Spawning New Groups

[m21man]

When spawning new units, do you need to assign them to an existing group or can you spawn completely independant groups?

[deaddog]

They have to be spawned to an existing group name.  Just place a unit, put this in the init line:

mygroup=group this;deletevehicle this

Now you have a valid group name with no units.  Spawn your new units into this group.

 

[m21man]

So the following wouldn't work :-\ ?

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#TDF_Scout
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,grpnull,"ds1=this",.7,"lieutenant"]
_scoutgrp = group ds1
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,_scoutgrp,"ds2=this",.7,"sergeant"]
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,_scoutgrp,"ds3=this",.7,"corporal"]
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,_scoutgrp,"ds4=this",.7,"corporal"]
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,_scoutgrp,"ds5=this",.6,"private"]
"BAS_GovernmentScout" createunit [_marker,_scoutgrp,"ds6=this",.6,"private"]
{_x addeventhandler [{Killed},{_this exec {delete.sqs}}]} foreach (units _scoutgrp)
_scoutgrp move _pos
exit

[deaddog]

I've never tried it like that.  Does it work now?

The problem I see with it is that the first guy is assigned to grpnull, which doesn't exist (or does it?). Assigning someone to grpnull does not make them not be in a group.  Every unit has to be part of a group and there can only be 63 groups per side.

[DrStrangelove]

"[unit_1] join grpNull" works, OpF generates a new group for you. But there's only a limited amount of groupnames. If you get over the barrier the above command will try to join a soldier to the 1st group. If this group is full, the unit can't be created.

That's what i found out during making my SpawnManagers.  You may download them from the EditorsDepot, under "Units and Groups" --> http://www.ofpec.com/editors/browse.php?browsewhat=2&category=2_6