So I have a Mission but can't see anything and just want to change the skins :(

[Mysticpuma]

Apologies everyone, the FME send my head upside down and all over the place....but here's the crux of it.

I simply wanted to fly the Quick Missions and then put custom skins on my flight of aircraft. Currently this is impossible. One skin gets applied to the entire flight

So I was pointed towards Syn_Vanders Easy Mission Editor, advised to create a mission in there, then load it into FME and change the skins.....So I tried

So I created the mission, loaded it into FME....and everything is blank. I worked out in the left 'tree' how to change the aircraft from P-39's to P-51's (as it doesn't currently support the P-51) and then looked on how to hange the flight skins........but I see nothing and no way of changing the skins. 

 

I am attaching the Mission in the hope someone can explain what I am missing in how to just change the aircraft skins, everything else I guess I can work around but having come from 1946 and CloD FMB, this is like a new language without and instruction book

 

Any help appreciated, cheers, MP

Mysticpuma Missions.zip

[SARFlytitus]

 

@Mysticpuma

Edited June 13, 2020 by SARFlytitus

[SYN_Vander]

2 hours ago, Mysticpuma said:

Apologies everyone, the FME send my head upside down and all over the place....but here's the crux of it.

I simply wanted to fly the Quick Missions and then put custom skins on my flight of aircraft. Currently this is impossible. One skin gets applied to the entire flight

So I was pointed towards Syn_Vanders Easy Mission Editor, advised to create a mission in there, then load it into FME and change the skins.....So I tried

So I created the mission, loaded it into FME....and everything is blank. I worked out in the left 'tree' how to change the aircraft from P-39's to P-51's (as it doesn't currently support the P-51) and then looked on how to hange the flight skins........but I see nothing and no way of changing the skins. 

 

I am attaching the Mission in the hope someone can explain what I am missing in how to just change the aircraft skins, everything else I guess I can work around but having come from 1946 and CloD FMB, this is like a new language without and instruction book

 

Any help appreciated, cheers, MP

Mysticpuma Missions.zip 1003.09 kB · 0 downloads

 

1) You could also change the skin in the QMB generated mission in the editor, it should be the mission named "_gen".

2) You can select the P-51 in EMG for the Kuban map, but if that plane was not historical for the particular battlefield it will not show by default. Uncheck the tickbox "Historical planes" and you will see ALL planes

 

What do you mean with 'see nothing' ? 

-I click on the little + sign near the mission name, so the whole tree opens up:

 

Then click on (in this case) Blue_flight_allied group and click on the + sign again:

 

The plane icons with the names " Blue 1" to " Blue 6" are the planes in the flight.

 

Now DOUBLE CLICK on the plane icon and you will see this window pop up:

 

 

Here you can see the fields for skin (which is now set to <default>) and other attributes such as AI level, Payload etc. Do this for every plane.

Once you've done this successfully I think you'll agree it's actually pretty simple and quick to do.

 

There is also a way to select multiple aircraft and change the same attributes at once, but lets first try this...:) 

 

Edited June 13, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[Mysticpuma]

Thanks both. 

By "nothing" I meant (as you pointed out) all I could see was the light blue square ?

 

Okay, I will give it a further try. I really like the EMB and I think it will give me hours of fun.... just the skins were doing my noodle in ?

 

Cheers, MP

[Zooropa_Fly]

Welcome to a real mans' Mission Editor.

 

S!

[Mysticpuma]

20 hours ago, Zooropa_Fly said:

Welcome to a real mans' Mission Editor.

 

S!

 

Sadly at my age.....changing skins is about as close as I'll get to understanding it

Thanks for the assitance. Managed to get the skins changed after some great advice here. 

Next.....making all the aircraft disable their Nav Lights

 

Anyway, off and running thanks for all the help, cheers, MP

 

(if only it could be done in EME   )

 

[Jaegermeister]

Vander has pointed you in the right direction. You can borrow all kinds of mission logic from the Devs by creating a Quick Mission, saving it as a single mission, and using the logic groups for your own purposes. That’s how I figured out a lot of things.

 

?

 

 

Edited June 19, 2020 by Jaegermeister

[Mysticpuma]

On 6/13/2020 at 10:57 AM, SYN_Vander said:

 

1) You could also change the skin in the QMB generated mission in the editor, it should be the mission named "_gen".

2) You can select the P-51 in EMG for the Kuban map, but if that plane was not historical for the particular battlefield it will not show by default. Uncheck the tickbox "Historical planes" and you will see ALL planes

 

What do you mean with 'see nothing' ? 

-I click on the little + sign near the mission name, so the whole tree opens up:

 

Then click on (in this case) Blue_flight_allied group and click on the + sign again:

 

The plane icons with the names " Blue 1" to " Blue 6" are the planes in the flight.

 

Now DOUBLE CLICK on the plane icon and you will see this window pop up:

 

 

Here you can see the fields for skin (which is now set to <default>) and other attributes such as AI level, Payload etc. Do this for every plane.

Once you've done this successfully I think you'll agree it's actually pretty simple and quick to do.

 

There is also a way to select multiple aircraft and change the same attributes at once, but lets first try this...:) 

 

 

Quick question SYN_Vander.

Getting my head around this and enjoying the comparitive simplicity, then being able to edit the skins in the FME is now straightforward.

The only question I have now is about the countries. I wonder if there is or will be an option to change the countries from anything except Russia...or is there another switch I have missed? Thanks for the help, enjoying BoX....just little things here and there....grrrr

 

[SYN_Vander]

11 hours ago, Mysticpuma said:

 

Quick question SYN_Vander.

Getting my head around this and enjoying the comparitive simplicity, then being able to edit the skins in the FME is now straightforward.

The only question I have now is about the countries. I wonder if there is or will be an option to change the countries from anything except Russia...or is there another switch I have missed? Thanks for the help, enjoying BoX....just little things here and there....grrrr

 

Actually, I just added that option, but you are not using the latest version. It says so in the banner. So clicking the banner will open the website where you can download the latest version. Don’t forget to close the tool if you are going to unzip it in the same location.

I added the option so you can have English radio chatter.

Edited June 26, 2020 by SYN_Vander

[Mysticpuma]

11 hours ago, SYN_Vander said:

Actually, I just added that option, but you are not using the latest version. It says so in the banner. So clicking the banner will open the website where you can download the latest version. Don’t forget to close the tool if you are going to unzip it in the same location.

I added the option so you can have English radio chatter.

 

This is just getting so impressive! Thanks for your hard work on this, I will head over to the tip jar and offer a couple of coffees ?