DCS: Mission Editor Contextual Radio Menus

[@ajgunn3277]

thank you. you are the third or fourth video I've seen on this, but .... not is your video only more UPDATE (livesaver im sure thanks to the address slashes!!!!) but also? You just freed me from something so fing stupid: Semicolon shiiiiy i haven't seen for years. But the cPTSD is in the way: I was using trigger.setUserFlag instead of trigger.action.setUserFlag ..... So let me put it this way: THANK YOU AND DON'T STOP MAKING CONTENT even if you think you're simplifying things to a patronizing level. Sometimes when you include that example, it's right there for us, like a shining light - even if it's nothing to do with the video's OP. And yes, that also helped. Endless Grace!

[@MrWi2ard]

Absolutely phenomenal tutorial! Especially with the Excel spreadsheet! Thank you for making this!!!

[@Pukin-Dog]

Thank you buddy. Your comments are really appreciated.

[@Trinurse]

BEAUTIFUL spreadsheet! Really opened up a whole new aveneue for me to add to my campaigns. Sent you a Thank you PM in DCS. GREAT WORK! Thanks a ton!

[@Pukin-Dog]

Thank you. It works really well with it's partner video on improved wingmen. DCS "shouldn't" be such hardwork.....but with some fiddling you can make the AI quite useful. Im glad this helped

[@antonbatura8385]

Thank you! I'm going to dive into this tomorrow. I've been playing with custom wingman commands and the Hind for a week now, time to step it up a notch. Great content, this.

[@Pukin-Dog]

You are most welcome. I think combining the wingman commands with these menus will open a whole new world......but it's not limited to wingmen. You could have some F-14s on standby on a carrier. Or thinking outside the box you could add some sort of espionage trigger so in 2 minutes power gets cut to defense assets just as you approach giving you say a 60 second window of opportunity

[@antonbatura8385]

@@Pukin-Dog I've been thinking about using this system for pure A2A situations, to get my wingman to engage specific things, like bandit lead or wingman, I don't know. Haven't explored this avenue yet, though.

[@Pukin-Dog]

@@antonbatura8385 yeah. It should be ideal for that. Let me know how you get on

[@Trinurse]

Hey Gareth, Happy New Year. One question. I've been looking at your vids and can't seem to figure out how you connect the Primary and Secondary attack target commands in the menu to the actual targets in each mission on the map. Like, how does the wingman know what the Primary and secondary target is in the mission? Thanks.

[@Trinurse]

Never mind. I just watched the Wingman vid and figured it out. Flags via Triggered Actions. Brilliant. Thanks again.

[@Pukin-Dog]

@@Trinurse I was mid response when I saw this. I actually got the wrong end of the stick orginally anyway. Any other questions then feel free to ask...and Happy New year!

[@Trinurse]

@@Pukin-Dog I just added you to my Acknowledgements document for my next DCS A-10 campaign in Syria. Hope to be able to release it before May - God willing and the river don't rise.

[@Pukin-Dog]

@@Trinurse awesome. Thank you

[@Furia40]

This is really beautiful !!!! Thanks a lot. It really helps a lot !! 💯

[@Pukin-Dog]

You are very welcome.

[@matswane]

Really nicely done! Thanks for sharing your hard work!

[@Pukin-Dog]

Thank you! The feedback is appreciated. Have you downloaded the excel and mission?

[@matswane]

@@Pukin-Dog I have but will only give it a shot once back from work. I'll check in once I try it out, sir. Keep it up

[@GitWithAbba-2]

Awesome job! I'm sure I'll have some questions LOL. I see you couldn't get the trigger "mission start" to work either. I had same problem.

[@Pukin-Dog]

I use the mission start trigger all the time and it normally works fine....but for this it doesn't. It's an odd one

[@edineygomes]

I managed to make the menu only appear when the player sets a defined radio frequency. If he changes the radio frequency, can the menu disappear? And how to remove an item from the submenu after he chooses the desired option? Is there a way to accomplish this with this script?

[@Pukin-Dog]

If I understand that correctly - wow! well done. So you see nonthing in the custom radio menu...but if you select a certain radio channel then the menu appears....is that what you are saying (if so can you send me the script code)? You can defintely remove radio menu items....what I would suggest is that once selected you add an action to set a flag....then a trigger to remove radio menu item once that flag is turned on.

[@Trinurse]

Gareth, can I send you a mission file to look at? Can't seem to get the menu to work.

[@Pukin-Dog]

Yes of course. It might be a day or two before I can look at it.