27.12.2007, 13:43
Everything I have shown you so far has had the sole purpose of getting the data you need. When you save each road segiment as a .mis file, you are saving it to get the waypts. It is the same when you save your sea and rail routes. Once you have each segiment of the road saved as a .mis file and named, so you know what it is, you are ready to make the necessary files.
*Mapname*.rds - What this file does is hold the waypts for each and every road segiment in your campaign. Remember I told everyone to save each road segiment as a .mis file and name the two locations in that road segiment? This is where it becomes important.
To make this file, copy one of the .rds files, open it in notepad and save it as your empty template. Copy this file after you rename it to the map name of your campaign. So if you were doing a map in ardennes, you might name your map Ardennes1940 or France or Bastogne1944, or whatever you dicide. *Important Note! - You cannot have a map name that is the same as the default map names that come with DCG. To see what these are, open your DCG folder inside your IL2 game folder, and then open "masters" folder. Any map name the same as any of those map names will cause a crash or error, and your campaign WILL NOT generate.
Open the .rds notepad file and the .mis file of the first road segiment. The structure of the file you are making should be as follows:
[Location_Name to Next_Location_Name]
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
[Next_Location_Name to Next_After_Location_Name]
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
What you should do is put the name of the two location of the road segiment in [brackets]. You need to list the starting one first and the end last. So in the Ardennes map, you have a road that goes from St Vith to veisalm bridge. In the file you would have:
[St_Vith_Factory_District to Veisalm_Bridge18]
Now in the .mis file, scroll down to where it says "chief road", and copy that whole paragraph of waypts and paste them in the notepad file. Be sure to indent two spaces for waypts. [b]Second Important Note - In this file, when you are listing locatoin names, DCG does not recognize spaces. You must put and underscore ( _ ) to represent spaces.
I will post pictures later tonight
Again, any questions please ask. I know not everyone gets this stuff. It took my a long time to figure this out, but I want everyone to know I am here to help. Please ask questions
*Mapname*.rds - What this file does is hold the waypts for each and every road segiment in your campaign. Remember I told everyone to save each road segiment as a .mis file and name the two locations in that road segiment? This is where it becomes important.
To make this file, copy one of the .rds files, open it in notepad and save it as your empty template. Copy this file after you rename it to the map name of your campaign. So if you were doing a map in ardennes, you might name your map Ardennes1940 or France or Bastogne1944, or whatever you dicide. *Important Note! - You cannot have a map name that is the same as the default map names that come with DCG. To see what these are, open your DCG folder inside your IL2 game folder, and then open "masters" folder. Any map name the same as any of those map names will cause a crash or error, and your campaign WILL NOT generate.
Open the .rds notepad file and the .mis file of the first road segiment. The structure of the file you are making should be as follows:
[Location_Name to Next_Location_Name]
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
[Next_Location_Name to Next_After_Location_Name]
Waypts
Waypts
Waypts
What you should do is put the name of the two location of the road segiment in [brackets]. You need to list the starting one first and the end last. So in the Ardennes map, you have a road that goes from St Vith to veisalm bridge. In the file you would have:
[St_Vith_Factory_District to Veisalm_Bridge18]
Now in the .mis file, scroll down to where it says "chief road", and copy that whole paragraph of waypts and paste them in the notepad file. Be sure to indent two spaces for waypts. [b]Second Important Note - In this file, when you are listing locatoin names, DCG does not recognize spaces. You must put and underscore ( _ ) to represent spaces.
I will post pictures later tonight
Again, any questions please ask. I know not everyone gets this stuff. It took my a long time to figure this out, but I want everyone to know I am here to help. Please ask questions