animateBay

Global argument
Local effect
Arma 3 v1.70

Command · also in Vehicle Loadouts · Markdown · JSON · original wiki page

Description

Forces animation of bay to given state, -1 for reset to engine handling, can cause weapon inoperative, because weapon is released when bay state == 1.

Note
While there is no getter to read the animation phase of the given bay, the animationPhase command can be used with the individual bay door name from animationNames as a workaround (See Example 3).

Syntax

vehicle animateBay [bay, animphase, instant]

Parameters:

vehicle: Object
bay: Number - bay index (index starts from 1 and different from pylon index)
animphase: Number - animation phase in range 0..1
instant: Boolean - (Optional, default false) animate immediately

Returns: Nothing

Examples

Example 1

vehicle player animateBay [1, 0.5];

Example 2

vehicle player animateBay [1, 1, true];

Example 3

Getter example, here for the UCAV Sentinel:

ucav animateBay [1, 1];
// can be checked with
ucav animationPhase "weapons_bay_l_1";
// or
ucav animationPhase "weapons_bay_l_2";