VEAF Foothold — Syria

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_Syria_ICAO_OLBA_<date>.miz.

The file name matters. _ICAO_OLBA is read by the RealWeather extension of DCSServerBot, which fetches Beirut'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.

History

The last-v5-version tag marks the last state of this mission before the v6 migration — the era when scripts were loaded from the server through a hand-written VEAF_common.lua.