How to check up on if Moving Zone works

[Mav87th]

Hi - been having a little trouble with flags inside a moving zone, and i was not sure the zone actually moved. So after some time with Grok I actually succeded in creating this script that will draw a circle with the radius of your zone in question in the mission (if its a square zone it just draws a circle with radius 100 meters). The script will then leave the drawing for 3 seconds, delete it and then redraw it with a new center on where the unit it moves with is now. You can alter the time between the updates to what ever you like.

The script is not dependent on Moose or Mist and i just run it with a Trigger (Once), Time More (5), DoScript and then paste the script below into the textbox.

local zoneName = "InitZone"  -- Name of the trigger zone you are examining
local refreshTime = 3  -- Refresh rate in seconds 
local baseMarkID = 10000  -- Starting ID for markers
local currentMarkID = baseMarkID  -- Track the current marker ID
local prevMarkID = nil  -- Track the previous marker ID to remove

local function UpdateMovingZone()
    -- Log that the function is running
    env.info("UpdateMovingZone called at time: " .. timer.getTime())

    -- Get the zone's current position
    local ref = trigger.misc.getZone(zoneName)
    if not ref then
        env.info("ERROR: Zone not found: " .. zoneName)
        return timer.getTime() + refreshTime  -- Retry after delay
    end

    -- Log zone details for debugging
    env.info("Zone found: " .. zoneName .. " at X: " .. ref.point.x .. ", Y: " .. ref.point.y .. ", Z: " .. ref.point.z)

    -- Remove the previous marker if it exists
    if prevMarkID then
        trigger.action.removeMark(prevMarkID)
        env.info("Removed previous marker ID: " .. prevMarkID)
    end

    -- Define the marker position (Vec3: x, y, z)
    local pos = ref.point  -- {x, y, z}
    
    -- Create a new circle marker with a unique ID
    local text = "Moving Zone: " .. zoneName
    local radius = ref.radius or 100  -- Use zone radius or default to 100
    trigger.action.circleToAll(-1, currentMarkID, pos, radius, {1, 0, 0, 0.5}, {1, 0, 0, 0.5}, 2, true, text)

    -- Log marker creation
    env.info("Marker created - ID: " .. currentMarkID .. ", Pos: X=" .. pos.x .. ", Y=" .. pos.y .. ", Z=" .. pos.z .. ", Radius=" .. radius)

    -- Update IDs for the next iteration
    prevMarkID = currentMarkID
    currentMarkID = currentMarkID + 1  -- Increment for the next marker

    -- Schedule the next update
    timer.scheduleFunction(UpdateMovingZone, {}, timer.getTime() + refreshTime)
end

-- Initial execution with a 5-second delay from mission start
env.info("Scheduling Moving Zone script to start in 5 seconds")
timer.scheduleFunction(UpdateMovingZone, {}, timer.getTime() + 5)