move a ammo crate

[Panther]

hey all i want to move a ammocrate or object with a trigger how can i do this ?

[THobson]

Give it a name say ammocrate1

ammocrate1 setPos placeyouwantittomoveto

eg

ammocrate1 setPos getPos  makername

[Triggerhappy]

if its a marker, it should be setpos getmarkerpos marker

[THobson]

Quite right.  Silly of me.

[Dubieman]

Why are we using markers? Is there any positive effects to using markers? :-\

I always use game logics or getpos units/vehicles.

Well I use markers only if needed.

[Rokket]

To reduce units I use map objects whenever possible. Sometimes you can't, obviosuly. Great for creating units on the fly.

[macguba]

If I'm moving something to a known place I find out the coordinates of the location and teleport directly there, not using (in the live mission) a marker or GL at all.   Alternatively, you can use an object position with or without an offset.     It all helps if you are having lag issues.

I've never discovered the answer to the GL/marker question, I mean as to which is better as a location placefinder.     I suspect a marker is better for lag (since it does not create a group) but I don't actually know.    

[Dubieman]

We can group markers to people, does that do anything lagwise, I remember you telling us that after disecting the Take the Car Mission...

[h-]

Oh, I just have to.... ;D

A single unit is a group...
That's why you can't have more than 62 (or was it 64 ) single units on one side... But, you can have 62 12 men groups on one side...

Gamelogic inherits from the vehicle classes like all vehicles in OFP (houses, men, etc...) but what makes it different is that it uses no model and simulation="invisible"...
So it will most likely add a bit more lag than markers which are not based on the vehicle classes...

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   class Groups
   {
      class Item1
      {
         side="LOGIC";
         class Vehicles
         {
            items=1;
            class Item0
            {
               position[]={10074.839844,26.730000,3886.240479};
               id=1;
               side="LOGIC";
               vehicle="Logic";
               leader=1;
               skill=0.600000;
               text="gl";
            };
         };
      };
   };

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   class Markers
   {
      items=1;
      class Item0
      {
         position[]={10014.039063,26.730000,3908.639893};
         name="markkr";
         type="Flag";
      };
   };
So based on those exerpts a group adds at least twice as much information than a marker so based on that the game logic could add lag...

Grouping a unit into a marker gives this addition to the units definitions:

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markers[]=
    {
          "markkr"
    };And the more the markers you group into the more markernames are in that markers array...
So what OFP engine most likely does is to calculate a random index from the amount of elements in that array and pick one for a position for the unit to be created upon mission initalisation...

[Sui]

I've never discovered the answer to the GL/marker question, I mean as to which is better as a location placefinder.     I suspect a marker is better for lag (since it does not create a group) but I don't actually know.    

I tend to lean toward using the object command... eg:

unit setpos [(getpos object 1234 select 0) + 50, (getpos object 1234 select 1) - 15, 0]

No cpu time consumed for markers or logics

[Triggerhappy]

this has gotten way off the original topic.....