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i knew I should have just tried that, thanks. it makes total sense now. cheers.

hey dodzh. the mod works really well thanks for that. I have managed to stop the items spawning on the barracks roof by using this. is there an option to spawn just ammo magazines and not the weapons with them?

I understand about halo reasoning. I Never considered the PvP aspect. Good call.

this is great! I love the ability to change the spawn occurence so quickyl and with the debug markers see the changes.

Had about 2 hours on a dedicated server with a mate. Once we worked out what we had to do we moved to the main objective. It's cool how the assault goes but at one time the AI spawned inside the bunker with us. He did not last long. Finally we held them off for 5 min and then fell out of the bunker as it despawned. No injury but a good laugh. We moved to the airfield and once we realised the independent scum had us out numbered we went on the hunt. Even one of us outside the circle and we lost the sector control. Eventually all rounded up. Another player joined and went as opfor. He came and took the airfield about 3 min after we left. Then must have crashed, (steam kick) likely something unrelated to the mission as I never saw him again. Thoughts. 1. A task instead of the map marker decription top left would be great to allow people know what the current objective is. It took us too long to find it. We saw he notification but missed the location grid reference. 2. Do the AI scale according to player numbers? While the main obj was good fun we did it at night with nvg and nvs svopes. It was tough. We could not tell how many were left or if a scream of allahu akbar meant certain death. Nice touch btw. Those screams are hard to place. They did't really come across as directional. 3. The r3f logi script seems to be active on all buildings even the map placed ones. 4. Too many options in the scroll wheel menu at times . Trying to go to creation factory ends up with arsenal or halo jump...oops! View distance can be set with some nice scripts with dialogs that other have shared. 5. Halo 9km up is a nice view but it takes a long time to come down!! 6. Is the creation factory always going to have unlimited credits or are you planning to build this in later based on kills capture points etc.? 7. Overall great job lots of fun. Well done Looking forward to updates

Glad you like it. be aware I did not put the details in a hint or diary system. I tried diary but it kept scrolling the page and adding the info each time a death occurred. I would suggest rsc overlay might work better you'll have more artistic control.

i had a test of alldeadmen and alldead - when the garbage collector runs (or Zeus deleted deadunits) it will remove dead units/vehicles from these arrays. I thought this might happen so I confirmed it. Moving on to an evenhandler now! Just planning it out. EDIT: Added code below - it needs actual unit names but this counts each unit that is killed and adds to the array. This should work for modded units as it uses the classname. If you are using scripts then the <unit> setvariable ["spawnedSide",side <unit>];, will need to be added to the script to allow the spawned side to be retained. For some reason Arma EH's call all dead units Civ immediately after death... Ultimately, this is just trying to do what the statistics page of the diary does for us each mission!!

have you looked at the allDead or allDeadMen commands? These give you array of all dead units & vehicles and then just he dead 'men respectively. This would be far easier for an AAR than an eventhandler as it will be simpler to iterate through at the end of the mission before the end mission screen. This iwll also avoid a lot of wrok being done through the mission possibly lowering framerates. ALthough in SP i'm not sure how this would give you the information before you get the 'you are dead' screen.

Is this multiplayer or single player? Do you want to count all player kills or any death of AI and player including he AI bad driving and friendly fire kills? I can throw something together but it may take a few days. On another thought pattern. The diary from to the map screen records each players kills and team deaths. Is this accessible from anywhere??? This might be easier to capture for an AAR!

this looks great - i'll have to wait until the weekend but looking forward to playing it... thanks. I'll give feedback once I get a chance to have a go!

Have you tried adding an eventhandler "killed" to the AI? You can then get the unit type with typeof Are the AI spawned or editor placed? On my phone so can't link to Bi-wiki. Sorry

Have a look at a3 wasteland it has a good vehicle and player save system using inidb

You could use CreateDiaryRecord as a log to record the relevant info accessible from the players map screen. Edit: after rereading this info was posted above. Shows I really skipped a large section. Oops. Sorry.

Can't this be done in the editor with one group. Place three markers and then sync the groups to the markers. When the mission starts the group will spawn in one of those locations. It used to work with player starts.

Have you tried a debug on the activation?? Use something like: hint str thislist When activated to see what units are inside the trigger area

Don't these triggers also activate with snakes rabbits butterflies and bees?? Would not make sense that captives were not working...

Fair point God father. It is just like r3f in that respect. I remember ibuild I'll have to take a look at this one now more work has been done.

The wysywig one that is part of Liberation is pretty good. Not sure if the license allows it to be separated out.

@eaglezero6205 in one of the sample missions (maybe more) there is an example of a group insertion by boat and helicopter. You could have a look at those to get some ideas. the framework has been set up so that it works in multiplayer very well. try the tutorial MultiSquadObjectives.Altis in the framework documentation folder.

thanks for the detailed answer, i will give it a try.

hi Zenophon, this framework is great. Haviing seen it when you first released I am please to know you are still working on things. Can you please advise when using Zen_FindGroundPosition what kind of data I would need to put in to find a valley on Altis. Given most are in the North-West and West a marker (or two) in that area would speed up the search - I can do that. I would imagine that the check would be for the steeper gradients in the marker area. Once located how do I find the direction the valley takes so I could then spawn a few small camps there? thanks for your assitance.

thanks savage, I have had the sectors running, I woud love to use alive for missions but my current group is trying to recruit new members and even with workshop we spend too long getting mods sorted instead of getting into battle. I missed the mpmission example likely due to the mod requirements I didn't have loaded at the time. I'll take another look. Good to know DAC and alive work together though, thanks for that. edit: thanks for the config in your signature, the curator addition will help a lot during testing.

thanks Delta99, I have read the manual and there is nothing about the sectors, only the setup card that is included in the download. in my testing it appears to be random luck that the AI take sectors. I was hoping this was a mod-free version of ALiVE, but I'm having issues with fps performance trying to set it up to run as well.

the physical intel drops are controlled inside of the encounters in the task folders. You will be looking through for the group spawns (class Groups) - look for "dropIntel" and change this to 1 to ensure all enemies drop intel. You will find it is usually the last person in the group that is killed that will drop it. If you are some distance away it can be hard to find as some of the smaller items drop into the ground or are under the body.

hi @Fal Soram I am sure al ot of these issues are being addressed and should be either fixed or tweaked int he next release. this is the first Beta on PO4 so there are some fetaures not yet implemented. I am sure the fatigue parmaeter is being fixed inthe next release. body bags and bosy searching are bugged right now. there is also supposed to be a towing and helo lift script using a variant of Dudas' excellent advanced towwing/lifting/rapelling mods - these are also missing on dedicated servers yet sohw up on hosted ones. I have not changed enemy factions so cannot answer that question. To change facitons you will be best to look at MPSF\configuration\cfgFactions.hpp in initServer.sqf is the faction allegiance settings this is where I suggest looking to see what spawned units are attacking each other. in cfgFactions the unit faction type e.g. O_, B_, I_ does not matter as they will be spawned depending on the side value e.g blue=1, red=2, civ=3. If you look closely you will see some I_ units inside the blue pacific squads. civilian setFriend [west,1]; civilian setFriend [east,1]; east setFriend [west,0]; east setFriend [resistance,0]; resistance setFriend [west,0]; resistance setFriend [east,0]; west setFriend [east,0]; west setFriend [resistance,0]; hope that helps if you have other queries please ask.