I was trying to find something similar in the function viewer but I came up a bit short. Is there a way that I could so to speak query a sector of the map and see if an AI commander has units active in that area while they are virtualized? I don't need to know the exact positions or details of the units, just simply if they're active in a given sector.

I meant if there was a scripting API available in SQF.

I'm not using the commander tablet or showing the players where enemies are located, but in the mission I'm making players have to gather items. I don't want the items to spawn in sectors where there is an AI present. I can't use triggers though because virtualized AI won't set a trigger off.

Thanks! I'm browsing around the available functions. Is there also a wiki that could explain what a profile and such is in the program and how it's used?

The two ways it looks like that I have to get a profile would be https://github.com/ALiVEOS/ALiVE.OS/blob/master/addons/sys_profile/fnc_profileEntity.sqf or https://github.com/ALiVEOS/ALiVE.OS/blob/master/addons/sys_profile/fnc_getNearProfiles.sqf .

After that I guess I can just test the other functions in the debug console and see the result thats returned.

I'm running some local tests using getNearProfiles:

EDIT: stumbled upon a snippet on the wiki: http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Script_Snippets

EDIT2: I tried using 'entity', or following the example as such:

((count ([getposATL thisTrigger, 50, ["WEST","entity"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles)) > 0);

But it's only returning an empty array.

prs = [getPos player, 500, ["WEST","vehicle"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles; 
diag_log prs;

[
	[
		"#CBA_HASH#",
		[
			"debug",
			"active",
			"position",
			"side",
			"profileID",
			"type",
			"objectType",
			"vehicleAssignments",
			"entitiesInCommandOf",
			"entitiesInCargoOf",
			"vehicle",
			"vehicleClass",
			"direction",
			"fuel",
			"ammo",
			"engineOn",
			"damage",
			"canMove",
			"canFire",
			"needReload",
			"despawnPosition",
			"hasSimulated",
			"spawnType",
			"faction",
			"_rev",
			"_id",
			"busy",
			"cargo",
			"slingload",
			"slung",
			"debugMarkers",
			"locked"
		],
		[
			true,
			true,
			[3613.4,8560.11,0.0459595],
			"WEST",
			"BLU_F-vehicle_14",
			"vehicle",
			"Car",
			[
				"#CBA_HASH#",
				["BLU_F-entity_8"],
				[
					[
						"BLU_F-vehicle_14",
						"BLU_F-entity_8",
						[
							[0],
							[],
							[],
							[],
							[1,2,3],
							[]
						]
					]
				],
				any
			],
			["BLU_F-entity_8"],
			[],
			vehicle_17,
			"B_MRAP_01_F",
			0,
			1,
			[],
			false,
			[],
			true,
			true,
			0,
			[0,0],
			false,
			[],
			"BLU_F",
			"",
			"",
			false,
			[],
			[],
			[],
			["ALiVE_PROFILEVEHICLE_BLU_F-vehicle_14"],
			true
		],
		any
	]
]

Is it listed anywhere though which categories I can use? I tried using just WEST alone but it returns nothing.

I've used that snippet before in a trigger and it seems to work alright for me (with ["WEST", "entity"] too I think). In terms of categories, I wasn't sure on that either. But this is the example from the function:

[getPos player, 500, ["WEST","vehicle","Car"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles;

...which I think gives a better clue on usage than the script snippet. The only reason I can think of that this won't return the correct array is if there is some locality issue going on.

Edit: This is a horribly inefficient way of doing it I'm sure, but this code should come up with a safe position for you to spawn your item.

private _safePos;

_location = getPos player; //Location you want items to spawn around

_radiusMin = 500; //Minimum distance from location to spawn item

_radiusMax = 1500; // Max distance from location to spawn item

_distanceFromNrstObj = 2; //Min distance from nearest object to spawn item

_radius = 150; //Minimum distance from nearest ALiVE profile

waitUntil {

    sleep 1;

    _safePos = [_location, _radiusMin, _radiusMax, _distanceFromNrstObj] call BIS_fnc_findSafePos;

    !((count ([ _safePos, _radius, ["WEST","entity"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles)) > 0);

};

_safePos

@incontinenetia I've used that snippet before in a trigger and it seems to work alright for me (with ["WEST", "entity"] too I think). In terms of categories, I wasn't sure on that either. But this is the example from the function[/code]

The counting example seemed to work fine, it was just I couldn't get the profile data. But actually, that's all more than enough. Since I can check in a range, I only have to know if any profile is present, I don't per se need specific details.

Glad it works!

Almost working, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to use to find out which indepedent profiles are in an area:

_ents_i = (count ([getposatl _thistrigger, _r, ["INDEPENDENT","entity"]] call ALIVE_fnc_getNearProfiles));

"INDEPENDENT" doesn't work.

EDIT: It's "GUER"