script loop in mission

[snowsniper]

Hi,

 

I need help for basic scripting

 

I would like that the more client player there are in the mission, the more transportable troops appears.

I've ever done it in duplicate the same trigger line for each aircraft with the condition "alive"

but here i need an other way to do it : something like that

 

My Flag '1000' is the number of "alive active" player :

 

with a do script :

 

do

local t = trigger.misc.getUserFlag('1000')

local i = 0

 

for i, t do

ctld.spawnGroupAtTrigger("red",4, "base", 5)

end

 

not working so far.

any idea or advice ?

[FSFIan]

1. The "do" at the beginning does not have a matched "end"

2. "for i, t do" is not a valid Lua statement. You probably mean "for i = 1, t do"

 

If you didn't know better, I recommend reading the Reference Manual for Lua 5.1, which is the version that is used in DCS. Read through the entire thing! You don't have to understand everything you read, but you will remember where you can look things up. Take it with you on your phone and read it at the bus stop, on the toilet, while waiting in line at the grocery store...

 

If you did know better but didn't spot the error, you should look into better ways to debug your code. I think your current solution should have generated an error message (either in a message box or in dcs.log). You may also be interested in the Lua Console in DCS Witchcraft (see link in my sig).

 

And don't despair, but, practice, practice, practice. At some point you will have made all of the typical errors a few times and you'll spot those within seconds.

[snowsniper]

thanks a lot for the ressource link and the advice.

I'll give it a try.

[snowsniper]

this works

 

do

local t = trigger.misc.getUserFlag('1000')

local i = 0

 

for i=1, t do

ctld.spawnGroupAtTrigger("red",4, "spawn4", 0)

end

end

[Quax456]

You can delete the initital declaration of

 

"local i = 0"

 

this is not neccessary within a "for" loop.

 

Regards