The next step in splitting up the layout and scheduling phases. This
facilitates splitting flights into two classes where one has a full
flight plan, but one used in the earlier phases of planning has only a
layout. Layout-only flights won't need TOTs, which will make them much
easier to work with once we've migrated TOTs from timedeltas to
datetimes.
Layout-only flights of course aren't actually usable, but it lets us
avoid dealing with the current sim time until we're certain the Flight
will even survive planning.
I'm not actually sure if we'll be able to split the two phases any more,
but this ends up being a nice cleanup anyway.
We can always estimate a startup time now. Remove the nullability from
the result, cleanup the callsites, and eliminate
TotEstimator.mission_start_time since it no longer does anything useful.
Flights without a meaningful TOT make the code around startup time (and
other scheduling behaviors) unnecessarily complicated because they have
to handle unpredictable flight plans. We can simplify this by requiring
that all flight plans have a waypoint associated with their TOT. For
custom flight plans, we can just fall back to the takeoff waypoint. For
RTB flight plans (which are only synthetic flight plans injected for
aborted flights), we can use the abort point.
This also means that all flight plans now have, at the very least, a
departure waypoint. Deleting this waypoint is invalid even for custom
flights, so that's no a problem.
This field is optional. Omitting the field (or using only a date instead
of a full timestamp) will use the old behavior of picking a random
daylight hour to start the campaign.
This doesn't include any UI in the new game wizard yet. This is only a
campaign yaml option.
https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2400
For now this is just a callsite cleanup. Later, this will make it easier
to separate unscheduled and scheduled flights into different classes
without complicating the layout/scheduling.
- Add the new airassault mission type and special flightplans for it
- Add the mission type to airbase and FOB
- Add Layout for the UH-1H
- Add mission type to capable squadrons
- Allow the auto planner to task air assault missions when preconditions are met
- Improve Airlift mission type and improve the flightplan (Stopover and Helo landing)
- Allow Slingload and spawnable crates for airlift
- Rework airsupport to a general missiondata class
- Added Carrier Information to mission data
- Allow to define CTLD specific capabilities in the unit yaml
- Allow inflight preload and fixed wing support for air assault
- Added the CTLD script
- Removed the previous jtacautolase script
- Updated the configuration to allow the JTACAutoLase function to work
- Added the JTac name, freq and mod to the lua
The special handling is not required anymore as we now rotate the whole TGO to head towards the conflict if the campaign designer has not defined any specific heading
This allows to define if a unit should be placed backwards in the generated mission. This is required for example for the SA-11/SA-17 or Silkworm Launchers.
