This page deals with all Arma 3 sides, which has more than previous games. See the Side page to see previous titles' available sides. Also:

• west = blufor
• east = opfor
• resistance = independent

Sides relations

Sides friendship

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsFriendly

Sides enmity

Helper function: BIS_fnc_sideIsEnemy

Change relations

• You can set which sides resistance is friendly/enemy to in the mission editor (click on the Intel box).
• Everyone is friendly toward civilians. Civilians AI have a total impunity and can kill any enemy without retaliation (same as captive units).
• You can use the setFriend command to set relations between any sides (even east and west).

// will make east friendly to west and vice versa
east setFriend [west, 1];
west setFriend [east, 1];

One way hostility

Using the setCaptive command allows you to stop enemy units to fire on the target unit.

_soldier setCaptive true; // _soldier can shoot at enemy but enemy will not return fire

You can re-activate hostility by canceling captive status.

_soldier setCaptive false; // _soldier will be shot at again by enemy units

Two way hostility with civilians

To make a civilian a potential target to other sides, you can either:

• make the civilian a renegade by using the addRating command. This will make him a renegade, meaning an enemy to everyone including other civilians.

_civilian addRating -10000; // will cause sides to shoot civilian, but not civilian to shoot back - for that, use setFriend

• make the civilian join an enemy group, e.g east:

private _eastGroup = createGroup east;
[_civilian] joinSilent _eastGroup;

Set in the editor

1. Group your civilians with an east leader
2. Delete the east leader on mission load:
   • Put deleteVehicle this in the officer’s initialization field.
   • Alternatively, set the probability of presence slider of the officer to zero.
3. On mission start, the east leader will not be here but the civilians will be on the east side.

Code used to generate the tables: Show text

private _func = BIS_fnc_sideIsFriendly;
private _sidesAsString = ["east", "west", "resistance", "civilian", "sideAmbientLife", "sideUnknown", "sideEnemy", "sideFriendly", "sideEmpty", "sideLogic"];
private _sideResults = [];
{
	private _sideAsString = _x;
	private _side = call compile _sideAsString;
	_sideResults pushBack ([_sideAsString] + (_sidesAsString apply { [_side, call compile _x] call _func }));
} forEach _sidesAsString;

private _result = "{{| class=""wikitable"" style=""text-align: center""\n|-\n";
{
	_result = _result + "! [[" + _x +"]]\n";
} forEach _sidesAsString;
{
	private _results = _x;
	{
		if (_x isEqualType true) then
		{
			if (_x) then
			{
				_result = _result + "| {{Checkbox|yes}}\n";
			}
 			else
			{
				_result = _result + "| {{Checkbox|no}}\n";
			}
		}
		else
		{
			_result = _result + ("| [[" + _x + "]]\n");
		}
	} forEach _results;

	_result = _result + "|-\n";
} forEach _sideResults;

_result = _result + "|}";

_result;