Placing mine fields

[Egan]

Originally Posted by tater

A question, which leads to a sticky we need.

First, the title question: could someone give a shot FAQ on placing a minefield? I hve put some in there, but have yet to save any. Are the circles on the waypoint path each a single mine inside the circle at some random place in the circle?

Also, what type of campaign layer should a minefield/subnet be? I assume it is "scripted."

The sticky we need is a campaign layer FAQ that tells us what stuff gets saved as what kind of layer (random, scripted, etc).

The campaign layer for mines should be either Jap_minefield or US_minefield. Ignore layer type - the campaign does not work with random, Scripted or LND layers anymore, thats just a hangover from SH3. All campaign layers are .Mis files. Always save, open or create using the icons on the 'Time filter start' bar rather than from the options above it. I do not know for sure whether the game even saves files as SCR, RND or LND anymore anyway. The only time I ever use one of the options under 'File'is when I am wanting to use merged data.

Further to this, a layer will only be used if it has been referenced in the campaign cfg file. This is only for the actual layers, Objectives and so on are slightly different.

If I had known people were confused about this I would have written something up. There seem to be all sorts of popular misconceptions about the editor at the moment that need clearing up.

But back to the orginal question: I'm not sure about mines, is it not simply a case of setting the density, area and depth?