Complete Transport and Logistics Deployment - CTLD

[Pikey]

But assume US Agressors have access if you put them as blue?

New version of the CTLD Script v.1.41 - 1.5 and 1.2 Compatible!

 

Make sure you have the new MIST 4.0.57 !

 

Change log:

• Early Warning Radar - Limited to Red Side. Now functions as AWACS after deployment
  
• Added AMMO truck for Red and Blue
  

 

Please see Readme and Github for latest code and how to use

Link:https://github.com/ciribob/DCS-CTLD

 

As always, please let me know if you have any issues or suggestions!

[Pikey]

CTLD is looking so good now, it's the core of any campaign work because its all about the mobile battlefield, capturing (and making) towns and airfields. The suggestion from Apo re the supplies was awesome!

 

By the way, that video...how good is your move to hovering, that was insane piloting!

[pdmarsh]

AI Transports Won't Pick Up/Drop Off Troops

 

I am unable to get the AI transports (UH-1H) in the attached mission to pick up and/or drop off infantry. This mission was originally created in DCSW 1.2 using CTTS.lua and has been converted to DCSW 1.5 using CTLD.lua and MIST.

 

In this new version, player transports can pick up and drop off without issue. It appears to be just the AI transports that won't work. As far as I can tell, I have used the proper naming convention for pickzones, dropzones and transport aircraft.

 

I will continue to experiment with this mission to see if I can get it to work, but if there happens to be something obvious that I am doing wrong, help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Paul

Operation Erase & Replace DCS 1_5.miz

[pdmarsh]

More on AI Transports

 

Since the mission I noted above was converted from DCSW 1.2 to 1.5, I tested a completely new mission created from scratch in DCSW 1.5. I used the CTLD and MIST lua files unaltered as they came with the CTLD download. Names used were as follows:

 

transport1

pickzone3

dropzone1

 

As the transport passes through the pickzone I do not get an indication that troops were picked up and none get dropped when the transport gets to the dropzone. The zones do have colored smoke, so the CTLD script file must have loaded.

 

The test mission that came with CTLD works fine, though.

 

Any help to sort this out will be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Paul

Spawn Test.miz

Edited December 1, 2015 by pdmarsh

[MTrenda]

PDMarsh,

 

you need to spawn some troops to pickup in pickzones3 using ctld.spawnGroupAtTrigger("blue", 10, "pickzone3", 0). It took me a minute to get this one also, I have been working on the Airmobile mission to get it running again. I have attached a corrected mission file.

 

thanks

 

76th Falcon

Spawn Test.miz

[Ciribob]

CTLD is looking so good now, it's the core of any campaign work because its all about the mobile battlefield, capturing (and making) towns and airfields. The suggestion from Apo re the supplies was awesome!

 

By the way, that video...how good is your move to hovering, that was insane piloting!

 

Thanks Pikey! I wasn't that happy with it though... landings were a bit hard! I've also had a lot of practice loading crates :D

 

Since the mission I noted above was converted from DCSW 1.2 to 1.5, I tested a completely new mission created from scratch in DCSW 1.5. I used the CTLD and MIST lua files unaltered as they came with the CTLD download. Names used were as follows:

 

transport1

pickzone3

dropzone1

 

As the transport passes through the pickzone I do not get an indication that troops were picked up and none get dropped when the transport gets to the dropzone. The zones do have colored smoke, so the CTLD script file must have loaded.

 

The test mission that came with CTLD works fine, though.

 

Any help to sort this out will be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Paul

 

pdmarsh - Thanks for posting the example mission as you've found a bug! :)

 

It came in in the switchover to loadable groups.

 

Attached is your mission which now works with a fixed CTLD and mist updated to 4.0.57.

 

Thanks for your help!

 

I'll do a release later tonight with the bug fixed for everyone

Spawn Test.miz

Edited December 1, 2015 by Ciribob

[pdmarsh]

@MTrenda -- Thanks for responding. This approach would work and I'll give it a try. I have only scratched the surface of CTLD capabilities and need to learn how to use the other commands.

 

@Ciribob -- I'm glad I was able to contribute and appreciate the quick response and fix.

 

Thanks,

Paul

[Ciribob]

New version of the CTLD Script v.1.42 - 1.5 and 1.2 Compatible!

 

Make sure you have the new MIST 4.0.57 !

 

Change log:

• BUG FIX - AI Couldn't automatically load troops from a zone. Introduced in the switch over to loadable groups.
  

 

Thanks again guys for your help testing and feedback. Sorry I didn't get round to this last night, didn't get back till late.

 

Please let me know if you see any more odd behaviour or bugs! Hopefully got them all now after the big internal change...

 

Please see Readme and Github for latest code and how to use

Link:https://github.com/ciribob/DCS-CTLD

 

As always, please let me know if you have any issues or suggestions!

[pdmarsh]

Change log:

• BUG FIX - AI Couldn't automatically load troops from a zone. Introduced in the switch over to loadable groups.
  

 

The fix worked perfectly!

 

Thanks again,

Paul

[Justificus]

Thanks, Ciribob, so far so good. Now to get to work on something with Nevada, wish I was a little faster using the ME than I am...

[msalama]

Do the embarked troops add to the gross weight of the chopper, BTW? Feels to me they don't, but I may well be wrong - as usually ;)

[ESAc_matador]

they dont.

[msalama]

they dont.

 

Roger that.

[Pikey]

Anyone tried CTLDin 2.0? There seem to be some *new* SE bugs in DCS with regards to unit ids.

[Ciribob]

Anyone tried CTLDin 2.0? There seem to be some *new* SE bugs in DCS with regards to unit ids.

Haven't tried it yet... How's it holding up? Are transported groups no longer working for triggers?

 

Thanks for the heads up :)

[chromium]

Anyone tried CTLDin 2.0? There seem to be some *new* SE bugs in DCS with regards to unit ids.

 

Can you please explain more? :)

[ESAc_matador]

It worked for me. I didnt put triggers, but....i can test it.

 

EDIT> Ok, it works fine, like always. It means, extracted units works activating triggers, since you assigned the group name to the trigger and not any unit name. What I see in 2.0 is that you cannot drop Infantry in top of the buildings, they spawn in the basement !!!! ehheeheh.

Edited December 6, 2015 by ESAc_matador

[Ciribob]

It worked for me. I didnt put triggers, but....i can test it.

 

EDIT> Ok, it works fine, like always. It means, extracted units works activating triggers, since you assigned the group name to the trigger and not any unit name. What I see in 2.0 is that you cannot drop Infantry in top of the buildings, they spawn in the basement !!!! ehheeheh.

Good to know. Thanks for testing matador!

 

That means that trigger zones probably use the group id (which stays constant in CTLD) making the unit id not such an issue.

 

Thanks!

[Looney]

What are the experiences on the multiplayer servers? no crashes with the script running on a server with 20-30 pilots?

[Ciribob]

What are the experiences on the multiplayer servers? no crashes with the script running on a server with 20-30 pilots?

 

We had 25 on a VSAAF training server running CTLD and it worked ok. :)

[pdmarsh]

C-130 Cargo Drop Functionality

 

There is something I would like to do in a mission, but I can't find an obvious approach using CTLD, so perhaps it's not possible. Upon landing, as a C-130 passes through a trigger zone, I would like it to drop a number of crates on the runway. Ideally these would be cargo crates that can then be moved by slingload with a Huey. Unfortunately, cargo crates can't be set to late/trigger activation in Mission Planner. Otherwise, that would be a very straight forward approach.

 

I found the following function in CTLD, but I'm not sure if it can be used with a "Do Script" instruction in Mission Planner:

 

"ctld.spawnCrateStatic(_country, _unitId, _point, _name, _weight)"

 

Is this a user-configurable function and, if so, is there an example of its use that is available? I believe I understand most of the parameters, but "_unitId" is one I'm not sure of. If this relates to the spawned crate itself, can the user assign such an ID?

 

Regarding the C-130, it would be great if it could be set to do a touch-and-go, immediately taking off after it drops its cargo, but this doesn't seem possible either. I tried getting it to fly just a few feet above the runway in a low pass, but I couldn't get it to go under 80 feet or so.

 

Anyway, any suggestions on the above will be appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Paul

[ENO]

I saw this and I thought it might help... not sure if crates are the same as other static objects or not?

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=154806

[pdmarsh]

I saw this and I thought it might help... not sure if crates are the same as other static objects or not?

 

Thanks ENO. Looks promising. I have to learn a lot more, though, to be able to use MIST functions. :(

 

Paul

[ESAc_matador]

Hello Ciribob.

 

I have a request, that I think, it would not be difficult to achieve.

 

I have seen many prisioners rescue, or kidnaping. So, it is easy to put an extractable unit somehwere to act as that prisioner. The problem is, if it is surrounded by enemy units, they will kill him. ANd if you put it in inmortal mode, they will shoot until they spend all the ammo.

 

Why dont make possible that red or blue units can pick up NEUTRAL extractables??

[Looney]

Instead of immortal, set the spawned unit to invisible, that way the bad guys can't see him but good guyes can. .