Understanding the Reborn Intermission Event

[own3mall]

Hey All,

I'm trying to fix Arma's team swap script, but in order to do this, I need help understanding the different intermission types.

The documentation mentions the following:

         // Info
          local.type - type of server intermission
          0 = Player intermission screen
          1 = Map change (happens after using commands: map, gamemap , but also right after player intermission screen)
          2 = Map restart (happens after restart command)

Player intermission screen: Does this happen after every round? It does show players their score, but it's brief. What about when the map fraglimit has been reached? The screen goes black, scores are shown for a while, and the server takes a long time loading next map or reloads current map depending on server.cfg settings.

Map change: Does this happen when the fraglimit of the map is reached along with using rcon map command?

Map restart: When admin uses the "rcon restart" command?

Here's Arma's script (used to work, but doesn't work anymore):

main:
    if(int(getcvar(inscrim)) == 1){
        // If inscrim is not set DO NOTHING
        teamswitchdelay .2
    
        if(level.swapLoaded)
            end
    
        level.swapLoaded = 1
        
        //Check if players were swapped last round, if so, reset the cvars
        if(getcvar swapped == "1") {
            setcvar swap "0"
            setcvar swapped "0"
        }
            
        // Register events
        if(level.elgboton != 1){
          
          // Unregister events just to be on the safe side:
          
          // local.unreg2 = unregisterev "intermission"
          // local.unreg3 = unregisterev "connected"
          
          // println local.unreg2
          // println local.unreg3
          
          wait 5
          local.connectme = registerev "connected" teamswap/swap.scr::connected
          local.intermission = registerev "intermission" teamswap/swap.scr::intermission
        }
    }

    
end

connected local.player:

    if(getcvar swap == "1" && int(getcvar(inscrim)) == 1) {    
        if(local.player.dmteam == "axis") {
            setcvar swapped "1"  //set a cvar so that we don't swap again next round.
            local.player join_team allies
        }
        else {
            if(local.player.dmteam == "allies") {
                setcvar swapped "1" //set a cvar so that we don't swap again next round.
                local.player join_team axis    
            }
        }
    }    
    
end

intermission local.type:

    if(local.type == 0)
    {
        setcvar swap "1"
    }
    else
    {
        setcvar swap "0"
    }
        
end

The above script is pretty simple to follow. So, should the intermission type be 1 (the map fraglimit has been reached) when the swap cvar is set to 1? Or is the player intermission screen occur when the map fraglimit is reached?

[Purple Elephant1au]

Its always been a difficult event to understand for me as well .

When ive used it, i hadn't needed to make the distinction , i didnt use the local.type

But from testing it , i thought that the

player intermission screen (1) occurs after every round ( for objective game ) AND at the end of the map ( after fraglimit reached)
map change (2) occurs after the fraglimit is reached ( or time runs out) but AFTER the player intermission screen

Im guessing that you want it to change teams at map change ( because player intermission screen is not long enough) , and probably load the same map after it but teams are changed

So i think that the intermission event is run TWICE at map change , once for the player intermission screen(0) and again for the map change(1)

So upon changing maps ( or loading the same one )
It would go like this
Player intermission screen (0) where it sets swap 1
THEN
Map Change intermission (1) where it would set to back to 0
THEN
Then Player connection , where it wouldn't swap because swap = 0

So at every round end , cvar swap gets set to 1 , but then when the change comes it gets set to 0 again by the map change intermission.

So i think that

intermission local.type:

    if(local.type == 1)
    {
        setcvar swap "1"
    }
    else
    {
        setcvar swap "0"
    }
        
end

Should work, that it sets cvar swap 1 at map change (1) which is after player intermission screen(0)

Or if you wanted to test it via rcon restart

intermission local.type:

    if(local.type == 0)
    {
        setcvar swap "0"
    }
    else
    {
        setcvar swap "1"
    }
        
end

Also another problem i might of noticed , if a player connects during the first round of a map , he is neither axis or allies, he would still be spectate , so wouldnt that cause an error in the connection part . maybe just a if(local.player.dmteam == spectator) end would fix it , i dont no if it would cause an error tho

[own3mall]

Its always been a difficult event to understand for me as well .

intermission local.type:

    if(local.type == 0)
    {
        setcvar swap "0"
    }
    else
    {
        setcvar swap "1"
    }
        
end

This is what I'm thinking... that's the way I originally coded it.

Also another problem i might of noticed , if a player connects during the first round of a map , he is neither axis or allies, he would still be spectate , so wouldnt that cause an error in the connection part . maybe just a if([/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]local.player.dmteam == spectator) end would fix it , i dont no if it would cause an error tho

[/quote]

It doesn't matter if they're in spectate since it runs at the beginning of every round. We only want to switch players that have been in the server longer than a round. If they're in spec, they can pick their team.

[Razo[R]apiD]

Restart event happens on every map restart with "restart" command.
Map change happens every time map changes, doesn't matter if it was admin who changed it in the middle of the match (when fraglimit was not reached yet), or if it changed automatically because of map rotation.

Intermission happens every round when player scores are shown, and just before map change when screen goes black.

When map changes due to fraglimit being reached, intermission event is fired, and just after that a map change event.


There was a bug with restart event, which only fired once, (after it was triggered, engine didn't keep track of it being registered) so I fixed it to fire each time a restart is made.

[own3mall]

Razo, do you see anything wrong in Arma's script? Are we using the intermission event improperly? We want to trigger the event when the fraglimit has been reached. When the fraglimit has been reached, the swap cvar should be set. Now, what's weird is that I can't even debug this script.

When my server first loads, I get output from the swap.cfg script (it's running), but the inscrim cvar is not set to 1, so nothing happens. When I exec the scrim config which turns the inscrim cvar to 1, nothing happens (and there is no output in the console suggesting this script is not running). It's as if the dmprecache is not calling it on every map load... but I have the line in the dmprecache to exec it. It only execs the swap script when the server loads for the very first time!

Anyone have a clue what's wrong?

[Purple Elephant1au]

I seem to of hit a problem with the intermission event ,
i thought i would have a crack at the promod mod , but at map change i need it to set a cvar respawn back to 0 , but it seems to do it every round even if i had the intermission event set up like above ,
that only sets it if(local.type != 0) ,
which i thought ment not at every round but at each map change and/or restart .

intermission local.type:

    if(local.type != 0)
    {
        setcvar "respawned" "1"
    }
    
          
end

But it sets to to 1 every round end , at the player intermission screen , when i want it only at map change ( like for the teamswap )
so i think we must be doing something wrong lol

[Sor]

I was under the impression that the server restarts after each round (except the last). It's been quite a while and when I tested it,
I used DM_Manager to end rounds (I'm impatient that way) so I'm not sure what happens if the round changes because of time- or fraglimit.

@Purple Elephant1au: If you only want it to happen when a map changes, try explicitly checking for type == 1.

[Purple Elephant1au]

Well for testing it i did that so i could restart it to test and not wait for map to end

So it would only change it for local.type 1 or 2 and not 0

I also had tried

if(local.type == 1 || local.type == 2)

aswell , and tried just local.type == 1 and changed maps both by rcon and fraglimit reached , but both ways seem to not work , still goes through player intermission on each one

[own3mall]

In my case, I can't even get the script to run more than once per server session.

I have no idea why this is. Again, the call for the script is the dmprecache and it works when the server is first started. Map change, and it no longer execs. I'm baffled. Anyone know why this might be?

I even removed this from the code:

if(level.swapLoaded)
            end
    
level.swapLoaded = 1

Would this even matter? Aren't level variables reset once the map changes?

[DoubleKill]

Putting that code after waittill spawn may could fix?