OFPEC Forum
Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => Arma2 - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: ZapBrannigan on 08 Feb 2010, 14:24:01
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How do i make it so that the player cannot see his position on the map in my mission no matter what difficulty is set?
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AFAIK, this is not possible. It's hard-coded into the game. The one solution I could imagine would be to create an addon that removes the icons used to display the player/other units, but...that's a little extreme :blink:
Alternatively, use something like cadetMode (http://www.ofpec.com/COMREF/index.php?action=details&id=37&game=All) to determine that the player is playing at a lower difficulty level, and add a black screen + message saying something like "THIS MISSION SHOULD REALLY BE PLAYED WITHOUT THE MAP ICONS YOU KNOW". Mind that some people, like Zipper5, prefer to play at a lower difficulty setting that has been modified to be identical to a harder one so that they can access the multiple-saves function (for beta-testing), so this isn't exactly fool-proof either.
Finally, you could simply -remove- the map (removeWeapon "ItemGPS" and "ItemMap" + possibly showMap false), and then add a picture of the area of operations and put it into a dialog of some kind that the player can look at. I think ShackTactical did this at some point. This of course would be a lot of work.
I suggest simply trusting your players to do as you say - I've never used the little icons myself, so I don't really know how much of a problem they are.
Wolfrug out.
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Another approach is to catch the player pressing the map key and replace the map with your own
custom map definition.
I think this should not have any bad side effects. :whistle: