Pretty cool stuff Frog!

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Speaking of the joy of C+#+#+#+#+#+#+# stuff,

Could one of you gurus show me a script that would limit a human controlled aircraft to a certain amount of units available. Say I only want 3 109E4's available at all times, any chance of a script to do that?

With FBDj, it was super easy. Now not so much. But it would be nice to have a limited amount of certain planes, for balance etc.. In old IL2 with FBDj if you have 2 (262's) available. You could spawn 2 of them, and only when one of those 2 planes crashed/landed etc.(only after the refly button was hit) would the selection to be able to spawn another one open.

Sorry for the hijack, but I need something like this badly

One of my longer term CoD aspirations (i.e. I won't really do it, too busy, but my subconscious fools me into thinking I will one day) is to do a glorious BoB Bunker Battle Overview map, i.e. be able to issue commands in MP via an external map view, with those long sticks to push planes, and I could sit back while minions issued radio commands to squadrons.

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Would be cool, plus with this level of API not too challenging, from a technical level at least..

I installed the script in one of my missions and opened it in FMB. It compiled "OK" but I do not see a listing of the damages occurring even after I get the message that damage reporting is "On". What am I missing?

Ataros told me to check out this mission: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=25640 for ideas. I guess they are limiting squadron types with it?

But if C# wasn't already foreign enough to me the bits that state what each line does is in Russian! And those are the only bits that mean anything to me But it seems you know about the other bits (the code)

It's no big rush, but would be much appreciated. I think the blue pilots are going to come and burn my house down if I don't get a limit in there soon for the spitIIa's!

Thanks again!

Hi Bliss

I took a quick peek and there are definitely the bits there to limit by aircraft type. First off I should probably say how to do it and then you can give us a shout if it doesn't make any sense or your need help putting it in the ATAG script.

1. Set up some counters in the mission, i.e. 'int overpoweredSpitIIAcount = 0;'

2. On the entering a aircraft event (OnPlaceEnter I think) then check the type of aircraft with something like this:

<pre>
if ((actor as AiAircraft).InternalTypeName() == "bob:Aircraft.SpitfireMkIIA")
// You can see the part names in the FMB I think
{
if (overpoweredSpitIIAcount > 3)
{
// HUD message to say 'Too late, all gone. Stop being historically accurate, go get a worse plane'
// Code to remove aircraft like normal here
}
else
{
overpoweredSpitIIAcount++;
}
}
</pre>
3. Tidy up the counters on cases such as leaving the aircraft, destroying it etc.

Hope that helps.

Hi Bliss

I took a quick peek and there are definitely the bits there to limit by aircraft type. First off I should probably say how to do it and then you can give us a shout if it doesn't make any sense or your need help putting it in the ATAG script.

1. Set up some counters in the mission, i.e. 'int overpoweredSpitIIAcount = 0;'

2. On the entering a aircraft event (OnPlaceEnter I think) then check the type of aircraft with something like this:

<pre>
if ((actor as AiAircraft).InternalTypeName() == "bob:Aircraft.SpitfireMkIIA")
// You can see the part names in the FMB I think
{
if (overpoweredSpitIIAcount > 3)
{
// HUD message to say 'Too late, all gone. Stop being historically accurate, go get a worse plane'
// Code to remove aircraft like normal here
}
else
{
overpoweredSpitIIAcount++;
}
}
</pre>
3. Tidy up the counters on cases such as leaving the aircraft, destroying it etc.

Hope that helps.