Value of Flags Saved Across Seperate Missions

[Caldera]

Hey All,

 

Can you do it?

 

Example:

• Mission A --> Sneaky hostile blew up my base --> Flag 1 is true
• Mission B --> Flag 1 is true  --> Take off from another base
• Mission B --> Flag 1 is false --> Take off the same base

 

Thanks in advance,

Caldera

[AKA_Clutter]

You should be able to do something like that as Buddy Spike's Blue Flag server do this from mission to mission.

 

I don't have a clue as how to do it, but my guess is you Mission A would write the values to a file, and Mission B would read that file.

 

Good luck.

[cfrag]

It can't be done entirely within ME yet, but you can add this functionality provided

• you remove DCS's mission restrictions on the hosting PC to write and read arbitrary files (currently, Missions can't write to file as a sandbox measure, a good thing but too restrictive right now. I wish missions could write a single string to their sandbox) by removing the 'sanitize' directive for the "io" and "lfs" modules. This must be done by the person owning the server (or PC the mission runs on) and can't be activated from within the mission nor DCS settings. 
• write code to access a common file across these missions and transfer/retrieve the values to the flags you want to use. Tangentially, this is also how you can implement persistence for your missions.
• alternatively, you could use network code to access a common server where you write, and retrieve, these flags. That would require you to set up such a server first.