#mission

If you’ve ever opened the Custom Battle menu, you’ve probably seen a number of user missions started by other players. They’re mostly there for fun, but some missions can be useful for improving your skills! You can find them on the WarThunder Live website, and today we’d like to share some of the best works found there!

In this guide, you’ll learn how to make AI-controlled helicopters fly to a specific waypoint in your mission. Special thanks to Avarik for helping figure out this method. This guide will take into account that you are familiar with the CDK and will not be explaining basics.

When creating a mission that includes custom content (units, structures, object groups, effects), the final mission file usually has to be manually edited using a text editor.

Unlike multiplayer missions, where players can adjust their desired parameters in the Respawn Window, single-player missions—especially those with custom content—do not offer this option.

This guide will walk you through the process of exporting simple, non-animated models into War Thunder using the Blender plugin, for use in the Mission Editor. This guide may be updated in the future when animated assets support is implemented in Blender. It will also take into account that you are familiar with Blender to an extent, it will not be explaining basic Blender functionalities.

Modifying existing units in the game is an intermediate step between creating your own missions in MissionEditor and creating your own models on the way to mastering the creation of complex modifications of the game…

It is possible to enable Aurora Borealis for custom missions by manually editing the .blk file of your custom mission.

Creating a multiplayer mission in the War Thunder CDK can be much more complex than creating a single player mission. But if you know all the steps and nuances, it will be less intimidating. Read more about them with examples in this article.

This page explains how to create a simple singleplayer mission for reserve tanks. It features simple scripts which make the AI ally tank unit follow the player, setting up the enemy units like anti-tank cannons or tanks and creating waypoints.

Creating a singleplayer mission using the War Thunder CDK is not that hard, you just need to know all the steps. You can find these steps in this article if you don’t know them. Give it a try!