Number of SpawnBeacons per player

Hello everyone,

New to the the forums...(clearly).

I've loaded up a new server for our gaming clan.

As i'm working through some of the configuration of the mod I'm a little stumped on a few things.

I'll start with one for now as I typically like to figure this stuff out without having to make posts...but my brain hurts

Issue(i think):
I noticed with spawn beacons, it appears that players are only able to deploy one spawnbeacon.

Scenario:
Purchase spawnbeacon(one), place spawnbeacon(one).
Purchase second spawnbeacon(two), place spanwebeacon(two) in new location.
Second spawnbeacon(two) overrides first spawnbeacons(one) location.  Almost as if the first one was erased.  If you pull up the list of spawnbeacons you only see one, the latest one that was deployed.  Does this make sense?

I'm not sure if this is a persistence issue?

I'm utilizing extDB at the moment.

I appreciate any responses and help!

Thanks

Izzer

Hmm, i was under the impression that you should be able to have and use several. I always forget to use them myself my im sure my players usually have a bunch(and use them) of them. Maybe something changed.

servers i've played on all have what appears to be unlimited...it might not be unlimited, however i've seen multiple beacons per player.

Thats another thing...

for clients/inventory, can i change size of the inventory so they can hold 2xSpawnbeacons?

client / inventory / define.sqf

has the following:
#define MAX 10

However, what determines how much space a spawnbeacon takes up?

Thanks

izz

For some reason spawn beacons seem to dissapear since last patch or the one before that.

for clients/inventory, can i change size of the inventory so they can hold 2xSpawnbeacons?

Dond remember exactly, i fiddled with that when i did a lockpick kit as a wasteland item but id try changeing the "1" here to the number you need, its probably the wrong place but thats
client\items\beacon\init.sqf

Code: [Select]

[MF_ITEMS_SPAWN_BEACON, "Spawn Beacon", _deploy, "Land_Sleeping_bag_folded_F", _icon, 1] call mf_inventory_create;
Compare client\items\jerrycan\init.sqf but here there is defines for the amounts

Got an idea how I could limit the amount of placable spawn beacons to two?

Not, sure, on my phone now but I saw something in the same script that might be a limit of some sort, think it was set to 3 right now

Edit
Just looked at it, I dont think thats it.

Edit
In deploy.sqf I would try to set up a limit. I'm afraid that it might involve a "nearest objects" search for very large area..... If all beacons is stored in an array somewhere maybe its possible to check that for the players UID and if there is more than x you cannot place another but thats over my head

Actually, it is

https://github.com/LouDnl/ArmA3_Wasteland.Altis/blob/NL-United/client/items/beacon/deploy.sqf#L68-L69

Aha, is the saved ones, after a restart also pushed in that one I wonder ?

Aha, is the saved ones, after a restart also pushed in that one I wonder ?

Yea i'm investigating now

okay, so now all my beacons are showing up....(restarted server)

I wonder if this has to do with how they are saved? or with persistence? (extDB)

 

I'd like to bump this down to two as well per player. That'd be great.

For some reason spawn beacons seem to dissapear since last patch or the one before that.

I have strange behavior on Spawn Beacons to since last update, sometimes they disappear sometimes they appear again, cant figure the pattern or what kind of magic is this lol

I'd like mine to show without a restart

Maybe a different save call to extDB?

Izz

Here's my commit for adding a maximum to the spawnbeacons you can have. This also fixes beacons not showing up during playtime.
 
https://github.com/LouDnl/ArmA3_Wasteland.Altis/commit/5f85c49ddf9e4b4a464fd9577fc06ca7c6306291

If you don't want that and just want to fix beacons not showing up. Comment this part in your deploy.sqf like I did here:

https://github.com/LouDnl/ArmA3_Wasteland.Altis/blob/NL-United/client/items/beacon/deploy.sqf#L75-79