Basic Weapon Script Not Working....

[Anzu 12]

Okay I've been doing a lot of reading over the past week or so and I've learned a lot. So, now I'm trying to apply what I've learned to improve my ArmA II experience. Well heres the scenario...

I have a basic mission I've created and I want my team to start out with custom weapons. So I used ArmA Edit to create 3 custom unit loadout scripts and placed them in my "Documents/ArmA 2/missions/mymission/" folder. Then I added "this exec "myscript.sqs"" to the init box for each of the units. saved the missions, and exported to single player. but wen i start the mission, the scripts dont work! i've tried moving them to a "scripts" folder in the folder i mentioned above, still doesnt work. i also tried moving them to the ArmA 2 installation folder, still doesnt work. i have a feeling im missing something really basic. but WTF am I doing wrong? X_X this is frustrating!

anyways, if anyone can give me some advice, itd be much appreciated.

thanks in advance! :-)

Edited October 19, 2011 by Anzu

[dmarkwick 261]

try:

nul = [this] execVM "ScriptName.sqf";

and place the script in the mission folder.

[Anzu 12]

should i rename the script files to .sqf instead of .sqs also?

---------- Post added at 06:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:00 PM ----------

nevermind! i figured it out. thanks for the quick response though!

apparently, in the script files, it was using this as the first line:

"_unit = _this select 0"

i changed it to this:

"_unit = myunitsname"

and now it works. anyways, sorry for wasting space on the forums. u can delete this thread if u want :-P

[dmarkwick 261]

It's probably still why the script didn't work in the first place: you must pass the parameters ("this") in an array, so that "_this select 0" means something to the game.

[manzilla 1]

i've already broken 3 glasses trying figure this out, who knows what ill smash next X_X but this is SO F*#$&*CKING frustrating!

anyways, if anyone can give me some advice, itd be much appreciated. but please dont tell me to "do a search" or "read the wiki", cuz ive been doing that A LOT for the past week and i still cant get it.

thanks in advance! :-)

Just take a deep breathe and relax, it's only a game. ;)

[Big Dawg KS 6]

It's probably still why the script didn't work in the first place: you must pass the parameters ("this") in an array, so that "_this select 0" means something to the game.

Or a more proper fix is to change _unit = _this select 0 to just _unit = _this, then his execution is correct.

[dmarkwick 261]

Either or :)

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Well maybe it's just me but I figure when passing only 1 argument why bother putting it into an array? It's only more typing, and more likely that you'll become confused.

[dmarkwick 261]

Well maybe it's just me but I figure when passing only 1 argument why bother putting it into an array? It's only more typing, and more likely that you'll become confused.

If you always stick to one convention, you won't get confused :)

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Passing a single element array is just improper IMO. It only gets confusing when people use the wrong conventions...