855 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dan Albert
6ce82be46b Set up split/join points. 2020-10-04 12:24:31 -07:00
Dan Albert
56a5864600 Generate common ingress/egress points.
This still isn't very good because it doesn't work well for anything
but the automatically planned package.

Instead, should be a part of the Package itself, generated the first
time it is needed, and resettable by the user.
2020-10-04 12:24:31 -07:00
Dan Albert
07cbaa3e70 Plan escort flights.
TODO: UI
2020-10-04 12:24:31 -07:00
Dan Albert
2aecea88b0 Orient CAP tracks toward the enemy.
Pointing the race track 90 degrees away from where the enemy is
expected means the radar can't see much. CAP flights normally fly
*toward* the expected direction of contact and alternate approaching
and retreating legs with their wingman.
2020-10-04 12:24:31 -07:00
Dan Albert
582c43fb6c Generate CAP missions in useful locations.
CAP missions should be between the protected location and the nearest
threat. Find the closest enemy airfield and ensure that the CAP race
track is between it and the protected location.
2020-10-04 12:24:26 -07:00
Dan Albert
cc7c2cc707 Refactor flight plan generation. 2020-10-04 12:24:26 -07:00
Dan Albert
8b717c4f4c Replace doctrine dict with a real type. 2020-10-04 12:24:26 -07:00
Dan Albert
aa309af015 Redraw flight plans when they change. 2020-10-04 12:24:26 -07:00
Dan Albert
1e041b6249 Perform coalition-wide mission planning.
Mission planning on a per-control point basis lacked the context it
needed to make good decisions, and the ability to make larger missions
that pulled aircraft from multiple airfields.

The per-CP planners have been replaced in favor of a global planner
per coalition. The planner generates a list of potential missions in
order of priority and then allocates aircraft to the proposed flights
until no missions remain.

Mission planning behavior has changed:

* CAP flights will now only be generated for airfields within a
  predefined threat range of an enemy airfield.
* CAS, SEAD, and strike missions get escorts. Strike missions get a
  SEAD flight.
* CAS, SEAD, and strike missions will not be planned unless
  they have an escort available.
* Missions may originate from multiple airfields.

There's more to do:

* The range limitations imposed on the mission planner should take
  aircraft range limitations into account.
* Air superiority aircraft like the F-15 should be preferred for CAP
  over multi-role aircraft like the F/A-18 since otherwise we run the
  risk of running out of ground attack capable aircraft even though
  there are still unused aircraft.
* Mission priorities may need tuning.
* Target areas could be analyzed for potential threats, allowing
  escort flights to be optional or omitted if there is no threat to
  defend against. For example, late game a SEAD flight for a strike
  mission probably is not necessary.
* SAM threat should be judged by how close the extent of the SAM's
  range is to friendly locations, not the distance to the site itself.
  An SA-10 30 nm away is more threatening than an SA-6 25 nm away.
* Much of the planning behavior should be factored out into the
  coalition's doctrine.

But as-is this is an improvement over the existing behavior, so those
things can be follow ups.

The potential regression in behavior here is that we're no longer
planning multiple cycles of missions. Each objective will get one CAP.
I think this fits better with the turn cycle of the game, as a CAP
flight should be able to remain on station for the duration of the
turn (especially with refueling).

Note that this does break save compatibility as the old planner was a
part of the game object, and since that class is now gone it can't be
unpickled.
2020-10-04 12:24:26 -07:00
Khopa
1f240b02f4 Fix aircrafts landing point 2020-10-04 14:27:13 +02:00
Khopa
6317f376b7 EPLRS typo fixed 2020-10-04 14:11:28 +02:00
Khopa
5ecf9aeed8 EPLRS implemented for base defense unit. 2020-10-03 18:32:11 +02:00
Khopa
db36a76c2c Fixed eplrs for frontline ground units 2020-10-03 17:35:06 +02:00
Khopa
3df8fb5fe9 Merge branch 'develop' into develop_mission_planner 2020-10-03 17:06:07 +02:00
Khopa
7dd3367203 Version number for release 2.1.4 2.1.4 2.1.4b 2020-10-03 16:50:56 +02:00
Khopa
e72c82521a Forgot the changelog for 2.1.4 2020-10-03 16:45:21 +02:00
C. Perreau
aca415db23
Merge pull request #179 from Khopa/develop
Release 2.1.4
2020-10-03 16:33:26 +02:00
Khopa
5ba2e8a7a1 Fixed error after merge 2020-10-03 16:18:32 +02:00
Khopa
07d4b126f5 Enable EPLRS for ground units that can use it. 2020-10-03 16:18:12 +02:00
David Pierron
98b2d8b3b9 typo in the generate_initial_units function name 2020-10-02 13:15:40 -07:00
David Pierron
f8ef5db5a3 bug when continuing an old campaign save 2020-10-02 13:15:40 -07:00
C. Perreau
6e14ec3227
Merge pull request #147 from DanAlbert/ato
Replace mission planning UI.
2020-10-02 13:31:45 +02:00
C. Perreau
028292a023
Merge branch 'develop_mission_planner' into ato 2020-10-02 13:26:21 +02:00
Dan Albert
a44cbe5972 Tone down failure message for missing plugin file.
This looked an awful lot like an error, but it's the common case.
2020-10-01 23:57:53 -07:00
C. Perreau
2066a2e9bc
Merge pull request #167 from Khopa/develop
Release 2.1.3
2020-10-01 23:23:06 +02:00
Khopa
f381bf85a4 Fixed JTAC script not working after changes made to lua files 2.1.3 2020-10-01 23:17:32 +02:00
Khopa
44dcdcc8bb Changelog update 2020-10-01 23:17:08 +02:00
Khopa
01220800f3 Fixed Viggen icon 2020-10-01 22:47:58 +02:00
Khopa
8ecb4cdcf4 Added more ground vehicles icons. 2020-10-01 21:09:05 +02:00
Khopa
8402d108c0 Pydcs location 2020-10-01 20:22:11 +02:00
Khopa
75af2d468e Fix A-10C_II icon 2020-10-01 19:38:43 +02:00
Khopa
72ce37f008 Added custom payloads for A-10C II 2020-10-01 19:33:46 +02:00
Khopa
e48e884286 Added A-10C_2. Changed bluefor factions' country to "Combined Joint Task Forces Blue" instead of "USA" (support more units) 2020-10-01 19:20:25 +02:00
Khopa
f9d5c1f8de Update pydcs location 2020-10-01 19:07:06 +02:00
Khopa
0873dcab0a Gitmodule points to pydcs 2020-10-01 19:06:38 +02:00
C. Perreau
a1343c2849
Merge pull request #166 from DanAlbert/build-canaries
Build and archive binaries on push/PR.
2020-10-01 12:53:35 +02:00
Dan Albert
f732cc54d0 Build and archive binaries on push/PR.
Not building a full release, but this makes it easier to test someone
else's PR, or for players to get at pre-release builds.
2020-09-30 21:03:12 -07:00
David Pierron
473a7d5fa4 added a 'mkrelease' config for VS.Code 2020-09-30 19:47:02 -07:00
David Pierron
8054a0b62f removed useless link.cmd.sample file 2020-09-30 19:47:02 -07:00
Dan Albert
7f9cba5d37 Fix more None ATC bugs.
Fixes https://github.com/Khopa/dcs_liberation/issues/164
2020-09-30 19:20:50 -07:00
C. Perreau
f68e6387e6
Merge pull request #161 from VEAF/make-mission-portable
Make mission portable
2020-09-29 23:50:34 +02:00
Khopa
f032001bee Limit number of aircraft that can be bought at a Control Point. 2020-09-29 23:47:57 +02:00
David Pierron
3bae591c04 corrected and enhanced mission portability 2020-09-29 20:46:22 +02:00
Khopa
18a1f0af94 Added credits to new contributor to about dialog. 2020-09-29 20:03:07 +02:00
David Pierron
afbd4a4716 Make mission portable
use inline json.lua and write to %LIBERATION_EXPORT_DIR%, %TEMP%
or the DCS working directory
2020-09-29 17:27:35 +02:00
David Pierron
a98da14c6f
Merge pull request #1 from Khopa/master
Merge from base
2020-09-29 15:14:55 +02:00
Khopa
a2a70213a7 Update pydcs location 2020-09-28 00:55:02 +02:00
Khopa
8b0f877041 Verrsion string updated to 2.1.2 2.1.2 2020-09-28 00:42:27 +02:00
Khopa
bf7ad4cad2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'khopa/master' into develop 2020-09-28 00:27:25 +02:00
C. Perreau
66b659c0af
Merge pull request #152 from VEAF/introduced-scripts-plugins
Introduced LUA scripts plugins
2020-09-28 00:26:26 +02:00