The Scripting How-To Thread

[Inkompetent]

Syntax is off slightly, but the logic works fine. Thanks Vic!

Almost last questions, I promise. I want to be able to end my game on a timer, or if both tasks 1 and 2 are completed, or if both tasks are failed. Am I right in thinking that setting a trigger to Countdown min:120, mid:120, max:120 would cause the trigger to activate in two hours under condition "this"? And would setting the "Type" to End #1, End #2, etc. end the mission? What about "Lose"?

The countdown is in seconds, so you'd need to set it to 7200 for two hours. You could set that trigger to true in the condition field, and it'd start counting at once.

Set it either as an END trigger, or put for example outOfTime = TRUE in the On Activation field and have that variable as a condition for some other trigger. You can only have one END#-trigger per end, but you can have an infinite amount of LOSE-triggers. So you could have the time-out trigger cause one mission failure, failing with the tasks causing another, and having the successful victory as your END#1 trigger.

[blibblob]

I was trying to figure out how to get units to spawn parachuting on launch of the game and my code doesn't seem to work. I finally got it to stop with the syntax errors, but now just nothing happens. It's supposed to iterate through the units in a leader's group, create a parachute for all of them and place them in the parachute as driver.

_osprey = this select 0;
_leader = this select 1;
_pos = objNull;
{
    switch (_osprey)
    {
         case 0:
         {
              _pos = Osprey0;
         };
    };
    if (_pos) then
    {
        para = createVehicle ["Parachute", _pos, [], 0, "FLY"];
        _x moveInDriver para;
    }else
    {
        exitWith {};
    };
}foreach units _leader;

The syntax may not be perfect since I'm not copying and pasting, I'm at work. And I shortened the case statements, there's more.

[DLBlue]

Here's the code I have to spawn a para squad

spawnParaSquad.sqf

if (isServer) then
{
	_soldierClasses = ["RU_Soldier_SL", "RU_Soldier_AA", "RU_Soldier_GL", "RU_Soldier_GL", "RU_Soldier_AR", "RU_Soldier_AR", "RU_Soldier_Medic", "RU_Soldier_Marksman", "RU_Soldier_AT", "RU_Soldier_AT", "RU_Soldier", "RU_Soldier"];
	_ranks = ["PRIVATE", "CORPORAL", "SERGEANT"];
	_spawnPoints = ["VehSpawn1"];
	_attack = "Attack";
	_spread = 400;
	_maxSkill = .6;


	_grp = createGroup east;
	_wp = _grp addWaypoint [getMarkerPos "Attack", 0];
	[_grp, 0] setWaypointType "SAD";
	[_grp, 0] setWaypointCompletionRadius 400;
	[_grp, 0] setWaypointTimeout [500, 500, 500];

	_currentSpawn = _spawnPoints select 0;

	for [{_x = 0},{_x < count _soldierClasses},{_x = _x + 1}] do 
	{
		_currentSpawnPos = [(getMarkerPos _currentSpawn select 0) + (random _spread) - (_spread / 2), (getMarkerPos _currentSpawn select 1) + (random _spread) - (_spread / 2), 100];
		_type = _soldierClasses select _x;
		_skill = random _maxSkill;
		_rank = _ranks select (round (random 2));
		if (_x == 0) then
		{
			_rank = "LIEUTENANT";
		};
		_type createUnit [_currentSpawnPos, _grp, "", _skill, _rank];
	};

	for [{_x = 0},{_x < count _soldierClasses},{_x = _x + 1}] do 
	{
		_currentSpawnPos = [(getMarkerPos "Attack" select 0) + (random _spread) - (_spread / 2), (getMarkerPos "Attack" select 1) + (random _spread) - (_spread / 2), 100];

		_para = "ParachuteEast" createVehicle _currentSpawnPos;
		_para setPos _currentSpawnPos;
		(units _grp select _x) moveInDriver _para;
	};
	_grp allowFleeing 0;

	_allUnits = units _grp;
	waitUntil { {alive _x} count _allUnits == 0 };
	sleep 60;
	
	{ deleteVehicle _x; } foreach _allUnits;

	waitUntil { count units _grp == 0 };
	deleteGroup _grp;		
};

[blibblob]

Here's the code I have to spawn a para squad

spawnParaSquad.sqf
[not quoted]

With mine I was hoping I would be able to create the groups in the editor so all group generation and variation could be done there and then just have a script that ran across a group putting them in the air. But when I get back home I'll go through your script try it in my mission then see if I can change it to work how I originally wanted it. If it just can't work the way I want it, I guess I'll have to go with it that way.

[Fincuan]

One thing that caught my eye, among other things, was this:

foreach units _leader

That won't work unless _leader is a group, which it isn't judging by your post. forEach only works on an array of units, so we have to give it one:

forEach units group _leader

[blibblob]

One thing that caught my eye, among other things, was this:

foreach units _leader

That won't work unless _leader is a group, which it isn't judging by your post. forEach only works on an array of units, so we have to give it one:

forEach units group _leader

According to the comref "units" is overloaded to accept either a group or a unit. If it's a unit it gets all of the units in the same group as the one passed in. So it should be the same as units group _leader...

[Fincuan]

Yeah you're right and I stand corrected. It really should accept a unit too as input according to the comref.

[Blackdog1]

Stupic question time... What is a Civ respawn called?

I thought it was Respawn_Civ but clearly it is not as my civ respawns at Respawn_East when he is a neutral...

Is it Respawn_Civilian?

[blibblob]

Not exactly a scripting issue, but how do you make the AI drive better? More waypoints, less waypoints? I'm trying to put together a mission where it starts with the players being driven somewhere(want it to be out of their control) but the damn AI keeps running off the road and into trees and weaving and just making a whole mess of this vehicle column I'm trying to have...

[DLBlue]

I've heard if you put only one vehicle in the convoy it drives better

Not tested

[blibblob]

They do seem to drive better when not grouped with other vehicles... They still suck, but that's probably just the bad pathfinding.

[Vic]

@Blackdog: respawn_civilian

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/D...on.ext#Respawn...

[Blackdog1]

Yep ta Vic, found that yesterday.

Cheers
BD1

[viper1986]

How do you make it so a vehicle burns for a set period of time instead of just setting the damage to 1 and letting it burn out?

[Inkompetent]

How do you make it so a vehicle burns for a set period of time instead of just setting the damage to 1 and letting it burn out?

Not sure if you can change that when a vehicle is already burning, but you could try to do a VehicleName setFuel 0 when you want it to stop. How long a vehicle burns is supposedly depending on how much fuel it had when it was destroyed. If some variant of this doesn't work I don't have a clue.