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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => ArmA - Editing/Scripting Resources Beta Testing & Submission => Topic started by: Mandoble on 05 Apr 2007, 20:35:23

Title: My weapon is a brush (ACCEPTED)
Post by: Mandoble on 05 Apr 2007, 20:35:23

just a bit of fun with the new weaponDirection command.

Spooner [2007-10-05]: Accepted as a bit of fun and a demonstration of drop/weaponDirection commands.

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: JasonO on 05 Apr 2007, 22:10:00

 :clap:

Very nice. So it detects the position from the player in which the crosshair is facing?

This helps me know what this command can do now, thanks.

Good job aswell  :yes:

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: Mandoble on 05 Apr 2007, 22:39:40

As indicated in first post,  weaponDirection (http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/weaponDirection) command.

You get an array similar to that of vectorDir command.

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: johnnyboy on 05 Apr 2007, 22:50:43

Very interesting. 

Opens doors to lasers, flamethrowers, etc., perhaps...

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: h- on 06 Apr 2007, 00:36:15

Those were possible with 'just' using fired eventHandler, weaponDirection just makes it a bit easier..

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: Mandoble on 06 Apr 2007, 00:51:44

As long as you had ammo left  :P

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: h- on 06 Apr 2007, 01:01:48

Quite, but that's besides the point  :D

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: Blanco on 09 Apr 2007, 05:10:36

Strange HDR effects...  :whistle:


Just an idea...

Is it possble to create a script where you are as artillery observer (eg: mortars) are able to assign bombingspots just by pointing your crosshair?
Eventually only when you look through binoculars (you can check this with the animationstate command).  8)

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: JasonO on 09 Apr 2007, 05:13:27

Yes, if its possible to get the distance from the player.. at the moment I think it's just [x,y] array from the weapondirection command?

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: h- on 09 Apr 2007, 09:00:29

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[x,y] array from the weapondirection command?

weaponDirection returns direction vector [x,y,z] (afaik)..

Title: Re: My weapon is a brush
Post by: Mandoble on 09 Apr 2007, 09:32:42

Blanco, general speaking, yes for more or less flat terrain, knowing the angle of your binocs and the height of the unit you may calculate easily where its sight line intersects the terrain. But there is a much better way to do this which is currently present in Mando Missile 2.2 (not released yet) to detect when that line really intersects the terrain.