HeinKill, thank you very much for your missions! I announced them on sukhoi.ru 2 weeks ago to allow more people using them. http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=73910

As you can see there is a link in my sig leading to Offline Campaigns depository at Airwarfare.com. I have the same link in my sig at 1C forums for a long time already. I have no connection with Airwarfare.com other than this link but I think it is very useful if newcomers that can not enjoy the stock campaign can find good user-made campaigns and missions in one place.

Do you plan to upload your campaigns and missions to that site? It provides free storage space for these purposes. Authors from sukhoi.ru and 1C forums upload their missions there. When people are complaining at various forums that they have no campaign to fly offline it will be much easier to give them just one link than several links to different sources.

Hi Ato

Thanks for the encouragement. Yes I always upload my mission packs to Airwarfare - they are in the Single Missions section. I agree it is the best 'one stop shop' for CoD content! At the moment I have uploaded to Airwarfare

- 8 historical missions
- 16 'tournament' missions and
- Missions 1-5 of the Sealion series

My missions are also collected on my BoB Gamehub blog. I noticed a blip in traffic from sukhoi.ru so thanks for that

I am having a little trouble finalising the latest Sealion mission. I want British artillery to shell Folkestone Harbour (using Howitzers) but am not sure how to set their target... hopefully not impossible!

S!

I did not realise they were all separate missions. I posted a link to airwarfare mission section at sukhoi's SeaLion thread.
Maybe it is worth merging them into campaigns as soon as all missions are ready?

BTW check out this dynamic engine addin by Octocat http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=73973
The thread is in Russian but the addin is in English. He says it can be used be campaign creators to create historic campaigns based on his "Prototype" test campaign included in the package. A campaign consists of 3 files: missions template, roads template, missions database edited via settings menu. Thus you can create it using FMB only, no scripting knowledge required. If you like it, you can contact Octocat on details how to create campaigns using it. He speaks English well.

@all
The engine can be used for flying, not only for campaigns creation. It is not finalised yet though.

Thanks for the pointer to the campaign creator...that could be very useful.

Yes the 'development path' for the Sealion missions is this:

- Create individual single missions, with multiple flyables, keeping the main units in each mission consistent (for RAF it is 64 Sq Spitfires, 111 Sq Hurricanes, and 212 Sq Blenheims. For LW it is Erpro 210 Bf110s and 109E4Bs, LG2 and JG26 Bf109s E3s and E4s). There will be about 15 missions in total.

The beauty of the individual mission structure is that each individual mission can actually comprise multiple 'mini missions' depending on which aircraft the player chooses to fly, each with their own briefings and objectives.

- Compile these into 4 individual Sealion 'squadron point of view' campaigns: first Erpro210, then 64 Sq, 111 Sq and finally 212 Sq.

That's the plan anyway!

I have a couple of questions I hope you can answer HK. I'm looking for something to create machine gun nests, but I can't actually find any solo mg's (Brit or German). Also, how do you get ground units to follow each other? It doesn't seem there is a follow or escort option like aircraft have.

Well, you are good at finding the gaps in the FMB! Unfortunately...

Answer below with the caveat that many things seem possible with scripts and I am not a scripter...

The only MGs I have found in the FMB are vehicle mounted eg motorcycle, halftrack, bren carrier. No MG or tripod team (so goes without saying, no mortar teams either).

I have not found a follow or escort option for vehicles. You can set groups of the same type of unit (eg tanks, trucks) of up to about 8 in a group, which form a passable convoy or attack group, but if you want to mix up unit types eg motorcycles escorting trucks, the only way I have found, is to set up two groups with identical paths and waypoint timing. It is useful to include 'timeouts' of eg a minute at key waypoints to allow the groups to rendezvous because eg a tank group will often take alternate paths around a building or obstacle, which slows them down relative to the motorcycle group.

But that said, scripts seem to be able to achieve things that are not possible in the FMB menus (such as spawns) so perhaps a script exists?

Ok, that's kind of what I had found, but was hoping you might have figured out the work arounds... You're missions are probably the most detailed I've seen posted. Trying to send groups (2 MG motorcycles escorting 3 of the big black cars) from several km away is giving me all kinds of stoppages and errors (and half the time they ram each other).

Also, how do you find the camera angles for ground units? I'm having to cycle through several thousand objects (including things like oil cans/sandbags, etc) to try to find the ones I want. Half the time, scrolling through that many camera objects causes a launcher crash.

Yeah, cycling through objects is a pain. You can map commands in the command menu to cycle through just vehicles, or ships or aircraft which makes it a little easier. Doesn't help you if you are trying to find a particular artillery piece tho! Those are the same as crates and craters so you have to cycle through every damn box and tent to find them. So here is my workaround (you can see it in the video actually) when i plant a gun emplacement (i save them as grouped objects) I include a vehicle. Then I cycle through the vehicles to find the gun or other static object. You could of course do this with cameras but I figure a) if you are going to place something it may as well be an object that adds to the landscape, and b) cameras are by default set to ten metres so always have to be adjusted, whereas vehicles are set at ground level which is better for vids.

But maybe someone else has better advice!

Thanks, I never thought about that. I have to look at the camera controls, forgot they had those options! 1 airfield alone has probably 1500 objects now, I was killing myself trying to find individual cars, heh.

Finally got some time to start your Seelowe missions, and have to say, fun so far! I ran the first mission twice, just to see different outcomes. I love the tactics of the high group of Spitfires, drawing us away from Calais and the all-important recon. Second time around I had more discipline and found the Blennie.

I did find something odd though, the 2 Minensuchboots are firing at the barges in Calais, I think you either have a neutral or a red barge or two in there. They managed to sink 2, and were still trained and firing into the harbor at the 15minute mark when I RTB'd. I scanned the area hard, and no enemy aircraft in area, shots were definitely at the inner point just inside the breakwaters.

I originally thought the Minensuchboots were Reds, but they also shot down a Spitfire, lol.