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Hey, baltic_dragon, thank you for your response! Yes, I tried deactivate (but "Group Deactivate"), but for some reason it didn't work. The Tu shut down and it's crew were simply standing around. Plane and crew remained. No new Tu respawned. EDIT: okay, I remade the trigger and it works for first time, but second time the tu160 comes into the trigger zone, shuts down, crew disembarks and then nothing happens. Hm. EDIT #2: discovered something strange. Even though the trigger is continuous, the Tu will not trigger it the second time it seems. I also tried an "explode unit" trigger over a nearby lake and while the Tu exploded fine the first time, it didn't next time and just continued flying. So, basically, the continuous trigger ain't continuous. :(

An Idea: how difficult would it be to convert GCICAP to spawn CAS groups that would attack ground targets in trigger zones? Even if it means it would be a CAS-only script, instead of GCICAPCAS? Thanks EDIT: is a message in upper right corner about Combined Ops from this script or am I missing something?

I have a little mission in which next to the whole A-A combat I want a Tu-160 to fly from one side of the map to the other, pose as a little bait for the blue planes, and if it survives to respawn and do it all over again. I managed to get the plane to respawn by creating a zone in Krymsk and then: CONTINUOUS ACTION > UNIT INSIDE ZONE + UNIT'S SPEED LOWER THAN > EXPLODE UNIT second trigger CONTINUOUS ACTION > GROUP DEAD > DO SCRIPT "if not Group.getByName('tu160') then mist.respawnGroup('tu160', true) end" This works in it's basics, the problem is that the Tu160 explodes on Krymsk's taxiway and then the wreckage blocks the next Tu-160 from getting to the spot where it's supposed to explode so it can respawn again. Now I would really love it if somebody could tell me how I can get planes to respawn or even just die without exploding them or at least if there is a possibility to clean up the wrecks before the next Tu lands. Thank you!

Yup, Stonehouse's newest edit works in 1.5, thanks! :joystick: Now to get that blasted Spam-bait, er, I mean Tu-160, to start respawning after it lands. :(

Basically every time I turn on the '29's radar the game experiences noticable stuttering. It goes away as soon as I turn the radar off. It doesn't happen with IRST.

Got Lukrop's script working. What I basically did was take his script showcase mission, deleted or changed most of the stuff and kept only the basics that are needed for planes to spawn. Then moved the spawn points and cap points and changed/added other little things to my liking to have the mission I had before. Yes, this mission will only be used for private flying. Sadly, Lukrop, it's not a drop-in replacement. I had all kind of issues and errors. One of them are the templates that Stonehouse mentioned. I'm also not sure if naming in the NAME box has any role in it (Blue Template Group), but when I created a "Blue Template Group 2" and named that first plane - PILOT box - "__TMP__blue5" (because 4 was taken in original group) that plane never spawned. I also don't know if it's needed like this, but it seemed strange to me that blue side had 4 planes in one group, while red side 4 groups with 1 plane each. If you changed one plane in blue group, they would all become that, so no mixed groups. Another problem was that as soon as I disabled red groups spawning in the script (before I used your showcase mission and changed nothing in the script) I started getting script warnings and not even blue sides would spawn. I get that even when I created a new mission, not just tried to drop the script into the old one. I'm now playing with your modified showcase mission and it's working great (aside of MiG-25 and 31's being absolutely stupid :P - flying low and slow and getting into dogfight with F-15's), so thank you for your work! Stonehouse, I will try to drop your newest update into my old mission and see how it behaves. Thank you for your work! Actually discovered on my own that ME simply didn't save MIST into the mission file, even though I specifically and carefully included it in the triggers in the exact same way as you did. Have no clue why, but then again ME has been going absolutely crazy and stupid batshit crazy stuff in 1.5. But when I put MIST into the file physically I started getting other script errors. At that point I simply gave up and modified your showcase.

Cool, thanks!

Yup, seems that way. Thanks for your help!

Yup. Now is that the coolest thing or what? :pilotfly: :D

That may be so, but I was only replying to domini99 that they already have done that. ;-) Weapons were never part of the discussion, iirc. :beer:

Thanks! Btw., can I just say I'm a big fan of you and you are my favorite Star Wars character? :D ;-)

:D .... It's called Su-25 UTG. IIRC, the first one landed on a carrier right behind that first Su-27 and MiG-29 carrier landings by Pugachev and Aubakirov in 1989. Currently there are around 10 UTG's in service. :D

Many thanks! :beer: Yup, definitely gonna be loading the R3R, decided that already after reading Rage's comment yesterday on another thread: in response to Darkwolf's :D Wanted to try them out on DCS Israel server, but for some reason couldn't get a lockon with IR missiles even when in perfect position, on two occasions.

Me neither because neither me nor my friend could drop flaps with airbrake extended in the space of 2 minutes. Is it possible that the mission got messed up during transition from 1.2 to 1.5 and affected the behaviour of planes? I have namely noticed strange behaviour by ME in 1.5 like messing up missions, not including scripts into mission file (like MIST) and so on. I'm also starting to suspect a mission got messed up and that's why I lost 6 dof in the 29. Gonna try it again later tonight. PS: at which speed did you first try to drop the flaps?

Is that second half or a typo of second quarter? Sorry, I'm not trying to troll or be a jerk, but English is not my primary language and I'm wondering if there is something I'm missing because of that fact. Thanks for replying!

If you know how, the help would be greatly appreciated! http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=154821

Well, the S version uses the Swallow IIRC. I fully understand the reasoning for the gear-block, but wouldn't the airbrake and flaps opened at the same time provide maximum slowing-down efficiency?

Thanks, that was exactly what I wanted to know! :beer:

If you refuse to consider anything but your own perception then I have nothing more to say. Take care.

I hope this isn't seen as a "which oil/tires" type of thread, but which middle-range IR missiles are best/most reliable right now? R3S or the R13?

Since all I've seen is either "soon" or "to be announced" has there been any solid clue given about which year the Tomcat will be released? 2016? 2017? And no, I'm not being sarcastic or cynical. I haven't been really monitoring updates and progress reports, so don't really know how close (or far) from being finished and released it is.

No worries, mate. :beer: It just came out to me a little too aggressive, most probably because I seem to have stirred the hornet's nest with my short post and people seem to be a little touchy when it comes to this plane. :P (before anyone bashes me again, this last statement was meant as a joke/humor)

Suffering a temporary loss of sense of humor? Please direct your eyes at the bracket containing the emoticon "". A little google search will tell you what it means and when it's used. A quick tip: it's usually (as in this case) used to reveal a joke, that the statement was meant as a joke and not seriously. Oh, no, someone disagrees with me and wants something else, quickly, lets insult the worm a little! Before quoting make sure you read correctly. :P Cause I specifically wrote MODERN Eastern plane... I'm a big fan of the 21, but to call it modern, especially the BIS version, would be humorous. Each to his own and then completely negate the start of your sentence with the part that follows? O.o If you do start that way then also continue to the end. Yak-38 and Harrier was STOL most of the time because it was operationally better to do short take off than vertical take off. Can you name a plane that had satellite guiding for missiles BEFORE GPS and GLONASS, like Tu-160 did? Or thrust-vectoring like Su-30 that's 20 years old by now and is being sold around the world? Seriously, I appreciate you like this plane, but there is no need for personal attacks, is there? After all, I for one never personally attacked you. :beer: We have a saying in my country when someone asks about such timeline: "at St. Never." ;-) :beer: What was that old equation? Russia = East but not all East = only Russia Meaning, I was very careful to write EASTERN modern planes and that is a heck of a lot more countries than just Russia. I will be buying the Tomcat because of being used by a Eastern country (notice I said Eastern, not Russian :P ), otherwise I'm not that attached to it, even though I liked Top Gun as a kid.

Not sure where exactly to post this, so sorry if it's in the wrong place. Any idea how to fix this skin so it's parts are placed properly? This is the description file:

Rudel, can I make a request for an LNS-made Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia skin? The country while not having as many 21's as China or USSR, was still the Europe 4th strongest power, both economically (till the 80's) and militarily (until total disintegration), so definitely deserving of it's own skin. Even today if anybody asks you where you're from and you say "ex-Yugoslavia" they will know what it was and where it was, while few people will know to place it's former member countries on the map or even region/place in history. Not Serbian, they're Yugoslavian. :P It's actually an important difference. But thanks for the link. :beer: