Campaigns

[Aprilsister]

1st, congrats and thanks for 1.06.

 

Support for setting up campaigns

 

Does that mean that this (from "Upcoming Fan Missions" on the Wiki):

 

Cleighmoor -- grayman -- After TDM supports persistent data between maps

 

is now a nearby possibility about to happen and launch live and in color?

Edited June 19, 2011 by Aprilsister

[grayman]

Does that mean that this (from "Upcoming Fan Missions" on the Wiki) is now a nearby possibility about to happen and launch live and in color?

 

Not quite.

 

Campaign support and being able to move back and forth between maps are related, but different. More work is needed for the latter to happen.

 

But greebo's campaign work inspired me to place Cleighmoor in the context of a campaign, and I've begun work on the two missions that now precede it. Hopefully, someday it will all see the light of day.

 

Thanks.

[Berny]

Copy of the WIKI

 

"Campaign Support

Maps can now be strung together to make multi-mission Campaigns.

 

A number of new Campaign specific systems have be built.

Multiple Briefings

Multiple Briefing Videos

De-Briefing Videos

Conditional Objectives that span missions

Inventory and Loot management for mult-mission setup

"

Edited June 19, 2011 by Berny

[Nosslak]

Yeah, it sounds like it's supported already but if not can't you just ask Solarspace how he did it?

[Aprilsister]

Well, I appreciate the responses, and I appreciate that it's not-quite-there and that it's quite a complex undertaking to get it "there".

 

I also like the part about going ahead and adjusting Cleighmoor to the objective situation.

 

I think I've said this before out in the forums (I know I've said it in beta testing forums): it seems to me that TDM FMAing would benefit from a culture that it is sort of underway amongst a few of the authors -- that being a serialization style "campaign/epic/saga" release paradigm. An episodic format will keep the missions from overwhelmingly hw taxing size; keep the author from having to work "unrewarded" (loving feedback, it must be rewarding, eh?); and generally keep the mod content flowing...

 

So, while we are here, let me ask: is "Home Again" a part of the Cleighmoor campaign? or something apart from the Cleighmoor campaign?

 

Either way I hope to see it soon. You've really proven yourself to be a great benefit to the mod. I'm anticipating (not meaning to put undue pressure, honestly) that many of the excellent improvements you've made are inspired by what you have in mind FMA-wise.