Briefing Room (V0.5.312.22)

[Mike64]

BriefingRoom
Try now: https://www.dcs-briefingroom.com/
BriefingRoom for DCS World is the much more advanced successor to my own Headquarters for DCS World (HQ4DCS) application, and a massively improved version of DCS World's own fast mission generator. BriefingRoom allows you to create complete scenarios in just a few clicks. Missions generated with BriefingRoom tend to be rather "player-centric". Their purpose is not to simulate a real war theater, like Falcon 4's dynamic campaign, but to provide the player(s) with interesting objectives and challenges. This approach is a perfect fit for DCS World's limited number of units and very capable scripting engine.

While BriefingRoom is designed to be easy to use and to allow the creation of missions in mere seconds, it is also heavily moddable and will give many options to power users ready to tackle with its most advanced features.

BriefingRoom is free and open source and will always remain so, but if you want to support its development, you can make a one-time donation when downloading from Itch.io, or a monthly donation using the PayPal link you'll find here.

Initial version by Ambroise Garel, now developed and maintained by John Harvey

Source code, changelogs and additional information are available on the repository.

Found a bug? Have a suggestion? Post it in the issue tracker.

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Features summary

• Can generate any kind of single-player or multiplayer mission, from deep strikes behind a hostile superpower's cutting-edge integrated air defense network to photo reconnaissance flights over a terrorist training camp.
• Choose from a large variety of mission types, from combat air patrols to bomber interception, target designation for artillery strikes, photo reconnaissance, bomb damage assessment and many others, or create your own by picking target types, players tasking, and various objective and mission features.
• Extremely easy to use: generate missions in seconds without any technical knowledge, then export them to a DCS World .MIZ file in just a few clicks.
• Automatically generates proper friendly/enemy units according to countries and time period, but also able to create "what if" scenarios (2010s USAF vs 1940s Luftwaffe) and freely choose player aircraft in any country/time period.
• Generated mission can include custom scripts for various effects (advanced SAM AI, JTAC smoke and laser designation, artillery strikes...)
• Save mission templates to small .ini files and share them with your friends.
• Easily moddable to add more countries, units and scenarios
• Available as both a graphical user interface for ease of use and as a command-line tool for batch mission generation
• Customize enemy SAM and air-to-air opposition for any mission difficulty.
• No units spawned through runtime scripting. All units are added to the mission itself, so they can be edited with DCS World's mission editor for further customization.
• Please read the user's manual and the modder's manual for more information
• The development roadmap and a list of features planned for future versions can be found here: trello.com/b/iGsqgbTu/briefingroom-project-tracker

Try the Web version no download needed.
Download Latest - Version 0.5.312.22

We don't monitor this thread actively and recommend you go to our discord for quicker communications

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Edited December 22, 2023 by Mike64

[GrEaSeLiTeNiN]

Just downloaded and put the unzipped folder into C drive as "DCS Briefing Room". I can open the main menu interface by clicking on the Briefing Room Desktop/Web exe but clicking on any of the blue buttons (Quick Generator, Full Generator, etc) doesn't do anything, whether using the Desktop or Web version. The previous version was fine. I tried running it as Administrator but the blue buttons still won't open up anything. Did I miss a step? Thanks.

Update: I used the Beta version instead and it works.

Edited July 6, 2022 by GrEaSeLiTeNiN

[Bucketnate]

I have this issue where the waypoints are far underground making target acquisition nearly impossible. Is there a fix to this?

[Mike64]

On 8/26/2022 at 5:46 AM, Bucketnate said:

I have this issue where the waypoints are far underground making target acquisition nearly impossible. Is there a fix to this?

I've just implemented the fix for this. Hopefully should show up in the next beta

[Bucketnate]

Ive also noticed that a lot of times the "Enemy" faction isnt hostile at the start of the mission. Is there something im missing there? Theyre "red" but they dont fire on me right away and jester in the F14 thinks theyre friendly?

On 9/16/2022 at 11:33 AM, Mike64 said:

I've just implemented the fix for this. Hopefully should show up in the next beta

awesome thanks for the heads up

[Mike64]

Briefing Room V0.5.211.15 released - Real World Map!
Headline Items

• Added: Real-world map the UI

• Added: Full Builder Objective Location hint option

• Added: Situation Editor

• Added: Moose Core and Moose ATIS for home base

• Added: Enhanced Gamemaster Script (Zeus)

• Added: Linkage between campaign missions (starting airbase, objective area & situation)

Discord

Full Changelog and Download

 

Edited November 15, 2022 by Mike64

[joker62]

7 minutes ago, Mike64 said:

Briefing Room V0.5.211.15 released - Real World Map!

Thank you very much for fixes and updates. Can't wait to try it.

[malarcky]

Just an idea, it would me amazing that this was possible to combine with something like ChatGPT to create missions with a prompt by the user or by the AI.

[evilnate]

Excellent work! Thanks for making and sharing.

[LucShep]

 Friggin awesome tool to create missions!  

Have been using this lately for some fun co-op missions with friends, it's perfect! 
Many, many thanks for creating this, also for continuing development with fixes and updates. 

[Lazerhawk]

Awesome tool! Thanks & keep it up!

[truebrit]

I never knew this existed till now, does it still work, is it being updated?

[dark_wood]

39 minutes ago, truebrit said:

I never knew this existed till now, does it still work, is it being updated?

yes, now we have an online version too: https://dcs-briefingroom.azurewebsites.net/

[Bucketnate]

Just curious when the next non-beta update could be. Looking forward to using this with newer mods and the F15E

[Packy_OC]

Can I create a mission on a computer that does not have DCS installed and send or email it to my gaming rig?

[Mike64]

On 12/12/2022 at 7:38 PM, malarcky said:

Just an idea, it would me amazing that this was possible to combine with something like ChatGPT to create missions with a prompt by the user or by the AI.

Not really viable and ChatGPT doesn't like talking War or anything that could be used as Misinformation
 

On 4/16/2023 at 5:04 PM, truebrit said:

I never knew this existed till now, does it still work, is it being updated?

Yup Watch our discord main released are every few months but betas come out as regularly as I can make them 

 

On 4/16/2023 at 5:44 PM, dark_wood said:

yes, now we have an online version too: https://dcs-briefingroom.azurewebsites.net/

We also have a proper domain now! https://www.dcs-briefingroom.com/

 

On 8/5/2023 at 10:48 PM, Bucketnate said:

Just curious when the next non-beta update could be. Looking forward to using this with newer mods and the F15E

Should be sometime this month, I'm trying to do main releases more often but life keeps saying no.

On 9/11/2023 at 4:00 AM, Packy_OC said:

Can I create a mission on a computer that does not have DCS installed and send or email it to my gaming rig?

Sure! The only advantage of running on your gaming rig is you get access to any custom Liveries and Payloads you have installed.


We do not actively monitor the forums. In fact I forget about it regularly. Beta updates and discussion are hosted on https://discord.com/invite/MvdFTYxkpx

[Mike64]

Main Release Version 0.5.312.22
  * Added:
      * Added: SA-10 Radar Variant Templates
      * Added: Kneeboard Editor (Only compatible with BR mission post this release)
      * Added: Kneeboard Rendering and standardized briefing component
      * Added: Livery Selector will choose a Livery from coalition nations if country set to CJTF(B/R)
      * Added: Payloads default now auto assigns loadout. Clean/Empty option
      * Added: Escort Attacking units now try to intercept hostiles
      * Added: On Road variants of escort
      * Added: Escort Refactor Units now attack escorted units
      * Added: Support for timed aircraft spawns
      * Added: Transport to player airbase or any airbase
      * Added: Transport objective troops Support vanilla transport methods
      * Added: Missing C-17A and Mig-29S (Mig-29G also flyable)
      * Added: Support for Folder based liveries
      * Added: Unlimited fuel for target aircraft
      * Added: CAP variants of Idle (Aircraft ROE free fire original Return fire)
  *  Updated:
      * Updated: Aircraft attackers delay spawn relative to intercept point
      * Updated: Automatic troop loading limited to Aircraft not supporting native loading (currently: UH-60L)
      * Updated: Corrected JTAC unit as Static (it doesn't move)
      * Updated: Custom and Vanilla Templates
      * Updated: Data to DCS Open Beta 2.9.2.(purging non default liveries)
      * Updated: DB data to DCS 2.9
      * Updated: Dotnet from 7.x.x to 8.x.x
      * Updated: Increase Kneeboard image size to ED default size
      * Updated: made "CombinedArmsPilotControl" default on
      * Updated: Missing Tasks for aircraft
      * Updated: Moose script to Moose 2.9.2
      * Updated: Process Images at save stage (Faster generation, Slower saving)
      * Updated: Reduce Kneeboard resolution for performance
      * Updated: S-3B Tasks and upgraded tanker out of lowpolly
      * Updated: Unit selection no longer chooses immovable units that will be asked to move
  * Fixed:
      * Fix: Aircraft on base targets now have waypoint on aircraft not airbase
      * Fix: Attack logic for Escort mission attackers
      * Fix: Auto check for and fix undeclared modules in templates
      * Fix: Bad testing package version
      * Fix: Broken Target coordinates scripting
      * Fix: CLI failing due to uninitialized DB
      * Fix: Error after trying to spawn Non existing aircraft
      * Fix: Escort direction wrong way round
      * Fix: Escorted units go direct to end
      * Fix: Failing to clear Objective Hints
      * Fix: Infinite loop crash
      * Fix: JSON parsing missed module for Cargo and Static Objects
      * Fix: Medium and Long Range SAM site should always spawn full template.
      * Fix: More bad filter count occurrences
      * Fix: Null error
      * Fix: Objective CAP feature & Taskable CAP ROE incorrect
      * Fix: objective complete count logic
      * Fix: Objective features spawned at pickup for move to front line rather than at drop off
      * Fix: Objective hints no longer allow objectives to ignore borders.
      * Fix: Override Radio Frequencies type conflict
      * Fix: Packages Airbases not showing in Briefings
      * Fix: patrol aircraft ROE incorrect
      * Fix: Remove bad and incomplete data.
      * Fix: Standardize DCS Task usage for players
      * Fix: Stop multi detection for FlyNearAndReportComplete
      * Fix: Template groups shouldn't be shuffled order
      * Fix: Throw error when template file missing
      * Fix: Values set to null rather than empty string causing null pointer error
      * Fix: Yak-52 now player flyable
  * UI
      * UI: Ban and allow everything buttons on ban list page
      * UI: Clearer on Objective separation setting relocation data
      * UI: Improve Kneeboard Editor Functionality
      * UI: Incorrect filter on Subtask Behavior
      * UI: Payload to QuickBuilder
      * UI: Task & Behavior have descriptions
      * UI: Use Task for player Payload instead of default

  * Upgraded:  
      * Upgrade: Bump FluentRandomPicker from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump Markdig from 0.33.0 to 0.34.0 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.Web in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.WebView.WindowsForms
      * Upgrade: Bump Microsoft.Maui.Graphics from 7.0.100 to 7.0.101 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.3.2 to 17.8.0 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump Polly from 8.0.0 to 8.1.0 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump xunit.runner.visualstudio from 2.4.5 to 2.5.3 in /Source
      * Upgrade: Bump YamlDotNet from 13.4.0 to 13.5.2 in /Source
  * Misc:
      * Misc: Add warnings for BR data missing DCS data
      * Misc: Correct bad link
      * Misc: Update docker readme command
      * Misc: Update editors notes for timed spawns
      * Misc: Update links
      * Misc: WebApp shutdown much quicker

[DD_Friar]

I need to raise a bug we had on our server last night. 

All of the discord links I follow say the invite is invalid.

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction please?

Salute

Friar

[Mike64]

On 10/24/2024 at 10:46 PM, DD_Friar said:

I need to raise a bug we had on our server last night. 

All of the discord links I follow say the invite is invalid.

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction please?

Salute

Friar

https://discord.gg/ScYSGmadkg

[AirGibson]

I've looked through the options and documentation I could find, but I can't find examples showing how to use the Supercarrier as my cold starting point for my F/A-18C.  Is that possible?