Mission creation, features Wishlist Thread - Vector Thrust

I don’t think there is a thread for this so I created this one for anyone to make suggestions for new actions, triggers or anything else related to mission edition/creation.

Well, there's this thread but I think this thread may be a completely different topic.
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Edited by: Nergal01

I guess not so much for mission creation but for skirmish mode I would really like to be able to pick the paint scheme of AI aircraft. For example if I chose MiG-29's and Flankers for opponents I'd like to be able to specify the squadrons/paint schemes they use and not just randomly assigned dissimilar schemes.

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okay uh i already suggested that and plenty more
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Edited by: szboudreau01

I would like the ability to put "dead" units (unit corpses) on the map in the editor.

I realized what I’m trying to ask is more technical stuff to have an idea how to code, but I’ll add this the way I see it and then will be adjust if needed.

• It will be a unit with the corpse model and skin,
• It will use the corpse Hp,
• it won’t be targetable,
• it won’t snap to ground, so it can be placed with any orientation.
• It won’t display any reactor active (no burning effect)
• It won’t be removed after some time

Would be nice if burning effect could be set in unit properties. That would also allow for cool in-engine cutscenes.
All other points are pretty much what I wanted to see.

It'd be nice to have Ace Combat style targeting to allow for slightly more similar mission design: invincibility actions if they're not already in the editor (I can't recall), the ability to set an enemy to not be targetable (but can still take damage), some rules of engagement (don't engage until fired upon, engage at will, etc).

It would be nice if rearming worked properly in a mission. Currently we deal with constantly having our ammo counts reset back to the normal count for the plane and increasing from there, when it would be much better to be able to add to a total.

Maybe this is getting a bit out there, but it'd be nice to be able to fly a path, record it in some way shape or manner, and then have the AI follow that same path either in the form of a circuit or how it gets from point A to point B.

szboudreau01 wrote: ^

okay uh i already suggested that and plenty more
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Ah I missed that. Then add my voice to the request.

Being able to change the teams for a unit already in the mission would be another useful feature - and being able to tell a 'friendly' AI to target the player and fire their missiles, then turn enemy would be a really nice function.

Boogie_Van wrote: Being able to change the teams for a unit already in the mission would be another useful feature - and being able to tell a 'friendly' AI to target the player and fire their missiles, then turn enemy would be a really nice function.

I suprised that how this is not already available, it should have been one of the most basic actions

IIRC there isn't any actions I can use to change the information regarding a uni-

Actually, that right there.

An action one can use to change all of the information regarding a unit (object, SP weapon, etc) as if it were just placed into the map that way after whatever triggers the action. Possibly even some way to do this to the player's aircraft would be great.

To be completely honest I don't really have a full understanding of what we can really do already with the mission editor. Kinda need to be able to make co-op missions before I can really get the opportunity to flesh the thing out.

Edited by: Boogie_Van

Only noticed now that the option to change team is already there, the action is called "Unit Team".

But to able to change the player aircraft during gameplay will require some extra code, because the game was build assuming the player would only use one aircraft in the entire mission