LUA Question: addCommandForGroup and MP player groupID

[stinkx]

Hi there,

I have been trying to get together a very simple range script but it seems i have hit a brick wall. Would appreciate any help.

 

We have two planes with pilot names (unit name)

unitNames={'DEBUG_P','MULE_P'}

then we have other functions for starting a run, finishing a run, reporting and resetting scores etc.

 

for simplicity i wanted to add start/reset/report to f10 to avoid dealing with zones etc.

 

here is the code that assigns those functions to each player's f10 menu seperately

function addFuncs(unitNames)
 for _,v in ipairs(unitNames) do
           local LunitName = v
           local unit = Unit.getByName(LunitName)
           if unit then
               local group = unit:getGroup()
               if group then
                   if not funcAddState[LunitName] then
                   trigger.action.outText('added functions to ' .. LunitName, 10)
                   local gid = group:getID()
                   if gid then
                     local _sub = missionCommands.addSubMenuForGroup(gid, "RUN" , nil)                    
                     for _,v in ipairs(targetNames) do
                       local txt= "Run " .. v
                       
                       missionCommands.addCommandForGroup(gid,txt, _sub , startRun, {LunitName, v})
                     end
                     missionCommands.addCommandForGroup(gid,"Reset Stats", nil, resetStats, LunitName)
                     missionCommands.addCommandForGroup(gid,"Display Stats", nil, displayStats, LunitName)
                     funcAddState[LunitName]=true
                   end
                 end
               end
           end
 end
mist.scheduleFunction(addFuncs,{unitNames},timer.getTime() + 5)
end

while

funcAddState={} --the list of planes who has the f10 menu added
for k,v in ipairs(unitNames) do
 funcAddState[v]=false
end

has been initialized at the start

 

 

now the problem is, when we get into the multiplayer, i am unable to feed groupID to the addCommandForGroup because

 

local LunitName = 'DEBUG_P'
local Lunit= Unit.getByName(LunitName)
local Lgroup=Lunit:getGroup()
return Lgroup

and

 local LunitName = 'MULE_P'
local Lunit= Unit.getByName(LunitName)
local Lgroup=Lunit:getGroup()
return Lgroup

returns

{
   "id_": 0
}

for both

 

any ideas on groupID of players during multiplayer, or on workarounds to the addCommandForGroup ?

 

 

PS:btw in singleplayer the proper ids of 1 and 2 are correctly returned

[Grimes]

Its a known bug that is quite annoying. Simply put none of the Group functions work on anything a client is in. It should work ok if the host is in the group.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=147792

 

31682 - Client groups not accessible in multiplayer.

[stinkx]

Thanks for the reply Grimes. Just to double check, this thing worked before 1.5 right?

[Grimes]

It should. It also works in 1.5 as long as its single player or MP as the host. I know its not ideal, but you can work under the assumption that something like that will get fixed.