Mission Design

To learn the basics of mission editing, there is a tutorial delivered with the flashpoint CD, an online version of this tutorial can be viewed here.

This article will illustrate the possibilities of the Flashpoint mission editor and it's engine.

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mission components

A mission is comprised of multiple files, and optionally compressed into a .PBO file. the files used in missions are:

mission.sqm: This file contains (in order) the required addons, the position and information of all units, the triggers ("sensors") , waypoints, (...)

briefing.html the briefing contains the text stored in the "notebook". For more information about briefings there are multiple tutorials available. (...)

description.ext no information yet

init.sqs no information yet

image files no information yet

audio files no information yet

Mission editor limitations

Great effort has been put into making the mission editor as limitless (...)