Params

[Jim666]

How do i make a parameter, to select the time of day?

I know you put

titleParam1 = "Time of Day";
valuesParam1[] = {1, 2, 3, 4};
defValueParam1 = 2;
textsParam1[] = {"Dawn", "Day", "Dusk", "Night"};

That in to make the params show up. But i dont know how to get it to work!

Help apreciated

[Artak]

So you've got the description.ext part of it figured out?

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titleParam1 = "Gear";
valuesParam1[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
defValueParam1 = 2;
textsParam1[] = {"Stealth", "Default", "Agressive", "Mixed", "Random"};

titleParam2 = "AI Skill";
valuesParam2[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
defValueParam2 = 2;
textsParam2[] = {"Poor", "Default", "Hard", "Elite", "Random"};
After that all you got to do is start using the values given to the parameters. Consider the starting parameters as variables storing a real number, which the player can assign.

In the above for example if 1st parameter would be selected as 'stealth' the variable param1 would have a value of 1. If it was selected as 'aggressive' it's value would be 3.

So, in your script somewhere, the init.sqs for example, you check which value the variable has like this:

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?param1 == 1: {removeallweapons _x} foreach units grp1; {_x addmagazine "hk"} foreach units grp1; {_x addweapon "hk"} foreach units grp1
?param2 == 3: {removeallweapons _x} foreach units grp1; {_x addmagazine "m60"} foreach units grp1; {_x addweapon "m60"} foreach units grp1
...You get the idea.
The above would result in grp1 group having H&K's when parameter1 was selected as 'stealth', as in 'value 1' and M60's when selected 'aggressive, as in 'value 3'.  

[Flauta]

If it shows the buttons.. add those lines to the description.ext

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;not sure if skiptime (- daytime)  works... or just put the mission time in 0 am
skiptime (- daytime)

? Param1 == 1 : skiptime 5
? Param1 == 2 : skiptime 8
? Param1 == 3 : skiptime 19
? Param1 == 4 : skiptime 24


play whit the number of the skiptime.... i think that shuld work.. not tested..


Flauta

[Ghost644]

is there a way to have the param so it sets the time to lets say 0500 and when the mission loads it displays 0500. then when the mission ends it does not count how many hours you skiped. Having the param do a skip of like 5 hours means that at the end of the mission it will show "x" hours of play plus 5 hours. ie 5hours and 4 mins for only 4 mins of fighting.