Show me who killed me!

[JPSelter]

Right now my coop-mission is like this: I get killed, I lay on the ground for 10 seconds, then I respawn. During these 10 seconds I would like to know who exactly killed me. So I need a camera ride like in singleplayer mode. I guess I need a camera script. I understood the basics of it but not how the script is triggered and what ID the enemy unit that shot me has got.

[nominesine]

Go to the COMREF in the Editors Depot. Read about addEventHandler "killed" and a script named onPlayerDeath.sqs (or is it onPlayerKilled???)

These are the tools you need to trigger your camera script. The "killed" eventHandler is local, so it requires some publicVariables to work in MP. Might be a good idea to check out that command as well. Then hit the camera tutorials.

EDIT:
The reurned values from the "killed" eventHandler are:
_this select 0 = victim
_this select 1 = killer

[JPSelter]

I still need to know how I can figure out who killed me. There must be a global variable somewhere...

EDIT: OK, I found an example in the COMREF, thx

[Terox]

Go to the COMREF in the Editors Depot. Read about addEventHandler "killed" and a script named onPlayerDeath.sqs (or is it onPlayerKilled???)

These are the tools you need to trigger your camera script. The "killed" eventHandler is local, so it requires some publicVariables to work in MP. Might be a good idea to check out that command as well. Then hit the camera tutorials.

EDIT:
The reurned values from the "killed" eventHandler are:
_this select 0 = victim
_this select 1 = killer

what this means is

place the following code in the following files

INIT.SQS

player addEventHandler ["killed", {_this exec "deadplayer.sqs"}]

deadplayer.sqs

_player = _this select 0
_killer = _this select 1
@alive _player
hint format ["I was killed by %1",name _killer]

The above script (Killed eventhandler script), is local to your pc only

Now thats answered your question, but i doubt it's solved your problem :-)

[JPSelter]

I hope to figure out how the camera animation works. But this should work, as I have a) my own name, b) the killerÂ's name and c) a local animation. WouldnÂ't make sense when all players see my personal death animation

[nominesine]

WouldnÂ't make sense when all players see my personal death animation

Local scripts can be very useful MP tools sometimes  

[JPSelter]

I have to alter my camera script because one of my fellows doesnÂ't want to see who killed him So I want to change the last camera position from the _killer to my respawn point. My respawn-point dynamically changes its position according to our progress on the island. I have a marker named "respawn_west", so I tried this:

Code: [Select]

; move the camera
_cam camsettarget respawn_west
_cam camsetrelpos [0,-2,2]
_cam camcommit 5
@camcommitted _cam

But itÂ's not working. He stays on my _player and doesnÂ't seem to find my respawn point. How can this be?