"Scripts" folder??

[meade95]

Does it work if you create a folder called 'scripts' in both your My Documents/ARMA2 folder (as well as in your Main/ARMA 2 folder)....Will these scripts then be avaliable / used in any and all maps/missions you create in the editor? Or do you need to create a scripts folder for each map/mission created?

Thanks

[Fuzzy Bandit]

You'll need to create a scripts folder for each map/mission created.
Or just put them straight in your mission's folder.

For example, if I placed an sqf file called test.sqf in with a mission's mission.sqm, I could call it by using:

execVM "test.sqf";

If, however, I placed that same sqf file in a folder called 'scripts' inside my mission's folder, I would then have to call it using:

execVM "scripts\test.sqf";

[Cyborg11]

You'll need to create a scripts folder for each map/mission created.
Or just put them straight in your mission's folder.

False.

You can create a script folder in your Profiles folder (..\ArmA 2 Other Profiles\YourName\Scripts). Then all missions can use the scripts which are in that folder.
I have ~20 scripts in it

[Fuzzy Bandit]

Oh. Cool.

[wickedstigma]

Well, on my side, I cant never run one of those script no matter what. I actually want to add a action to a player so it places an IED, the thing is that I call the .sqf and guess what? it makes nothing. is there some special way of writing down the code inside the .sqf file? here is my code.

///SET IED

markerstr = createMarker["markername",player]; markerstr setMarkerShape "ICON";  "markername" setMarkerType "Destroy"; "markername" setMarkerSize [1,1];  iedTexture = "Grave" createVehicleLocal (getMarkerPos "markername"); iedTexture setPos(getMarkerPos "markername"); iedTexture setPos (getMarkerPos "markername");

///EXPLODE IED

_ied = "BO_GBU12_LGB" createVehicle (getMarkerPos "markername");deleteVehicle iedTexture; deleteMarker "markername"

I have to add a code to that activates the Explode IED menu an removes the SET IED menu, but I think is quite simple. Any help?

[meade95]

False.

You can create a script folder in your Profiles folder (..\ArmA 2 Other Profiles\YourName\Scripts). Then all missions can use the scripts which are in that folder.
I have ~20 scripts in it

Where exactly do you put this folder?

Within your MY Documents ARMA folder? ...Or within the MAIN C:/ ARMA Folder??

In either case, I currently do not see a folder labled "Other Profiles"??

Thanks for the help

[Tajin]

Keep in mind that this will not work in multiplayer unless all other players have the same script folder or the scripts are only serverside.

Sidenote: The same thing works with addons. To save me from having to compile the PBO over and over again while testing, I put some scripts directly in the ArmA2 folder and execute them there. This also allows to make changes on the fly. Alt+tab to desktop or use windowed mode, change the script and have some sort of trigger in your mission to reload it.

Very very very useful.


advanced sidenote: On a dedicated server this could also be used for making dynamic mission content. (i.e. settings controlled by a serverside script and web-interface). For example one could make some sort of coop/multiplayer mission that allows registered players of an event to choose/buy the equipment/reinforcements for that mission in advance with a small webpage.

[meade95]

So does the Script folder you make....Go in the main ARMA folder (C:drive) or the ARMA folder within the "My Documents"...

[Blaunarwal]

I have the scripts folder in the user\documents\arma 2 folder, on the same level like the missions folder. That works for most scripts. There are a few scripts which need to be in the mission directory themselves.
If I want to give away a mission, I put the scripts directly in the mission folder too, otherwise they wouldn't get packed in :-).

[F2k Sel]

I can only get mine to work within the mission folder, anything else and it can't find them.