Reveal all enemy units closer then 25m distance to all friendly units in 50m distance

[Wiggum]

I just cant get this work...

I would need a script for a night mission that reveals all enemy units closer then 25m distance to all friendly units in 50m distance.

So a example:
East group patrols and one unit of the east group comes closer then 25m to 3 west soldiers.
Now the east unit should reveal these 3 west soldiers to all friendly (east) soldiers in 50m distance.

The same thing should work for west units too, i dont know if i would need 2 seperate scripts...and i dont care about that anyway...
These script(s) should run the hole time over the complete map and should affect all units (east & west).

I need such a script because units without NVG are blind as hell even if it is a bright night...this can result in odd situations.

Can someone help ?

[GossamerSolid]

Well I'll link you to two commands that you can use to achieve this. Then you can work on it and re-post here when you have something working and need some additional help:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/reveal
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/nearObjects

[Wiggum]

I know about these commands and have tried many differend scripts but none of them worked. Sadly i deleted my last attempt and cant post it but i will try:

if (side _x == east) AND (_x distance units group player < 25) then {
		_x reveal units group player;
	};
} foreach units (_x distance <= 50);

[GossamerSolid]

Your forEach syntax is wrong, here's an example that would work:

{
    if (typeOf _x == "MustardTiger") then {
        hint "poop";
    };
} forEach _arrayOfUnits; 

EDIT: Incase you didn't see it, you are missing an opening bracket for your forEach statement.

[Celery]

The reveal command unfortunately has little effect in low light combat conditions, because a unit needs at least 1.4 knowsAbout to engage another unit, and reveal only sets it to 1.

[Wiggum]

Mhh. thats bad...
Any idea how to fix it because it breaks low light combat totally for me.

I came up with this:

while {true} do {
_pos=_this select 0;
_targetsArray = nearestObjects [_pos, ["Man","Tank", "Air", "Car"], 50];
_units = player;

{
   if (side _x == EAST) then
   {
      _units reveal _x;
   };
} forEach _targetsArray;
sleep 5;
};

And yes, i was not able to identify a enemy right next to me....
That guy stared at me and i at him and he was still "Unknown Man" to me.

Found another thread about the same issue:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...ght=knowsabout

There are scripting commands for just everything...but not for set knowsabout ?

[F2k Sel]

odd I tried the reveal and knowsabout returns 1 but after about 10-20 seconds it jumps to 4, neither units are moving.

Removing reveal, knowsabout returns 0 and unit never fires.

The same happens in total darkness with no night vision.

[Wiggum]

I now got it working a bit better using sucha trigger:

BLUFORE detected by OPFORE / repeatedly:

GermanArmy = nearestObjects [AL1, ["I44_man_G"], 200];   {_x setbehaviour "COMBAT"; _x setcombatmode "RED"} foreach GermanArmy;   {_x reveal ((list AL1) select 0)} foreach GermanArmy;

Inside those trigger area the enemy will detect me after a few seconds and start shooting at me. all enemy units inside that area (200m) will hunt me down.

Now i need something for my side too...

EDIT:
No...looks like some random behaviour, now it does not work again...arh !

It looks like someone has to shoot first to raise "knowsAbout" high enough so that both sides know they have a enemy unit right infront of them !

[F2k Sel]

I can get East revealed to West but not the other way around.

//null=[location] execvm "find.sqf"

_pos = _this select 0;

_eastmen = nearestobjects [_pos,["SoldierEB"],50];
_westmen = nearestobjects [_pos,["SoldierWB"],50];

hint format ["west %1 east %2",count _westmen,count _eastmen];

sleep 2;

// reveal West to East
{ 
_temp = _x;
{_temp reveal _x}  foreach _westmen;
} foreach  _eastmen;



// reveal East to West
{ 
_temp = _x;
{_temp reveal _x}  foreach _eastmen;
} foreach  _westmen;

I think reveal is broken, I just tried revealing a named west unit to east unit and nothing but it works the other way around.

reveal only seems to work up to 25 meters anyway.

[CarlGustaffa]

You can heighten AIs awareness by creating #lightpoint only on the server. Normal flares won't help AI at all, strangely enough. Keep in mind this approach doesn't work that good on hosted missions, obviously, only on dedicated.