General GROUP question

[jollyjack]

I'm trying to get a grip on this grouping bizzinez. .....

 

1) is there a trick to select all MCUs, planes etc belonging to one action item together at once.

Lets say a group of Ai bombers take off, fly a route, drop bombs, and fly home and land.

 

Is that here:

 

 

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2) to clear the ever increasing mess of items during constructing a mission;

can you hide one or more of such a group from view in the view port, so that you can have a better look at other action item constructions involved?

 

Edited October 12, 2019 by jollyjack
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[JimTM]

6 minutes ago, jollyjack said:

1) is there a trick to select all MCUs, planes etc belonging to one action item together at once.

Lets say a group of Ai bombers take off, fly a route, drop bombs, and fly home and land.

 

See "Select Icons In the View Port" on pg. 16 of the manual. You can click and drag to select all icons at once but you may end up with other icons in the selection. In that case, you can press and hold Cntl and click to unselect icons that you don't want in the selection.

 

7 minutes ago, jollyjack said:

2) to clear the ever increasing mess of items during editing constructing a mission;

can you hide one or more of such a group from view in the view port, so that you can have a better look at other action item constructions involved?

 

See "Show or Hide Icons, Text, Links, and Terrain" on pg. 30 of the manual.

[jollyjack]

The first i have been doing ... sometimes icons overlap that this is not always an option. Would be nice if say you van select all the waypoints on a plane route at once etc.

 

I've been using the object filter quite a lot, but indeed the toolbar is a great tool itself.

 

BTW what are these for, never seemed to be able to do something with them, always blanked out .... is there a sub-activation?.