Creating a radar

[ryguy 10]

I'd like to find out how I can get a player to have a dot on the map follow it around followed by it's altitude... I was thinking I would somehow incorporate "GetPosASL" in a trigger and it would display like a radar whenever they were in that trigger, and when they were out of range they would be invisible again. In case you've ever played CL:R it would be very similar to this. Problem is I don't know how I could set it up so that a marker is attached to a player and refreshes it's altitude and position every second or so... any help?

Thanks

[Junker 0]

For displaying the ASL = "nameofmarker" setMarkerText format ["%1", GetPosASL this select 2]

this will result in 67.098

If you want the hight with out the .000's use this

"nameofmarker" setMarkerText format ["%1", round (GetPosASL this select 2)]

result is 67

oh and it needs to be looped to update the text

Edited June 18, 2010 by Junker

[CarlGustaffa 4]

I use the following for debugging purposes:

while {true} do {
if (!isNull uUAV) then {
	"mUAV" setMarkerPos getPos uUAV;
	"mUAV" setMarkerText format ["%1%2|F:%3%4", round ((getPosASL uUAV select 2) / 0.30480), toString[39], 10 * floor (10 * fuel uUAV), toString[37]];
sleep 1.234;
};
};

Whether you preplace the marker on the map or create it on the fly is up to you.

while {true} do { ...

could be replaced by

while {player in list tSomeTrigger} do { ...

Edit: Beaten again :)

Btw, I have som aviation background, so I prefer altitude as feet. Hope that is not too confusing.

[Joshii 10]

Not sure but if I remember correctly using ASL is not a good idea in a terrain with lots of mountains using ATL is better there. However it will give wrong results on water so I'd suggest something like this.

watertest = surfaceIsWater[(getPos Player select 0), (getPos Player select 1)];

if(watertest)

then

{

height = floor ((getPosASL player) select 2);

}

else

{

height = floor ((getPosATL player) select 2);

};

[ryguy 10]

For displaying the ASL = "nameofmarker" setMarkerText format ["%1", GetPosASL this select 2]

this will result in 67.098

If you want the hight with out the .000's use this

"nameofmarker" setMarkerText format ["%1", round (GetPosASL this select 2)]

result is 67

oh and it needs to be looped to update the text

Awesome, would I just put a #loop at the beginning of this string to loop it? Also, how quickly would it refresh?

---------- Post added at 01:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 AM ----------

Alright, so I put this code into a trigger's "on act." near a marker labeled "radar":

"radar" setMarkerText format ["%1", GetPosASL radar select 2]

Now when I look at it in-game the marker is in the same place except it's labeled "any" next to it.

[Junker 0]

Its needs to be scripted - this part only gives you the icon the rest im not really clear about because you need to detect air units within the radar/trigger using Thislist and relaying that to the script itself..

the loop should be something like (Sorry SQS oldie)

#loop
"radar" setMarkerText format ["%1", GetPosASL radar select 2]
~1
goto "loop"

[ryguy 10]

So I should make a file with this in it and put it in the mission folder? Or add it to the mission.sqm?

[CarlGustaffa 4]

MARTA has some "radar stuff", have you checked there for useful hints?

ArmA 2\AddOns\modules\Marta\data\scripts

[ryguy 10]

What's MARTA?