Mission Tester is designed primarily to help troubleshoot mission maps, but is useful for quickly resolving trigger or object placement errors on mutiplayer maps as well. It will warn of errors like objects outside of the map bounds, often caused by resizing maps, it will find errors like missing waypoints for actions, or even non-existent sounds being played.

Unlike most of the error checking scripts, this one is operated by dragging a map onto the batchfile. MISTEST will then analyze the map, both internally and in relation to the game inis, then spit out the results in mission.log for reading. The log will have severity notes for everything discovered, though some might be a higher severity than actually needed in every case, because sometimes that error is in fact more serious, but it can't determine when it isn't.

The script will be very useful to anyone converting/porting maps from one mod to another, exposing things that aren't available, or improperly selected because the declaration lists don't match. It will notify you of ambiguous errors like a trigger creating teams with units that don't belong to the same country, or point out that some map scripting or objects are never actually used.

The most common errors errors are typically to do with pre-placed buildings or units overlapping, or infantry in sub-cell locations where FA2 traditionally (erroneously) doesn't display them. Also common is when editing actions, sometimes the very last text field entered isn't recorded by FA2, resulting in a null value that's only apparent when re-visiting that action again. As such it can be a useful test to run on any map that has been completed.

As always the mistest.tcl will have to be edited to set the important flienames and path. Further options allow the recording of unused objects/code, and whether to limit it to the original RA2 without YR expansion limitations.

Current version: 5.3