Editing Script with the advanced editor

You may wonder, now that i know what is the Advanced editor, now that i know what is inside the editor... What do i do ?

Selecting a mission

Simple... First you select the mission you want to edit. You can select your mission from the mission selection window.

Editing the mission

Now that you have the mission loaded, you can read it, open the 'Main' section in the Mission script Display, read carefully the script line. If you don't know what is that line for, double-click on it, its pproperty window will pop-up, from there you will see what it is for *1. If you still don't get it, press the Help button in the property window, the Help for the commands will be shown.

When you have a line selected, you can either press the 'Property' button (F2) to bring the property window or press F1 to bring the contextual help for that command.

You can edit any line of the mission by double-clicking on it and changing its property.

Adding new line in the mission

You select a command in the Command Script Selection, the mouse cursor will indicate that you are in Drag mode, from that point you can simply click in the Mission script Display where you want the line to be inserted. The property window for that command will appear for you to complete this entry.

Removing a line from the mission

Select the line you want to remove, then press the 'Delete Line button' (Ctrl-Del)

Removing a part of the mission

Select the part you want to delete from the Mission script Display then press the 'Delete this Folder' button.

Saving changes and Testing your mission

Once you've finished editing your mission, press the Save button. Launch Driver by pressing the 'Launch Driver' button. From Driver, select the mission you have edited (remember the name from the Mission Selection window) then play it. You can Press Alt-Tab to switch back to DMC, make some changes, save the mission, then press Alt-Tab again to get back in Driver, them press <Esc> and Select Restart mission. Most of the time, this way will work and you will save a lot of time.

 

*1 Some commands are still unknown for DMC and they will be edited with the Edit as Text window giving you no more clues about it. New commands definition will be added in DMC in future release.