"Blank" Target...

[Sierra99]

Gents...

 

I want to try using some map objects as targets verses placing specific targets at a location...I looking for opinions on the best way to detect the target is destroyed. I've heard the "put a solider there". but I'm looking for something more elegant..

 

Sierra

[Eight Ball]

EDIT: nvm. I thought you were talking about static objects, sorry.

[feefifofum]

I believe there's a function built into MiST for detecting this, something like MiST.isMapObjDestroy; you will need the ID of the building you're testing for which I'm not sure how to acquire but hopefully that will point you in the right direction. :)

[Sierra99]

I was looking at using a zone trigger but the most function looks cleaner but how would I find the target ID.

[firmek]

Sorry for a short reply, don't have much time right now. Look up threads describing how to detect a bridge being destroyed. This should give you a good example. A crude and simple method is to place a small zone covering the target and check for bombs in zone condition. This approach follows a big assumption that if the target was hit, it was destroyed.

Edited March 8, 2017 by firmek

[EasyEB]

Yeah, I'd recommend against fiddling with bomb in zone. It's way to unreliable and only brings misery.

[FSFIan]

Note down the coordinates of the desired map object. In your mission script, use world.searchObjects to enumerate all map objects within 1 meter of that point and take the first (and hopefully only) result. You now have a reference to that object and should be able to check how much damage it has taken.

[dooom]

i use MIST for this purpose all the time with bridges.

 

First i place a zone around the bridge ot map object i am setting as my target... making sure to encapsulate only the map target of interest.

 

then i name the zone "bridge1" for example.

 

Then i use a trigger to check if any ap object is dead in that zone with:

do

mist.flagFunc.mapobjs_dead_zones{

zones = {'bridge1'},

flag = 10

req_num = 1

}

end

 

then once MIST sees a dead object in Bridge1 it will fire flag 10 as true ... then my last trigger is usually a text message once>flag (10) TRUE> message to ALL "Bridge has been destroyed"

 

i have also placed a zone around fuel depots at airfields and set the Mist flag to fire when 15 tanks are detroyed as an example...

[FlightControl]

If you're prepared to learn or try something else...

 

local HitZone = ZONE:New( "Bridge" )

HitZone:HandleEvent( EVENTS.Dead )

function HitZpne:OnEventDead( EventData )

. if EventData.IniObjectCategory == 3 then

. if EventData.IniUnit:InZone( self ) then

. MESSAGE( "Bridge dead", 15 ):ToAll()

. end

. end

end

 

 

Just written out of my sleeve. 9 lines of code.

If you're interested give a yell...

 

Fc