mission logs (AType:8)

[JG4_Deciman]

Hi there

 

According to whatever I've found the AType:8 should be logged whenever a mission objective was touched (completed or failed)

 

My logs show the following line:

T:23883 AType:8 OBJID:863 POS(317124.0938,26.6398,285962.5313) COAL:3 TYPE:1 RES:1 ICTYPE:0

 

Usually that would mean: Objective with ID 863 was triggered, and everything else is not important here

Strange thing is:

In the mission file (.Mission), the id 863 is used by a 'MCU_TR_Media'

and that media was never triggered.

And the mission itself behaves like it should...

 

Could it be that either the dServer or the mission editor is renumbering in 2 different ways?

 

The procedure was the same on every test (and I've made several)

Opening the mission (editor)

Saving with new name

Closed Mission Editor (was not asked to save again)

Loading the new generated .msnbin with the dServer

and compared the logfile with the .Mission file by hand (text editor, not opened with mission editor again)

 

Deci

 

[JG4_Deciman]

Ok, it's getting even stranger....

 

Assuming the dServer is creating it's own 'id' for every unit

what makes searching for any id inside the mission file useless

next try was the position (x,y,z) available for the objective inside the mission file AND inside the dServer logfile.

But they are also different.

Not much different, but different enough to cause problems even when using math.round...

 

Deci

[coconut]

Numerical identifiers change every time a mission is loaded, making them in effect useless in the logs.

for the purpose of communicating info to an external script from a mission, you can instead damage some non-neutral entity that you hide somewhere far from the action, and that has a unique name. 

[JG4_Deciman]

Thanks.

Nice workaround, indeed...

 

Deci

[JG4_Deciman]

Ok, finetuning.

 

Use 'unique named objects' (tested with fake-vehicles, too)

Set entity AND set INVULNERABLE (lets them spawn without further damaging even inside forests or buildings)

Set 'enabled' OFF

Let them spawn when you need a log entry, only

To generate a log entry damage them some seconds later

Let them despawn afterwards.

 

So they need no resources except the few seconds they are active

and there is no need to hide them.

Logfile shows entry for spawning (AType:12) with the unique name

but entry will be shown only if unit was damaged or killed.

 

Deci

[-DED-Rapidus]

@JG4_Deciman, only events write to the logs: player's respawn (atype:10), game object's respawn when it is affected (atype:12) , take-off, (atype:5) and landing (atype: 6)- active events, if there is a need to pass to the logs about the triggering of some trigger in the game world, objects are used(for example, an airplane hitting the check zone). ID objects have the same numbers as block_array.