towns.lua

[davidp57]

Hi,

I'm the main maintainer of a set of lua scripts, in which we manage named points.

Until now, I've been getting town coordinates data from the terrain makers by parsing the towns.lua file provided in the terrain folders, and using them to populate a database of known points.

In the Sinai map, however, this file is empty.

Is this because it's not yet ready, or did it become obsolete with the new map technology?

 

[chromium]

I would also like to know about this, if there's an answer, cause some of us modder uses towns lua data

[davidp57]

Anything? Bumping this thread up in hope someone will notice it.

[cfrag]

On 9/21/2023 at 9:12 AM, davidp57 said:

Anything?

I've been monitoring this interesting thread, and now I have to ask, fearing that the answer is "no" since you mention that you parse the luas. So, after I tried myself and failed, my question is this: 

Is the information available/encoded in towns.lua available during the mission's execution from SME (i.e. if yes, what table contains that towns information)? 

Edited September 28, 2023 by cfrag

[chromium]

No, but it' freakingly easy to import them cause that file is a simple table... you can basically copy and paste it to your sxript and then use the coordinate see functions to convert into a table of town names and vec3 position

[davidp57]

Well, yes, except for Sinai ^^

[chromium]

2 ore fa, davidp57 ha scritto:

Well, yes, except for Sinai ^^

This is not fun.

(it is, but it's wrong to admit it XD)

[chromium]

bump, at least to get an answer of any type. (i.e. won't be done here, or won't be done in any future maps cause it's not needed anymore, etc)

[OnReTech]

On 7/20/2023 at 4:48 PM, davidp57 said:

Hi,

I'm the main maintainer of a set of lua scripts, in which we manage named points.

Until now, I've been getting town coordinates data from the terrain makers by parsing the towns.lua file provided in the terrain folders, and using them to populate a database of known points.

In the Sinai map, however, this file is empty.

Is this because it's not yet ready, or did it become obsolete with the new map technology?

 

I asked this question to the support, I'll let you know how they answer me, thanks

[chromium]

Il 3/11/2023 at 07:47, OnReTech ha scritto:

I asked this question to the support, I'll let you know how they answer me, thanks

Any news @OnReTech? Thanks

Edited November 17, 2023 by chromium

[Sulfa]

On 11/3/2023 at 12:47 AM, OnReTech said:

I asked this question to the support, I'll let you know how they answer me, thanks

@OnReTech Its almost been a year. Anything?

[okopanja]

Would be interesting to know if place search for NS430/Ka50 still works on this map...

Edited May 19, 2024 by okopanja

[chromium]

19 minuti fa, okopanja ha scritto:

Would be interesting to know if place search for NS430/Ka50 still works on this map...

 

Is this related to the topic? Didn't knew that the towns.lua file is a prerequisites for them to work.

 

[okopanja]

19 minutes ago, chromium said:

Is this related to the topic? Didn't knew that the towns.lua file is a prerequisites for them to work.

 

Very relevant: if the function does not work in any of these modules you can claim 100% legal bug report for the map.

E.g. I have both modules, but not the Sinai.

Also, yesterday I added towns.lua info to my own mod, and read about file missing today. I optimistically executed towns.lua without checking for file presence

Edited May 19, 2024 by okopanja

[cfrag]

Good news: the Aug-09 update added towns.lua, containing some 730 entries.

Yay!

Oh, and I also found a way to access that file from SME in a fully sanitized DCS, good stuff!

Edited August 12, 2024 by cfrag

[cfrag]

Since a couple of interested souls requested this, here's my quick method to import a map's Towns.Lua file into the scripting environment (and adding map-local coordinates) without having to parse anything nor having to de-sanitize DCS:

twn = {}
function twn.start()
	-- get my theater
	local theater = env.mission.theatre 
	-- map naming oddities 
	if theater == "SinaiMap" then theater = "Sinai" end 
	local path = "./Mods/terrains/" .. theater .. "/map/towns.lua"
	-- assemble command 
	local command = 't = loadfile("' .. path .. '"); if t then t(); return net.lua2json(towns); else return nil end'
	local json = net.dostring_in("gui", command)	
	if json then 
		towns = {}
		traw = net.json2lua(json)
		local count = 0 
		for name, entry in pairs (traw) do 
			local p = coord.LLtoLO(entry.latitude, entry.longitude,0)
			entry.p = p 
			towns[name] = entry
			count = count + 1
		end 
	else 
		trigger.action.outText("no towns accessible.", 30)
		return false
	end 	
	return true
end

twn.start()

 

[okopanja]

11 minutes ago, cfrag said:

Since a couple of interested souls requested this, here's my quick method to import a map's Towns.Lua file into the scripting environment (and adding map-local coordinates) without having to parse anything nor having to de-sanitize DCS:

twn = {}
function twn.start()
	-- get my theater
	local theater = env.mission.theatre 
	-- map naming oddities 
	if theater == "SinaiMap" then theater = "Sinai" end 
	local path = "./Mods/terrains/" .. theater .. "/map/towns.lua"
	-- assemble command 
	local command = 't = loadfile("' .. path .. '"); if t then t(); return net.lua2json(towns); else return nil end'
	local json = net.dostring_in("gui", command)	
	if json then 
		towns = {}
		traw = net.json2lua(json)
		local count = 0 
		for name, entry in pairs (traw) do 
			local p = coord.LLtoLO(entry.latitude, entry.longitude,0)
			entry.p = p 
			towns[name] = entry
			count = count + 1
		end 
	else 
		trigger.action.outText("no towns accessible.", 30)
		return false
	end 	
	return true
end

twn.start()

 

Nice, kind of annoying the nobody did enforce the naming consistancy.