Script to get artillery fire mode

[mecharius 2]

My community have developed / adapted existing tools to allow us to call in artillery "manually" without using the point and click artillery computer. The last piece of the puzzle is determining what mode the weapon is in without cycling through the modes (pressing the F button). I've tried a bunch of different weapon / muzzle / magazine functions but none seem to return me the fire mode (i.e. represented by the "TRV" value in the gun camera).

Does anybody know a scripted way to determine the fire mode of an indirect fire gun?

(We currently do this by pointing at something about 1km away and cycling through the F modes until the red "X" goes away)

[dr_strangepete 6]

the command currentWeaponMode will return a string-name of the current mode, in the case of the Mk6, it will return 'Single1', 2 & 3 - representing the selected range, which is modified by 'artilleryCharge' in the weapon's firemode config (scale of 0-1, 1 being full charge).

I'm not sure yet about getting the actual 'trv' value outside of the artillery computer (just time?). Also check out these commands: getArtilleryETA, inRangeOfArtillery and getArtilleryComputerSettings (returns mode, ammo type, and a third i am assuming is detonation height (all 0 except flare, which is 240...); works even if artilleryComputer is disabled)

Edited December 7, 2014 by dr_strangepete
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[mecharius 2]

Thanks doc, I'll try it out tomorrow and report back!

[mecharius 2]

currentWeaponMode works ok but is not very descriptive, but

getArtilleryComputerSettings select 0

does the trick. Thanks!