Marker & Trigger Options

[BlackE]

Hi, Does anyone know how to make a marker appear when a trigger is activated, or when they reach to a waypoint?

Thanks.

[D@V£]

You can use setmarksize to hide a marker.

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MyMarker setmarkersize [0,0]

To hide a marker

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MyMarker setmarkersize [1,1]

To display it again. You can use any value in the palce of [1,1] to make the marker the size you want.

If you want a marker hidden on mission start, rather than hiding it in the editor, making it impossible to find when you want to, it's better to use the first bit of code in your initialization script. If you've got a file called "init.sqs" in the root directory of your missions folder, it'll automatically be run before the mission is started

For a simple init.sqs file you could have something like this:

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"3" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ3Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"4" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ4Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"6" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ6Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"8" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ8Mark setmarkersize [0,0]

exit

(The objstatus commands are for objectives that would be seen in the briefing or map screens, they aren't relevant to hiding or displaying markers, but I thought it'd be worth including, to show other uses of the init.sqs file!)

[BlackE]

You can use setmarksize to hide a marker.

CODE

MyMarker setmarkersize [0,0]

To hide a marker

CODE

MyMarker setmarkersize [1,1]

To display it again. You can use any value in the palce of [1,1] to make the marker the size you want.

If you want a marker hidden on mission start, rather than hiding it in the editor, making it impossible to find when you want to, it's better to use the first bit of code in your initialization script. If you've got a file called "init.sqs" in the root directory of your missions folder, it'll automatically be run before the mission is started

For a simple init.sqs file you could have something like this:

CODE

"3" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ3Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"4" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ4Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"6" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ6Mark setmarkersize [0,0]
"8" objStatus "HIDDEN"
OBJ8Mark setmarkersize [0,0]

exit

(The objstatus commands are for objectives that would be seen in the briefing or map screens, they aren't relevant to hiding or displaying markers, but I thought it'd be worth including, to show other uses of the init.sqs file!)

Thanks, but setmarkersize dont work,i tried to put it in trigger(ON ACT), but it still shows on the map, I played some missions and when you get at objective(marker) another one appear on map.....sorry for bad english

[D@V£]

Sorry, forgot something important, marker names are set up as strings for some reason, for you need to put them in quotation marks when referencing them, you should use:

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"MyMarker" setmarkersize [0,0]

Instead.

Apologies, I'll try to remeber that for the future

Something else I forgot, you can also use setmarkertext to hide the text for a marker. Usage is pretty much the same, just two strings:

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"MyMarker" setmarkertext "Look at this"

Removing the text is as simple as using a blank string:

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"MyMarker" setmarkertext ""

[SGJackson]

Humh... if he's doing it via trigger then he's doing it locally... that means that this is the right command:

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"MyMarker" setmarkersizelocal [0,0]

The other way is for scripts

Sorry if I answered too late, didn't think this is too far from Jul 14....