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I am trying to understand how to make a mod that captures information about units through the replay
Looking at the LUA documentation:
https://supcom.fandom.com/wiki/LUADOC_1.5.3599#User
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/engine/User/UserUnit.luadoes using User.UserUnit make it a UI only mod?
For the dump to file script
if unit is alive (using IsDead)
if it is dump a line to log that contains
GetGameTick
GetArmy
GetUnitId
GetPosition
GetOrientation
GetVelocity
GetMaxHealth
GetHealth
GetShieldRatio
IsIdle
UserUnitrepeat every X seconds.
Could dump some unit types info at a faster rate than others, depending on unit speed, or importance for instance.
Do sim mods have access to any files that are not the game log?
Could just add an identifier start charicter to each line of the game log however.
Data could then be put into a better datasctructure and compressed using other external tools / scriptingIs this much script to write? is anyone here able to do so? @maudlin27
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@nooby I’ve no experience with UI mods (only SIM mods), you could try in the FAF modding discord in terms of finding out what is possible: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/832710161847287819
You might need to set your roles to indicate an interest in modding to access the channelHowever if it was possible then most likely you’d need to write the code yourself (unless one of the modders was interested in doing the same thing)
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I have created the "Unit Logger" mod. It is in the mod vault. It is a UI mod.
EDIT - V2 Released with reduced decimal places and unit masskilled added
Logs information on every unit of of focus army every 10 game ticks, configureable in main.lua
Information logged:
"UL02","GameTick","EntityId","Army","UnitId","FractionComplete","Position.x","Position.y","Position.z","MaxHealth","Health","ShieldRatio","IsIdle","MassKilled"
WARNING: If you have 1500 units and an hour game expect gigabyte size logs.
It works in replays if you select the army of the player you require logging.
It requires UMT / UI Mod Tools / ui-mod-tools-4z0t-v12
Thanks for 4z0t for some of the code that makes this workThis data is not in an eficcient format at all - that can be done after the game has ended.
I need to look at logging all units from all armies at once when observer. i dont know if this is possible with a UI mod.
Example data:
info: UL02 GameTick EntityId Army UnitId FractionComplete Position.x Position.y Position.z MaxHealth Health ShieldRatio IsIdle MassKilled info: UL02 1350 321 1 uea0303 1 171.915 35.555 717.439 2300 1550 0 0 180 info: UL02 1350 421 1 uea0303 1 231.838 34.695 652.384 2300 300 0 0 482 info: UL02 1350 344 1 uea0303 1 109.883 35.376 720.888 2300 2050 0 0 45 info: UL02 1350 369 1 uea0303 1 142.596 38.140 688.592 2300 1300 0 0 45 info: UL02 1360 736 1 uea0303 1 111.701 36.286 717.892 2300 1550 0 0 270 info: UL02 1360 0 1 ual0001 1 108.207 25.830 920.259 11000 11000 0 1 0 info: UL02 1360 262 1 uea0303 1 98.083 37.232 730.919 2300 1550 0 0 450 info: UL02 1360 280 1 uea0303 1 97.939 36.571 708.237 2300 1050 0 0 90 info: UL02 1360 364 1 uea0303 1 145.077 37.485 686.651 2300 1800 0 0 225 info: UL02 1360 318 1 uea0303 1 142.312 37.525 684.928 2300 1550 0 0 360 info: UL02 1360 438 1 uea0303 1 196.809 37.850 668.522 2300 1550 0 0 433
