Adding AI tasks to cloned groups in LUA for FM homing radios

[atsmith6]

Hi

 

I've been banging my head against this for hours and am now solidly stuck :(

 

What I'm trying to achieve is the following:

 

I have a group that I use as a template:

Infantry - 3 triggered actions:

1 Set frequency 40.5 FM

2 Transmit Message(ELT-Tone, '', on)

3 Stop Transmitting

 

using MIST, I clone a troop from an existing group:

MI_active_group = mist.cloneInZone('InfTemplate', 'InfSpawnZone', true, 5)

 

then later I set an FM radio frequency and start transmitting a homing signal for a Huey to home in on:

local group = Group.getByName(MI_active_group.name)

trigger.action.pushAITask(group, 1) // Set frequency 40.5 FM

trigger.action.pushAITask(group, 2) // Transmit Message(ELT-Tone, '', on)

 

problem is that the cloned group doesn't seem to get the original group's triggered actions. Also, I can't find how to add these actions as new actions to the cloned group either.

 

I've looked at part 1 and part 2 of the scripting guide as well as many missions created by other scripters and have hit a brick wall

 

Does anyone know how to either add new AI tasks (specifically the three mentioned above) to a cloned group?

 

Any advice would be highly appreciated

 

Many thanks in advance