Trying to get number of clients.

[AKA_Clutter]

Hi,

 

I trying to do something simple to get the number of clients.  I found the following MIST command mist.getUnitsbyAttribute().  Per the description on the Hoggit page, 

list = mist.getUnitsByAttribute({skill = 'Clients', coalition = "blue"}, 2, true)

should return a list of client IDs in the blue coalition.  I think this is a table, and the I use the "#table" to get the count of clients.  Or at least that is my thought.

 I have tried this (simple MP mission with just me in it) with the following script and it just returns "0".  I do load MIST first and then run this 10 seconds and 30 sconds after the mission starts.  

-- Simple test using MIST to get number of clients
local list = mist.getUnitsByAttribute({skill = 'Clients', coalition = "blue"}, 2, true)
local Num_Clients = #list
trigger.action.outTextForCoalition(2,"The current number of clients are: " ..  Num_Clients, 15)     -- Output snumber of clients

What ALL am I missing?  Do I need have MIST generate a table first?

[Grimes]

The skill as saved in the DB is "Client" not "Clients". You should also be able to pass "human" as a skill value and it will include any aircraft set to player and client. 

Me being me not using my own functions that I write you can easily get it from iterating a table yourself. 

local list = {}
for uName, uData in pairs(mist.DBs.humansByName) do
   if uData.coalition == 'blue' then
      table.insert(list, uName)
   end
end

 

 

[AKA_Clutter]

Thanks a lot for the FAST response!!

[AKA_Clutter]

14 hours ago, Grimes said:

The skill as saved in the DB is "Client" not "Clients". You should also be able to pass "human" as a skill value and it will include any aircraft set to player and client. 

Me being me not using my own functions that I write you can easily get it from iterating a table yourself. 

local list = {}
for uName, uData in pairs(mist.DBs.humansByName) do
   if uData.coalition == 'blue' then
      table.insert(list, uName)
   end
end

 

 

Thanks again for this.  Gives me something to pick apart and learn from.

[Wrecking Crew]

Hi AKA_Clutter,

Grimes and others helped me develop some client detection scripts that I use a lot.  See the scripts in the attached doc.  

Most of the time I use the client detection to initiate the action in my missions... 

Enjoy!

WC's Script & Mist Examples.lua

[AKA_Clutter]

On 4/14/2023 at 9:01 AM, Wrecking Crew said:

Hi AKA_Clutter,

Grimes and others helped me develop some client detection scripts that I use a lot.  See the scripts in the attached doc.  

Most of the time I use the client detection to initiate the action in my missions... 

Enjoy!

WC's Script & Mist Examples.lua 33.68 kB · 4 downloads

Hi Wrecking Crew.  

Sorry for the late reply.  Thanks for sharing.  I worked up something based on Grimes reply and it seems to work, but doesn't seem to be as elegant as yours.

 

I will look at yours as it does a lot more than mine, and I know I can learn some lua in doing so.

Thanks again.

Clutter