Missions, actions, and commands

[Thalassicus]

How can I set a unit to explore? I've been looking up the mission, action, and command functions... which seem to be rather sparse.

 

[MouseyPounds]

I know Unit:GetUnitAIType() will return UNITAI_EXPLORE for units like the AI starting warrior, but I don't know how to set it as there's no Unit:SetUnitAIType() available from Lua. I don't really know how those are set initially, but it's probably a combination of the Unit_AITypes and Unit_Flavors table entries.

The automated exploration from the Unit Panel seems to use Game.HandleAction(actionID) but since there are no other parameters, that probably only works on the currently selected unit.

 

[bmaupin]

This worked for me in Beyond Earth:

        if unit ~= nil and unit:GetUnitType() == GameInfo.Units["UNIT_EXPLORER"].ID then
            -- The last parameter has to be set to 1 for some reason; 0 didn't work
            unit:DoCommand(CommandTypes.COMMAND_AUTOMATE, 1);
        end