Problem with spawning script (ArmA 2 OA)

[undercoverbrother]

G'day everyone,

I've spent quite a while trying to write script to spawn 5 units. So far this what I've got:

_pos = getMarkerPos "MarkerOne"
_s1 = "Graves"
_s2 = "US_Delta_Force_SD_EP1";
_s3 = "US_Delta_Force_Medic_EP1";
_s4 = "US_Delta_Force_Night_EP1";
_plane = "C130J_US_EP1";

for [{_counter = 0}, {_counter < 5}, {_counter = _counter + 1}] do {
	_units = [_s1,_s2,_s3,_s4,_plane] select _counter;
	_spawngroup = [_pos, West, _units, [],[],[0.5,0.8],[]] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;
};

On my map I have a marker named "MarkerOne" and a functions module. I know there are a lot of threads on this already but none of them seem to work for me; which is really strange as they work for the people who post them . Please help.

thanks,

[kylania]

Notice the missing ; after the first two lines?

You can rewrite it like this:

_pos = getMarkerPos "MarkerOne";
_units = ["Graves","US_Delta_Force_SD_EP1","US_Delta_Force_Medic_EP1","US_Delta_Force_Night_EP1","C130J_US_EP1"];

_spawngroup = [_pos, West, _units, [],[],[0.5,0.8]] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

However the plane starts on the ground, running all the units over and killing them before finally crashing into something itself...

Something like this might be more what you're intending to do:

// Defaults
_pos = getMarkerPos "MarkerOne";
_units = ["Graves","US_Delta_Force_SD_EP1","US_Delta_Force_M edic_EP1","US_Delta_Force_Night_EP1"];
_plane = "C130J_US_EP1";

// Spawn your plane and fly it at 800m up.
_spawnplaneArray = [_pos, 90, _plane, WEST] call bis_fnc_spawnvehicle;
_spawnplane = _spawnplaneArray select 0;
_spawnplane flyInHeight 800;
_spawnplane setPos [getPos _spawnplane select 0, getPos _spawnplane select 1, 800];

// Create your group...
_spawngroup = [[1,1,1], WEST, _units, [],[],[0.5,0.8]] call BIS_fnc_spawnGroup;

// and make them board the plane.
{_x moveInCargo _spawnplane} forEach units _spawngroup;

Just give _spawnplane some waypoints where you want it to drop _spawngroup off at.

[undercoverbrother]

Thanks Kylania, but its still not working. Am I calling the script incorrectly or something? I placed the marker and the functions module, I just don't know why my script never works. Could it possibly be a problem with my version of ArmA 2 OA.

[kylania]

Problem was that you were calling the script incorrectly. To call an SQF use this format:

_nil = [] execVM "spawn1.sqf";