Run a script file via a script?

[exil]

Gents, 

I kindly ask for your help here. I am looking for a command via mist or moose or dcs core script to run a script file when something happens.

I have a script that will run some missions randomly when a helicopter lands into a FARP. 

Everything fine so far, but for simplicity reasons I rather would like to script something like:

If helo lands at FARP - do script file (mission 1)

I really can't find the lua command for 'do script file'. 

Thanks in advance! 

[toutenglisse]

3 hours ago, exil said:

...I really can't find the lua command for 'do script file'. 

Thanks in advance! 

For example here is a command I use to load a lua file to get a payload :

local WMPayloads = dofile("CoreMods/aircraft/AH-64D/UnitPayloads/AH-64D_BLK_II.lua")
WMPylons = WMPayloads["payloads"][2]["pylons"]

But you can probably also put each of your mission script inside a function, for example : function mission1(), in the same whole script, load the script at start and then call the function you want when you want.

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

yeah sounds like you could just wrap the missions in a function and then just call that function from within a loaded file using a miz trigger, only lines that are outside a function will be done when you load the file

filewithmissionsitit.lua

function startmission(whatmission)

-- arg1 is the mission to run

if whatmission == 1 then

--do mission 1 stuffs

trigger.action.setUserFlag(1,true)

end

 

if whatmission == 2 then

--do mission 2 stuffs

trigger.action.setUserFlag(2,true)

end

end

 

then if you wanted at anytime to trigger the flag to change just:

startmission(1)

but it sounds like you want to load a whole new miz, try adding the load miz as a trigger in the ME and tie it to a flag and then use the above to trigger each condition to then load a miz file. either way it should work just depends on your approach.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 23, 2022 by LFCChameleon_Silk

[exil]

41 minutes ago, toutenglisse said:

For example here is a command I use to load a lua file to get a payload :

local WMPayloads = dofile("CoreMods/aircraft/AH-64D/UnitPayloads/AH-64D_BLK_II.lua")
WMPylons = WMPayloads["payloads"][2]["pylons"]

But you can probably also put each of your mission script inside a function, for example : function mission1(), in the same whole script, load the script at start and then call the function you want when you want.

This is what I am looking for. Thanks a lot! 

I already did the latter in my current script. I wrapped each mission in a function and called it when needed. The problem here is, the script gets terribly long because I scripted like 10 mission into it. So, I would like to avoid losing myself in one single file. 

37 minutes ago, LFCChameleon_Silk said:

yeah sounds like you could just wrap the missions in a function and then just call that function from within a loaded file using a miz trigger, only lines that are outside a function will be done when you load the file

filewithmissionsitit.lua

function startmission(whatmission)

-- arg1 is the mission to run

if whatmission == 1 then

--do mission 1 stuffs

trigger.action.setUserFlag(1,true)

end

 

if whatmission == 2 then

--do mission 2 stuffs

trigger.action.setUserFlag(2,true)

end

end

 

then if you wanted at anytime to trigger the flag to change just:

startmission(1)

but it sounds like you want to load a whole new miz, try adding the load miz as a trigger in the ME and tie it to a flag and then use the above to trigger each condition to then load a miz file. either way it should work just depends on your approach.

 

 

 

 

 

That's even more simple! Sure, sometimes you are just blind for the simple stuff! 

Thanks a lot!