Shrike88 Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 Greetings saw on hoggit and old rumblings to add an ILS to any runway by creating a beacon type over an object with scripting. Having a heck of a time getting it to work. Hopefully someone in the community is way better than I with the scripting. Please anyone any ideas adding an ILS to a runway without editing the core Beacons.lua. Maybe @Grimes or anyone has had better luck Added just an object, named the static Quote groupBeacon = Group.getByName("Beaconator") groupBeaconCTL = Group.getByName("Beaconator"):getController() ActivateBeacon = { id = 'ActivateBeacon', params = { type = 16640, --Localizer system = 5, --localizer system callsign = "mmm_beacon", frequency = 108700000.000000 }, } --groupBeaconCTL:(ActivateBeacon) Controller.setCommand(groupBeaconCTL, ActivateBeacon) here is my reference https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_command_activateBeacon my code throwing errors or doesn’t work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted November 9, 2022 Share Posted November 9, 2022 Why not just add a portable TTS 3030 TACAN unit at the end of the runway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrike88 Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 On 11/8/2022 at 6:30 PM, Elphaba said: Why not just add a portable TTS 3030 TACAN unit at the end of the runway? Because it is not an ILS or a precision approach system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 46 minutes ago, Shrike88 said: Because it is not an ILS or a precision approach system. I'd like to be proven wrong but I don't believe you can just 'add' an ILS to any runway/airport. It's all hardcoded. Adding a beacon is just a TACAN. there is no glidescope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrike88 Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 (edited) possible. I can add the Localizer and the Glideslope to the Beacons.lua for syria manually overriding it and get an ILS to work. I just wanted another way to do it without killing IC Oh well. However I believe your right in that only TACAN's and ICLS emitters can be added to the map in the mission editor or with scripting. Just another limitation of DCS. Edited November 10, 2022 by Shrike88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elphaba Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Oh, if you're hacking at Beacons.lua then for sure, but there's nothing in the editor or any of the normal things you can add that will add an ILS to a runway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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