Arsenal Doesn't Save/Restore Gunbag Weapons

[jokoho48]

Arma 3 Version: 1.80 (stable / rc / dev)
CBA Version: 3.6.1.180131 (stable / dev + commit hash)
ACE3 Version: 3.12.1 (stable / dev + commit hash)

Mods:

- CBA_A3
- ace

Description:

• The ACE Arsenal Does not Save and Restores Weapons that are stored in gun bags

Steps to reproduce:

• Take Gunbag and put in a Weapon
• Save Loadout
• Load Loadout
• Weapon Gone

[dedmen]

Variable is stored on the gunbag.
We could definitely just store all variables on backpacks. But IMO that's a bad Idea. Let mods configure what variable names should be stored and then store them in the loadout array.
Maybe use CBA hashes to get a good storage layout?

Could also be useful for TFAR/ACRE. They have special code to keep variables on their backpacks when you enter/leave Arsenal. But would also be nice if they could be stored. However TFAR needs to manipulate the data before it is stored or after it is loaded. I don't know about ACRE.
ACE gunbag doesn't need to modify.

[jonpas]

ACRE has no radios in forms of backpacks, all are items (some can only fit a backpack), so no issue there.

[alganthe]

if you open the arsenal while you have a filled gunbag and switch to another backpack the content of the gunbag is cleared, that I can fix.

However saving the weapon that is inside the gunbag is not something I wish to do.
I'd need to add support for saving backpack variables, in which case you would be able to load non whitelisted weapons that are in gunbags.
I don't want that behavior.

[john681611]

Is this not a wider issue that you can store weapons in vests and backpacks and neither ACE or BI Arsenals can deal with it.

[alganthe]

You can place weapons in vest and backpacks in ACE Arsenal, however they might be stripped out of their attachments and there's no command to add them back yet.

You indeed can't save weapons in vests / backpacks in Virtual Arsenal.

[alganthe]

I know why it happens and that has nothing to do with this ticket.

[dedmen]

Solution would still be to just store variables, and restore if the backpack stays the same or a similar one.
https://github.com/michail-nikolaev/task-force-arma-3-radio/blob/master/addons/core/functions/events/fnc_onArsenal.sqf#L30
TFAR does that already for radio backpacks by just using the arsenal eventhandlers.

[alganthe]

That is already the case dedmen, see #6192

The OP wants gunbag weapons to persist through loadout saves, I do not want that behavior.

[dedmen]

The OP wants gunbag weapons to persist through loadout saves

took me 1.5 years to realise that.

[jonpas]

@alganthe is there API to allow that?

[alganthe]

Someone could use the loadout save / load EHs for that since the name of the loadouts are unique.

[LinkIsGrim]

Fixed in #8923.