templates in editor problems

[hollywood]

I really don't get how to make a template for say a SA 11 battery with additional vehicles, troops etc.

The manual isn't very helpful.

Can anyone give a real dumb ass explanation please.

[nomdeplume]

Create your group as usual. Once your happy with its composition and orientation, click on the Templates button while your group is still selected.

 

In the Templates panel you'll see a heading "Create new template", and under that it will have the name of the group you have selected. Type in a name under there in the "Template name" field (e.g. 'SA-11 Battery'), and press the Save Template button.

 

Now that it's saved, if you want to recreate that group in another mission (or in the same mission), click on the Templates button in the toolbar, and then in the top section of the templates panel select the country for the group, choose the name of the template from the dropdown (e.g. 'SA-11 Battery'), and then click on the map to place the group. It takes a moment for the editor to generate the new group so be sure to only click once and have some patience.

[hollywood]

thanks Nomdeplume,

 

but i still don't understand.

say you add 3 SA 11 launchers, 1 SA 11 CC and 1 sa 11 SR plus say SA 19 and a fuel truck. You can't multiple select, so you only can click on 1 item say the 3 launchers, then you bring up the template function as you said, name and save template but all you have got is a template for 3 launchers- sort of defeats the idea of the template. I must be doing something wrong?

[nomdeplume]

You need to put the units in the same group. Each unit in a [ground vehicle] group can be a different type. When you save the template the selected group's composition and relative position is saved in the template so they can be easily re-used in a different mission. That's the purpose of templates.

 

For air defences, it's especially important to have all members of the same battery in the same group. This is because target information isn't transmitted between different groups. So if you have your launchers in one group and your radars in a different group, the launchers will never engage the enemy because the radars cannot tell the launchers what to target.

[Scorpi]

(sorry, my english is not so good)

 

Hello,

try using the templates..

templates.lua

Edited October 29, 2011 by Scorpi

[hollywood]

got it

 

got it..... finally .... you set up a big group of say 12 items of something then you click on each unit and change it to what you want.... all units in the group then share the same name and template can be formed. got it now