LockOn Mission Editor: LOME project

[DArt]

Hi all,

 

Since October, I began to code a LockOn Mission Editor to add new possibilities to our Simu.

 

From now, you can easily create simple mission to add planes, tank... and assign them some waypoints graphically without needing to launch LockOn. You can set payload for aircraft, fuel...

 

You can make mission under Linux (Mac probably but not yet tested) and Windows.

All the code is under GPL (open source), written in Python language. In few days, I certainly release a first alpha version, in order to see what it can do, and to make test to track bugs (it is under heavy development :D ).

 

If you are interested in making test, or helping me to develop, you are strongly welcome!

 

You can found more information under my LOME website:

http://www.dartsite.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

and on http://www.dartsite.org (but in French language )

 

In the future, LOME will add campaign, random difficulty (by adding randomly groups, or plane), random weather, and tons of others ideas.:thumbup:

[NotiA10]

wow !!! this looks very interesting

[mitor]

Hi DArt, ;)

I hope you will find some new recrues to help you in this very interesting project!

 

A bientôt mon capitaine!...:D

[Boberro]

Nice screenshots. Hope the usage will be much more user friendly than oryginal ME. Good work!

[Sir_Troooper]

It looks great and it will be great, you can make a mission while browsing in the net! :thumbup:

[Triggerhappy69]

That is soo cool..! I have followed your thread on 3rd Wings forum, and I'm glad to find that I can finally try this editor out..!

 

Good work..

[Shaman]

First post, and you present us something like that! Wow!

This is possible one of the most important projects for Lock On! I hope time will allow you to complete it and support it afterwards! The randomization features would be super-cool.

 

REP INBOUND!

[HubMan]

Awesome :D

 

Hub.

[tacit_blue]

The old and dusty ME in LOFC needs a new face and u are on the best way to deliver it! Somehow it looks very promising and fits in todays software design.

Thank you DArt, we certainly hope to see more of it in the near future!!

Tacit

[Vekkinho]

Nice work DArt! :thumbup:

[DArt]

Thanks for your encouragement! :notworthy::blush:

 

The alpha version of the weekend is a little delayed, I hope to make it for this week. ;)

 

I will post here when it is ready!

[59th_LeFty]

Nonono. Now DO NOT say me, these thing ARE possible, and ED did not implement any of 'em, or I'll scream. :)

 

So if I clearly understood it, we'll have randomised unit (including planes) placement, random unit qualities?

 

What about events or triggers? is it possible to implement such toys?

[Shaman]

I think copy/paste feature will just please the community a lot :) Do it before you add randomization features please :)

[DArt]

From now, LOME can duplicate any group or plane/ship/helicopter...

 

For random, be careful, we can do randomised unit by regenerating LockOn mission file with random each time... A LockOn mission will be always randomless, it is only its generation that can include that! However it can be a great feature to add to LOME even if we have to regenerate the mission each time (for different scenario).

[RedTiger]

From now, LOME can duplicate any group or plane/ship/helicopter...

 

For random, be careful, we can do randomised unit by regenerating LockOn mission file with random each time... A LockOn mission will be always randomless, it is only its generation that can include that! However it can be a great feature to add to LOME even if we have to regenerate the mission each time (for different scenario).

 

How does the randomization work in terms of someone setting it up in the mission? A while back there was a tool that allowed you to put several groups in one mission at different starting times. The randomizer would pick one of these groups thereby making the mission random; you'd never know which one of the groups you'd get. I never got around to seriously making missions with it, but conincidently I was going to check it out this week.

 

If you combine something like this with random weather and difficulty, you're on to something DArt! :) I'm already excited!

[DArt]

From now, randomization is not yet implemented, but I think I will add a percent probability on group/plane/weather when editing with LOME. Then, each time you export the mission in LockOn format, LOME will generate the mission using probability on each unit...

[EvilBivol-1]

That looks very promising, DArt.

[PoleCat]

Very Cool!

[Highwayman-Ed]

Excellent, I think a lot of mission makers would love a tool like this!

 

I'll certainly re-discover Lock on again :)

[Postal2]

Juste exelent mon ptit Dart , depeche toi ou tu passe le reveillon a curer les WC ^^ .

 

:thumbup:

[Ghostrida9]

Very nice tool,will make my work way easier to finish my Nato AB, so is it possible to erase (delete) objects from the original Lockon FC map wit this Tool too?? , would be a nice feature..For example: if I want to delete a few Buildings of a Village somewhere on the map.

 

Thanx a lot..

[TorwaK]

Nice work DArt. Btw I can't stop to dreaming about Linux based dedicated server option :doh:

[Joe Kurr]

Hi DArt,

 

Your project looks promising!

If you need a Linux tester, let me know :)

[Yeniceri]

great work..

+rep..

[X-man]

:clap_2::clap_2::clap_2:Amazing!!! :clap_2::clap_2::clap_2: