getting the ground height at (X, Z) coordinates ?

[super-truite]

I am making a little script to be able to generate missions from a new mission template I am making for my server.
I use this tool :

With which I can automate a bunch of things, but I have a last automation that I am missing:
Some objects like the smoke effects are not automatically sticked to the ground. 
It means that in each mission generated I will have to manually go to each smoke effect and click on the "stick to ground" button in the editor.
Being really bad for repetitive tasks, I am looking for a way to do it in my script. 
Is there for instance a way to unbinarize the height.dat file of the map ? I guess I could get it contain the data I need to get the height  of the ground?
Any other (even hacky) ideas ? Is there for instance some object that sticks to the ground during saving that I could use as a temporary object to evaluate the height ? I know most of the objects stick to it in game, but not in the .Mission file
 

[Sketch]

Hacky way - place a block entity in the mission where you want the smoke. Get the vector from the block, place smoke using the newly copied vector. Remove block entity from mission. Profit!

[super-truite]

great I feared there was no such objects . Thanks a lot, my dream of having to just move objects in the editor to generate a new mission is getting closer 

[Jaegermeister]

The effects MCU is still an issue. Unfortunately they reset to above ground level somewhat randomly whenever the group they are in is opened. I have not tested it enough to determine exactly how far above ground level they reset to, but I am convinced it’s a bug associated with the ability to raise the height level in the ME. It would require more testing and isolating the issue to be able to report it.

 

I still have to go back and manually reset the height on the final edit of each mission or I get floating explosions and smoke. For that reason, I try to keep effects in a separate folder and not open it once they are placed correctly.

 

 

Edited January 10, 2023 by Jaegermeister