3 Commando Brigade

1st 'proper' little project

So I'm bored and would like to put my VERY minimal skills in this area to use but have no idea where to start.

I want to create a very simple mod to ensure the player does not drop mags when they are empty (allowing MagRepack mod to rearm)

It seems like a nice little project to get me used to how Arma works

So basically...

HELP!?



thanks 

Hmmm, looks like you could use the magazinesDetail and currentMagazineDetail commands to monitor a mag's ammo count. Once it reaches zero the mag could then be re-added to the player's inventory (with an ammo count of zero). Not sure if Arma will automatically throw the empty mag away again though. May need some experimenting

very nice idea....

this!!!

a million times this!!!

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.p ... hlight=AKM

OK, so...
As far as I have got it using this http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/magazinesAmmoFull
using this to select the mags which are loaded and are primary or secondary weapon mags (therefore excluding launchers etc )
event handler checks mag ammo after each shot and when 0, a mag of the same variety is input into inventory with an ammo count of 0 (this works, verified) after the reload animation. (this was the only way I could think of doing it AFTER the reload)

Please any suggestions, I'm kind of s**t

Looking very good, although I can't see where you've defined "i". I'm assuming you're iterating through every item in the array - i being each iteration number. With every cycle you're increasing i by 1.

You could use a 'for' loop instead, which does this for you automatically. Also be careful not to miss any open and closing brackets (added below).


Also, the Biki is down at the moment so I don't know exactly what magazinesAmmoFull returns.

wow - looking good Frosty. I'm not able to help with the scripting, sorry.

But very happy to help bug test etc etc.

Have you contacted the chap who is developing Mag-repack ? Might be an idea to collaborate to prevent doubling up of work load?

Would seem your mod/script would be dependant on his anyway for the "re-filling". But does Mag-repack see your empty mags ok?

Exciting stuff for sure !

SJ

it's kind of clunky, haven't done anything for arma for ages, the last thing I did was java and lua so im getting a bit confused haha.
at the moment the script is called with an event handler on every shot in INIT
I'll check with mag repack

Looking forward to seeing the results Frosty, an interesting project indeed

P.S
I thought it would be an idea to add syntax highlighting to the forums, so I did