Trigger a flare

I guess this is possible but how do i do it?

It doesn't matter if the flare is fired out of nothing or a enemy soldier is firing it as the players won't see it fire.

Thanks for any help :)

Little example: If enemy units detected by trigger, the flare is fired.

Create a game logic an name it pos. Create a trigger with East detected by West. On activation wrote...

this exec "flare.sqs";

flare.sqs

#Loop
flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
~20 + (Random 100)
? ([i]any condition is true[/i]) : exit
goto "Loop";

Imutep, just seen this, how would I get different coloured flares to fire? Would I need 3 different scripts stating the different classnames then call them via the trigger or...

Little example: If enemy units detected by trigger, the flare is fired.

Create a game logic an name it pos. Create a trigger with East detected by West. On activation wrote...

this exec "flare.sqs";

flare.sqs

#Loop
flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
~20 + (Random 100)
? ([i]any condition is true[/i]) : exit
goto "Loop";

Awesome, gonna try this later today... thanks a bunch

Really love this community :D

Imutep, just seen this, how would I get different coloured flares to fire? Would I need 3 different scripts stating the different classnames then call them via the trigger or...

Yu mean randomly fired flairs? I know it is possible, but sorry, my scripting knowledge is limited. But here are the flare class names i know.

"F_40mm_white"
"F_40mm_yellow"
"F_40mm_green"
"F_40mm_red"

I am like you mate, very limited in scripting knowledge, I might create 3 different scripts then for 3 different coloured flares unless someone else has a better idea!!

I would ideally like a script that fires randomly coloured flares continuously until all AI are dead.

Please help!

Dale.

Very new to this and still learning this scripting language but :

using :

#Loop
flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
~20 + (Random 100)
? (any condition is true) : exit
goto "Loop";

Can you, in the loop, do another random and test on that condition and if Random < 50, then white flare, else, red flare ?

That would give 2 flares. I dont know if there is a way to have an if, else if, else statement.

if was looking at this : http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SQS_to_SQF_conversion

I dont know what is the difference between the SQS or SQF, but you could easily have 2 different colors from what I can see in that page.

--------------------------------- Edit ---------------------------

HaHA -> this page is now my friend : http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Control_Structures . Structures are very similar to Bash scripting but it is missing some if , else if, else statement.

This should return 1 flare color out of 4

   myRandomVar = round(random 100);
   if (myRandomVar <= 50 ) then
   {
       if( myRandomVar <= 25 ) then
       {
             flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
       }
       else
       {
            flare = "F_40mm_red" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
       }
   }
   else
   {
       if( myRandomVar >= 75 ) then
       {
            flare = "F_40mm_green" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
       }
       else
       {
           flare = "F_40mm_yellow" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];
       }
   };

Hi,

i tried this script:

#Loop

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos pos select 0, getPos pos select 1, 150];

~20 + (Random 100)

? (any condition is true) : exit

goto "Loop";

I have a trigger with East detected by West. And On activation:

this exec "flare.sqs";

But i cant get this to work...please help

Did you put your condition in place of :

"any condition is true"

I have no specific condition.

You need to put something that makes sense instead of "any condition is true".

Put something true, at least to test.

Ok, here is the flare.sqs:

#Loop

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos lichtlein select 0, getPos lichtlein select 1, 150];

~10 + Random 100

? (Ziel1) : exit

goto "Loop";

On the trigger i have Ziel1=true.

But it dosent work.

? (Ziel1) : exit

The script works without this line. I used it in a mission and Ziel1 is a condition that is true when east units not in a list trigger. So no more flares are fired.

Thats all.

No sorry, it dont work.

This is my flare.sqs:

#Loop

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos lichtlein select 0, getPos lichtlein select 1, 150];

~10 + Random 100

goto "Loop";

I have a gemelogic that is calles "lichtlein"

The trigger is activatet correctly...i made a hint.

In On Activation it has -> this exec "flare.sqs";

I used it so, and it works fine.

[] exec "flare.sqs";

#Loop
flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos lichtlein select 0, getPos lichtlein select 1, 150];
~10 + Random 100
goto "Loop"

Sorry i got it working now by executing the script as you stated in you last post Imutep, thanks for you help

I couldn't get it to work :(

When a BLUFOR unit enter a trigger area a flare is supposed to fire.

Here's the exact steps of what i did:

1. I made a script named flare.sqs with following code:

#Loop

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 150];

~10 + Random 100

goto "Loop"

2. I placed a gamelogic on the map on the location i wanted the flare to fire from and named it flaretrap.

3. I placed a Trigger on the map which is the trap itself. In the trigger i have following:

In the "Activation" field i have BLUFOR / Present

In the "On Activation" field i have: this exec "flare.sqs";

When a BLUFOR unit moves into trigger area the flare should fire but it doesn't, what am i doing wrong :confused:

Fine! ;)

Has anybody tested the version with randomly fired flares?

Fine! ;)

Has anybody tested the version with randomly fired flares?

Real noob question.

In which folder do you place you sqs or sqf files ?

Once I have that figured out, i'll try my random flares code.

Real noob question.

In which folder do you place you sqs or sqf files ?

Once I have that figured out, i'll try my random flares code.

In the mission folder you are editing/making :cool:

Located in MyDocuments/arma2/missions -ish!

Fine! ;)

Has anybody tested the version with randomly fired flares?

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;
};

Thats great...if this works :p

Will test it now and then i put it on our scripts section at Assault Mission Studio. Thx Angry_Canadian!

Thats great...if this works :p

Will test it now and then i put it on our scripts section at Assault Mission Studio. Thx Angry_Canadian!

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.

Great !

I tested the exact same script in my mission and it spawned random flares.

Yes it works fine, thanks for helping :)

I edited it a bit:

flare.sqf

flareNum = round(random 15);

flareSpread = round(random 30);

while {flareNum>=0} do

{

flareNum=flareNum-1;

myRandomVar = round(random 100);

if (myRandomVar <= 50 ) then

{

if( myRandomVar <= 25 ) then

{

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 200];

}

else

{

flare = "F_40mm_red" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 200];

}

}

else

{

if( myRandomVar >= 75 ) then

{

flare = "F_40mm_green" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 200];

}

else

{

flare = "F_40mm_yellow" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap select 1, 200];

}

};

sleep (flareSpread);

};

In trigger "On activation" : _xhandle = execvm "flare.sqf";

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.

Maybe you could add like 3 "game logic's" and name them flaretrap0,flaretrap1,flaretrap2 and then do:

spawnAt = floor(random 2);

if (spawnAt=0) then

{

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap0 select 1, 200];

}

if (spawnAt=1) then

{

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap1 select 1, 200];

}

if (spawnAt=2) then

{

flare = "F_40mm_white" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0, getPos flaretrap2 select 1, 200];

}

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.

Maybe it can be done with something like this:

RanNum1 = round(random 100);

RanNum2 = round(random 100);

flare = "F_40mm_green" createVehicle [getPos flaretrap select 0 + RanNum1, getPos flaretrap select 1 + RanNum2, 200];