a comlete battelfield and walk through it.

[madrussian 347]

Very interesting find!

I can't seem to get time reaccelerated to normal for everyone else afterwards though... must just be part of the way the bug works.

[moricky 210]

Set duration var to lower value or use higher acctime value (-1 instead of -10). After some time, it will all return to normal.

[dmarkwick 261]

Ooh, interesting find

[mattxr 9]

WOW i can see some amazing videos with this. Make a Video like the HALO Website.. where everyone is frozen and you fly around the battle.

[Dwarden 1124]

one of rare bugs which are more like features

[ArmaVidz 0]

Oh man, that's cool. Matrix anyone? Thanks Gaia

[imutep 0]

one of rare bugs which are more like features

right

Nice find Gaia

[Maddmatt 1]

This is pretty cool

I notice the sky in your video looks different to the ArmA sky, at least from what I recall. Just wondering about that

[granQ 293]

WOW i can see some amazing videos with this. Make a Video like the HALO Website.. where everyone is frozen and you fly around the battle.

yeah for movies, intros.. its great... or for just having fun

But guess it doesn't work in multiplayer right?

[dmarkwick 261]

All particles also disappear, which is a shame (for me ).

[hypno toad 0]

Quick!

Don't tell the QA guys!

[Trapper 0]

Well, it's too late to think about the release now but I hope it doesn't turn into another mp cheat.

So is the effect strictly bound to AI units?

[moricky 210]

Don't worry - setacctime don't work in MP

Actually, it freezes everything, including player. But player is in vehicle and when you get him out, he is able to move again. Same for AI.

[CarlGustaffa 4]

Nice find. A must for generating overview pictures

[MFUN 1]

I know this thread is rather old, but the Time Paradox script is the closest thing I can find to do what I want in ARMA2.

My problem is that I want to be able to end the time paradox at will, hopefully with another radio trigger.

I changed the original trigger activation field from

duration = 2; sqf = [] spawn {setacctime -100; tt = time; waituntil {abs(tt -time) > -(duration*(acctime))};setacctime 1; player setpos [position player select 0,position player select 1,0]};";

to this:

timein = 0;sqf = [] spawn {setacctime -60; waituntil {timein > 0}; setacctime 1; player setpos [position player select 0,position player select 1,0]};

I change the "timein" variable to "timein = 1" in a different radio trigger activation field.

The results are . . . bizzare and certainly not what I was hoping for.

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong or perhaps a better way of ending the time free at will.