CSAR_MOOSE (BETA Testing)

Refactoring Ciribob's excellent CSAR script into Moose as object-oriented FSM

Testing

• You need a late activated infantry group ("Downed Pilot" below) to stand in for the actual pilot.

• Setup is currently in lines 186ff of this file, or you can use myCSAR.<setting> = <value> after instantiating the object.

• Test mission setup - the test missions contains a trigger to load the CSAR_Moose.lua from your drive. Edit the link to a fitting location.

• Once the mission is started and Moose is loaded, use the F10 menu to load the file itself.

• Apart from the class itself, the file contains the below setup at the end for a test mission.

• Watch the dcs.log with Notepad++ or the like for errors.

  local BlueCsar = CSAR:New(coalition.side.BLUE,"Downed Pilot","Luftrettung")
  BlueCsar.csarOncrash = true
  BlueCsar:__Start(5)
  

• Available options/defaults currently are:

    self.csarOncrash = true -- If set to true, will generate a csar when a plane crashes as well.
    self.allowDownedPilotCAcontrol = false -- Set to false if you don't want to allow control by Combined arms.
    self.enableForAI = true -- set to false to disable AI units from being rescued.
    self.smokecolor = 4 -- Color of smokemarker for blue side, 0 is green, 1 is red, 2 is white, 3 is orange and 4 is blue
    self.coordtype = 1 -- Use Lat/Long DDM (0), Lat/Long DMS (1), MGRS (2), Bullseye imperial (3) or Bullseye metric (4) for coordinates.
    self.immortalcrew = true -- Set to true to make wounded crew immortal
    self.invisiblecrew = false -- Set to true to make wounded crew insvisible 
    self.messageTime = 30 -- Time to show longer messages for in seconds 
    self.pilotRuntoExtractPoint = true -- Downed Pilot will run to the rescue helicopter up to self.extractDistance METERS 
    self.loadDistance = 75 -- configure distance for pilot to get in helicopter in meters.
    self.extractDistance = 500 -- Distance the Downed pilot will run to the rescue helicopter
    self.loadtimemax = 135 -- seconds
    self.radioSound = "beacon.ogg" -- the name of the sound file to use for the Pilot radio beacons. If this isnt added to the mission BEACONS WONT WORK!
    self.allowFARPRescue = true --allows pilot to be rescued by landing at a FARP or Airbase
    self.max_units = 6 --number of pilots that can be carried
    self.useprefix = true  -- Use the Prefixed defined below, Requires Unit have the Prefix defined below 
    self.csarPrefix = { "helicargo", "MEDEVAC"} -- prefixes used for useprefix=true
    self.template = Template or "generic" -- template for downed pilot
    self.mashprefix = {"MASH"} -- prefixes used to find MASHes (#GROUP Objects)
    self.autosmoke = false -- automatically smoke location when heli is near
  

• Known Issues

  * Takes >1min to board > 1 pilot
  

• To test

  * Hover boarding
  * Rescue on landing at/close to Airbase