Operation Flagship Alpha (Dynamic Sandbox Mission)

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

I've found numerous issues hoping that once they are resolved the radio functionality will be fixed along with it.

[Justificus]

I just downloaded this mission and it looks very cool. I was only able to jump in and just spawned one group to check it out and make sure it ran. No problems and it looks very exciting about what you're doing. Nice job! I do have one question, and forgive me if the answer is already in my hands in terms of a readme (I'm at work and have no access to it and just thought I'd ask what came to mind after reading more of this thread), are you able to adjust what type of planes get spawned? Let's say that I want to create a pseudo-Korean era type mission, can I restrict the planes to Sabres and Fagots? Or go for a WWII type scenario and only have prop planes get spawned or helos and ground targets only? The latter one I think is already possible based on what groups you decide to spawn, but the others I'm curious about. Anyway, thanks for sharing this, especially with how many hours/days you devoted to this particular piece of work. S! sir.

[Relayer]

Gave the mission a few tries so far, it's superb! Pretty much exactly what I've been looking for, well done!

As a small request, would it be possible to have new ground tasks also generate a JTAC?

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

@Justificus

 

set difficulty to WW2 (should spawn from the WW2 planes)

set difficulty to Korea (should spawn MiG-15s or F-86)

set difficulty to Vietnam (should spawn trainers or MiG-21 / F4s

set difficulty to Gulf War (should spawn Mig-21, Mirage, F-16 blk 50)

set difficutly to modern (F-16 blk 52, F-15C, Su-27)

 

not enough helos for early eras so only lower difficulty they are transports and unarmed. Its possible to spawn only ground forces with no air element and vice versa. heres an example:

 

you want to go practice strafing runs in P-51D but don't want to get blown up, set difficulty to WW2, turn off IR and radar sams, turn off enemy CAS, turn off AAA, turn off helos, turn off allied SEAD. the result is a group of unarmed trucks and some infantry would be spawned. in set options the A2A parameter controls the amount of planes being spawned in the enemy group. finally there is a disturbing lack of readme for new players to look at :P chalk it up to just being to busy to write a good "how to" as I wrap up the core features of the miz/script I will attempt to clean up briefing and information as to how to use the task menus.

 

@Relayer

 

the JTAC thing would be very complex to setup, so adding JTAC would be very difficult. the main issue is the randomly selected group names and the LOS, I've never had good results with JTAC in DCS (well depends on the version of DCS) just generally never wanting to work properly. this would be a huge pain for little reward for little more then we already get from mission info.... I think generally it would be better to provide a fake JTAC via the mission info instead. its just a lot of work for possibly no gain, when there is other things needing to be done.... having said all this I will take a look at whether its even feasible to do.

Edited September 12, 2015 by =LFC=Chameleon_Silk
because I must have been drunk explaining the issue with JTAC

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

if any of you run 0.75, please let me know if the radio issues persist or if you notice anything not working. off to my real job now :P

[Justificus]

@Justificus...

 

Thank you sir! Looking forward to checking this out tonight/this weekend (saw the wife off with her two sisters up North to Maine for the weekend) as I've got some free time for a change!! :thumbup:

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

looks like issues are still unresolved in 0.75, I will have to start the long process of figuring out whats going on.

[ScAvenger001]

We played around with this last weekend and had a lot of fun, since it generates enemies we don't usually face. I made a video:

 

 

Not shown: P-51 bomber escorts, and us failing hilariously to stop attacks on our airbase.

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

awesome thank you for sharing.

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

just pushed 0.75C to github that has various bug fixes and also it (should) correct the broken radio comms, obviously pretty vital to have the comms menu and so I recommend 0.75C as the version to run currently.

[Zarma]

Nice work. How do I install it for solo or MP ? Just the miz or also the other files ?

 

First I have a "stop working" error. Seems to be coming from starway ground texture mod (runs out of memory even though I have a GTX970 card).

 

When disabling it, I can launch the mission but have the texture bug explained at page 1. Wasn't able to make it work even when disabeling all my mods and doing a steam repair to be sure to have the original files.

 

Which mod(s) are you using ?

Edited September 13, 2015 by Zarma
New questions

[Justificus]

Cool, hope to check it out tonight. Ended up not having as much free time as I was planning this weekend... :(

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

Nice work. How do I install it for solo or MP ? Just the miz or also the other files ?

 

First I have a "stop working" error. Seems to be coming from starway ground texture mod (runs out of memory even though I have a GTX970 card).

 

When disabling it, I can launch the mission but have the texture bug explained at page 1. Wasn't able to make it work even when disabeling all my mods and doing a steam repair to be sure to have the original files.

 

Which mod(s) are you using ?

 

I think thats the issue right there, your files can't be refreshed because most mods change lua inside some dcs files and the steam verification is just checking (maybe file sizes) if the file is present.

 

a modified file would then not get replaced (if same file size) so a 0 becomes a 1 and steam would skip it.

 

as for install: you just run the miz and play

 

on a stock and non modified DCS the miz runs 100pct of the time. just be patient when its loading (some people assume stopped responding is a crash) when really its still loading.

[Zarma]

- I made a repair with all mods disabled.

- with the texture mod, the game crash (stop working) while loading the mission

- without the texture mod and/or without any mod, the mission loads, but I have a big texture bug.

 

Will try again later and copy/paste the log and a screen.

 

Could also try to install a non-steam version to see if working.

 

Which mods do you have enabled ?

 

I am usually using :

- DCS SweetFX 151

- Cloud & Sky 5.71

- A10A C Audio Production Mod

- GAU-8A 30mm cannon Audio Mod

- New Fire & Smoke

- nbg_mod_1.0v4b2

- Ricardo's cockpit

- Ricardo's KA50 Cockpit

- MorVisibility v1.4

- DCS World Cloud Shadow Shader Mod

- Ground_Textures_Mod_3_byStarway

- AI patch

Edited September 13, 2015 by Zarma

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

there are 0 mods installed is what I'm saying, no tweaks to base DCS World.

 

If I had to guess I'd say AI patch, since I'm using mbot detection for the AI already in script.

[HellsBells]

Take a copy of your "Saved Games" folder DCS will create a new one.

then test.

Reload Simshaker, UltraMFCD if you have them and try again. I did have a problem with both and reconfigured the 'Saved Games" folder and all good and working without any problems. That being said I will add various mods with JSGME see if any cause problems. I think the export.lua may hold the answer, but I am no expert just one mod at a time.

Chameleon_Silk mission work a treat :)

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

:thumbup: excellent I am glad to hear that it is working properly again for people to enjoy and have fun.

 

I've been trying to get my MiG-21 interception on 2 MiG-23MLDs to go my way, can kill the first one with an R-3R but the 2nd one I'm struggling with! goodtimes.

 

I did notice some issues with the mission complete stuff but its purely cosmetic and not critical, something more for me to patch up in the future.

[Zarma]

Working on a fresh install.

 

Trying to set back a few mods and custom inputs.

[Zarma]

OK the mission is working but I have to disable Ricardo's cockpit for KA50 and A10C.

 

Edit : damn when I start using the TGP, I have the same texture bug again................

Edited September 15, 2015 by Zarma
New infos.

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

has anyone experienced any problems with the newest one? 0.75C?

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

.76 put up on github

 

added experimental music playing feature and on/off parameter, fixed a bunch of bugs and group name issues and did some more work on getting mission completes working.

[xcom]

Looks really great!

I will give it a try.

 

Thank you for the enormous work that has been put into this.

[Justificus]

.76 put up on github

 

Geez! You've released another version already? I haven't had enough time to adequately test your previous one yet. You're a machine!! ;) Thanks.

[LFCChameleon_Silk]

to be honest I'm spotting errors quicker then they can be reported! thats either a really bad thing (so many errors) or a really good thing (getting rid of issues) :P

 

I fully expect the mission completes to still be somewhat not fully correct but hopefully we won't get any spammy messages telling us we've won 50 times in a row clogging the screen now ;)

[Rivvern]

Requesting spawnable AWACS to use with LotATC.

Would be great if it would was a respawnable one.

 

EDIT: I got your message =LFC=Chameleon_Silk. Will restart with 0.76.

Edited September 16, 2015 by Rivvern