Skip to content

Mission Maker — Overview

DynamicMission is a dynamic mission director: purely from the naming of the zones and groups you place in the Mission Editor, the script clones and spawns groups as the mission unfolds, manages airbase captures, and spawns defenses on them automatically.

The spawn mechanism is generic

A group template can be any DCS unit type — a fighter, an attack helicopter, an armed or unarmed vehicle convoy, a ship, a troop transport — it is not limited to combat "opposition" in the strict sense. As the mission maker, you decide what each template represents by how you place and name it in the editor.

The four building blocks

Block Role Nomenclature
Region Combat zone: detects enemy players, drives the spawn rhythm RG_... (polygon zone)
Group template (MG_ = Model Group) The group cloned on every spawn MG_[TAG]_[ID] (group, delayed activation)
Spawn zone Where a template's clones get dispersed SZ_[TAG]_[ID] (circular zone)
Defense template Ground group auto-spawned on a captured/threatened base AD_[description]_[maxSpawn] (group)

An MG_ template and an SZ_ zone must share the same [TAG] to be usable together — at least one pair per tag used, otherwise the mission refuses to start (see Nomenclature).

Installation

  1. Generate the final script from the sources:

    cd Tools
.\Merge.ps1

    This produces DynamicMission.lua at the repository root — that's the file to load, never the files under sources/ directly.

  2. Load it in the DCS Mission Editor:

    • Open the mission in the editor.
    • Add a DO SCRIPT FILE trigger at mission start, loading DynamicMission.lua.
    • (Optional) To customize DM.Config, copy templates/DynamicMission_Config.lua into your mission folder, edit it, then add a second DO SCRIPT FILE trigger on the same "at mission start" trigger, placed after the one loading DynamicMission.lua — see Configuration.

Where to go next

  • Nomenclature — the RG_/MG_/SZ_/AD_ conventions, with worked examples for each combination.
  • Configuration — the DM.Config fields you can override.
  • F10 Menu — what your players will see.