Greetings all,
I recently picked up a copy of DCS: FC3 and as a result have purchased nearly all mods available in a fortnight. What a fantastic simulation experience.
I have been creating missions over the past week and have spent many late nights working out how to make triggers work and so far I have managed to do simple things like randomise what ThreatFor I face and create triggers with the use of the radio items to get air support airborn and make them land when not required.
What I am chasing now is some information on Air insertion. I have made missions whereby a certain condition is met prior to the Helo's inserting troops to capture an INS Comd in a nearby town. The way I do this currently is by making a squad spawn with late activation, and linking their activation with the establishment of a cordon which puts the Hueys on a landing near the objective. I have the Infantry spawn 300 seconds after the cordon is established which at times can be messy due to the random landing pattern and different times of the helicopters. At times it looks near perfect whereas others they actually spawn a minute prior to the landing or a good two minutes after landing and a good couple of hundred meters from the Hueys.
My question is that I read about LUA scripts that spawn troops made by a member named GEL, is this currently working with the latest patch as his tutorial mission did not seem to work.
Secondly, I understand nothing about scripting but am trying to learn rapidly. Do I need to use scripts or do the flags and triggers in game work fine for accomplishing something like this.
Thirdly If scripting is a required knowledge for mission building, could someone put me in the right path for the beginners guide to DCS scripts.
Kind regards
