Weather/Time setup at mission start

[Bagpipe]

Hello!

 

Recently I was playing a sandbox mission which one of the community members had designed and was having a blast.

Then I thought I would fly it again but with different weather, so I went into the ME and messed about a bit, saved the mission and reloaded but when I played again I had to try to remember what the original weather settings were that the designer had used.

 

What I am wondering is, how much time and resources would it take to implement a "Quick weather/time setup" dialog box or similar when you start a mission?

 

How I envision it working is that mission designers and campaign creators can choose to "enable/disable custom weather settings at mission start" and if enabled then a dialog box will show with just what we see in the editor i.e. Clouds, wind, time etc.

What then happens is it temporarily, for this run of the mission only, overrides the pre-determined "default weather" as assigned by the mission designer but on next load it has reverted to default with the option to assign different weather again.

 

It probably sounds like a lot of work for no real point but it would add a lot of replay-ability to many of the missions out there and give those new to DCS and the mission editor a very simple way to get more from the sim.

It also removes the spoiler effect of entering the ME to change the weather and seeing the enemies plans for the mission...

 

Let me know what you think and if you like the idea then let ED know

[twistking]

good idea.

the arma series has/had a feature where mission designers could define variables that could be changed on the mission select / lobby screen. you could use it to allow different time/weather options, but also anything else really...

[Amarok_73]

Definitely a good idea for feature that I am thinking of since a long time...

[Bagpipe]

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