Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

I am storing numbers which in turn act as names to markers. the numbers are the task number and marker name once put into a string.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

well if i do not use select 0 then i will return [1] for instance instead of 1

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

Ghst_actobj is an array but no strings are inside. I could make it that way though.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

i am trying to create/delete triggers and in the onact line of the trigger which is ran on every client I want to update the current pubvar task

_trg=createTrigger["EmptyDetector",_objmarker];
_trg setTriggerArea[0,0,0,false];
_trg setTriggerActivation["EAST","PRESENT",false];
_trg setTriggerStatements["objtrigger", "nul = [""(ghst_actobj select 0)"",""succeeded""] call TASKMASTER_upd; forceEnd; ghst_randomobj = [] execvm ""dta\scripts\randomobj.sqf"";", "deleteVehicle _trg;"];

problem is the method i used does not update the task. Ghst_actobj is an array that is pubvar updated with every new objective. So since your taskupdate requires the taskname to be a string. how do I go about doing so so that it would work in a scripted trigger as shown? I tried _actobj = str(ghst_actobj); and tried doing that again to put double quotes but nothing seems to work. So far besides my scripting issues your task system seems to work well.

[Trigger when all surviving members of 4 squads are inside]

may not be the best way but name each unit you want to detect ie man1,man2,man3,man4 and create the trigger activated by anybody or the units side. then make the radius as big as you want. in the condition line put

man1 in thislist and man2 in thislist and man3 in thislist and man4 in thislist

should fire.

[Moving a whole squad into something]

name your group via

groupname = group this;

<-- put that in your group leaders init line. then in same line or trigger or where ever put

{_x moveincargo vehiclename} foreach units groupname;

[Simplest way to create ambient explosions?]

bomb = "Sh_125_HE" createVehicle (getmarkerpos "markername");

that will create a 125HE shell at specified marker.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

Makes sense. Now If i run the "TASKMASTER_add" command on a server only script will it update the clients already in the mission or just the jip clients?

**update**

Ran a test solo on dedi again and it seems that jip clients and current clients are not updated to tasks ran on server only scripts. If it was possible to do this it would make scripting missions a lot easier.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

I had V0.9 not V0.91 but I edited my post and it seems it does work, just takes a moment. Still need to test with friends to make sure they scripts I am calling it from are working properly. thanks for your help and the newer version.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

I must be doing something wrong then because that is not happening.

nul = [WEST,"obj1",["Eliminate the enemy threat","Enemy","Enemy"],"obj1"] call TASKMASTER_add;

I have that in a script and the tasks are updated to those who are connected but if someone leaves then comes back or joins later that task is not updated to them.

**UPDATE**

Seems I may not have been patient enough. Still need to test with my friends by just myself on my dedi jip works, just takes a few moments.

[Taskmaster, creating and updating tasks for any set of players with JIP support]

what is the best way to update jip players with tasks created during the mission? I have a mission where tasks are created during the mission and I would like the tasks and there status sent to jip players.

[A.C.E. Advanced Combat Environment - Public Beta *2*!]

Thank you ACE team for everything you do. Look forward to your future updates.

[Putting Units in specific Helicopter seats...]

put this code in the init line of the unit

this moveInCargo [heloname,#];

where # is the seat pos. Trial and error but 0 should be copilot and so on from front to back i think. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/moveInCargo and the turrets http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/moveInTurret

[Ah-64d]

not really, makes it more interesting, problem atm though is the helicopter does not have the lasing system right now. Once it is added it will be great

[Ah-64d]

Current issue with ACE Mod. They made hellfires laser only. Read somewhere it should be fixed in next update, which may be sometime soon.

[Bis attention: 1.05 list of problems!]

My issue with 1.05 is that the apache and cobra do not have a laser weapon for designating targets. makes it very difficult to attack armor unless you have multiple players to do lazing.

[Dead Bodies how...can i create them?!]

without trying I believe that should work

[Dead Bodies how...can i create them?!]

might want to use an eventhandler http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/addEventHandler like the "killed" one http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2:_Event_Handlers#Killed

[B-52 Buff - Bomber]

thank you Gnat! Great surprise. Did notice if you are pilot and switch to manual fire you will always have ability to bomb no matter what position the doors are in.

[For all new scripters]

Or just check the sticky in the forum. Link is in my sig

[How to terminate animation loop?]

Did you try using switchmove to another animation, or even playmove?

[Random marker]

I use the following and seems to work well.

_markname = "Your_markername" + str (random 999);

[How to terminate animation loop?]

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

Use switchmove "" to switch back to the default movement if there is no transition back, otherwise the person may be stuck.

[O2 tutorial in Detail]

Thank you Gnat for all you hard work.

[GameLogic as Waypoint for AI]

in onactivation

thislist select 0 move position heliWP1

and name the next trigger(waypoint) heliwp1. Sync all triggers to the veh and should work fine. BIS uses similar for a helo in first to fight mission.