Greb

Hey Bahger I will give it a go and see what comes up or crashing down....so to speak! I am just starting to get the ME down so everything for me is a learning experience at this point!

OHHHHHHHHHH! Grimes! You just gave me a brain storm! Good Info.....but you're right that can really increase file size. If you used a hand full in certain situations it could be very cool!

I REALLY love the ME! I have really been studying up on it and so far the only limitations I have found is my imagination. I have been burying my nose into the GUI manual and I have learned a lot the past few days. You got your triggers and how to set them. Flags for starting groups. When to use a trigger zone, or when to use Group AI off or on, or is it better to use Group activate or Deactivate. The possibilities are almost unlimited. This mission is a CAS with JTACS. Insurgents are trying to gain a foothold in the city and you are assigned to provide air support. Same as the rest of my crazy missions. Lots of Airfield activity Taking off and returning to base. You need to pay attention to ATC. There is a lot of triggers in this one as well as Screen Messages....STAY ALERT AND STRICTLY FLY YOUR STEERPOINTS! This one took me about 10 or 12 hours to build, but only because I am still learning to set up the AI and what not. It's not a total war frame killer, it's a CAS flight with some ground action and you dealing with JTAC. A mission and a show at the same time. I mean I built the darn thing and it left me in awe after flying it. ED........I love you guys! LOL!!!! Give it a go fellas. Don't let me put you off if you are still a rookie with this mission. If you flew my other missions you can do this one no problem. I have been out of the Military for 25 years so my "Lingo" may be a tad off so I apologize for that. Give it a go and let me know what ya think. I have it set in the afternoon but if you really want a kick change the time of day to Dusk or Midnight. Very cool looking. I would leave the Time hold (Last box in the time line) alone keep it at zero and just change the hour of the day. For some reason it changes triggers in sim. ....or maybe I am missing something. Have fun and watch out for that Airfield Traffic! UPDATE! I went ahead and turned down the kill ratio for JTAC triggers in CAS Convoy Fina 02. Either mission is fine but the latter may be more flexible on kills and move you on to the next JTAC! Anyways have at it! UPDATE 2! WarriorX requested this in Multiplayer. So I created a 2 player and a 4 player mission. For those of you that use it online please let me know how it flies and if you find any flaws or needed/wanted changes. I set the all player aircraft adjacent to each other so you can look at each other while talking. Anyways! Have at it! UPDATE 3!! OK!!! I got took down the MP Mission and reposted a refined version of CAS Convoy MP 4. Just toss those two mp I posted away if you downloaded them. I am mainly a SP guy and I wasn't thinking Multiplayer! This one has all payloads for MP and the JTACs pop at same time in order to let all players hit something. Play it you'll see what I mean. This mission was really designed with Single Player in mind so it may be a bit off. Run it for me though fellas and let's see what we can do to improve it over all. That being said my next mission will be built SPECIFICALLY built with Multiplayer in mind! Had a nice little brainstorm and want to build it out in the ME! Hold on to your hat's fellas it's gonna be good! See Greb's Mission Revision Thread for files!

You are very welcome Tomcat! I am glad you enjoyed flying them as much as I did building them. I love that one. It's has a lot of Airfield Activity and it is relaxing. You are flying into the Black Abyss and it will really get you up to speed on IFR flight. Got even a better one on it's way!

Stanger I have noticed this also! Sometimes I will mark a target and it will be pointing 180 degrees the opposite. ...........bug maybe.......WIP ....not sure. Thanks for the input and glad you liked it! Got another mission on it's way. Glad you liked it Dane. My whole intent was to design something that was entertaining, realistic, and gives a learning environment. It also gives me the opportunity to learn the ME! Thanks again!

Hey Doc! From what I can tel JTAC will not recognize a static. You can assign it by manually clicking object in the JTAC action Column but he never calls it out. Have ran into this issue several time and I am currently working on getting around it! You can assign a map object to your flight, such as a bridge or building but not to JTAC. You could run a zone trigger message from ground unit letting you know they have a building or what not and then have a trigger pop smoke or what not on that object. Maybe I am just missing something. Let ya know if I get it worked out!

Glad you like it ragenoob. Been fun sharing missions with everyone. Good practice in flight and using the ME. Thanks again!

Sorry Bud! Loaded wrong one at first had to make a change. All is good now go for it!

Just had to throw this one out there fellas! Night JTAC flight with no moon. Flight is long and over water but it is for the most part IFR flying into the abyss. Set Airfield activity same as other JTAC Missions. Target is in remote area with no lighting. I like to turn off all my office lights and fly this one in the Dark. Make sure you are up on your instrument knowledge you will need it for this flight. No threats but a fun target in a cool location, and relaxing at the same time. Read the Mission Brief! Have fun and let me know how it works for ya! UPDATE! Sorry folks made a change at last minute and Sim didn't like it. Seems the CDU becomes confused if you name two Steerpoints the same. Anyways fixed it. SEE - Greb's Missions Revisions" thread to download Missions.

Not sure Moonshim! Doc may have the answer there. You could also go to Easy Communication if you just want to work on your JTAC skills! I beleive I have it set up that JTAC doesn't show up until you hit the trigger zone! .....I think!

Here is a new one for ya fellas! This one is a bit intense. You are retaking the city of Tbilisi. Russian Forces retreating. You can fit yourself in pattern to take off right after the C17A Lands. You need to get your Hog up and running pretty quick. I like to get to end of taxi way and watch the C17A land right in front of me. I swear I can feel the engines. There is a lot of hostile forces retreating from city area and Georgian forces are helping you take out retreating force. 30 mins into mission a JTAC pops up and request air support. WATCH your mission Clock. The trigger area is small. This mission is a combination of tossing rocks with a precise JTAC hit near the end. Couple of other little surprises too. Make sure you read the Mission brief! ....conserve your Rockets! Mission is a bit frame rate intense....just giving you a heads up, BUT lots of adrenalin! Good Luck! Retake Tbilisi.miz

You're very welcome skouras!

Thanks Doc! I get same result with GBU's. I am cooking up another one. Will try Jdams next. Need to add some dogfight action near target. Migs coming in with Eagles on the gaurd. Something that puts a show on and keeps you looking and distracts from matter at hand.

Thanks for the input Livebait! I think I like the atmosphere more then I do the bombing! LOL!!! Here is another little JTAC practice mission with a lot of LIVE atmosphere. JTAC will call 9 line for every target if you kill one per pass. Good for honing your skills. The targets are on city street and between buildings so you really have to watch how you turn on target. Starts from Ramp with a lot of distractions. The yard birds standing next to the Blackhawk is how I remember the ARMY, standing around talking shit! LOL!! When the F15 parks you are clear to taxi and take off. Think I got it timed about right. Have Fun, and let me know how it runs for ya!

Not sure bud. I noticed this to on the second units. I hit the first and couldn't get on the other. I think it still may be a WIP on ED's end.

Thanks ALLO! Hope you are staying dry down there in Australia! Really feel for you folks right now. Very disastrous weather you folks are having. I refined this mission. Sparkle is a IF pointer and you can see it when wearing your night vision. From what I can tell it highlights for the IF MAV's. I removed the second JTAC for this mission and refined the 1st target area. Now JTAC will assign each vehicle upon the destruction of the one before. 3 targets one for mavs one for GBU 12 and One for Cannon. I also cleaned up and added more traffic. Nal'chik looks to me to be a one way air strip. I place units but the sim runs the traffic. It looks to me like nothing lands at the takeoff end of the strip. Must be do to large city buildings. Anyways give this one a go and see how it runs for ya all! Thanks again. EDIT updated mission JTACmultiple02 1305 PST. Sorry I had to make a few changes. Down load again if having payload layout issue. ...Sorry about that!

ragenoob, I take it as meaning as soon as you come off hot or drop ordinance you leave area in direction stated by JTAC. Meaning Egress east....fly that direction off target. Still getting the editor down. After flying it several times I seem to loose the JTAC after the first target at both target areas. I guess you attack until all targets for eachy area are destroyed. Will try and clean it up some more and see if I can get the JTAC to be more active on other targets. Couple things I noticed about Nal'chik. There is a sink hole about half way to runway on taxiway.....don't stop rolling. If you are having problem with traffic...head for runway after the big transport parks. Two more A10's land and then you are clear to take off. Not sure if there are bugs but if the tower doesn't clear you, he never will. I will try and get another couple practice missions up today. Thanks for the input fellas.

Very Cool! Dreams are what makes life tolerable!

Did a lot of research this weekend on creating JTAC missions. There seem to be very few missions available to practice with. I took all I learned this weekend and created a JTAC practice mission. I am still getting the ME down but it is starting to come together. Was wondering if you fellas would give this one a go and let me know how it runs for ya. Want to know if I am getting it down and all. The Mission is at dusk in the summer. Take off point is Nal'chik. I have added incoming and outgoing traffic as well as some moving ground units. You will need to watch for Air traffic when taking off. Trying to give the whole mission of Living feeling....if you know what I mean. Trying to make it feel like you aren't the only living creature in the Crim. There is no rush to targets and there is no hard AAA or SAM threats. Just a relaxing mission in order to get your JTAC steps down. All comments welcome! *EDIT: Added a second mission with just one JTAC farther down in thread. SEE - "Greb's Missions Revisions" thread to download Missions.

Second that! Need to do the same with BS and FC2.

Yeah I noticed it too Diveplane! I remember reading they added it but when I took off I looked back and saw the trails. I thought....what the hell I didn't have smoke pods loaded!

Go to the patch section of main site and you will see the beta 4 patch.

Go to TrackIr in Device manager and update the driver.

I will never forget when Truck Driving Sims came out! I drove for about 20 years and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why anyone would want to simulate being a slow whale in a pond full of fast trout. I guess some people like that stuff. Of course they left out all the real stuff like sitting at the dock for 8 hours because your load isn't ready, or chaining up in sub zero weather in order to get to delivery point. Then there is the 2 am crap run to the truck stop and you are parked 300 meters from the restrooms. Now that is a pucker factor of 100!

LOL!!! I think the gaming industry is in the same boat (no pun intended) as Hollywood! .......they've run out of ideas!