Adding Country to a mission

[kivech]

Hi all,

 

This might be a no-brainer for some, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to add a country to the list of selectable counties in the mission editor.

 

My situation is simple:

I have an Austrian livery that I want to add, but I want it to be designated as an 'Austrian' unit. Not USA, or any other country for that matter, just Austrian.

 

How does one do that?

 

I tried adding "AUT" to the livery lua file, but that does not seem to be doing anything, and the countries lua file might have it listed, it does not show up in the menu editor nation selection dropdown when selecting a unit. Is it maybe related to the definition of the selected unit type (m200c in this particular case)?

 

Any help would be much appreciated. :)

[Apache600]

Once you've started building a mission, you can't add to that list at all :/ Been frustrating for me, as I've had to rebuild entire missions from scratch because of this.

 

When you open up Mission Editor, select "New" mission from the upper left corner. That's the only time you'll be able to adjust that sort of thing.

 

For those livery things, you can also go into the .LUA files and change what countries get access to what skins. But if you share the file with other people, that won't work for them unless they also change the .LUA (so i wouldn't really recommend doing that)

[DarkFire]

It is possible. This mod is what you need:

 

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/188/

[Grimes]

I wouldn't use that mod. The mission editor files have changed massively since 1.5 has released. In fact that looks to be made before the A-10C release so I wouldn't be shocked if it didn't work with the first A-10C release either. Even something like it I made for 1.2.16 is incompatible with 1.5.

 

 

The idea still works though, you have to manually go into the miz file via winrar or whatever your zip program of choice is and change some values within the embedded mission lua file. There is a more descriptive post somewhere on the forums on how to do it, donno where it is though.

[DarkFire]

I wouldn't use that mod. The mission editor files have changed massively since 1.5 has released. In fact that looks to be made before the A-10C release so I wouldn't be shocked if it didn't work with the first A-10C release either. Even something like it I made for 1.2.16 is incompatible with 1.5.

 

 

The idea still works though, you have to manually go into the miz file via winrar or whatever your zip program of choice is and change some values within the embedded mission lua file. There is a more descriptive post somewhere on the forums on how to do it, donno where it is though.

 

Oh :( any chance of a re-make for DCS World? That was one of the most useful mods I ever used...

[Grimes]

I think there is still an open feature request for something like it to be implemented directly into the game. I'm not all that keen on adapting my old changes to work with the new files simply due to how much has changed. I have been kicking an idea around in my head for an alternative way to do it, I just haven't got around to starting it yet.

[DarkFire]

I think there is still an open feature request for something like it to be implemented directly into the game. I'm not all that keen on adapting my old changes to work with the new files simply due to how much has changed. I have been kicking an idea around in my head for an alternative way to do it, I just haven't got around to starting it yet.

 

I agree it's something that needs to be base functionality in the game editor. It'd be great if you could find some spare time to implement it though - think of it as stress relief for mission designers :D

[kivech]

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess I'll have to plan my mission more in detail before starting to work on building it then. I did consider changing lua files of liveries, but like someone mentioned, it would create compatibility issues for others.

 

I was just hoping for an easy way to add countries to those unit properties. Quite honestly, what would it take to add a list of all world countries to DCS World and allow people to edit its properties, or reference it to ....

Oh heck, what am I saying? That would require a different db setup, etc. I'll just work with how it works now. Still wishing they would have made this a bit more user friendly to work with though.

 

Cheers for the informative replies though. Much appreciated. :thumbup:

[piXel496]

If you had a lot of work in your mission and you still want to change it. You can do it as follows.

 

If you open your mission.miz file (open with zip program), you find a file called mission (open with plain text editor). There you find a section called coalitions. Austria is 23. change it to your preferred coalition as below. For instance change Austria from neutral to red:

 

["coalitions"] =

{

["neutrals"] =

{

[1] = 7,

[2] = 17,

[3] = 22,

[4] = 23,

[5] = 25,

[6] = 29,

[7] = 30,

[8] = 31,

[9] = 32,

[10] = 33,

[11] = 35,

[12] = 36,

[13] = 39,

[14] = 41,

[15] = 42,

[16] = 44,

[17] = 46,

}, -- end of ["neutrals"]

["blue"] =

{

[1] = 11,

[2] = 4,

[3] = 6,

[4] = 16,

[5] = 13,

[6] = 15,

[7] = 9,

[8] = 8,

[9] = 12,

[10] = 2,

[11] = 3,

[12] = 5,

[13] = 10,

[14] = 20,

[15] = 21,

[16] = 40,

[17] = 26,

[18] = 45,

[19] = 28,

}, -- end of ["blue"]

["red"] =

{

[1] = 0,

[2] = 1,

[3] = 18,

[4] = 19,

[5] = 37,

[6] = 24,

[7] = 27,

[8] = 43,

[9] = 47,

[10] = 34,

[11] = 38,

}, -- end of ["red"]

}, -- end of ["coalitions"]

 

changed it would be:

 

["coalitions"] =

{

["neutrals"] =

{

[1] = 7,

[2] = 17,

[3] = 22,

[4] = 25,

[5] = 29,

[6] = 30,

[7] = 31,

[8] = 32,

[9] = 33,

[10] = 35,

[11] = 36,

[12] = 39,

[13] = 41,

[14] = 42,

[15] = 44,

[16] = 46,

}, -- end of ["neutrals"]

["blue"] =

{

[1] = 11,

[2] = 4,

[3] = 6,

[4] = 16,

[5] = 13,

[6] = 15,

[7] = 9,

[8] = 8,

[9] = 12,

[10] = 2,

[11] = 3,

[12] = 5,

[13] = 10,

[14] = 20,

[15] = 21,

[16] = 40,

[17] = 26,

[18] = 45,

[19] = 28,

}, -- end of ["blue"]

["red"] =

{

[1] = 0,

[2] = 1,

[3] = 18,

[4] = 19,

[5] = 23,

[6] = 37,

[7] = 24,

[8] = 27,

[9] = 43,

[10] = 47,

[11] = 34,

[12] = 38,

}, -- end of ["red"]

}, -- end of ["coalitions"]

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited March 22, 2016 by piXel496
and it does not hurt to save a copy of your mission..

[Grimes]

That is one place to change it, but at least in previous versions of the editor changes were required elsewhere. The coalitions table shows a list of countries on the briefing screen. The coalition table contains the actual data of objects that belong to the country.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1704032#post1704032