Nealius Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 I am trying to create some basic training missions and I am having issues with the timing on waypoints when starting from the ramp. I have the time in the briefing set for 1300, and I have the start time for the A-10 for 1300. Waypoint 1 is something like 1303. I tried changing WPT 1 time to 1318 to give 15 minutes for ramp start/taxi but it would not let me change the ETA. The last time I tried pushing the time in the briefing back 15 minutes, say 1245, it would spawn a free camera in the middle of nowhere because my A-10 didn't exist yet.... How in the world do you get the aircraft to spawn 15 minutes before takeoff time?
-MadCat- Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 ETA is calculated by the distance between 2 waypoints divided by the speed you set for that specific leg. In return, if you just lower the desired speed to waypoint 1, the ETA gets delayed. Don't know if there is a more elegant solution. MadCat Link -> Stateful button commands for many DCS modules
JG14_Smil Posted March 31, 2013 Posted March 31, 2013 In the Blackshark, you can edit your flight plan start time in the ABRIS. Not sure if you can in the A-10. Build a cushion into your mission that allows you to have your startup and prep time, say 15 minutes as an example. Your plane enters at the start, but you edit the cushion into the timing of the AI events you want to match up with. Instead of the events happening at T+30 minutes, make them happen at T+45 minutes. You might have to extend the distance an AI unit travels to a rendezvous point, etc. When you reset the start time in the ABRIS, it resets the WP info as needed and you then Activate the plan at takeoff. This has worked for me.
Nealius Posted March 31, 2013 Author Posted March 31, 2013 ETA is calculated by the distance between 2 waypoints divided by the speed you set for that specific leg. In return, if you just lower the desired speed to waypoint 1, the ETA gets delayed. Don't know if there is a more elegant solution. I tried lowering the speed but the lowest it would go was 135, which only gave me 4 minutes. Build a cushion into your mission that allows you to have your startup and prep time, say 15 minutes as an example. Your plane enters at the start, but you edit the cushion into the timing of the AI events you want to match up with. Instead of the events happening at T+30 minutes, make them happen at T+45 minutes. You might have to extend the distance an AI unit travels to a rendezvous point, etc. It's not really the events/AI/triggers that I'm looking to fix, just time on station. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I get within 30 seconds of my ToS...maybe I'm OCD :p And somehow I inadvertently deleted one of the default weather profiles ("winter with snow" I think)....great...
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