Group Teleporting

[Captain Crunch]

Hi!

   I try to teleport a group of troops to a marker. I get an error message that says:

"Type group, expected object"

  In the "Init" field of the group leader I typed this:

"Police01 = Group This"

And in an "On Activation" field of a waypoint, I have typed this:

 Police01 SetPos GetMarkerPos "PoliceM01"

Looking at the error message, (Type group, expected object) I suppose it is possible. (Because of the "Type group" part)

What am I doing wrong? Well, if it's even possible!!

   Thanks a lot!!!

                                                  crunch

[_hammy_]

try changing
Police01 SetPos GetMarkerPos "PoliceM01"

to

"_x setpos setpos getmarkerpos "PoliveM01"" Foreach units group Police01

its probably wrong, you could always put
This setpos setpos getmarkerpos "PoliveM01"
in each of the units init field

[Chris Death]

"_x setpos getmarkerpos {policem01}" forEach police01


:edit - yeah hammy u were faster but wrong if there hasn't
been changed anything lately.

"_x setpos getmarkerpos "policem01"" forEach police01
doesn't work, as it should be:

"_x setpos getmarkerpos ""policem01""" forEach police01

:note - watch the dbl-quotation marks

np. anyway - and no offense meant in anyway  

~S~ CD

[h-]

Never mind...

:beat: Got beaten by many before me :beat:

[macguba]

The underlying points is that some commands take a group as an argument, and other commands take a unit.   Some commands take either.    The comref usually makes it clear.

The error message in this case is very helpful:  the game found a group when it was expecting an object.    When you get a message like this look through your code to find a group - and there's your problem.

The proposed solution should work just fine.

[Chris Death]

errm - scripts are always useful and handy, but in this case,
i would suggest the one-liner  

Maybe you could use a script, if u don't want them to get
beamed into the very same spot, but even that wouldn't
be a problem, as they would imidiately step back into the right
place of their formation, once needed.

:what the hell is goin on in this thread??

one types a reply, just to edit it, because others already
started typing a reply    ;D

~S~ CD

[_hammy_]

pfft i never knew it had to be double quotes

[h-]

:what the hell is goin on in this thread??

one types a reply, just to edit it, because others already
started typing a reply    ;D

~S~ CD

;D

Guilty...  

I'm alawys too slow on replying... same info ten times won't do any good  

[Captain Crunch]

Thanx guys!!

   Though neither syntax actually worked!!
I played around with You guys' ideas and mixed a little of Your responses.

   Here is the correct syntax:


"_X SetPos GetMarkerPos ""PoliceM01""" ForEach Units Police01


And to MacGuba:

  Hi! I remember having such problem (even just recently) You had actually told me the same thing!!! I'm sorry!  

I'll watch myself, I'll think about my problem longer before posting next time!

  Many thanks again!!

[Chris Death]

Though neither syntax actually worked!!
I played around with You guys' ideas and mixed a little of Your responses.

  Here is the correct syntax:


"_X SetPos GetMarkerPos ""PoliceM01""" ForEach Units Police01

So what's then been wrong with the syntax, i posted in my
2nd reply?

Anyway, if my first suggestion didn't work for you, i suppose
you're using pre-resistance then - don't you?

If not, suggestion 1 should work aswell, if yes, {} brackets
were not supported by OFP engine before one of the
patches after 1.75

~S~ CD

[Captain Crunch]

no, I have version 1.91

   The part missing was the "Units" word!! between "ForEach" and "Police01".

And about Your syntax, sorry, I made a mistake and didn't typed the right brakets in!!
I had used [] instead of {}!

  But thanx!!  ;D

[Chris Death]

Ah yeah, i can see now  

I might have been working too much with arrays
the last days then.

Ya know: "_x dosummit" forEach ARRAY
                "_x dosummit" forEach units group/unit

you see forEach array doesn't require the units, but
forEach group/unit does.

That's because: units group/unit represents an array of
units aswell, while the name of a group just represents
an object.

hmm - will this accusation get me out of ma typo  

 ;D

~S~ CD