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Hello everybody!

I am working on new missions, and I will publish about 5-10missions (FDF coop) in a pack (someday..).

There is some problems, I need artillery fire inside a trigger or an area in FDF1.4
and I really dont know how to begin. So if you have a god script or idea, i have use for it.

Next problem: I know how to put music in a mission, triger and everybody hear it...
Â But I need the music/sound to come from a radio, or inside a car.

For the artillery, you could use the following script (I used it myself in one of my missions; I only edited it in 3 lines or so to make it work in multiplayer):
It's originally from Fishion and modified by General Barron as you can see.
The parameters are well explained so there is not much more to say about it.

Code:

;// Generic Artilly Script

;//

;// by Fishion

;// Modified by General Barron to make a circular impact area instead of a square one.

;//

;// I made this because of the enourmous number of Artillery Scripts

;// which use Men to place bombs, Vehicles to create the illusion of

;// an explosion, or simple in a different from to shoot smoke shells

;// 

;// to replace all those Artillery Simulating Scripts this should be sufficient

;// to the needs of most people (evan has sound)

;//

;// big advantage is you can actually choose the ordanace (if you wish you

;// shoot Boats or Car by the Artillery, eventhough this is simply stupid)

;//

;// (c)Aug 2001

;//

;//********************

;//**** Parameters ****

;//********************

;// Target Coordinates:

;// This should be an array containing min 2 numbers (X and Y Coord) but a normal

;// GetPos should do (no select 0 etc.)

_coords = _this select 0

;// Type of Ordanance (String Value), look at Weapons and Ammo or Objects Tree for types

_ord = _this select 1

;// Height (numeric) at which Ordanance should be Spawned (150 or so works fine)

_height = _this select 2

;// Number of volley fired by the Artillery

_VolleyNr = _this select 3

;// Number of Shots in each Volley

_ShotNr = _this select 4

;// Time between Volleys

_vTime = _this select 5

;// Time Variation between Volley (the Max deviation from _vtime)

_vTimeVar = _this select 6

;// Time Variation within each Volley

;// (Note: For Time on Target Barrages (ToT) put a 0 here)

_vTimeVol = _this select 7

;// Maximum Distance for shots off the Aimed Point

_radius = _this select 8

;//************************

;//**** Parameters END ****

;//************************

;//Put in Radiochatter here!

;//**************************

;//**** Main Arty Script ****

;//**************************

_nr = 0

#loop

?(_nr >= _Volleynr):goto "ende"

_volnr = 0

;//inner loop (within volley)

#volley

;// Increment Counter

_volnr = _volnr + 1

;// create ordonance

_tmp = _ord createVehicle [(_coords select 0) + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), (_coords select 1)

 + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), _height]

_tmp setDammage 1

~1

_tmp setDammage 0.3

deleteVehicle _tmp

;// wait a random time for the next Shot

;// (note _vTimeVol is the total time a Barrage needs to land, thus devided by the number

;// of shots)

;// wait and avaoid errormessage

?(_shotnr == 0):goto "avoid"

~(Random(_vTimeVol / _Shotnr))

goto "endrnd"

#avoid

~0.1

#endrnd

?(_volnr <= _Shotnr):goto "volley"

;//innerloop end

;// Increase Counter

_nr = _nr + 1

~(_vtime + (Random _vTimeVar ))

goto "loop"

#ende

;//Put in Radiochatter here!

I don't know how this line is supposed to create a circular impact area:

Code:

_tmp = _ord createVehicle [(_coords select 0) + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), (_coords select 1)

 + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), _height]

Should be something like this:

Code:

_rdir = random 360

_rrad= random _radius

_tmp = _ord createVehicle [(_coords select 0) + sin(_rdir)*_rrad, (_coords select 1) + cos(_rdir)*_rrad, _height]

For the music from a radio or object, you define it as cfgSounds and it has to be mono. Put the files in sound/ subfolder in the mission directory.

description.ext:

Code:

class CfgSounds

{

    sounds[] = 

        {

            mymusic1, mymusic2

        };

    class mymusic1

    {

        name = "my music 1";

        sound[] = {"mymusic1.ogg", db-6, 1.0};

        titles[] = {    };

    };

    class mymusic2

    {

        name = "my music 2";

        sound[] = {"mymusic2.ogg", db-6, 1.0};

        titles[] = {    };

    };

};

To play from an object:
jeep1 say mymusic1

(04-15-2008, 08:16 AM)Pulverizer link Wrote:I don't know how this line is supposed to create a circular impact area:

Code:

_tmp = _ord createVehicle [(_coords select 0) + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), (_coords select 1) + (random _radius) - (_radius / 2), _height]

Should be something like this:

Code:

_rdir = random 360 _rrad= random _radius _tmp = _ord createVehicle [(_coords select 0) + sin(_rdir)*_rrad, (_coords select 1) + cos(_rdir)*_rrad, _height]

As I said before it is not my script and it's been ages since I have used trigonometry myself...
But the script seemed to work okay and who cares or even notices that the shells don't fall in a circle but in a rectangle or triangle Â Wink

Hola,

although you give good advice here, im still too lousy missioeditor to get it to work.

My piece of description looks like:

class CfgSounds
{
sounds[] =
{amb1,amb2};
class amb1
{
name = "amb1";
sound[] = {"amb1.ogg",db+20,1};
titles[] = {Â };
};

class amb2
{
name = "amb2";
sound[] = {"amb2.ogg",db+20,1};
titles[] = {Â };
};
};

But i get always an error "Sound amb1 not found". Does anyone see my fault here?

Thx

Â Tony

Where do you put the sounds Tony?
I believe they need to be inside a folder named sounds inside mission folder.

You could also try to change name sligthly to avoid confusion

Quote:{
name = "amb1";
sound[] = {"amb1.ogg",db+20,1};
titles[] = {Â };
};

Quote:{
name = "amb_1";
sound[] = {"amb1.ogg",db+20,1};
titles[] = {Â };
};

because (if I read correctly) it's amb1 which isn't found, not amb1.ogg

Hola,

no, wont work. Now it says "Amb_1" not found. I guess my description is nor recognized at all? The Text above is all thats in there. Something more needed?

And yes, i put it in the "Sound" folder in my mission.

description looks like this now:

... or alternatively (or even better): How would the sound included as a ambient sound activated via the trigger/effects? Like the frogs and birds and so on. In this way it will become audible from a unique location what would surely be more realistic.

Thx

Â Tony

You need to use the correct path, if you have them in a folder called "sound", then write:
sound[] = {"sound/amb1.ogg",db+20,1};

and so on.

I recommend using lowercase letters for everything

By the way: do not - I repeat: do not use WordPad or even MS Word or Open Office Writer or whatever for creating scripts, stringtables, descriptions.ext or any other Ofp/Arma related files (those programs' formatting functions might break your files).

Use at least the normal Windows text editor or better download Notepad++

Didn't notice that in Tony's pic but you're right Zwobot. Could even bet the whole reason why Tony got problem.

ok, that was the Problem, zwobot!

Used Notepad ++ and it works fine :-).

Thx so far!

Peetu

Zwobot

Pulverizer

Zwobot

TonyMarony

Overlord

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Osku

Zwobot

Overlord

TonyMarony