Quick magazine-adding in init lines

[Inkompetent 0]

Here we go again!

Was pondering what methods do people use to quickly add a whole bunch of identical magazines to a unit's init-line?

I myself have settled with the below because it's easy to read with the numbers showing how many magazines I actually do add:

{this addMagazine "magazineName"} forEach [1,2,3,4,...];

What other methods to people use to make it shorter and easier to read? Curious for information, intending to add the 'winner advice' to the wiki.

Edited May 11, 2010 by Inkompetent

[TRexian 0]

I just do it once, then copy and paste it as many times as I want. :D

[Inkompetent 0]

I just do it once, then copy and paste it as many times as I want. :D

Sure is quick! Until I want to see if I actually added six or seven rifle magazines. Then it starts getting troublesome! :p

[CarlGustaffa 4]

ForEach method is nice for quick tests, but I would rely on scripts for actual mission design which may be subject to heavy changes along the way.

[sickboy 13]

This saves ya some typing especially when you have a lot of mags, like 50:

for "_i" from 1 to 50 do {this addMagazine "magazineName"};

[Inkompetent 0]

Good one, Sickboy. Hadn't even occured to me to use ordinary loops in the init-lines >.<

And as for scripts... Well, personally I'm not too fond of them. Depends on mission, but it can be nice to see during the briefing what the unit is equipped with, rather than to have to wait until one is 'in-game'.

[Inkompetent 0]

Added both mine and Sickboy's suggestions to the wiki since they were about equal in useability, depending on preference and situation. Thanks all.

[galzohar 31]

If you really want to have custom stuff, you should probably use a loadout script, so that you call the script with the unit's name and pre-defined loadout and the unit will be equipped with that loadout. That way if you have multiple units using the same loadout it'll be much easier to change that loadout. For multiplayer compatibility, make sure to call the script using hNil = [this, "loadoutname"] call compile preprocessFile "scriptname.sqf" and only run it on the server, that way all units will get their gear before any players even finish loading the mission and thus you will be able to see weapons in briefing and you will not have locality issues.