threatLevelUtil
(For high level concepts about how to use Lua to write scripted tasks, please see VR-Forces User's Guide.)
Threat Level Utilities
Summary
Provides functions that rank entity entity types an a threat level scale. The threat scores are coded directly into the lua file. To view the scores, open the threadLevelUtil.lua file.
Usage
require "threatLevelUtil"
Function List
| determineLifeformThreatLevel (entityTypeString) | Find the threat score for a lifeform type. |
| determinePlatformThreatLevel (entityTypeString) | Find the threat score for a platform type. |
| determineThreatLevel (entityTypeString) | Find the threat score for an entity type. |
Functions
- determineLifeformThreatLevel (entityTypeString)
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Find the threat score for a lifeform type. Higher values are more threating.
Parameters:
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entityTypeString: (string) An entity type enumeration for a lifeform, e.g. "3:1:222:11:5:30:6"
Return values:
- (integer) Threat score from 0-100 that represents the threat level.
- (boolean) True if passed in type was a lifeform type.
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- determinePlatformThreatLevel (entityTypeString)
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Find the threat score for a platform type. Higher values are more threating.
Parameters:
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entityTypeString: (string) An entity type enumeration for a platform, e.g. "1:1:255:1:1:0:0"
Return values:
- (integer) Threat score from 0-100 that represents the threat level.
- (boolean) True if passed in type was a platform type.
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- determineThreatLevel (entityTypeString)
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Find the threat score for an entity type. Both platform and lifeform threat levels are returned (at least one will be zero).
Parameters:
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entityTypeString: (string) An entity type enumeration for a simulated object, e.g. "1:1:255:1:1:0:0"
Return values:
- (integer) The platform threat level
- (integer) The lifeform threat level
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