JG7_X_Man

Hey Paul - you are as constant as the northern star! Thank you! IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles just doesn't have that "Je ne sais quoi" that IL-2 FB 1946 has.

Hi Nephris - I use to see that when my class.dcg was hosed. Check your Aircraft Class Setting module or your .mis file to see which Polish aircraft that maybe ends in a "D2" was added incorrectly.

Never mind user error - was selecting the DCG replaced DGEN.exe vs DCG.exe LOL

Has anyone got DCG to run Win 10? When I go the select DCG location by selecting the DCG.exe, it doesn't select the location int he dcg.ini

Friction? That's governed by the map maker not DCG.

Yeah - HSFX was the 1st mod package with the idea to standardize the flyable mods in addition to ground objects etc... That said, HSFX was born from multiplayer/online war - which has fizzled over the years as 242 Sqn and other similar units have seen major attrition over time - it has been 15 yrs you know C.U.P - is the new gold standard with all the bells and whistles of HSFX and more. I think you should try it out. The one thing I love about IL-2 is that you can copy a vanilla folder to a new location, install mods on that version and run multiple installs of this game - so you can't really break anything.

DCG is all you need.

Your IL-2 version has to match the DCG files you are running. I use CUP - so for that I use 3.49(latest beta) with the necessary dcg files that have the correct aircraft. DCG files have stock aircraft - so as long as you stick with those aircraft in DCG, there will be no issue.

DCG allows campaign creators make "off map" airfields (...virtual "dummy" airfields). As long as "Air Starts" is checked in your options - you appear somewhere close to the front line. That's the basic gist anyway.

Eureka! Thank you Paul!

Oh snap! Who's the dumbass I am so sorry to have got you racking your brain over nothing. I guess I just lost 5 "cool points" on that one. On a positive note, I have invested in getting my eyes checked over the weekend.

Hey Paul - tried beta8, no dice. The stationary.dcg still creates " xx_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 2 166245.38 171742.31 235.12 0.0 de 1 1.0 null 1" I edited the staticplanes.dcg switching the positions both ways to no avail. I can manually edit the generated mission yyyymmddX.mis from xx_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 to xx_Static vehicles.planes.UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0 and the aircraft appear in the mission, but since it isn't not adding the correct name in the stationary.dcg, it doesn't carry over to the next mission. I tried to manually edit the stationary.dcg but they were "x"ed out and replaced with an xx_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 entry. I hope this isn't frustrating you.

Thanks! I will test too - can't pry my eyes away from the Olympics

Not a dumb question - yes, and it works (mission generating and skin transfer). BF_109F0 Mdtt Bf109F0, 1941 de 2 1 1 194001 194112 BF_109F2 Bf-109F-0 none 5000 Meters 410.00 kph 800 km 410.00 kph Question: In your test, did the staticaircraft.dcg change the entries in the initial .mis mission file? If not, I wonder if the staticaircaft.dcg entries should be reversed? Like so? UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0 = Planes$BF_109F0

Paul - I updated DCG beta 7 but the staticplanes.dcg isn't doing the trick This an excerpt the .mis of the 1st mission generated: [NStationary] 16_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 2 107908.77 161819.80 265.12 0.0 de 1 17_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 2 108259.51 161915.33 265.12 0.0 de 1 18_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 2 108550.53 161783.53 265.12 0.0 de 1 19_Static vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F0 2 108830.47 161889.75 265.12 0.0 de 1 . . . . This is what's in my staticplanes.dcg: Planes$BF_109F0 = UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0 Thanks for helping out with this SNAFU some aircraft modder have crated by not thinking about the ramifications of not keeping standard IL-2 nomenclature

I'll give it whirl in about 6 hours. Thanks Paul.

Thank you Paul!

Thanks Paul - beta6 has got me up and running again. I tried to manually change the naming of the static aircraft in the stationary.ini but IL-2 crashed, so I guess your exception file will have to do

The game crashes during mission creation - I tab into task manages and see that DCG failed and get a screen with "$BF_109F4" (...which is a uniform static). For some reason after DCG crashes and I close it via task manager - IL-2 kicks me to the online screen - which it hasn't ever done before.

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Paul - So how does this actually work? Plane$BF_109F0 = UltimateBfStatic$BF_109F0 When DCG looks for a class ending in "Plane$BF_109F0", substitute it for "UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0"? As is, you designed DCG to detect the kind of aircraft stationed at given aerodrome and substitute any static aircraft present in the .mis with the corresponding aircraft stationed there. If I have a vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F4 in my mission.mis as a static aircraft at a aerodrome but assigned a vehicles.planes.UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0 to that airfield how does the exclusion file help DCG do it's magic? I did a test a got a DCG error last night - I am at work so I can't provide any details.

Outstanding!

Thanks Paul!

Thanks for the response Paul! I like the idea of exceptions file. I am not quite sure I understand what you mean I have a skin folder for the BF_109F0 which works. DCG just isn't giving me the static model parked on the airfield.

Guys I need some help with this... Some active unit static aircraft are not showing up in game and I think I have found the issue: Bf 109F-0 active on a given airfield Static aircraft attribute = vehicles.planes.UltimateBf109Static$BF_109F0 the static aircraft naming convention of some modded aircraft are different from the original eg = vehicles.planes.Plane$BF_109F2 Is there a way to fix this so that all static aircraft show up regardless of naming convention? Something like vehicles.planes.*$BF_109F2 would solve this -if it's a coding thing?