getting to know the M.E

[thrustvector]

ok, had enough of making simple missions, and I want to add voice and triggers like text msg when stuff happens, and all the good stuff.

flicked through a few things like lua language, is there something like the processing j3 console to run lua files to see them in real time? not the web based one, I have downloaded the dist but its not running think that's something I'm doing wrong.

but before I go to far is that the way I add stuff like I want or is there an easier way? should I get to use mist/moose?

I know this maybe a long process but I gotta do it :)

oh I have just downloaded git and cmake as I think they need to be on my system?

Edited July 7, 2018 by thrustvector

[feefifofum]

As a first step, I'd get to know the built in GUI. It's quite flexible and powerful and it is easy as pie to do things like play voiceovers and display text and radio messages.

 

Once you start bumping into the limitations of the built in editor, you can start exploring the SSE that runs everything behind the scenes..once you start bumping into the limitations of the SSE, the third party scripting solutions will start to make sense to explore. In my opinion trying to jump straight into the deep end will just result in frustration unless you have a strong programming background.

 

For a start I'd just take a couple hours and thoroughly explore the list of available conditions and triggered actions in the mission editor. By combining conditions and using the appropriate trigger type you can do a lot of cool stuff.

[thrustvector]

yea I'm there already, I do python and c++, never done or used lua, but as you say I haven't looked into the me too much as I didn't think it could do the msg/voices, so yea must go look now :) cheers fella

[BlacleyCole]

Are you. Using notepad++?

[thrustvector]

yes I have that, use that quite a bit for projects, just trying git bash as well, but ill be honest and say I haven't looked through the main mission ed that much as stupidly assumed I needed the editors and all to actually add stuff I wanted in missions, last night I was very surprised as to how much it can actually add by itself.

sometimes you always think you need more when its staring right at you

[SUNTSAG]

The link below may help you if you are a visual learner.

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=211468

[thrustvector]

I have been watching your vids mate, very nicely done too and helpful, thank you. :)

got a sub from me too.