The Utilities Construction Mod is a module for Arma 3. Quickly add construction areas in your missions for pipelines, railways, electric lines, and such.
This module is still in early beta. Some changes and bugs are to be expected.
- ACE3 (Steam, Github). UCM does not need ACE to run, but if enabled the Interaction and Cargo functionalities will the the ones of ACE, otherwise they will default to enhanced vanilla ones.
The presence of ACE on the server will set the type of interactions on the clients.
You can download an example mission from here.
You can get the module from Steam.
UCM has its own Persistence Module. It works by saving data to the profileNamespace on the server. You will see the save menu in the standard Arma menu of the Pause screen.
A few important things to note:
- The Persistence Module saves only UCM data, the rest is left to Arma or other modules you may be using.
- If you add / rename the variable names of the UCM Logic modules, your persistence will be lost.
UCM supports ALiVE natively, with some caveats.
The Construction Area is automatically added as a Custom Objective to the hostile OPCOMs. This objective is also moved when the construction moves.
The workers are not profiled by ALiVE Virtual_AI_System, and therefore they will not be attacked by profiled enemies when they are virtualized. This substantially means that at least one player needs to be next to the workers, which will cause ALiVE profiled enemies to be spawned on the map and hence attack the workers.
UCM integrates with ALiVE save features. Therefore, if you want UCM data to be also saved when you save ALiVE, the only thing you have to do is to drop the UCM Persistent Module in your mission in addition to the ALiVE Data module.
UCM data will be saved locally, regardless of the ALiVE Data setting.
Description:
Returns if the UCM module is initialized.
Parameter(s):
0: OBJECT - The logicModule.
Return:
0: BOOLEAN
Example:
[_logicModule] call SCAR_UCM_fnc_isInitialized;
| NAME | DESCRIPTION | PARAMS |
|---|---|---|
UCM_ConstructionAreaMoved |
Construction Area was moved. | _logicModule, _currentPiece |
UCM_ConstructionDone |
Construction is completed. | _logicModule |
UCM_ConstructionNowInProgress |
Construction work is now ongoing. | _logicModule, _currentPiece |
UCM_NoWorkersInConstructionArea |
Construction works are stopped, there are no more workers on the site. | _logicModule, _currentPiece |
UCM_NoMaterialsInConstructionArea |
Construction works are stopped, there are no more materials on the site. | _logicModule, _currentPiece |
UCM_WorkerKilled |
A worker has been killed. | _logicModule, _worker |
UCM_RequestedMaterials |
New workers have been requested. | _logicModule |
UCM_RequestedWorkers |
New materials have been requested. | _logicModule |
All events will be called on the server only.
You can subscribe to events in your scripts with CBA_fnc_addEventHandler or CBA_fnc_addEventHandlerArgs. For instance:
private _id = ["UCM_ConstructionAreaMoved", {
params ["_logicModule", "_currentPiece"];
private _mapPosition = mapGridPosition getPos _currentPiece;
systemChat format ["Construction area is now at %1", _mapPosition];
}] call CBA_fnc_addEventHandler;Thanks to all alpha and beta testers, in particular:
- 2RGT Hollywood
- W4lly63
So you want to contribute? That's great! Please follow the guidelines below. It will make it easier to get merged in.
Before implementing a new feature, please submit a ticket to discuss what you intend to do. Your feature might already be in the works, or an alternative implementation might have already been discussed.
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