The_Angry_Canadian

I would suspect it has something to do with the code in the OnActivation of the triggers. Make sure you are not spawning INSIDE the trigger zone.

The only thing needed would be a way to define a variable that is attached to your playable unit. i didnt find a way to do that yet. Unless someones know a way to get the statistics. If you check your map and go under statistics, you see your killcount there. That must be accessible somewhere but i cant find it.

Ho. Nice find. That is perfect for making a bunch of insurgents syssies flee in terror.

According to that page of the wiki, http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setTerrainGrid It is possible to change the terrain grid using radio triggers. So, you should be able to do what you are talking about. There is a demo mission at the end of the page.

Pleasure ! Let me know how it goes, i'm also interested in 1, 4 and 5

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_ArmA2 Hours of fun.

I would try that. "car" setMarkerPos [getPos car1 select 0, getPos car1 select 1]; I think the getPos on a car returns an array of lenght 3, [x,y,z] and setMarkPos needs an array of lenght 2, [x,y] Try that.

what about having more than 1 spawn points ? how hard is it to set-up ?

My understanding was the the description.ext had to go in the mission folder.

The file has to be named description.ext

1- I still find the search feature of the forum very limited and havent found an anwser to the spawn points myself and I'm continuing my search. 2- No clue. 3-I have the steam version and the maps are in the ARMA2 folder, under missions. If you are using windows, it would be something like C:\Program Files\BIS\Arma2\missions If you ever find questions to your 2 first questions, be sure to post them ! SEARCH feature : http://forums.bistudio.com/search.php

Not sure if it will fix it, but add a ";" at the end. Are you calling that directly in a trigger or from an sqf file ?

@ work, compiling stuff ;) I can try tonight if someone didnt post any replies.

How about having the A10 attack a target that you are using the laser on ? That must be possible since you do it in the campaign.

Your murderous bastard ! :) you can use triggers attached to the unit and set the condition to !alive. The trigger will activate on the unit death. I guess you could spawn units and attach triggers to them using : trigname attachTo[unitname,[0,0,0]] for the counter, in the "on Activation" field, you could call a script that does something like _nbDeath = _nbDeath + 1 . But I dont know how you can have some kind of global variable. Perhaps an empty object with a property ? I dont know about that.

If you are using the version I've put, make sure you use the SQF file extension.

Thx Tajin, I started searching before you stuff and found that : http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=5843 Works great. Someone did the job of searching everything. But i'll keep yours to learn how to work with objects. It's a good example.

Are you sure you didnt do anything else ? I copy pasted the code in a file called crate.sqf and tried nul0 = [this] execVM "crate.sqf"; or even _nul0 = [this] execVM "crate.sqf"; and the crate is empty. If I put the AK_Gold in it, it works ( in the init line of the crate. ) --------- EDIT ---------- Meh.... nul0 = this execVM "crate.sqf"; No [ ] around this ...

How can you get those stachel ? I've looked into the ammo boxes and in the 5 boxes I spawned, none add statchels ?! How can you have 1 ammo box with ALL the weapons / ammo / etc.

Played around with it and consulted the wiki : in the arry after createVehicle, you need coordinate x,y,z and to do an assignment, you have to do : ( getPos flaretrap select 0 ) + RandNum The only missing things where parenthesis. You can also make the script easier to read by using variables :) Now, this script will spawn flares at different height and coordinates. Pretty cool effet ! while {true} do { // Random values used to select flares and positions. myRandomVar = round(random 100); randomX = round(random 200); randomY = round(random 200); randomZ = round(random 150); // Height in meters. initialZ = 250; // Start at this position. initialX = getPos flaretrap select 0; initialY = getPos flaretrap select 1; // Where we are actually going to drop the flare. dropPosX = (getPos flaretrap select 0) + randomX; dropPosY = (getPos flaretrap select 1) + randomY; dropPosZ = initialZ + randomZ; if (myRandomVar <= 50 ) then { if( myRandomVar <= 25 ) then { player sideChat "White"; flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [dropPosX, dropPosY, dropPosZ]; } else { player sideChat "Red"; flare = "F_40mm_red" createVehicle [dropPosX, dropPosY, dropPosZ]; } } else { if( myRandomVar >= 75 ) then { player sideChat "Green"; flare = "F_40mm_green" createVehicle [dropPosX, dropPosY, dropPosZ]; } else { player sideChat "Yellow"; flare = "F_40mm_yellow" createVehicle [dropPosX, dropPosY, dropPosZ]; } }; sleep 15; };

The idea behind using the random number to change the position is to learn how to edit variables. I would like to know how I could translate : Take position of flaretrap and add 10 meters in x, and then, add 15 meters in y.

Great ! I tested the exact same script in my mission and it spawned random flares. Has I said in my previous post, changing the spawn position of the flare using the random number would also be nice, but I dont know how to do that yet.

I think you have to use the isServer argument. if alive && isServer Ref : http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/isServer

There you go. This fires a random flare ( out of the 4 colors ) , every 10 seconds. Possible amelioration would be to use the random number to change the position of the flare. Do you know how to do that? like [getPos flaretrap select 0] + myRandomNumber In the trigger, on activation : _xhandle = execvm "flare.sqf"; player sideChat "Starting Random flares script."; while {true} do { myRandomVar = round(random 100); player sideChat "The number is :"; player sideChat format["%1",myRandomVar]; if (myRandomVar <= 50 ) then { if( myRandomVar <= 25 ) then { player sideChat "White"; flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 250]; } else { player sideChat "Red"; flare = "F_40mm_red" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 250]; } } else { if( myRandomVar >= 75 ) then { player sideChat "Green"; flare = "F_40mm_green" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 250]; } else { player sideChat "Yellow"; flare = "F_40mm_yellow" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 250]; } }; player sideChat "Sleeping 10 secs"; sleep 10; };