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.
The escape sequence looks to be valid according to the spec (although it
would need to be double quoted, but that doesn't fix it), but Python's
parser doesn't appear to handle that. Just use ü.
https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2786
Fixes the YAMLs for 3 F-14B squadrons that didn't have SEAD as an
available mission type. F-14s use SEAD for TALD deployment. The other
F-14B squadrons and all the F-14A squadrons are fine. I also removed
"Bases:" from one of the squadrons as the other squadron yamls don't
have it and it's unecessary (F-14Bs can already be based at airfields
and carriers.
Updated the F4.py pydcs extension to match the updated F-4B/C mod and
reworked the standard payloads to add "clean" to new F-4B pylons 11 and
12.
This includes a workaround to allow Liberation to use the new VSN F-4B
weapons with combined 2x Aim-9js on pylons 3 and 9 underslung with bombs
on ters on new pylons 11 and 12. In mission editor the combined weapons
are selected in pylons 3 and 9 and their under-slung counterparts are
forced onto 11 and 12 using "required" arguments in the mod's lua. All
other pylon 3 and 9 weapons use "required clean" arguments. Liberation
doesn't have a way to force these linkages onto pylons 11 and 12 and
without them, even without clean, no weapons will load on 3 and 9 or 11
and 12.
The workaround for normal weapons on the F-4B is to set the standard
load-outs to "clean" on pylons 11 and 12. This allows all normal weapons
to work on pylons 3 and 9 so long as pylons 11 and 12 are left as Clean.
It also allows Clean into the Liberation dropdown so it can be selected
later if necessary.
The workaround for the 4 new weapons that combines pylons 3 with 11 and
9 with 12 is that the user has to use the matching pair on each set of
pylons. For example - if F4B_LAU105_AIM9J_2_BRU42A_MK82_3 is selected
for pylon 3, BRU 42A MK823 LAU105 AIM9J2 must be selected for pylon 11.
Failure to do this correctly doesn't crash liberation or DCS, the result
will just be either no weapons at all on either pylon or the underslung
weapons on 11 and 12 floating without a pylon attaching it to the plane.
When updating f4.py in the future, note that running the pydcs database
export doesn't pull any data for Pylons 11 and 12. Those matching
weapons / classes have to be manually defined in those pylons for the
F-4B. This is noted in f4.py.
The manual for the legacy warthog usually calls these VHF 1/2 and UHF,
or VHF AM/FM and UHF. The AM/FM nomenclature is what I usually hear
people call them and it's clearer, so go with that.
For the A-10C II, that manual hasn't been updated for the AN/ARC-210
yet, so I'm not really sure what that ought to be called. The UFC calls
it COM 1 though, so I went with that. The alternative would be something
like VHF/UHF for the 210 and UHF for the 164, but I don't know if that's
actually better. Could be completely explicit and call them by their
full names, but that's probably less clear to people that aren't
fiddling with the radio implementation constantly (and even I confuse
the 164 and the 186 all the damn time).
My earlier tests were not accurate enough. It turns out that yes, DCS
does still do some channel clobbering with these, so fix the radio
selection to account for that.
I also fumbled some copy paste between the A-10Cs so the A-10C II
channel assignment ended up in the wrong section doing nothing...
The latest DCS update both added support for preset radios (two both
A-10C modules!), and re-ordered the legacy A-10C's radios so we can use
the VHF radio for intra-flight.
After this patch, the legacy A-10C will use VHF for intra-flight, the
new module will use one AN/ARC-210 for intra-flight and the other for
inter-flight comms, and both modules will have preset channels assigned.
R-24R weapons file correction to R-3R fallback name - now matches name used in R-3R file.
Remove KH-28 weapons file due to removal from DCS.
Update KH-25MP weapons file to fallback to KH-29L instead of Kh-28. Kh-28 previously fell back to Kh-29L.
Adds US Weapons files with fallbacks in order of capability.
Aim-7P added by ED for several US fighters. Falls back to 7MH, and Aim-120B fallback adjusted from MH to P.
Aim-9J and Aim-9Juli added by ED for the Mirage F-1, also used by F-4 mod and will likely be added to the F-4E whenever it ships. Aim-9J placed between 9P and 9B, Aim-9 Juli placed between 9L and 9P5.
2x9j and 2x9Juli added by VSN for F-4 mod. Placed between 2x versions of same missiles as above.
Aim-7E now falls back to 2xAim9x instead of single Aim9x so that it runs through the entire loop of Aim-9s.
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).
I haven't removed the old US navy stuff from this faction, since all the
new UK ships are frigates, and removing the US stuff would deprive the
faction of cruisers and destroyers, which might break generation (I'm
not familiar enough with the new system to say for sure).
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2571.
With the latest change we added capture zones and corresponding trigger rules for all Airfields as well so we do not need to rely on the dcs capture event S_EVENT_BASE_CAPTURED anymore.
