Is there a Mission Example?

[MSFS 2024] Questions & Community Discussions Missions
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Hi,

I’m new to missions and still trying to wrap my head around how to put one together. I looked at flightsim.to to see what the project structure looks like, but it would be nice to have an official example from Asobo.

From what I’ve seen it looks like the .flt is the core file that defines a Mission? I’m not sure if that’s the output because I think the source file is an xml… Is this XML file something you create manually or should I be using the Mission Tool?

I’m reading over Mission XML Properties and it’s just going over my head. There’s also a lot of empty sections so I’m going to have to keep re-reading and make educated guesses. :upside_down_face:

I want to learn how to build a mission just using the SDK. It looks like a lot of people are creating missions using BushMissionGen. Becuase I’m doing this manually I learned that I can use https://guidgenerator.com/ to generate the GUIDs.

I’m not sure if I should use “The Mission Tool.” It looks like a temporary feature that will not be supported in the SDK. So; not sure if I should spend any time with it. The Mission Tool. Thank you for any direction.

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It’s quite hard to start with missions in MSFS.

For 2020, I made guides and documentation on the fsdevelopers wiki:

Guide

Sample project

If you have any questions or issues, just let me know

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Jay, thank you for the guide. I too have concluded that its not straightforward. I will eagerly consume what you’ve written.

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Thank you for the guide and sample project. I got it downloaded and was able to build it in MSFS 2024. I was very excited. Today I tried again and it’s not showing up. Wow this Missions project is incredibly frustrating.

Their documentation confuses more than helps. I am completely lost. Will just keep grinding until I get a breakthrough.