Prangster's IL-2 BoS Mission Building Guide

[No601_Prangster]

 

This guide was written as an introduction to the IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Mission Editor for the mission builders in my squadron, the Tangmere Pilots. The Tangmere Pilots run a Sunday night co-op campaign that’s flown against AI opponents. The main tutorials in this guide concentrate on creating AI opponents and friendly units for multiplayer co-op style missions. I’ve also included some supplementary tutorials on setting up a new maps, dogfight maps and single player missions. Download the PDF here:

 

IL-2_BoS_Mission_Building_Guide.pdf, 5MB

 

For the tutorials there’s a template mission file that you will need to download from here.

 

Prangsters_ME_template.zip

 

The template mission has all the buildings and frontline markers already included. Also included is a mission file with all the tutorials completed to use as a reference.

 

There are bound to a lot of typos and mistakes so PM me and let me know of any you discover. 

 

Hopefully I can help demystify the Mission Editor and show you some of the amazing things you can do with it.

 

Cheers,

Edited May 7, 2022 by No601_Prangster
Updated links

[Kendar]

Many thanks for sharing, downloaded and will read this week end

[TP_Jacko]

Hoorah you did well done mate.

 

Dont forget the link to your other workhttp://tangmerepilots.co.uk/NewForum/viewforum.php?f=72

Edited August 13, 2015 by TP_Jacko

[Skoop]

Nice, this is exactly what I need to dip my feet into the murky mission editor.....Thanks Prangster.

[JimTM]

Excellent guide Prangster!

[pilotpierre]

Well done prangster, might even dip my feet into the murky waters that I have avoided like the plague to date.

[jeanba]

Thank you, I hope this will help me to get into the fmb

[Dakpilot]

Great stuff I am sure this will be a great recourse for many, 

 

Perhaps a duplicate post could also be put in the Manuals tutorials guides and tips section to get wider exposure

 

Cheers Dakpilot

[79_vRAF_Friendly_flyer]

Reading it now, excellent tutorial!

[von_Tom]

Gentlemen (and ladies amongst us), this a [insert expletive here] awesome guide and there is now no excuse whatsoever for anyone to say they cannot use the ME!

 

von Tom

[Gitano_Fraile]

Muy buen trabajo gracias

[SCG_Neun]

Thanks.

[Jupp]

~S~ No601 Squadron,

 

Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Long May You Fly,

 

!S -Jupp-  

 

[coconut]

Excellent work! This must have taken an insane amount of work to produce.

 

Small remark: Maximum UL and DL in server settings are in Kb/s, I believe. In other words, setting it to 10000 will be about 10Mb/s. You gave examples, so readers should understand anyway regardless.

[No601_Prangster]

Thank you Coconut, I'll update the Guide next week after some more feedback.

 

Thank's everyone for your enthusiastic response, I'm really glad you like it! 

[Toxin1]

Many thanks for your efforts Prangster! 

[4SCT_Vespa]

Thanks to Prangster and Tangmere Pilots Group...invaluable help!! Really appreciated guys

[[DBS]Tx_Tip]

Well Done Prangster.

[TP_Jacko]

Hello Prangster,

I am working through your guide and may I make a comment on the Influence area.

 

on Page 58 "Select Object Menu/Edit Influence Area Boundary. Click on a corner of the Blue triangle and a yellow selection circle appears."

 

For me its a double click maybe its my setup. so could edit to "Select Object Menu/Edit Influence Area Boundary. Double-Click on a corner of the Blue triangle and a yellow selection circle appears."

 

Onwards

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Well done and thanks 

[No_85_Gramps]

Just discovered this morning! Thank you!  

[No601_Swallow]

Lovely stuff, Prangster. Tom's right - no one has any excuse not to start pumping out missions.

 

I'd like to remind all: there is a "Group Sharing" thread. While in fond moments I envisage hippy-esque love-ins, this actually refers to a sputtering attempt to share functioning groups of objects and MCUs. Once you've got 'em, that is, once you've built up a library of groups, basic missions can be like lego - slot the groups together (with creative tweaks, natch!) and deceptively impressive results can be seriously straightforward.  

 

[And - sad to admit, but it's true! - it's more fun than being in game sometimes: getting shot down by [insert your own Dead-Eye-Dick here] every time you pause to admire the scenery!]

 

It rather reminds me of templates - clever hard work in the structural bits makes it much easier to do cool stuff in the creative bits. Or something... Ahem.

Edited August 16, 2015 by No601_Swallow

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Give this guy many gold stars thank you very much

[FlatSpinMan]

I just had a quick look through and this looks the absolute schnizzle. This must be spread around.

[LoupVert]

Thanks a lot Prangster, you are my beacon.

[Goanna1]

Fantastic job and a huge help in mission construction, Much praise to you included.

[Jade_Monkey]

I wanted to start making missions but the Youtube videos I saw were a bit cumbersome.

Thanks to this, I'm sure there will be a lot more content created by many more members.

 

This is a priceless contribution to the community! Thanks!

[PA-Sniv]

Thanks Prangster!!!

[avlSteve]

Nice!  Thanks a lot, Prangst.

[darthdooboss]

Thank you very much MATE!!!!!!

[Ala13_Super6_1]

Thanks Prangster, this guide is Fantastic

[MadisonV44]

Just clear and perfect.

Many thanks, keep up the good work !

[Ala13_Super6_1]

I am following the guide to create a mission and I have a problem which is driving me crazy.

When I create a unit interception Lagg this will put a complex trigger and area attack so that when between 109 unit is activated to start the attack, the problem is that the 109 does not trigger anything and unity is created and not to do it as if the trigger not recognise the enemy unit and not activate the plane lagg. What is the problem?

 

finally I climb the mission to see if anyone can help.

Thank you

 

https://mega.nz/#!OlAzRTZb!iUdsNjw2hpoIdsjzTG4r7U3oZPNsiGsVBxX5ghlRxL4

Edited August 27, 2015 by A0Super61

[TP_Jacko]

 

I am following the guide to create a mission and I have a problem which is driving me crazy.

When I create a unit interception Lagg this will put a complex trigger and area attack so that when between 109 unit is activated to start the attack, the problem is that the 109 does not trigger anything and unity is created and not to do it as if the trigger not recognise the enemy unit and not activate the plane lagg. What is the problem?

 

finally I climb the mission to see if anyone can help.

Thank you

 

https://mega.nz/#!OlAzRTZb!iUdsNjw2hpoIdsjzTG4r7U3oZPNsiGsVBxX5ghlRxL4

 

 

Probably one of those moments to walk away and then comeback after 10 min and sometimes the answer is then visible.

In the trigger Double check that,

You have the event ticked  "Object entered alive"

You have selected the aircraft from objects script list

You have the country selected as Germany also to be safe tick the check entities.

 

Then you need to check the LaGG is activated and spawned by the trigger with a timer.

Can you post a picture of what you have in ME.

 

Or open the finished mission provided by Prangster and make a group form the part that works and import  it into your own mission to see any differences.

You will get there keep trying

Edited August 27, 2015 by TP_Jacko

[Ala13_Super6_1]

 

 

 

 

 

this is the problem, I can not make it work. the enemy plane lagg not generated when I enter the trigger.

Edited August 27, 2015 by A0Super61

[JimTM]

Select "Check Entities" in the complex trigger.

[Ala13_Super6_1]

yesss!!!! It was that, thank you very much Jim for work out the problem

[JimTM]

You're welcome. I don't know of a scenario where you would not select "Check Entities" or "Check Vehicles". Does anyone know of a scenario for this case?

Edited August 27, 2015 by JimTM

[KoN_]

Thanks great work 

[Jade_Monkey]

Awesome guide!
 

I finally took the time to start the tutorials on the guide and I learnt a lot.

 

I confess that when I tested on SP, the soviet AAA did not spawn but I probably messed something up.

Do all the complex triggers work in SP and MP?

 

I remember reading something about using different triggers for SP somewhere.