Set time of day to begin flight

[Scorch]

I see a "start" in the mission builder, is that the time of day the flight will begin? I can't seem to set it to early morning. Seems like anything before 12 noon I guess, is red I'd like to set an early monring or early evening time to start, but I can't seem to figure out how.

 

Thanks.

[Jona33]

In the briefing page there is the time.

[Nate--IRL--]

See attached.

 

Nate

[WildBillKelsoe]

I see a "start" in the mission builder, is that the time of day the flight will begin? I can't seem to set it to early morning. Seems like anything before 12 noon I guess, is red I'd like to set an early monring or early evening time to start, but I can't seem to figure out how.

 

Thanks.

 

there are 2 time fields in the mission editor.

 

the mission start time is the time in the briefing page when the mission will start. Yes it is the time of day (day/nacht)

 

the start field on each unit is the time at which the unit will appear/disappear during the course of the mission, as well as the ETA to reach a specific waypoint or steerpoint under given speed and altitude parameters (air units), or speed (land/sea units).

 

Let's take an example. You want to set time of day to 13:15. You set 2 aircrafts to be landing around 13:20. If you set your aircraft waypoint 0 as ramp start, at 13:18, in 2 mins, you'll see those aircrafts landing at your airfield (provided not too much wind or physics)

[Scorch]

Thanks!

[nomdeplume]

Let's take an example. You want to set time of day to 13:15. You set 2 aircrafts to be landing around 13:20. If you set your aircraft waypoint 0 as ramp start, at 13:18, in 2 mins, you'll see those aircrafts landing at your airfield (provided not too much wind or physics)

Just to note that you're likely to confuse people if you set their aircraft's start time later than the mission start time, as they'll be sitting around wondering why they don't have a plane.

 

Also IIRC, the start time has no effect for multiplayer clients - they get created when people spawn into the slot.

 

When you're setting the mission start time, you can set the HH:MM:SS, and also the day (final field). This is days since June 1st, IIRC. You can use this to get longer/shorter days and other effects related to the seasons.

[Speed]

Also IIRC, the start time has no effect for multiplayer clients - they get created when people spawn into the slot.

 

Not true, last I checked MP clients will be unable to get into an aircraft until that aircraft's start time has passed. Unfortunately, there is no way to speed up or slow down this start time for MP clients. :cry:

[nomdeplume]

Oh okay, thanks Speed, that's interesting to know. So close to being able to lock slots until some event has occurred... yet still so far!

[Druid_]

Oh okay, thanks Speed, that's interesting to know. So close to being able to lock slots until some event has occurred... yet still so far!

Not at all. You can set MP slots to a future time/date and GROUP ACTIVATE them on a trigger (or at least you could last time I checked in an earlier patch).

I did this in a BS1 mission many moons ago. So when you captured an enemy FARP. MP slots were then activated at that FARP.