Side Relations

This page deals with all Arma 3 sides, which has more than previous games. See the Side page to see previous titles' available sides.

Also:

• west = blufor
• east = opfor
• resistance = independent

Sides Relations

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Sides Friendship

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsFriendly

↓ is friendly to →	east	west	resistance	civilian	sideAmbientLife	sideUnknown	sideEnemy	sideFriendly	sideEmpty	sideLogic
east
west
resistance
civilian
sideAmbientLife
sideUnknown
sideEnemy
sideFriendly
sideEmpty
sideLogic

Sides Enmity

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsEnemy

↓ is enemy to →	east	west	resistance	civilian	sideAmbientLife	sideUnknown	sideEnemy	sideFriendly	sideEmpty	sideLogic
east
west
resistance
civilian
sideAmbientLife
sideUnknown
sideEnemy
sideFriendly
sideEmpty
sideLogic

Change Relations

• You can set which sides resistance is friendly/enemy to in the mission editor (click on the Intel box).
• Everyone is friendly toward civilians. Civilians AI have a total impunity and can kill any enemy without retaliation (same as captive units).
• You can use the setFriend command to set relations between any sides (even east and west).

// will make east friendly to west and vice versa east setFriend [west, 1]; west setFriend [east, 1];

One Way Hostility

Using the setCaptive command allows you to stop enemy units to fire on the target unit.

_soldier setCaptive true; // _soldier can shoot at enemy but enemy will not return fire

You can re-activate hostility by canceling captive status.

_soldier setCaptive false; // _soldier will be shot at again by enemy units

Two Way Hostility With Civilians

To make a civilian a potential target to other sides, you can either:

• make the civilian a renegade by using the addRating command. This will make him a renegade, meaning an enemy to everyone including other civilians.

_civilian addRating -10000; // this will cause sides to shoot civilian, but not civilian to shoot back - for that, use setFriend

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The renegade rating threshold is below -2000 (e.g -2001, -5000 etc).

• make the civilian join an enemy group, e.g east:
  private _eastGroup = createGroup east; [_civilian] joinSilent _eastGroup;

Set in the Editor

1. Group your civilians with an east leader
2. Delete the east leader on mission load:
   • Put deleteVehicle this in the officer's initialisation field.
   • Alternatively, set the probability of presence slider of the officer to zero.
3. On mission start, the east leader will not be here but the civilians will be on the east side.