I've lost the air defence templates, AAARGH!

[diegoepoimaria01]

As the title says, I've lost the air defecen templates ... and I don't even know how I've done it!

But now, the question is: How can I re-create them ?

At the moment, in the "create group from template" windows, I've got nothing!

I've tried to search how to, but I'm afraid I'll have to import a lot of custom templates ... and I don't know where to start ... can someone help me ?

[SoW Reddog]

You've probably clicked on that little button underneath the drop down arrow in the Country box. Apparently that deletes the group template , with zero prompt and zero indication on that screen that is what it does. I did much the same thing by accident myself.

I'm not sure if it's possible to get these from another player, they didn't reappear for me when I updated DCS so I'm guessing they're not part of the core files checked by the repair function. Perhaps the best way forward might be for you to create some groups yourself, and then save them as templates to replace the ones you've lost? A pain, but once you get into the swing not too difficult to do?

Don't know if that helps at all.

[Rudel_chw]

10 hours ago, diegoepoimaria01 said:

I've lost the air defecen templates ... and I don't even know how I've done it!

But now, the question is: How can I re-create them ?

the Group Templates are stored on a "templates.lua" file, located on \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\MissionEditor\data\scripts … rename the file to templates.bak and then run a repair (with dcs_updater repair), the updater should re-download the file anew.

[diegoepoimaria01]

Ok something has reappeared ( THANK YOU ) , but only one for russia, everything else is under "Combined joint task forces Red " ... is that correct ?

I saw around that there are some nice templates to have air defences networks, but I'm still a total newb on this  ... any suggestion ?

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, diegoepoimaria01 said:

... is that correct ?

 

Yes, on this spreadsheet I have noted the default unit templates and their countries.

DCS 2.7 default Unit Templates.xlsx

[diegoepoimaria01]

Thanks

Hmmm, I see that it's not a lot ... and I remember that there was a lot more for the Red faction ( I've created a battery of SA-6 I think on the Nevada Map ) ... was something changed in the latest updates ?

 

I guess I'll have to find something here.

Thanks guys

[Rudel_chw]

11 minutes ago, diegoepoimaria01 said:

guess I'll have to find something here.

Or you could edit your own templates, in the end it’s more satisfying, and you can do it gradually as you build new missions 

[Wait4It]

Were there not a lot more templates by default in game? I have an older mission where i placed a SA10/SA11/SA2 sites from a template, but now it seems the list is mostly empty.

[Kayos]

There were lots of templates.  Not sure why they have all disappeared.  

[winghunter]

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/136413/

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, winghunter said:

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/136413/

Its a file from 2011 .. are you sure it works on the current DCS?

[winghunter]

no

But havent found anything more recent. Even though such a thing is quite useful