measure time between events

[whitehot]

sorry if it's been asked before, but could not find it on the forum.

 

I'm making a simple mission for the hip (for the huey too, later) to improve the times I spend taking off, transit and land to deploy troops.

The idea is very simple, I turn on a flag as soon as I take off, then turn it off on landing in a certain zone.

On landing, a message displays the elapsed time.

 

My intention was to measure the time between flag 1 =on and flag 1=off, possibly up to tens of seconds.

 

Basically a stopwatch using the internal clock.

If it possible, I'd like to do this without scripting.

 

Also, if there is an even simpler way to accomplish this without using flags, I would prefer it.

 

I'm pretty sure that there must be a simple way, but can't find it in the mission editor.

 

Another thing that is not very clear to me is how to display the content of a "variable" (in this case, the elapsed time), in a "message to all" text.

 

Thanks in advance

Edited November 15, 2015 by whitehot

[Wrecking Crew]

Hi whitehot,

If you go to my WC Projects site and to the Mission Resources page, look at the file called WC's Flags.. At the bottom is a method to display flag values in text.

 

Another doc there is WC's mist examples. That has a lot of sample scripts that might help you get started. Also check out the Mist guide pdf.

 

WC

[Wrecking Crew]

You could turn on Flag 1 and have another event (Continuous?) that increments this Flag 1 -- that will run every second and should provide an elapsed time indication.

 

About a quarter way down in the WC's mist examples doc there is this that uses a timer --

--- old way
local units = mist.makeUnitTable({'RDR AGrp01-1'})
local flag = 10117
local zones = {'Gudauta Zone'}
local zone_type = 'cylinder'

local function unitsInZonesOnOff(result)
   local ret = mist.getUnitsInZones(units, zones, zone_type)
   if #ret == 0 and result == true then
       trigger.action.setUserFlag(flag, 0)
       result = false
   elseif #ret > 0 and result == false then
       trigger.action.setUserFlag(flag, 1)
       result = true
   end
   mist.scheduleFunction (unitsInZonesOnOff, {result}, timer.getTime() + 1)
end

unitsInZonesOnOff(false)

--- ^^^ old way

 

 

I'm not an expert on this stuff... but I hope this helps.

 

WC

[whitehot]

hey, nice site. I downloaded both the flags file and the mist examples. I believe I can make something out of this data, although I'm pretty basic when it comes to the mission editor - in fact I was thinking there was a way to read and display the content of flags.

 

As time is basically a "global variable" (as an example, in the scoring window you have very precise time stamps for every event) I'd think there's a way for the mission designer to access it directly.

 

thanx, best rgrds