Spawning civilians

[Spudgunner 10]

Which function is used to spawn a civilian from script?

[CaptainBravo 0]

Try Norrins spawn scripts, just replace east groups with civ groups and you could do same with vehicles:

Individually respawning AI that move via doMove commands.

http://www.norrin.org/downloads/ArmA2/AI_respawn/AI_respawn_WP_test.utes.rar

Group respawning AI that move via waypoints

http://www.norrin.org/downloads/ArmA2/AI_respawn/AI_respawn_WP_grp.utes.rar

Group respawning AI that patrol an area using Kronzky's UPS

http://www.norrin.org/downloads/ArmA2/AI_respawn/aiRespawnUPS.Chernarus.rar

Respawning AI vehicles that move via waypoints

http://norrin.org/downloads/ArmA2/AI_respawn/AIvclRespawn_WP.utes.rar

Respawning AI vehicles that patrol an area using Kronzky's UPS

[Spudgunner 10]

I think those are for respawning existing units where as I'm trying to create new ones - but I have a good look. What I have been doing so far is this - But it's not working. Any ideas?

_rand = round (random 5);
_SideCIV = createCenter civilian;
if (_rand > -1) then {   // Debug: always true
_rand = round (random 2); // either 0, 1, 2 //
switch (_rand) do {   
	case 0: {
		_civgrp = createGroup civilian;
		unit = group createUnit ["Damsel1", Position player, [], 10, "NONE"];
		[unit] join _civgrp;
	 };   
	case 1: {
		_civgrp = createGroup civilian;
		unit = group createUnit ["Civilian1", Position player, [], 10, "NONE"];
		[unit] join _civgrp;
	};
	case 2: {
		_civgrp = createGroup civilian; 
		unit = group createUnit ["Damsel2", Position player, [], 10, "NONE"];
		[unit] join _civgrp;
	};
	default {
		hint "ERROR";
	}; 
};
};

The civilians are not being created as they should appear near to me (I think). Eventually I'll create them on markers once I see they appear.

[CaptainBravo 0]

Take a look http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Ambient_Civilians

I think it might be what you are looking for.

[Spudgunner 10]

Take a look http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Ambient_Civilians

I think it might be what you are looking for.

EDIT: SOLVED!!!

The ALICE module is just for populating the towns. The randomly generated civilians I'm working on need to board/disembark buses and follow WP's.

I'm not sure whats preventing them being created. I'm not using a trigger like most people using the createUnit. The bus itself calls the sqf file (for now) from it's init field. Also, I use the "createGroup" (side set to civilian) which I hear works for military units. I'm not sure what else I need - I've been playing around with "CreateCenter" but I've no idea if I need to. Atm the stripped down code looks like this:

_rand = round (random 5);

if (_rand > -1) then {
_rand = round (random 2);
switch (_rand) do {   
	case 0: {
		civgrp = createGroup Civilian;
		_unit1 = civgrp createUnit ["Damsel1", [(getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 0, (getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 1, 0, [], 0, "NONE"];
	 };   
	case 1: {
		civgrp = createGroup Civilian;
		_unit2 = civgrp createUnit ["Civilian1", [(getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 0, (getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 1, 0, [], 0, "NONE"];
	};
	case 2: {
		civgrp = createGroup Civilian;
		_unit3 = civgrp createUnit ["Damsel2", [(getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 0, (getMarkerPos "bwp1") select 1, 0, [], 0, "NONE"];
	};
	default {
		hint "ERROR";
	}; 
};
};

EDIT: SOLVED!!!

All that time lost for the want of detecting a missing "]". The above code works when the bracket is added :).

Edited September 9, 2009 by Spudgunner