Dev Progress Update - September 2016: Missions & Game Modes

[Dr_Eyeball]

Announcement:

We have uploaded v3.23.5 RC update on EU1 and EU2.

Downloads:

see Downloads link on forum.

Changelog since last beta update:

1. Added: Missions Voting: added missions: Karachi, Steel Beasts, Tacticalker, War of Machines.
   
   Edit: Tacticalker shows wrong terrain name, but this is now fixed for next release.
2. Deleted: Eden Properties: temporarily removed all TacBF Eden object property editors.
   They are affecting vehicle spawning and are currently considered incomplete and untested.
   
   
    Example for mission developers: 
   

   [+] mission.sqm extract example

   Code: Select all

   class CustomAttributes
{
    class Attribute0
    {
     property="TB_vehicleRespawn_maximumCountSide";
     expression="_this setVariable ['ICE_spawn_players_max', _value];";
     class Value
     ...

   
    Advice for mission developers: 
   By loading and resaving the mission using this latest version, it will strip out all of the CustomAttributes from mission.sqm, which was proving too problematic for mission developers.
   If you had started to use these Eden TacBF properties already by accident, then you will need to revert to using the old method of using setVariable in the Initialization field again.

Note: Some on-screen debug messages have been deliberately left in this build, to assist with feedback.
But most debug messages will not show after 5 players join.