MissionEditor - New Airbases

[Wdigman]

I have been getting back into creating my own missions in the Mission editor.

 

 

 

Its been awhile and I have found new assets such as FRAP Helo base.

 

 

 

Was wondering if there are plans for allowing the creation of airstrips or a series of objects that could be used to create an entire airbase on any given map.

 

 

Interested at creating a modern airfield or two in the Normandy map, for modern air operations in the area. I think there are one or 2 RAF bases in operation today on that map but are not modeled.

[reece146]

Search for Suntsag's FARPs mod. Basically lets you lay down runways that will allow reload and refuel. I use it to put refuel locations when bush flying in the Yak-52.

Edited August 20, 2020 by reece146

[stormrider]

I have been getting back into creating my own missions in the Mission editor.

 

 

 

Its been awhile and I have found new assets such as FRAP Helo base.

 

 

 

Was wondering if there are plans for allowing the creation of airstrips or a series of objects that could be used to create an entire airbase on any given map.

 

 

Interested at creating a modern airfield or two in the Normandy map, for modern air operations in the area. I think there are one or 2 RAF bases in operation today on that map but are not modeled.

 

 

+1

[Guest]

I understand that by ED's business matter, it is impossible to add new airfields/airports/airbases reproduced the ACTUAL airfields/airports/airbases on the existing map.

However, for me, it doesn't matter that the airfields/airports/airbases added are FICTIONAL, and it is better that WE CAN ADD THEM by Mission Editor FREELY even they are FICTIONAL.

[Baco]

Search for Suntsag's FARPs mod. Basically lets you lay down runways that will allow reload and refuel. I use it to put refuel locations when bush flying in the Yak-52.

 

The problem is atht you cant spawn Airplanes there....

 

Maybe Give the user the hability to spawn planes anywhere or in a given PAD like the FARP. PLEASE!

Edited August 24, 2020 by Baco

[FlankerKiller]

At one time there was a grass strip/emergency airfield in the ME. It never quite worked right, and was removed. But it needs to be revisited. The Harrier, and Viggin are practically useless without it. The Mig-29 was made with improvised airfields in mind. With the coming dynamic campaign, airfields should become smoking creators in the first few missions. Dealing with flights of fighters coming up from almost anywhere would be fun.

[thedisturbingspaniard]

I totally support this. A "generic airbase" that can be placed like a FARP, even if not very sophisticated, would add a ton of possibilities for mission / campaign creation.

[Wdigman]

17 hours ago, thedisturbingspaniard said:

I totally support this. A "generic airbase" that can be placed like a FARP, even if not very sophisticated, would add a ton of possibilities for mission / campaign creation.

If you download VPC Airfield Equipment you can make the airbases as complicated as you want. DCS just needs to provide generic air strips, taxi ways and aprons for the planes. I figure a short runway and a large one for big aircraft like Tankers and large transports.

[thedisturbingspaniard]

9 hours ago, Wdigman said:

(...) DCS just needs to provide generic air strips, taxi ways and aprons for the planes. I figure a short runway and a large one for big aircraft like Tankers and large transports.

Yes, this is basically what I meant. A basic, simple "stripped down airport" (or its "modular components" as you suggest) would be enough for me.

Just imagine the possibilities for mission / campaign creation in a lot of the already available maps: a Turkish or Armenian airbase in Caucasus (or NATO bases in Bulgaria, Romania...), Al-Udeid in Qatar or some fictional Saudi, Pakistani or Iraqi base in the Persian Gulf, a "conceptual Iranian base" in Syria's far east, provisional Argentinian and Chilean bases in South Atlantic, temporary wartime airstrips everywhere... whatever you can imagine, fictional, realistic or realistic-ish. The possibilities are almost infinite. And it can be just an "enlarged FARP" or a few basic modules or something like that ---we can later populate it as you said, if needed.

(Additionally, and personally, I fly DCS as a... uh... Digital Combat Simulator, I don't mind if my (or my enemies') base is in the middle of nowhere with nothing to see around it, especially at night. But even for those who prefer the sightseeing part, it would still create a lot of possibilities.)

Edited December 2, 2022 by thedisturbingspaniard