I am trying to use the mission editor and I followed the tutorial but I am having no results. The editor seems to crash all the time. I have been making a mission of increasing simplicity, now I just want one flight to take off go out and come back. When I run the viewer the planes taxi out to the T.O. segment and then the viewer goes blue. A couple questions:
Is it possible to create and view a mission that does not return in order to just check the functionality of the viewer? EG lay down waypoint 1 waypoint 2 a little further down the runway way point 3 just off the end of the runway and 4 and 5 way points heading straight out. select waypoint 3 just off runway, select 'make take off segment'. Select waypoint 4 make segment cruise dest alt 1500 speed 160, select waypoint 5 make segment same as waypoint 4. Add flight, set spawn point before taxi segment. Highlight waypoint after take off, click 'run to selected in viewer'. I have tried this and it does not work.
In the tutorial it says to click the waypoint you have made for take off and create a landing segment, is this a typo? I assume it is
There are a bunch of lines that get generated that are confusing, I can see the segment/waypoint lines and I am guessing that some of the other lines are the calculated path of the flight and maybe an extension of the heading. It is a bit gibberishy I did notice that my landing segments had radiused turns except for the first turn which showed only an acute angle, this was autogenerated. Does anyone know what the lines and there colors mean?
I am a little confused by the waypoint segment system. The waypoints are the arrow heads and the line connecting them is just the path to be segmentized so to speak? It seems as though the segment is between the previous arrowhead and the arrowhead of the highlighted segment but on the waypoint tree the segment appears below the name of the waypoint suggesting that it takes place between the arrow head of the named waypoint and the next arrowhead down the list. Would it be correct to say that the transition of something like a climb occurs such that the final altitude is at the waypoint?
Is there anything I can turn down to make the editor run any better? It is extremely sluggish in zooming or panning and the crashing has driven me around the bend.
How do I reinstall the editor? do I have to reinstall the whole game?
If I am ever successful at making a mission run, how to I use it offline? Do I build a res library and place it in offmis folder?
I have downloaded some of the staged missions some of which work, how would I open them in the editor to tinker with them and check editor functionality? Where are they? are they the mis.res files?
My computer is win7 and seems to run the game ok, 60fps with 1280 x1024 max texture 1024 the sliders a little left of center and nothing but bump map terrain checked in advance and disable clutter checked.
I'd like to make some missions but I can't even get past go.
thanks for any help
