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Mission Editing Overview
 
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 Mission Files Toolbar Conditions Goals & Strings Multiselecting Custom Lists

 
Goals and User Strings
Whenever a condition is part of a Goal (rather than a trigger), it has 3 User Strings associated with it. These are the descriptions a Player will see when he presses the G key to get a list of the mission goals. 

The three strings correspond to the 3 states the Goal can be in:
 
Incomplete or Unresolved The goal has not been achieved but it is still to possible to achieve it. (Not seen for Secondary goals.)
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Success The goal has been achieved. (Not seen for Prevent goals.) 
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Failure The goal has not been achieved and it is no longer possible to achieve it, e.g. a goal to identify 100% of Transports, but one has entered hyperspace without being identified. (Not seen for Secondary goals.)
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XvT will automatically create default Goal strings such as "T/F Alpha: Destroy", however it is possible to override the defaults by defining a custom User String.
 
 
XvtED User String edit boxes:
User Strings
Setting any of these to a non-empty string will override the default string. You may want to do this for conditions involving Global Units or Global Groups (as XvT may not always provide useful default strings in these cases) or when the default string may give away more information than you want the Player to know, or just for more personalized messages.
 

 

Multi-selecting
An important feature to be aware of when selecting from lists in XvtED is multi-selecting changes. This feature is available for the Ship List and the Message List and means that when you make a change, it effects all selected FGs or Messages. Selections can be multi-selected using the Shift key, or use the CTRL key for non-consecutive items.
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All parameters for Flight Groups are multi-selectable. This example shows Global Group, Global Unit, Waves, FG Size, Ship Type, Ship Name, FG Goals, and CMD being changed for multiple FGs at once.

All parameters for Messages except Text are are Multi-selectable.

Multi-selecting also works for Move Up, Move Down and Deleting Items. 

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Custom Lists
Most of the drop down lists in XvtED's main window are customizable.  All that is required is the correctly named .txt file in your XvtED directory and it will be read in and used instead of the defaults.

Probably the only ones you'll need to worry about are those for FG Names (FGNames.txt), Team Names (Teams.txt) and Order Descriptions (OrdDesc.txt).  The others may be of use if you want to translate them into different languages. 

You can get the default lists here. Just load them in a text editor to edit.