Player/Playable Unit play Animation on Trigger Act.

[dystopian 25]

Hello all I am working on a single player immersive Zombie mission and I am attempting to get my player to play an animation. 

I've never really done this I've normally always made the AI do them.  So I have my guy here and a trigger.  

 

His name is [p1]

I have in the Trigger act: p1 play or switchmove "AinvPercMstpSrasWlnrDnon_G01";

I walk into the Trigger and nothing.  

 

So is there something I need to know about animating an actual player not an AI unit?  

[reaper lok 82]

Not sure if this will work but maybe try PlayMove rather than SwitchMove

 

just an idea to try until someone can give you the correct code (if possible). 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

p1 play or switchmove "AinvPercMstpSrasWlnrDnon_G01"; 

That's not a working syntax.

Care to give out more details on what you want to do, how it should happen and why it has to be a trigger in the first place?

 

Cheers

[dystopian 25]

Because I'm not too savvy with scripting.  

I'm trying to have this animation activate when the player reaches the height in order to "boost radio frequency";  

So the player does an animation of listening to radio for a few seconds and then back to playable. 

 

 

Any help is appreciated. 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Ah, allright. So you want the animation to play once the player is at a certain altitude?

Could be as simple as this:

 

_playAnimAtAltitude = [player,408] spawn {

	params ["_unit","_altitudeNeeded"];

	waitUntil {sleep 1;(getPosASL _unit select 2) >= _altitudeNeeded};
	systemchat "Altitude reached. Stop to listen to the radio.";
	waitUntil {speed _unit isEqualTo 0};
	_unit playMove "AinvPercMstpSrasWlnrDnon_G01";
	systemchat "Listening to radio.";

};

Cheers

[dystopian 25]

Thanks for the reply however I am not sure how to find the exact altitude which is why I was using a trigger so once you climb to the desired point it activates.  

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

Altitude above sea level (ASL) is displayed in the bottom left corner of the 3d editor, using the cursor position.

 

Cheers

[dystopian 25]

Sorry Old man I got no idea what the hell I'm doing here.  

I found this script searching and it spawns the Antenna for placement which is awesome, however I am currently running it in the init of an object.  

An I want it so that when the player reaches this trigger it activates the addAction, placement.  

placeBarrier = {
    grabBA = player addAction ["Grab Barrier", 
    {
        _barrier = "Land_Antenna" createVehicle position player;
        _barrier attachTo [player,[0, 5, 0]];
        player removeAction grabBA;
        call dropBarrier;        
    }];
};
dropBarrier = 
{
    dropBA = player addAction ["Place Barrier",
    {
        detach _barrier = "Land_Antenna";
        player removeAction dropBA;
    }];
};
call placeBarrier;

HOWEVER, It lets me spawn the object and move it around but when I click addaction Place Barrier it gives me an error regarding variables in:

"player removeAction dropBA;... Error undefined variable in expression: _barrier

So what exactly is the error saying?  Also I want this option only available when I hit this trigger, I have a Radio.sqf file with this in it, but when I try to activate it by trigger I get nothing... 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

That's because everything inside the script/code parameter of the addAction command has its own scope.

Variables that are defined outside of this scope don't exist there.

You can circumvent this issue by using setVariable/getVariable on the object the action is being added to.

To solve your issue try this:

//init.sqf
Dyst_fnc_placementPointReached = false;

//in trigger that activates when the player reaches your altitude point:
Dyst_fnc_placementPointReached = true;

//initPlayerLocal.sqf:
player addAction ["Grab Barrier",
{
    params ["_object","_caller","_ID"];
    _barrier = "Land_Antenna" createVehicle [0,0,100];
    _object setVariable ["Dyst_fnc_attachedAntenna",_barrier];
    _barrier attachTo [_caller,[0, 5, 0]];
    _object removeAction _ID;

},nil,1,true,true,"","_target isEqualTo _this AND isNull objectParent _this AND Dyst_fnc_placementPointReached"];


player addAction ["Place Barrier",
{
    params ["_object","_caller","_ID"];
    _barrier = _object getVariable ["Dyst_fnc_attachedAntenna",objNull];
    detach _barrier;
    _object removeAction _ID;


},nil,1,true,true,"","_target isEqualTo _this AND isNull objectParent _this AND !isNull (_this getVariable ['Dyst_fnc_attachedAntenna',objNull])"];

 

No idea what "Land_Antenna" is supposed to be, must be a mod object. Tried it with "Land_BarrelEmpty_F" and works.

 

Cheers