Warehouse control functions

[MarcosR]

Just here to say "Thank you".. I had a very very long and buggy code working around this that now I can remove..  now persistence of airbases will work like a dream...

[Dzsekeb]

34 minutes ago, Pikey said:

the string is
weapons.missiles.AIM_9

for the 9M. It's an anomaly for sure. Once you have a look at the print out from the warehouse it should be easy to use. hth.

Yes, if you go through all 700+ entries in the table returned by the warehouse, and cross reference them to all potential loadouts for AI, you can figure out which names do not match the ones returned by getAmmo(). 

Also you ignore pods and fuel tanks and racks, because although they are warehouse items, getAmmo will never return them. 

If you do all this, you can then track spawns and despawns of AI aircraft, to compensate for any weapons they remove or add, checking if weapon names are part of a list of names that should be corrected.

Or, ED could add a checkbox to groups, call it 'ignore warehouses', and make them behave exactly like when they start from air, or from ground, outside the range of a warehouse.

[Pikey]

Very aware of the limitations of getAmmo(), thanks. It was reported on these forums several years ago, I don't have any info I can give you about that - its been discussed in Moose discord and these forums many times over the years. I'd suggest creating your own thread for your idea on the checkbox so that it doesn't get lost in this warehouse thread, thanks!

15 minutes ago, Dzsekeb said:

Yes, if you go through all 700+ entries in the table returned by the warehouse, and cross reference them to all potential loadouts for AI, you can figure out which names do not match the ones returned by getAmmo(). 

Also you ignore pods and fuel tanks and racks, because although they are warehouse items, getAmmo will never return them. 

If you do all this, you can then track spawns and despawns of AI aircraft, to compensate for any weapons they remove or add, checking if weapon names are part of a list of names that should be corrected.

Or, ED could add a checkbox to groups, call it 'ignore warehouses', and make them behave exactly like when they start from air, or from ground, outside the range of a warehouse.

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Edited August 16, 2023 by Pikey

[chromium]

Thanks a lot! 

DSMC will be ready tomorrow to update it's warehouse tracking up to the new features , finally getting rid of the getAmmo() limitations about pods, fuel tanks and RMS real time resupplies 

[IndyNavy]

All hail lord grimes! 

[rurounijones]

Excellent update. Thanks to all involved, hopefully this will add some more gameplay loops for the transport degenerates.

Edited August 17, 2023 by rurounijones

[Saruman]

Does it work for carriers' warehouses, too?

Edited August 17, 2023 by Saruman

[antiload]

Can some kind soul do a little tutorial video on how this works for the lay person.  The concept seems very interesting 

 

Edited August 17, 2023 by antiload

[Mistermann]

1 hour ago, antiload said:

Can some kind soul do a little tutorial video on how this works for the lay person.  The concept seems very interesting 

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read through the thread.  I think this would be fantastic and show the value to a broader audience.  I big thanks in advance to whomever posts the showcase video.  

[MAXsenna]

43 minutes ago, Mistermann said:

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read through the thread.  I think this would be fantastic and show the value to a broader audience.  I big thanks in advance to whomever posts the showcase video.  

Not a video, but have you guys seen this? 

 

[ElementLT]

Yes! so going to love this for some logistics missions!!! Thank you so much for this!

[DD_Friar]

rEF THE VIDEO, gRIMREAPERS DID ONE ON THE wAREHOUSE CONCPET QUITE A WHILE BACK

 

[edineygomes]

 

 

For example, a truck arrives at a certain base and delivers 10 aim-9m and 12 more mk-82. Where I see the correct name of weapons, planes etc... Could someone create a mission for demonstration? I'm not a programming expert.

[phrogZ]

Thx ED !!! hope to see more API improvement like that in the future 

[eaglefirefly]

On 8/17/2023 at 11:26 AM, Saruman said:

Does it work for carriers' warehouses, too?

 

I believe so! I am testing it today for the Tarawa you basically use the name of what you want to access the resources of. That I presume includes ships. But I will edit this comment with my findings later.

EDIT - The answer is yes all you need to do is enter the unit name of the warehouse you want to access. I will add the relevant part of the cope snippet I used below

BASE:E("Fuel check running.....")

    local _tarawaairbase = Airbase.getByName('BLUE TARAWA')
    local _tarawawarehouse = _tarawaairbase:getWarehouse()
    local _tarawainventory = _tarawawarehouse:getInventory()

    

    local function dump(o)
        if type(o) == 'table' then
            local s = '{\n' for k,v in pairs(o) do if type(k) ~= 'number' then k = '"'..k..'"' end s = s .. '['..k..'] = ' .. dump(v) .. ',\n' end return s .. '}\n'
        else
        return tostring(o)
        end
    end

    if first_load == true then

        _deltawarehouse:setLiquidAmount(0,FuelArray[0])
               
        local _romediesel = dump(_romeinventory['liquids'][3])

        local _tarawajet = dump(_tarawainventory['liquids'][0])
        

        BASE:E(_tarawajet)

Result = BASE00000.function(100000)

Edited August 18, 2023 by eaglefirefly
adding result and code

[eaglefirefly]

18 hours ago, edineygomes said:

 

 

For example, a truck arrives at a certain base and delivers 10 aim-9m and 12 more mk-82. Where I see the correct name of weapons, planes etc... Could someone create a mission for demonstration? I'm not a programming expert.

Something like this would work, maybe have a look at MOOSE they have added the api to their codebase yesterday as a helper

if truckenterzone == true then

do the add fuel thing

end

Edited August 18, 2023 by eaglefirefly

[shagrat]

Setting inventory - actually being able to fill storages and fuel tanks by script commands - is a huuuuge step! Finally we can create real "convoys" that directly impact available ressources.

Thank you sooo much, for finally adding this feature. Total game changer!

[Stonehouse]

That's probably the most exciting thing I've seen for DCS for a long time. Presumably first bit of the ongoing dynamic campaign work by ED to the users' hands. Getting logistics going is a big part of the skeleton of a dynamic campaign. Plus it finally makes physical units possible rather than relying on the virtual supply system.

Edited August 19, 2023 by Stonehouse

[Saruman]

What about ammos sharing same name?

For example, looking at inventory, you have two distinct "Fuel Tank 300 gal": one is for F-16, the other one is certainly for F-14.

How can you refer to one or the other, considering that the F-16's droptank seems not to have an unique typename (the F-14's one is weapons.droptanks.HB_F14_EXT_DROPTANK)?

[funkyfranky]

Is a warehouse always associated with an airbase, FARP or ship?

Asking, because we also have static objects such as warehouse, ammunition depo, tank 1, tank 2, tank 3, which act as warehouses, which do not belong to an airbase.

Obviously for these, the warehouse cannot be retrieved with the airbase:getWarehouse(). According to hoggit , there should be a Warehouse.getByName() function https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_func_getByName. But that does not appear to work (not even for airbase warehouses).

[RogueRunner]

airbase:getWarehouse()

local  storage = airbase:getWarehouse("Goulet")

--storage=STORAGE:FindByName("Goulet")
storage:AddLiquid(STORAGE.Liquid.JETFUEL, 10000)

 

Why does this give me a attempt to index global 'airbase' (a nil value)
stack traceback: error?

 

EDIT: was using the wromg version of moose. 

Edited August 22, 2023 by RogueRunner

[Grimes]

1 hour ago, RogueRunner said:

airbase:getWarehouse()

local  storage = airbase:getWarehouse("Goulet")

--storage=STORAGE:FindByName("Goulet")
storage:AddLiquid(STORAGE.Liquid.JETFUEL, 10000)

 

Why does this give me a attempt to index global 'airbase' (a nil value)
stack traceback: error?

Ask a moose. Seem to be using their classes. 

[HC_Official]

@Grimes  Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you put into documenting so much of this stuff , many thanks man

[Shrike88]

Thank you @Grimes for all your work with this also.  Also @Pikey for jumping onto some scripting.  Would love to see this somewhat incorporated into Mist / Moose soon and make things a little easier to process for those of us like myself that is severely lacking in the coding / scripting department. 

[Pikey]

 

1 hour ago, Shrike88 said:

Thank you @Grimes for all your work with this also.  Also @Pikey for jumping onto some scripting.  Would love to see this somewhat incorporated into Mist / Moose soon and make things a little easier to process for those of us like myself that is severely lacking in the coding / scripting department. 

So there is the STORAGE class in MOOSE that @funkyfranky wrote for Day 1 https://flightcontrol-master.github.io/MOOSE_DOCS_DEVELOP/Documentation/Wrapper.Storage.html but this is the start of what MOOSE might do with it to join things up.
I did a warehouse persistance script, just saves your warehouse to file and reloads it:  https://forum.dcs.world/topic/332310-script-release-simple-warehouse-saving-sws/
@chromium is writing things now for DSMC https://dsmcfordcs.wordpress.com/ I Chromui He's pinging right now for feedback as he rewrites parts. I presume for all these people there are others doing the same.

It's going to take some time to make use of these because everyone is already established in workarounds and years of doing things a certain way. But in terms of using it, its some of the easiest things to use, you can make factories and supply chains that have physical presence.