Hi guys,
I'm trying to create a marker that displays the distance to the enemy vehicle (when pressing ALT).
Therefore, I created a custom macro and use it in the markersAliveExtended.xc.
What's working:
- Calculate the distance between me and an enemy
- Show it as a text in an XVM OTM marker at the game start
- Re-calculate the distance (and print it to the log) based on silly debug events like "onHealthChange"
However, I have three problems/questions:
- I can already hook into events to re-calculate the distances to all vehicles and update an internal state variable. However, XVM does not call my macro again to receive the new value -> how to make the OTM text dynamic?
- What would be "good" events to hook into to update the distance to all vehicles? Is there a simple frame/time based event?
- Is adding "custom macros" actually a thing or are all macros just coming with XVM itself? How would I "package" this mod to send it to friends?
Attached you find a few debug files of what I'm doing.
Any help or hints on how to make dynamic custom OTM markers is appreciated! <3
distance_macro.py markersAliveExtended-PARTIAL_FOR_ILLUSTRATION_ONLY.xc
