Multiple Map Click Array

[Skumball]

Another week, another script by me which uses the map click function This time, however, the script is not specific and can be used in almost any situation.

The script reads any number of map clicks and transfers the co-ordinates to an array. Straight-forward you cry, but I have been trying to figure this one out for a while and it is very useful, trust me.

For example, a mission may require the player to specify a route for a vehicle to take. The player can click on the map and choose the waypoints himself.

Or the player could click a location for a tank to spawn in, click another location for it to move to and finally click another location for it to fire at.

I could go on but I think you get the idea. Let your mind run wild and try to be creative!

*UPDATE* v1.1 below
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[LCD]

i like ur weekly "map click scripts 4 beginers"    ;D

but i think u could have writen dis script in beter way (im postin dis only cuz i like 2 discus scriptin 2 disin or somthin  ;D)

u could have do it in dis way - need only 2 scripts

[LCD]

or check dis 1 script only

LCD OUT

[Skumball]

Thanks LCD that's a big improvement. I'll get on it tonight.

[KeyCat]

Thanks for all your great scripts! I would like to use the Multi Map Click script with the SetWPPos command but fail to get it to work...

The SetWPPos expect a parameter like this...

 

Code: [Select]

[_unit,1] SetWPPos [X,Y,X]
But after lets say 3 clicks the array looks like this (note the double [[ and ]])...

 

Code: [Select]

[[X,Y,Z],[X,Y,Z],[X,Y,Z]]
Any clue how to pick out each "[X,Y,Z]" from the array so it could be feed to the SetWPPos command?

Again, thanks for all scripts you are sharing! Since I'm still a newbie they helps alot while learning and it's neat to be able to learn from the pro's

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[Skumball]

Thanks KeyCat, I haven't been doing OFP editing for very long. I have had some basic programming experience in the past and that has helped a great deal. I never had any motivation to do any more until I got into OFP editing a couple of months ago. It's good to be able to get instant feedback from a few lines of code in a game like this !

Anyway on to your question.

If you have the array as mapClickArray then first what you need to do is to name the arrays inside the array:

_array1 = mapClickArray select 0
_array2 = mapClickArray select 1
_array3 = mapClickArray select 2

and so on.

Then to get each element of the individual arrays, you must name the contents like this:

_x1 = _array1 select 0
_y1 = _array1 select 1
_z1 = _array1 select 2

_x2 = _array2 select 0
_y2 = _array2 select 1
_z2 = _array2 select 2

_x3 = _array3 select 0
_y3 = _array3 select 1
_z3 = _array3 select 2

That should work  

[KeyCat]

Worked like a charm (in SP, haven't tried MP yet)! Without your help I've probably pulled out all my hear before solving it myself  

Big KUDOS to you and once again thanks for all great script to learn from! Will make sure to give proper credits in anything I may eventually release to the OFP community.

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[Skumball]

Glad it worked

I haven't done any MP editing yet. I think the 'publicVariable' command is important though.

[Skumball]

Here is Multiple Map Click Array v1.1 with LCD's modifications and an example mission.

LCD: The only thing that you missed was 'execMapClicks = false' after '@ execMapClicks'. After running the script once the array would only accept 1 map click value. Other than that, good job!

[snYpir]

Glad it worked

I haven't done any MP editing yet. I think the 'publicVariable' command is important though.

You'll find it may be a little bit more complicated than that.

I got it working for your airstrike script, but the process was difficult. I tried to explain how to do it here:

http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=3986

Getting the napalm script to work was even more difficult. I am getting around to putting an example mission together...  

[LCD]

tanks skumball  ;D nd snYpir

LCD OUT