Help with Ground units

[Clayt]

So I have been getting to grips with the mission editor and have encountered a problem. The issue is that I can't seem to get ground unit groups to respawn once destroyed, aircraft on the other hand respawn just fine. For the aircraft I use this:

 

TYPE- Switched Condition

 

CONDITIONS- lua predicate if not Group.getByName('ENEMY CAP') then

return true end

 

ACTIONS- if not Group.getByName('ENEMY CAP') then

mist.respawnGroup('ENEMY CAP')

end

 

However, when I try exactly the same for ground units they never respawn. Does anybody have any ideas? Help is greatly appreciated.

[Clayt]

After testing this and looking at a few other threads I have found that although the ground units were destroyed they had to be deactivated before they would respawn properly. The problem is that I want to keep ground units respawning and the mission editor functions don't recognize them once they have respawned, from what I have read that means I will have to use mist to deactivate the new groups.

 

I'll definitely have to study lua coding in depth, sadly I feel I've got a long way to go yet but perhaps it's not as complex as I'm making it out to be?

[Grimes]

There is a bug that has caused us to code around it. Basically Group.getByName() isn't supposed to return anything if the group is completely dead, but it is, that is the bug. There is a work-around by using something along the lines of...

 

lua predicate: if Group.getByName('ENEMY CAP') and Group.getByName('ENEMY CAP'):isExist() == false or not Group.getByName('ENEMY CAP') then return true end

 

You don't actually need the if statement in the action because with the lua condition its already been proved true. So it could just be the mist command.

[Clayt]

Thanks for the reply Grimes, I have just tested that lua predicate condition you posted and I'm still having no luck getting it to work for the destroyed ground units.

 

Here is how I tried it for some tanks:

 

TYPE - switched condition

 

CONDITIONS - lua predicate: if Group.getByName('ENEMY') and Group.getByName('ENEMY'):isExist() == false or not Group.getByName('ENEMY') then return true end

 

ACTIONS - mist.respawnGroup('ENEMY')

end

[Clayt]

OK it seems like I've got it working, for the lua predicate I'm using :getSize.

 

CONDITIONS - lua predicate: if Group.getByName('ENEMY TANK'):getSize() < 1 then return true

end

 

I reckon that's as efficient as possible but my lua knowledge is lacking :surrender:

[Grimes]

Yeah that works. The problem is it appears that the isExist() function is now also bugged.