check for civilian casualties with civilian module activated?

[RunForrest]

hey there.
to all of my missions i wanna add a loss trigger if civilian casualties are to high.
without the civilian module i would place some civilians within the area of a trigger with settings:
activation: civilians
not present (not sure if thats the exact word in the english editor)
type: loss

but with the civilian module, how would i do that? afaik the civilan life is created around the player within a certain range, and deleted when not being in that range. so cheking for alive civilans with a trigger wouldnt work. any ideas?

[])rStrangelove]

I'd try to use a script for that.

With "allGroups" we have the possibility to get a reference on all existing civilian objects currently existing in a mission.

I would filter out all groups of side "civilian" and start a KILLED evenhandler for all units. All eventhandlers would increase a global counter variable if a civilian was killed by the player.

In case the trashcollector would delete the civilian the eventhandler would be stopped, too.


Dunno how many EHandlers can be used at once performance wise though - too many civilians would surely lag even more because you'd have 1 EH for everyone of them.

Just an idea.

[RunForrest]

what u wrote is a total mystery to me i have no idea of scripting, eventhandlers and stuff like that. thx anyway
but i guess it wont take long until a script is available, as this is a very important thing to have in missions

[Moricky]

No need to add eventhandlers to all units. You can set special init for every civilian created by Ambient Civilians module:

[
	bis_alice_mainscope,
	"ALICE_civilianinit",
	[{
		_this addeventhandler ["killed",{civ_casaulties = civ_casaulties + 1}]
	}]
] call bis_fnc_variablespaceadd;

This will rise global variable civ_casaulties by 1 every time civilian is killed.

More info on Biki

[NeoArmageddon]

No need to add eventhandlers to all units. You can set special init for every civilian created by Ambient Civilians module:

[
	bis_alice_mainscope,
	"ALICE_civilianinit",
	[{
		_this addeventhandler ["killed",{civ_casaulties = civ_casaulties + 1}]
	}]
] call bis_fnc_variablespaceadd;

This will rise global variable civ_casaulties by 1 every time civilian is killed.

More info on Biki

DOH! I just made an Serialkiller map but have not found a way to get a civi kill counter so i wrote my own populationscript (my own alice, but not so good as the BIS one) ARGH!

@Gaia, you posted this 2 days to late....

[Kremator]

me wants SerialKiller mission for arma2 !!

[NeoArmageddon]

Betatesting already started. Works great, just the support for two killer isnt ready yet. Release the next week

BTW Looking for testers-> ICQ 168566281

[RunForrest]

No need to add eventhandlers to all units. You can set special init for every civilian created by Ambient Civilians module:

[
	bis_alice_mainscope,
	"ALICE_civilianinit",
	[{
		_this addeventhandler ["killed",{civ_casaulties = civ_casaulties + 1}]
	}]
] call bis_fnc_variablespaceadd;

This will rise global variable civ_casaulties by 1 every time civilian is killed.

More info on Biki

thx for the info

how do i use that in a mission? 4 dead civilans = mission failed

or hey much better the civilans run into their houses, get arms, and fight back that would be cool. i think thats not possible is it?
but maybe a workaround, lets say guerillias come out of houses(spawn at the doors or spawn inside buildings if possible, so players can not see them just popping up out of nowhere) and fight the enemies (players). is that possible?

[Alex72]

Anything is possible in ARMA sorta. You just gotta learn how to do it - or grease someone up to do it for you. But its sure possible to do what you want. I dont know how though.

[TRexian]

No need to add eventhandlers to all units. You can set special init for every civilian created by Ambient Civilians module:

[
	bis_alice_mainscope,
	"ALICE_civilianinit",
	[{
		_this addeventhandler ["killed",{civ_casaulties = civ_casaulties + 1}]
	}]
] call bis_fnc_variablespaceadd;

This will rise global variable civ_casaulties by 1 every time civilian is killed.

Gaia-

I attempted to use this structure to add an init to every ALICE civilian, but got a zero divisor error. It didn't say where, though, although it looks like it is associated with approximately line 17 of the fnc_civilianinit, where

_logic = BIS_alice_mainscope;

I tried this:

[bis_alice_mainscope, "ALICE_civilianinit",[{if ((random 1) < .4) then {[_this] execVM "JTD_ambientCivTraffic.sqf"};}]] call bis_fnc_variablespaceadd;

Now, I tried MANY different combinations of things. Oh - and this was in the initialization portion of the editor-placed module. Is it more properly in the init of the mission? Ideally, I would like a way for a mission designer to just place the code in an init box (or have it as an addon module/game logic... but one step at a time).

Thanks,
T