would 51 be OK?

@LouMontana 52 or no deal

In a more serious tone though, I absolutely have no idea how much is too much, but a doubled value would take a lot of headache away.

that's what I was hinting at ;-) is 100, 200, 1000 required?
also, what about setVariable/getVariable? This may help you too :)

I'm not gonna lie, I don't have an exact number laid out but 100 would surely cover it for this project and would save a lot of headache, I guess 200 would be even better from the future-proofing perspective;)

@LouMontana is there a way to use setVariable / getVariable command to display information on the HUD/MFD's though, without using setUserMFDValue/setUserMFDText? I tried to search for that in the forums but never found a way so I assumed it's not possible?

I don't think so; if it is for HUD display, MFD is the thing to use. If it is for data-storing for further processing then yeah, you could use that and only use MFD for HUD display.

regarding your request, from an "external" (non-dev) point of view:

• pro: it should not be a big issue to raise the limit (though there may be a limitation of which I am not aware)
• con: it is quite niche and may not be "worth it" (but I think it is not that of a no-no either)

So let's hope and let's go! :)

Big upvote from the Hatchet team,

I vaguely remember some chatter about the engine has to check every single value regardless of whether it exists or not, hence there was a limit to improve performance. But I'm sure you'll be able to find out more than we can.

100 would be amazing, I can't possibly see anyone requiring more than 200. but I'm willing to try ;)

AH-64D Apache mod dev here, agreed this would be great! I am currently in the process of moving our mod across to this, and the 50 values is definitely a tight squeeze for us too - we aren't able to move all of the parts of the pages across to the new method because of this and are working on a hybrid approach, and multiplexing the different MPD pages so we can reuse values.

@LouMontana what do you mean by the use of getVariable/setVariable? I am pretty sure you can't access these through the MFD system? Disregard, I have reread your original message. Sorry!

A year since raising this ticket, I'm bumping it.
It's great to see new potential ARMA 3 releases coming up. It would be great if this minor update could be one of them.

Please Bohemia Interactive, on behalf of all modders affected by it 😄

@dedmen
This would absolutely solve this.
Any ETA on this feature?