Pass Object in eventHandler

[axeman]

I am kind of pulling my hair out here so hoping someone can point me in the right direction..

I have created a bus with two AI troops, all in the same group, I load the units as driver and cargo and send them on their merry way around a set of waypoints, all good..

I want to react to the bus being hijacked so am adding an eventHandler to the driver using:

_driverKilled = busUnit addEventHandler ["killed", {_this execVM "busroute\driverKilled.sqf"}];

that's the simple version, I have been trying to pass the bus object and the second (passenger) unit so I can command the passenger to get in the drivers seat.

So I tried

_driverKilled = busUnit addEventHandler ["killed", {[_this,[_bus],[_driversMate]] execVM "busroute\driverKilled.sqf"}];

but am getting an array, I want the actual object, is this possible. Am pretty sure have done it with addAction but every different thing seems to work differently with this coding..

 

[Sarge]

dont use the brackets around _bus and _driversMate.

_driverKilled = busUnit addEventHandler ["killed", {[_this,[_bus],[_driversMate]] execVM "busroute\driverKilled.sqf"}];

try

_driverKilled = busUnit addEventHandler ["killed", {[_this,_bus,_driversMate] execVM "busroute\driverKilled.sqf"}];

cheers

Sarge

 

[axeman]

Got it, thank you.

I think the reason I was getting lost was because my passenger was just sitting there when I told him to get in the drivers seat, am going to try and disembark him first.

Just got the bus engine to start from a trigger when killing the driver who, for test purposes, is currently waiting outside. I wasted time chasing the bus around just to shoot the driver, restarting the server every time I want to debug is a pain enough..

DOes declaring the variable as private in the first .sqf cause problens do you know ?

 

[Sarge]

There is some weird behaviour when telling AI what to do ... check the corresponding posts on the Arma2 biki. Did you use getinDriver or moveInDriver?

Variable: which one? _this or _driverkilled?

Check addMPEventhandler .... i would use this in a MP environment.

using the normal event handler, afaik this will fire on the machine the AI is local to only - and thats the server ...

 

[axeman]

I needed assignAsDriver, he jumps back in now and drives off. Now I am trying to get a proper killer object.. Keep getting object expected errors..

 

[orcthrasher]

How are you getting a variable for the bus? I'm trying to do something similar with a chopper, but if I do a 'createvehicle' in the script, the server kills it because it doesn't have an ID.

Never mind; i commented out that part of the server_cleanup.fsm that was killing it.