Groups

[_pi_ 10]

Hello,

I am building a new mission for Multiplayer and I have some questions for you all.

I have placed a group of players on a map, and I was looking "how" to name that group, for example "Team Alpha" but I can't see where to place the group name with the editor so I have been looking at the code and came to something like that:

Being for example a soldiers editor name like "soldier1" (leader of group) soldier2, soldier3, ...

group soldier1 setVariable ["Team","Alpha"];

Its ok with any soldier?

If any of that group members die will keep the variable with him?

Cos at later stages of the game I want to check if any player, being soldier1, soldier2, etc. is a member of that group with this:

if (group player getVariable["Team"] == "Alpha") then {....};

will work?

I am not at my arma2 computer right now so I can't test it but have been reading a lot and can't find any other way to name groups.

Thanks :bounce3:

[Egosa-U 10]

Put into leaders init:

Alpha = group this

Should work even after the leaders death.

[_pi_ 10]

Put into leaders init:

Alpha = group this

Should work even after the leaders death.

mm Also maybe It should work this init on leader of group?

group this setVariable ["Team","Alpha"];

But how can I check later if a soldier is a member of Alpha group?

in your example Alpha is a var name? is just a "text" it looks to me like a var name not a var value. In my example I set the "Team" var (public) a value of "Alpha" (text) so late in game I can check the "Team" variable.

[Egosa-U 10]

Mission Editing and Scripting Information -> Comref -> Group obj

[_pi_ 10]

Did read it already before asking but I assume I will have to figure it by myself.

Thanks for the help anyway.

[Bon 12]

mm Also maybe It should work this init on leader of group?

group this setVariable ["Team","Alpha"];

But how can I check later if a soldier is a member of Alpha group?

in your example Alpha is a var name? is just a "text" it looks to me like a var name not a var value. In my example I set the "Team" var (public) a value of "Alpha" (text) so late in game I can check the "Team" variable.

I don't think that this setVariable will work. AFAIK "group" is not an object you can set variables to.

For checking whether a unit is of a certain group, you could proceed as Egosa described it, i.e. putting

Alpha = group this;

into the leaders init line, so that the groupname will be stored into the Variable Alpha, the check then would be simply

group <unit> == Alpha;

(that's what Egosa tried to point to I think)

[Egosa-U 10]

true. :D;)

[W0lle 1052]

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