Is there a way to make steer-points for multiple aircraft with out manually placing them for each aircraft?

[PSYKOnz]

Like the title says. I have a large mission. With many client aircraft for players to choose from, there’s prob 100+ of them. Is there a way that I can put down a set of common steer-points that all aircraft will share?

 

I don’t want to have to go and manually add 10-20 steer points to each of the 100+ aircraft. 

if there’s a way to place them then sync them across all aircraft I’m all ears, or eyes I guess cause it’s text lol

[Wizard1393]

Yeah this is a tricky one mate since it sounds like you already placed all aircraft. Maybe you could get away with the finicky way of copying the route data between aircraft from the "mission" file within the .miz file. But all aircraft does not share the same default speeds etc... don't know if it would actually work.

But so I think the least painful way of "fixing" your problem would be to delete all but one aircraft per type, create waypoints for each one, then copy up as many aircraft per type as you want, in that way preserving the route data.

 

[PSYKOnz]

Might be worth a try, there’s just so many of the bloody things, I was hoping there was some way of just putting down markers and then magic would happen, but nope lol not that lucky.

 

all the aircraft I want to put the points down for are player selectable ones, so I really only need to have the points on the map and at the right altitude, how easy is the mission file thing to do, there just steer points I don’t actually need anything to move to them, just mark points on the map 

[HC_Official]

I usually set up on group(one unit per group) with, the correct loadout and waypoints etc, then copy paste it a load of times and edit he names later on

[Backy 51]

Try this as a work around.  Start a clean empty mission and make a route of waypoints with aircraft A set as takeoff from runway.  Save the mission as a Static Template.

Now in the mission editor change aircraft A to aircraft B and change it (B) to Takeoff from Ramp.  Load the Static Template which will put aircraft A back on the runway.  Change aircraft A again to aircraft C.

Now in the mission editor change aircraft A to aircraft C and change it (C) to Takeoff from Ramp.  Wash, rinse and repeat as required.

This technique gives you the benefit of your 20+ waypoint (or whatever number) now being a saved "Stereo Route" that you can call up for future missions on this map.

I do this for Tanker, AWACS and other Stereo or Canned routes.  Once you build up your library, you can share the STM files with others and save them time as well as mission planners.

See this download and examine my STM files for the tanker and IR-983 Low Level routes.  https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3317445/

Cheers!

 

 

[PSYKOnz]

i  really want to avoid starting over or re loading any of these aircraft, there's way to many of them, could i use the above technique to create the waypoints then add them to the mission file? as in open the file and manually add them to each aircraft in the text file?

Edited November 12, 2021 by PSYKOnz

[Backy 51]

2 hours ago, PSYKOnz said:

i  really want to avoid starting over or re loading any of these aircraft, there's way to many of them, could i use the above technique to create the waypoints then add them to the mission file? as in open the file and manually add them to each aircraft in the text file?

 

Yes, you could unzip the miz; edit with Notepad++, then repackage it back into a miz. That process can be tricky however. Be sure to back up the original mission file before experimenting. You may be better off in your specific case  in doing the copy/paste of desired aircraft with multi-point route and then changing the aircraft type of the copy.  Any method used is going to involve a lot of mission editor post editing of aircraft parameters.