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Thadeyus

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It would be grate to disable the Country dependency for Units in the ME. I know you could always use some generic factions but if i like to switch the alliance of countrys in Mission building quite a lot.

For example Syria recived some SA-10 from Russia but its not posible to place them as Syrian SA-10 in the ME. There are also a lot of utillity vehicles missing in some countrys.
It would be a lot easyer to disable the dependency than to manualy edit them, if this is even Possible.

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19 minutes ago, Thadeyus said:

It would be grate to disable the Country dependency for Units in the ME. I know you could always use some generic factions but if i like to switch the alliance of countrys in Mission building quite a lot.

For example Syria recived some SA-10 from Russia but its not posible to place them as Syrian SA-10 in the ME. There are also a lot of utillity vehicles missing in some countrys.
It would be a lot easyer to disable the dependency than to manualy edit them, if this is even Possible.

 

I agree that currently we are unnecessarily limited in unit placement due to strict country settings, preventing creativity from the mission designer.

 

In addition, each country should also have a second "civilian" faction.

 

E.g.

Syria = Red Force

Syria-civilian = Neutral

 

This way you could for instance place some Syrian-civilian cars around your target and penalty the player when they are accidentally destroyed.

 

 

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On 6/8/2021 at 8:04 AM, Thadeyus said:

It would be grate to disable the Country dependency for Units in the ME. I know you could always use some generic factions but if i like to switch the alliance of countrys in Mission building quite a lot.

For example Syria recived some SA-10 from Russia but its not posible to place them as Syrian SA-10 in the ME. There are also a lot of utillity vehicles missing in some countrys.
It would be a lot easyer to disable the dependency than to manualy edit them, if this is even Possible.

yeah, try to place infantry... its all units. on custom missions it should be free to choose imo. its a game in the end.

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It's easy with Lua, as you can spawn any unit as belonging to any country; if you mean 'can you give ME-users access to this ability by using a Lua hack': probably, but I've never tried it. You'll have to find the ME-bound Lua script that assigns the countries to units, and then alter that.

 


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On 8/25/2021 at 12:57 PM, cfrag said:

It's easy with Lua, as you can spawn any unit as belonging to any country; if you mean 'can you give ME-users access to this ability by using a Lua hack': probably, but I've never tried it. You'll have to find the ME-bound Lua script that assigns the countries to units, and then alter that.

 

 

I have not seen any solution documentated, perhaps you have something as you seem to know how it's possible?

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On 9/2/2021 at 1:05 PM, cfrag said:

Oh, it's documented: coalition.addGroup() can spawn any group (consisting of any units) for any country. As I said, you need Lua for that (in a mission's DoScrip Action, will not help with ME). Editing DCS Lua sources to alter a unit's country dependency in ME I haven't done, and also have never tried to do.

That's not what I want, I want to set the units in the ME not switch factions afterwards. I think you don't understand that, I want to place for example a GERMAN Su-25T in the ME - not a GEORGIAN/RUSSIAN ... that switches sides after start.... understood?

I pointed out a thing that is not implemented, and could imo be only done by lua editing (if one knows which lua).

If you don't have a solution, ok - thanks for your try 😉

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