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=== DCS mission editor UI === | === DCS mission editor UI === | ||
=== Using trigger zones to place pressure fronts === | === Using trigger zones to place pressure fronts === | ||
=== Manipulating pressure fronts === | === Manipulating pressure fronts === | ||
=== Exporting the weather parameters === | |||
== Pressure front parameters == | == Pressure front parameters == | ||
Revision as of 16:40, 25 August 2019
Tools and workflow
To create good, deliberate dynamic weather systems, you absolutely need the following:
- A good zip manipulation tool — anything that lets you seamlessly browse, extract, and add to the file structure of a zip file.
- Notepad++ or a similarly competent text editor. No, not notepad.
- A conversion tool for angles and distances (Windows 10's built-in calculator does this well enough).
- Patience.
- Patience.
- Patience.
You need these because the basic flow of weather creation is one of:
- Creating a dummy mission where you place trigger zones as a first approximation of the pressure fronts.
- Extracting the “mission” Lua file from the dummy .miz.
- Opening the mission file in your text editor of choice.
- Copying the trigger zone coordinates (and possibly sizes) to a weather parameters.
- Re-inserting the edited mission file into the .miz.
- Reload the mission.
- Preview, hate actual result.
- Start over.