Templates safe to use?

[Fuby]

Question.. if I make a furball fight of say f15's fighting f15's for online play..

 

and then want the same with just swapping planes to all su27's with new ammo loadout..

is this safe within DCS without messing anything else up?

 

templates from one mission safe to use in another?

 

I know its done in other games with no problems..

just been questioned in its use in this title..

never seen a thread that it could cause problems.. or known problems..

I know its called a Mission "Editor".. So I assume swapping out planes and saving as another file is no big deal.

"They" on the other hand say other things like VIEW etc are not swapped when you swap out planes in editor..

Which causes trackIR problems etc.. I don't see this as possible.. is it?

Edited May 8, 2013 by Fuby

[Grimes]

As long as you dont use prepare mission, the view settings shouldn't be saved into the mission file.

 

You can edit and swap out everything as you need to, and it'll work.

[Fuby]

So if you hit prepare mission then save.. it's possible to screw up views from another swapped plane if you just change plane type at a later date and just save?

 

So its a yes and yes answer? its safe to use and/but yes you can screw up trackir views as they may be saved with old planes once used?

 

Can you fix this with saving each new plane added template with another prepare mission with the newer planes?

or did I lose thought here on what prepare mission actually does?

Edited May 8, 2013 by Fuby

[Grimes]

Probably. I never really used prepare mission and it certainly isn't a requirement to publish a mission.

 

Basically prepare mission is used to save avionics and system data that can only be modified within the simulator so that when the mission is loaded, this data is already entered. For example the ABRIS map can draw target boxes, by using prepare mission you can go into the sim, draw the boxes, and save the mission so that when you load back into the mission at a later time, the boxes would already be drawn. There is a list somewhere of the various things that can be saved with prepare mission, but I believe its basically only for the DCS aircraft.