Lua and the Operations Planner and Flight Plans

[thewood1]

Are there lua functions associated with the ops planner or the flight plan editor? I didn't see any in the github docs but didn't remember if any were listed in the release notes. I couldn't find anything or see any discussion on it.

[blu3s]

AFAIK the lua that was introduced it was in relation to the new terrain mask type and zones. In tiny release notes I found nothing related to the Operations Planner.

[thewood1]

Does anyone know if there is a plan to have lua support for ops planner or flight plans?

[michaelm75au]

It is on my list. Just need to figure out what exactly is needed.

There are already some Lua properties present in game which have yet to be documented.

[thewood1]

One of the key things is manipulating the phase. Being able to force a mission from satisfied back to another phase is something I would like to do. The other one is being able to adjust priorities.

[thewood1]

Is there any news on this topic?

[blu3s]

Next update will have the possibility to edit some elements of the flight planner via lua

[thewood1]

Is there an update on this?

[blu3s]

There's no official documentation yet since it's a work in progress but let me share some code here to illustrate how to access the flight plan of a mission:

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local mission = ScenEdit_GetMission('BLUE','STRIKE')
--List of flights
local flights = mission.flightlist
print(flights)
--1st Flight Course Table
local flight_1 = mission.flightlist[1]
print(flight_1.course)

You can change some of the WPs fields (latitude, longitude...) but I have not tested it in depth.

Time on target/station was also added to the mission wrapper, atm it only works for strike missions since for patrol you need to chek also the "Use Flightplans" settings.

I have submitted a ticket to link the introducion of a ToS to a Patrol/Support mission to automatically checks the "Use Flightplans", when this is implemented ToS through lua will work for all the missions.

[thewood1]

Thanks. Just getting back to this and will play around with it.