DCS features a massive range of aircraft and land vehicles, and not all of them make their role(s) clear just from the name alone. What this commit does is add an "information" button (and resultant window) to the recruitment section. This should allow new players to understand what each unit is/does.
Current state - every aircraft has a country of origin and an introduction date for that variant. Some also have a small placeholder description, taken from ED's store page for that aircraft. There is also a placeholder picture (taken from a rejected image from my own personal photography) that will, in time, show a banner image of each unit.
Todo - add appropriate screenshots for each aircraft's banner, replace the placeholder text for each aircraft (this will take a while...) and add more data points for each unit type, such as a unit role (i.e. "air-superiority fighter", "multirole fighter", etc) or perhaps a list of weapons carried. I also haven't made a start on the huge number of ground units yet.
Also separate out SEAD and DEAD taskings. Some aircraft can DEAD but not SEAD.
Also make the recruitment menu use the pretty names in the alphabetical sort func.
If in the create flight dialog, there are no suitable aircraft for a task, or no aircraft left at all, a suitable message is now shown that prevents the user from creating a flight.
Also adds in a quick "remember what plane the user had selected last" feature.
A user can now modify the existing default loadout, rather than starting from scratch.
Also adds WIP handling for removed pylons, which looks like it may need some PyDCS work.
Also fixes the F-14B default loadouts for everything OTHER than fighter sweep again.
The default loadout is now displayed whenever the custom loadout checkbox is unchecked.
The custom loadout is reset when the custom loadout is checked, to force the user to be prescriptive about the loadout.
Contributes-to: Khopa/dcs_liberation#725
This makes the names of the aircraft displayed to the player in the UI more verbose and readable.
It allows allows specific countries to display an aircraft's name differently. An example of this would be the JF-17 Thunder, which is known in China as the FC-1 Fierce Dragon - this now displays correctly in the Liberation UI.
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
This feature allows you to cancel the sales of aircraft or ground vehicles if needed.
Upon clicking the minus button, a count of sold units will be appended to the unit count. This count responds to both further presses of the minus button, and also to presses of the plus button. No further units will be requested for the next turn until all sold units have been re-bought.
I've tested a bunch of different scenarios with this:
- Selling and rebuying a unit - the budget increases and decreases as expected.
- Selling one unit, buying a unit worth the new player budget, and then trying to rebuy the old unit - the old unit cannot be rebought until the budget has been freed up for it.
- Closing the base window and re-opening it - the sold unit count is retained.
- Ending the turn - the sold unit count is reset back to 0 as expected.
Contributes to Khopa/dcs_liberation#365
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
