Want help with task/automation? Post your utility ideas

[Worrazen]

I'm looking to get an early idea what's on people's mind that they find frustrating or painstaking around playing or modding DCS, such as something that is suppose to be a faster job in real life or isn't part of the pilots responsibility, but as a player on PC simulating it you have to do it the slow way to get the game working right.

 

I've not been active around DCS Modding much because my cup of tea almost all the time has been performance testing and similar, I'm becoming more and more active with DCS than I've ever been and while I'm going through busy stuff with non-DCS related stuff I can't seem take more than 1-2 week of a break haha. This is more of an early recon mission, I'll probably not have time for months, but with me, I have no strict deadlines, I can juggle other work around even tho I'm suppose to get done with it first, but no promises.

 

My skill is limited to the following conditions:

 

Low to mid level stuff such as:

• filesystem operations (naming, sorting, managing, etc)
  
• various text (settings) files manipulation
  
• help tool for modders (modellers, painters, scripters, mission builders etc)
  
• .. etc (can't think of more right now but I know there's more)
  

 

What is not included in this offer:

• Tools that ED is working on themselfs, like the new Mission Editor it self.
  
• DCS Modding it self. I have no idea yet about DCS scripting nor the API, perhaps I'd need to learn some of it as part of a project but to be honest I'm reluctant to get into real DCS modding because it would spoil me ... I once modified an A-10C to have GBU-10 TERs on all stations and other crazies ... it's like cheats, it spoils the actual realism this is intended for, I don't want my favourite game to become boring.
  
• Anything that has to do working with DCS custom file formats where they're encoded and no public API is provided, is out of the question too.
  

 

If you are using CMD/PS scripts or some other improvised way already regularly, then we could even port that into a dedicated utility if it looks like it'll be faster and more convenient, we could figure out other helpful things or even make it faster along the way not just 1:1 port, for example.

 

 

Utility would most likely be in C# and Windows only.

 

EDIT: Note to moderator, please move this thread out of DCS Mods, and into the "Mods and Apps" root. Sorry about that.

Edited May 10, 2020 by Worrazen