Fhechene Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 Hi! So, I have modified berlin.rds First problem I have added an _Airfield. I added it to the locale lines in allcampaigns, so it start as an Allied location. It worked superb, but then I modified furthermore the .rds file and created a new campaign and the new airfield is Axis. I rolled back and added the lines again and even deleted the backups, but it seems this doesn't work. Second problem In the master berlin.mis file I added some columns near location A, so when the campaign starts those columns start there, near the front. Now, all these columns go from A to D, so I added some roads between A and B, B and C and C and D and deleted the road from A to D. Now, these columns only appear in Home and move towards the front. Any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted October 29, 2019 Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 Second problem first. It's probably just by accident the columns appeared near the front the first time. You're probably better to add them to the timetable.dcg file so you can define exactly where they start. For example: 19410808 NewColumn 38_Chief Armor.4-T26_Early 1 @Russian_Depot $Armor_Group_2 ~L The first problem is more difficult to figure out. The airfield has to be both in the allcampaigns.dcg file (to tell the game it's Allied) AND it has to be set up properly in the berlin.rds file. If it's in both, it needs to be spelled exactly the same in each (and if it's in the rds file multiple times, off course, those have to all be the same as well). If you cut and paste here the Berlin entry in the allcampaigns.dcg and cut and paste the relevant parts of the rds file, maybe I can figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted October 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2019 Regarding the first problem, I used that the very first time, deleting and adding two convoys and it worked. Now, none of those convoys is there. So, this is the new [Berlin] entry in allcampaigns.dcg [Berlin] Campaign=Grand_Campaign Map=Berlin Date=15/03/1945 Attacker=Red Front=Swiebodzin_Airfield DeHome=Berlin RuHome=Polish_Border_Bridge69 DeBase=East_Berlin_Airfield RuBase=Miedzyrecz_Airfield Locale1=English_Airfield Locale2=Zielona_Góra_Airfield Locale3=Sulechow Locale4= Locale5= Locale6= Locale7= Locale8= Locale9= and this is the definition of the new places [Swiebodzin_Airfield to Sulechow] 174005.45 13184.80 120.00 0 12 3.055555582046509 174700.00 13100.00 20.00 175300.00 12500.00 20.00 175300.00 7700.00 20.00 175500.00 7500.00 20.00 175700.00 7300.00 -113.00 176100.00 6900.00 -113.00 176300.00 6700.00 20.00 176900.00 6100.00 20.00 176900.00 3700.00 20.00 177100.00 3500.00 20.00 177278.41 3317.41 120.00 [Sulechow to Zielona_Góra_Airfield] 177300.89 3294.62 120.00 0 7 3.055555582046509 177500.00 3100.00 20.00 177700.00 2900.00 20.00 178500.00 2900.00 20.00 179300.00 3700.00 20.00 179500.00 3700.00 20.00 184986.91 9185.86 120.00 0 2 3.055555582046509 187915.47 9885.08 120.00 0 2 3.055555582046509 188030.70 9679.10 120.00 Now, for the second issue, I want to go from Swiebodzin_Airfield to Sulecin_Bridge77 This is the stock DCGl path and the one I deleted [Sulecin_Bridge77 to Swiebodzin_Airfield] 162313.45 19742.43 120.0 0 11 1.9444445371627808 162500.0 19700.0 20.0 163100.0 19700.0 20.0 163300.0 19700.0 -89.0 163700.0 19700.0 -89.0 163900.0 19700.0 20.0 170500.0 19700.0 20.0 171900.0 19700.0 120.0 172100.0 19500.0 -90.0 172100.0 19100.0 -90.0 171285.20 18294.3 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 171208.81 17672.50 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 171260.4 17265.21 120.0 0 8 1.9444445371627808 171500.0 17100.0 20.0 171500.0 16900.0 20.0 171700.0 16700.0 20.0 171700.0 16100.0 20.0 171300.0 15700.0 20.0 171300.0 13700.0 20.0 171283.32 13488.92 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 171606.9 13368.65 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 172310.68 13208.80 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 173019.3 13172.36 120.0 0 2 1.9444445371627808 173820.23 13230.63 120.0 Now, I want to go from Swiebodzin_Airfield to Swiebodzin, then to Swiebodzin_Bridge88 and then to Sulecin_Bridge77. I only added a Swiebodzin_Airfield to Swiebodzin route, because there were already Swiebodzin->Swiebodzin_Bridge88 and Swiebodzin_Bridge88->Sulecin_Bridge77 routes (or the other way around). [Swiebodzin_Airfield to Swiebodzin] 173862.89 13237.50 20.00 0 2 2.5 173019.30 13172.36 20.00 0 2 2.5 172310.69 13208.80 20.00 0 2 2.5 171606.91 13368.65 20.00 0 2 2.5 171283.31 13488.92 20.00 0 2 2.5 171300.00 13700.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171300.00 15700.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171700.00 16100.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171700.00 16700.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171500.00 16900.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171500.00 17100.00 20.00 0 2 2.5 171569.16 17203.25 20.00 0 2 2.5 171916.64 17192.62 20.00 0 2 2.5 172230.15 17206.64 20.00 Now, I've checked some more and it turns out that if I have this route or not, it's irrelevant. If I delete the Sulecin_Bridge77->Swiebodzin_Airfield route, no matter what, the columns don't get created. It's not a coincidence as you said. I created several campaigns with the Sulecin_Bridge77->Swiebodzin_Airfield route and in all of those the columns were created. In none of the campaigns I created, without the Sulecin_Bridge77->Swiebodzin_Airfield route, the columns were created Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted October 30, 2019 Report Share Posted October 30, 2019 Looking at the original Berlin.rds file, it seems I made it a bit of a mess. I don't understand why Swiebodzin and Swiebodzin_Airfield never linked to each other. It makes sense that you added a link. Your route between Swiebodzin and Swiebodzin_Airfield needs to be plotted out in that order. All routes must go from the German "side" to the "Russian" side. So it must start in Swiebodzin and end at Swiebodzin_Airfield. I think I see another potential issue. Zielona_Góra_Airfield is a dead end. It should link up with Polish_Border_Bridge69. If you don't, there is a good chance German units will travel up to it and then respawn back in their home location. And Russian units will never be able to recapture it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted October 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2019 Now, the road goes from Swiebodzin to Swiebodzin_Airfield and the chiefs appear, so that's solved. The Zielona_Góra_Airfield still starts as Axis. I added a road from ZG_Airfield to Polish_Border_Bridge69, btw. While we are at it, trains are the only column able to capture rail bridges and stations, right? So, if a train doesn't appear ever near a rail bridge, that rail bridge will never change sides, even if it's surrounded by opposing side forces, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted November 3, 2019 Report Share Posted November 3, 2019 Zielona_Góra_Airfield needs to be added as a locale in the allcampaign file. Because the map is defined as "Axis" controlled, all locations are German unless specified there. As for rail bridges and stations, they take the "side" of the nearest road location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted November 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2019 14 hours ago, Lowengrin said: Zielona_Góra_Airfield needs to be added as a locale in the allcampaign file. Because the map is defined as "Axis" controlled, all locations are German unless specified there. As for rail bridges and stations, they take the "side" of the nearest road location. It was already in the locale section in Berlin, as you can see above. I also tried adding an allied column before the start of the campaign, with timetables, but nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted November 6, 2019 Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 As I can't think of anything else, it may be the "ó". Try changing it to your standard "o" in both files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted November 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2019 On 11/5/2019 at 10:40 PM, Lowengrin said: As I can't think of anything else, it may be the "ó". Try changing it to your standard "o" in both files. It was exactly that. What bothers me the most is that at some point in the past that ó wasn't an issue. I now tried using ó instead of ó and nothing happened. It seems that Il-2 doesn't support ANSI, then, but also not utf-8. Edit: do you know what codification does Il-2 use? And what codification does DCG use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted November 14, 2019 Report Share Posted November 14, 2019 I don't know what IL-2 uses. DCG uses good old ANSI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted November 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2019 It's an issue with Il-2 then, because ANSI supports áéíóúñ characters. Figures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted March 3, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2020 On 11/3/2019 at 8:10 PM, Lowengrin said: Zielona_Góra_Airfield needs to be added as a locale in the allcampaign file. Because the map is defined as "Axis" controlled, all locations are German unless specified there. As for rail bridges and stations, they take the "side" of the nearest road location. Ok, This conversations is super old, but given that there aren't many new posts, I figured, well, why create a new one. What do you mean by "road" location? Because I have a rail bridge and the three locations, defined in the .rds file, nearby are Allied, but the rail bridge remains Axis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted March 6, 2020 Report Share Posted March 6, 2020 Road locations are those defined in .rds files. (Rail locations are in .rls files. And sea locations are in .srd files.) I can't say why the rail bridge remains Axis. It's not the last axis rail location, is it? Then it will stay Axis because it's defined as their starting location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted March 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 On 3/6/2020 at 1:55 PM, Lowengrin said: Road locations are those defined in .rds files. (Rail locations are in .rls files. And sea locations are in .srd files.) I can't say why the rail bridge remains Axis. It's not the last axis rail location, is it? Then it will stay Axis because it's defined as their starting location. Bridge is between two stations. Now that I've understood road locations, is it necessary for the bridge to have a road location associated with it? It's just called Rail_Bridge90, not some_location_Rail_Bridge90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted March 10, 2020 Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 Good question. I'd have to dig through the code to be sure, but I think that they don't. Only rail stations need a matching location so that a train knows it can unload equipment there. Same applies for ships and harbours/ports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhechene Posted March 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 3/9/2020 at 8:51 AM, Fhechene said: Bridge is between two stations. Now that I've understood road locations, is it necessary for the bridge to have a road location associated with it? It's just called Rail_Bridge90, not some_location_Rail_Bridge90 Did some testing on my own and that was exactly it. This was the stock DCG Berlin.rls btw, by the way. I changed the original Rail_Bridge90 entry to Swiebodzin_Rail_Bridge90 and the bridge was captured by the Allies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowengrin Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 Huh? (In my defence, that code was written like 20 years ago.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idefix44 Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 I was not yet born. Lowengrin and Fhechene 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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