How to generate AAA-Mission with Mission Editor

[Pitt61]

Hello,

 

 

I´m still not firm with the mission editor.

Can somebody , please  tell me something about creating the following mission.

I simply want to creat a mission, in which i can attack an aitfielld with  a great number of aaa-guns.

(you know, historically the german AAA gun  "8,8"  was placed massively arround  areas, which had to be protected..)

 

i still don´t know, what trigger   or what kind of  "linked entity"  i had to create in BoS mission generator to built an accurate firing AAA protecting an airfield.

Who do i "inform" the places gunners  to attack  inbound enemy airplanes ?

 

May be you know a link to a thread in this forum, where my problem was discussed allready.

 

thanks,

 

(allways check six)

 

Regards,

Pitt

 

[unreasonable]

I may be corrected, (I have not yet used BoS mission editor, only RoF editor which has some similarities).  

 

In RoF AA guns did not need a trigger, because they had AI. (Although I am sure it was possible to give them triggers if you wanted them to do something odd). Making them "linked entities" is required to turn them on: when I did something like this in RoF I just pressed the "linked entities" button for each gun I placed and left them to it. You can set their AI to normal, ace etc depending on what you think the accuracy, load time etc should be.

 

So they simply started firing at aircraft from the other side when they got close enough.

 

So if you can build a mission with many German AA guns, I would expect them to start firing when you fly a Soviet aircraft near them. 

 

If you do not get any definite answers from someone with direct BoS mission experience I would just try that and see what happens.

[Pitt61]

Hi unreasonable,

 

Thx, i tried to generate am simple  AAA-Mission. But it did not work. 

Not any single  8,8-Gun fired  a very round.  

I dont´know my issue: may be i signed teh countries in a wrong way.

I think  to give soem attributes to an objekt only is possible by editing teh thing i want in the "properties"-menue.

I remember, that there are countries to choose, but i do not know, wether it is "conected" right to my choosen objekt.

 

Then there are "Flags"  to chose:  i do not know, wether the "Flag"  put near an airfiled  bound that area to a special country.

 

Yes, i know: it would be better i read the whole pdf-manual about BoS-mission generator  ;o)

 

oh ,  o.k.  my be i had to do so...

 

may be i hear from you..

 

Regards, Pitt 

[No601_Prangster]

Download my mission builder guide and your answer is on  at page 15.

 

http://www.ijeremiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/IL-2_BoS_Mission_Building_Guide.pdf

[No601_Swallow]

Pitt, if you've made a mission and you don't know why it doesn't work, maybe upload it here. Maybe some kind person will have a look and tell you what you've forgotten.

 

There are a lot of little things to link up and its easy to forget a vital part of the jigsaw puzzle when you're first starting. (That's why "groups" are so useful - if you know a part of a mission, such as an AI flight, or a train, or an AI ground skirmish, etc, works, you can save it all as a group, and after that you can just drop that group into any mission, and customise it as you wish!)

 

Once you've done it a couple of times, you start to see the logic in how the missions are made, and soon it becomes almost too obvious what you have to do! Steep learning curve all right, but then a nice wide sun-drenched plateau!

Edited February 5, 2016 by No601_Swallow

[unreasonable]

Download my mission builder guide and your answer is on  at page 15.

 

http://www.ijeremiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/IL-2_BoS_Mission_Building_Guide.pdf

 

Very nice guide thank you.

 

Is there a similar RoF guide in pdf form? I was only able to get anywhere with RoF mission editing (very simple missions!) using your online tutorial - but a pdf version of it would be much more convenient.

 

Edit - or are the two so similar that we can follow the BoS instructions and be confident they will work in RoF? (I see the way to set up AA guns is no different).

Edited February 6, 2016 by unreasonable

[Pitt61]

Hi Swalow, hi, _Prangster,

 

Thx for the very good Support.

 I will do so  and study the missionbuilder guide you  put to me.

thanks  . i will report soon.... or upload   something...yes.. 

 

 

Regards,

 

Pitt

Edited February 6, 2016 by Pitt61

[Pitt61]

Hello Prangster,

 

Will you..please ... give the link  to your reference-mission .file   you mentioned

at page 3   in your BoS.Mission Editor pdf. ?

In the pdf-file  it´s no longer linked   .

 

thx,

 

Pitt

Edited February 6, 2016 by Pitt61

[Pitt61]

allready found, thx,

 

 Pitt