ME tutorial please

[BlacleyCole]

Could someone point me to a written tutorial on creating a mission using the ME and lua coding .

 

A simple mission with all the necessary elements to show how it is done I’ve seen several YouTube videos that do it and call it a tutorial but in fact it’s just a demonstration.

 

I would like for someone who knows how to do detailed missions to create at a step by step guide explains not only what to do why to do it and what not to do. Is anyone up to this task?

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

go to DCS root folder

 

DCS World\Doc

 

in the doc folder is the DCS manual and from page 59 is a basic guide for the editor.

 

If you need more information some can be found here by searching and the mission making community are great for answering questions

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=210

[Wrecking Crew]

I would like for someone who knows how to do detailed missions to create at a step by step guide explains not only what to do why to do it and what not to do. Is anyone up to this task?

 

This is one contribution

 

And, here's a screenshot of setting up zones. One of the many aspects of mission design in DCS.

 

If you want some help, let us know what you want to do. Put together a starting mission to review.

Edited March 8, 2018 by Wrecking Crew

[feefifofum]

Only you can determine what the necessary elements are, based on your own requirements.

Your best bet is to get in there and start experimenting. When you run into a specific problem, ask a specific question. :thumbup:

[doodenkoff]

I'm not sure that a written tutorial works well for the user interface of DCS's mission editor.

 

Look up

on YouTube. I think he does a fair job explaining how to get started and then expands into triggers and zones.

[BlacleyCole]

Ok here’s what I’m wanting for the skills test that will be taken prior to starting the flight phase of basic rotary wing pilot training.

 

Start in flight

 

The instructor which is in the left seat iirc the client in the right seat the ip has control of the ship. The instructor explains that every task will be demonstrated the the client will be able to practice the task then they will be graded on the task. The instructor explains to control the Huey only requires slight movements of the cyclic. And demostrates what he means by moving the cyclic in all four directions. The he/she explains how transfer of controls will take place the ip will say it’s a three step procedure I think it goes get ready to take control, the student says I have controls then the ip says you have control. Then he begins the process to transfer control. The ip tells the sp to maintain altitude, heading and airspeed once the sp mange’s a short distance at the desired course, altitude and airspeed he requests control of the aircraft they go thru the transfer procedure and once he has control he explains how to make a left turn , then he demonstrates a left turn. Then starts the procedure for transfer of controls to the sp. once the student has control and is stable the ip instructs the student to make a left turn if the student is having minor troubles he instructs the student what to do if the student has lost control the ip will take back the controls. Once the airship is stable then he transfer control back to the student and the student once has stable flight after the transfer the ip tells him to make the left turn again once the sp is able to make a decent left turn at speed then the ip asks him if he’s ready for the evaluation and the ip evaluate s the next lt turn for maintains as, alt and heading given to him by the ip. That should be a heading between the current heading prior to the eval up to 90 degrees left.

 

After the left turn the process repeats for a right turn , change in alt by climbing to a random alt above the current on less than a 1000 ft, then defend a random amount between the current alt and 350 ft agl. After the last procedure the ip takes control and demonstrates a hover and says that’s what we will do in the future then the mission ends.

 

I’m sure I’ve forgotten something here and there but everything is done by the USA standard operating procedures. If someone want to take this on and has the time I would like to add them to the training campaigns for the Huey team. We need someone able to show me how to do the above and edit missions that will be apart of the campaigns so as not to interrupt the code working on the next mission. We also need a computer artist to create our graphics for the campaigns and documentation. I plan on spreading the revenue out based on input towards each campaign I’ve already contacted a existing third party designer who is willing to assist and release it under their branding to avoid having to be approved by ed as a third party developer. This and they know what has to be done to get ed to release the campaign on their site.

 

I’m looking for a coder, artist and rl Huey pilot but if a rl pilot has another rotary wing rating I’ll consider it.

[feefifofum]

Hate to tell you but you're out of luck at the first sentence. You cannot have an AI controlled helo with a client inside of it. There are some very simple autopilot functions but nothing at the level of detail you're looking for.

 

If you are willing to fudge the details a little bit and run everything with instructions to the client/checking they've been accomplished I can point you in the right direction but I'm not looking to take on another project right now.

[BlacleyCole]

Is there a way to record the ip part then place it in the mission the give control to the sp then use the ai to coach the sp and if the sp isn’t able to preform the task then stop and start over once the sp completes the task then play another video then give contro back to the sp back and forth until the mission is complete

[feefifofum]

Afraid not. The player is in control of the aircraft 100% of the time.

 

You're pretty much stuck with if XXX then XXX voiceover plays.

 

I.E. ten seconds after mission start, player is instructed to start the helicopter and inform when they are ready to begin, then issued specific instructions for a task to perform and graded on performance.

Edited March 10, 2018 by feefifofum

[BlacleyCole]

no offense but maybe there is someone out there that can do it otherwise unless you watch a intro video for all of the tasks then have control sent to the client is a poor way to training someone in that case you should record training in youtube then have the student watch it like a preflight briefing then go fly and like i said thats not very good. maybe it can be done using code that the lua code can import to make it flow more condusively ie better

[doodenkoff]

but maybe there is someone out there that can do it

 

No offense, but....no.

 

What you're describing is impossible given the way the environment is coded now.

[BlacleyCole]

Can you activate any c++ code from the mission editor or lua code so you could have a trigger activate the link to the lua code that pulls up the c++ code which either demos the task or plays a video and then return to the mission I would assume the mission could be paused during the video and returned to client control on return from the video.

[feefifofum]

Negative, there are security measures in place to prevent external programs/code from being executed by .lua in-game, for obvious reasons.

 

This can be disabled (see the dynamic campaign engine thread) but if you're looking to make official content it's a no-go.