Edit: I am curious if this release allows missions to be strung together in a campaign?

Sounds like it is pretty much the same as the ROF editor, just download the manual for it should at least be a good start for those not familiar with it.

Edit: I am curious if this release allows missions to be strung together in a campaign?

I'm pretty sure the release of the editor is a political desicion and in no way related to a state of finished features.

Probably a Jason forced event despite Loft screaming NO! in 5 different languages back in Moscow and finally walking away in the corridor muttering customers should be slapped with cast iron.

I suggest we need a Sticky in the BOS section with the Best ROF editor tutorial Vids linked there for the purpose of people learning to use the BOS one.

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Jason Williams said yesterday this is essentially the RoF ME with RoF elements backed out and some bugs fixed. I invested some time in RoF before BoS was released, trying to make a couple of simple missions and I gave up. I can master mission building in IL2, BoBII, CoD, and DCS so I am no novice, but this one defeated me.

My hopes are with a user friendly GUI like Lupo's simple mission editor which can sit on top of this code, and enable us mere humans to make some missions.

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I will give this editor another go, but I'm not sure I will prevail

Me too I suspect.

As I said I gave the RoF ME a go while BoS was in beta, trying to learn the ropes. It is very powerful, no doubt.

I could set up simple missions, but getting waypoint options/timing right in complex missions involved a lot of non automated tasks and that killed me. By memory (its been a few months) your first waypoint needed to be manually associated with the aircraft, and then linked to the next waypoint.

You needed separate on-map commands for triggers to eg just to tell the aircraft to take off, and had to link these manually to your aircraft or waypoint as well. You placed various triggers on the map, linked them all up manually and then tested it. Screw up one, and the whole shebang went belly up and it was a bastage to work out where your problem was. EG if you made the waypoint trigger 'sphere' too small, the AI could risk not triggering it, and thus would just circle around but there could be multiple other reasons for that too.

The AI had trouble with larger formations colliding so you could only make small formations (similar problem in BoS) - so you had to associate the same waypoints twice for two flights to make one squadron and if you made too sharp an elbow on your waypoints the formation wiped itself out banging into each other. Or else you had to spend a while manually setting which aircraft should fly where in which formation and then copy paste that formation from mission to mission.

Sure it was all doable, but my gosh it was labour intensive compared to other MEs where a lot of this stuff is automated for dummies like me (as in the Lupson Simple Mission Editor), and the AI handles the flying without banging into itself all the time and you can make formations of 12-36 aircraft in just a few clicks with no manual linking of waypoints and objects and triggers etc etc.

In BOBII I worked with a mission editor that never even made it out of alpha. It would crash constantly and I would have to redo a lot of work when it did, but I swear it was quicker to make missions in that, than in the RoF ME without crashes!

No doubt some of this was inexperience on my part, and there are shortcuts I didn't learn, and some of it has been improved. Might give it a go when I am on holidays next and have a LOT of time on my hands.

But after a few hours I said to myself 'Aha, so this is why there are so few user made missions for Rise of Flight.' Luckily Jason Williams seems to have recognised this (if no one else has) and is actively encouraging community coders to come up with a simplified mission builder that the average joe can use.

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