Arma offers splendid opportunities to customize vehicles on mission level with the help of such commands as setObjectTextureGlobal, removeWeaponGlobal, animate/HideTurret, lockTurret, attachTo, etc.
It would be nice to have a command to edit displayName property of a customized vehicle as well.
Supporting and expanding on this.
Use case: not extensive, but we'd be able to do things like "Qilin" >> "Katie's Qilin" which would be useful for keeping track of specific vehicles, or "AMV-12 Marshall" >> "Patria AMV" without needing a mod for mission-specific stuff.
Proposed syntax:
_vehicle setDisplayName "string"; _vehicle setDisplayNameShort "string";
Optional alt syntax, since I suspect it would be a lot more difficult:
"classname" setDisplayName "string"; // override applies to all vehicles of this class "classname" setDisplayNameShort "string";
I'd like to also ask for custom picture.
Question is, how should getters work? Only return custom set values? Return config displayName if no custom value was set?
Also maybe we should combine it all into single command?
ENTITY setCustomEntityData [NAME, SHORTNAME, PICTURE]
ANY = ENTITY getCustomEntityData INDEX;
?
Or maybe call it setCustomEntityInfo by analogy with getEntityInfo, getModelInfo commands