Lights in ArmA 2

[Pirate Mayor 0]

Hey, it's been awhile since I've been on this forum, and I have know idea if this belongs here or not, but I gotta know if it's possible to have all electricity in a certain area to be shut off because a trigger. I have an Idea in my campaign I'm making to have that when the power plant in Elektrovadosk is destroyed, all the power is shut off. But I have zero clue how to do this.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help! :)

[MachineMadness 0]

There was a script for ArmA1 that achieved this. Not sure if it would work in Arma2 though.

[Pirate Mayor 0]

Any idea what that script was? Maybe I could try it in ArmA2.

[=SF=Hyrax 0]

it was SEG, Saharani Electrical Grid

[Pirate Mayor 0]

Yeah, so that means it wouldn't work in ArmA2. Maybe CEG, Chernarus Electrical Grid. Well, I'll see what I can do. Thanks.

[Vega064 10]

Did you ever figure this one out man? I have the same Idea for my recon mission and I cant get this thing to work in arma2...

[-dead- 1]

I assume it's basically just a matter of taking the Sahrani Electrical Grid code (see OFPEC's scripts section) and adapting it by changing the numbers which are basically locations for towns.

Here's a snippet of the old SEG code:

sleep .1;
if (!isServer) exitWith {};
{_x switchLight "off"} foreach ([14475.468750,8576.005859,30.519976] nearObjects ["streetlamp",250]); // Gaula
sleep .1;
{_x switchLight "off"} foreach ([16571.910156,9363.751953,12.285000] nearObjects ["streetlamp",300]); // Everon
sleep .1;
{_x switchLight "off"} foreach ([14535.646484,10791.570313,43.965000] nearObjects ["streetlamp",550]); // Obregan
sleep .1;
{_x switchLight "off"} foreach ([13215.121094,11346.532227,25.965000] nearObjects ["streetlamp",635]); // Mercalillo

All you need to do is place a unit in the centre (in terms of a circle that would cover the town) of each town you want covered, (name the unit after the town to make life easy), then save the mission, open up the mission.sqm file in notepad and cut & paste the unit's position numbers into a script, adjust the radius to fit the town, and add a comment to show which town is affected (to avoid later nightmares).

Eg replace the red bits with the relevant numbers/names:

{_x switchLight "off"} foreach ([[color="Red"]town_location1[/color],[color="Red"]town_location2[/color],[color="Red"]town_location3[/color]] nearObjects ["streetlamp",[color="Red"]radius_of_town_in_metres[/color]]); // [color="Red"]Town_name[/color]

I will warn you: I haven't even remotely tested this in ArmA2 yet, so this method might not work at all. ArmA2 may have changed the name of "streetlamp" to something else, for starters. Try it on one town & see how you go.

[W0lle 1046]

There is a reason why we have an ArmA2 Editing forum.

Edit: Moved to correct forum and unlocked.

Edited September 3, 2009 by W0lle