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Hi all, Team switching is one of the weirdest feature in Arma. If you are playing in SP, with several switchable units, some behaviors can be lost. If you switch, you can loose all supports (BI standard support modules). Reproducible, Vanilla, 3den: Add units: player + playable ones Add an artillery (the support type doesn't matter, it's just an example) Add the artillery provider module add the requester module link the artillery to the provider module, the provider to the requester module, the requester module to all switchable (playable in 3den) units. Preview Starting as player (the player unit in 3den), gives you the artillery support. No problem. Starting "as character" from any other playable unit does the trick also. No problem. But, each time you press "U" (or whatever key for switching menu) and you choose another unit, the support menu disappear. NB 1: No matter the method used: editor or scripted links with BIS_fnc_addSupportLink, the supports are lost on team switching. Only the first unit played at start can call supports. NB 2: a little workaround, tested but not guaranteed: addMissionEventHandler ["teamSwitch", { BIS_requesterFSM = nil; [yourRequestModuleName] execVM "A3\modules_f\supports\init_requester.sqf"; }]; Now if you switch, the support works.... A remaining point I failed to correct: At your first support call after switching, a hint message will say: "provider not available". Which is wrong. The support works.
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Enable team switcher in single player missions?
juleshuxley posted a topic in ARMA 3 - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Well, I'm disappointed. I thought I would be able to make an addon that would enable team switcher in the single player campaign (or any single player mission). Apparently not. Firstly, I started the Fait Accompli mission as specs ops in ArmA 3's Stepping Stone mini-campaign. The team switcher key (default is U) is disabled, the team switcher window does not show up. Secondly, using the Simple Single Player Cheat Menu, I ran: enableTeamSwitch true; The team switcher now works! But there are no soldiers in it. So let's select a team member: _units = units group player; // [BIS_SpecialPlayer,B Pariah:2,B Pariah:3,B Pariah:4] _unit = _units select 2; // B Pariah:3 So close, now let's make him switchable: addSwitchableUnit _unit; Aaaand nothing happens. Weirdly, when I press the team switcher button it is now disabled (nothing shows up). Even if I run enableTeamSwitch true again it remains disabled, almost as if it knows I'm trying to hack it. Does anyone know why this is? Anyone have any solutions? I'm a fan of the Arma 3 single player experience and a addon that would enable team switcher in the single player campaign would be brilliant! It would give missions a GTA V feel where you can switch from a sniper you've put on a hill instantly to a HMG operator in the middle of the action... 😞 seems to be locked off though. Any ideas, it is a bit of a hack so I guess it might not be possible. Update, I can manually switch player doing this, so I think it's just a matter of creating my own team switcher window: _gang = units group player; _target = _gang select 2; selectPlayer _target; Still if any BI staff or geniuses have any tricks to 'properly' allow the team switcher in a single player mission I would be interested! Update and TLDR, once enabled, team switch works perfectly in all sp campaigns. It's ONLY Stepping Stone that aggresively shuts down Team Switch. Why is this?
