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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => ArmA - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: laggy on 25 Nov 2008, 23:40:14

Title: Finding out smallest distance between several objects.
Post by: laggy on 25 Nov 2008, 23:40:14

Hello,

Does anyone have an idea how to do this:

Let's say I have a squad of 20 guys and I want an enemy "huntingteam" to follow the unit in the squad that is closest to the leader of the "huntingteam".
How can I do this in a smart way? Is there a way to find the smallest distance or number in an array or something like that?
min and max only seem to deal with 2 numbers, not more.

I know all the move commands, but not how to find the smallest number.

Laggy

Title: Re: Finding out smallest distance between several objects.
Post by: i0n0s on 26 Nov 2008, 01:08:24

Code: [Select]

_nearest = objNull;
_nearestDistance = 2000000000;
{
  _dis = _x distance (leader huntingteam);
  if (_dis < _nearestDistance) then {
    _nearestDistance = _dis;
    _nearest = _x;
} forEach units group

Title: Re: Finding out smallest distance between several objects.
Post by: laggy on 26 Nov 2008, 21:18:48

Thanks alot, will try it asap.

Laggy