Friday 2010-12-03 Dev. update and Discussion

[VectorForFood]

Oleg, just dropping in to say it looks fantastic... I hate to wish my life away, but this looks FANTASTIC!~

[Freycinet]

Ok, I have to say I am disappointed to see that the 12. Group area is not part of the map.

I know it is necessary to draw a line somewhere, but still, the whole battle is incomplete without part played by 12. Group.

[Ctrl E]

Hi Oleg,

Are we close to knowing what computer specs we will need to run SOW? I'm close to building a machine and would like to know.

Many thanks and keep up the great work. it's all very exciting.

[Flying_Nutcase]

Hi Oleg,

Another thing that would be really useful would be Favorites for each list. For example, an object could be marked as a 'favorite' and it would appear above the full list, with other favorites.

Most people use the same objects repeatedly. This would be a real time-saver.


Flying Nutcase

[nearmiss]

The new sort ability is excellent, but we need filters as well.

Filters for Country,squadron ID,etc,

examples:

1. Squadrons should only show for respective country

2. Skins should show only for respective squadron they apply


The better the filters and sorts the more efficient it will be to build missions.

Filters can be applied with third party *.mis text editor like the QMT.
Filtering *.mis files after the misson is built and saved is a workaround for something better done inside the FMB.

[dflion]

Name ( We arrive at Siverskaya
Short Flying in very bad weather we arrive at our new base at Siverskaya, just as a Soviet bomber attack is in progress\n
Description Date: 31st July 1941\nTime: 0915\nWeather:Rain/Snow\nCloud Height: 1000m\nLocation: Iyhvi-ahtme\n\nWe had quite a tussle last week with some Migs over Narva with two Friedrichs being shot down, luckily both pilots surviving, one with minor injuries.\n\nThis morning Hannes Trautloft announced to the Gruppe that we would be flying to Siverskaya, sixty kilometres south of Leningrad.\nHe had already inspected this airfield and had found nearly all the buildings intact \u2013 the Russians had left in such a hurry!\nTrautloft went on to say that he would make Siverskaya our main base for the attack on Leningrad.\n\nThe weather was very bad with heavy rain showers sweeping in from the Gulf of Finland, several aircraft had already bogged in the large mud pools forming on the airfield.\n\nSelect skin: Bf-109F-2_vomHofe_JG54_Blan.bmp (markings on)\n

Following ‘nearmiss’s’ previous discussion on ‘Mission briefing’s’, I have shown above, one of my mission briefing text’s created in the old FMB.
To save time, I have leant over the years, by ‘cutting and pasting’ a mission briefing from the FMB, you can use it as a template to create a series of new mission briefing’s, outside the FMB using your laptop. This lets you carry out research on your mission’s more easily while watching TV etc. you don’t have to open up the flight sim and type them in.

I always leave the heading’s information, ‘Name’, ‘Short’, ‘Description’ etc. changing these when I have imported the mission text back into the FMB. Writing the mission text is easy, including the ‘\n’ and ‘\n\n’ for new sentences and paragraphs.

You can see from the above, that anything written, or placed into the FMB automatically, creates and corrects in its own language. With the new FMB, this feature will be much more powerful, creating ‘script written’ trigger points most probably using key words.

I will be very interested in seeing how you will set-up your airfield position prior to taxying and take-off and how the AI aircraft will behave around you. I noticed there is a ‘script spawn C’ tick box which hopefully will be linked to your mission briefing text?

DFLion