how to make no nav zone inactive

[orca]

I'm trying to inactive a no nav zone.

The no nav zone is names Vagar SAM and the side is USSR. I tried this but it doesn't work.

ScenEdit_SetZone('USSR', 'Vagar SAM', isactive=false)

Thanks

[stilesw]

Hi Orca,

I've used this to accomplish what you are looking for:

First run this in the Lua console to determine the zone you want to set. In this case it was [5] for me

local a = VP_GetSide({Side ='Coalition'})
local z = a.nonavzones
print (z)
{ [1] = { description = 'No-Fly Iraq', guid = '1a4b27c0-8046-47aa-874c-061272b8a6d2' }, [2] = { description = 'No-Fly Lebanon', guid = '6b169452-f024-4b4e-8c42-88e945db6d4e' }, [3] = { description = 'No-Fly Syria', guid = '36adbdc7-47ee-467f-961d-0b695f707a4a' }, [4] = { description = 'No-Fly Egypt', guid = 'f6dc7a7b-21b7-448e-bb74-80fe4b536c7d' }, [5] = { description = 'Bunker Zone', guid = '9619cdea-3078-479a-bbe5-b5ea81565b63' } }
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Once you know that then you can set the specific zone with this Lua code:

local a = VP_GetSide({Side ='Coalition'})
local z = a.nonavzones
local n5 = a : getnonavzone(z[5].guid)
n5.isactive = true

You can use the last line to turn the zone both on and off.

Hope it helps,

-WS

[orca]

thanks. got it to work!

[BeirutDude]

local a = VP_GetSide({Side ='Coalition'})
local z = a.nonavzones
local n5 = a : getnonavzone(z[5].guid)
n5.isactive = true

Wayne,

Just used this code. TY!!!

[KnightHawk75]

If you don't know (added\remove on the fly) or otherwise don't want to lookup the index\guid ahead of time.
-- Takes string sidename, string zonename (name or guid of the nonavzone),setting as true|false
-- returns true if the change took place, otherwise false on error detection or bad parameters.

Code: Select all

 function setNoNavStatusOnSideByNameorGuid(theside,zonename,setting)
   fn="setNoNavStatusOnSideByNameorGuid(): ";
   if theside ==nil or zonename ==nil or setting==nil then print(fn.. "invalid params, aboring."); return false;end
   if type(theside) ~='string' or type(zonename) ~='string' or type(setting)~='boolean' then print(fn.. "param of invalid type, aborting"); return false; end
   local retval,s = pcall(VP_GetSide,{Side=theside});
   if (retval ==true) and s~=nil then
     local z = s.nonavzones 
     if (z ~=nil) and #z > 0 then 
       for i=1,#z do
         if z[i].description == zonename or z[i].guid == zonename then
           local retval,nz = pcall(s.getnonavzone,s,z[i].guid);
           if (retval ==true) and nz~=nil then nz.isactive = setting; return true; end
         end
       end
       print(fn.. "NoNav zone " .. tostring(zonename) .." not found.");
     else
       print(fn.. "NoNav zone " .. tostring(zonename) .." not found.");
     end
   else
     print(fn.. "Side " .. tostring(theside) .. "not found.");
   end
   return false;
 end
 

setNoNavStatusOnSideByNameorGuid("Coalition","No-Fly Egypt",false)
setNoNavStatusOnSideByNameorGuid("Coalition","No-Fly Syria",true)