About
SearchPatrol is an addon for Microsoft Flight Simulator
that will place objects at random locations in the world and
guide you to the general location, where you have to search for it visually.
After you find it, do a "wing wave", tipping the wings back and forth a few times, and a new target will be placed.
Tips
- Difficulty can vary greatly with where you are flying and the chosen target types
- Windmills are easy mode, they are easily visible from very far away
- Wilderness is ideal, the fewer trees the easier it will be
- If you're flying in a city and the target is a person it's basically going to be impossible
Options
- Min & Max Range: the target will be placed somewhere between these 2 distances away from you
- Target Direction & Direction Randomness: the direction is the heading from you to where the target gets placed,
plus/minus the randomness. If you want the target to be in any possible direction set randomness to 360.
- Target Found Distance: how close you have to be to the target when you do a wing wave for it to count as found
- Target Types: the target type will a random one of the selected types
- Voice Announcement: target info will be spoken using Windows' text-to-speech
- Text Announcement: target info will be shown in the game UI
- Copy/Paste Target: will copy the target info to the clipboard, you can give this to friends for a primitive form of multiplayer
How to run
Download and run the setup, or just unzip if you got the standalone release. Run SearchPatrol before or after you run MSFS, it will automatically connect.
Once you're flying in the area you want to search press Place Target to get started.
Great and Fun Add-On. A must have with helis in the sim now. Any updates coming?
2 years ago
totheskies
3 years ago
Delta99
3 years ago
lal309
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
scorpionbc
1. Why was it selecting boats to generate as targets when they are not even in the list and only windmill selected as a target?
2. Why were the erroneously generated boat targets not visible, even placed on land? (Possibly a sim generation issue with allowable terrain type or sea level maybe, but then it shouldn't even let you place it at all)
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
sonicviz
3 years ago
Dionsol
Here is an additional thought that just crossed my mind this morning: is it possible to also spawn "custom objects"? Like Easter eggs? 😊 Here in Switzerland it is increasingly becoming more and more difficult to meet family members for Easter (because of some worldwide thing that shall not be named), so this silly idea of a "global virtual Easter egg hunt" just crossed my mind 😉
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
Steeler
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
thebluejackal
Most targets can easily be generated after few tries but rarely working for 'Aircrafts' when only selected (generating boats instead).
Any chance to had a multiplayer feature so that I can build a search patrol team with my friends? 😊
(Maybe as simple as being able to copy info of the target generated to then pass it to another player, which he can paste in his own SearchPatrol)
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
antoinea
3 years ago
Bandit04
thanks!
-first thing, there is no setup.. i extracted it in a folder and run the program..
3 years ago
3 years ago
vatara
alphaw0lff