[Tutorial] Overpoch - Custom traders, all weapons/ammo/vehicles in menus

[cheech]

Hello all,

 

i have followed all steps, my Traders spawn correct, but the menus were empty.

 

My RPT is here http://pastebin.com/1N6BDRnR

 

any help please?

 

thanks

[raymix]

  On 2/22/2015 at 12:53 PM, cheech said:

Hello all,

 

i have followed all steps, my Traders spawn correct, but the menus were empty.

 

My RPT is here http://pastebin.com/1N6BDRnR

 

any help please?

 

thanks

RPT looks clean, you most likely have a typo in SQL code, double check your database. Also check your hive log, it should tell you if there are any errors in database.

[cheech]

Oh nice, the developer sir himself ! :D

 

Thanks for your very fast response!

 

I have upped my server_traders.sqf here: http://pastebin.com/0sRyGnzC

 

the mission.sqf here http://pastebin.com/JE5RHP1p

 

and some sql pics here.

 

i cant find the error...

 

here is my hiveExt.log  nothing special in my opinion...  http://pastebin.com/eKcWsr7k

 

 

[raymix]

everything looks clean so far, can you:

 

1) reset hive log, log into game and wait a minute so it finishes loading objects from DB, then Open trader menu and post a log from there. There's a chance error won't show up until you ask for it.

2) Logout in front of trader and remove Antihack temporarily (simply comment out init line in your dayz_server). Then check again without AH running, just to throw AH out of equation.

3) Check original traders if they still have the menu loading. Just for the scale.

4) Change trader skin to something that is not Overwatch based. There has been 2 people reporting this being an issue.

 

It's quite simple the way this works, a selfacions function is run every 0.5 seconds to check ton of things. One of those things is a unit in front of you. If unit is detected, game will check its skin. If skin is found in server_traders file, it will read array of TIDs. When player clicks addaction to trade, a database is then queried, the menu you select (ammo, weapons, vehicles) tells what TID to use as a filter. Everything that matches the filter will be read from database and shown in that menu. If list is big, it might take a while for items to appear, especially when reading over network not on a local machine (one of reasons people switches to cfg traders, where menus are read from mission file that people download, so almost instant).

[cheech]

here you go raymix,  1)  http://pastebin.com/AxShZu9R

 

more to come...

 

2) cant logout in front of trader, cause  it says i am at trader zone

 

dont really know how to disable infistar AH, cause the gtxgaming hoster has its own infistar, i can see something in the missions  init.sqf

 

the dayz_server is in a .pbo

 

3) original traders work perfect

 

4) i have tried 3 other skins during the day... all the same.  but now i choose one from epoch....wait

 

 

 

have changed skins to Camo1_DZ     same....no items in the menus...

 

 i have renamed the infistar folder with files, now restart, we´ll see what happens^^

[cheech]

have disabled infistar, all the same, but still cant logout in front of trader... it says all the time: cannot abort while in trader city...

 

i will find out that problem now...

[raymix]

I meant to logout close to trader, so you don't have to walk too far for a simple test, my bad :)

Other than that, everything else checks out, looks clean. Last hive log you posted shows stuff alright, does not mention any overpoch stuff tho, which is weird.

[cheech]

ah, ok. only logout close to trade  zone..hehe^^

 

 

phew, then this could be a hard one..

 

here´s my init.sqf  http://pastebin.com/aei0J2mC

 

and the description.ext  http://pastebin.com/Jk6zLSMg

 

maybe there´s the error

 

what else could be done?

[cheech]

uhm, just read your last post again.

 

i really dont know if my hoster has the cfg traders ?!

 

how can we find that out?

 

i can remember that one supporter told me about some special traders...

 

maybe there´s the problem^^

 

heres what i´ve found 

[raymix]

lol, if you have this line, you are running config traders, which explains why database was not used:

 

init.sqf

DZE_ConfigTrader = true;

This is not a bad thing tho. You can set it to false for shits and giggles to see your traders work from database you created. I'd suggest you stick with config traders instead, bro.

I updated in this thread with my old server configs, that should save you few hours of pain. Enjoy!

[cheech]

hehe,  that was funny... ^^  sure the items all appear now :D

 

troubleshooting the whole day, only because my hoster has setup the custom traders..funny :-)

 

but ok, its interesting.

 

thank you very much sir for helping me the whole sunday!

 

and i will check your updated 3rd post tommorow then :-)

 

 

do i have to remove something i have added in the database, if i choose your config traders,  or will all still stays there?  cause the traders_data is now around 1.8MiB

 

thanks alot, 

 

have a nice evening bro :-)

 

 

cheers

 

Cheech Marin ;-)

[raymix]

You should keep your DB small if sticking with config traders, so yea - remove stuff you added.

If you end up using database, then you might want to remove .hpp files to reduce size on mission file.

 

All good, have a nice evening, you too!

[cheech]

raymix, is there an option how to disable those 14000  messages in the HiveExt.log ?

 

e.g.

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:2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:

2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11474,["M4A1_Aim",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11475,["M4A1_Aim_camo",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11476,["M4A1_AIM_SD_camo",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11477,["M4A1_HWS_GL",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11478,["M4A1_HWS_GL_camo",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11479,["M4A1_HWS_GL_SD_Camo",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11480,["M4A1_RCO_GL",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11481,["M4A3_CCO_EP1",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11482,["M4A3_RCO_GL_EP1",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11483,["M4SPR",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11484,["M60A4_EP1",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11485,["M621",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Result: [11486,["M68",3],10,[2,"ItemBriefcase100oz",1],[1,"ItemGoldBar10oz",1],0,800,"trade_weapons"]
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [Debug] Original params: |CHILD:399:800:|
2015-02-25 17:31:10 HiveExt: [information] Method: 399 Params: 800:

 

i really dont have a clue to get a nice working hiveext.log     i can choose between those 2 parameter  Level and Console level   where i can put in trace, debug, information, notice, warning, error, critical, fatal, none

 

can u tell me which pair works the best?

 

thanxx :-)

[raymix]

No, that's intended, and seeing those messages is a good thing (it means everything works). I am pretty sure you can disable logging, but not sure if you can scope them. so it could be on or off, that's it. On top of that I don't think hive logs are persistent, as far as I remember a new one is created after server restart with a new name.

You shouldn't worry about hive logs at all, most of the times if something goes bad, they stop at error and won't continue, so you can go from there. Your best friend is still RPT log. I would advise keeping that one clean instead.

Personally, I would normally stop server, delete RPT log and then start a fresh one. Since I am also quite familiar with SQF, I would go trough all syntax errors and fix them in scripts, then resume with clean logs from there again. But all of this is still optional and personal preference... kinda like an OCD if you will.

[Snakeyes]

How is the unit number derived for a custom trader? 1337 was the last number that I used simply because it worked for the custom gem trader that I added. If I add a unit in the editor it uses a low unit number like 2. I tried adding a new custom trader tonight and it does not appear in the game. I used _unit_1338 and then tried 2000. Nothing worked.

 

_unit_1337 = objNull;
if (true) then
{
_this = createAgent ["RU_Villager1", [7382.0156, 7459.6587, -0.022578919], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_unit_1337 = _this;

[raymix]

it doesn't matter what unit it is, the whole file was generated from an editor and that's the output, not very clean, but it works.

In fact the whole code is garbage, you can remove local vars that represent units and it will still work, it is simply used by editor to refer back to a unit to be able to edit/delete it, it is irrelevant for what we do here. Nobody really cares and just goes with the flow, lol.

 

Something like this would work just fine and make more sense. If required, this way you can store unit into an array and pass it on to a function or whatever:

_unitOverNineThousand = objNull; //this defines empty var to avoid RPT errors
_unitOverNineThousand = createAgent ["Winter_SOF_DA1b", [6296.33,7803.79,0], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"]; //and this creates unit and fills that empty variable
_unitOverNineThousand setDir 310; //this and rest of crap below simply adjusts unit values in properties
_unitOverNineThousand setVehicleInit "this allowDammage false; this disableAI 'FSM'; this disableAI 'MOVE'; this disableAI 'AUTOTARGET'; this disableAI 'TARGET'; this setBehaviour 'CARELESS'; this forceSpeed 0;"; //oh and this can be used for some seriously cool shit
_unitOverNineThousand setUnitAbility 0.60000002;
_unitOverNineThousand allowDammage false; _this disableAI 'FSM'; _this disableAI 'AUTOTARGET'; _this disableAI 'TARGET'; _this setBehaviour 'CARELESS'; _this forceSpeed 0;

Looking at your villager dude, should be fine if you copy/pasted the code (If you look at code I just posted, you will see I did not use IF statement or brackets) ... this means, your issue might be:

1) use 0 for Z axis to plant the dude exactly on a terrain, there is absolutely no need to sink your guy in a ground or random nonsense numbers like you have.... so  [7382.0156, 7459.6587, 0] is as good as it gets.

2) since you are using an IF statement which is always true, you might be missing an ending bracket due to typo. Which means, if you cut and paste your dude's code at the beginning of the file, all of your AI units will bug out and won't load... because of that missing bracket.

[Snakeyes]

I found my mistake. This is the output from the editor:

 

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_unit_2 = objNull;

if (true) then
{
_this = _group_0 createUnit ["RU_Damsel4", [10591.77, 14083.106, 1.9073486e-005], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_unit_2 = _this;
_this setDir -86.932022;
_this setUnitAbility 0.60000002;
if (true) then {_group_0 selectLeader _this;};
if (true) then {selectPlayer _this;};
};

 

createUnit should be changed to createAgent to spawn a trader. After I changed that it worked fine. Thanks for your reply raymix. :)

[my_name_sucks]

I'm pretty sure I have done everything correctly but when I get in game the trader I placed doesn't have the option of opening a trader menu, does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

[raymix]

  On 3/31/2016 at 4:53 AM, my_name_sucks said:

I'm pretty sure I have done everything correctly but when I get in game the trader I placed doesn't have the option of opening a trader menu, does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

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Double check skin name, make sure it's right, single typo will break the action menu.

[my_name_sucks]

  On 3/31/2016 at 8:52 PM, raymix said:

Double check skin name, make sure it's right, single typo will break the action menu.

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Couldn't find any typos regarding the skin name, anything else I can check for?

[Hux]

  On 3/31/2016 at 11:16 PM, my_name_sucks said:

Couldn't find any typos regarding the skin name, anything else I can check for?

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I've had this problem too and it had to do with the NPC model I was using. There is a list of working NPC models around here somewhere but I can't seem to find it.

Anyways, when I've had this problem that there's no option for trader I find that right clicking on the trader usually makes the option appear.

Hope it helps.

I found the list:

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BAF_Soldier_AAA_DDPM
BAF_Soldier_AAR_DDPM
BAF_Soldier_AAR_MTP
BAF_Soldier_AAT_W
BAF_Soldier_AMG_W
BAF_Soldier_EN_MTP
Citizen2_EP1
Citizen3
Citizen3_EP1
CIV_Contractor1_BAF
CIV_Contractor2_BAF
CIV_EuroMan01_EP1
CIV_EuroMan02_EP1
CIV_EuroWoman01_EP1
CIV_EuroWoman02_EP1
CZ_Special_Forces_MG_DES_EP1
Damsel3
Damsel4
Damsel5
Doctor
Dr_Annie_Baker_EP1
Dr_Hladik_EP1
Drake
Drake_Light
FR_Assault_R
FR_Cooper
FR_Corpsman
FR_Sykes
Functionary1
Graves
GUE_Commander
GUE_Soldier_1
GUE_Soldier_2
GUE_Soldier_3
GUE_Soldier_AR
GUE_Soldier_CO
GUE_Soldier_Crew
GUE_Soldier_GL
GUE_Soldier_MG
GUE_Soldier_Pilot
GUE_Soldier_Sab
GUE_Soldier_Scout
GUE_Villager3
GUE_Villager4
GUE_Woodlander1
GUE_Woodlander2
GUE_Woodlander3
GUE_Worker2
Herrera_Light
HouseWife1
ibr_lingorman2
ibr_lingorman2s
ibr_lingorman3s
ibr_lingorman4
ibr_lingorman5
ibr_lingorman5s
ibr_lingorman6
ibr_lingorman6s
ibr_lingorman7
ibr_lingorman7s
Ins_Lopotev
Ins_Soldier_AR
Ins_Soldier_GL
Ins_Soldier_Medic
Ins_Soldier_Sapper
Ins_Villager3
Ins_Woodlander1
Ins_Woodlander2
Ins_Woodlander3
Ins_Worker2
MVD_Soldier_Marksman
MVD_Soldier_TL
nac_soldier_2
Pilot
Pilot_EP1
pook_Doc_Bell47
Profiteer1
Profiteer2_EP1
Profiteer4
Reynolds_PMC
Rita_Ensler_EP1
Rocker2
Rocker4
RU_Citizen1
RU_Citizen2
RU_Citizen3
RU_Citizen4
RU_Commander
RU_Damsel1
RU_Damsel2
RU_Damsel4
RU_Damsel5
RU_Doctor
RU_Farmwife1
RU_Farmwife3
RU_Farmwife4
RU_Farmwife5
RU_Functionary1
RU_Madam3
RU_Pilot
RU_Profiteer1
RU_Profiteer2
RU_Profiteer3
RU_Profiteer4
RU_Soldier_Light
RU_Soldier_Medic
RU_Soldier_Officer
RU_Soldier_Pilot
RU_Soldier_SniperH
RU_Sportswoman5
RU_Villager1
RU_Villager3
RU_Woodlander3
RU_Woodlander4
RU_Worker1
RU_Worker4
RU_WorkWoman1
RU_WorkWoman5
RUS_Commander
RUS_Soldier_TL
RUS_Soldier2
Soldier_Bodyguard_M4_PMC
Soldier_GL_M16A2_PMC
Soldier_GL_PMC
Soldier_MG_PKM_PMC
Soldier_MG_PMC
Soldier_PMC
Soldier_Sniper_KSVK_PMC
Soldier_Sniper_PMC
Soldier_TL_PMC
Tanny_PMC
TK_CIV_Takistani02_EP1
TK_CIV_Takistani03_EP1
TK_CIV_Takistani04_EP1
TK_CIV_Takistani05_EP1
TK_CIV_Takistani06_EP1
TK_CIV_Woman02_EP1
TK_CIV_Woman03_EP1
TK_CIV_Worker01_EP1
TK_Commander_EP1
TK_GUE_Soldier_5_EP1
TK_GUE_Soldier_Sniper_EP1
TK_GUE_Warlord_EP1
TK_Soldier_AMG_EP1
TK_Soldier_Crew_EP1
TK_Soldier_Spotter_EP1
TK_Special_Forces_EP1
TK_Special_Forces_MG_EP1
UN_CDF_Soldier_AAT_EP1
UN_CDF_Soldier_Crew_EP1
UN_CDF_Soldier_EP1
UN_CDF_Soldier_MG_EP1
UN_CDF_Soldier_Pilot_EP1
US_Delta_Force_AR_EP1
US_Delta_Force_Assault_EP1
US_Delta_Force_Medic_EP1
US_Soldier_Medic_EP1
USMC_Soldier_TL
USMC_SoldierS_Engineer
ValentinaVictim
Woodlander1
Woodlander2
Woodlander3
Worker1
Worker2
Worker3
Worker4

 

http://epochmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/16393-resolved-traders-slow-to-respond-or-dont-respond-at-all/#comment-124606

 

[my_name_sucks]

  On 3/31/2016 at 11:56 PM, Hux said:

I've had this problem too and it had to do with the NPC model I was using. There is a list of working NPC models around here somewhere but I can't seem to find it.

Anyways, when I've had this problem that there's no option for trader I find that right clicking on the trader usually makes the option appear.

Hope it helps.

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I changed the class of the trader, it still doesn't work but when I scroll on it I can see its name which wasn't happening for the one I was originally using

[raymix]

  On 4/1/2016 at 12:32 AM, my_name_sucks said:

I changed the class of the trader, it still doesn't work but when I scroll on it I can see its name which wasn't happening for the one I was originally using

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In that case you'll need to check syntax for any errors you've added in fn_selfActions.sqf. It's one of most widely modified files and is responsible for action menu to appear. Best thing to do, probably, would be starting with a clean file just to get traders to work, then work out what went wrong with your current file if you're not very SQF literate yet, so to say.

[theduke]

  On 4/1/2016 at 12:32 AM, my_name_sucks said:

I changed the class of the trader, it still doesn't work but when I scroll on it I can see its name which wasn't happening for the one I was originally using

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can you post your server_traders.sqf?