Follow up work:
* Data entry. I plan to do the air-to-air missiles in the near term. I
covered some variants of the AIM-120, AIM-7, and AIM-9 here, but there
are variants of those weapons for each mounting rack that need to be
done still, as well as all the non-US weapons.
* Arbitrary start dates.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/490
Mildly breaks save compat with 2.3; All existing flight dialogs will be
broken, passing the turn or recreating all the flights in the UI will
allow you to continue
Not converting all at once so I can prove the concept. After that we'll
want to cover all the cases where an int distance or speed is a part of
the save game (I've done one of them here with `Flight.alt`) so further
cleanups don't break save compat.
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/558
Moves all TOT planning into the FlightPlan to clean up specialized
behavior and improve planning characteristics.
The important part of this change is that flights are now planning to
the mission time for their flight rather than the package as a whole.
For example, a TARCAP is planned based on the time from startup to the
patrol point, a sweep is planned based on the time from startup to the
sween end point, and a strike flight is planned based on the time from
startup to the target location. TOT offsets can be handled within the
flight plan.
As another benefit of theis cleanup, flights without hold points no
longer account for the hold time in their planning, so those flights are
planned to reach their targets sooner.
As a follow up TotEstimator can be removed, but I want to keep this low
impact for 2.3.2.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/593
Breaks save compat because it adds new fields to `Flight` that have no
constant default. Removing all of our other save compat at the same
time.
Note that player flights with a divert point will have a nav point for
their actual landing point. This is because we place the divert point
last, and DCS won't let us have a land point anywhere but the final
waypoint. It would allow a LandingReFuAr point, but they're only
generated for player flights anyway so it doesn't really matter.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/342
The AI isn't making use of these yet, but it's not smart enough to do so
anyway.
Would benefit from an icon to differentiate it on the map.
I'm stretching the definition of "control point" quite a bit. We might
want to put a class above `ControlPoint` for `AirSpawnLocation` to
represent types of spawn locations that can't be captured and don't have
ground objectives.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/274
Like with deleting waypoints, these will degrade the flight plan to the
2.1 behavior.
Ascend/descend points aren't in use any more, so I removed those.
Like with deleting waypoints, these will degrade the flight plan to the
2.1 behavior.
Ascend/descend points aren't in use any more, so I removed those.
In almost every case this leaves us with a flight plan we can't reason
about, so it gets degraded to `CustomFlightPlan`. The exception is when
deleting a target point when there are other target points remaining.
This probably gets people using this feature back to what they want
though, which is essentially the 2.1 behavior.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/393
In almost every case this leaves us with a flight plan we can't reason
about, so it gets degraded to `CustomFlightPlan`. The exception is when
deleting a target point when there are other target points remaining.
This probably gets people using this feature back to what they want
though, which is essentially the 2.1 behavior.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/393
This was also needed in other parts of the UI and is easier to implement
in the target class anyway.
Note that DEAD is now properly restricted to air defense targets.
Also added error boxes to the UI for when planning fails on an invalid
target.
Previously the only difference between these was the objective type:
TARCAP was for front lines and BARCAP was for everything else.
Now BARCAP is for friendly areas and TARCAP is for enemy areas. The
practical difference between the two is that a TARCAP package is like
the old front line CAP in that it will adjust its patrol time to match
the package if it can, and it will also arrive two minutes ahead of the
rest of the package to clear the area if needed.
Previously we were trying to make every potential flight plan look
just like a strike mission's flight plan. This led to a lot of special
case behavior in several places that was causing us to misplan TOTs.
I've reorganized this such that there's now an explicit `FlightPlan`
class, and any specialized behavior is handled by the subclasses.
I've also taken the opportunity to alter the behavior of CAS and
front-line CAP missions. These no longer involve the usual formation
waypoints. Instead the CAP will aim to be on station at the time that
the CAS mission reaches its ingress point, and leave at its egress
time. Both flights fly directly to the point with a start time
configured for a rendezvous.
It might be worth adding hold points back to every flight plan just to
ensure that non-formation flights don't end up with a very low speed
enroute to the target if they perform ground ops quicker than
expected.
We were only getting BARCAP results right in BARCAP packages. This
fixes calculations of TOTs and start times for BARCAPs in strike
packages.
The probably needs some refactoring. BARCAP is just the symptomatic
example at the moment, but the real problem is that different mission
profiles exist and we currently only handle one. Making profiles
explicit in mission planning will clean this up, will be needed for
other future mission types, and makes it easier for us to alter
behavior for waypoint and timing decisions based on the aircraft or
mission type.
Conditional in comprehension appears to be intended to exclude
dunders, but was also excluding many TER weapons from Weapon class args
beginning with '_'
Stop using "CAP". Use BARCAP or TARCAP instead.
TARCAP no longer allowed anywhere but front lines, since that's all we
have mission planning for right now. Later will add TARCAP and BARCAP
for all objective types with different timing profiles.
Part two of the fix for
https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/210.