currentWeapon

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Description

Description:

Return the name of the currently selected weapon (on the primary turret for vehicles).

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

currentWeapon vehicle

Parameters:

vehicle: Object

Return Value:

String

Examples

Example 1:

_weaponClass = currentWeapon (vehicle player);//Example: "M16A2GL"

Example 2:

_weaponClass = currentWeapon player;

Additional Information

See also:

currentMagazinecurrentMuzzlecurrentVisionModecurrentWeaponModecurrentZeroingmagazinesTurretweaponsTurret

Notes

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Notes

Posted on July 15, 2009 - 04:00 (CEST)

Lou Montana

You have to make a little delay (sleep 0.001; (not less)) to use this command, else you will be returned an empty string.

Posted on July 15, 2009 - 04:00 (CEST)

Lou Montana

It seems it's not working in 1.02 for other unit than player.

Posted on May 4, 2010

Terox

This works for vehicles providing there is a gunner

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Posted on October 2, 2015 - 04:28 (UTC)

Pierre MGI

Place a non-armed vehicle in your group. Ask for currentWeapon (driver vehicle) (in a loop with cursortarget for example). There is no result. Make the driver disembark. The man has a weapon and this command starts to work (the AI unit is also is own driver). Make this AI jump into the vehicle. Now, the info of current weapon of the driver is persistent. There is no way, on my knowledge to easily check if an embarked unit has a weapon until this unit jump out / into a vehicle.