cfrag Posted June 9, 2023 Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) Dear @OnReTech, Sinai has an incredibly helpful Quality Of Life feature in that it marks Helicopter pads with an H-Icon on the map. This allows players to orient themselves with a quick glance and mission designers to place assets there for interesting missions. Currently, thought, these helipads are not accessible through Lua by means of world.getAirbases(), meaning that they probably are not entered into the maps data base. I am currently in the process of writing a small "helper" utility function that would vector a helicopter pilot to the next helipad. For this it would be of great help if all helipad positions would be accessible from world.getAirbases() as a type 1 Helipad. Obviously, other, more complex scripts that unitize these would follow soon (I'm in the planning stages for an "Amman Air Taxi" server mission that would be made a lot more flexible and easier to design, not to mention future-proof should you add more heliports) So my request is this: please add all those fantastic "H"-marked heliports to the map's airbases DB, so we have a Lua interface. Thank you so much for a great new map, with so many possibilities. Edited June 9, 2023 by cfrag 2
OnReTech Posted June 9, 2023 Posted June 9, 2023 6 hours ago, cfrag said: Dear @OnReTech, Sinai has an incredibly helpful Quality Of Life feature in that it marks Helicopter pads with an H-Icon on the map. This allows players to orient themselves with a quick glance and mission designers to place assets there for interesting missions. Currently, thought, these helipads are not accessible through Lua by means of world.getAirbases(), meaning that they probably are not entered into the maps data base. I am currently in the process of writing a small "helper" utility function that would vector a helicopter pilot to the next helipad. For this it would be of great help if all helipad positions would be accessible from world.getAirbases() as a type 1 Helipad. Obviously, other, more complex scripts that unitize these would follow soon (I'm in the planning stages for an "Amman Air Taxi" server mission that would be made a lot more flexible and easier to design, not to mention future-proof should you add more heliports) So my request is this: please add all those fantastic "H"-marked heliports to the map's airbases DB, so we have a Lua interface. Thank you so much for a great new map, with so many possibilities. I will raise this issue with the developers of the TDK, I already thought about it, but now there is no such possibility. Now helipads are just models and icons in ME 1 2
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