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Wow! Wish I would have read this thread before I started working on learning how to script and map... Got me-self global banned by debugging scripts(it seems) with battleye enabled! woot! :( Oh well, lucky I only put 4hours into DayZ and have only play/worked for 1908hours on ARMA3 on my own server :) Woe is me. *shakes fist at steam and battleye* *UPDATE* Thats it, have to buy DayZ and ARMA3 again. Absolutely no response from Battleye and BIStudio guys said they have no control or sway over the system. Battleye is a good idea but it should be implemented by BI and not a third party with a Terminator complex, I reckon. In the meantime... Although I still have no 'actual' indication of whether my debugging and testing caused this, which is infuriating, it would be good to make it clear to new map developers that running battleye when testing is a BAD idea. *UPDATE* This was finally resolved as a false positive that was overlooked for nearly 2 months. Resolved now. It is a flawed system. 30 Day bans would make more sense and probably less work for the BE guys. (CLOSED)

After realising that what I was looking for "an array of objects attached to the building" was something I was completely on the wrong track about and looking into the boundingBoxReal function (after the suggestion, Thanks!) I've ended up with this. Testing distance to the building against the larger of the 2 dimensions (width or length) it kinda gets a closer approximation of 'yes you are against a wall of a building when you came to a sudden stop'. Now... to tweak the 'you've come to a sudden stop' to take vector into consideration... since turning on the spot is starting and stopping also. private ["_moving","_speed","_previous","_sample","_building","_dimensions","_width","_length","_distance"]; _moving = false; _previous = 0; _sample = 0.1; while {isPlayer player} do { _speed = speed player; if (_speed != _previous) then { if (_moving) then { if ((_previous < 0 && _speed > 0) || (_previous > 0 && _speed < 0)) then { _building = nearestBuilding position player; _dimensions = boundingBoxReal _building; _width = ((_dimensions select 1) select 0) - ((_dimensions select 0) select 0); _length = ((_dimensions select 1) select 1) - ((_dimensions select 0) select 1); _distance = position player distance position _building; _moving = false; _previous = 0; /*hint format ["%1 %2d %3w %4l",_building,_distance,_width,_length];*/ if (_distance < (_width max _length)) then { addcamshake [10,0.5,5]; playsound3D ["A3\Sounds_F\characters\human-sfx\Person0\P0_hit_03.wss", player,false,getPosASL player,0.8,1,0]; }; } else { _previous = _speed; }; } else { _moving = true; _previous = _speed; }; } else { if (_speed != 0) then { _previous = _speed; _moving = true; }; }; sleep _sample; }; ---------- Post added at 05:14 ---------- Previous post was at 04:34 ---------- Optimised the script and added a delay after a true condition plus added the collision speed to the test condition. Hinky... but getting closer (when running into a building, not so much the rocks, vehicles and anything else hard but... onward!) private ["_moving","_speed","_previous","_sample","_building","_dimensions","_width","_length","_distance","_delay","_damageSpeed"]; _moving = false; _previous = 0; _sample = 0.1; _delay = 1; _damageSpeed = 5; while {isPlayer player} do { _speed = speed player; if (_speed != _previous) then { if (_moving) then { if ((_previous < 0 && _speed > 0) || (_previous > 0 && _speed < 0)) then { _building = nearestBuilding position player; _dimensions = boundingBoxReal _building; _width = abs (((_dimensions select 1) select 0) - ((_dimensions select 0) select 0)); _length = abs (((_dimensions select 1) select 1) - ((_dimensions select 0) select 1)); _distance = position player distance position _building; _moving = false; /*hint format ["%1prev %2curr",_previous, _speed];*/ /*hint format ["%1 %2d %3w %4l",_building,_distance,_width,_length];*/ if (_distance < (_width max _length) && _previous >= _damageSpeed) then { addcamshake [10,0.5,5]; playsound3D ["A3\Sounds_F\characters\human-sfx\Person0\P0_hit_03.wss", player,false,getPosASL player,0.8,1,0]; sleep _delay; }; }; } else { _moving = true; }; } else { if (_speed != 0) then { _moving = true; }; }; sleep _sample; _previous = _speed; };

ahh for a simple answer! Thanks for the help. I will grind on, now that I've started I feel like it's necessary for the ARMA3 experience to be more complete. if I come up with THE answer or AN answer I'll post it on the thread, of course.

Aww man! and here I was getting all excited about someone with all the answers getting back to me! *sigh*

Hi, Recently I created a map which plays at night, the AI don't have NVG and neither do the players. They do all have torches, so it is pretty novel but the one thing that I would like to be able to create is damage to units from running head long into a building, rock face, vehicle or whatever else that would really knock the wind out of you if you did actually run into it (in real life i mean). If i ran into a rock face I'd probably end up in the hospital... I'm thinking. (in real life that is) In a pitch dark map you find that if you fire or flip on your torch it gives away your position and thus the old, flip it on look and flip it off and walk, crawl or run in that direction and what you end up with is, walking or running into an object and in the pitch black there is absolutely no feedback visually or aurally to the player, so you just walk or run against whatever you ended up against with no idea until you flip the ole torch back on. Have you ever been running along and popped on the map to check your location then turned the map off to see that you've been running against a tree? Having the map drop suddenly to the floor and you end up on your backside would make more sense. So... What I would like to do, like when you walk off a ledge or crash a vehicle into a solid object, is get some visual feedback on the screen, like the surrounding red pain fog or the audible yelp of the player... (OOOF sounds appropriate to me) So far I've run into an issue that I can't resolve properly/simply the walls of a building or any direct class of a solid object that I might run into, so if I run into the side of a building that is around 5m to its centre, this will work (setting the condition to detect a distance of less than 10 from the building... which is very arbritary but a way to make this script work at this point!). private ["_moving","_speed","_previous","_sample","_distance"]; _moving = false; _previous = 0; _sample = 0.1; while {isPlayer player} do { _speed = speed player; if (_speed != _previous) then { if (_moving) then { if ((_previous < 0 && _speed > 0) || (_previous > 0 && _speed < 0)) then { _distance = position player distance position (nearestBuilding position player); _moving = false; _previous = 0; if (_distance < 10) then { addcamshake [10,0.5,5]; playsound3D ["A3\Sounds_F\characters\human-sfx\Person0\P0_hit_03.wss", player,false,getPosASL player,0.8,1,0]; }; } else { _previous = _speed; }; } else { _moving = true; _previous = _speed; }; } else { if (_speed != 0) then { _previous = _speed; _moving = true; }; }; sleep _sample; }; I wanted to just use classes as a condition egs. nearestObjects [player, ["House","Car","Fence","Tank"],0.5] but I think the same issue arises that the bits on the house aren't in the class "House", just the bit in the middle so I end up with needing to find the size of the House and see where the player is in comparison or have a function that gives me an array of objects attached to or makeup the house that I can cycle through to see if im splattered against one of them. Maybe it's built in somewhere already? and I can't find the function? Vibration feedback on my desk would work a charm too of course but... maybe later. Thanks for reading my ramblings, and for any suggestions about a function that is already implemented or how to detect the object that I've run into correctly would be GREAT!

+1 Just noticed this myself also

Yes it is fixed :) Yay devs! Definitely made us play differently for awhile... what no explosives!

Aha! I knew I wasn't going mad!

Nobody else run into this problem with a dedicated server? Still seeing this where ammo crates/boxes are not useable unless for items but not inventory.

Hi, Just wondering whether I'm going nuts or not but... EDIT: crossposted this from ARMA 3 - MISSION EDITING & SCRIPTING. Since about 2 weeks ago, right around the guarantee messages problem, I noticed that using the standard ammo box/crate dialogue without any init strings stopped working normally on my dedicated server. I've tried all of my older stratis missions with the same outcome also. Assigning items to item slots, weapons to weapon slots and backpacks to backpack slots works fine as by dragging or right clicking, if the default spot is empty. Dragging and dropping any items or ammo into cargo areas (uniform, vest or backpack) takes it from the box/crate but then it just disappears... not on the ground or in any other spot. If you collect an item or mag from the ground it will go into the uniform, vest or backpack though. The dialogue works normally from a single player mode but not from the client of a dedicated server mode of the same mission. Very confusing! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi, Just wondering whether I'm going nuts or not but... EDIT: This issue is related to the dev version and not the stable version. Since about 2 weeks ago, right around the guarantee messages problem, I noticed that using the standard ammo box/crate dialogue without any init strings stopped working normally on my dedicated server. I've tried all of my older stratis missions with the same outcome also. Assigning items to item slots, weapons to weapon slots and backpacks to backpack slots works fine as by dragging or right clicking, if the default spot is empty. Dragging and dropping any items or ammo into cargo areas (uniform, vest or backpack) takes it from the box/crate but then it just disappears... not on the ground or in any other spot. If you collect an item or mag from the ground it will go into the uniform, vest or backpack though. The dialogue works normally from a single player mode but not from the client of a dedicated server mode of the same mission. Very confusing! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

This looks great! I have it up and running but I cant seem to get the dev version (1.25.x) installed and it seems to only download stable (1.22). I'm using the command app_update 233780 -beta development Does the linux server do the dev version aswell or am I pushing my luck? Thanks!

Hi, I have gleened a lot from here for ages and I recently wrote this function which I have had some great results with, since I keep playing the same maps over and over. Hopefully it will help some one out. In saying all of that there might be a function exactly the same as this somewhere but since I find it difficult to not reinvent the wheel every time I start something, here is my effort. // [start,radius,waypoints,behaviour,mode,speed,type,formation,grp,prefix,land] call randomWP randomWP = { private ["_centre","_radius","_waypoints","_prefix","_pos","_i","_randomX","_randomY","_random","_veh","_type","_formation","_speed","_mode","_behaviour","_grp","_wp","_prefix","_land","_start","_v","_classes"]; _centre = _this select 0; _radius = _this select 1; _waypoints = _this select 2; _behaviour = _this select 3; _mode = _this select 4; _speed = _this select 5; _type = _this select 6; _formation = _this select 7; _grp = _this select 8; _prefix = _this select 9; _land = _this select 10; for "_i" from 0 to _waypoints do { _randomX = floor(random _radius); _randomY = floor(random _radius); _random = floor(random 2); if (_random == 0) then { _randomX = _randomX * -1; }; _random = floor(random 2); if (_random == 0) then { _randomY = _randomY * -1; }; _pos = [(_centre select 0) + _randomX,(_centre select 1) + _randomY,1]; _classes = ["Land_DustMask_F","Land_HumanSkull_F","Land_Matches_F","Land_PainKillers_F"]; _veh = createVehicle [format ["%1",_classes select floor random count _classes],_pos,[],0,"NONE"]; //waitUntil {(speed _veh) <= 0}; sleep 0.2; if ((!(getPosASL _veh select 2 < 0) && _land) || (!_land)) then { //_veh = nil; deleteVehicle _veh; if (_i == 0) then { _start = _pos; }; //_respawn = format ["MARKER%1",_i]; //deleteMarkerLocal _respawn; //_marker = createMarkerLocal [_respawn, _pos]; //_marker setMarkerShapeLocal "ICON"; //_marker setMarkerColorLocal "ColorYellow"; //_marker setMarkerTypeLocal "mil_objective"; //Create waypoint. _wp = _grp addwaypoint [_pos,_i]; _wtype = format ["%1",_type select floor random count _type]; _wspeed = format ["%1",_speed select floor random count _speed]; _wbehaviour = format ["%1",_behaviour select floor random count _behaviour]; _wmode = format ["%1",_mode select floor random count _mode]; _wformation = format ["%1",_formation select floor random count _formation]; if (_i == _waypoints - 1) then { _wp setWaypointType "CYCLE"; } else { if (_wtype != "") then { _wp setWaypointType _wtype; } else { _wp setWaypointType "MOVE"; }; }; if (_wspeed != "") then { _wp setWaypointSpeed _wspeed; }; if (_wbehaviour != "") then { _wp setWaypointBehaviour _wbehaviour; }; if (_wmode != "") then { _wp setWaypointCombatMode _wmode; }; if (_wformation != "") then { _wp setWaypointFormation _wformation; }; } else { _i = _i - 1; //_veh = nil; deleteVehicle _veh; }; }; _start }; invoked with, [[start],radius,waypoints,[behaviour],[mode],[speed],[type],[formation],grp,prefix,land] call randomWP So, If i put a marker in the middle of a town 'TOWN' and i want 8 waypoints to possibly span the 200metre diameter and I wanted a random set of 15 OPFor soldiers to spawn in a 100metre random placement around the 'TOWN' marker, I could do this, _classes = ["O_Soldier_GL_F","O_soldier_AT_F","O_Soldier_SL_F","O_Soldier_AR_F"]; _security = 15; _pos = getMarkerPos "TOWN"; _grp = createGroup east; [_pos,100,8,["AWARE","CARELESS","COMBAT"],[""],["LIMITED"],[""],["STAG COLUMN"],_grp,"",TRUE] call randomWP; for "_s" from 0 to _security do { _soldier = _grp createUnit [format ["%1",_classes select floor (random (count _classes) + 1)],_pos,[],100,"NONE"]; }; I have left the commented out createMarkerLocal bits in the function but it isn't necessary as it was only for troubleshooting. The last parameter 'land' is a boolean and removes the test for above sea level, so waypoints will be created in the water also, so probably good for amphibious vehicles or air vehicles or divers or... but not so much for infantry etc.

submitted a ticket. Here is the mission to see what I mean. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=209599080

I have mortar emplacements intermittently pumping flares over random positions in the area, once OPFor detects BLUFor. I also thought the area ought to be BRIGHT WHITE with illumination but I know what you mean it is extremely low light even with 5 flares floating down at a time. I was hoping that the AI and the player would have the ability to see much clearer with the flares but I haven't, yet, investigated whether there is some sort of value that can be changed with the luminance level with those either. More investigation... or hoping someone else has done it already, of course!