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adding AIObjects

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Ok, I've started playing with the mission builder.. er, six hours today so far!

I was having some great success with my trial mission until I added an AIObject.. a boat.

From there on... my sounds would not play.. I assume the triggers simply quit working.

Secondly, while the Boat shows up in object view when I add it.. it fails to appear in the mission. Anyone know whats up with this? It doesn't appear that I need to attach it to a trigger..
 
hmmm...

Ok, I del the boat from the XML and now the sounds work. So, either a bug here or definitely I am doing something wrong with adding AIObject..
 
You have to tell if the AI is an Aircraft or a ground object. Else it won't work. I assume that it's not only the sounds that don't play but the mission is just not loaded.
 
Ai

Thorsten, I assume you mean, in the case of a boat, setting AI for "wanderboat" or similar.. which I did... but it didn't work...
 
As stated in the SDK you can only use two kinds of AI: aircraft or groundobject. If it should fly use aircraft (:D), if it doesn't (like humans, cars, animals, boats,...) use groundobject. In any other case you'll get an error and the mission will not load (properly).
You can't even use Helis as AI-aircraft, they won't show up - unless you use them as groundobjects and use them as static objects.
 
objects

According to SDK there are four objects types for AI..

"AI objects are computer controlled vehicles. Four types of vehicle can be controlled by the AI (artificial intelligence) component of Flight Simulator:

1. Aircraft
2. Boats
3. Ground vehicles
4. Other

I chose boat as AIObject, then Wanderboat for AI as stated in SDK..

"One of: None, Airplane, Helicopter, WanderBoat, GoundVehicle, FuelTruck, BaggageCart, BaggageLoader, or AirportAmbient.
For ships on a course use GroundVehicle. For small boats on the sea or lakes use WanderBoat."

According to SDK there doesn't appear to be anything else needed?
 
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What I meant is this:

AIType
One of: None, Airplane, Helicopter, WanderBoat, GoundVehicle, FuelTruck, BaggageCart, BaggageLoader, or AirportAmbient.
For ships on a course use GroundVehicle. For small boats on the sea or lakes use WanderBoat.
Only Airplane and GroundVehicle take objects that can be further specified.
Click to expand...

As far as I can see this would mean that all others would appear as static objects. But you may prove me wrong. ;)
Well, let's take a look at the samples - Sitka for example uses some AI-ships. Don't have the time now to switch to fsx though.
 
samples

Duh.. good idea, don't know why I didn't think of it.. too problem focused. I'll look at some samples.. hmm.. any idea where the XML for the provided missions is located.. I've searched a bit its not obvious..
 
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format

Most of the provided missions come in a compressed format... you have to use a special tool to uncompress the spb file..
 
In the Missions SDK folder there is a subfolder for examples of all of the default missions in XML format.
 
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