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Foxhound himself or not, someone he trusted with managing his income is making these decisions. Jig86 on reddit put it perfectly: https://www.reddit.com/r/arma/comments/75xguh/las_vegas_shooter_mission_released_on_armaholics/

The changelogs are getting better with every update!

Lets hope you will never have to update this o7

I have this pretty basic suicide vest function if you want to give it a try: Link removed.

Note: This is the butchered down post. Technical info, more in-game pictures and a detailed installation tutorial can be found at the Armaholic download page! SIMPLE RANK PATCHES V1.4.2 Description: Simple Rank Patches is a highly configurable AddOn that automatically adds rank patches to all infantry's shoulders. It supports separate player and AI support, and it can even get a player's rank data from their squad URL. Features: 7 different sets of rank patches. Squad URL support. Explained in the included userconfig. Multiplayer, Dedicated Server, JIP and Single player scenario compatible. Other mod compatibility as long as the uniform/ unit mod supports the insignia system. Some Pictures (Click for higher res): Simple Rank Patches v1.4.2

Must not... Make... Star Wars pun... About the "force" :unsure:.

Yes, type checking of commands. Like ARRAY, TEXT, CODE etc. You can compare it with the script to see if the right type is used. For example, this is line 1018: u:showcompass BOOL so if the asl script is showCompass().("25") you can know there is a mistake, and tell the user to use the BOOL type and not the STRING type. Also supportInfo can help you change the syntax a little bit. hint()("Hello") to hint("Hello") You'd be able to remove that extra parenthesis for commands with unary operators! If the command is a unary operator (starting with a 'u:', meaning it has a single parameter (which is always to the right)), you can detect that using supportInfo and convert it accordingly, removing the unnecessary '()'. BI does the research part of the job here for you here, you'll never have to worry about new commands and their syntax; just extract a new supportInfo file with each update and it'll be done.

Couldn't the output of supportInfo be used for catching most datatype errors? You already have the code for recognizing most of the data types. The exact output needs some editing to help the parser, though looks like a good start. Here is an example output from 1.52: http://pastebin.com/f8u6CSXq

ASL scripts become sqf scripts when you run them through the compiler. So you can write your scripts in both languages, but your mission will have just sqf scripts at the end.

Disks storage is cheap, but bandwidth isn't (Just ask the man above me). You've done an amazing favor to the community, probably saved hours of download time for clans.

Lua wasn't around in the 70s, and it wasn't popular enough in 2000 for a small Czech game company to think about implementing it in to their game to allow scripting. There are tons of other languages like python, ruby and javascript that are old as lua but none of these had any popularity amongst normal people (or even developers) in 2000. They didn't have the internet (both for distribution and as a platform). Like I said the most viable choice was c++ and it whould have been too much. I don't want to turn this thread into a language vs language discussion (though this thread exists because of that).

When you say lua I immediately think of Roblox or G-mod. I'd like to think that Arma has way more capacity than those two. Plus BI essentially made all of this stuff we're using 15 years ago. Even Java or C# weren't as popular, and c++ whould give too much access to the game, it also whould be harder to master than sqf. I made this btw, I'll finish it up it after update.

I get defending SQF's strong sides as a videogame scripting language, but Java is an actual, real programming language. They're just not comparable by some means, like where to put semicolons, or what is a code block. In Java you can use a variable if you put a code below it or above it, since they're not just parsed through from top to bottom like SQF. They're not statements or values, therefor there is no need to put semicolons after them. Code in SQF is a data type: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Code

Too bad everyone is doing it with a different programming language and is trying to use a different syntax.

Something else that could help with functions whould be using the params command. I don't know how you'd implement it, but I wrote something that does it. It takes this file for example (funcs.asl): func add(_a, _b) { return _a+_b; } //Supports optional parameters too func testFunction(_param0 = 7, _param1 = "banana") { return true; } func myFunc(_a, _b) { return a > b; } myFunc(1+3/4, 2-(66*22)/3-((123))); And edits it in to this: add = { params ["_a", "_b"]; return _a+_b; }; //Supports optional parameters too testFunction = { params [["_param0", 7], ["_param1", "banana"]]; return true; }; myFunc = { params ["_a", "_b"]; return a > b; }; myFunc(1+3/4, 2-(66*22)/3-((123))); Slight problem: It's written in Java. I took a look at your code and I have no idea how this whould transfer over to go, hope you do. Here is the source, I can try to prepare some actual pseudocode if you're interested, or I can send you the .jar if you'd want to test with it, it runs like this: java -jar paramsParser.jar funcs.asl Prepared it for the command line, you could run it instead of the parseFunction and parseFunctionParameter functions you have. EDIT: Thinking about it, I can probably turn each of these in to a "fn_function.sqf" and add description.ext entries too.

Had the same "Which mod are those units from" thing in armaholic too (link), I think it's the tone of the grass that gives the picture an arma feeling.

Hey Zen, have an idea for the dialog system: Maybe a "Yes/No Dialog" function could be implemented that returns true or false, whould only take a string as a parameter for the message.

I didn't ask for that. I just asked how dependent the mission is on a single ace pbo file... I didn't ask him to remove anything, I asked how much the mission uses a certain ACE feature so I could modify it.

Hey SENSEII, how dependent is the mission on ace_respawn? We don't have it In our modpack since we weren't going to use it, so I was thinking of removing whatever dependency DCG has until the next mod pack update. To what extend are you using ace_respawn?

The list of patches is this: US Army USMC German Luftwaffe Steam badges Armaholic Basic ArmA III ranks British Army I don't have pictures of all of them up. You'll have to download the mod the see all of them (inb4 shameless promo). I'll update the Armaholic page next time, still says there are 5 sets and stuff.

Thanks as always Fox :) Done.

Even 1 or 2 fps is a big difference. If BI keeps this up for every patch (though probably not possible) we'll have a pretty decent running Arma 3 post expansion.

There is no setViewDistance or set viewdistance in the description.ext, but you can use the setViewDistance scripting command in the init.sqf as: setViewDistance 5000;

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North Korea being at the bottom is just priceless. On a more serious note, does this chart say that around %75 of world population is overweight/ obese, or am I mission something?