A scripting challenge

[A scripting challenge]

I think that is what Xeno actually meant, it's just the way he typed it that some can take the wrong way.

I think he was like bullet pointing the first couple of mistakes saying what he had done wrong, not telling him how to do something.

[A scripting challenge]

.sqf need to be executed by using

nul = execvm "myscriptname.sqf"

The way xeno wrote it he meant you have used exec, where as you need to use execvm.

Not sure wether you use the nul = with MP though :)

[Moving camera around an object while attached to it]

I think once the cam is attached to a moving object it becomes static\locked on that position, not sure if what I want to do is possible :confused:

[Moving camera around an object while attached to it]

I'm no camera scripting guru either, just been chopping and changing things around seeing if they will work, though as far as I am aware, the

_camera camCommitPrepared 4

sould be the duration it takes to go from the previous shot to the new one.

[Moving camera around an object while attached to it]

I am trying to attach a camera to a moving vehicle, which is the easy part, but want to be able to have the camera while still attached to it move around the vehicle to another angle in a slow transition, which is the hard part :(

I am using

_cam camsettarget car1;

_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"];

_cam attachTo [car1, [0,+5,0]];

_cam camSetFov 0.7;

sleep 5;

_cam camsettarget car1;

_cam cameraeffect ["internal", "back"];

_cam attachTo [car1, [5,+3,0]];

_cam camSetFov 0.7;

_camera camCommitPrepared 4;

waitUntil {camCommitted _camera};

sleep 8;

That keeps the cam on the car for 5 seconds, but it just flicks to the other angle.

How do you move to another angle but in a propper slow transition and not just instantly ?

Thanks

[Mission Editor Question]

Easy way to set any faction troops to another faction is to group them to a higher ranking enemy faction unit that has it's probability of presence set to 0%

[Mission Editor Question]

Easiest way would be to use the 3 factions.

Example.

Have the zombies as Independant set to be friendly to no-one, US Army to Blufor, Blackop's to Opfor, all blackop's set to this captive true, so US Army will not engage them.

Easy way to set any faction troops to another faction is to group them to a higher ranking enemy faction unit that has it's probability of presence set to 0%

[Hummer Head lights]

Doh!!!

[Unit to move to another unit]

Ah, thanks to both of you :)

[Unit to move to another unit]

I'm trying to get a unit to move to a location of a hostage, but the hostage is going to be in a random location.

I am sure I used to use something like

unitname domove getpos hostage, but this isn't working.

I've tried

_Pos = position hostage;

unitname domove getpos _Pos;

How would I do this ?

[Starting with an RPG]

Yeah I noticed the typo in the RPG, BUT IT'S THE SAME WITH ANY LAUNCHER.

I will give Demonized suggestion a go.

I cannot find a selectedweapon command, only has weapon.

Anyway, I tried in the unit's init line

removeallweapons this; this addmagazine "Strela"; this addweapon "Strela"; this addmagazine "Strela"; this addmagazine "30Rnd_545x39_AK"; this addweapon "AK_107_kobra";

Then in a trigger

unitname removeweapon "AK_107_kobra";

which it still keeps the launcher on it's back while holding nothing, tried selectweapon but nothing, same with dotarget something, the only time I can get the unit to hold the launcher is when the order to fire at a target it knows about is given.

[Disband Unit script]

:confused:

[Starting with an RPG]

When I try this with any kind of Launcher, the AI unit just stands there holding nothing, with the Launcher slug over their shoulder.

Tried putting the selectweapon in a trigger but still nothing :confused:

[Possible cutscene effects]

"colorCorrections" ppEffectEnable false; "chromAberration" ppEffectEnable false; "radialBlur" ppEffectEnable false; "colorCorrections" ppEffectAdjust [1, 1, 0, [1.5,-1,-1.5,0.5], [5,3.5,-5,-0.5], [-3,5,-5,-0.5]]; "colorCorrections" ppEffectCommit 1; "chromAberration" ppEffectAdjust [0.01,0.01,true]; "chromAberration" ppEffectCommit 1; "radialBlur" ppEffectAdjust [0.02,0.02,0.15,0.15]; "radialBlur" ppEffectCommit 1;

Just change the true values to false and run it again :)

[How do I change the weapon the soldiers start with in Mission Editor?]

You can either just add whatever weapon and ammo changes you want directly into the init line of all the units, or type it all out in the init.sqf in the mission folder, which you have to create first.

[How do I change the weapon the soldiers start with in Mission Editor?]

Oh yeah, my fav weapon of choice.

Whenever I am previewing a mission as a neutral unit, normally a Chernarus Citizen brown, I always add a M249 with ammo, just dosen't feel right without :)

Normally so I can execute any AI not doing what they are supposed to do :)

[How do I change the weapon the soldiers start with in Mission Editor?]

In the Init line of the unit's you want to change weapons you need to put

removeallweapons this;

then when you preview the mission the unit will have nothing.

Now you need to add weapons and ammo to the unit,

To make sure the weapon is loaded for the unit to use you need to add a magazine for the weapon before adding the weapon it's self.

removeallweapons this; this addmagazine "200Rnd_556x45_M249"; this addweapon "M249"; this addmagazine "200Rnd_556x45_M249"; this addmagazine "200Rnd_556x45_M249";

That line in the init box of a unit will give the unit a M249 Machine gun, with 3 boxes of 200 round bullets.

To know all the weapon and ammo classes do a search on the forums.

Kylania beat me to it :)

[Delete unit, respawn unit]

They turned their body for me in a quick test, because I wasn't sure wether they would or not.

[Delete unit, respawn unit]

You don't need to delete them mate, just break them out of the animation then have something or someone out of camera shot in the direction you want the pilots to be facing and tell them to watch it.

WPilot1 dowatch unitname; WPilot dowatch unitname

If you are using switchmove for the animation then when you want them to stop the animation, just use

WPilot1 switchmove ""; WPilot2 switchmove "";

then

WPilot1 dowatch unitname; WPilot dowatch unitname

and they will stop talking and face the direction you need.

As for the spawn, there's many ways of doing it.

"RU_Policeman" createUnit [getmarkerpos "markername", group unitname, "spawnedUnitName = this;",0.8, "private"];

OR

_pos = getmarkerPos "spawncar1marker";

_skill = [0.1, 0.5];

_side = resistance;

_units = ["Offroad_DSHKM_Gue"];

spawndshkmcar1 = [_pos, _side, _units, [], [], _skill] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

Just a couple of ways there :)

[Units appear when trigger is activated]

Easiest way would be to place the reinforcements somewhere out of sight, with a few waypoints leading upto where you want them to arrive at once the target is dead, make a trigger with

Activation = Anybody

Condition = ! (alive TargetName)

then use the Min Mid Max numbers to whatever kind of delay you want, might aswell leave them all at 0

then select synchronize and click and drag a line from the trigger to the waypoint you want the reinforcements to wait at until the target unit is dead, then once it is dead, they will start moving to where you want them to.

That's the simple way, but if you know about spawning units, then you can make a script to spawn what you want, where you want etc.

[loops and conditions for scenes in sqf]

Hey.

When making a movie scene in sqf, how do you first set a loop like the camera is following a unit until another condition is met, then will jump to the next scene ?

I use things like this in sqs, but I'd like to learn sqf.

#loop

_camera camsetTarget h1

_camera camsetrelPos [2,-5,1]

_camera camPrepareFOV 0.700

_camera camCommitPrepared 0

? UnitName distance UnitName <=10 : goto "nextscene"

goto "loop"

#nextscene

But I can't get my head round the sqf version.

Can anyone help please :)

[Script not working? Use the -showScriptErrors parameter!]

I use it, though I hate it, possibly because it highlights my scripting inadequacies :(

[Destroy waypoint doesn't work]

Mines on 1.57

Test I did was simply one US rifleman called man1 and an empty Civilian car called car1 and a trigger that fired when he entered the trigger field, and the On Activation was

man1 dofire car1

and he does, everytime.

If I use an AT soldier he just uses his rifle, but if it's a rifleman he uses grenades first, if the cars a Tank and the mans a AT Soldier he will use the SMAW.

I don't think a unit will manually fire on your command though as your own unit will not see it as a threat, but it will still fire at it if the order is given by a trigger.

[Destroy waypoint doesn't work]

doTarget works (soldiers aim at the vehicle), but doFire not really (no shooting) maybe it would work after changing weapon to some rocket launcher but... Come on it's just a car few series from AK47 and it should be unable to move...

PS

Thanks for all those replies :D

If I setup an empty car and just use UnitName DoFire carName, the unit blasts it to bits till it's destroyed.

I take it I am not understanding something here, or is this not what you wanted to do ?

[Mission Intro]

The answer to your question is far too large and long to explain in any detail on the forum.

YouTube is full of Arma editing tutorials, so is this forum, search for them and they will be there.

A small map with an intro on it will not be of much use to you, as you will not know how it was made in the first place, and you will not have the basic understanding of what the mission author did to get the result and what you need to do to make changes.

Most missions you can download will have an intro, download some and start off by un-pbo'ing a mission and see what goes into making the more complex missions, but you really need to start from scratch, watching video tutorials and reading guides etc.