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Permanent Global triggers?

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OK, I'm pretty new to developing missions (although I've had to convert some spb's to xml's to figure out WHAT and WHERE it wanted me to go sometimes) but I have a question.

WHERE do the triggers reside, to grant awards for such things as landing at particular airports for those badges? I have those badges, but I want to develop a new set of triggers that grant postcards for visiting landmarks (Mt. Rushmore, Eifel Tower, Disney World, ect). Specifically, I'm talking about the persistant triggers that come from your logbook.

Is this even possible? I dont want to develop a mission for EVERY postcard, but I'd like to make it so that anyone could just fly near it (within a specific proximity box) to be granted the award.

I also realize that I'd have to modify (or create) a new .rwd file. That's easy, but not so much the global trigger.

Anyone have ANY idea what I'm talking about?
 
This sounds like Criteria awards. I have not tried it, but it is covered in the SDK instructions. It's under Mission Creation in the example (Step 11: Add Goals and Rewards).

Gunner
 
Hi,

Yes, a reward with a criteria attached is the closest thing. However, there's no way to attach a proximity trigger to them in free flight mode; the nearest you can come is a landing at a specific airport.

The other way would be, as you said, to create individual missions. You could always expand them a bit so that they were more of a sightseeing tour than just 'fly near the (insert monument here)'.

Cheers,
Jim
 
As said above, that thing is a criteria reward. FSX doesn't grant those rewards while your in free flight but simply by looking into your logbook. If you have more than 10 heli hours in there, you'll be rewarded with that special reward. Same goes for landing at specific airports.
You can mix criterias of course, which is quite nice. For example you can grant a mission reward only if the user has more than 100 flight hours or likewise. ;)
 
Ok awesome, thanks for the info guys. Looks like I'll have a long road ahead if I want to make this reality (LOL and a lot of missions) but I may be able to "lump" some together, so to speak!
 
I think what Horst is saying is the Criteria awards in free flight are not awarded like they are in missions. They do show up in your log book when you meet the criteria. So you don't have to award them in a mission.

Give it a test, make a simple criteria award, put it in the Rewards folder and see if it works.

Gunner
 
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