Creating a table filled with "fog of war" visible units

[chromium]

Hi,

 

I'm looking for a way to create a table, starting from MIST dbs, of all the enemy units that are or has been visibile in the F10 "fog of war" map.

 

At date, I need to store those information:

 

-Unit ID

-Group ID

-Unit Position

-LastUpdateTime (last time in seconds where the unit has been visible in F10 map)

 

I'm already ok about table structure, data update and duplicates handling... but... I'm almost blind about how to understand which unit is visibile on F10 and which are not.

 

Any suggestion? Thanks!

[vicx]

I would poll all friendly units and get their detected targets and then apply some filters depending on how rigorous I wanted to be.

 

for _,_group in pairs(coalition.getGroups(coalition.side.BLUE,nil)) do
   for _,_unit in pairs(_group:getUnits()) do
_controller = _unit:getController()
       _detectedTargets = _controller:getDetectedTargets()
	for _,_target in pairs(_detectedTargets) do
		_target = _target.object

		_detected, _visible, _distance, _type, _time, _last_position, _last_velocity 
		= _controller:isTargetDetected(_target,nil)
	
		if _visible then
		   AddVisible(_target,
                                          _target:getGroup(),
                                          _target:getPosition(),
                                          _timer.getTime(),
                                          )
		end

		if _last_position then
		   AddGhost(_target,
                                          _target:getGroup(),
                                          _last_position,
                                          _time,
                                         )
		end

	end
end
end

 

Yes you should replace coalition.getGroups(coalition.side.BLUE,nil) with a MIST DB.

 

Right now I am actually testing what the ghost unit icon in the F10 view actually means.

 

It is either that the unit type is unknown OR that the unit cannot be ranged. I doubt it has anything to do with unit visibility because the ghost moves instead of staying in last known position. I think we could actually improve on the F10 map and make a better FOG of WAR mode.

 

Share what you find Chomium.

Edited January 16, 2015 by vicx

[chromium]

Thanks for the hint, I'll check it asap and share result and code.

[chromium]

Still working on that, cause for other reason I need a lot more of information... at the moment I'm relying on my old code, that simply check LOS taking into account earth curvature and a fake "detection limit distance". (waiting for EDGE).

 

As soon as I got a working solution I'll post it here :)