Bullet model?

[wired]

I thought if his was possible, you guys would know it....
its easy to use the camcreate command to make a bomb or rocket appear from nowhere but can you do the same with bullets?
Or can u make it so when a bullet lands in a certain area, something happens?
please help!

wired

[Grendel]

Hey,

Not only can you camcreate bullets, you can use the setvelocity command to cause them to fly where ever you want!

To see an example of this, download my ACH-47D script in the editor depot's latest and greatest "pending" section here at OFPEC.  

It can crank out accurate fire at just about any rate of fire from a minigun to a cannon.

-Grendel

[wired]

by the way i have 1.46 so forget the setvelocity command!

But what are the class names for bullets?
I need one like an M16 but can i use it with camcreate?
 

wired

[MI_Fred]

Here's a few for ya:
["bulletsinglew","bulletburstw","bulletfullautow","bulletsinglee","bulletburste","bulletfullautoe","bullet7_6","bullet12_7"]

I dunno how much the auto or burst ones differ from the single ones, but the last 2 are most common I think. But if  I remember anything about them, they won't go anywhere w/o setVelocity. What a marketing trick  ;D

[wired]

  You guys are Gr8!

It dont matter about the setvelocity cos i just need the bullets to rain down on people!
Any ideas on how to find out if a bullet has landed in 5 meters of the player? - for 1.46!

[MI_Fred]

You'll need to monitor the position of each bullet in a separate script. So:
_bullet = "Bullet7_6" camCreate [555,555,50]
[_bullet] exec "bulletMon.sqs"
exit

bulletMon.sqs:

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_bullet = _this select 0
@ (getPos _bullet select 2) < .3
? (_bullet distance player) < 5 : doStuff
exit
Should be that simple. Only thing is, the @ loops in a .5 sec interval and the bullet can die off before the script starts another loop. So increasing the Z axis criteria would help but it wouldn't have yet hit the ground.

[wired]

Not sure if i understood that. :-\
Anyway, i dont want to know if one of the camcreate bullets has landed next to the player, i want to know if any bullet has landed in an area of 5m around the player.  
(by any i mean if some sniper or enemy soldier has fired upon me but missed)
Help?

wired

[wired]

Can sum1 just tell me if its possible?

Is it, or is it not?
 

[macguba]

addEventHandler "missed"

[wired]

er read my second reply to dis thread macguba an u'll see i put
:

I have 1.46


addeventhandler is for 1.75+

[macguba]

It was a joke   .... there is no eventhandler "missed", if you missed how can the game tell what you were aiming for?

OK, OK, no more jokes.  ;D

[wired]

What did u reply for then?

Whats the point?

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[MI_Fred]

Don't get too hotheaded wired. Read macgubas sig and you know the reason for such slick lips... I envy him. GRRR.

I'm close to saying no tho. There's no elegant or clean way to accomplish what you wan't. Ofcourse, from the piece of mission I got those bullet names, you can find a solution if I remember right. It was a silly matrix wannabe. It slowed down the game and gave you options to duck   heh.

I doubt the attachement is still around, but I won't attach it here. If it is, I would have to rename it, too lazy for that. Besides, you wouldn't have much luck of incorporating it into your use if your not too experienced. Do a lil search on this board and you should find the thread with some scripting. Actually there was a few other threads about matrix stuff that might be helpful.

[wired]

I'll still try to incorporate it.....im never to bored with scripting!
Any ideas at all who wrote it? Or Who posted it?

@macguba
sos about that! Just gettin a lil bit to frustrated about this bullet thing.

cheers anyway

[Komuna]

"Bullet model?" : I know this is not your doubt, wired, but in OFP there are no bullet models, just tracers.

You don't have to camcreate bullets and so. If you want to detect the nearest bullet landing near the player you'll have to use the "nearestObject" command to achieve it. It's a piece of cake!

@!(isNull nearestObject [player,"bulletsinglew"])

"bulletsinglew" should be the sniper bullet's class name or the classname of the ammo type you're trying to detect. Then, just check the distance of that bullet:

_bullet = nearestObject [player,"bulletsinglew"]

_dist = _bullet distance player

Note: nearestObject detects objects in a radius of 50m.

[wired]

Not sure if i understand how to get that to work.....How do i tell the script to jump to another part of the script, say its called:
#cool
but it can only move there when ANY bullet has landed in a radius of 5m around a man?

HELP!!!

[HuNtA]

Well then U do loads of nearestObjects with all the bullet models  

And BTW Res is worth the money

[General Barron]

How do i tell the script to jump to another part of the script, say its called:
#cool
but it can only move there when ANY
bullet has landed in a radius of 5m around a man?

Basically, you would put this in your script:

@player distance (nearestobject [player, "bulletsinglew"]) <= 5
goto "cool"

That would wait until the closest "bulletsinglew" was within 5 meters of the player, then it would go to "cool". As MI_Fred said, though, it can be hard for the game to detect a bullet in time, because the bullets move so fast and the @ condition only checks every tenth of a second, if I'm not mistaken.

HOWEVER, you did say that you want it to wait until ANY bullet is close. That could easily be done with a function (check out my "nearestobject" function in the function library), but you said you don't have resistance. That being the case, your only hope would be to make a big loop like this:

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#Loop
? player distance (nearestobject [player, "bulletsinglew"]) <= 5 : bullet_near = TRUE
? player distance (nearestobject [player, "bulletsinglee"]) <= 5 : bullet_near = TRUE
? player distance (nearestobject [player, "bulletburstw"]) <= 5 : bullet_near = TRUE
(and so on with each bullet type...)

? bullet_near == TRUE : goto "cool"
goto "Loop"
You'll run into the same problems with the game not always being fast enough to catch each bullet with this too, though. Try it out and see if it works.

[cpt.Hawkeyez]

DOWNload 1.91 even if you have crappy internet like me   Doesnt take too long and this way you can ask questions without having to worry about people going back to the ancient Book of OFP (1.46 comref) It is worth it
Peace
/CympatheeY

[wired]

I GOT RESISTANCE FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!
Spent the whole day DL'ing patches....1.85,.1.90,1.91. Do i need 1.94 or is that just if i hav tonal?
Anyway, since i got res, i'll need to know how to do setvelocity,the drop command and billboards! phew. Can anyone recommend a good source to find these out as they will probably help a lot with this bullet model thing!
 ;DAnyway, merry Xmas to ye all an a happy new year! ;D

[Jackal326]

Probably a bit late to say this, but can't 1.91/92/94 by applied straight to 1.75? 1.94 is worth its weight in KB as you have a lot of addons installed in one mod folder e.g Res, like me, it wont crash to desktop when you try to run it...it may just take a tad longer loading whilst it loads all the PBOs. Definately get it.