Script Question

[Cionara 10]

Could someone please post a little script how to damage a vehicle ? I want to destroy a humvee when it reaches a waypoint, what do I have to type into init ?

greets Cionara

[PuFu 4600]

humvee setdamage 1

* humvee needs to be the name of the object you want to destroy in this case

0 - none

1 - full/destroy

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setDamage

[Cionara 10]

Thank you very much.

Is there also a command to do like 50% damage ? Just interested :)

[LardThief 10]

Thank you very much.

Is there also a command to do like 50% damage ? Just interested :)

vehicle setdamage 0.5;

.....you can do more than 1 dp so eg 0.58

I think anywhere above 0.8 and it starts smoking and needs fixing or it will explode.

[Cionara 10]

Ah I see :D

Another thing:

I also want a humvee to be damaged when driving faster then I want. Now I know the command to damage a vehicle. Is there a command to get the current speed values of a humvee ?

Kind of:

if ((speed this) >= 80) then {this setdamage 0.5} but I don' know how to make it correct =>

greetz Cionara

Edited September 11, 2009 by Cionara

[dmarkwick 261]

Speed.

Then, you'll need to loop it. So, using your code (and untested BTW, just giving you the idea):

while {(speed this) < 80} do {sleep 3;};
this setdamage 0.5;

Basically you'll be looping waiting for the speed to get over 80. If not then you'll wait 3 seconds then test it again. You can make the wait as long or as short as you feel is appropriate.

Edited September 11, 2009 by DMarkwick

[Cionara 10]

Oh yea you're right, I didn't think of that :)

But now (with your script) it gets damaged immedtiately from the start. Could I write an "if" in that while loop ?

while {alive this} do {if ((speed this) >= 80) then {this setdamage 0.5}}

Damn it doesn't work. Nothing happens when reaching 80km/h.

Edited September 12, 2009 by Cionara

[dmarkwick 261]

Are you able to hint up the current speed in game? Just to make sure it's working properly.

You can hint using:

hint format ["Speed = %1", speed this];

Another thing to consider is to use a script instead of using the ArmA2 editor. So you place your code in a script and then you can call this script from the editor (unit's init field).

In your MyDocs\ArmA2 Other Profiles\Username folder make a folder called Scripts, so it looks like this:

MyDocs\ArmA2 Other Profiles\Username\Scripts

then you can put your scripts in here and your editor previewed missions can access them.

In your vehicle's init field type:

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

and in your fancy new Scripts folder make a file called Overspeed.sqf and place your code in there. The [this] will be passed to the script and within the script it will be called _this. So your fist line in your script will probably look like this:

_thisVehicle = _this;

allowing you to treat _thisVehicle as your speeding vehicle.

Total script might look like this:

_thisVehicle = _this;
while {alive _thisVehicle} do
{
if ((speed _thisVehicle) >= 80) then
{
_thisVehicle setDamage 0.5;
};
sleep 1;
};

Or something like that. You might like to change that setDamage to:

_thisVehicle setDamage ((getDamage _thisVehicle) + 0.5);

just in case it's already damaged :)

[Cionara 10]

Ok I will try that out. Thanks very much.

while {this alive} do {hint format ["Speed = %1", speed this]; sleep 1}

I think sleep-command is not working. It goes crazy and doesn't stop for 1 second.

Are you able to hint up the current speed in game?

Yes that works.

Does somebody know where the problem is ? :(

Edited September 12, 2009 by Cionara