Reading the current task of an AI group?

[gromit190]

Hi,

 

 

I'm trying to read out the current task of an AI group.

 

I've the Controller for it, but I can't see a way to read the tasks for this controller (doc). I can only see how to set it, not get it.

 

local controller = Group.getByName("SomeGroup"):getController()

controller:getTheTasksOrSomething()

 

 

Anyone tried this before?

[Stonehouse]

Someone else may give you a better answer but looking through a _G dump from about 6 months ago you seem to be only able to set the task and not interrogate the controller to find out what it's current task is. There is hasTask but I think that is a Boolean to determine whether they have one or not. Is there another way of looking at it? ie spawn them with the appropriate task and then when an event/trigger condition happens give them a new one linked to the event? Otherwise you might need to have a table to record the task they are spawned with and then update it when they are given a new one. Probably worth doing a new _G dump using mist (see mist.debug.dump_G)

 

["Controller"] = table: 0000000061537EC0     {
   ["Controller"]["isTargetDetected"] = "function: 0000000061538410, C function",
   ["Controller"]["pushTask"] = "function: 00000000615380A0, C function",
   ["Controller"]["__eq"] = "function: 000000006153D1D0, defined in (24-30)",
   ["Controller"]["popTask"] = "function: 0000000061538140, C function",
   ["Controller"]["className_"] = "Controller",
   ["Controller"]["getDetectedTargets"] = "function: 00000000615384B0, C function",
   ["Controller"]["setTask"] = "function: 0000000061537F10, C function",
   ["Controller"]["resetTask"] = "function: 0000000061538000, C function",
   ["Controller"]["setOption"] = "function: 0000000061538280, C function",
   ["Controller"]["__index"] = table: 0000000061537EC0 already defined: ["Controller"],
   ["Controller"]["setCommand"] = "function: 00000000615381E0, C function",
   ["Controller"]["Detection"] = table: 0000000061538370         {
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["VISUAL"] = 1,
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["DLINK"] = 32,
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["OPTIC"] = 2,
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["RWR"] = 16,
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["IRST"] = 8,
       ["Controller"]["Detection"]["RADAR"] = 4,
       },
   ["Controller"]["__tonumber"] = "function: 000000006153D2C0, defined in (48-50)",
   ["Controller"]["__lt"] = "function: 000000006153D270, defined in (40-46)",
   ["Controller"]["parentClass_"] = table: 000000006153D360 already defined: ["Unit"]["parentClass_"]["parentClass_"],
   ["Controller"]["tonumber"] = "function: 000000006153D310, defined in (52-54)",
   ["Controller"]["__le"] = "function: 000000006153D220, defined in (32-38)",
   ["Controller"]["hasTask"] = "function: 0000000061538190, C function",
   ["Controller"]["setOnOff"] = "function: 0000000061537F60, C function",
   ["Controller"]["__newindex"] = "function: 000000006153D3B0, defined in (63-65)",
   ["Controller"]["knowTarget"] = "function: 0000000061538550, C function",
   },

[gromit190]

Thanks for the reply.

 

Even though it seems we can't figure out which tasks the group currently have, all I really need is to know if the group is stopped or not. To do that I'm simply compare the position of a unit in the group over a small time. I've got what I need for now.

[sunski34]

Hi,

 

the best way is to record tasks when setting them with controler.

 

Regards

Sunski

[gromit190]

Hi,

 

the best way is to record tasks when setting them with controler.

 

Regards

Sunski

 

Thanks! But even then, would you be able to tell which task is active for the group? If you assign three tasks to the group, how would you read out the current state?

[nbolton]

FYI, hasTask always returns true even when the task wasn't set correctly (at least when sending a FireAtPoint task to an MLRS M270). The fix for this seems to be to call setTask with a 1 second wait time.