Grumpy Old Man

First contact with the arma franchise has been through day-z. Enjoyed the hell out of it during the early days, was quite an experience meeting other players, fending off those zombies while trying to gather supplies, get armed and on top of that somehow trying to get a grasp of the gritty A2. The more popular day-z became, the more uninteresting it became to me, since most servers got flooded by folks just interested in shooting each other (way better gamemodes out there for that kind of playstyle). Then I played my fair share of Takistan life in a rather small but active server, north government vs southern rebels, oh the times... After that I discovered the editor and slowly descended into the depths of .sqf scripting. I have looked upon all sqf has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. Cheers

Might find this useful: Already checks if the transaction drops below 0 and if the player can actually carry the item, if any of those fails the transaction won't happen. Pretty basic and easy to build upon. Cheers

Check the quotation marks. Cheers

Don't post an entire page containing of 2-3 lines of minor, already solved issues every 20 minutes, instead condense it so people can figure out at first glance what's going on. Will most likely lead to more replies/help. This forum is far from dead, folks simply don't post every 5-15 minutes like it's some social messaging app. Try stuff out, if extensive search engine usage and rummaging through similar topics and the wiki aren't providing a solution, then it's time to post, forum etiquette. To have remoteExec send to all players while being local MP and dedicated server compatible simply use [0,-2] select isDedicated as second parameter, so it will be executed on every client except the server in dedicated environment, in locally hosted MP (where the hosting server has a player) it will be executed accordingly. Cheers

Works out neat, if a bit robotical. Why waste a single bullet when you can throw ordnance worth 5digits+ on a single unit, heh... Cheers

Triggers don't have an init field, you need to put it inside the triggers "On Activation" field. Also make sure the trigger fires by adding this line: hint "Trigger fired!"; If the hint doesn't show, then the trigger doesn't fire. Cheers

_i is simply a variable name, in this case it's used by the for loop to hold the current iteration and increases each iteration by the amount chosen by step (default by 1). for "_i" from 0 to 1 do { systemchat str _i; }; //will print //0 //1 for "_i" from 0 to 100 step 10 do { systemchat str _i; }; //will print //0 //10 //etc. You can name it whatever you want, as long as the same variable doesn't exist already. Might as well be _bananas, it doesn't matter. For practical purposes it's common to use _i though. Cheers

As long as AI behavior will override most script commands (try to turn on vehicle lights at night outside of "SAFE" AI behavior etc.) and other AI components remain inaccessible through scripting, it's not really worth investing the time. Cheers

If you're already on the .sqf side of things, there's barely any reason to keep using triggers. Cheers

Depends on what you want to achieve, you seem confused considering your usage of remoteExecs with isServer checks from inside init.sqf. Cheers

Simplest solution might be to just block the tunnel entrance. Other than that you'd probably need to make the AI advance manually and disable respective features such as enableAttack etc. Cheers

Both image and snippet are not mine, the snippet used was most likely by his highness @killzone_kid Cheers

Vehicles should play an explosion sound, even when using setDamage 1 command, is this a vanilla vehicle or mod asset? Cheers

Pathfinding is perfectly fine, it's the (for some reason extremely generous) bounding boxes that cause what you described. Outer lines are from boundingBox, inner lines are from boundingBoxReal. Guess we need boundingBoxForReal... Try moving an AI close to this one. Cheers

They always move within 10cm of where I order them. Cheers

This was a bit of a headscratcher for me back in the days, since the hit eventhandler ceases to work when a unit is set to allowDamage false. Might as well rename that command to allowGettingHit.. This will do the trick, allowDamage is not needed, the damage upon each hit (even when a bullet hits multiple selections) will be 0 while still allowing the hit eventhandler to work: test addEventHandler ["Hit",{ params ["_unit", "_source", "_damage", "_instigator"]; _hits = _unit getVariable ["TAG_fnc_hits",0]; _hits = _hits + 1; _unit setVariable ["TAG_fnc_hits",_hits]; hint format ["%1 has been hit %2 times",name _unit,_hits]; }]; test addEventHandler ["HandleDamage",{0}]; Cheers

I'm usually eager to rant on some decisions regarding BI naming conventions but from the looks of it the config contains all possible materials, while the getObjectMaterials command only returns currently used ones. This wouldn't explain the empty damage textures config though. Maybe the engine is handling stuff differently, similar to this (if related at all) there's also no way to get an objects mass without spawning it and using the getMass command. No mass config entry exists. Cheers

Here's what I used: _vehicle = this; _state = 1; _type = typeOf _vehicle; _selections = getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _type >> "hiddenSelections"); if (_selections isEqualTo []) exitWith {diag_log "vehDamage: No selections found.";false}; _mats = getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _type >> "Damage" >> "mat"); _textures = getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _type >> "Damage" >> "tex"); if (_type isKindOf "CAManBase") then { _mats = getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _type >> "Wounds" >> "mat"); _textures = getArray (configfile >> "CfgVehicles" >> _type >> "Wounds" >> "tex"); }; _debug = []; _hasMats = !(_mats isEqualTo []); _hasTexs = !(_textures isEqualTo []); if (!_hasMats AND !_hasTexs) exitWith {diag_log "vehDamage: No mats and textures found.";false}; _count = 0; for "_i" from 0 to ((count _selections -1) * 3) step 3 do { if (_hasMats) then { _mat = _mats select (_i + _state); _debug pushback (_i + _state); _debug pushback _mat; _debug pushback "----"; _vehicle setObjectMaterialGlobal [_count,_mat]; }; if (_hasTexs) then { _tex = _textures select (_i + _state); _debug pushback (_i + _state); _debug pushback _tex; _debug pushback "----"; _vehicle setObjectTextureGlobal [_count,_tex]; }; _count = _count + 1; }; true This was made quite some time ago so maybe stuff changed, but was no problem to make a damaged vehicle look like new, even with hull damaged to 0.8. With this you can also make a healthy infantry unit have blood all over the place. Just play with the _state number (up to 3 if I recall correctly). Cheers

Dig through the config for the regular vehicle textures, on the damaged vehicle simply setObjectTexture to the default one, so even when heavily damaged it will look like a pristine editor placed vehicle. Cheers

Cost functionality isn't yet implemented. Best add this function to one player only and have him offer his services for cash. Cheers

You put it in the init field, it needs to be in the expression field as stated above. The tooltips basically give it away. Cheers

Depends on how you're applying the addAction, shouldn't multiplicate on its own. Cheers

setSpeedMode only affects groups or units/manned vehicles, won't have any effect on empty vehicles. Shouldn't be needed, since the proper syntax of createVehicle already spawns the plane with engines on (without having to spool up) and with a healthy forward momentum: _plane = createVehicle ["B_plane_CAS_01_dynamicLoadout_F", (getPosATL player vectorAdd [0,0,100]), [], 0, "FLY"]; player moveInAny _plane; Should be all that's needed (with adjusted spawn position of course). Cheers

Weird approach, why not just use a simple isClass check inside the respective functions to see if a certain mod is loaded? Compatibility for certain mods can be implemented by the script author, so you already know which classes (i.e. unit/item spawning) will be used, simply add them to an array, then use an isClass check for further procedures. Cheers

Daytime doesn't matter. Coffee does. Cheers