Simple Breath Fog Script

[tpw]

Maybe someone knows the fatiguee-values and how to read them.
Since the fatigue-value increases your crosshair size..

EDIT: Maybe with this command?
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/g...gue_%28VBS2%29

Excellent idea, I'll have a look into it. Thanks Egosa-U!

[ryguy]

This is a great idea! Very original!
I'll make a video of it on saturday.

[Egosa-U]

Maybe it won't work because of the limitation to VBS 2.

But i've searched the commands-list and found that:
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/precision

Still can't find anything really useful about the breathingrate/tiredness/weapon-accuracy..
I'll keep looking.

Edit: Furthermore you could combine the breathing-script with the mission-time. Especially when the mission plays from dusk until night, the enabling of Breath Fog would increase the atmosphere.

[Egosa-U]

I tried now to combine the fog with the mission-time, but haven't got that much experience with sqf-scripting .

I tried to define on which times the fog should be dense and when not.
Basically I setup the following times:
From 0am to 3am : dense fog
from 3am to 6am : less dense fog
from 6am to 6pm: nofog
from 6pm to 20pm: less dense fog
and from 20pm to 24pm: dense fog
So i expanded the code with additional parameters, but can't get it to work.

I think it may have something to do with passing the _int parameter.
Additionally, it should continue checking the time to make sure the fog-density is right.

Hoping, someone can help...

Heres the modified code:
Spoiler:

show spoiler

/ Foggy breath 20110122
// Save the script below as you wish. The easiest way to give everyone in your group foggy breath is to put this in your init.sqf:
// {nul = [_x, 0, 0.01, 0.1, 0, 3, 6, 18, 20, 24] execvm "fogbreath2.sqf" } foreach units (group player);

// For any other unit just put this in their init:
// nul = [this, 0, 0.01, 0.1, 0, 3, 6, 18, 20, 24] execvm "fogbreath2.sqf"

// 0.01 = slightly foggy breath
// 0.1 = fairly foggy
// 1 = very dense fog. Use on antarctic maps!

private ["_unit"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_intlow = _this select 1;  // low intensity of fog (0 to 1)
_intmid = this select 2;   // medium intensity of fog (0 to 1)
_inthigh = _this select 3; // high intensity of fog (0 to 1) 


_time1 = _this select 4; // time from x am (common: 0 am)
_time2 = _this select 5; // time to x am
_time3 = _this select 6; // time from "without fog"
_time4 = _this select 7; // time to "without fog"
_time5 = _this select 8; // time from x pm
_time6 = _this select 9; // time to x pm (common: 24 pm)

while {alive _unit} do {
If ((daytime > _time1) && (daytime <= _time2)) then {_int = _inthigh};
If ((daytime > _time2) && (daytime <= _time3)) then {_int = _intmid};
If ((daytime > _time3) && (daytime <= _time4)) then {_int = _intlow}; 
If ((daytime > _time4) && (daytime <= _time5)) then {_int = _intmid}; 
If ((daytime > _time5) && (daytime <= _time6)) then {_int = _inthigh};
};


sleep (2 + random 2); // random time between breaths

_source = "logic" createVehicleLocal (getpos _unit);
    _fog = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _source;
    _fog setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal", 16, 12, 13,0],
    "", 
    "Billboard", 
    0.5, 
    0.5, 
    [0,0,0],
    [0, 0.2, -0.2], 
    1, 1.275,    1, 0.2, 
    [0, 0.2,0], 
    [[1,1,1, _int], [1,1,1, 0.01], [1,1,1, 0]], 
    [1000], 
    1, 
    0.04, 
    "", 
    "", 
    _source];
    _fog setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];
    _fog setDropInterval 0.001;

_source attachto [_unit,[0,0.15,0], "neck"]; // get fog to come out of player mouth
WaitUntil {!alive _unit};
sleep 0.5; // 1/2 second exhalation
deletevehicle _source; 

[tpw]

Hi egosa-u. I'm not in front of my arma box but looking at your code I can't really see why it shouldn't work. I actually combine my fog script with another one which determines the angle of the sun from the horizon. When the sun is below horizon = foggy breath. I will post this when I get home.

I tried now to combine the fog with the mission-time, but haven't got that much experience with sqf-scripting .

I tried to define on which times the fog should be dense and when not.
Basically I setup the following times:
From 0am to 3am : dense fog
from 3am to 6am : less dense fog
from 6am to 6pm: nofog
from 6pm to 20pm: less dense fog
and from 20pm to 24pm: dense fog
So i expanded the code with additional parameters, but can't get it to work.

I think it may have something to do with passing the _int parameter.
Additionally, it should continue checking the time to make sure the fog-density is right.

Hoping, someone can help...

Heres the modified code:
Spoiler:

show spoiler

/ Foggy breath 20110122
// Save the script below as you wish. The easiest way to give everyone in your group foggy breath is to put this in your init.sqf:
// {nul = [_x, 0, 0.01, 0.1, 0, 3, 6, 18, 20, 24] execvm "fogbreath2.sqf" } foreach units (group player);

// For any other unit just put this in their init:
// nul = [this, 0, 0.01, 0.1, 0, 3, 6, 18, 20, 24] execvm "fogbreath2.sqf"

// 0.01 = slightly foggy breath
// 0.1 = fairly foggy
// 1 = very dense fog. Use on antarctic maps!

private ["_unit"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_intlow = _this select 1;  // low intensity of fog (0 to 1)
_intmid = this select 2;   // medium intensity of fog (0 to 1)
_inthigh = _this select 3; // high intensity of fog (0 to 1) 


_time1 = _this select 4; // time from x am (common: 0 am)
_time2 = _this select 5; // time to x am
_time3 = _this select 6; // time from "without fog"
_time4 = _this select 7; // time to "without fog"
_time5 = _this select 8; // time from x pm
_time6 = _this select 9; // time to x pm (common: 24 pm)

while {alive _unit} do {
If ((daytime > _time1) && (daytime <= _time2)) then {_int = _inthigh};
If ((daytime > _time2) && (daytime <= _time3)) then {_int = _intmid};
If ((daytime > _time3) && (daytime <= _time4)) then {_int = _intlow}; 
If ((daytime > _time4) && (daytime <= _time5)) then {_int = _intmid}; 
If ((daytime > _time5) && (daytime <= _time6)) then {_int = _inthigh};
};


sleep (2 + random 2); // random time between breaths

_source = "logic" createVehicleLocal (getpos _unit);
    _fog = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _source;
    _fog setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal", 16, 12, 13,0],
    "", 
    "Billboard", 
    0.5, 
    0.5, 
    [0,0,0],
    [0, 0.2, -0.2], 
    1, 1.275,    1, 0.2, 
    [0, 0.2,0], 
    [[1,1,1, _int], [1,1,1, 0.01], [1,1,1, 0]], 
    [1000], 
    1, 
    0.04, 
    "", 
    "", 
    _source];
    _fog setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];
    _fog setDropInterval 0.001;

_source attachto [_unit,[0,0.15,0], "neck"]; // get fog to come out of player mouth
WaitUntil {!alive _unit};
sleep 0.5; // 1/2 second exhalation
deletevehicle _source; 

[Egosa-U]

Hi egosa-u. I'm not in front of my arma box but looking at your code I can't really see why it shouldn't work. I actually combine my fog script with another one which determines the angle of the sun from the horizon. When the sun is below horizon = foggy breath. I will post this when I get home.

That would be great! I haven't thought of the possibility to go along with the sun.

[tpw]

That would be great! I haven't thought of the possibility to go along with the sun.

OK, here's the weay I do it. The sun angle stuff is adapted from some code that CarlGustaffa gave me, so props to him!

Let me know if you have probs with it.

// Determine the angle of the sun (ie is it dark or not), adapted from CarlGustaffa 
[] spawn {while {alive player} do {
private ["_lat", "_day", "_hour", "_angle", "_isday"]; //Not 100% correct to BIS own code, but it does the trick.
_lat = -1 * getNumber(configFile >> "CfgWorlds" >> worldName >> "latitude"); //Arma latitude is negated for some odd reason.
_day = 360 * (dateToNumber date); //Convert current day to 360 for trigonometric calculations.
_hour = (daytime / 24) * 360; //Convert current hours to 360 for trigonometric calculations.
sunangle = ((12 * cos(_day) - 78) * cos(_lat) * cos(_hour)) - (24 * sin(_lat) * cos(_day)); 
//update every 5 minutes
sleep 300; 
};
};

private ["_unit"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_int = _this select 1; //intensity of fog (0 to 1)

while {alive _unit} do {
if (sunangle < 0) then {  // only fog breath if sun is below horizon
sleep (2 + random 2); // random time between breaths

_source = "logic" createVehicleLocal (getpos _unit);
	_fog = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _source;
	_fog setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal", 16, 12, 13,0],
	"", 
	"Billboard", 
	0.5, 
	0.5, 
	[0,0,0],
	[0, 0.2, -0.2], 
	1, 1.275,	1, 0.2, 
	[0, 0.2,0], 
	[[1,1,1, _int], [1,1,1, 0.01], [1,1,1, 0]], 
	[1000], 
	1, 
	0.04, 
	"", 
	"", 
	_source];
	_fog setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];
	_fog setDropInterval 0.001;

_source attachto [_unit,[0,0.15,0], "neck"]; // get fog to come out of player mouth

sleep 0.5; // 1/2 second exhalation
deletevehicle _source;
}}

[Semedar]

Sorry to revive this thread, but how do you set the breath (fog) to dissapear faster?

In my mission I have:

setWind [0,10, true];

And the breath looks like it's ejecting out of the player at maximum speed in a straight line.

Edit:

Hah, nevermind. Figured it out by counting how long the fog was alive for and turned out to be ~2. So I looked for something that equaled "2" and it's here:

_fog setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];

Just change the 2 to something like:

_fog setParticleRandom [.1, [0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];

[tpw]

Glad you figured it out Semedar, because I can't remember how I did it! Also, glad that someone is actually using the script!

[PacUK]

We're making use of it in Invasion 1944 too Though it might not be too visible in that video. Great subtle effect that definitely adds a lot to the atmosphere ingame!