Magnetic Declination scripting function

[Chump]

It would be great if we could get something in LUA for getting the magnetic declination of a given point on a map, like:

number GetMagneticDeclination(Vec3 point, number year)

 

[Chump]

ED did include this functionality with one of the last releases:

local magvar = require("magvar")
magvar.init(month, year)
magvar.get_mag_decl(lat, lon)

 

[Blackfyre]

On 12/29/2022 at 4:59 PM, Chump said:

ED did include this functionality with one of the last releases:

local magvar = require("magvar")
magvar.init(month, year)
magvar.get_mag_decl(lat, lon)

 

In what environment(export, mission) it available? AFAIK, in mission scripting we haven't `require` function.

By the way, thanks for finding. It is useful for mods.

[Chump]

8 hours ago, Blackfyre said:

In what environment(export, mission) it available? AFAIK, in mission scripting we haven't `require` function.

You would need to desanitize the DCS scripting environment to include this module.

[TEMPEST.114]

On 3/28/2023 at 8:01 PM, Chump said:

You would need to desanitize the DCS scripting environment to include this module.

Well that's just stupid... /facepalm