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DAA - Dynamic ArmA Airports - MOD File

Important Notes: The "DAA readme 20160725.pdf", "How to 20160725.pdf", and example missions
(zipped) are included in this download:

"How to" YouTube video now available at: https://youtu.be/Fz6S0qEloZ0

Readme and example missions can also be downloaded from this link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8TlDAQknDCacnlNc1JTakU5Z2M

If you want to use DAA in your own missions, I strongly encourage you to read the
"DAA readme 20160723.pdf"

also...

IF you unzip and place the example missions into your \Documents\Arma 3\missions\ folder,
then you can edit the missions (example: change the aircraft), and test DAA functionality.

This mod was created with the ArmA community in mind. It is not a single mission or play and forget type mod, rather an add-on module (logic), that improves AI fixed wing aircraft behavior in-game on virtually any map. Furthermore, users can use "DAA"; in the ArmA 3 Eden editor to create simple or complex AI airport traffic scenarios. As this is the original release, bugs and minor issues likely remain in DAA. Feedback is appreciated.

Who: DAA was created FOR ArmA users seeking autonomous, yet predictable fixed-wing AI aircraft behavior (on the ground and in the air)
What: DAA can be played as-is (see plug-and-play templates created by me), or utilized by mission builders to embellish / support their own missions.

Primary Features:
a. Facilitates predictable, automatic, continuous, autonomous fixed-wing AI aircraft spawn, ground service, startup, taxi, take-off, flight route, approach, landing, taxi, shutdown.
b. Airfield side (West, East, Guer, Civilian) is determined in the editor, prior to game play.
c. If multiple airfields exist, and have applicable taxi-in point, civilian, commercial, and cargo aircraft will randomly select their destination airfield based upon availability.
d. If more than one side (West, East, Guer) exist, military aircraft will seek-out ground vehicles and send targeting information to other DAA controlled units of the same side.
e. AI aircraft can be held at their spawn point, for loading of players or cargo; however, with the current version, route and destination are decided by AI, AI aircraft automatically delete after 60 seconds following shutdown.

Additional side features include:
a. Respawn of empty "air","LandVehicle","ship" types utilized by players
b. Respawn of autonomous AI military (West, East, Guer) controlled "air","LandVehicle","ship" types.
c. Shared targeting information.

When: Activates at mission start, automatic, autonomous, continuous cycle.
Where: Intended for use in single player, multiplayer, and standalone server... not tested in headless client (HC)... but likely a perfect fit for HC. Can potentially be utilized on any map, any airport, any land able surface (including grass fields, roads, aircraft carriers, etc.) DAA does not support water landings.
Why: While Bohemia Interactive (BI) is working hard to improve many aspects of gameplay, gaps in control and predictability of AI fixed-wing aircraft, especially in the control of ground movement (taxi-in or out, direction of take-off, and landing, etc.) have remained a major GAP in gameplay (for me and others).
How: Single mod download containing zipped folder to be unzipped and placed into a mod folder inside the main folder of ArmA 3. The mod folder contains: "AddOns" folder (with PBO and bisign file), "Keys" folder, Config.cpp file, and Readme files... After installation, upon ArmA re-start, "daa_logic" will be visible in the editor under "logic".

File Content:
The PBO contains simple scripts and several sound files (for embellishment) related to:
a. Scanning the Map
b. AI controlled Airfields (ATC)
c. AI aircraft service types (civil, commercial, cargo, or military)
d. AI aircraft sounds (prop, turboprop, turbofan (light, medium, heavy))
e. AI aircraft lighting
f. AI aircraft waypoints: spawn, taxi-out, departure, climb-out, transition, approach, land, taxi-in
g. AI ground service (units and vehicles), including fuel
h. AI aircraft and military activity visible on Map (simulating ATC radar)
i. Debugging and housekeeping (monitor activity, keep frame rates as high as possible)
j. Player controlled vehicle respawn
k. AI controlled military vehicle respawn, sharing of targeting information

How to get started?
1) With Steam, the mod and scenarios should automatically become visible in-game.

2) However, an important readme file (pdf), explaining how to use DAA in the ArmA 3 Eden editor
is included in the download. You will need to find this file on your hard drive.
Search for "DAA readme 20160709.pdf".

3) Also, in order to run these example missions, specific add-on aircraft are required. A list of aircraft and their
download URL is included in the readme .pdf