User Guide

5. Determine how many individual ships within the Dynamic Group appear at the mission’s start by
using the Minimum and Maximum adjusters.To change the group’s set up, select Options>Edit
Dynamic Group from the Editor menu.
EDIT DYNAMIC GROUP
To edit a dynamic group:
1. From the Editor menu’s Option menu, select Edit Dynamic Group.The Dynamic Groups dialog
box appears.
2. On the left, a list of created dynamic groups appears. Click the folder of the group you wish to
edit.
3. Adjust the group’s probability of inclusion,as well as the range of ships that are generated
within the group at the mission’s start.
4. In the Selected Objects box, all the objects that make up the Dynamic Group are listed.The
Available Objects box lists all objects available for selection.These are objects that are not
included in this or any other Dynamic Group.
5. To add or delete an object from the Dynamic Group, click the name of the object you want to
shift. Use the
*
and
*
buttons to move the chosen object into or out of the group.
You can use the Edit Dynamic Group function to randomly place a group on the Mission map at the
mission’s start.
1. Create a Dynamic Group in a position at which it can appear in the mission.
2. Select the entire group and create a duplicate using the Edit>Copy function in the Editor menu.
Select Edit>Paste then click the map to paste the new group at a second location where it can
randomly appear.
3. Select the new group which consists of the same ships as the first. Select Options>Create
Dynamic Group.When the Create Group dialog box appears, give the second group a different
name.
4. Select Edit Dynamic Group.The Dynamic Groups dialog box appears. Both groups’ folders are
displayed in the left-hand column.
5. Click ADD GROUP in the upper center of the box. Create a name for this new, empty group.A new
folder appears.
6. Click this third group. Below, in the Available Objects box, the first two groups are listed. Move
both groups into the Selected Objects box.They now become subgroups of the third.
7. For this third group,set Probability at 100%. Set both Minimum and Maximum settings to 1.
8. Now set each of the two subgroups’ Probabilities to 50%.There are now two different locations
in which the same group might appear at the start of the mission.
NOTE: Goals that are members of a Dynamic Group but are not attached to a specific object in the
group are always created when the Dynamic Group is selected.The Minimum and maximum
specifications for the Dynamic Group do not influence these goals. Conversely, goals that are
attached to objects in the Dynamic Group are not created if the object itself is not created at
mission start.
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