Are there any Flying/Bombing missions ?

[DecoySA 10]

Simple question...

Are there any flying/bombing missions in the campaign ? if not are there any user made missions which involve flying/bombing ?

[Windexglow 10]

You can make a target practice mission in 5 minutes, easily with the editor.

[Rough Knight 9]

You can try this mission from Calloway.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=76618 or

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6087

It's a night flying mission....havent finished it but it looks pretty good

Othewise, you can have plenty of fun with the editor if you spend a little time reading or experimenting on how to do things.

I'm sure there are plenty of flying missions out there if you browse the community sites.

Thanks

Frosty

Edited July 27, 2009 by Rough Knight
added BIS mission link

[DecoySA 10]

could you pls explain how to do it in the editor.

i know how to put myself in a plane in the editor but i don't know how to setup targets etc so they appear on my plane/choppers hud or whatever ? any help would be appreciated

Edited July 27, 2009 by DecoySA

[jakerod 248]

could you pls explain how to do it in the editor.

i know how to put myself in a plane in the editor but i don't know how to setup targets etc so they appear on my plane/choppers hud or whatever ? any help would be appreciated

Put yourself in your favorite plane and set it to flying. Put down whatever you want to blow up and have fun. If you need a waypoint to tell you where they are at then select your units, select waypoint and double click. That should do it.

[Tennouheika 10]

Also if you play in the Armory and finally unlock some airplanes you can fly those around and receive missions like "Go to target area and kill/destroy all hostiles" and "survive being hunted by the enemy." Those can be pretty fun.

Only thing is I pretty much always have to eject and kill the last guy with an MP5 on the "destroy all hostiles" missions. It's also funny when I shoot down an enemy plane and the pilot ejects and runs to that area so I have to track him down.

[Arre 10]

could you pls explain how to do it in the editor.

i know how to put myself in a plane in the editor but i don't know how to setup targets etc so they appear on my plane/choppers hud or whatever ? any help would be appreciated

A tip is that you choose the "Insertion"(dont know the exact name) mode in your own maps by using the map wizard. Then set the insertion marker near a airstrip and place out some nice aircraft... And then when you start the mission you send the rest of the team in to the forest and take cover so you can respawn if you accentually dies of some reason. When you are up in the air, just accept the incoming missions from HQ and you ROCK!

Hope you understood what I ment :)

Edited July 27, 2009 by Arre

[Rough Knight 9]

This thread may become more suited for the editing section but here goes.

If you just want things to go and shoot, you can place a unit in the editor and set its postion to random by setting "placement radius" to something like 100 (inserts unit randomly within a particular pre-set radius).

If for example you wanted to have a senario where you had to kill 2 tungstas called "t1" and "t2" (the names you enter in the "name" field of the particular units in the editor), you could then have a trigger with axis a and b set to "0" and then in the condition field replace the "this" with something like "!(alive t1) && !(alive t2)" without the "". Select end#1 under "type".

Alternatively you can have something like "((damage t1)>0.75) && ((damage t2)>0.75)" as the condition and if you damage the two units enough.... you win, (without the quotes again)

Now play your mission. You win if you destroy the two tungstas. You don't even have to do that however just fly around and blow stuff up randomly: P

You may find the editor is more fun than the game itself, the community would be more than happy to help you if you ask.

THanks

Frosty

Edited July 27, 2009 by Rough Knight
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