posted 04-19- 08:11 PM               

I had to do a contact job a while ago, and I was so bored that I coded an entire semi-dynamic web based mission generator using SQL sever as a base.

Basicaly the application allowed the would-be campaign designer to build a complete mission tree over the web. He would copy the actual .mis file and paste them into a text box. He would also give the possible result choices and what mission that should be next depending on what heppened. So the campaign fly-er would start a campaign by downloading a .mis file. Then he would fly it. Then he would come back to the site and use a pull menu to select the outcome of the mission. Next he would either get another .mis file, or be told he lost/won/died/taken prisoner, etc.

It was done and working, but at the time there seemed to be no interest in this so I dropped it.

I still have all of the code. It was a very complex application - mostly the mission result matrix, that is what mission to assign next based on what the outcome was. I even discoverd that Microsoft ASP (script!) allows recursive function calls! Cool!

See, if the next mission hinged on three questions (did you live? did you sink the ship? did the bombers survive? for example - they could be anything or any amount of questions) then the matrix would be 3x3x3 = 27 seperate outcomes! For each outcome you would have a pull menu of possible "next missions" to chose from. You could have any number of missions as an outcome, or final messages.

A campaign flyer could manage more than one campaign at a time via the web site.

Also stats were kept as to how poeple did in your campaign.

I think I droped it because I thought it was too complex for anyone to learn howto create a campaign for. In fact the last unfinished piece was the "how-to" instructions Flying the campaign is simple though...

I can't believe I did all that work LOL!

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posted 04-19- 09:26 PM               

SV can't you and spin team up and make somthing cool?

somthing that would blow the mission editor away?

Hows this for a thought. Ask MH for the source code for the mission editor? It not like its this big peice of work that you could steal and use in your own stuff.

and they own it.

posted 04-19- 09:39 PM               

I don't think there is need for any official database, just a special file format for campaigns much like the actual mission files. This file would define the campaign and reference actual .mis files.

It would not be too hard... is there maybe a real programer out there who needs something to do? Why is it that programers are always so busy?

posted 04-20- 12:01 AM               

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