OutTextToUnit API

[rurounijones]

DCS has a plethora of OutText APIs.

* outText

* outTextForCoalition

* outTextForCountry

* outTextForGroup

But no ability to send outText to a single unit. This has massive impact on online mission design since it is one of the reasons mission makers end up making single unit groups which breaks wingman Datalink features, limits the callsign availability and increases the chances of callsign duplication.

It has also limited my ability to provide good integration for Speech-To-Text functions for hearing impaired / deaf players so that they can "listen" to OverlordBot and conversations going on in SRS.

Please implement outTextForUnit. It should be a copy/paste of outTextForGroup and a small code change to get a unit by id instead of the group and then check if this unit has the same id instead of checking if it is a member of a group.

This is a very simple change with a massive impact.

Edited November 21, 2021 by rurounijones

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

It is not as simple as you may think for doing this for individual units. 

We do have a feature request in for it, but I do not have any news to share currently. 

 

thanks

[rurounijones]

This API was added in DCS Open Beta 2.7.12.23362

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/news/changelog/openbeta/2.7.12.23362/