[Scharnhorst1943]

The Post that started with this is the one Im most confused on, what are these X files?


I mean My goal is to beable to edit which aircraft are availible in the stock DCG campaigns, mainly the USAAF Pilot in the Pacific (DCG) campaign. The other main goal, which I haven't learned yet is how to make sure I will switch correctly, and to the correct Aircraft when I change theators in the campaign, aka Hawaii to New Guinea.

ps thanks again!

The "X" represents the mapname. So for each map you make for a campaign, you will have a MapName.mis file (Master Map), a MapName.rds file (Road Network), a Mapname.rls file (Rail Routes), a MapName.prd(Carrier Patrol Box) file, and a MapName.srd(Sea Routes) file. You can name each map you make anything you want (Except for the default maps, you cannot name your map the exact same as the map that came with DCG stock). So if you make a Tarawa map for your Pacific Campaign, you might name your map, "Tarawa43" or "Tarawa1943" or TarawaIsle" or even "Pacific8" (That is it being the 8th map in the campaign ...

I hope this answered your question.

As for the other question, in order to make sure the maps transferr successfully and generate proporly, you need to either edit or make these two files:

"allcampaigns.dcg" - found in IL2 1946/dcg/data
"grandcampaign.dcg" - found in same folder

The first one tells DCG how to set up the map when there is a transferr. The second file tells what order the maps transferr. By changing/editing these files, you can change the front lines, where bases are, where the end points of the campaign are, when the campaign is ....