Poll!! Regarding old style Coop GUI

[KG26_Alpha]

Ye gads guys......................

The Op's poll (if I'm correct and I'm sure I am) is for a CooP GUI that works like the old IL2 one, its has nothing to do with the FMB/scripting or anything else.

Perhaps firing up CoD and having at look at it will help you.

[bw_wolverine]

Yeah, this arguing about this is silly.

It's as simple as this: The old IL-2 1946 coop setup for players joining a coop mission and for launching the coop missions worked. It was simple and obvious.

Running CloD's coop missions is neither of those, regardless of whether or not it "works".

Mission building with the FMB has nothing to do with this poll or question.

[6BL Bird-Dog]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Ye gads guys......................

The Op's poll (if I'm correct and I'm sure I am) is for a CooP GUI that works like the old IL2 one, its has nothing to do with the FMB/scripting or anything else.

Perhaps firing up CoD and having at look at it will help you.

Thats what I thought ,its about meeting,joining ,side ,aircraft selection ,arming, brief then launch.
The FMB writes the Coops but does not launch it .
I have looked at the FMB and but have not done attempted any mission building since the first release but will post in the relavent section once I have had a try to learn this scripting language.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by BPickles

As an example i wanted to code a small script to turn on airfield lights (previously laid out of course ) when detecting a friendly aircraft, ie you return home or taking off for a mission is late and dark, within a defined radius "ping" the lights pop on and stay on till the friendly is outside of that radius then turn off - simple yet effective, but currently there aren't any resources to make this reality.

Or how about when an enemy is within a certain radius the placed air raid sirens trigger.

There are so called 'static' objects in CloD similar to original Il-2 which can not be addressed by script yet like sirens, airfield lights, buildings, trees, etc. And there are dynamic objects like aircraft, tanks, cars, AAA and AT guns that can be addressed. The purpose of the static objects is to reduce hardware load (less code attached to them). Statics are not very important for mainstream air-to-air game-play, but mostly used for decoration. You can create any mission without them to reduce loading time and increase FPS. In the future more statics will become dynamic objects though (when people are happy about their PC performance with CloD).

C# gives endless possibilities already now. A 6000+ lines script by Small_Bee runs on Repka #1 server now, including dynamic sea and ground war, resources production, transportation, storage and unloading procedures, landing parties capturing airfields, dynamic aircraft types limitation, vulching protection for some fields, balancing scripts, etc, etc, etc. More to come in v.2, e.g. teamplay incentives: spawn a squad of at least 4+ human-piloted fighters at an airfield and you will be able to create (via TAB-4 menu) a bomber mission that you will escort, etc. I.e. you can create and fly 'coops' one by one from within a 'dogfight' server, with several coops taking place in the same airspace like it was IRL.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Ataros

C# gives endless possibilities already now.

Sounds like 1C came threw to me!!

[bw_wolverine]

Well, according to this poll 90% of the people who care about this feature are either having problems making it work or feel that the way it works isn't right.

If 10% is your definition of success,...

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Alternatively, you could offer to make these coop missions for people who are having trouble. That'd be helpful. I have a few I'd like made.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Change is never easy..

Reword the poll and place it in the FMB forum and Ill bet you have the oposite results

[bw_wolverine]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Change is never easy..

Reword the poll and place it in the FMB forum and Ill bet you have the oposite results

Who said change was easy? It's hard!

Can I PM you with the missions I want so you can help me out? I'm going out of my mind trying to get these to work, but you seem to have figured it out.

[furbs]

Yes...but the new way isnt COOPs its something else.
And we need CO-OPs for training and online wars.
If the new way was good and working we would be seeing online wars by now...we dont.
Stability amd CO-OPs...not "something else" unless it works better.

[TheGrunch]

Ace, they are not talking about the new mission scripting or anything related to it. They are talking about the screen which is presented to the player when they choose to join a co-op, and how it is bizarre, unintuitive, and doesn't allow the player to choose an aircraft before the game starts. Nothing to do with FMB, just the multiplayer user interface. That can be changed without altering the C# scripting in any way other than to acknowledge that players have already chosen aircraft before mission start time.