Mission Editor Improvements (Reposted on ME Wishlist)

[Ash Lynx]

Since starting to learn mission making and editing, I've encountered a lot of frustration due to the lack of some quality of life features. A for example undo would be nice but I haven't found that a major issue with my mission making but I'm sure other people would appreciate the addition. Down below is gonna be a list of when I think and the people I have discussed with have mentioned would be nice to have.

 

1. Drag Selection. For me this make placing and also copying large amounts of static objects a lot easier as I can design one detailed farp and place it anywhere, the current way of being able to copy a farp is having to hold shift and left click on each individual object and if you miss click you have to start all over again. Drag box would be nice.

 

2. Object templates. The current static templates are good, loads the objects at their predetermine location and so setting up the same kind of missions is easy but having a template system to the current Unit templates, mainly used for SA sites would be great. Again being able to set up a farp then save it as a template, then just left click where I want it, also other things like setting up a command post or ammo dumps. Allows going into any map and setting up templates so you can easily quick reference them when putting missions together.

 

3. Arma 3 Eden editor. A 3D editor would be nice.

 

4. Change Coalition of all objects in selection/Modify values of all objects in the selection. Basically held shift click on a bunch of objects went to change the coalition of all the objects I had selected it deselected the entire selection (which is a pain cos no drag box) and only changed the coalition of the last object I shift left clicked on. Be being able to modify values of all objects in the selection would be nice.

 

5. Object groups. Like unit groups but for objects, main advantage of this would be that if you move one thing the rest of it moves with it. Combine this with the other features stated above it would make a very powerful and a lot less tedious feature set for the editor.

 

Aside from the 3D editor these features would be very helpful and will help get more people into mission making or editing missions that they play.

 

This is all I can think of for the time being as of posting but if people who reply mention anything good I'll add it to the list with proper credit and mentions. If I do add any idea to the list from someone else and feels like I haven't mentioned or credited them properly just message me.

 

ED you got a pretty good game.

Edited July 1, 2021 by Ash Lynx

[sirrah]

1 hour ago, Ash Lynx said:

Since starting to learn mission making and editing, I've encountered a lot of frustration due to the lack of some quality of life features. A for example undo would be nice but I haven't found that a major issue with my mission making but I'm sure other people would appreciate the addition. Down below is gonna be a list of when I think and the people I have discussed with have mentioned would be nice to have.

 

1. Drag Selection. For me this make placing and also copying large amounts of static objects a lot easier as I can design one detailed farp and place it anywhere, the current way of being able to copy a farp is having to hold shift and left click on each individual object and if you miss click you have to start all over again. Drag box would be nice.

 

2. Object templates. The current static templates are good, loads the objects at their predetermine location and so setting up the same kind of missions is easy but having a template system to the current Unit templates, mainly used for SA sites would be great. Again being able to set up a farp then save it as a template, then just left click where I want it, also other things like setting up a command post or ammo dumps. Allows going into any map and setting up templates so you can easily quick reference them when putting missions together.

 

3. Arma 3 Eden editor. A 3D editor would be nice.

 

4. Change Coalition of all objects in selection/Modify values of all objects in the selection. Basically held shift click on a bunch of objects went to change the coalition of all the objects I had selected it deselected the entire selection (which is a pain cos no drag box) and only changed the coalition of the last object I shift left clicked on. Be being able to modify values of all objects in the selection would be nice.

 

5. Object groups. Like unit groups but for objects, main advantage of this would be that if you move one thing the rest of it moves with it. Combine this with the other features stated above it would make a very powerful and a lot less tedious feature set for the editor.

 

Aside from the 3D editor these features would be very helpful and will help get more people into mission making or editing missions that they play.

 

This is all I can think of for the time being as of posting but if people who reply mention anything good I'll add it to the list with proper credit and mentions. If I do add any idea to the list from someone else and feels like I haven't mentioned or credited them properly just message me.

 

ED you got a pretty good game.

 

 

Welcome to the forum @Ash Lynx,

 

Good suggestions, most of these have passed several times already since the start of this forum though, so don't get your hopes up too much  

ED did improve the ME greatly over all these years though, so certainly a lot has happened. Most probably wishes like the "drag selection" and "undo command" have past here most often but are probably very complex to implement. But hey, one can always wish

 

Note that since a few months we have a dedicated ME wishlist sub forum

 

[Ash Lynx]

Wasn't aware of the ME wish list, probably didn't see it. I have seen posts a while back of the undo and drag function but they are like 4 years old. Ill repost this on the ME wish list. Not sure if a mod can close this topic or if I have to delete it. 

[sirrah]

43 minutes ago, Ash Lynx said:

Wasn't aware of the ME wish list, probably didn't see it. I have seen posts a while back of the undo and drag function but they are like 4 years old. Ill repost this on the ME wish list. Not sure if a mod can close this topic or if I have to delete it. 

 

Check the ME wish list forum. Few months ago I requested the "Undo command" and the "Drag select" (I called it box select.. not sure what the correct terminology is, but we mean the same). They are one of the first threads ever created in that forum section