Garbage Collector – Arma 2

Latest revision as of 22:59, 28 August 2023

The Garbage Collector (GC) is a module that helps cleaning up dynamically created content. It is used by many other modules, since we cannot indefinitely keep adding content while playing a mission. You may trash certain types of content and the module will remove it from the game in a hopefully smart way (for instance by removing a unit only when it is some distance away).

Initialisation

Paths

Editor:

Modules (F7) > Garbage Collector

Data:

ca\modules\garbage_collector

Editor Setup

Add a unit to the Garbage Collector via 0 = [unit] execVM "ca\modules\garbage_collector\data\scripts\trashIt.sqf";. You can refer to the Garbage Collector using BIS_GC.

Behaviour

Garbage Collector will check every 10 seconds if its queue is empty.
It then processes the queue checking if these units are dead or not, and destroy them if they are.
It checks if the player's group is not too close (< 500m) before effectively destroy the unit.

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+The '''Garbage Collector''' (GC) is a module that helps cleaning up dynamically created content. It is used by many other modules, since we cannot indefinitely keep adding content while playing a mission.
+You may ''trash'' certain types of content and the module will remove it from the game in a hopefully smart way (for instance by removing a unit only when it is some distance away).
-[[Category:ArmA_2:_Editor_Modules]]
-'''Note: this page is a work-in-progress! More info to follow as soon as possible.'''
+== Initialisation ==
-== Introduction ==
+=== Paths ===
-The '''Garbage Collector''' (GC) is a module that helps cleaning up dynamically created content. It is used by many other modules, since we cannot indefinately keep adding content while playing a mission. You may ''trash'' certain types of content and the module will remove it from the game in a hopefully smart way (for instance by removing a unit only when it is some distance away).
-== Initialization==
-=== Paths ===
 Editor:
   Modules (F7) > Garbage Collector
 Data:
   ca\modules\garbage_collector
-=== Editor setup ===
+=== Editor Setup ===
-*Add a unit to the Garbage Collector via
-<code>a = [unit] execVM "ca\modules\garbage_collector\data\scripts\trashIt.sqf"</code>
+* Add a unit to the Garbage Collector via <sqf inline>0 = [unit] execVM "ca\modules\garbage_collector\data\scripts\trashIt.sqf";</sqf>. You can refer to the Garbage Collector using {{hl|BIS_GC}}.
-You can refer to the Garbage Collector by BIS_GC.
 == Behaviour ==
-*Garbage Collector will check every 10 seconds if its queue is empty.
-*It then processes the queue checking if these units are dead or not, and destroy them if they are.
+* Garbage Collector will check every 10 seconds if its queue is empty.
-*It checks if the player's group is not too close (< 500m) before effectively destroy the unit.
+* It then processes the queue checking if these units are dead or not, and destroy them if they are.
+* It checks if the player's group is not too close (< 500m) before effectively destroy the unit.
+{{GameCategory|arma2|Editor Modules}}