Assigned Countries

[nickmow]

I understand that once a mission/campaign is created it is impossible to edit the countries involved ?

 

In LOMAC you could edit the country an aircraft belonged to in the meinit.xml I

How would I do it in DCS A10 ? I want to do this so I can edit the campaign a little to have some RAF Tornadoes flying in support of the US in the Shore campaign. For my own personal perversion you understand :thumbup:

[Cibit]

AFAIK you can open the campaign in mission editor and add the tornadoes to it like that. Give them waypoints and targets if you like. You should have no issues because the UK are part of the Blue coalition. Only stumbling block is if the campaigns are locked and as such uneditable:huh:

 

Let us know how you got on:)

[EtherealN]

You should be able to change the nationality of a given aircraft. What you cannot do is change the coalitions. (Well, you can if you unzip the miz file and text-edit the LUA code in the mission file, but it would most likely be easier to just re-do the entire mission at that point due to it being very very easy to mess up the expected ordering of entries and thus break the mission.)

[Boberro]

I am not sure if Blindspot didn't release his nice Editor mod which allows you example cloning or changing coalitions.

[nickmow]

Thanks Cibit, I was faffing around with the editor last night and trying to Add the Tornado, It wont have it just keeps switching to a Turkish A10, Also when you do save it and fly they simply arn't there. You can edit to your hearts content with the original countries in mission.

Ok having had a tinker with the Mission file. Which bit am I changing ?

 

and what number is associated with the UK ?

 

in the mission file I found this

 

coalitions =

{

blue =

{

[1] = 16,

[2] = 3,

[3] = 2,

}, -- end of blue

red =

 

thanks again for help so far

[nickmow]

Ok got it ! So far only edited 1 mission The SHore 01.

In Notepad++ I extracted and edited the Mission lua. Changed Turkey for the UK

You do that at line 921 and 922 and line 793. I can now add UK assetts to the mission. and fly it with them in. What I will try next is adding the UK aswell as the Turks so stand by

 

Uk country ID number is 4

[nickmow]

Ok heres how its done in detail (ish) The Shore campaign mission 01

 

Extract the Mission file drop it on your desktop.

lines 790 to 796 look like this

blue =

{

[1] = 16,

[2] = 4,

[3] = 2,

[4] = 3,

}, -- end of blue

 

and

 

lines 913 to 930 now look like this

country =

{

[1] =

{

id = 16,

name = "Georgia",

}, -- end of [1]

[2] =

{

id = 4,

name = "UK",

}, -- end of [2]

[3] =

{

id = 3,

name = "Turkey"

}, -- end of [3]

 

save the file, reinsert it into the Shore 01.miz file and overwrite the original.

 

Open in ME and off you go, chocks away chaps its the RAF. Im guessing that this would have to be done for each of the missions in the campaign but Im not sure yet :pilotfly: