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CHAPTER 10 -
BRIEFING WINDOW XWA Briefings, like TIE and XvT ones, are in fact a list of instructions, such as "add an icon", "display text" ...etc. AlliED allows you to to edit briefings in either a WYSIWYG mode ("WYSIWYG") or a list mode ("Instruction List"); in practice you will often use both. The third screen of this window ("Strings") allows you to edit the the map tags and briefing texts (Map tags are the texts shown on the briefing map, briefing texts the captions of the map). A great improvement
over TIE and XvT is that you can use whichever icons you want for the briefing.
In TIE and XvT, you could only use icons of the FGs used in the mission. WYSIWYG Window There you can preview how the briefing will appear in XWA; you can also add instructions using the toolbar. Instructions are added at the current time on the time bar:
Here is a description of the several functions available: Instructions:
Instruction List Window Here the briefing is displayed under a list of instructions. You can modify them, highlight one, information about this instruction is displayed on the right side of the screen. You can add instructions with the same toolbar which appears in the WYSIWYG window; instructions are added at the same time that the highlighted instruction. With some pratice you will learn what the symbols mean in the instruction list; load an original XWA mission, and check all those you don't know yet... You can move the current instruction in the list (so in the briefing time) with the arrow buttons. In the registered version, an icon allows you to delete all instructions - sometimes useful if your briefing crashes: the instruction list should end with an instruction labeled "<end marker>". Sometimes after some manipulations on your briefing, this instruction disappears, making the briefing crashes. The only solution I found is to delete all instructions. It doesn't happen often, but it's rather annoying... the AlliED briefing interface is still a bit buggy sometimes. For example, the WYSIWYG mode may be messed up when you move the time bar back in time after adding an instruction; just go to another window like the instruction list, and come back to WYSIWYG. Strings Window Allows you to edit map tags and string texts. You must add/edit them here before being able to add them in the briefing.
Introduction
- AlliED Interface
- Mission Making
- FAQs
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Enable/disable the highlighting of the current selected icon by a small yellow
box
Enable/disable the numeration of icons
These icons allow you to lock/snap icon dragging.
Insert a
page break. Page breaks determine where the briefing jumps when hitting the
forward button in XWA briefing.
Move Map
Zoom Map
Change the
caption text of the briefing. Automatically add a page break just before the add
text instruction (needed for the text to be displayed). The briefing text must
have already been written in the "Strings" window.
Boxes the
current icon. You can only box 8 icons at a time. When using this instruction,
it automatically uses an unused box instruction order (#1 to #8 in the
instruction list)
Clear all icon boxes
Add a map
tag. Like Caption texts, you need to write them first in the "Strings"
window. 8 Map tags at a time only can be displayed (same as icon boxes).
Clear all map tags
Changes the displayed region. Automatically delete all icons.
Add a new icon. The icon can be dragged once created to replace it the way you
want.
Current coordinates of the mouse cursor.
Rotates the selected icon
Mirrors the selected icon
Erases the selected icon
Highlights the selected icon with a box
Displays in the briefing technical information on the ship represented by the
selected icon
