Hi! This is a work in progress. Wanted to know what you guys thought...
When you face towards a teammate this will display a "Friendly" on the screen (to help with reducing Friendly fire).
To set up all you do is name each soldier that is on your team, then for each soldier's init put westFriendly = westFriendly + ["W1"] where the W1 would be their name, for example. Then make a trigger and have it run once: Condition: local player OnActivation: [] exec "friendly.sqs"..
friendly.sqs
;By Doolittle
_list = westFriendly
?side player == east : _list = eastFriendly
_count = count _list
#init
@alive player
_i = 0
_pdir = 90 - getDir vehicle player
_src = getPos player
~0.5
#target
_unit = call format ["%1", _list select _i]
?not alive _unit : goto "continue"
?_unit == player : goto "continue"
_dist = player distance _unit
?_dist < 25 or _dist > 2000 : goto "continue"
_fpos = getPos _unit
_dx = ((_fpos select 0) - (_src select 0))
_dz = ((_fpos select 1) - (_src select 1))
_dir = _dz atan2 _dx
_angle = _pdir - _dir
?_dir > 90 : _angle = _angle + 360
?abs _angle > 10 : goto "continue"
cutText ["Friendly", "PLAIN", 0.1]
@_pdir != 90 - getDir vehicle player
cutText ["", "PLAIN"]
goto "init"
#continue
_i = _i + 1
?_i < _count : goto "target"
goto "init"
East players would be eastFriendly = eastFriendly + ["E1"]. The very first east and west soldiers placed in the editor must be eastFriendly = ["E1"] or westFriendly = ["W1"].
Problems I see with the script so far: people might get annoyed by it. Also I was hoping this would work when you were in a tank but it's impossible to tell which direction your tank's gun turret is facing, so I can only get information on which direction the vehicle is facing. Anyways....what do you think of this whole idea?? I am also worried people would ONLY not fire when the "Friendly" showed up, and always fire otherwise...& this would not be a good habbit to get into as there is some tiny delay for detecting a teammate.
Doolittle
Topic: Show "Friendly" on HUD (Read 1372 times)
