hold position and resume after 60 secs...

[chromium]

Hi all,

 

I'm builing a chunk where a defined group will start to move to a defined point "tgt", but I want them to stop if they get in LOS with any enemy units in the range of 5000 mt. Then, after 120 seconds they will try to resume the route but if again in LOS with an enemy they will hold again.

 

The routing part is ok (MIST), the LOS part should be ok (MIST, I will check if any entry "vis" exist every 61 seconds. if yes, than execute the "hold" chunk).

 

There if LOS exist I need a chunk that command "hold" position for the group, and then stop the hold condition after about 60 seconds, but I'm not familiar with inserting task or similar by code.

 

Another way could be a command that set speed of the group to 0 for 60 seconds.. but... I don't really like this way (cause hold could also be customizable in formation).

 

 

May I ask if someone of you have already done something similar to this hold function by script?

[chromium]

found this changing the search parameters in the forum:

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1926110&postcount=78

 

now tell me that this will work and make me feel very stupid, please... If Yes I'll simply need to schedule the resume function ever 60 secs.

[ENO]

If I'm reading what you want to do correctly I guess you'd just need a "time since flag" and action "Group resume."

[chromium]

Yes but I won't do that with trigger cause it could be applied to more than 300 groups, in different times, besides another logic :) that command movement start, and must work on more than 1 mission edited by more than 1 people every two weeks.

[mwd2]

what, if you use the function

timer.scheduleFunction(FunctionToCall functionToCall, any functionArgument, Time time)

 

something like

 

local function hold()
   for n=1, #AllGroundGroups do
      ..check of LoS
     if LoS true
     ...   
   return timer.getTimer() + 120
end

timer.scheduleFunction(hold, nil, timer.getTimer() + 120) 

[chromium]

ok that's a practical suggestion. I may add hold() as a generic function and then load it in my group movement script.

 

but why you wrote this: return timer.getTimer() + 120 ?

 

it's already in the timer.scheduleFunction, isn't it?

 

thanks for explanation :)

[chromium]

Hi all,

 

I prepared the function but it does not work:

(groupXname and range are defined at function launch, DGWS is a table of function already working for other functions).

 

DGWS.StopMovLOSwEnemy = function(groupXname, range)

 

local IsLOSwEnemy = false -- is there a better way to do not create a global variable?

for _,unitData in pairs(mist.DBs.aliveUnits) do

if unitData.groupName == groupXname then

 

local OwnCoalition = unitData.coalition

local unitsTable = unitData.unitName

local inLOS = {}

 

if OwnCoalition == "red" then

inLOS = mist.getUnitsLOS({unitsTable},2,{"[blue][vehicle]"},2,range)

elseif OwnCoalition == "blue" then

inLOS = mist.getUnitsLOS({unitsTable},2,{"[red][vehicle]"},2,range)

end

 

if next(inLOS.vis) ~= nil then

IsLOSwEnemy = true

trigger.action.groupStopMoving(Group.getByName(groupXname))

end

end

end

 

end

 

 

I scheduled this function with MIST:

(groupToMove is a group name string)

 

mist.scheduleFunction(DGWS.StopMovLOSwEnemy,{groupToMove, 5000},timer.getTime() + 40,14400)

 

but the starting group move along the enemy even passing at <10 meters from it... (both has hold fire ROE option activated).

 

Any suggestions? :(

[chromium]

solved whitout using mist.getUnitsLOS :)