AddAction problem in MP

[PhelanKA7 10]

I'm having a problem getting an AddAction script to work correctly in multiplayer. The Action is set on an object which moves the player into cargo of a vehicle. There are three different scripts for three different barrels depending on the player's squad.

In Single Player (ie - testing the mission from the editor) the correct AddAction appears depending on what squad the player is in, and all is well.

In Multiplayer however, the AddAction only shows up for the squad leaders of each team, and once one of the actions pops up for any of them, all other players can only see that action for that barrel.

I'm almost positive that the problem arises from saying "if (player == a1) then { AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "alphaboard.sqf"]"

On each barrel I have the following script initialized as

nul = [this, alphaboat] execVM "alphabarrel.sqf"

Script:

_barrel = _this select 0;
_boat = _this select 1;

sleep 2;

if (player == a1) then 
{
_barrel AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "boardalpha.sqf"];
sleep 2;


}

else { 	

if (player == a2) then {

_barrel AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "boardalpha.sqf"];
sleep 2;

}

else {

if (player == alphademo) then {

_barrel AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "boardalpha.sqf"];
sleep 2;

}

else {

if (player == a4) then {

_barrel AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "boardalpha.sqf"];
sleep 2;
}
else {

if (player == a5) then {

_barrel AddAction ["Board Alpha boat", "boardalpha.sqf"];
sleep 2;	

}
else {

_barrel AddAction ["Wrong barrel!", "wrongbarrel.sqf"];
sleep 2;
}
}
}
}
}
};

Do I need to pass the unit's variable somehow instead of relying on "player == blah"?

How do I do that?

Thanks for any help!

[UNN 0]

Try this:

if (player in (units a1)) then

and so on.

[PhelanKA7 10]

Thanks for the quick reply, but no dice. I tried that and it didn't work.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that the script works if AI Units are enabled. As soon as you start the mission with AI units disabled, the script doesn't work.

[shuko 59]

Create/name the groups by putting this into the members init field:

grpAlpha = group this

Put that into each member to make sure it's always created, because if theres no AI or human in the unit, it wont be created, thus the init field is not executed, which means no squad naming.

To alpha boat's init field:

this addAction ["Board boat","board.sqf",[],5,false,true,"","group player == grpAlpha"]

You can use the same thing for other groups, just change "grpAlpha" to whatever you want.

board.sqf

(_this select 1) moveincargo (_this select 0);
(_this select 0) removeAction (_this select 2);

[PhelanKA7 10]

Create/name the groups by putting this into the members init field:

grpAlpha = group this

Put that into each member to make sure it's always created, because if theres no AI or human in the unit, it wont be created, thus the init field is not executed, which means no squad naming.

To alpha boat's init field:

this addAction ["Board boat","board.sqf",[],5,false,true,"","group player == grpAlpha"]

You can use the same thing for other groups, just change "grpAlpha" to whatever you want.

board.sqf

(_this select 1) moveincargo (_this select 0);
(_this select 0) removeAction (_this select 2);

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

I'd always kind of wondered how the arrays for AddAction worked.

[kylania 567]

You can pass AddAction an array of variables inside the [] there. It'll be _this select 3 within the script.

_this select 0 = the object the action is on

_this select 1 = the object that's calling the action

_this select 2 = the ID number of the addAction

_this select 3 = the array after the script name.

So if your addAction was: this addAction["Make Sweet Love","businesstime.sqf",[2,nancy,"I am so sorry, that never happens"]];

(_this select 3) select 0 = 2

(_this select 3) select 1 = nancy

(_this select 3) select 2 = "I am so sorry, that never happens"

[Big_Daddy 10]

Sorry to 'borrow your thread Phelan...

Kylania, are those same that would be in a radio trigger?