Lowengrin

This latest beta should hopefully fix the issue with the Polish tank not spawning if it's column appears as static.

Thanks for ruining my good day!

This latest beta should hopefully fix the issue with the Polish tank not spawning if it's column appears as static.

Making each name list open to users supplying their own is on the "to do" list. But it just hasn't been a priority for me. DCG hasn't really been a priority for me the past five or so years.

Why? Why can't these designers be consistent in their naming conventions?

DCG doesn't care if your mission was a success or a failure. The campaign advances and the "world" changes based on what occurred during the time you were flying. So set the campaign to instant success - otherwise when you get a failure, your campaign is just going to get messed up.

Good to hear that you figured it out.

The campaignsUSE and planesUSE files only determine the player's starting campaign and not the order the campaigns are played through. Most campaigns branch depending on which side wins the map and this is determined by the grandcampaign.dcg. So if you want West Germany '45 to follow Normandy '44, you need to modify the grand campaign file.

Possibly. The logical thing to do would be to make it unique for each plane (and configurable to the player), but this would require a new field in the planes data and that could get messy.

The GAttack height is hard-coded. I don't know what I was thinking when I did that, except that I must have based it on attack type and not on the plane. It's one thing that should probably be changed. As for your second question, it may be something as simple as a blank line at the bottom of the file. Or a space between entries. In one or both files. HOWEVER, this won't change the order of the campaigns. That's controlled in the grandcampaign.dcg file.

In addition to the readme, there is an Installation and Settings Instructions text file that gives more detail. Once upon a time, I had a website with a lot more info but my provider "retired" and I didn't have the time/resources to rebuild it elsewhere. From some of your descriptions, (starting in the air for the Tulagi campaign and large number of units taking off at the beginning of the mission and the traffic jams landing) it sounds like you've got the settings ramped right up. Even though there is a "Full" squadron density setting, I don't recommend using it. Dial it back to "Heavy" on the "General Campaign Panel". The other thing to check is under the "Options" menu is that "Air Starts" and "Delayed Start Times" are both checked. The first will put some squadrons already in the air (and some even approaching their targets); but not the player's squadron. The second will delay the spawning of others until after the first wave has taken off. Hopefully this helps a bit to improve your experience.

It will count although they may just magically appear rather than you getting notice of it in the briefings.

If you haven't already, try turning "instant success" on. And if it did say you shot down a couple Hurricanes, you can always manually add them to your score through the Pilot Editor (just click your pilot's name on the Squadron Editor tab). BTW, DCG does not officially support HSFX 4.12. It's possible HSFX may do some minor thing in the format of the log which could be messing up DCG's tally of kills. Hopefully someone with some knowledge of HSFX can chime in.

Modified how "TCapture Contested" works. If you use this timetable command, the front will switch to this location. Therefore, you can move the front to a new location on the same day you have either the Allieds or Axis capture the front location For example: 19410806 TCapture Contested Border_Village 19410806 TCapture Axis Front_Village .

Let me have a closer look at TCapture for the front locations.

Which campaign? And do you have "Single Map Campaign" checked as an option?

My bad. I made the changes and then forgot to recompile the exe. So I just copied the exe from the last build over.

That is strange because I definitely updated them within minutes of the other. I'll double check. Edit: You're right. The exe didn't seem to get bundled in the zip....

New beta that hopefully addresses this issue. http://forum.jg1.org/topic/3836-dcg-349-open-beta-test/page-5#entry38449

This beta (hopefully) addresses the issue with the TCapture command. And that is all.

Active Front only creates stationary objects (usually anti-tank guns) to create a "battle" at a contested location even though there may be no columns present. It may be that the code only adds troops to the location but doesn't actually flip it to the side the troops are on. I haven't touched that code in years so I can't say for sure. I'll have to get back to you. (Hopefully sooner than I got here in the first place!)

It has no effect on the full campaign, but it's required if your using the original campaign mode (that came with the original IL-2 game).

As idefix44 says, it's probably that one of your DCG folders or subfolders (or both) are set to "read only".

You will need to add them to the gobjects.dcg file in the DCG Data folder as well. Something like this: Ships.USSLexingtonCV2_42 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 None And also in the shipnames.dcg file. See other examples there to see how it's formatted.

If you create a new campaign, one thing you can do is load the old and new campaign's pilots.dcg file into a text editor and copy the players' info out of it and into the new one. If everyone is flying in the same squadron, just copy the whole squadron list over. It should look something like this: 007 000 008 Ludwig Hildebrant @DGen\DE\30 *32 &1915Dresden ^ 000 000 000 Paul Lowengrin @DGen\Photo *00 &1920Unknown 000 000 010 Horst Schwabe @DGen\DE\08 *20 &1917Bremen 000 000 000 Rolf Jaeger @DGen\DE\14 *00 &1925Leipzig 002 000 013 Richard Döring @DGen\DE\18 *30 &1912Dortmund 000 000 000 Roland Schaumann @DGen\DE\03 *00 &1922Hannover 002 000 003 Leopold Schuckhardt @DGen\DE\27 *10 &1921Munich 000 000 000 Bernhard Dossenbach @DGen\DE\19 *00 &1923Potsdam 005 000 014 Egon Pfeiffer @DGen\DE\15 *22 &1919Berlin 000 000 002 Reimar Lindenmüller @DGen\DE\02 *10 &1922Dortmund 000 000 008 Rudolf Drack @DGen\DE\11 *10 &1924Potsdam 000 000 000 Thorsten Baumann @DGen\DE\30 *00 &1922Munich 003 000 010 Johann Neubauer @DGen\DE\00 *21 &1925Berlin 000 000 000 Norbert Jaeger @DGen\DE\18 *00 &1924Dresden 000 000 001 Esra Steinhauser @DGen\DE\27 *10 &1925Stuttgart 000 000 000 Gottfried Schmidt @DGen\DE\04 *00 &1923Leipzig ^ denotes a human pilot.