Need Help: make the SSE function working in ME environment

[chromium]

Hi,

 

I'm producing a mod for the ME, and partially it's a conversion of some utilities script that I wrote before to be loaded and work in the mission environment using some of the SSE function (i.e. getAirbases, getGroup, etc).

 

I need a way to have those function working in the ME environment. I already be successful in using dofile function inside the ME... so I simply need how to load those function.

 

PS:

 

using dofile(lfs.currentdir() .. 'Scripts/ScriptingSystem.lua') seems not working.

[chromium]

Ok I dumped the _G table in the ME environment... WTF, it's almost 535k lines. I also found a useful function to retrieve airbase data, but this function isn't telling me the coalition that own the airbase.

 

Any suggestion is appreciated, this airbase thing seems to be the most complicated issue.

 

Data I need from airbases + helipads:

 

1. Name (en)

2. Point (VEC2 or VEC3)

3. Airport Id / Helipad Id (unit ID of the static helipad structure)

4. Coalition owning the airbase/helipad

 

Those are almost the same information that you can retrieve from coalition.getAirbase function.

Edited June 3, 2015 by chromium

[chromium]

Small update:

 

-- build AFB & Country Tables
DAWS.fillAFBandCOUNTRYtable = function()

	--[[ coalitions
		0 = neutral
		1 = red
		2 = blue		
	]]--
	
	local coalitions = {}
	coalitions[1] = 1 --coalition.side.RED
	coalitions[2] = 2 --coalition.side.BLUE
	coalitions[3] = 0 --coalition.side.NEUTRAL

	AFBtable = {}
	for k = 1, #coalitions do
		for airdromeID, airdrome in pairs(MapWindow.listAirdromes) do
			local j = #AFBtable + 1
			AFBtable[j] = {}
			AFBtable[j].id = airdromeID
			AFBtable[j].coaId = 0 [color="Red"]-- XXX this should change with something that identify the coalition.[/color]
			AFBtable[j].name = airdrome.names.en
			AFBtable[j].pos = {x = airdrome.reference_point.x, y = 0, z = airdrome.reference_point.y} 	-- tmp[i]:getPoint()
			AFBtable[j].category = tmp[i]:getTypeName() [color="Red"]-- XXX not working[/color]
			local aDesc = tmp[i]:getDesc() [color="Red"]-- XXX not working[/color]
			AFBtable[j].category = aDesc.category [color="Red"]-- XXX not working[/color]
			AFBtable[j].ICAO = airdrome.code
			AFBtable[j].FrqUHF = airdrome.frequency[3]
			AFBtable[j].FrqVHF = airdrome.frequency[1]
		end
	end
   
   
end
--]]--

 

That code works gathering information for everything except the red lines.. which I need for.

 

I'm also looking for a "plan B", which is not using this function. What I need is to locate the airport / heliport* nearest to a given group, obviously of the same coalition.

 

* airport only for planes, airport or heliport for helicopters

 

Any suggestion?

[chromium]

ok solved using getNearestAirdromePoint, a me_db function :)