LRM 2.0 Beta1 enters public test phase

[elchacal]

Thanks for the work, Yoda!!! Testing...

[RvEYoda]

Dedi might be going up and down tonight, Fusion is doing some stuff on it...

maybe

[Dusty Rhodes]

Does this mod actually make a mission or do you make the missions and it plays them randomly?

[PoleCat]

Check the first post in the thread for full details on the features. No it does not create the missions but can do so much more to change the way the sim is flown and MP missions are presented and controlled.

 

LRM and Amract together have completely changed the sim and the multiplayer experience creating an exquisite level of immersion and a real sense of a live environment. I encourage any that have not to look into them.

 

Cannot praise these efforts enough. Huge changes, excellent work.

 

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Edited April 29, 2009 by PoleCat

[Dusty Rhodes]

OK, if it doesn't create missions then I suppose you have create the missions for it. Then what does it do that is so earth shattering? Sorry for the dumb questions but I never understood what was so great about it if you still have to create the missions. Does it take the missions you have created and then bring them up automatically at the end of a mission in random order so you don't have to pick them. it does it for you and off you go to fly?

Edited April 29, 2009 by Dusty Rhodes

[Grimes]

AMRACT allows the creation of objectives and can cycle to a specific mission once those objectives have been completed. So if Blue completes their objectives the server could cycle to the next mission.In the capacity of being an online campaign of sorts the blue team could push forward and capture territory on the Red side. Given enough missions and some creativity with objectives you could have a somewhat dynamic campaign.

 

On the side of changing player habits. He has figured out how to have a longer spool up time, and prevent players from taking off from taxiways/roads. In a multiplayer environment this is huge! It adds a little extra responsibility for the player to not want to get shot down, and simply forcing players to get to the runway is a sad but true improvement the attitudes of many players.

[Dusty Rhodes]

Kewl Grimes, thanks for the explanation. It sounds like what we have in the campaign builder in which you can dictate which mission comes next by the results of the mission you just flew. Nice work for LOMAC. It needed it.

[PoleCat]

AMRACT includes:

 

"Lots of stuff, descriptions, documentation and installation instructions will come later.

 

Mission rotation depending on misson outcome, for example ingame

events like killing key a2g or a2a targets, single or multiple.

Picking random new mission, next mission, OR to next or prev mission

depending on which side that wins the mission.

Mission settings/scripts/trigges are put in Lockon/Objectives/ folder,

named as 1,2,3,4,5.txt... .etc. (corresponding to the mission number in your

missions folder. Specifying what airfields are respawn airfields

is done by adding lines like:

 

[AIRFIELD][bLUE][Kirovskoye]

[AIRFIELD][RED][Krasnodar-Pashkovskiy]

to your lockon/Objectives/1.txt,2.txt,.....

 

Automatic server chat messages triggered by ingame events or timed.

Can also be set as repeatable (both timed and triggered ones)

 

For example server posts "Remember key objectives are ...."

 

Winning the mission is done in a few different ways.

If you have old versions documentation somewhere, it will

describe how to set up a mission.

 

AMRACT also rotates mission when all supply trucks at respawn

airfields for one side is lost. (this is automatic when you have LRM

installed on the server)."

 

Copied from the first post as written by =RVE= Yoda.

 

Details for LRM are also in first post.

 

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Edited April 29, 2009 by PoleCat

[Udat]

Wow, the possibilities with this is mindboggling! A server can run 3 different missions with buker-complexes as primary targets in one mission, an awacs/tanker flight primary in the next, runway takeover in the third, even combinations of theese or different types of objectives for each side to create different tactics!! This is what lockon needs online! I truly hope this will be accepted and used by the community; lockon can become the best online sim ever!

[Case]

Unfortunately it seems like it won't be possible to use static objects like bunkers for triggers, as kills on these will not show in the mp_log and probably are not exported. However, the information that is exported, like unit positions and destruction can, in principle, be used as triggers.

[PoleCat]

I think I remember some one at one time putting viable targets under/near static objects to use those as the trigger. Not sure if this would work or not though.

 

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[Case]

That might work. Otherwise it may be possible to check for guided missiles passing within a certain distance from a certain point of interest, like a bridge or building, to trigger its destruction.

[RvEYoda]

Well LRM can export anything.

Right now it only exports truck status, but we could

essentially export the status of any object.

 

This is how AMRACT + LRM becomes so powerful.

 

For example the Maple flag mission AMRACT script looks like this:

 

[msg0] "180"
[msg1] "Started mission : RvE Dedicated Graduation Party"
[msg2] "Red Completed their objectives. Whats wrong blue guys? - All your units are destroyed - RED won!"
[msg3] "Blue Completed their objectives. Comrad reds, be ashamed, the BLUE capitalists won!"
[msg4] "There was no clear winner at mission time end. Manual scoring will follow"
[msg5] " -- Currently running mission : LRM+AMRACT Graduation Party -- "
[MESSAGE][3000][Red supply trucks heading for Anapa took a wrong turn and got lost in the forest]
[MESSAGE][3000][Expect a delay of 10-20 minutes before anapa becomes operational!]
[MESSAGE][3600][incoming warning message for Both Teams!]
[MESSAGE][3600][RED strike package sighted 220km west of Saki!  BLUE package 220 km north of Krasnodar!]
[MESSAGE][3600][intercept and destroy the enemy before they strike your runways!]
[MESSAGE][6000][Warning. Red Ships spotted 50 km off the coast south west of Khersones airfield]
[MESSAGE][6000][Warning. Blue tanks spotted east, south east of Maykop airfield]
[MESSAGE][6000][Destroy these before they attack your airfield!]
[PLANES][13][A-10A][bLUE][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][15][su-25T][bLUE][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][14][F-15C][bLUE][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][19][su-27][bLUE][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][15][Mig-29S][bLUE][2700][4][3]
[PLANES][15][A-10A][RED][3600][4][3]
[PLANES][18][su-25T][RED][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][22][F-15C][RED][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][17][su-27][RED][3600][3][3]
[PLANES][15][Mig-29S][RED][3600][3][3]
[AIRFIELD][bLUE][Khersones]
[AIRFIELD][bLUE][saki]
[AIRFIELD][bLUE][Kirovskoye]
[AIRFIELD][RED][Krasnodar-Pashkovskiy]
[AIRFIELD][RED][Maykop]
[AIRFIELD][RED][Krymsk]
{16}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill vehicle RED "T-80UD" by AGM-65K Maverick
{1}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill ship RED "Admiral Kuznetsov" by AGM-65K Maverick
{6}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill vehicle RED "S-300PS 5P85C ln" by AGM-65K Maverick
{13}
00/00:00:00 RED "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill vehicle BLUE "M-1" by AGM-65K Maverick
{1}
00/00:00:00 RED "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill vehicle BLUE "CVN-70" by AGM-65K Maverick
{8}
00/00:00:00 RED "=RvE=--A.S--"(<jet>) kill vehicle BLUE "M-2" by AGM-65K Maverick

We used to put trucks etc inside/around static objects to make objectives.

GG suggested that we should put the airfield supply trucks inside hangars, which would be quite cool :)

 

For our airquake mission in HL right now we use the following :

[msg0] "240"
[msg1] "Started mission : Short flight air quake!"
[msg2] "Red Completed their objectives. Whats wrong blue guys? - All your units are destroyed - RED won!"
[msg3] "Blue Completed their objectives. Comrad reds, be ashamed, the BLUE capitalists won!"
[msg4] "There was no winner this time. Mission will restart"
[msg5] " -- Currently running mission : Socchi vs Krasnodar -- "
[MESSAGE][1200][Warning, snakes in the forest!]
[MESSAGE][12600][30 minutes left of the mission!]
[MESSAGE][13500][15 minutes left of the mission!]
[MESSAGE][13800][10 minutes left of the mission!]
[PLANES][18][A-10A][bLUE][3600][6][3]
[PLANES][18][su-25T][bLUE][3600][6][3]
[PLANES][18][F-15C][bLUE][2700][6][3]
[PLANES][18][su-27][bLUE][2700][6][3]
[PLANES][18][Mig-29S][bLUE][2700][6][3]
[PLANES][18][A-10A][RED][3600][6][3]
[PLANES][18][su-25T][RED][3600][6][3]
[PLANES][18][F-15C][RED][2700][6][3]
[PLANES][18][su-27][RED][2700][6][3]
[PLANES][18][Mig-29S][RED][2700][6][3]
[AIRFIELD][bLUE][sochi-Adler]
[AIRFIELD][RED][Krasnodar-Pashkovskiy]

We can also make triggers like

 

[i]
[TRIGGER][bEGIN][bLUE shot down another 3 Su27 and 2 F-15Cs]
{3}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "NameDoesNotAffect"(<jet>) kill RED "slowPilot"(Su-27) by laserbeam
{2}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "NameDoesNotAffect"(<jet>) kill RED "slowPilot"(F-15C) by laserbeam
[TRIGGER][END][/i]

This is just text input triggered by mission specific mp_log events.

 

 

For some future use (not yet exported anywhere) we also enable

MSOs (Multi stage objectives). They are in AMRACT but we are not

yet exporting their results anywhere at the end of the mission, but it's

tested and WORKING :).

[i][sECOBJ][20]
{3}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "NameDoesNotAffect"(<jet>) kill RED "slowPilot"(Su-27) by laserbeam
[sECOBJ][35][sTRICT]
{2}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "NameDoesNotAffect"(<jet>) kill RED "slowPilot"(A-10A) by laserbeam
[sECOBJ][45][sTRICT]
{1}
00/00:00:00 BLUE "NameDoesNotAffect"(<jet>) land at NEUTRAL Kirovskoye
[sECOBJ][END][/i]

Every time a player joins a server run by Amract, he has a player object created in the amract software,

essentially creating for him a logbook for that mission. It includes kills, deaths, IP, yada yada, and objective

completion, if we want to work on stats in the future.

Edited April 29, 2009 by =RvE=Yoda

[RvEYoda]

. //Start line syntax is [sECOBJ][bEGIN][<NAME>][<POINTS>]

. //Adding objective syntax is

. //[sECOBJ][<POINTS>][sTRICT]

. //<standard objective syntax>

. //[sECOBJ][<POINTS>][sTRICT]

. //<standard objective syntax>

. //[sECOBJ][<POINTS>][sTRICT]

. //<standard objective syntax>

. //End line syntax is [sECOBJ][END]

 

This kind of work was finished many months back, but there was no real interest shown back then.

Edited April 29, 2009 by =RvE=Yoda

[RvEYoda]

Ok Basically the rwr is not doable in terms of user transparency.

It will be removed from LRM.

[RvEYoda]

Ok one last little trick

Everyone gets pissed about people hit (with even wings off!) firing all the missiles

before crashing into the ground, so, i will introduce :

If you have at least 3 failures then your plane will be unable to fire any missiels.

 

This is to simulate damage to the fcr/computers dealing with launch events and also

physically losing the connection with the missile electronics (for example wire cut)

[PoleCat]

Brilliant!

 

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[RvEYoda]

Feature finished.

Unfortunately I cannot make it work 100% for F-15s since lockon

allows us to fire missiles in any mode. But i made sure he is stuck

in nav/ILs mode and CANNOT fire amraam. (however he could in

theory still fire aim9, but that can unfortunately not be helped)

 

For ru birds after at least 3 failures, he is stuck in nav/ILS mode

(where they cannot fire anything)

[Kuky]

Have to check that out :)

[wed]

Feature finished.

Unfortunately I cannot make it work 100% for F-15s since lockon

allows us to fire missiles in any mode. But i made sure he is stuck

in nav/ILs mode and CANNOT fire amraam. (however he could in

theory still fire aim9, but that can unfortunately not be helped)

Maybe it is possible switch Safe\Arm trigger to Safe position?

[Kuky]

There is no working Safe/Arm switch/function in LockOn

[RvEYoda]

There is one at least for the eagle, but it is only a toggle function, and I cannot ask LUA

what the current status is, otherwise that would have been my first choice

[borchi_2b]

yoda, ist there any ossible way to get the r27et back into its original flight balistics? cause it is way to short. right now it travels half the distance it can travel in real life

[RvEYoda]

i cannot change any physics of the game unfortunately.

The same problem is there for all bvr missiles

[borchi_2b]

thanks for that answer