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| New Briefing Room feature - Where can I find more info!?[message #322216]
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Sun, 30 June 2013 01:44 
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I just checked the SVN and in the change-log I noticed this "small" new feature mentioned, a new mission mode. Now this has been something I've been dreaming about a lot, how incredibly awesome it would be to have a mission mode for ja2, with more interesting objectives than "kill all enemies in sector".
A typical "too-good-will-never-happen" dream, and now I find out it's already been done!? Already available in the SVN?!
Where can I find more info about this mod? What is planned for this feature? How advanced missions can be created? Would Multi- objective missions be possible? This could open up so many new ways to play the game, so I'm surprised there isn't more threads about it here (or I must be blind).
Sorry if there is an official thread about this but I could not find any. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated!
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| Re: New Briefing Room feature - Where can I find more info!?[message #360034 is a reply to message #322251]
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Thu, 14 May 2020 18:13 
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| Kitty |
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RoWa21 wrote on Sun, 30 June 2013 19:36The Briefing room is currently a "work in progress" feature, that s the reason, why it has not been announced official.
Anyway, the "Briefing Room Example 2.zip" is the interesting file . Just extract it in your JA2 folder, and set the ja2.ini to the new briefing room mod. You will also find a Readme.txt file that explains how it works.
Well, it's seven years, but I still try asking a few things.
The description says: "To build missions, the modders needs files: BriefingRoom.xml, Overhead.lua and also different files LUA".
In Example 2, there are Overhead, Quests, StrateticMap, HourlyUpdate and GameInit.
But there are some lines in those, I don't understand. Like "SetGlobal=True" and "CheckGlobalBool". Where is "global" refering to? Is there a place in code where I can see the values used in example?
In Overhead it says: "SetGlobalTrue (2) -- block". What is blocked?
And some lines refer to new quest numbers, but there are no new quests defined in Quests.lua. Those new quest numbers are also needed in npc-scripts, but where do they come from?
Can the StartingCode be changed and if, would this allow to start a second round in Briefing Room?
In general, is it possible to provide a more detailed description? I got it somehow running, but that has needed a lot of trial and error.
I don't know of any mod that has used this, which is kinda sad, because I think there is a lot of potential in this.
So, if you, or anybody else experienced with this, could give a little advice, that'll be cool.
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sounds awesome though. 
