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I would like to inquire about implementing a Lua script in a scenario where a blue faction aircraft (e.g., E-2D) detects a red faction target (e.g., HIMARS rocket) and then guides a blue faction suicide drone to attack the HIMARS (to be placed in a special action). I am facing two challenges in Lua programming: 1) How to obtain the actual GUID of the enemy's HIMARS from the perspective of the blue faction, so I can use commands like ScenEdit_KillUnit({guid = unit.guid}); 2) How to write a script for the drone to rapidly fly towards the target.

Select the unit, in editor scroll down into the unit options or and amongst those menus there is copy GUID or from memory press Ctrl X and it should have copied the GUID for you to then paste wherever Text file etc.

I will check when I am near a machine but from memory getting GUID is straightforward.
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You can obtain the guid for attacking a contact from its Contact Wrapper

Note that for AttackContact function you must use the Contact GUID and not the Unit GUID.

You can create an event with a trigger on UnitDetected, use the filters on TargetFilter to only triggers the HIMARS detection, and then with ScenEdit_UnitC() that gives you the contact wrapper of the unit that fires the event, use ScenEdit_AttackContact() or create a mission to attack the contact using your drones. More info about creating triggers and events here: https://commandlua.github.io/index2.html#EventHandling


Attached a Lua example, the first part it's the setup of the scenario, and the second part it's the logic for the Event Creation and a the function to attack the contact. Create a new scenario, open the lua console and copy paste the script.