Anyone out there?????? :)

[CptBravo]

Hello everyone,

I just need maybe a an easy simple way of knowing when of my groups starts firing on enemy. So everytime a group engages the enemy their leader would report back that they are engaging the enemy.

Thank you for your help.

[General Barron]

You could add a "fired" eventhandler to the group members, which would then run the appropriate report script (but only have one script run for each group, so you don't get 12 reports from the same squad).

You'd also have to set up some system so that there is a delay between each report, for obvious reasons.

[Chris Death]

General Barron is right with the "fired" eventhandler,
but you still can use it on every single unit.

How?

give everyone a "fired" eventhandler, and let everyone
start the same script by that.

Now in this script all you have to do is:

set a variable (best done by a boolean - variable = true)
and remove alleventhandlers "fired" for each of those
guys you have given it before.

Now when: variable is true, engagement did start, and nobody
is carrying an eventhandler anymore, so there's a good chance
that the script will only run once (in case that not everyone
started firing at the very same second).

~S~ CD

[deaddog]

Another way is to use the behaviour command:

?behaviour unitname == "COMBAT":blah blah.....

No matter what mode you set them in "setbehaviour", their behaviour will change to combat once engaged, and then change back once the fight is over.

[Chris Death]

The only problem could then occur, if you've set them manually
to combat  from the beginning

Also note that some players (not saying noobs), sometimes
do random shots, even before they see a bush, which looked
like an enemy by the distance of 50 meters  ;D

Hell even i caught me sometimes yet with pulling the trigger by
accident  

Troops would also turn into combat behaviour for a few secs,
and the whole thingy could become messed up.

~S~ CD

[deaddog]

That's a good point.  I didn't think about being manually set to combat.  And I know I've taken some shots by mistake

[CptBravo]

Thanks guys for the quick help. Only thing is .. could you please for nooobs sake illustrate exactly what is to be done?  ;D

DO I place it in a trig? Script? Init field? Indivdual unit or group?
Placing it for each unit .. will that increase lag if I have about 120 units on map .. and they all start firing and using script same time?

Thanks for the help.  

[CptBravo]

and I am not that familiar with eventhandlers .. could you give exact command?

Thanks

[Harkonin]

You can also use the knowsabout command.

I.E ....

unitname knowsabout enemyunitname  >= 0.5:

[CptBravo]

Hi,

That command is giving me errors when I place it in a trig.
Could someone pleaaase give a simple step by step way to get feed back from different groups everytime they fire their weapons/engage the enemy  

Thanks

[CptBravo]

Umm .. "cough cough" .. anyone with any hints please?!  :-\

[CptBravo]

Maybe I should add "Naked women, beer and Football" to subject line .. then I might get morre responses   ;D

[macguba]

and I am not that familiar with eventhandlers .. could you give exact command?

As you've already gathered, no.   ;D

The point is that your question boils down to "would somebody please write my script for me", which is probably why nobody has answered.    If you're not familiar with eventhandlers, then it's your responsibility to get familiar.   There's some good stuff in the Ed Depot and the forum search function sometimes comes up with very helpful threads.    

If there's a particular aspect of eventhandlers that is confusing you, then we'd be glad to help.  

?behaviour unitname == "COMBAT":blah blah.....

If you don't understand roughly what this line is getting at then read

- snYpir's Friendly Intro to code snippets
- Johan Gusafsson's Scripting Guide
- online version of the command reference, particularly the "Scripting topics" section
- unofficial command reference guide
- macguba's guide to mission editing for beginners
- snYpir's OFPEC Guide: making missions

[CptBravo]

Hi,

I guess I did not realize a script was needed. I thought there was a basic game command that let you know when someone fired thier weapon.

Scripts are not my strongest point so if that is what needed here I'd have to forget about it.

I guess my question is ..

is there any EASY SIMPLE way of detecting group firing their weapons without a script. If not .. is there a method for spotting the enemy. So if any group member spot an enemy his group leader will report back? I will use that as an alternative.

Thanks for the help.  

[Chris Death]

is there any EASY SIMPLE way of detecting group firing their weapons without a script

Yes - all you need has already been mentioned here.

As Macguba said, do you want to make the mission by yourself,
or do you want to get a mission by someone else?

Eventhandler "HIT" is the key, and you don't need a script
for that.

Now before i continue posting here, i want you at least to
copy/past that part of the comref, where this command is
explained over here.

Then tell us what you don't understand, and you'll receive
further help.

btw - comref u find in the editors depot (click on Macguba signature)

@Macca - i wonder how you could read my thoughts when
you posted that reply  ;D

~S~ CD