@hehu_tripflare (Arma 3 addon)

Trip-wire mines which shoots flares instead of 'asploading you.

Why?

Use them to see enemy advancements instead of killing a few of them. A flare allows you to detect any number of units in a force, while an explosion is hard to locate and will only kill a handful at most.

Status

This is my first Arma 3 mod. It's very much the work of an amateur.

There seems to be no way of detecting when a mine is detonated, so the script works in this way:

1. Find all mines on the map.
2. Spawn a function that waits for the mine to disappear.
   • When mine is gone, trigger detonation.
3. Attach event handler to player that repeats this on any newly placed mines.
   • This needs to be broadcast to every other player!

Video

Problems

• When triggering a mine within 2 meters from a disabled mine, it does not fire a flare.
• Only the "owner" of the mine sees an explosion effect and hears the flare sound when a mine is triggered.

Building

Check out the repository, make sure Arma 3 Tools from BIS is installed and copy make.example.bat.txt into make.bat, edit the paths in it and then run the batch file.

The finished mod will be placed in target_directory that you specify.

Class names

Magazine classes

Use them to add things to inventories.

HEHU_FlareTripMine_Wire_Mag HEHU_FlareTripMine_Red_Wire_Mag HEHU_FlareTripMine_Yellow_Wire_Mag HEHU_FlareTripMine_Green_Wire_Mag HEHU_FlareTripMine_Blue_Wire_Mag

Ammo classes

Use them to find mines on the map, or to spawn them, I guess.

(Mines) HEHU_FlareTripMine_Wire_Ammo HEHU_FlareTripMine_Red_Wire_Ammo HEHU_FlareTripMine_Yellow_Wire_Ammo HEHU_FlareTripMine_Green_Wire_Ammo HEHU_FlareTripMine_Blue_Wire_Ammo

(Flares) HEHU_TF_40mm_White HEHU_TF_40mm_Red HEHU_TF_40mm_Yellow HEHU_TF_40mm_Green HEHU_TF_40mm_Blue

Functions

HEHU_TripFlare_fnc_Placed

Call with the mine object inside an array to register a mine.

[_mine] spawn HEHU_TripFlare_fnc_Placed;

HEHU_TripFlare_fnc_Activate

Fire a flare from the location provided.

[getPos player, "HEHU_TF_40mm_Red"] spawn HEHU_TripFlare_fnc_Activate;

Awknowledgements

Thanks to the following people, which I reverse-engineered stuff from:

• Amit: [Tutorial] Simple Re-texturing Guide (From Start To Finish) - Thank you for telling me how to create a small addon, how to inherit the BIS stuff and patch them.
• flyinpenguin: EMP Pack -WIP- - I would never have figured out how to run a script on mine detonation without this little addon. Thank you!

Copyright

Uses assets from Bohemia Interactive. Everything belongs to them, as I claim no copyright over my work here.