[REPORTED]Bug 6 - Spawn vehicles as Hidden does not work

@ED,

There is an annoying problem with multi player in DCS, which we have been heavily investigating ourselves.

It has to do with hidden units or groups that are respawned. The units show up on the connected DCS World clients on the map view (F10), in a multi player setup, while they should be hidden on the map

When you flag a group as hidden in the mission editor, and run the mission in SP, all works fine. When you run in MP and connect through a client, all works fine. The group is hidden.

The problem starts when you "respawn" that group passing the exact same group definition structure as defined in the mission editor

(with the flag .hidden = true ).

In SP respawning of hidden groups work fine. The units of the group work fine after the respawn.

But when the same mission is run in MP, and connected with a client, the respawned units WILL show on the MAP (F10) and are not hidden!

Find attached the demonstration mission that illustrates this:

The mission is very simple. The blue tanks are set to hidden.

When the red tanks destroy the blue tanks, the blue tanks group is respawned into zone ZONEVEHICLE1.

When you run this mission on a server, and connect with a client, you'll see on the client side the blue units appearing after a minute or two (they first need to be destroyed).

The red tanks are set to "immortal" to they will keep on shooting an the respawned blue tanks.

This is what you see on the SERVER in MAP view (F10).

The units are hidden.

And this is the error: You see the blue units appearing on the client side!

Maybe this error has already been reported.

If not, please investigate and try to fix this.

The respawning is done with a mist function, just to make it clear.

But MOOSE and mist respawning methods have the same effect.

The issue is significant for those mission designers who want to show certain units but hide others.

kind regards,

FC

GRP-620 - Respawn MOOSE and MIST.miz

GRP-620 - Respawn MOOSE and MIST.lua

Also worth mentioning I tested the same with Mist.cloneGroup and MOOSE Spawn() but no other methods. I got the same results, the HIDDEN flag is not honoured for a client, and it is for the server. I'm not sure how or why

I can confirm this as well, it is annoying when you want some vechs to be hidden in MP and need them to resapwn when they are destroyed

Yup, reproduced and reported.

thanks grimes

Bug 6 - Spawn vehicles as Hidden does not work

It is not possible to spawn vehicles as hidden in MP. On the client they'll show up.

I've done a detailed bug report here:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=203759&highlight=spawn+hidden

Please do a fix.