Multi-selection + mouse move with drag & drop

[Limaro]

All in title. I guess this is not new at all. but this would be unbelivably helpful.

[TEMPEST.114]

Been asked for repeatedly for years and years. 

[Limaro]

Thats what i guessed. However, Not knowing how ED evaluates necessarity of Features, i wanted top Push this. IT hinders me a Lot, doing more Missions.

[TEMPEST.114]

13 hours ago, Limaro said:

Thats what i guessed. However, Not knowing how ED evaluates necessarity of Features, i wanted top Push this. IT hinders me a Lot, doing more Missions.

I looked into what it would take to add this.. as well as undo / redo.

Basically it's a significant re-write of the entire architecture of the mission editor (undo redo) and a less but not entirely insignificant re-write to add in multi select.

The whole thing is built upon only dealing with one selected object at a time. To try and shoe-horn in multi selections without the whole thing breaking is just too much. 

The entire ME is ropey as it is. Adding new features at this point is almost a house of cards. I was even entertaining the idea of writing a standalone ME that ran on the desktop and meant you could edit / create and be playing the mission in the game at the same time... but the amount of work for that to make it all play nicely, plus it would have to be a free project as ED wouldn't let me make money from it, killed the idea early. 

There has been very little from ED about updating the ME to the 21st century so I don't think it's anywhere near fruition if ever. 

Have you looked at that WEB BROWSER editor that's just gone into beta? It might suffice for basic mission creation stuff that you can then finish in the ME?

[Limaro]

vor 9 Stunden schrieb Elphaba:

I looked into what it would take to add this.. as well as undo / redo.

Basically it's a significant re-write of the entire architecture of the mission editor (undo redo) and a less but not entirely insignificant re-write to add in multi select.

The whole thing is built upon only dealing with one selected object at a time. To try and shoe-horn in multi selections without the whole thing breaking is just too much. 

The entire ME is ropey as it is. Adding new features at this point is almost a house of cards. I was even entertaining the idea of writing a standalone ME that ran on the desktop and meant you could edit / create and be playing the mission in the game at the same time... but the amount of work for that to make it all play nicely, plus it would have to be a free project as ED wouldn't let me make money from it, killed the idea early. 

There has been very little from ED about updating the ME to the 21st century so I don't think it's anywhere near fruition if ever. 

Have you looked at that WEB BROWSER editor that's just gone into beta? It might suffice for basic mission creation stuff that you can then finish in the ME?

Web Browser ME? Where to find this? Sound interesing to me

[rob10]

DCS Web Editor on Discord.  The actual editor part is still in alpha and only available to alpha supporters, but the viewer (lets you look at missions in a web based viewer, but not change them) is available.  It's moving slowly but consistently along, with multi-select copy/paste and a bunch of other functionality done in the alpha.  When it's truly done it looks like it will let you do complete or near complete editing with it without using the editor (alpha is not there by a ways yet, but coming along).