MIssion Scripting Tools (Mist)- enhancing mission scripting Lua

[patmath]

Hey guys i'm doing a large scale mission and here is my problem. I dont want enemy fighters to be up in the air right away so I checked the late activation box and did a trigger to start their task when I want… sô far so good. then when I splashed them they respawn after a certain amount like I want them to but they RTB without even engaging me or the ground units. here is what I set in the script: mist.respawnGroup('mig', true)

 

 

I started using mist this week so I am really not familiar with it yet but if someone could give me a clear answer it would be appreciated

 

Cheers

 

Pat

[patmath]

should mention that I set WP to the enemy fighters but they only fallow their route and RTB

 

Pat

[dooom]

is MIST respawn function working for AI flights? I havent used MIST in a long time so I wanted to check in... If I recall, the MIST respawn no longer would respawn wingpairs and their AI logic would not have them attack ... they would just fly merrily along...

[Wrench]

Dooom, it works fine, I use it all the time.

 

I am having trouble getting ground units to accept routes though. Is this broken?

[Grimes]

Have a sample of it breaking? Could always try 4.4.78 from development branch.

[Quadrafarian]

in the Oman Armour line 12 trigger.misc.getzone should be trigger.misc.getZone

[johnv2pt0]

in the Oman Armour line 12 trigger.misc.getzone should be trigger.misc.getZone

 

Thanks brother...it's always some mundane detail! On another pass, I caught another typo too...but unfortunately it still isn't working.

 

Grimes, I tried dyn spawning some Oman aircraft and that worked fine, so it's probably not a country problem...Idk what I'm missing now, but I'm just gonna close out these last couple posts to clean up the thread and get back with you guys after another 20hrs of frustration or so.

 

Thanks for checkin my work Quad

[Quadrafarian]

The script worked when changing country to USA, are you sure Oman has the ground units you're trying to spawn? Not at pc ATM to check

 

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[johnv2pt0]

Pulled the vehicle names directly form countries database. Tried changing to aggressors as well in testing since they have all assets.

[Quadrafarian]

Just tested it again and it works fine with USA or RUSSIA but won't spawn with OMAN

 

set to RUSSIA in attached mission. spawn from the F10 menu

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[johnv2pt0]

Interesting, so I guess it doesn't matter if the dyn spawned units actually belong to the country within the database. Thanks, much appreciated.

[Grimes]

Yeah you can spawn anything for anyone. Even works with weapons. To test it out I has spawned an Italian Mig-29 armed with Amraams. AI can us most weapon types even if players can't.

 

Sorry for the late reply, caught a touch of the flu and didn't spend a whole lot of time the last week or so on the computer.

[johnv2pt0]

Yeah you can spawn anything for anyone. Even works with weapons. To test it out I has spawned an Italian Mig-29 armed with Amraams. AI can us most weapon types even if players can't.

 

Sorry for the late reply, caught a touch of the flu and didn't spend a whole lot of time the last week or so on the computer.

 

 

Nice. No need to apologize, thanks for all the help and hope you're on the mend ~

[Zarma]

Anyone has been able to respawn a Reaper via MIST ? Crashing DCS each time. The same lines work fine for any other unit :

 

 

function MA_respawnJTAC()

 

MA_out('Another JTAC is on the way!',10)

mist.respawnGroup('JTAC1', true)

 

end

 

 

with

 

 

function MA_out(strOutText,outTime) -- function outputs text using the mist message system

 

trigger.action.outText(strOutText, outTime)

trigger.action.outSound("l10n/DEFAULT/radio 2.ogg")

 

end

 

 

Log attached.

dcs.log-20190122-111426.zip

Edited January 22, 2019 by Zarma

[Grimes]

When isolated it isn't crashing on that command.

 

Annoyingly the mission itself isn't wanting to load on my PC so I can't properly test it out.

[Zarma]

I can send you the mission but the script has more than 3700 lines so would be an hard work to find why it crashes. The JTAC is the only unit that crashes the game when respawning.

[EasyEB]

Does mist have a feature to check if a unit of a certain type is within a certain zone?

[Grimes]

You could build a unit table and pass it to getUnitsInZones.

 

For instance:

 

local units = {}
for uName, uData in pairs(mist.DBs.unitsByName) do
 if uData.type == 'F-14B' then
   table.insert(units, uName)
 end
end


local tomcatsInZone = mist.getUnitsInZones(units, 'dangerZone')

[EasyEB]

dangerZone.

[Zarma]

Ok found that if the JTAC is just orbiting, it respawns fine.

 

But if he has a tasking I sent via

 

local jtac = Group.getByName('JTAC1')

local target = Group.getByName('Red Target Group'):getID()

local Orbit = {

id = 'Orbit',

params = {

pattern = 'Circle',

point = unitSpawnZone,

altitude = 5000

}

}

jtac:getController():pushTask(Orbit)

 

local task = {

id = 'FAC_EngageGroup',

params = {

groupId = target,

weaponType = 2956984318,

designation = 'Laser',

datalink = true,

},

}

jtac:getController():pushTask(task)

 

local SetInvisible = {

id = 'SetInvisible',

params = {

value = true

}

}

jtac:getController():setCommand(SetInvisible)

 

local SetImmortal = {

id = 'SetImmortal',

params = {

value = true

}

}

jtac:getController():setCommand(SetImmortal)

 

And respawn, DCS crash. So I took off the "true" bolean and added an orbit tasking. But now it wont accept new taskings when new targets spawn.

 

Is there a way to respawn it with the original taskings, before it was modified with the getController():setCommand ?

 

 

Still working on it LOL

Edited February 16, 2019 by Zarma

[Space Cadet]

Hi all, I appear to have a recent issue in that the F10 menu randomly doesn’t always show all my MIST items. E.g. it won’t show CTLD or CSAR options. (But "current JTAC" will show) Jump out of that Huey into another aircraft or into spectators then back into the same Huey and it’s fine. Other times it all works fine from mission start. (Single and multiplayer)

Been trying to resolve this for a few days now with no luck but last night I was on a different server with a different mission and someone else told me they have the same issue on other servers and missions that use CTLD and CSAR (and obviously MIST)

I’ve down loaded all new MIST & CTLD & CSAR file and reloaded them just to check that one of my changes to the files wasn’t the culprit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Have an outstanding day all. :-)

[Grimes]

Those menus aren't added via mist, they are just using the standard scripting engine functions to do it.

[Space Cadet]

Thank you Grimes, could you possibly suggest where I look to try and resolve this issue..?

Thanks again.. :-)

[ENO]

Edited

Edited May 27, 2019 by ENO

[guimcdo]

Hello all,

 

 

Since latest update, I think mist.ground.patrol function is broken, see attached the message.

 

 

What your feeling about this issue ?

 

 

Thanks