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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => ArmA - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: JasonO on 16 May 2007, 19:52:08

Title: Checking if an object type in an array is near
Post by: JasonO on 16 May 2007, 19:52:08

Hey

I have a part of a mission where I must approach a few vehicles, and I need to check the vehicle's type from an array (well it's all land vehicles like cars, trucks and tanks etc) and if i'm at a certain distance I can continue.

Is there an easy way to check if the vehicle is a land vehicle without having each type in an array? If not then I'll just write an array myself. But after that how would I do a simple check to see if a vehicle of a type in that array is within say 25 meters.

Thanks for your help :)

Title: Re: Checking if an object type in an array is near
Post by: Mr.Peanut on 16 May 2007, 21:17:21

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myCar isKindOf "LandVehicle"
You will need an array with all the other vehicles in it to use this:

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({(myCar distance _x) < dist} count vehicleArray) > 0
You can make the vehicleArray in your init.sqf or you can place a trigger that covers all the vehicles in question, set it to side present once. In the On Activation:

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vehicleArray = [] ; {if (_x isKindOf "LandVehicle") then {vehicleArray = vehicleArray + [_x]}} forEach thislist ; if (myCar in vehicleArray) then {vehicleArray = vehicleArray - [myCar]}