It's not feasible to actually check the parking limits because we can't
identify parking limits for carriers until the theater is populated.
Doing so is expensive (and depends on other NGW inputs). Instead,
compare against the version of the campaign and guess.
A new (minor) campaign version has been introduced which makes this
required to improve the UI hint. Campaigns that are compatible with the
new rules should update their version to advertise support.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2909.
This also changes the window close button of the air wing configuration
dialog to cancel rather than revert and continue, because otherwise
there's no way for the user to back out of the dialog without fixing all
the overfull bases first.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2910.
This does show the theoretical parking use of full squadrons even when
the new rules are not enabled. Since limits can be enabled manually
later in the game, it's still useful information, even if it's a bit
misleading.
https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2910
This is optional because I really don't know if I trust it. I don't see
much wrong with it (aside from the warning about not using it with auto-
resolve, because it won't restore lost aircraft), but it's really not
something I'd built for since it's not going to be possible as the RTS
features grow.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2735.
Support for DCS 2.8.5.40170, including laser hellfire, pylon 5 for the
apache, and a more tolerant livery scanner (not all liveries will be
discovered, but Liberation at least won't crash).
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2880.
Wind speeds should not be uniformly distributed. This switches to a
Weibull distribution which allegedly (see the bug) is good enough.
Experimentally that seems true as well, though I know nothing about how
wind works irl. This at least looks like it'll generate reasonable
variation in missions while keeping the 1st through 3rd quartile
behaviors from getting out of hand.
I'm very uncertain about the scaling factor aspect of this. Naively the
wind speeds at different altitudes ought to be somewhat correlated, but
I'm not sure how much, and whether this kind of scaling is at all the
right way to do it. As before, meh, close enough?
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2861.
If the package does not have a tanker, the refueling task will cause AI
flights to go to an arbitrary tanker, which may cause them to fly
through enemy territory or even go farther than their arrival airbase.
It's also not remotely possible for every AI flight in the game to
refuel in most missions. There's typically one tanker and dozens of
aircraft that would previously attempt to refuel.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2716.
Includes the rewritten livery scanning code. It might need some more
tweaks to be fast enough, but it at least now doesn't spam the log for
machines that don't have DCS (or Liberation) installed, and it's not
slow until something tries to use it, so until we add the UI we won't
have to pay for it during startup.
We're still using mostly the same aircraft selection as we have before
we added squadrons: the closest aircraft is the best choice.
This adds an option to obey the primary task set by the campaign
designer (can be overridden by players), even if the squadron is farther
away than one that is capable of it as a secondary task.
I don't expect this option to live very long. I'm making it optional for
now to give people a chance to test it, but it'll either replace the old
selection strategy or will be removed.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/1892.
Preferred aircraft per task are now determined by a ranking of weights
stored in the aircraft yaml files. To aid in visualizing the priorities
across aircraft, Liberation can be run with the argument
dump-task-priorities to dump a yaml file in Saved
Games/DCS/Liberation/Debug/priorities.yaml, which will show each task
along with priority sorted aircraft and their weights.
The current weights in the data were exported from the existing lists,
where each position from the bottom of the list was worth 10 (to allow
some games for less shuffling later).
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2809.
We should also persist mod options, but those will go in a separate file
because they aren't a part of Settings.
Plugins need some work before that can be saved here. They're not
configurable in the NGW currently, so that needs to be fixed first. It
also appears that it may not be safe to inject the settings object with
plugin options until the game is created, but that needs more
investigation (see the comment in Settings.save_player_settings).
Another obvious candidate would be the desired player mission duration,
but we need to implement custom serialization for that first.
After this change, players will always have the final say in what
missions a squadron can be assigned to. Squadrons are not able to
influence the default auto-assignable missions either because that
property is always overridden by the campaign's air wing configuration
(the primary and secondary task properties). The `mission-types` field
of the squadron definition has been removed since it is no longer
capable of influencing anything. I haven't bothered cleaning up the now
useless data in all the existing squadrons though.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2785.
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.
Comments! No more failures because you accidentally used a trailing
comma!
JSON still supported since it's basically free, but we should probably
remove that in 8 just so the docs can be less confusing for users who
will be confused if only one format is documented (and we definitely
won't maintain duplicate docs).
These are only used during mission generation. Remove them from the save
state to reduce compatibility requirements. We also have at least one
report of this data being corrupted... somehow. I don't know how that
could have happened, but if there's no data to corrupt in the first
place that's not a problem. If the corruption _does_ recur, it'll be
much easier to repro if it corrupts during mission generation rather
than during turn initialization.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2729.
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.
The Falklands data in pydcs was missing an (unfinished, unusable)
airport, and that was breaking miz loading of campaigns that were edited
or created with a version of DCS to include these airports which have
incomplete data.
Fixes https://github.com/dcs-liberation/dcs_liberation/issues/2732.
