[ALL MODULES][SP/CO-OP] Liberation Dynamic Campaign

[Terzi]

On 12/14/2020 at 12:05 AM, GT_Grifter said:

 

The last two missions i've flown out of incerlik, my T + 0:00 takes off goes fine, but the 6 other flights I have stacked after me @ T + 5, 10, 15... etc never activate.  Annoyingly most of my assets are at Incerlik.  Still, love this mod so much!

There is problem with Incirlik. See my post above. Incirlik strangely does not belong to any sides. It stays neutral. However the flights are generated. I hope it gets fixed soon.

[kraszus]

Getting an "Invalid Frequency 158Mhz" when starting turn 1 flying the F-16 on Caucasus map...won't let me start the mission with this error.

[Nealius]

Is there any better documentation on custom payloads and setting default liveries? The Wiki is half-baked at best, and with the roles in Liberation not matching the roles in DCS 1:1, I don't know what to name certain custom payloads.

[VFA41_Lion]

Recommend joining the Discord server for more readily and speedily help that might otherwise get lost in the ED forums:

https://discord.gg/YUwuyapT

[Gianky]

On 12/29/2020 at 7:09 AM, Nealius said:

Is there any better documentation on custom payloads and setting default liveries? The Wiki is half-baked at best, and with the roles in Liberation not matching the roles in DCS 1:1, I don't know what to name certain custom payloads.

 

Hadn't tried making custom loadouts yet, but for skins, you have an example in the custom faction page of the wiki, skins are a property of factions.

 

Basically, at the end of the file, you may specify a group of skins for a specific aircraft, among which the program will choose the ones used in mission.

 

Here's the example

 

"liveries_overrides": {
    "FA_18C_hornet": [
      "NSAWC brown splinter",
      "NAWDC black",
      "VFC-12"
    ],
    "F_15C": [
      "65th Aggressor SQN (WA) MiG",
      "65th Aggressor SQN (WA) MiG",
      "65th Aggressor SQN (WA) SUPER_Flanker"
    ],
    "F_16C_50": [
      "usaf 64th aggressor sqn - shark",
      "usaf 64th aggressor sqn-splinter",
      "64th_aggressor_squadron_ghost"
    ], "F_14B": [
      "vf-74 adversary"
    ]
  }

 

You will have to know the name of the aircrafts and skins as seen by DCS Mission Editor. To do that, you have to create a mission where you put the aircrafts and skins you want to use, take note of what the unitIDs are (to see them, just select the unit, in the upper right corner, beside the unit or group name you will find a button with a ?, just press it; you may also open the unit list from the tool bar on the left side of the screen, but if you want to do that, it's better to give every unit a unique name, when you create it, or you may have a hard time understanding what is what in the unit list), save the mission, than open the .miz file from file explorer with an archive program (like 7zip), extract the actual mission file (it's called "mission" and have no extension), open it with a text editor (I highly suggest Notepad++) then search for the every aircraft using its unitID, search and take note of the unit name (for example, FA_18C_hornet) and the skin name (e.g. NSAWC brown splinter), then use them with the liveries_overrides function, as shown above, in your faction .josn file. Mind the syntax, a missing comma may screw your whole file.

[Sport]

I love the concept! I'm having difficulty with performance though...  I'm trying to play a 1990s Syria full-map, but can barely get 20fps taking off from Incirlik.  I tried culling units, turning off smoke on the front lines, but the sheer number of units in the mission is really killing my frames.  Unfortunately, my CPU/GPU usage was barely cracking 30% during the whole thing.

 

Intel i9 9900k

RTX2080ti

24GB RAM

 

Any suggestions?

[VFA41_Lion]

18 hours ago, Sport said:

I love the concept! I'm having difficulty with performance though...  I'm trying to play a 1990s Syria full-map, but can barely get 20fps taking off from Incirlik.  I tried culling units, turning off smoke on the front lines, but the sheer number of units in the mission is really killing my frames.  Unfortunately, my CPU/GPU usage was barely cracking 30% during the whole thing.

 

Intel i9 9900k

RTX2080ti

24GB RAM

 

Any suggestions?

if you run tacview, suggest turning that off.
also hosting it on a dedicated server if you can will greatly increase frames

but Syria is absolutely terrible on performance right now, so running a full map is 

Edited January 1, 2021 by VFA41_Lion

[sirrah]

Somehow the culling option stopped working for me. I set it to 150nm, which did seem to work before (within the same campaign). But since todays OB hotfix culling doesn't seem to work. When the mission is generated I see a map filled with units, exceeding a 250nm radius around my aircraft. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

I'm doing a Syria full map "campaign" (performance was acceptable with culling 150nm, but without culling it becomes unplayable)

I'm running latest OB

I didn't forget the missionscripting.lua sanitize thingy

[Sérvalpilot]

Hi, I'd like to report a bug. Whenever in a mission, ground units glow when moving off-road. This only happens in Liberation.

If this happens to be a feature, how can I disable it?

[MrReynolds]

I'm not a fanboi.  No.  Not at all.

Just another thanks from me for the continued support and development.  I always seem to get half way through a campaign and a new version comes out!!!

 

THANK YOU!  Again.

[tillaitor]

First of all thanks for this mod. This is something ED should have done since the very beginning.

 

I have a couple of issues. I think DCS Liberation is not recording all the targets I destroy. When the mission is completed and I go back to DCS Liberation I don't see any target destroyed in the window that pops up. In the log I see these messages in the log:

 

2021-01-25 00:50:24,785 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2515|13|F-14B| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,786 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2526|11|MiG-29S| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,788 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2507|2|F-15E| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,793 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2507|2|F-15E| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,796 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2527|3|Su-27| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,799 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2506|2|FA-18C_hornet| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,802 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2526|11|MiG-29S| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,805 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2525|27|Su-33| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,810 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2514|2|F-14B| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,811 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2515|13|F-14B| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,812 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2514|2|F-14B| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,814 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2525|27|Su-33| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,815 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2506|2|FA-18C_hornet| Pilot #1

 

There are many many like that. Any clue?

[hisothiro]

A question regarding Aircraft OCA strikes. It seems like the aircraft destroyed during OCA are not counted in the actual total aircraft destroyed during a mission. Is that something other players have experienced?

 

I do love this mod to bits though. Basically 90% of my DCS gameplay is spent in liberation. Thanks to the devs!

[evilnate]

Just popping in to say THANK YOU to the team and contributors of Liberation! 

 

I hope to see the development continue. If I could think of one feature to add, it would be bullseye reference to knee boards.

[BAD_DUCK]

Big THX,

 

I love this Mod.

vor 1 Stunde schrieb evilnate:

bullseye reference to knee boards.

[tillaitor]

Cita

En 25/1/2021 a las 1:29, tillaitor dijo:

First of all thanks for this mod. This is something ED should have done since the very beginning.

 

I have a couple of issues. I think DCS Liberation is not recording all the targets I destroy. When the mission is completed and I go back to DCS Liberation I don't see any target destroyed in the window that pops up. In the log I see these messages in the log:

 

2021-01-25 00:50:24,785 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2515|13|F-14B| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,786 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2526|11|MiG-29S| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,788 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2507|2|F-15E| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,793 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2507|2|F-15E| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,796 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2527|3|Su-27| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,799 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2506|2|FA-18C_hornet| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,802 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2526|11|MiG-29S| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,805 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2525|27|Su-33| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,810 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2514|2|F-14B| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,811 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2515|13|F-14B| Pilot #2
2021-01-25 00:50:24,812 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2514|2|F-14B| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,814 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|0|2525|27|Su-33| Pilot #1
2021-01-25 00:50:24,815 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|2|2506|2|FA-18C_hornet| Pilot #1

 

There are many many like that. Any clue?

 

 

I've found the problem. I didn't start the mission from inside the editor. I have started it from the editor many times but I don't know why the last days I have been starting it from outside the editor.

[Seance12]

On 12/4/2020 at 12:35 AM, Werewolf1025 said:

I'm trying this out online for the first time, after we finished it didn't automatically update and is only giving me the option to manually submit. Anyone know where the state.jsn file would be? Couldn't locate it anywhere. 

This has happened to me on occasion. Whenever i hit manually whatever, it goes directly to the state.json file.... 

[Pikas62]

Wow. Massive improvements. Many thanks for this gem!  Without that I would have given up playing DCS intensely.

[Jara4]

On 1/27/2021 at 4:04 AM, hisothiro said:

A question regarding Aircraft OCA strikes. It seems like the aircraft destroyed during OCA are not counted in the actual total aircraft destroyed during a mission. Is that something other players have experienced?

 

I do love this mod to bits though. Basically 90% of my DCS gameplay is spent in liberation. Thanks to the devs!

Yes, I can confirm that. I have experienced the same problem - aircraft destroxed on ground does nt count as destroyed. Also noted, that damage value does not calculates, no percentage damage level shown, so it cannot sumarize and probably can not lead to fully destroyed status.

But, anyway, great mod that is responsible for my recent addiction to DCS. Thank you and keep up great work.

[hisothiro]

5 hours ago, Jara4 said:

Yes, I can confirm that. I have experienced the same problem - aircraft destroxed on ground does nt count as destroyed. Also noted, that damage value does not calculates, no percentage damage level shown, so it cannot sumarize and probably can not lead to fully destroyed status.

But, anyway, great mod that is responsible for my recent addiction to DCS. Thank you and keep up great work.

So I ended up asking on the discord and one of the devs confirmed that they do count, but the end screen doesn't actually display every single destroyed unit.

[Jara4]

4 hours ago, hisothiro said:

So I ended up asking on the discord and one of the devs confirmed that they do count, but the end screen doesn't actually display every single destroyed unit.

I compared that with DCS output and it was the same - DCS does not count destroyed AC on ground. In fact, they are not destroyed, only damaged. I have discussed that matter on discord yesterday and they confirmed you need at least direct hit by 1000lb bomb to destroy AC on ground. However, that is problem of DCS damage model. Khopa also suggested to create lua script/plugin that would decrease requirements for destroying parked AC to just 20%, to allow OCA/Aircraft strike and strafing. Let's see. 

[hisothiro]

On 2/10/2021 at 1:44 AM, Jara4 said:

I compared that with DCS output and it was the same - DCS does not count destroyed AC on ground. In fact, they are not destroyed, only damaged. I have discussed that matter on discord yesterday and they confirmed you need at least direct hit by 1000lb bomb to destroy AC on ground. However, that is problem of DCS damage model. Khopa also suggested to create lua script/plugin that would decrease requirements for destroying parked AC to just 20%, to allow OCA/Aircraft strike and strafing. Let's see. 

There is indeed a damage requirement to destroy them. However, if you attack aircraft on the ground and they disappear a few minutes later (after a wing has been destroyed or after they have caught fire for example) they count as destroyed.

[Qiou87]

Getting an annoying bug in Liberation: when I setup a CAS flight, they engage max. 1 unit on the ground before RTB. I checked the mission editor and they are supposed to attack all targets within 40km. The JTAC is designating a target but each flight will only attack one unit before RTB. If I setup 4x flights of 1 aircraft they will attack 4 targets. I am using a late cold war scenario, A-10A for CAS, they RTB with plenty of ordinance under the wings. Tried in Syria and PG maps, same result. Other mission types (CAP, Strike, SEAD, etc.) are working as intended.

 

I am using Liberation 2.4.2 (the latest) and DCS in stable release. Any idea what could cause this and what I could do to fix it? I get my ass kicked because the enemy just replaces the few tanks my A-10s are destroying. My only assumption would be that I use stable and some new script was introduced in the open beta, but I do not wish to use OB.

[Eight Ball]

Anyone has had any success in using the liveries override with ground units?

I've edited the usa_2005 faction and added this at the bottom but no luck so far

"liveries_overrides": {
    "FA_18C_hornet": [
      "VFA-37",
      "VFA-106",
      "VFA-113",
      "VFA-122",
      "VFA-131",
      "VFA-192",
      "VFA-34",
      "VFA-83",
      "VFA-87",
      "VFA-97",
      "VMFA-122",
      "VMFA-132",
      "VMFA-251",
      "VMFA-312",
      "VMFA-314",
      "VMFA-323"
    ],
    "m-1 abrams": [
      "Desert By Keshman"
     ],
     "m-2 bradley": [
      "Desert By Keshman"
     ],
     "m1043 hmmwv armament": [
      "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
     ],
     "m1045 hmmwv tow": [
      "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
     ]
  }

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by Eight Ball

[GumidekCZ]

Does anybody ask Khopa, if Moose A-A Dispatcher script can be included in? it would be a great addition to the generated missions and even better AI behavior of enemy fighters.

I dont know how to contact him, so if any of you can, please ask him about this. Thanks

https://flightcontrol-master.github.io/MOOSE_DOCS_DEVELOP/Documentation/Task_A2A_Dispatcher.html

 

 

[Wrench]

Discord servers are being super dodgy right now, so I'll post this here:

 

Does anybody know if there is a common problem that causes liberation to miss aircraft that are shot down, and show up in the json file?

 

I've checked the json file and there's a whole big list of aircraft shot down, but liberation says "aircraft destroyed 0"

 

The log is full of errors like this

"2021-02-23 23:32:49,998 :: ERROR :: Could not find Flight matching unit|34|103|4|F-14A-135-GR| Pilot #1"

 

Edited February 24, 2021 by Wrench