Late activation button

[ikaro]

Hi comrades,

 

Could anyone explain me, what is and how use it the "late activation" button?

 

I'm trying to make an airplane parking at the start of the mission, to become active and start their route at a given time.

:helpsmilie:

 

Thanks.

[Jona33]

Put the aircraft down and set it to "start from parking"

GO to triggered actions and create Perform command-->start

Create a trigger Once-Time more (in seconds)--AI task, "Start"

 

Should be like that I think.

[Megagoth1702]

Gotta check the "uncontrolled" box on the aircraft first. Then the "start" command will actually work. Otherwise they just start. ^^

 

Also I would love to introduce you to forum search. :)

 

When you're in a forum, click on "search forum-advanced search" and type in ROUGHLY what you are looking for. It's very easy when you look for specific mission editor functions such as "late activation" or "uncontrolled" or "dynamic weather". Make sure to "search titles only" and you will get pretty good results. It's tougher when you have specific questions but for editor features/buttons it's the way to go. :)

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/search.php?searchid=5101290

 

Anyway, example mission will be uploaded in 2 min so you can take a look.

Edited December 9, 2012 by Megagoth1702

[Ripcord]

Here it is.... I keep forgetting this myself : )

 

UNCONTROLLED. When setting an AI group to a “Takeoff from Ramp” (cold start) waypoint, the Uncontrolled check box can be used to have the AI group appear at their starting location on the ramp, but not begin the spool up sequence until initiated by an AI TASK trigger as set by the START Command in the Triggered Actions of the group. In this case, the group aircraft will appear in the mission in parked configuration and remain as such until triggered to “come alive”.

 

page 122 of the DCS World manual.

[Megagoth1702]

Yep, DCS Manual is in DCS WORLD\DOC\DCS manual.pdf :)

 

Also real quick - late activation for GROUND units usually means that on trigger action "group activate" they appear in the map and start doing their thing. But if you tick the "visible before start" checkbox on the ground unit, it will SHOW the ground unit in game, it wil have no AI though and I am not sure if it's gonna be engaged by enemy units.

late activation for planes.miz

[ikaro]

Oh, thanks for the answers...

 

And forgiveme for the double topic... I searched in the forum and didn´t see anything, then i made a new topic.

[gunterlund21]

having a problem with the uncontrolled command. When I set the trigger to AI Task there is nothing in the AI Action list. I looked at the example mission and I dont see where 1.Start is coming from . How do I enter it.

edit: Solved it with trigger action.

Edited December 23, 2012 by gunterlund21