MIssion Scripting Tools (Mist)- enhancing mission scripting Lua

[chromium]

edit: sniped ;)

[NineLine]

Good call. No I have not tried that, testing.....

 

EDIT: That works perfect! Just set speed 0 and add one waypoint in the heading you want and set the height. The speed on the first waypoint can’t be set under 1 so with this you will not be able to change position. Thanks to SiThSpAwN, rep inbound.

 

 

Excellent, glad it worked!

[Cibit]

Useful hint:thumbup: Now if only my rep button worked I would spam you all:)

[FlightControl]

Updates to MIST3_2.lua

 

Hello Grimes,

 

I upgraded my mission to MIST 3.2 today from (my upgraded) MIST 3.1, which i debugged while making my mission. And my mission did not work anymore using MIST 3.2.

 

I recommend you add the following code in your MIST 3.2 file, and all will be okay. It is a dump from the unix diff tool, so the first is the line number and then the code. When you want to change, start from the bottom to the top, or the line numbers won't match anymore.

 

I also attached my updated MIST3_2_Sven.lua in case you find it more useful.

 

Line 1540

mist.DBs.units[coa_name][countryName][category][group_num]["communication"] = group_data.communication
mist.DBs.units[coa_name][countryName][category][group_num]["modulation"] = group_data.modulation
mist.DBs.units[coa_name][countryName][category][group_num]["frequency"] = group_data.frequency

Line 4460

elseif catName == 'HELICOPTER' and string.upper(groupType) == 'HELICOPTER' then
newCat = 'HELICOPTER'

Line 4629

newData.country = groupData.country
newData.task = groupData.task -- new
newData.communication = groupData.communication -- new
newData.modulation = groupData.modulation -- new
newData.frequency = groupData.frequency -- new

 

Hope you appreciate the update. Saw that you did some updates as i recommended in previous posts, but some we not done yet. So add these and it'll be fine.

 

 

Sven

Edited December 20, 2013 by FlightControl

[ENO]

Eh Sven... if you can forgive my ignorance but satiate my curiousity- will this enhance functionality or simply restore it? Is this a 1.2.7 adjustment?

[m9matt]

Hi Grimes,

 

Wondered if you had the chance to see if Mist 3.2 was ok to run in DCS 1.2.7? I tried the respawn, but was unable to get it to work.

[Grimes]

I have been using Mist 3.2 in 1.2.7 while I build/test a mission and assorted other stuff. However I have not tried using any of the spawning functions yet.

[m9matt]

I'll experiment a bit more when I get the chance. I tried an old mission from 1.2.6 and it seemed to work, so it may be me, and my experience with scripting.

[ENO]

MIST and the CTTS script are the only non-ED additions I use in any of my missions... are either of these considered mods that might interfere with the beta testing / reporting?

[alexej21]

Hello,

Any progress with scripting Set internal cargo for MP ?

 

Thank you.

[m9matt]

The mist.respawnGroup is working with Mist 3.2 in DCS 1.2.7. It seems the Mist file was missing, thought I had saved it, but it had disappeared.

[ENO]

Matt, I can't test it from where I am... but is the respawn working in the MP environment as well?

[m9matt]

Yes. I managed to shoot down a couple of Hurcs, and they respawned. I'm increasing the AI aircraft now, trying to make the skies busier for players :)

Edited December 21, 2013 by m9matt

[ENO]

Okay, thanks.

 

With this being said, however... many of the functions would work when I tested them in "fly mission" in the ME, or when I was looking from the server side in an MP session-

 

When I joined on another computer as a client, however, I found that they wouldn't work.

 

Have you tried testing as a client?

 

Sorry to harp on it- very curious as to whether or not these are working again on the client side.

[m9matt]

Hi Eno, tried it tonight with Panther 494th, and it seemed to work. Will do some testing tomorrow with more clients. Time to add more ai aircraft.

[ENO]

Cool matt... thanks for doing that.

[ENO]

Posting my killbox mission again. This is the one that used to result in crashing as soon as other clients joined (but it ran okay during the "fly mission" attempts.) The problem was originally seen as being the "group to random zone" function... and in the MP environment the vehicles would "de-sync" and eventually result in a crash.

 

Now it basically locks up right out of the gate...

 

00059.570 ERROR DCS: Mission script error: : [string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:4244: Unit doesn't exist

stack traceback:

[C]: ?

[C]: in function 'getName'

[string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:4244: in function 'f'

[string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:509: in function 'onEvent'

[string "Scripts/World/EventHandlers.lua"]:13: in function <[string "Scripts/World/EventHandlers.lua"]:11>

[C]: in function 'addStaticObject'

[string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:673: in function 'ConfigObject'

[string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:647: in function 'NewStructure'

[string "C:\Users\Eno\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS.openbet..."]:1552: in function 'CallSpawnLogistics'

[string "CallSpawnLogistics("blue", 8, "us supplies"..."]:1: in main chunk

 

 

I think this is more CTTS related since it seems to revolve around calling out the logistical pieces at the mission start.

Eno's Killbox.1.2.7.miz

[Grimes]

Something changed with how static objects are handled as birth events which is causing an issue with the mist code because it doesn't completely support adding dynamically spawned objects to the mist DBs. I'll tidy up mist 3.3, add the required fix, and release asap.

[ENO]

Cool grimes - thanks. Looking forward to the fixes/ improvements!

[pappavis]

HELP. How do i determine the bearing from one unit to another?

mist.getBRString doesnt work, its not returning anything, and also not executing code thereafter.

 

My init code;

local unitpos = unit:getPoint()

local playerpos = playerUnit:getPoint()

 

local tblBrinfo1 = {playerpos , unitpos, true, true}

local sPos4 = mist.getBRString( tblBrinfo1 )

 

mist.message.add({text = ´target bearing´ .. sPos4 , displayTime = 5, coa = {'all'})

 

Problem -- the mist.message isnt executed. Why?

Edited December 27, 2013 by pappavis

[pappavis]

HELP. How do i determine the bearing from one unit to another?

mist.getBRString doesnt work, its not returning anything, and also not executing code thereafter.

 

SOLVED with this 1-liner. :pilotfly:

 

local playerpos = playerUnit:getPoint()

mist.getBRString{units = { 'Unit4' }, ref = playerpos, alt = playerpos.y, metric = true}

 

RESULT:

(Unit4) '329 for 66 at 4593'

 

The catch is, that the unitlist must be a single unitname string, passed through as table.

[Wine]

Help wanted for a pre damage script for the RNLAF Apache D

 

Hi,

 

I'm Wine of the Virtual Aerobatic Group from the Netherlands.

For several years we are virtualy demostrating the RNLAF Apache Demo in BS1/FC2 at VFAT.

We would like to move towards BS2/DCS-W with the demo and fly it at VFAT 2014 in BS2/DCS-W.

 

But, we have one big wish !

We want the Longbow radar removed from the Apache, because the "Dutch" Apache D's don't have these. ( In the past we could hide it within a Alpha Layer of the skin texture. )

I discovered that in DCS this aint possible, but the Longbow radar should be removeable by using a (DAMAGE ) script which is activated at mission start.

 

I need desperate help with a .lua script file (or text) to add to the mission trigger.

 

Below a few screenshots that should be helpfull,

 

The argument #53 in the model viewer example is set to -0.002 , that makes the Longbow radar to disappear from the Apache D model or any value below zero.

 

 

 

In the mission triggers damage can be edit to a unit ( in this case pilot#001 )

But, the trigger still needs an action .. ?

And I think, that's where I need the .lua script for the removal of the Longbow radar.

 

 

 

The damage.lua file in the "aircrafts" folder shows the argument #53 and more values.

(The AH-64A_cells_properties are used by the AH-64D too.)

 

 

 

A picture of the operational "Dutch" Apache AH-64D shows that they do not have the Longbow Radar.

 

 

 

The Apache Demo in BS1/FC2: If you zoom in closely towards the spot of the Longbow Radar, you'll see some small texture fragments left, but in flight you don't notice it to much ..

 

 

I really, really hope "Grimes", "Speed" or another .lua script able writer can help me !

 

Greets, Wine.

Edited December 28, 2013 by Wine

[ENO]

Thanks for all your help this year Grimes! Have a great new year and looking forward to future developments.

[number3]

@Wine

 

If I understand what you are trying to do, your trigger condition may be incorrect. With what you have the trigger will execute the script action only if the unit takes damage.

 

It sounds like you want to damage the unit so that the radar is gone.

 

You may want to use:

 

function trigger.action.explosion(Vec3 point, number power)

creates an explosion.

- point: point in 3D space.

- power: explosion power

 

Set your trigger once to execute when time is more than say 2 seconds and set the action to a script (or do script)

 

In your script you will want to get the vec3 position of your unit.

 

local unit_obj = Unit.getByName('name of your unit')

local vec3pos = unit_obj:getPosition()

-- Here you will need to experiment with the height of the explosion
vec3pos.z = vec3pos.z + 0.005 -- Try decimals or whole numbers

trigger.action.explosion(vec3pos, 1) -- You may want to try decimal numbers such as 0.3 to see if you can get a smaller magnitude

[Grimes]

Wine, aside from creating an explosion, which might not reliably ONLY damage/remove the longbow radar, there is nothing in the scripting engine capable of helping you.