A lot of campaigns want to define custom factions. This allows them to
do so without us having to fill the built-in factions list with a bunch
of campaign-specific factions. It also makes custom campaigns more
portable as they don't need to also distribute the custom faction files.
We've actually been pretty good at getting this right in most of the
code base, but we've missed it in a few places. Python defaults to the
encoding of the current locale unless otherwise specified, and for a US
English Windows install that's cp1252, not UTF-8. I'm not brave enough
to change the locale at startup because I don't know how that might
affect CJK encoding users (or for that matter, non-Latin derived
alphabet UTF-8 variants).
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2786.
This is the first step toward bundling all assets related to a save game
into a single item. That makes it easier to avoid clobbering "temporary"
assets from other games like the state.json, but also makes it easier
for players to file bug reports, since there's only a single asset to
upload.
This is only the first step because so far it only includes the various
save files: start of turn, end of last turn before results processing,
and "latest" (the game saved explicitly by the player).
If the user's DCS directory is not configured correctly this will
degrade by not showing an icon. Otherwise (and typically) we get nicer
looking icons for each theater, and we don't have to make these for each
new map.
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
- factor out own class for the iadsnetwork within the conflicttheater
- This class will handle all Skynet related things - no specific group_name handling necessary in future
- make iadsbuilding own TGO class because SAM & EWRs are Vehicle Groups. IADS Elements dont have any groups attached.
- added command center, connection node and power source as Ground objects which can be added by the campaign designer
- adjust lua generator to support new iads units
- parse the campaign yaml to get the iads network information
- use the range as fallback if no yaml information was found
- complete rewrite of the skynet lua script
- allow destruction of iads network to be persistent over all rounds
- modified the presetlocation handling: the wrapper PresetLocation for PointWithHeading now stores the original name from the campaign miz to have the ability to process campaign yaml configurations based on the ground unit
- Implementation of the UI representation for the IADS Network
- Give user the option to enable or disable advanced iads
- Extended the layout system: Implement Sub task handling to support PD