Hiding UPS marker for JIP players

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Hello folks

I'm using Kronzky's wonderfull Urban Patrol Script (UPS) to have areas patrolled.

In order to hide the markers, I have the following in my init.sqf:

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if(isServer) then {
    "marker1" setMarkerPos [-(getMarkerPos "marker1" select 0),-(getMarkerPos "marker1" select 1)];
};

This works great - except yesterday when we had a JIP player that said that he could see all the markers

Is there a smart/efficient way to excecute this code on JIP players as well??

[Inkompetent]

First thing I'd try with is putting your command in the init.sqf without the isServer check (although the design of UPS might cause this to have no effect).

If the above doesn't work, have you tried to use onPlayerConnected to force the server to re-broadcast the UPS settings to all clients?

I haven't really understood how the new multiplayer framework works, but it seems to me like it should be possible to broadcast a variable to a specific client only, which you should be able to get through onPlayerConnected.

Haven't used neither of the above before, but seems like it could work.

[mikey]

That sounds all complicated.

Why dont you just do something like this in your init.sqf:

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"marker1" setMarkerAlphaLocal 0;
This just makes the marker 100% transparent for everyone, even for the server and I don't think UPS cares about that, only humans 

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Our group uses mikey's solution for our missions and it works fine.

[Shuko]

Placing that into an init field of a game logic or any unit will hide it even sooner.

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Thank you for your answers

Mikey - your solution seems absolutely genial.
Just tested it - and you're right, UPS doesn't care about transparency