Disableuserinput

[Taggart]

I am creating a hostage rescue map, where the hostage role is playable. I wish, however, to disable the inputs only from the two hostages until they are triggered as rescued. How can this be achieved without locking up their inputs permanently. There will probably be a loadout from the mission menu, so anyway of disabling the issue of any weapons to these two individuals, or would it be better to have crates. I could put "removeallweapons this" on their initialisation lines, so that any weapons issued would be removed ?  

[C0LDSt33L]

Removeallweapons this in the initialisation will remove them before the mission (I think) they could still pick them up from the weapon pool. If I were you I would nab their weapons from them a short time into the mission (like 0.5 seconds).

You can get the hostage players to come back under control at the appropriate time by using DisableUserInput false. A different solution would be to write a script to set the velocity of the hostages to [0,0,0] until a boolean is triggered when they're rescued. The hostages could still look around but they could not go anywhere.

[macguba]

Or put them in a cage of fences until they are rescued, when one of the fences moves to allow them out.

[Triggerhappy]

you could put them in a setpos loop. with the right delay (0.5 - 1 second) they can turn and look around but can't move anywhere. is that the effect you're looking for?

[Taggart]

At the moment both hostages are in separate buildings on the ground floor and join the rescue squad when west enters the trigger area. The only way it would seem I can do this is scripting and the most promising is the setvelocity option though I haven't ruled out disableuserinput. Question though, I'm assuming if you set an individuals velocity as [0,0,0] the opposite should be [1,1,1] to reset? Still playing with both, thanks for assistance.  

[Triggerhappy]

no. velocity is a vector of speeds [x,y,z]
x = east/west speed
y = north/south speed
z = vertical speed

so setvelocity [1,1,1] would give them a velocity of 1 (m/s? km/hr? some measurement i'll go with km/hr) west,1 km/hr north, and one km/hr up

so to stop them from being held you would just use a condition to exit the loop holding there velocity at [0,0,0]

[Dubieman]

I'd stick with Macguba's idea, nothing better than some good ol barb wire security fence. Then deletevehicle it when the trigger is activated or setpos the fence somewhere else or use a script in the ed depot that make a door of sorts out of objects. By Thobson, I'm pretty sure. :-\

It'll allow the hostages to walk about and not be bored & flood the channels, "c'mon guys, the russians won't give me food..." and no one can use their 4x superpowers to "teleport" through the fence.