Flapsfull Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) Hi everyone, been thinking about buying the official Third wire SF2 mission editor,either as standalone or within the expansion pack. However I haven't found that much information about the editor itself, so I wanted to ask around here. How good is it, or better put, how much ability to design does it give you? In a practical example, can it be used to design a simple aggressor mission, where both Player and Adversary start on the ground, the adversary then taxis past Player's aircraft to the runway ,takes off at a specific time and then flies to a perform CAP at a training area at specific altitude , where the player can meet up with him again? Is there an option to set triggers, i.e. when Event x happens start behavior y? Thank you, Regards, Flapsfull Edited January 29, 2020 by Flapsfull Quote
Wrench Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 enemies cannot launch from friendly airfields, and vice versa. the game is divided into the red and blue sides. you'd have to start on 2 different airfields, and fly towards an "engagement zone". 2 Quote
jeanba Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 I think that what you request is a little too complex for the mission editor. I use it, most of the time to edit a mission created "randomly" (mission menu): Change planes, change some waypoints, objectives, but not much more Quote
JohnLewis141997 Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 You can do it the old fashion and do it by notepad Quote
Stick Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 17 hours ago, Wrench said: enemies cannot launch from friendly airfields, and vice versa. the game is divided into the red and blue sides. you'd have to start on 2 different airfields, and fly towards an "engagement zone". On some maps e.g. SWUS, if you switch sides after designating the airfield, you can. Done it for Aggressor squadrons flying out of Nellis runways - great for parallel take-off screenies. 1 Quote
Flapsfull Posted January 31, 2020 Author Posted January 31, 2020 Hi everyone, thank you all for your replies.Ok seems the editor is maybe a bit more limited than I thought.Guuruu thanks for the video ,that gave some insight into its workings. @Stick: Sorry I'm not understanding that completely.What do you by switching sides after designating the airfield? Kind regards, Flapsfull Quote
yakarov79 Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 (edited) On 31/01/2020 at 11:58 AM, Flapsfull said: thank you all for your replies.Ok seems the editor is maybe a bit more limited than I thought. Despite evidence of the contrary I would recommend using the editor as this is a very useful tool and changes gameplay for better. Playing single missions out of the box will make you bored after a short time. Maybe the editor is not so complex as you would wish, but it has lot of advantages in single mission gameplay. Edited February 1, 2020 by yakarov79 2 Quote
TempestII Posted February 1, 2020 Posted February 1, 2020 6 hours ago, yakarov79 said: Despite evidence of the contrary I would recommend using the editor as this is a very useful tool and changes gameplay for better. Playing single missions out of the box will make you bored after a short time. Maybe the editor is not so complex as you would wish, but it has lot of advantages in single mission gameplay. Seconded. I don't even play single missions anymore without editing them with the editor. I now wonder how SF2 managed without it. IMO, it's biggest flaw is that I take probably more time setting up the missions than I do flying them - maybe a copy / paste feature or units templates would speed this up but probably won't ever happen. Being able to save individual missions from Campaigns to then use in the editor is a really great tool too. If I remember correctly, it'll even remember the that campaign mission's "borders", meaning that Soviet forces might be deep into West Germany (or vice versa) depending on how your campaign was going at the time. 2 Quote
jeffyb Posted September 12, 2021 Posted September 12, 2021 Sorry for the dumb question, Ive bought the campaign and mission editor downloaded them, but how do I use them?? Cheers Jeff Quote
EricJ Posted September 12, 2021 Posted September 12, 2021 For the mission editor, you look at the bottom right when selecting a mission and click the little pen icon, that'll bring you into the mission editor. On the upper right are icons you can use to edit the mission. You can change the aircraft and it lists all the available aircraft flights for that given mission. If you want to edit a flight click the airplane icon and select that flight. You can delete the flight (unless it's an intercept or Fighter sweep mission) and add flights to the mission if you want some more enemies or if you want to add friendly flights to the mission. There is a map that is shown and a crosshair. Move that crosshair around to place a flight. There you can specify what base it flies from and so on. You can also add ships and ground objects to the mission (other than the target) by placing them with the crosshair and moving the map around. Next, you can place a ship in the ocean or lake with the ship icon. Next, you can place a naval fleet by placing that in the ocean or whatnot. Quote
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.