Area 88 Campaign

[heloguy]

Am I the only one that wants an Area88 campaign.  Dynamic, great, static, still awesome.  Anyway, keep watching the show, and wanting to do it here.  I even took all the SNES and arcade songs and made them .ogg's so I can listen to them while I fly using the DCS Walkman mod.

Edited July 4, 2023 by heloguy

[ameriveaux]

Ace Combat ......

[Glloq]

Look for Area 18 mission and campaign on user files. I personnaly use for my squadron an own heavily reworked and improved version with all planes / helicopters and more missions types that I can switch to other maps with some work. I still use some original sounds so I will not share it.

[heloguy]

On 7/5/2023 at 12:39 PM, ameriveaux said:

Ace Combat ......

Nah, not interested in the arcade gameplay.  Just interested in the story, and the music.

On 7/5/2023 at 3:26 PM, Glloq said:

Look for Area 18 mission and campaign on user files. I personnaly use for my squadron an own heavily reworked and improved version with all planes / helicopters and more missions types that I can switch to other maps with some work. I still use some original sounds so I will not share it.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[ke51]

This is not a campaign, but you should look at using these skins with my Kazama Shin.

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3331407/

 

[heloguy]

@Glloq, thanks again for recommending Area 18.  I spent some time modifying it to my liking, but what I can't figure out is how to change what types of enemies spawn for each random mission.  I'd like to make the enemies more of an 80s cold war flavor.  Is there a way to do this?

[Glloq]

@heloguy : i don't remember the mission setup since I run an very heavily modified version but i would say check in the mission area18 lua for unit strings and replace them with the name of the unit you want. Ping me again in 15 days I'm in vacation right now

[heloguy]

16 hours ago, Glloq said:

@heloguy : i don't remember the mission setup since I run an very heavily modified version but i would say check in the mission area18 lua for unit strings and replace them with the name of the unit you want. Ping me again in 15 days I'm in vacation right now

Will do, thanks for that.

[ke51]

You can change or add a plane of your choice by opening the mission details screen.

[Glloq]

@heloguy : so I did redownload area 88 standalone mission and even if it's not easy there is a way to change units (it's mainly done by script so there is no way to change it using only the mission editor).

 

You will have to unzip the .miz like a zip file, edit in \l10n\DEFAULT\scriptsARE88StandAlone.lua and zip again the .miz with the .miz extension instead of a zip

 

The main methods you will have to look after:

createComboyAttackers
-change _groundtype and _groundtype2 ="whatever" by the unitname you want instead

createComboy
-change _groundtype and _groundtype2 ="whatever" by the unitname you want instead

createHostileCampament
-change _AAAtype , _AAAtype2, _AAAtype3 ="whatever" by the unitname you want instead for each camp type

createHostilesBomberGroup
-change _airtype   by the unitname you want instead for each escort and bomber group and change the payload accordingly

createHostilesAirGroup , createHostilesDefenderAirGroup , createHostilesSwarm and createHostilesAirGroupExtra
-change _airtype   by the unitname you want instead for each hostile group and change the payload accordingly

 

The two last choices with airtype is obviously where you can change your opponents planes and payload. I will let you read the lua file since there is a lot of things that can be change further if you understand it.

[heloguy]

@Glloq Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.