Custom missions

[Philip Mongeon]

Good evening all you fine pilots

I'm not sure where this thread should go so please move if it's in the wrong spot.

I don't know if many are like me when it comes to DCS... I drool over the platform as a whole, but sometimes,  i just dread the time involvement requirement just to create a semi-decent mission just to pop off a few rounds in the WW2 theatre.

Is there a thread with user created missions, more precisely, WW2 Theatre?

[rob10]

Not sure how many WW2 missions are in there, but if you go to the USER FILES section of the main DCS website (not the forum site) there is a section for user created missions/campaigns.  Not all of them may work (if they were created on an older version of DCS), but there are definitely some good missions there (for F-18 anyway).  It's mostly divided by aircraft and hard to search, but manually digging around hopefully you can find what you want.

[draconus]

12 hours ago, Philip Mongeon said:

i just dread the time involvement requirement just to create a semi-decent mission just to pop off a few rounds in the WW2 theatre

There are some built in Instant Action or Single Missions for every module for most maps. There's also Create Fast Mission option. There are missions in this forum for every module, in their respective Missions & Campaigns sections, ex. https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1017-missions-and-campaigns/ or here: https://forum.dcs.world/forum/81-user-created-missions-general/

 

[Philip Mongeon]

 

On 9/20/2024 at 8:42 AM, draconus said:

There are some built in Instant Action or Single Missions for every module for most maps. There's also Create Fast Mission option. There are missions in this forum for every module, in their respective Missions & Campaigns sections, ex. https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1017-missions-and-campaigns/ or here: https://forum.dcs.world/forum/81-user-created-missions-general/

 

whenever i try the generate fast mission for the spitfire, wether i select CAS, fighter sweep, escort, intercept.... it always generates the same thing.... opel trucks, a few german tanks and 2 fw190s... NO MATTER what i choose, it always generates this

[Exorcet]

On 9/19/2024 at 7:45 PM, Philip Mongeon said:

 i just dread the time involvement requirement just to create a semi-decent mission just to pop off a few rounds in the WW2 theatre.

I second the User Files mentioned already, but a tip for mission making. You don't have to do it all at once and one mission file doesn't have to be one mission.

Have you tried creating triggers for missions? With these you can set a mission to go down an unpredictable path, which keeps a mission from getting repetitive. One simple way to do this is to have a list of events and to select them at random with a flag. For example:

Event 1 occurs when flag 1 takes the value of 1

Event 2 occurs when flag 1 takes a value of 2

etc

You can create a trigger to randomly set a flag value at the start of the mission and the events triggered car vary from spawning enemy bombers, to a call for help from friendly ground troops. This can obviously get complicated, but you can approach this one event at a time. Spend a week setting up event 1. The following week, setup event 2 and add value 2 to the list of possible flag values. The next week add value 3, etc.

After some time you will have a complex and unpredictable mission.

Another approach that can also be combined with the above is making simple mission templates that you can use as a starting point for other missions. So you might setup a simple mission where you takeoff an attack enemy bombers. Later you can load that mission and save it as a new mission and then add something new to it, like a second wave of bombers, or an emergency call to handle some other task.