Enemy radar detection triggering.

[StrongHarm]

Reviving this thread to ask if there's been any work on a "unit detected by radar" or "unit locked by enemy" trigger. This would be great for training exercises in NTTR.

[nomdeplume]

Reviving this thread to ask if there's been any work on a "unit detected by radar" or "unit locked by enemy" trigger. This would be great for training exercises in NTTR.

At some point they added the Detection functions, which you can use to get insight into what units a particular group "knows about".

 

Attached is the script I use (no dependencies) which might give you a starting point, and in simple cases may be all you need. It gives the ability to set a flag when a particular group (usually an EWR or SAM) "knows about" enemies. By default it only cares about detecting player-controlled units, but you can pass it "detectAI=true" to make it also detect AIs.

 

There's a few other options, like only setting the flag after a certain period of time, or ignoring units outside of a particular range or zone. Documentation (such as it is) is in a comment block at the start of the script.

 

Another function which I haven't seen working (though I've only tested it very briefly with a player-controlled Mirage; might work with AI units or other modules?) is this one:

 

boolean, Object function Unit.getRadar(Unit self)

which would be used as:

 

radarIsOn, trackedUnit = someunit:getRadar()

with the first return value (boolean) indicating whether the unit actually has a radar or not, and the second (an object) the thing the radar is interested in (presumably tracking/locked; nil if it's not tracking).

detection.lua

[xXMustangXx]

Hello,

 

Any new developments on this?

 

Thanks!

[Panthir]

EWRS Script simulates GCI Control with BRAH text messaging. It uses the Radar units.

[Avelis]

At some point they added the Detection functions, which you can use to get insight into what units a particular group "knows about".

 

Attached is the script I use (no dependencies) which might give you a starting point, and in simple cases may be all you need. It gives the ability to set a flag when a particular group (usually an EWR or SAM) "knows about" enemies. By default it only cares about detecting player-controlled units, but you can pass it "detectAI=true" to make it also detect AIs.

 

There's a few other options, like only setting the flag after a certain period of time, or ignoring units outside of a particular range or zone. Documentation (such as it is) is in a comment block at the start of the script.

 

Another function which I haven't seen working (though I've only tested it very briefly with a player-controlled Mirage; might work with AI units or other modules?) is this one:

 

boolean, Object function Unit.getRadar(Unit self)

which would be used as:

 

radarIsOn, trackedUnit = someunit:getRadar()

with the first return value (boolean) indicating whether the unit actually has a radar or not, and the second (an object) the thing the radar is interested in (presumably tracking/locked; nil if it's not tracking).

 

 

 

Hey do you have any how to's on using that attacked script?

I'm trying to create a mission where a flag is set to true when a blue flight (AI or player) is detected by red radar (AI SAM or AWACS for example).