Issue changing AI Commander Control Type

  1. 7 years ago

    I apologize if this has been noted somewhere but looking through these forums and the forums located at BI Studio and haven't seen anything related to the issue I'm seeing.

    Background

    I am just getting started with the ALiVE mod and trying to create a simple "uprising" game to get started. I've been following the instructions located here for my first ALiVE mission.

    The Problem

    When I got to step 4 , placing the AI commander, when I click the Control Type drop down the drop down quickly flashes and then re-closes itself keeping "Incursion" as the selected type. The rest of the drop downs, enable debug, persistent, etc. all appear to work properly.

    Environment Information

    I have downloaded the latest versions of CBA (v3.2.1) and ALiVE from Armaholic and here respectively about two hours ago. To be clear, these are not the versions available on steam workshop as I was planning on creating some scenarios and using Arma3Sync in the future.

    The Question

    Is this an issue I can resolve locally? What information can I collect and post to help with debugging this issue? I'm a software developer by trade, c# and python, so I don't mind digging in to find logs or anything. I'm just 100% green when it comes to ArmA scripting and ALiVE looked like an awesome place to start for getting the types of scenarios I want to create in place.

    Thanks,
    Frito

  2. I think this is a bug that's caused by 1.68 where module and tigger dropdowns don't work properly. Change your text UI size and try it again, it should work.

  3. Can confirm that changing the UI size from small to Normal fixes the AI Commander Control Type issue.

  4. Edited 7 years ago by fritogotlayed

    HeroesandvillainsOS / HaggisRoll : Huge thanks. Changing from "Small" to "Normal" does allow the drop down to work.

    For anyone else looking: This is in the general display options :-)

    NOTE: this don't really "resolve" the issue as it shifts what drop down no longer works (in the case of normal its the next drop down down). I find this is an acceptable work around for the time being as the issue does most likely seem with the ArmA build 1.68.x

  5. Edited 7 years ago by HaggisRoll

    Just to add to this. Its doing it on all modules that have a drop down list on the 3rd option down.

    Once you've set you AI Commander to whichever type of control you want.

    You can go ahead and change your UI Display size back to small. Few... :0

  6. Edited 7 years ago by SpyderBlack723

    You can also use your enter and arrow keys to navigate the module UI to bypass this.

    You can voice your displeasure to BIS here: https://feedback.bistudio.com/T122322

    PS: Thanks for solid report though, detailed information really helps cut down bug hunting to a fraction of the time. Though, I'm sure you know that with your background :)

 

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