Skip to content

Modding tutorial

Jump to bottom
Vasyl Horbachenko edited this page Jun 27, 2018 · 19 revisions

Most of the settings for the campaign are in the game/db.py file. There's lots of comments and you should really read them before changing anything.

Change default load out for the aircraft

Find variable PLANE_PAYLOAD_OVERRIDES and add/change a section for the aircraft. Syntax goes as follows:

`AircraftIdentifier`: {
    "Category": "PayloadName",
},

where: * AircraftIdentifier: identifier of aircraft (the same that is used troughout the file) * "Category": (in double quotes) is one of the tasks: CAS, CAP, Intercept, Escort or "*" * "PayloadName": payload as found in resources/payloads/UNIT_TYPE.lua file. Sometimes this will match payload names in the mission editor, sometimes it doesn't. You can find exact name of the payloads under resources/payloads folder in a lua file named by aircraft.

Change default livery for the aircraft

Find PLANE_LIVERY_OVERRIDES and add a section to that. Syntax as follows:

`Identifier`: "LiveryName",

Identifier is aircraft identifier (as used troughout the file) and "LiveryName" (with double quotes) is livery name as found in mission editor.

Add a unit to the campaign

  1. First of all, find out the correct identifier for the unit by scooping trough pydcs database:

  1. Add it to the PRICES variable with price of your choice (it also prioritizes unit commissions to the enemy)

  2. Add it to the appropriate category for UNIT_BY_TASK. Aircraft should be applicable for the following tasks based on UNIT_BY_TASK categories:

Aircraft:

  • CAP - should be applicable for CAP, Intercept and Escort (meaning that you can select the aircraft in the editor and find those tasks in the dropdown Main task menu)
  • CAS - CAS and AntiShipStrike
  • Transport - the same, Transport
  • AWACS - the same, AWACS
  • Embarking - infantry transport aircraft (task Transport)

Ground units:

  • PinpointStrike - could be any ground vehicle
  • AirDefense - Anti Aircraft units
  • Reconnaissance - any ground vehicle
  • Nothing - infantry

Ships:

  • Carriage - aircraft carriers. Only first one for the country will be used
  • CargoTransportation - transport ships

  1. Put it in the appropriate UNIT_BY_COUNTRY list. This only affects the campaign, if the unit is not available for the country in the editor putting it here will still won't work.

  2. Generate a mission with the aircraft and verify that correct load out is loaded for it. If it's not - use Change default load out for the aircraft section of this guide to fix that

Clone this wiki locally