Is Group.getID broken for MP Clients?

[Steggles]

Ive got the following code in my script, it works in single player and works in MP when flying on the server machine, but fails with 'Group doesn't exist' when it comes to a client aircraft. Am I doing something wrong?

 

It fails on

local groupID = Group.getID(group)

only when it comes to a client aircraft. vec is a Unit object

 

if vec ~= nil and Unit.isActive(vec) then
    playerName = Unit.getPlayerName(vec)
    local group = Unit.getGroup(vec)
    local groupID = Group.getID(group) --Fails here on clients
    if playerName ~= nil then
         --Do stuff here
    end
end

[Stonehouse]

Think it was a 1.5 beta scripting issue. Perhaps it hasn't been fixed yet not sure but from the known scripting issues over in the 1.5 beta thread.

 

"31682 - Client groups not accessible in multiplayer."

[Steggles]

Ok. Thank you so much. This was doing my head in. I could not for the life of me figure out what was going on. Didn't think to check there.

 

Thanks again.

[Pikey]

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

Sorry just PM'd you this, then found the same thread. Glad you are on the right track, Check with Ciribob for workarounds. This is one of the more painful 1.5 bugs.