unit position and weapon in hand

[Mr.Peanut]

Call me lazy, but as far as I can tell ArmA has neither commands to:
1) report an infantry unit's stance(prone/crounching/standing)
2) report which weapon an infantry unit has selected(in particular I would like to know whether a unit has selected binoculars or not)

Please prove this lazy old fart wrong....

[RaymondLu]

1) try unitPos

Description:
Return the unit position rules.

Syntax

Syntax:
unitPos person
Parameters:
person: Object
Return Value:
String


2) i'm still think about that.

#removed unnecessary quote of entire previous post - bedges

[h-]

RaymondLu, do not quote the entire previous post if you're replying to it.

Anyways, unitPos only returns what the stance rules are for the unit set with the setUnitPos/setUnitPosWeak..
It has nothing to do with getting the unit's stance..

[Mandoble]

Didnt test it, but i'm convinced modeltoWorld uses Z = 0 for the head. So, modeltoWorld [0,0,0] would return different Z for prone/crounching/standing.

[Cheetah]

Or use a command which returns the animationState of a soldier.

[Mr.Peanut]

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unit modelToWorld [0,0,0]Returns a very small z height that varies slightly with the altitude of your location. On flat ground the z height does not change with stance. On sloped ground it changes even less with stance.

animationState would work but I need to search the returned string for the substring "BINDNON" if I want my script to work with different units.

edit: PositionCameraToWorld might work for the stance...

edit2: nope. no way to hook player's camera

edit3: BIS included a switchCamera command. Why did they not include a command to return which camera type a player is using or what cutResource for that matter?

[Mandoble]

Prone? Crouch? Standing up?

[Mr.Peanut]

Found another solution here

[Mandoble]

Do you mean looking for substrings into unit current anim phase or something like that?