Help with a basic mission.

Hi, I'm trying to make a very basic mission where I dogfight a single Spitfire against a ME109. All I need it to do is respawn the enemy when I shoot them down. It's probably something very simple but I can't seem to work it out...

Any pointers would be great, if I'm being thick then I apologise in advance!

No it is actually pretty complicated and requires LUA script and DO SCRIPT trigger.

The real bad part is that in your case respawn has to include the route and other settings.

You should have a look at MiST and its mist.respawn function.

This thread might be helpful:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114012

Thanks Shagrat!

I'll take a look.

You'll need to download MiST, and you'll need two triggers and a triggerzone. Place the zone over the entire combat area.

First:

1 ONCE (load MiST, NO EVENT)

TIME MORE (1)

DO SCRIPT FILE (mist4_3_74 lua)

Next:

2 SWITCHED CONDITION (bandit dead, NO EVENT)

ALL OF COALITION OUT OF ZONE (red, combat area)

DO SCRIPT ("mist.respawnGroup (bandit, true)")

When your bandit dies, no red units will remain in the combat area. This will trigger your respawn. Adding "true" at the end of the respawn script will retain the original flight plan for the target.

Thanks Feefifofum! I'll have a go at that tonight.

Hi Feefifofum.

So, I tried the script thing. All is well till I shoot the bandit down then I get an error message saying "Syntax error, end eof". The whole thing freezes then and I have to use task manager to get out. I'm sure it's a typo or something on my part but any help would be appreciated.

Can you just upload the mission?

We could have a look...

I ll send you tonight a mission i've done for training with the spit because I'm at work now

A simple training mission for spit, you can respawn 109 and 190 in front of you or in your six, for dog fight training. using F10 radiomenu.

before respawn, try to be at 7000 feet ( don't forget to set your altimeter to 0 before take off) . I can not yet spawn at different altitude, but the aircraft spawned will be in the same heading as you.

I've done it with ATME, to train before Normandy map. ;-)

here it is.

hope it could help.

warbird_training_spit_51.miz

Thanks so much Snowsniper. It's exactly what I needed, perfect for solo training and great because I can see the mechanics of how it's done, brilliant!

Thanks again guys for all the help.

you're welcome

also, there are different script helper engine.

as said above, which can spawn object. different way and approach.

Mist, Moose, etc...

and also ATME script engine.

see this thread if you want to experiment more ( numerous easy exemple, and awesome reference manuel both english and french available ) It's perfect for noob in lua like me.

here it is :

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=179992