radioChannelCreate

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Description

Description:

Create a custom radio channel with the given color, label, call sign and registered characters. The customChannelID returned can be used to manipulate the created channel later. There are 10 slots for custom radio channels which would correspond to channels 6-15 (see getPlayerChannel). The command will find an unused index in this range and create it when found.

Groups:

Radio and ChatCustom Radio and Chat

Syntax

Syntax:

radioChannelCreate [color, label, callSign, units, sentenceType]

Parameters:

color: Array - RGBA color values

label: String - label

callSign: String - call sign

units: Array - list of units in the channel

sentenceType (Optional): Boolean (Default: true)

• true - use Protocol message color from getArray (configFile >> "RscChatListDefault" >> "colorMessageProtocol")
• false - use Normal message color from getArray (configFile >> "RscChatListDefault" >> "colorMessage")

Return Value:

Number - created custom channel ID (used in customChat command), 0 if failed

Examples

Example 1:

_channelID= radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], "Q-dance Radio", "%UNIT_NAME", [player1, player2]];

Example 2:

_channelID = radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], "Q-dance Radio", "%UNIT_NAME", [player1, player2], false]; // disable automatic quotes for chat in channel (Arma 3)

Example 3:

Create custom channel and add all players to it, present and JIP:if (isServer) then { private _channelName = "Q-dance Radio"; private _channelID = radioChannelCreate [[0.96, 0.34, 0.13, 0.8], _channelName, "%UNIT_NAME", []]; if (_channelID == 0) exitWith {diag_log format ["Custom channel '%1' creation failed!", _channelName]}; [_channelID, {_this radioChannelAdd [player]}] remoteExec ["call", [0, -2] select isDedicated, _channelName]; };

Additional Information

See also:

radioChannelAddradioChannelRemoveradioChannelSetCallSignradioChannelSetLabelcustomChatcustomRadiosetCurrentChannelcurrentChannelenableChannelchannelEnabledgetPlayerChannel

Notes

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Notes

Posted on January 21, 2016 - 13:30 (UTC)

Killzone Kid

Make sure you add all units you intend to speak or receive messages on created custom channel to the channel.

Posted on October 12, 2017 - 12:27 (UTC)

Demellion

WARNING: Be aware that created channels order and count are different between server and client. Example 3 shown that server-side channel ID is actually 4, while client currentChannel on the same channel results in 9. Behaviour is yet unknown for me.