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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => ArmA - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: danturn on 06 Apr 2008, 03:16:32

Title: Creating a base (like in the setpos comp) help
Post by: danturn on 06 Apr 2008, 03:16:32

I was looking through some of the downloadable bases and it got me wondering how you actually create them..

Is there a tutorial or anything which will explain ands how me how to create my own base, i'v had a look about the site and cant seem to be able to find nething.

Thanks for any help

Title: Re: Creating a base (like in the setpos comp) help
Post by: Nexolate on 06 Apr 2008, 05:30:56

As far as I know the majority of bases, especially those used in the setPos Comp were made by (you guessed it) setPosing a load of objects.
You can probably just click and manipulate ground-level objects in editor, but for stacking objects or placing them on top of buildings you need setPos.

The command is "obj1 setpos [getPos obj1 select 0, getPos obj1 select 1, 5]". Which goes in the "Initialization" field of the object when in the editor.
"Obj1" is the Name of the object, the first two fields of the Array are the x and y coordinates and the last one is the height above the ground (in this case 5).

More here (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=list&game=All&letter=s#313).

Hope this helps, better wait for some more insight on this subject first though. I'm learning as well. ;)

EDIT: If you want me to go into more detail, I'll be happy to write you a "mini-tutorial" via PM.

Title: Re: Creating a base (like in the setpos comp) help
Post by: danturn on 15 May 2008, 03:43:56

So can you use this for knowing where walls/fences will meet together etc?

In the past i spent tedious amounts of time placing part of the fence previewing it and moving it as necissary to line it up with another part, as you can imagine this takes a lot of time.

Title: Re: Creating a base (like in the setpos comp) help
Post by: Mr.Peanut on 16 May 2008, 15:57:42

Check out Kronzky's webpage here: http://kronzky.info/ (http://kronzky.info/) for his weapons/object placer. Great for laying fence.

His City Construction Set also looks promising. Hooray for cellular automata!


Not an MP topic. Please post in the correct board. This topic will move to SP board very soon I think!

Title: Re: Creating a base (like in the setpos comp) help
Post by: imike24 on 25 May 2008, 10:04:58

Thank for the link. That is what I needed. :)