Server side hud scripty thingy

[famematt]

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quick and easy is to use hint combined with format, wich will give a silent hint in top right corner of screen, difficult is to use dialogs, wich i dont know much about.

you might also want these commands:
speed
distance
onMapSingleClick
while loops

[famematt]

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[kylania]

Now, How do i get the distance from the Shift+Click marker?

onMapSingleClick returns the position of the click as _pos which you can then use to figure out the distance between your current position and _pos.

[CarlGustaffa]

Be careful with _pos wrt onMapSingleClick, as _pos select 2 gives negative output - or something. Get into the habit of using [_pos select 0, _pos select 1, 0] instead. I don't know, it's a really weird one that one...

[Demonized]

this is one way to track distance to shift click on map:

1: add this in unit init:

destination = [];
onMapSingleClick "if (_shift) then {destination = _pos;}; true;"

for testing purposes i placed the hint part in init aswell.

_null = [] spawn {

waitUntil {(count destination) != 0};
_showMe = true;
while {_showMe} do {
	_veh = vehicle player;
	_speed = round (speed _veh);
	_pos = [destination select 0, destination select 1,0];
	_dist = round (_veh distance _pos);
	hintSilent format["speed of vehicle is %1 km/h \n distance to destination is %2 meter",_speed,_dist];
	sleep 1; 
};

};

[famematt]

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_localVariable = 0; // this can only be acessed from within its script. underscore in front.
globalVariable = 0; // this can be acessed from anywhere, no undercore in front.

[famematt]

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just a note on global variables, in MP you need to use the publicVariable command also to broadcast the variable to all clients, this ofc if clients need to "know" the variable.

for table (one similar to Sqlite or Mysql?), i dont know what you mean, sorry.
for finding a string in a array use in command:

_myArray_With_Strings = ["hello","mom","bruce"];
if ("hello" in _myArray_With_Strings) then {
   hint "its there";
} else {
   hint "its not there";
};

you can also find its position in the array like this with find command:

_myArray_With_Strings = ["hello","mom","bruce"];
if ("hello" in _myArray_With_Strings) then {
   _sel = _myArray_With_Strings find "hello";
   hint format["string is number %1 in the array",_sel];
};

note that find command gives the select number so first one will be 0, second one 1, unlike count wich will use 1 for 1 and 2 for 2.