Not getting 'weapon' data for event S_EVENT_HIT on server?

[moggel]

I wrote some logic that tracks hits (listening to S_EVENT_HIT event) for scoring purposes and that logic also records weapon type, mainly to filter out anything that's not bullets. But I later realized that when I run the script on a server the `weapon` field is missing from the event. Is that by design and, if so, why? Is there a way to work around that, or ensure the data gets sent?

[Death Merchant]

How are you trying to get the weapon info?

Weapon = Event.weapon:getCategory()

Should return the value of the category.

https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_Class_Weapon

Do you mind sharing your code? I have built something similar using S_EVENT_HIT to record kills. Sometimes you need to do some error handling such as:

if Event.initiator.country ~= nil then

[Zeagle]

It appears that S_EVENT_HIT returns a table with a key labelled "weapon". However, that key has a value of nil.

It does return a key labelled "weapon_name" with a string value equal to the name of the weapon.

Maybe @Grimes or whoever maintains the hoggit ref can update it. 

 

You can do a simple check on the "event" table with the Lua pairs function to see what is returned by the event.

 elseif event.id == world.event.S_EVENT_HIT then     

 

        trigger.action.outText("S_EVENT_HIT\n", 10, true)

        for k,v in pairs(event) do

            trigger.action.outText(string.format("%s\n", k), 10, false)

        end

[Grimes]

You need to check for its existence first. It is inconsistent in returning in MP, but it can return. In SP it is much more consistent. 

[Zeagle]

Thanks for the clarification. I do all my programming for MP.  

Your hoggit scripting reference is invaluable.

Edited February 9, 2024 by Zeagle