How To Create A Basic Skynet IADS

How To Create A Basic Skynet IADS | DCS

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2 жыл бұрын

I got a lot of comments asking "How do I create a Skynet mission?" We'll answer that question in this video. Note: I am not the creator of Skynet. However, you can get in touch with him via the links below.
Skynet Download: github.com/walder/Skynet-IADS
Skynet Discord: / discord
Lua code from the video:
redIADS = SkynetIADS:create('Enemy IADS')
redIADS:addSAMSitesByPrefix('SAM')
redIADS:addEarlyWarningRadarsByPrefix('EW')
redIADS:activate()
Obligatory disclaimers:
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@Martinmac82 Жыл бұрын

Pre made ED templates don't work with Skynet out of the box for one simple reason, the default templates don't have the SR placed as the 1st unit in the group. Easily fixed but needs mentioning for newbs.

@Condyriso 2 ай бұрын

thank man! I was wondering why teamplates didn't work! I agree with you! It should've been said in the video!

@aaronwhite1786 6 күн бұрын

@@Condyriso I wonder if they fixed it recently, or if I just didn't catch the SAM sites that didn't work. I'll have to go back and double check, but I think they may have fixed it.

@Rodz88 2 жыл бұрын

Very. Very well done sir! Clear, precise & straight to the point. Like to see more of these tutorials

@greghorine4995 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent how-to video! Very professionally done, and gives all the info we need. Thank you!

@paristo 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Clear and direct without sightseeing. Adding own custom templates to speed up the future missions was good idea to be left out, as this video serve exactly to total beginner to get it going.

@rapteakewl 19 күн бұрын

it's important to mention that the order in the trigger menu is important otherwise you get lua errors. first mist then skynet iads compiled and then myiads it's trivial, but worth mentioning :)

@BassClefJ 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the intro and walkthrough. Got this up and running last night and it's a game changer. Thanks.

@shiftyjesusfish 2 жыл бұрын

Omg thank you this simplifies things for my aperantly smooth as hell brain. I was setting up multiple sites sites overlaping coverage and a bunch of nonsense and was still getting bad results. This is way easier and WAAAAY less work

@DLevasseur 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thanks for this. Great to see content on Skynet. I have struggled in the past with getting more complex setups working. Perhaps you can delve into that? Adding power sources, control centers, connection nodes.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's a good topic for a future video.

@craig8724 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video. Very well explained. I will make my first IADs this weekend.

@matswane 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this one. Appreciated!

@lancer50thvfsgrizzlies7 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to do this video. It was well presented and very helpful. I'm guessing for multi-player, there would be the addition of some lines in the Lua file with "blue" as opposed to red. Having both red and blue lines making IADS working for both sides in the same file. Yes? Again, thanks for posting this video! 🏆

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

That's correct. You would make a second IADS for the blue side.

@channelwright9137 2 жыл бұрын

Thank youi so much for doing this tutorial. Excellent explanation, clear & concise.

@RedBravo65 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding! Most helpful. Will be trying this in my missions. Thanks.

@theegg-viator4707 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent work as usual Mike! 👍🏻🤟🏻

@lukas_2004 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video mate! Extremely helpful!

@theflyingfool Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike! This has helped me a lot.

@yappydawg8985 2 жыл бұрын

This helps a lot. Thank you.

@Carter_12 2 жыл бұрын

this was so helpful thank you

@sasquatchycowboy5585 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making this

@haackhaack4217 Жыл бұрын

Good tutorial!

@billcedarheath387 2 жыл бұрын

For some reason my DCS doesn't have a robust list of SAM templates like seen in the video. It once did, but I have no idea why the templates available in the drop down is much less. Any ideas on why that might be? Great video BTW. Much appreciated for your creating it.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

There is a list of templates provided by ED that should always be there. Then there are custom ones that are added by you. These custom templates go in the "Saved Games" folder where DCS stores files for you. So just like we have a Mission folder for the custom mission we created in this video, there should be one called "StaticTemplate" that would have any custom templates you created or downloaded. If that folder was deleted at some point then the list would get shorter and only show the default ones ED includes in the game. That's my best guess.

@billcedarheath387 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Thanks for taking the time to reply. It seems that I wasn't the only one that didn't pick up on "missing" SAM templates. Apparently, the templates got moved in a recent patch to the Combined Forces Red from the Russia. Not using the templates much, I didn't see the change. This info came to me from the ED forums when I looked into it this morning. Thanks again for the reply.

@KielEire 2 жыл бұрын

Presumably you can create more than one IADS per mission, either red and blue or multiples per side by prefixing them differently “rSAM, rEWR” and “bSAM, bEWR” and then doing eight lines of code in MyIADS with the correct prefix. Is there a limit to the number of groups or units total per IADS set up?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

That's correct. That's exactly how you do multiple IADS. I'm not sure if there is a programmatic limit to the number of groups in an IADS. That's a good question for the Discord I linked. However, I do know you don't want to go nuts with SAM radars in a missions since that tends to bog down DCS.

@KielEire 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom thank you for the reply!

@kittyhawkdcs 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@MrAlonebiker Жыл бұрын

Merci Man😃😃😃

@Aymeric_217 4 ай бұрын

Hello, thank you for this video. One question is: How do you prevent the SAM site from appearing on your right MFD of the F-16? I followed the steps, I think the scripts work correctly because the SAM site triggers at the last moment and fires according to the RWR. Thanks.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 4 ай бұрын

This is a great question. To hide a SAM on the MFD you just need to click on one checkbox in the mission editor. With the SAM group selected just check the box for "Hidden On MFD" and it won't show up there. I also recommend checking "Hidden On Planner" too. In single player you get the planner map before a mission and it will be shown there as well if you leave it unchecked.

@Aymeric_217 4 ай бұрын

Understood, thank you very much for these two tips! @@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom

@HH-dd2xq Жыл бұрын

I just started trying to set up a skynet IADS in a mission, but the search radars of the enemy SAMs are always switched on like in vanilla. The discord seems pretty dead too unfortunately. Anyone able top help out?

@dwvt4285 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video. I set them up properly but the problem is they did not fire until I fly over them. am I missing something ?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

If they are firing then they are working correctly. However, bear in mind each SAM system has its own spin-up time. The crews take some time to bring up the radars, acquire you, lock, then fire. Some of them can be up to a minute IIRC. So if you're flying straight at a SAM site in a high speed jet you could see exactly what you're talking about. Personally, I use a script that randomly places SAM sites around a map so I don't know where they are unless they go active. This makes it a lot less likely that I will go straight at one. Once I've worked the kinks out in that script I'll make a video on it and share the mission.

@dwvt4285 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Thank you for the answer. Stay safe!

@Solo6R Жыл бұрын

Is there anyway to verify that the scripts loaded correctly? I'd like to try some more "realistic" SAM's but I honestly don't know how they operate, so not sure what to compare to. In my test mission following this guide, only 1 of the 3 or 4 SAM vehicles actually fired on me. That's why I'd like to verify the script files loaded and loaded properly I guess.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Жыл бұрын

There is a debug line you can add to Skynet. This will display the status of all the units in the IADS and what they're doing. There are instructions on the Skynet download site but you can also check in at the Skynet Discord I linked in the description. Someone in there will be able to help you set up debugging.

@TomP-148 Жыл бұрын

Do the SAMs turn off if they are currently being engaged?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Жыл бұрын

There is a percentage chance that they detect anti-radiation missiles sent at them when under the control of Skynet. If they detect one they will shut off. That percentage can be changed in the lua files.

@Loopyllu365 4 ай бұрын

Can you use this along side with Moose? So on mission start I load Moose, Mist, skynet and MyIADS?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 4 ай бұрын

Yes. That's exactly how I use it. MOOSE scripting is a big part of a lot of my missions. So I wouldn't be very happy if I couldn't use it.

@Loopyllu365 4 ай бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyomperfect thank you for letting me know. Gonna be awesome for my f4 mission :)

@welshzecorgi7903 2 жыл бұрын

How do you do a blue version of the IADS? For friendly SAM sites?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

Its exactly the same procedure. Just make sure you name it something different than any red side IADS you create.

@jermomu 10 ай бұрын

I can't seem to get the SA-2s to work with skynet

@jez3774 2 жыл бұрын

When I put skynet into the DCS Beta I found I lost the Planes on my HMD and SA , I tried it on the DCS stable and it did the same is there a fix? on the F18 C A10 seems ok don't know if other modules affected.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

I recommend asking on the Skynet Discord that's linked in the description. There a lot of people there that might have come across this issue that can help.

@jez3774 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Thanks for taking the time will do

@Loopyllu365 3 ай бұрын

Hey dude, so ive just followed your steps but it doesn't seem to work for me? i just copied and pasted your script in and named everything as you did. Was there any sort of update that may lead to this not working... most likely a me error but i cant seem to figure it out

@neilharrah7365 2 жыл бұрын

Ive followed everything exactly by the video and I cannot find out whats wrong. The radars are all active even though I have not been detected by the EW

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

Check out the Discord that I linked in the description. You can post code snippets and the mission file there so someone can take a look. They're very helpful there.

@Matt-zl3eo 5 ай бұрын

i put that two files in Missions and it doesnt work

@Abram-xc8sj Жыл бұрын

Doesn't work. I get an error message on startup, and the sams don't turn off their radar.

@mirelmiljkovic36 3 ай бұрын

Is this still supported? when I try to use this I just get this error over and over "SCRIPTING (Main): SKYNET: you have added an SAM site that Skynet IADS can not handle"

@DobryZawodnik02 Жыл бұрын

is this works in a multiplayer missions?

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom Жыл бұрын

Yes it works in multiplayer.

@sasquatchycowboy5585 2 жыл бұрын

I tried this but I cannot make it work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. But all the individual search radars come on.

@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom 2 жыл бұрын

The best thing to do in your case is head over to the Discord link in the description. You can post your script and mission file there for others to take a look at. If all the radars are coming on it sounds like the script isn't getting called. So it might be an issue with the trigger or a typo somewhere in the code. Either way, you can get help at that Discord link.

@sasquatchycowboy5585 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOpsCenterByMikeSolyom thanks I'll hit it up later. I don't think I have the files in the right place.

@liammackenzie9283 Жыл бұрын

@@sasquatchycowboy5585 Did you ever get this resolved? Having the same issue.