Editing/Scripting

[Dr_Eyeball]

Thanks for the reports. These "Differences from Arma" tips are very useful. Keep them coming.

[d3nn16]

Can someone who got the game test if the commands getMarkerShape and getTriggerArea exist ? Thanks

[HitmanFF]

Can someone who got the game test if the commands getMarkerShape and getTriggerArea exist ? Thanks

Sorry, but the answer seems no on both accounts.

Edit: There is a command MarkerShape and TriggerArea, so the answer is yes after all

[SNKMAN]

Warning!

In .sqf a missing ";" at the end of a line will not be reported/dispayed as an error.

The script simply will stop working from this line.

findCover:

Looks like the command findCover do not work any longer.

[Dr_Eyeball]

I think it's just markerShape (without 'get' prefix) & triggerArea based on extracted list on Biki. (Edit: Didn't see your edit.)
The missing semi-colon ';' was sometimes the same in Arma too.

[Spooner]

Sorry to add to the pedantry, but you can't use this any more:

_logic = "Logic" createVehicle [0, 0, 0];

In A2 you have to use:

_logic = "Logic" createVehicleLocal [0, 0, 0];

or

_logic = (createGroup sideLogic) createVehicle ["logic", [0, 0, 0], [], 0, "NONE"]

EDIT: and, what I forgot to say, is that I've had no problems setPosing either type.

[SNKMAN]

Yes you are right Spooner.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Well another BIG problem i found:

If you have errors in your syntax then there is no error message showing, that something is wrong!

Example:

if alive player) then
{
     hint "player is alive";
};

Now you should get a error message, telling you that a "(" is missing in front of alive.
But there is nothing shown.
Scripts simply stops working from the point the error was made.

Same goes to every other kind of syntax error.

[Spooner]

Yeah, I think that came in with 1.01beta (bad, bad idea if it isn't a bug!). Until they fix it, use a log viewer (with tail), like LogExpert, to watch what is happening in RPT!

[Mike84]

When I played the MP campaign with a friend in 1.00, there were literally 100's of script error messages popping up, so I assume BIS just disabled error output in the game to make it look like they fixed a lot of error in the campaign.

Thanks for suggesting LogExpert there spooner

[mr.g-c]

When I played the MP campaign with a friend in 1.00, there were literally 100's of script error messages popping up, so I assume BIS just disabled error output in the game to make it look like they fixed a lot of error in the campaign.

Thanks for suggesting LogExpert there spooner

Haha, yeahh that would make absolutely sense!