repsol Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 Hello... Up until now i have only used the missioneditor to make simple targeting practice missions but i'm currently working on my first 'complete' mission. It's great fun but this being my first mission i feel i made a couple off misstakes. The biggest one beeing not to have writtien down an' easy to follow' list of all my flags. It gets a bit tricky to keep track of them all. This got me thinking...If only there was a search function in the editor to let me find ALL TRIGGERS that had anything to do with a certan FLAG, or UNIT, GROUP or TRIGGERZONE. That would make bugghunting a bit easier i feel... SEARCH - FLAG..................(number) ----------UNIT..................(number) ----------GROUP................(name) ----------TRIGGERZONE......(name) Example... If i use the pulldown menu and choose SEARCH UNIT(and enter the unit nr...for example 25) Then the editor would list all TRIGGERS that has anything to do with UNIT 25 Maybe this is a totaly unnessesary suggestion but if it could be easily added to the editor...Why not... Thoughts ? http://forums.eagle.ru/images/icons/icon7.gif
Grimes Posted January 20, 2012 Posted January 20, 2012 It would be useful to have. Blindspot made a mod for FC2/BS1 that had a function like this and it was incredibly helpful. I tend to compensate by naming my groups and units to something that makes sense and by organizing the triggers the best I can. If a set of triggers are related, I try to put them together, if flags are related I keep them around similar values. But if worst comes to worst, I just open up the mission via a text editor and do searches for specific flag values to figure out where they are and what they are doing. The right man in the wrong place makes all the difference in the world. Current Projects: Grayflag Server, Scripting Wiki Useful Links: Mission Scripting Tools MIST-(GitHub) MIST-(Thread) SLMOD, Wiki wishlist, Mission Editing Wiki!, Mission Building Forum
repsol Posted January 21, 2012 Author Posted January 21, 2012 Hello, Grimes... Yes. Thoose are good tips...I try and do the same but in this first mission atleast i sort of lost track of my flags...(not having written them down on list)...With more experince i'm sure i will be able to handle them without to much problem... Thanks for your tips..:pilotfly:
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