Mission Building Questions.

[ares473]

Greetings all!
I am new to mission building for Aces High and I just recently made a few simple small missions that came out pretty good. Now I want to build a big mission and I have a few questions for you experts and veterans out here.

1) Is there a limit to the number of active aircraft you can place in a mission? (The answer to this will determine how accurate the mission will be)

2) Can you spawn aircraft to where they are already in flight?

3) How do you add text in the briefing before the flights?

4) Can bombers be set or told not to fire thier defensive armament during a flight?

thanks in advance for any and all input. When this mission is done, I hope it will be a good one and I will share it with the community here. Thanks again.

ares473

[BrownBaron]

1. No
2. Yes, but this will make the planes literally fall out of the sky till they get to above-stall speed and contine flight
3.uhm.......i cant quite remember at the moment....I think its in the "Mission Group"
4. Yes, instead of an "attack" segment, use the "cruise" segment.

NOTE: MANY MEN MUCH BETTER THAN YOURSELF HAVE MADE SPECTACULAR MISSION, BUT DUE TO THIS BUGGY v. 2.17 THEY ALL EXPERIENCE CRITICAL ERRORS, SO YOU MAY WANT TO WAIT ALLITLE BIT TILL THEY FIX THE BUGS TO CONTINUE WITH YOUR PROJECT.

but, then again, if you do manage to make a mission that doesnt send me hurtleing towards the ground because of a ghost, thatd be cool too.

GoodLuck, I look forward to its release! 

[ares473]

Thank you. The mission I am planning is The Palm Sunday Massacre. I asked about the bombers because the game does not provide Ju-52's so in their place and in the interest of keeping all enemy aircraft German, I will use unarmed Ju-88's. Thanks again. I will give it a try. Worst that will happen is it will be infested with bugs

Oh, the reason I ask about spawing in mid air is I have to figure out how to get all of the enemy aircraft into one large formation by the time the player (playing the allied side) intercepts them. I will figure it out.

[BrownBaron]

Oh, the reason I ask about spawing in mid air is I have to figure out how to get all of the enemy aircraft into one large formation by the time the player (playing the allied side) intercepts them. I will figure it out.

You could simply have the players flight stay on the runway, or in the briefing room for a minute or two to give the bomber horde a chance to assemble.  

and here's the most common bugs to look out for, and try to build around:

1."Ghost" planes, an invisible plane will fire on the player's (and others) aircrafts.

2.Sometimes WHOLE FLIGHTS never spawn.

3.When certain flights enter the pilot's veiw range, the game crashes.

or atleast thats all i can remember for now. If you have any more questions you can PM me, (or if you want more knowledgable help) Stalwart, USranger, soda, and most of the other regulars on the offline forums.


EDIT:Ooops! looks like your not as new to this offline bussiness I thought, you probably already knew all this! let me know if im coddeling you a litte bit too much.  

[ares473]

   NO problem. I will take all the advice I can. Right now I am just taking notes and writing down an outline to get my game plan together. I will do my best to avoid the bugs if I can. I've still got reading to do and notes to take. Thanks a ton Baron.

[danny37]

to add text to a mission you go to "events",this will cause a pop up box called "event properties" .at the top is description,this is where you name the event so the game know what to look for in the mission.below that is a drop down menu with various events to choose from,you want to choose text.next is the event time,the time at which you want the event to start.usually you want to start a couple secs after entering the oclub in the mission,so if you have your oclub set to run for lets say 10secs then this text event would start at 2secs.at the bottom of the event prop.s box is the sentence"enter text to be displayed in chat buffer" this is where you want to type in the text you want to show up in the chat buffer in the oclub of your mission.

[ares473]

Anyone know what size images have to be when using them as an event for the briefing rooms screen? I get a message telling me size needs to be a power of 2? 

[USRanger]

Use 256x256, 512x512, or 1024x1024.  I always use 512x512, as you still get a crisp picture, yet keep the file size down.

[ares473]

As always many thanks Ranger. I hope to have somewhat entertaining mission for you all before I get to bed tonight. I think you guys might like it.