Dynamic Campaign Tools (DCT)

Mission scripting framework for persistent Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) missions.

Provide a set of tools to allow mission designers to easily create scenarios for persistent dynamic campaigns within the DCS game world.

Dynamic Campaign Tools relies on content that can be built directly in the mission editor, these individuals need little to no programming skills to provide content to a DCT enabled mission.

Scenarios are created through a theater definition consisting of templates, created in the Mission Editor and configuration files. There is an initial learning curve but it is no more difficult than initially learning the DCS Mission Editor.

Quick Start Guide

See our documentation here.

Features and Capabilities

  • Mission Creation
    • uses static templates for quicker asset creation
    • no large .miz to manage just place player slots
    • theater and region organization to control spawning and placement
    • settings to customize how you want your campaign to play
  • Game Play
    • Focus on more goal based gameplay vs. “air quake”
    • mission system used by AI and players
    • ticket system to track win/loss critera
    • Integrated Air Defense per faction
    • Weapon point buy system for players to limit kinds and types of payloads
    • Bomb blast effects enhancement and weapon impact system
  • Technical
    • Built for large scale scenarios
    • Persistent campaign progress across server restarts

Contribution Guide

Contributions can be made with a github pull request but features and/or changes need to be discussed first. Code is licensed under LGPLv3 and contributions must be licensed under the same. For any issues or feature requests please use the issue tracker and file a new issue. Please make sure to provide as much detail about the problem or feature as possible. New development is done in feature branches which are eventually merged into master, base your features and fixes off master.

Contact Us

You can join the VMFA-169 discord if you would like to discuss DCT topics. The channel is #dynamic-campaign-tools-discussion.