Enjoy external views in tracks

[gabuzomeu]

Hi, 

the campaign is so full of nice setups and things happen all over the map so that it's a bit frustrating that external views are not possible (beyond your own Huey) , however Reflected gave an excellent reason as it would break a lot of the gameplay.

However, there is an easy  way to have this in tracks so you can see the fantastic missions from other point of views (what the hell is Satan doing before they come to help? etc....) and make movies.

- save a track

- open the .trk with 7-zip or similar

- extract the "mission" file

- open with editor (Notepad++ is good)

- search for "forced" , which will get you to the forced option list

["forcedOptions"] =

    {
        ["easyFlight"] = false,
        ["fuel"] = false,
        ["easyRadar"] = false,
        ["unrestrictedSATNAV"] = false,
        ["optionsView"] = "optview_onlymap",
        ["permitCrash"] = false,
        ["immortal"] = false,
        ["weapons"] = false,
        ["easyCommunication"] = false,
        ["labels"] = 0,

    }, -- end of ["forcedOptions"]

-suppress the line  ["optionsView"] = "optview_onlymap",

- save (make sure there is no extension (.txt or other) added to the name 

- drag "mission" file into the zip window, replacing the original mission file in the .trk

 

And if you forgot to save the track of the mission where you finally avoid crashing in the LZ palm trees, it is saved (last mission AND the mission before) in C:\Users\"your name"\Appdata\Temp\DCS\ as a regular trk file

 

 

 

 

 

[Reflected]

If you think Satan 1 and all other AI is doing a proper startup, taxi and mission route, you'll be disappointed. Never trust an AI to do stuff. Never. So I set the missions up in the most AI proof way, in order to rely on them as little as possible. No point in following them around

[gabuzomeu]

Indeed, it seems fighter pilots just stay at the bar until absolutely needed. 

[Reflected]

Haha, or at ‘Disneyland’