action

Description

Make a unit perform an action. See Category:Actions for action names and syntaxes.

Note

Arma 3: Since Arma 3 2.18 it is possible to use actionNow to perform some actions immediately without any animation. However, note that some actions do require animations (for example, opening inventory while on foot), otherwise they will get cancelled.

Note

• in singleplayer, when user Alt-Tabs the simulation is paused and so the action will also halt until user returns to the game. For example, player action ["GetInDriver", car]; executed while user is Alt-Tabbed will result in the user seeing the action happening when he returns to the game screen. This does not happen in Multiplayer.
• the alternative syntax creates a temporary Logic entity in place of unit.

Syntax

Syntax 1

unit action actionArray

Parameters:

• unit: Object
• actionArray: Array

Returns: Nothing

Syntax 2

since arma3 2.10

action actionArray

Parameters:

• actionArray: Array

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

player action ["SitDown", player];

Example 2

_soldier action ["Eject", vehicle _soldier];

Example 3

player action ["UseWeapon", player, player, 7]; // plays pick up animation before throwing grenade
action ["UseWeapon", player, player, 7]; // normal grenade throw

Multiplayer

Important

The argument's locality is usually local, but some actions can take a global argument (e.g "Eject", "GetOut", "GetInXXXX", "MoveToXXXX"). See Category:Actions for more details.

See also

actionNow · actionIDs · actionParams · addAction · setUserActionText · inGameUISetEventHandler · showHUD · inputAction · removeAction · removeAllActions · weaponsInfo · shownAction

player action ["SWITCHWEAPON", player, player, -1]