Multiplayer racing mission - Lua support script for Christmas

[virgo47]

Recently, I was involved in scripting duties for a racing mission. You can try these missions online if you check "Black Angels" or "AirRace" in the server list - a helicopter and a warbird flavour is available. (Here you can also get the missions from your track file, but perhaps we will have a link as well.)

Originally, the mission was full of triggers for each zone (there is a racing zone, kill zones and check zones you have to pass) and each player and it was also difficult to make it work for all clients independently. Imagine adding a new racer unit to a mission and setting all the triggers right. I said: "Hey, I can script a bit in Lua, I'll try to do a script for all these duties."

The result is published here: https://github.com/virgo47/dcs-files/tree/main/mission-editing/scripts/air-race

It supports both single and multi player, multiple players racing at the same time, and many other features. When you need a new racer, just add a group with a known (configurable) prefix. Add new killzones at will (with some prefix), or more checkzones that need to be passed. It also has a sub-second approximation, although the races script loop runs only once a second. And restart "voting". Altitude checks. Option to either kill unit or just softly disqualify it if it's out of bounds. And more.

And I talk about all this in the following video:

Merry Christmas to everyone and all the best to the New year!