Entering a 'Client' Unit Before Activation: Does It Generate an Event?

[deadyeti]

I am working on a placeholders script, a script which allows me to have placeholder static planes on the airfield parking until a player chooses the slot, at which point the placeholder is deleted. This allows the airfield to feel less abandoned.

The script works perfectly offline but, when the mission is being run on a dedicated server, there is enough delay between the player spawning and the placeholder being deleted that it causes the Client Unit to briefly collide with the placeholder unit which causes damage.

So, I thought of two possible solutions:

1. Somehow disable collision on the placeholder static units.
2. Set the client units as 'Late Activation' and have the script activate the unit after a short delay.

Sadly, I had no luck with the first solution. I decided to try the Late Activation workaround but since I was using "S_EVENT_BIRTH" for my script, it doesn't fire and the unit is not activated. So my question is, does entering a Late Activation unit create an event? I know it causes a message to appear to the client about the flight being delayed, but I'm not sure this is linked to an event.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Rudel_chw]

You might want to take a look at the "StopGaps" script of @cfrag, which does exactly what you want. To work in MP it does require a small script to be run in the server:

 

 

[deadyeti]

48 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

You might want to take a look at the "StopGaps" script of @cfrag, which does exactly what you want. To work in MP it does require a small script to be run in the server:

 

 

I am doing this as a project to learn LUA, so I've been avoiding other scripts and frameworks like MIST and MOOSE. That does look like it works exactly like mine, minus the server-side script, which is what I'm trying to avoid. I will mark this as solved as there does not seem to be a way to do what I want without server-side scripts. Thank you for the reply!