[WIP] MissionTools dll

[adonys]

there are two ways to do it atm:

1) this is the new one (haven't tested it yet)

//$reference parts/MissionTools/MissionTools.dll
using nsMissionTools;

mt = new MissionTools();
mt.MissionToolsInit(GamePlay, Time);

2) the old one (used by TEF in his server tool)

using nsMissionTools;

LoadDll();
mt = new MissionTools();
mt.MissionToolsInit(GamePlay, Time);

private void LoadDll() {
    try {
      //Load the new DLL from the specified path and set the current method to popCommand().
      Assembly a = null;
      a = Assembly.LoadFrom(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + @"\IL2ServerMasterLibrary.dll");
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      GamePlay.gpLogServer(new Player[] { GamePlay.gpPlayer() }, "ERR: Could not load MisionTools library!", null);
    }
  }

I also intend to add all the MP needed functions (to clean unused AIs, etc.)

Then I intend to release it for everyone, and use it to create a Dynamic Campaign Generator.

BTW, do you know any method to reference an AiActor from an AiAircraft (a simple one, not searching through all AiActors to find the one being that specific AiAircraft)? You can d it the other way around using (AiAircraft) AiActor or AiActor as AiAircraft, but how can I reverse this? I've asked naryv, but he hasn't responded yet..

[stillborn]

Thanks, this would be useful.

Originally Posted by adonys

BTW, do you know any method to reference an AiActor from an AiAircraft

AiAircraft is a class derived from AiActor, type casting works both ways, ive tested it like this

    public override void OnPlaceEnter(Player player, AiActor actor, int placeIndex)
    {
        AiAircraft ac = actor as AiAircraft;
        AiActor ak = ac as AiActor;
        GamePlay.gpHUDLogCenter(ak.Name());
    }

[adonys]

hmm.. I didn't thought it might work both ways.. I'll need to do some testing then, thank you

[41Sqn_Banks]

You can always cast from AiAircraft to AiActor but you can not always cast from AiActor to AiAircraft.

You can check if its possible to cast from AiActor to AiAircraft by this:

AiActor actor;
if( actor is AiAircraft )
{
    AiAircraft aircraft = actor as AiAircraft;
    ...
}

If the "as" operator fails it returns null. This can be checked by

AiAircraft aircraft = actor as AiAircraft;
if(aircraft != null)
{
   ...
}

Of course its not necessary to check the success of the "as" operator if the "is" operator was successful.

[adonys]

the problem was not with casting AiActor to AiAircraft, but viceversa.

[TheEnlightenedFlorist]

I'm assuming there will be documentation?

I'm assuming you're using Visual Studio? Unfortunately, Visual Studio doesn't include a nice html documentation generator. If you're not aware, there are several third party documentation generators. My favorite is Doxygen. It uses Visual Studio's xml files to produce html files that are fairly easy to navigate, but most importantly, it's very easy to use.

[adonys]

Of course there will be, I'll have to learn to use that Doxygen though