Someone willing to give a jumpstart for LUA steps?

Hi,

I published a couple of missions so far and would like to take my next missions to a new level by using LUA scripts. For starters I would love to have a simple script returning TRUE if an aircraft (myAircraft) is painted by SAM site's radar (myRadar) (preferebly the tracking radar).

I found snippets and a huge script, but both are a riddle as I have zero LUA experience so far.

Fear not, I am not a doofy, I earn my living with script programming. I just need a jump start for LUA/DCS. Any fine fellow mission builder willing to help and push me into the right direction?

Thanks

Carsten

Use get detectedargets...

I might have something you can use... Let me check in my scripts library.

Essentially, a loop doing getdetected targets, and comparing results to your aircraft... If.. then..., you know what I mean.

That'd be perfect :) Just an example how this getDetected works, I (hope) I can go from there :)

This is a short part of the detection script from Mbot. Very cool script.

ewrUnit = Unit.getByName("EWR unitname")

ewrCtrl = ewrUnit:getGroup():getController()

local DetectedTargets = ewrCtrl:getDetectedTargets(RADAR)

Detectedtargets returns a list of detected.units by Radar. (Check what detection method you want to use, visual, radar, what type of radar)

So, since detected targets is a table of detected units, now compare it with your aircraft of interest. You have to develop the script...

Something like

For a,, b in pairs (detectedtargets) do

If detectedtargets[a] :getName() = "my plane"

Then....

Something like that.

Hope it helps

I highly recommend anyone interested in DCS mission scripting to try MOOSE. I am a complete programming neophyte but am learning to develop some simple, yet powerful, scripts using the MOOSE framework. Check out some of the Youtube videos for setup and examples. The very helpful community hangs out at the MOOSE channel on Discord.

I highly recommend anyone interested in DCS mission scripting to try MOOSE. I am a complete programming neophyte but am learning to develop some simple, yet powerful, scripts using the MOOSE framework. Check out some of the Youtube videos for setup and examples. The very helpful community hangs out at the MOOSE channel on Discord.

+1

its so worth it. Just go through the included sample missions and it will make sense even if you (like me) have no clue about programming

edit: start with the SPAWN sample missions, a real eye-opener

Well that is true. I do want to get more involved in moose!!! I never find the right time!

Thanks for the help guys :)

Before falling back on something like moose, I'd like to figure out a few things on my own though :)

Guess I need to load a few sample scripts and go through them to see the correct syntax. But I am confident

I wouldn't use getdetectedtargets, as in my experience you can't get a useful unitname, or even a unitID from that.

When I tested it, I got something like

["id_"] = 167459

Can't remember the number but it was something like that.

The unit's actual Unitid was 2, lol.

I'd use istargetdetected, in which you give the unit you're looking for. This is a better solution if you're looking for one specific sensor seeing one specific unit, as it gives you "TRUE", so that's much simpler to use.

I wouldn't use getdetectedtargets, as in my experience you can't get a useful unitname, or even a unitID from that.

When I tested it, I got something like

["id_"] = 167459

Can't remember the number but it was something like that.

The unit's actual Unitid was 2, lol.

I'd use istargetdetected, in which you give the unit you're looking for. This is a better solution if you're looking for one specific sensor seeing one specific unit, as it gives you "TRUE", so that's much simpler to use.

You get a bunch of unit objects. This code adds the unit name to a table named msg.

           for i, detected in pairs(_u:getDetectedTargets()) do
               msg[#msg+1] = '     \n ' .. Unit.getName(detected.object)
           end