CarlGustaffa

...based on a position? Having some problems with this one, without it having to go way too complicated. Enemy AI artillery system have a possible target, but need to find out if they have some of their own units in the area. I've tried findNearestEnemy, based on one of our units, but that requires us to know about the enemy. Not always we do that. Basically, a function like: [_position, "east"] call fn_nearestfriendlyunit gives back an object or objNull. Any suggestions? I don't want to use reveal btw. Edit: It's important that I don't use the actual target, but a position, since I'm basing the risk on where the target will end up after projectile flight time.

Like i.e. a computer display dialog. Everytime a message comes in from HQ it is pushed to the bottom of the screen. When the next one comes, it scrolls up one line. But if a line contains more text that it can fit in one line, I would need to scroll two lines (or more). How to deal with this in a good manner? Is there a builtin way I'm missing, where you just put stuff in and don't have to think about line management?

Hi Is there any way to quickly test if a point is located anywhere within a marker? Rectangle or ellipse at any sizes and angle.

Bye then, I guess. No need for me to hang around here anymore :( Saddest day of my life...

Interesting for sure. Played the RPG in my youth, but sadly never got too immersed in the universe so I kinda just dropped out in favor of other more fantasy related RPGs. Hope it supports 1st person.

Ok, my mistake. I believe the initial impression was "no mod support", so I didn't bother waiting around. Are these done with actual released modding tools, or are they more like hacks? Anyway, for me, without using any mods, the game didn't last very long due limited replayability (and sw issues which are probably fixed in patches by now). I don't have any plans to get back into it, but it was surely worth the money (and time - since I don't fast travel). @Günter Severloh: I think most players would have loved to see a more role playing approach set in this universe and setting. But creating role playing game mechanics to a realistic world seems (to me) harder compared to a fantasy game where all bets are off and allows mechanics that couldn't possibly be considered. Personally I think it's heading in that direction, which is good. But a good role playing engine isn't made over night - much more data to handle might impact the current engine too much (speculative). It's open world sandbox, except for the second island which isn't as cool or big anyway. Actually, I find many parallels to Skyrim, but lacking character customization (needed in 1st person only?) and going current world rather than fantasy. Would love to see a survival role play hard-core'ish approach to this. Oh, and thanks a bunch for that video - I'm completely blown away. The energic performance of Michael Mando as Vaas was about the most insane thing I ever saw. I think his career just got boosted significantly :) Sure hope to see him again soon. I think "Vaas explained" could be a good movie :D And yeah, Far Cry 3 is well worth it. Especially if you're into 1st person immersion sandbox open world kind of games, with usually more than one way of handling the problem at hand.

Auto center of mouse when Arma window receives focus and when esc is pressed (showing the mouse pointer). The current behavior where mouse position is always doubled (center being [0, 0]) on these events drives me nuts.

Excellent stuff, although I only got to try out out briefly yesternight. I didn't get the update, and I only had CBA running at the same time, but I had this: * Shooting outside and inside produced different results (as expected), but if I hit a wall when shooting from the inside my sound hardware seriously choked on it. Not on SSD yet, but on brand new hardware, so shouldn't be fragmented in any ways. * Ambient sounds seems to lack sounds for sea. Both on Chernarus (sea) and Takistan (that lake) it's sea sound seem nonexistent. I might have messed up something myself; if not confirmed by anyone else, ignore this :)

Guess they made the funds. Which is nice. I'll definitely buy it, but I'm also a bit skeptical due to "having" to support MP, at the cost of not including what I think are some of the more crucial features to have in this game (from the start).

Likes: + Fantastic island to explore. + 1st person immersion is extreme. + Awesome characters. + Well done main storyline with best places I've ever seen. Chinese temples were just whoa! + Wildlife is pretty spectacular and sometimes dangerous. + Enemy base layouts provided pretty good approach to how you ended up using stealth. + Zone system way better than Farcry 2's enemy respawn system. Dislikes: - Not enough unique places other than in certain story quests. - Not enough role playing elements. - Side quests are typically really bad. - Crafting could have been a lot more complex. - Too easy. Would have preferred hardcore mode which made bullets as dangerous as dangerous wildlife. - Weird oversaturated colors, I had to adjust monitor to fix some issues. - Waaaay to bright at night. I think Arma is the only game that have managed to get this just about right. - No mod support, which is basically what will make this game short lived. - Problems with some missions and save system which can really ruin the day. - No alternatives to fast travel. I'd prefer a FC2 bus system to get around as I don't fast travel. - Bad sound system in that you can't lower volume for sountrack (on or off only) or gui sounds (way too loud and bassy). - Incredibly bad weather system - transition to thunderstorms (way too frequent as in most games) is ridiculous. - No place to sleep. I'd like to have the old set alarm system from Farcry 2. - Too serious limitations on MP map editing (no vehicles), which made me loose interest before even getting into it. - I generally hate games where you can't save at will at all times, but I could at least endure this system. - No "true" 1st person immersion like in Arma, although the fake usually did it's job exceptionally well. - Lack of freelook (can't look left while walking forward). - No crawling.

There ya go :) Just trying to help :D Sorry, couldn't resist.

Voted, but I have used my own variant (behaves as the suggested) since pretty much forever. Still, should be fixed for those who would use it and accept it with or without looking at it.

Don't use BIS_fnc_selectRandom, ref this thread. Condition: this && ((random 1) < 0.05) For activation you could also choose to delay and delete remaining triggers, or make sure all are set off by combining the condition, like: (this && ((random 1) < 0.05)) || alarmsactivated

Any update on this? I would like to have one tab showing updated weather forecasts where the info is just updated rather than appended.

Hi. Anyone know the procedure to get special characters, such as ° (Alt+0176), ± (Alt+0177), or ² (Alt+0178) to show in a hint box? For percent (%) I can use format["%1","%"] but that doesn't seem to work for other characters.

Thanks. That did the trick.

Water (sea) on Takistan seems to loop very badly, although it looks ok in Chernarus. Unsure what the overcast (driving mechanism) was at the time I noticed it though.

They could look at flightsim which gives plenty of gui commands to users so that they can make pretty much any kind of flight instrument they want. Set Angle would be a start, but a lot more is needed, like moving masks, movement limit commands and so on. Their xml code structure (even if it was reverse polish notation, which I actually got used to :)), is about the best thing I ever experienced wrt controlling gui graphics: Example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc526953.aspx

In the past I have done a series of case selects in order to control the output of random. Say i.e. I want the mean to be 0.35, with fair chance of getting 0.0 and 0.7 without totally excluding chance of 1.0. Given this task, how would you approach it?

1) Built in functions in order to control the outcome of random, with normalized (0-1) range on the output. Think about this one as a means of obtaining various statistical distribution functions over a bunch of uniform random numbers. 2) A method of controlling that setOvercast and setFog are actually complete, by means of in engine signaling. 3) Parallel processing of setOvercast and setFog (never gets old requesting this :D).

Is there a sure way to know that setOvercast and setFog are actually complete? I have these lines going in the end of the script, inside a while {true} do loop: waitUntil {overcast - olcur < 0.01; fog - fgcur < 0.01}; and waitUntil {sleep 2.345; scriptDone envhandle; scriptDone windhandle}; but still, under some circumstances (mission overhead and accelerated time), it appears that the script is being restarted without the previous setXxx commands being fully complete with what they do. The handles envhandle (overcast and fog) and windhandle are separate spawns inside the loop, where the delay in the parallel run fog and overcast are on very tight loops: 0.01 setXxx followed by sleep 0.02 (just to make sure, but 0.0 setXxx also doesn't help).

Doppler effect sounds completely off, but then again, I guess nobody is able to get around it. I sure hope Arma3 enhances this or somehow lets us limit how much doppler can be applied. So no, you're not to blame :) In videos I can often see the effect of the (default) wind, which is typically in the 5m/s (10 knots) magnitude - but it didn't seem to produce any sound (grass, leaves and bushes rattling just slightly) at all. While in the vanilla sound, they are pretty much of uniform strength and always producing too much sound. Or maybe some ambient sounds are turned way down for showcasing, or that's the style you went for? Whatever, just thought I'd mention it :) Awesome stuff regardless. In my own addon I use sound triggers that produce different rain sounds (currently only have two types though, from flightsim :D) for different rain intensities inside different kinds of vehicles, but I'm wondering if that same custom approach could be used for rain sounds while inside buildings? I use simple expression evaluation (same as sound engine does) within sqf script to do the trick to determine trigger (sound producer) position (elevation distance for volume control). How would I separate a power tower, a roofed shed with no walls, and a regular roofed house with doors (all affect simple expression parameter "HOUSES")? And would it even be worth it (performance vs audible impact)?

If you truly want a new engine, you need to hire somebody else to do it imo. Otherwise you're too familiar with the old ways and unintentionally driven towards similar end results. At work I sometimes create and update 3D assemblies that we use as templates in order to push through regular work more quickly. But my mindset about how these are set up are extremely hard to change :) And just when you've fixed one approach to get rid of a problem, the fix causes not-so-obvious issues on its own. And that's pretty miniature to setting up a games engine. So when someone says "rewrote everything from scratch", you know they're lying unless everyone involved was exchanged :D

Hint in non sleeping while loops used to work last I (accidentally) did it. It would cause a an extremely horrible (hint) sound due getting played maybe hundreds of times on top of each other. If that is a problem now, they've either applied a weird fix for this, or the hardware is bonking down. Basically, hint in non sleeping loops is not something you want to do :) Better with hintSilent.

Use double equal for comparisons, like if(something == 1) then {...}; A single equal is an assign.