FMB: Add AI only option to Air Group or individual Aircraft in group #9

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batmacumba · 2025-02-12T15:06:37Z

batmacumba commented

2025-02-12 15:06:37 +00:00

When in difficulty settings enabled switching aircraft, player can take control over any of aircrafts available in the mission. But what if mission author do not want player to influence on specific aircraft or all aircrafts in group?? For example to prevent of taking control of leading aircraft of AI bombers group (or any aircraft of that group).
So, it will be nice to have an option to set aircraft group as AI only to prevent player from taking control over any of aircraft of the group (see picture 1). Same should be available for just specific aircraft (see picture 2).

This feature should work in multiplayer and single player.
Aircrafts marked as "AI only" should not appear in multiplayer list of aircrafts available for taking control by player (see picture 3).
Of course, it is possible to kick player out of specific aircraft by mission script, but that may disrupt AI from planned course. Also that may conflict with some popular multiplayer server scripts. Also, in multiplayer script can't remove those slots from list of available slots to take control over (when 100 of AI He-111 spawned on the server it will create 600 slots in that list! That is killing UI performance). So that feature better to be integrated in game core.

When in difficulty settings enabled switching aircraft, player can take control over any of aircrafts available in the mission. But what if mission author do not want player to influence on specific aircraft or all aircrafts in group?? For example to prevent of taking control of leading aircraft of AI bombers group (or any aircraft of that group). So, it will be nice to have an option to set aircraft group as AI only to prevent player from taking control over any of aircraft of the group (see picture 1). Same should be available for just specific aircraft (see picture 2). This feature should work in multiplayer and single player. Aircrafts marked as "AI only" should not appear in multiplayer list of aircrafts available for taking control by player (see picture 3). Of course, it is possible to kick player out of specific aircraft by mission script, but that may disrupt AI from planned course. Also that may conflict with some popular multiplayer server scripts. Also, in multiplayer script can't remove those slots from list of available slots to take control over (when 100 of AI He-111 spawned on the server it will create 600 slots in that list! That is killing UI performance). So that feature better to be integrated in game core.

batmacumba commented

2025-02-12 15:06:56 +00:00

Updated by Rostic 15 days ago
Also players should not be able to select such aircraft for entering position on the map when icons on the map are enabled.

Updated by Rostic 15 days ago Also players should not be able to select such aircraft for entering position on the map when icons on the map are enabled.

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Reference: tfs/IL-2-Sturmovik-Cliffs-of-Dover#9