Help on sripts

[marcus3]

Hi. I am WAY NEW to this stuff so i need some help.
i have written a script that makes time stop but when I click the actoin butten nothing happens so somebody help please.
 

[nominesine]

Need a little bit more information to help you  ;D Post your script and any error messages

[Lean Bear]

I'm assuming that you made a script that is to be activated by an action in-game to make time stop.

(btw why did you do this? The result would make everything stop and the only options would be then to restart time or exit the game )

A script to do this should be something like this:

First, in the init.sqs :

StopTime = player AddAction ["Stop Time!!", "stoptime.sqs"]

Then, in stoptime.sqs :

setAccTime 0 // although I'm not sure about this, I think this syntax only accepts values from 1 - 4.

[bored_onion]

you can almost any value for setacctime. the most interesting is -1 which messes with your head.

[THobson]

I never thought of using a negative number.  I must look at that.

[marcus3]

here it is.
; A script that slows down time
SetAccTime 0.1; playMusic "7thfly";
then i make a add action trigger but after its activated and i click it......NOTHING.
p.s sorry for replying so late i have been busy ;D

[THobson]

Have you tested it as simple trigger?  It could be the way the addaction is set up.

[Lean Bear]

Check your syntax.

If it looks like what you've posted it'll never work.

In the script it should read:

SetAccTime 0.1

playMusic "7thfly"

exit

Then, in your trigger, it should look something like this:

player addAction ["Slow Down Time", "YourScriptName.sqs"]

Just to add (you may have done this to save space) but in scripts if you put ";" (without quotations) it makes it void like "//" (without quotations. That's why I say that if it's laid out like that in your script, it won't work.

[Planck]

Actually, ';' is used to separate two commands and will work fine, for instance:

this setbehaviour "careless"; this flyinheight 20

Two separate commands which will be executed one after the other.


Planck

[Lean Bear]

Isn't that only in triggers though?

If you do that in a script it should be ":", right?

[h-]

Isn't that only in trigegrs though?

Nope...

; is called 'end of line'...

In sqs if there's no ; after some argument/whatever line the 'converter' (in OFP engine) then treats the the line ended...
And that is used to separate different things on one line, so Planck is right..
Only things that can't be separated with ; are the if/then sentences and the ~
delay...

In sqf you need to use ; after every single 'closed' line...

: means the same as 'then' and can only be used in if/then sentence which is usually in sqs something like
? stuff: that=true...

[marcus3]

ok i made a script thats says.

SetAccTime 0.1

playMusic "7thfly"

exit

then saved it as [time.sqs] then in the trigger i put
player addAction ["Slow Down Time", "time.sqs"]
then the same thng happend.......NOTHING. i dont know whats happening but can somebody post a working script for me?
 ;D

[Planck]

Did you put your script.....time.sqs......inside your mission folder?

EDIT:  Shouldn't that be:

playMusic "7thIamGonaFly"


Planck

[marcus3]

yup

[Planck]

Please re-read my last post.


Planck

[marcus3]

about the song yes thats wrong.
but about where i put it yup.
marcus

[Planck]

What do you mean 'wrong'?

The OFP Music class is actually 7thIAmGonaFly, the track name is in fact.....Seventh_iamgonnafly.ogg

Where are you getting 7thfly from?


Planck

[marcus3]

i mean that in the srcipt that i wrote i put the name wrong and i did not know that Seventh_iamgonnafly.ogg was what you had to put in.
marcus,

[Planck]

I would try just....."7thIAmGonaFly"

Seventh_iamgonnafly.ogg is just the file name of the track.

Sorry I misunderstood you   ;D


Planck

[marcus3]

NO PROBLEM! ;D