Need help - how to set start time for a SP mission??

[Notso]

I’m going crazy.... I’m trying to build a basic night bombing mission for practice and set the first leg of the waypoint editor time (Hot start from ramp) as 1900 and then added the waypoints from there. I also set all the targets to spawn at 1900 at well. But when I go to FLY the mission, it says Mission delayed for start time. I think it seems to be starting at the default 0800 time.

 

I also set the time on the weather page as 1900 and the mission briefing says the start time is 1900, but I still get the delay start. The date on the weather page also says 21 June 2016. Do I need to set it to the current date??

 

This is making me pull my hair out. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. TIA!

[AeriaGloria]

Go to the top left weather tab wit the cloud icon.

 

Start time used to be in the briefing section and changed to weather some time ago

[Notso]

Go to the top left weather tab wit the cloud icon.

 

Start time used to be in the briefing section and changed to weather some time ago

 

I did that. It’s still starting me with a delay.

[AeriaGloria]

I did that. It’s still starting me with a delay.

 

If you haven’t changed the waypoint time since you changed the weather time take a look. The weather time updates all waypoints, so it probably changed it to have the same hour difference it had before, make sure both are set for say 1900

[Notso]

If you haven’t changed the waypoint time since you changed the weather time take a look. The weather time updates all waypoints, so it probably changed it to have the same hour difference it had before, make sure both are set for say 1900

 

I checked that too. The first time I changed the time on the weather page, it did change the waypoint times to 0600. So I changed them all back to 1900 from the start point. It still showed a delayed start when I went into the mission. I wonder if the date is affecting it. I'm obviously doing something wrong, but I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out what it is.

[MadDog-IC]

So I changed them all back to 1900 from the start point. It still showed a delayed start when I went into the mission.

 

I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out what it is.

 

Best solution, post your mission here so we can have a look at what might be wrong in it.

 

Might be that in the starting waypoint time of the units used, the day is set in the future. ie 19:00.00/1 (The last digit is the day to start 0=straight away, Greater than 0=days in the future to start unit)

 

Regards, Ian.

Edited March 13, 2020 by MadDog-IC

[Notso]

Best solution, post your mission here so we can have a look at what might be wrong in it.

 

Might be that in the starting waypoint time of the units used, the day is set in the future. ie 19:00.00/1 (The last digit is the day to start 0=straight away, Greater than 0=days in the future to start unit)

 

Regards, Ian.

 

Ahhhh, I think that's exactly the problem. I recall seeing the 19:00.00/1, so that would explain it. How do I set it to the current day? As I said before, the date in the weather window is set to some arbitrary date in June of 2016.

 

When I can get to my gaming computer, I'll post the mission. Thanks.

[MadDog-IC]

Ahhhh, I think that's exactly the problem. I recall seeing the 19:00.00/1, so that would explain it. How do I set it to the current day? As I said before, the date in the weather window is set to some arbitrary date in June of 2016.

 

Just change the 19:00.00/1 to 19:00.00/0 instead this means that it will run on the current day as specified in the weather window and not a day later.

 

It is a throw back to the old version of DCS, when you had to use this to make AI Units late start and then be activated by a trigger later on in the mission.

 

Any figure bigger than 0 in the last part of the time field (Day offset) will delay by that many days or until a trigger activate command is issued (Not what you want for a player controlled Unit).

 

Regards, Ian.