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Need Help adding Map to QMB - 4./JG53_Badger - 07.06.2008

Guys I tried and read everything about the QMB and adding maps. I dont know if Im doing it right cause no matter what I try I cant get the Italy,Africa, Greece map and the English channel map to work in QMB..If anyone can post a mission of theirs that work in QMB, I think that would help. I added to the filelist and the config ini but I think my missions are messed up....I wish someone would make a step by step on how to install Maps to the QMB....I would gladly pay for it...please help me fix this thanks ahead of time for your input....

- No1_Charlie - 08.06.2008

Hey Badger, follow this to the letter and it should work-it did for me. Its a bit lengthy but take your time...

first install QMB Plus V1.1

1) Make sure you've installed the "WRAPPER.DLL" mod first. This will create a folder called "MODS" within your Il-2 Sturmovik 1946 root directory.

2) Now set up the folders you're going to need. First of all, create a new folder called "QMBPlus" within your "MODS" folder.

3) Create a folder called "Quick" within the "Missions" folder of your 1946 root directory. It's possible you already have a file called "Quick" in there. If so, don't try to create a new one.

4) In your root 1946 directory, there is a folder called "Files." Click into it. There you MAY find a folder called "Missions." Click into it. There you MAY find a folder called "Quick." Click into it. If there are any files within this "Quick" folder, just DELETE THEM ALL. If you found no such "Missions" or "Quick" folders within your "Files" folder, don't worry about it.

5) Now, unzip QMB plus zip file on your desktop.

6) You will now have a regular folder called "QMB Plus 1.1" Click into it. Inside it, you will see a particular file called "gui_ru." Let's deal with this one first.

7) Open this "gui_ru" file with NOTEPAD. There you will find lines of text as follows:

# ---QMBPlus 1.1

quick.Scramble Scramble
quick.Strike Strike
quick.VER: QMBPlus
quick.POS: Diff.

You must highlight and copy ALL of this text into another "gui_ru" file which you will find in the following location: 1946 Root Directory>Files>i18n>gui_ru.
Remember that you must open this "gui_ru" file with notepad before you can copy the text in at the bottom of it. Make sure to SAVE these changes in the notepad file before you click out of it.

Now return to your unzipped "QMB Plus 1.1" folder on the desktop. Inside it you will find a "Files" folder. Click into it. There you will find a folder called "Missions," plus eleven other files with complicated names. We will deal with these eleven files first.

9) Without highlighting the "Files" folder, highlight the eleven files with complex names and copy them into the "QMBPlus" folder you created in the following location:
1946 root directory>MODS>QMBPlus. You're done with that step.

10) Now return to your "QMB Plus 1.1" folder. Click into it and find the "Missions" folder. Click into the "Missions" folder and you will find a folder called "Quick." Click into it and you will find a bunch of mission files with names like "Ardennes_WBlueAirbase00" etc....

11) Highlight ALL of those mission folders and copy them into the "Quick" folder which you will find in the following location:
1946 root directory>Missions>Quick.

12) Now return to your 1946 root directory. There you will find the "conf" file. Open the "conf" file with notepad. Scroll down to the bottom of the document and carefully type in the following lines:

[quick]
Custom0=NWEurope
Custom1=MTO
Custom2=Bessarabia



IF YOU WANT TO ADD CHANNEL MAP ETC....
Note, this asumes that you have already installed the map and can use it in FMB

Ok, first you will need these two mission files

http://files.filefront.com/ChannelBlueN ... einfo.html

http://files.filefront.com/ChannelRedNo ... einfo.html


These need to be put in:

XXX\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\Files\Missions\Quick

Then you need to edit your config.ini as shown below,

[quick]
Custom0=NWEurope
Custom1=MTO
Custom2=Bessarabia
Custom3=Channel

Then you need to copy these two 2 lines to your filelist.txt (in root directory)

Missions/Quick/ChannelBlueNone00.mis
Missions/Quick/ChannelRedNone00.mis

And that should be it!

- 4./JG53_Badger - 08.06.2008

I want to thank you 1st for taking the time to write your tutorial. Here is whats I think is wrong. I did exactly as you wrote and I have channel working with no problems. I made 2 missions up for the ItalyafricaGreece map I put them in the same folder as all of my other quick missions. I added the map name to config.ini as ItalyAfricaGreece. I have the map added in the Fileslist as well. I go to QMB and when I select fly it gives me a wrong target selected error. I cant for the life of me figure this out. I know it has something to do with my missions, but I can't figure it out. If you have it working could you send me the mission you created. Thanks a lot again for your help...I won't forget it.

- 4./JG53_Badger - 08.06.2008

Here's what I did. I took your file and changed the name of the map in the first line. It started to load but then I got this message.

[Image: Capture_014.jpg]
Any ideas

- No1_Charlie - 09.06.2008

Glad to see you got it working! The tutorial was written by another member of the community and I just changed a few things to suit my methods.

Not quite sure why your Italy/Greece map is not working but I will check my files at home later and get back to you. Smile

- 4./JG53_Badger - 09.06.2008

Thanks Charlie 19,
For the life of me I can't figure it out, I think it has to do with my mission. or maybe the name of the map....Most of the maps installed have a short load ini description, but this map has vol_Italyafricagreece listed twice in its name. I hope that someone who already has it listed in their QMB can help me. I need a mission that works, I think. Man what a pain in the arse... Cry

- 4./JG53_Badger - 09.06.2008

I have over 25 maps working and can't get this one to work no matter what I've tried...Can some please help me figure this out. I am able to load the map and save missions, but when I go to run QMB fly it starts to load and then I get the above error message...I am dying to get this to work in QMB, someone out there has a mission that works please paste it here or can you send it to me...I'm will to pay "Dammit Jim" :x

In the all.ini file the line for this map reads exactly like this, is this correct!

vol_ItalyAfricaGreece vol_ItalyAfricaGreece/vol_ita_load.ini