Script DB

[TwoLate]

I am learning the LUA and scripts. Am I missing something here? I do not see the P-51 in DB.

 

Thanks

[RagnarDa]

What DB do you mean?

[TwoLate]

What DB do you mean?

 

In Mist 3.2 Like in the Examples of DB.

I was thinking I need the P-51 syntax in the DB to use the P-51 in script but I guess the group name would work.

[TwoLate]

Never mind I think this scripting is way over my head to create.

Thanks

[RagnarDa]

Well I hope you keep digging at it. :) Maybe I'm missing something or missunderstood your, but there is not any different syntax for any specific aircraft model (like the P-51 or MiG-27). There are however different syntaxes for the different types: units (which are individual units) or groups (a collection of units of the same general type: airplane/helicopter/ground unit/naval; these are flights for aircraft, task forces for naval and platoons/companies/whatever for ground units). Hope this helps.

[Grimes]

The mist DBs are simply an easier way to access or search information already available to scripting engine within the mission file. Each DB is unique based on the contents of a mission file and the example DBs attached to the script are all from the same mission file we used to create the files.

 

Like RagnarDa said each group type is formatted somewhat differently but for the most part they are quite similar. For the sake of example... say you want to run the same script on every P-51D in your mission file.

 

for index, unitData in pairs(mist.DBs.unitsByCat.plane) do
if unitData.type == 'P-51D' then
	myP51DFunction(unitData.unitName)
end
end