VEAF Foothold — Normandy

VEAF adaptation of the Foothold campaign by Lekaa (upstream repository), built with the VEAF Mission Creation Tools v6 toolchain.

What is in this repository

Path	What it is
mission.yaml	the VEAF configuration of this mission — modules, config_override, security, presets
src/mission/	the upstream .miz unpacked (Lekaa's mission itself)
src/scripts/	the Lua scripts the mission loads, Foothold's own included
src/presets.yaml	the shared VEAF radio presets

Not versioned: the toolchain (veaf-tools*.exe, published/), the built .miz, the build reports, and the Lua files veaf-tools generates from mission.yaml. See .gitignore.

Building the mission

From this folder, with the toolchain deployed by veaf-tools-updater.exe:

veaf-tools.exe build

The output is VEAF_Foothold_Normandy_ICAO_LFRK_<date>.miz.

The file name matters. _ICAO_LFRK is read by the RealWeather extension of DCSServerBot, which fetches Caen-Carpiquet's live METAR at mission start. Renaming the mission without that marker silently disables real weather.

Updating to a new Lekaa release

Download this map's archive from Lekaa's releases, then, from a clone of the tools repository:

.\tools\Convert-FootholdBatch.ps1 -InputFolder <download folder> -OutputFolder <missions folder> -Update -Build

--update refreshes the third-party scripts and the mission base while preserving mission.yaml. Review the report, then rebuild. The full procedure is in FOOTHOLD.md.