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I have 7 (max) different guys that i assign the same value, squad #, and i want to be able to find their targetnames via their squad number. How is this possible?

EDIT: on the same note how could i detect a chair without knowing it's $targetname and assuming there's more than one?

They need to be assigned to a local, level, group or game variable. If they're not, you cannot do this.

COD does that but not mohaa it has to be assigned a targetname or spawned useing a variable like level.thing = spawn ....

alright then it looks like i need to make some sort of dynamic namer.. :S
(this is for the AI side of the squad script)

so how could i make a thread that adds a variable to a new variable's name.

like say level.existantSquads is 4. each new squad gets that number then it's incremented. suppose the convention would be

level.squad#_guy# = self

so i'd probably have a set part of code that went like...
etc. that'd be childs play, but how could i add the value of level.existantSquads to the # part of the variable?

im confused:S

why cant u just have them in a array?

then access them via their squad number...

and the chair thing wud be world unl;ess u spawned it:P

why cant u just have them in a array?

then access them via their squad number...

because i don't know how many there will be.

i want to access them via their squad number, that's what i was trying to do, find entities based on a value other than targetname.

the reason i can't do a level.squad = ... array thing is because there could be any number of squads, there could be one there might be 10.

then access them via their squad number...

explain

Arrays can have variable sizes in mohaa

You can do something like this if you give all of them the targetname $guy

for(local.i=1;local.i <= $guy.size;local.i++)
{
level.guy[$guy[local.i].squad] = $guy[local.i]
}

then you can use the number level.guy[2] for example to get the guy with that squad number or you can do it like this

for(local.i=1;local.i <= $guy.size;local.i++)
{
level.guy+($guy[local.i].squad]) = $guy[local.i]
}

that way will give you level.guy2

OH! so make an array of arrays and access based on the squad number?

cool i didn't know i could make an array of arrays.

why not just array the targtanmes. like players;)

i ended up realizing that just now

thanks guys.

Elgan wrote:why not just array the targtanmes. like players;)

Well $guy[2] may not have the squad number 2 if that is even really needed if you make another $guy then $guy[2] will become $guy[3] I belive they are incremented up when new guys are added to the targetname array .

really?, i didnt know tbh.. ill do some testing today./ it wud be odd if it moved a thing up the array:S

he cud still find what dude is what though and he cud give them a variable also. He cud also just use a level var in the end.

whatever is easiest to udnerstand

yes you can go though all $guys and find the one with the right squad number level is not nessesary . Without seeing the script no way to say what way to do it there maybe several ways to do something one no better than another .

well what i did in the end was knowing that max amount of guys i each squad was 7, so i wrote it in little blocks of 7, first 7 is squad one.. second is squad 2... etc. just used a little multiplication with the squad number, works good for me

but that's interesting you can do entity arrays like that, might come in handy.