Problems with coalition.addStaticObject()

[Atari800XL]

Ahoi,

I have a little trainingmission where a carrier spawns randomly around the marianna-island. Some other ships are randomly spawned aroud this carrier, everythings looks fine, see atachment.
Now I want for randomly place some Hornets on the deck of the carrier. If the carrier is not "late activation" everything works fine, there appear some Hornets. But without "late activation" I cannot spawn the carrier using MOOSE randomly in one of my placed zones.

I spawn the carrier randomly with MOOSE:

local carrierSpawn = "CARRIER" .. math.random(1, 999)
BRC = math.random(1, 359)
local SP = SPAWN:NewWithAlias('CARRIER',carrierSpawn):InitCountry(country.id.USA):InitHeading(BRC):SpawnInZone(spawnZone, true)

The code I use to spawn some Hornet on my spawned carrier (it's part of an iteration, i is index, x,y,angle are from a randomized table of available positions on the carrier):

CGI = Group.getByName(carrierSpawn)
CGI2 = Group.getID(CGI)
local staticObj = {
  ["name"] = "Hornet_"..i,  
  ["livery_id"] = "vfa-37",
  ["category"] = "Planes",
  ["offsets"] = 
  {
    ["y"] = ypos,
    ["angle"] = angle,
    ["x"] = xpos
  },  
  ["type"] = "FA-18C_hornet",

  ["groupId"] = 1,		 
  ["unitId"] = 1,
  ["y"] = 0,			 
  ["x"] = 0,			
  ["heading"] = 0,
  ["linkUnit"] = CGI2,  
  ["linkOffset"] = true,
  ["dead"] = false
}
coalition.addStaticObject(country.id.USA, staticObj)   

BUT this only works with a static placed carrier. When I initially spawn my carrier with MOOSE the addStaticObject-function doesn't work.

Has anyone a hint for me to use addStaticObject ON a MOOSE-spawned carrier? 

A dump of all units filtered for the carrier looks like this:

2024-02-19 17:41:25.611 INFO    SCRIPTING (Main): #DBG# iterate CARRIER#001 ID:1002638		-- spawned one
2024-02-19 17:41:25.611 INFO    SCRIPTING (Main): #DBG# iterate CARRIER ID:1				-- originally "late activation" one

Credits, Greetings and Thanks go out to @Adalla for his great dynamic deck templates, I desperately try to use his way of spawning static units in my training-mission!

thanks and best regards,
Andreas

 

Edited February 20, 2024 by Atari800XL

[Grimes]

Link unit would be the unitId of the carrier, not the groupId. Also the groupid and unitId of the static object should be unique, which you could comment out and allow DCS to figure it out for you or I'm sure there is some function in moose that would give you an unused id for either. Might also be a good idea to wait a tick or two before spawning the statics on the spawned ship. 

 

I'd have to look through my test code to see if I had made something to verify it works on spawned ships, pretty sure I did, but it wouldn't have used moose, so I can't help on that part of it. 

[Atari800XL]

The decoration is allready delayed:

if getFlag('randomDeckHornets') == 1 then
  timer.scheduleFunction(dekoDeck, {}, timer.getTime() + 10)
end

That would be great if you have something like this. 

I think I found the bug. This is from my little library.lua:

-- (list) getAllUnitnames()
-- returns a list of strings with all unitnames of the current map
function getAllUnitnames()
  -- 0 = neutral, 1 = red, 2 = blue
  local ret = {}
  for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getGroups(0)) do
    table.insert(ret, Group.getName(gp))
  end
  for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getGroups(1)) do
    table.insert(ret, Group.getName(gp))
  end
  for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getGroups(2)) do
    table.insert(ret, Group.getName(gp))
  end
 for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getStaticObjects(0)) do
    table.insert(ret, StaticObject.getName(gp))
  end
  for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getStaticObjects(1)) do
    table.insert(ret, StaticObject.getName(gp))
  end
 for i, gp in pairs(coalition.getStaticObjects(2)) do
    table.insert(ret, StaticObject.getName(gp))
  end
 
  return ret
end

I allways handle with groupID's ... omg. But for now I have to move to the office

Edited February 20, 2024 by Atari800XL

[Atari800XL]

And finally ... it works!

My solution to get the ID of (MOOSE-)spawned carrier:

local carrierSpawn = "CARRIER" .. math.random(1, 999)
local BRC = math.random(1, 359)
local allZones = shuffleList(inListLike('CSZ', getAllTriggerZones())) -- shuffleList(), inListLike(), getAllTriggerZones() are self coded functions
local spawnZone = ZONE:New(allZones[1])
local SP = SPAWN:NewWithAlias('CARRIER', carrierSpawn):InitCountry(country.id.USA):InitHeading(BRC):SpawnInZone(spawnZone, true)
--
-- code,code,code...
--
local CGI = Group.getByName(carrierSpawn.."#001"):getUnits()
local CGI2 = CGI[1]:getID() -- ID of the carrier

The attachment shows un-randomized parking hornets.

Edited February 20, 2024 by Atari800XL