Yeah I actually had known about it but completely forgot when I was adding units and was trying to keep things Australia where I could. Another big gap I found in IL2 for the IJN is that the game has no mid range warships for the CV's escorts. It basically forces you to use a battleship to simulate the firepower of several cruisers and likewise I had to use some of the German flak ships to give the fleet enough density of flak without adding too many ships. Filling out some of the warship classes would be a good mod to add in itself.
Cheers,
Stonehouse
thats great news stonehouse
originally LG was against the mods and said they wouldnt be supported but i think he now accepts them, but he did say that he wouldnt be developing any campaigns for mod maps or mod a/c. I cant see why he couldnt include it on his site though
Ok I've had a few hiccup's and the 457 m8 who was mainly testing the install notes etc has had PC problems and been unable to test. So rather than delay things I've gone over everything again and tried to confirm it's all good and sent the files off to Lowengrin. No guarantees as I've asked him to perform a quick check too and he may spot a problem and send it back to me for a fix but you hopefully will see it soon for download at his site. I've included the dgen files for a RAAF and IJN campaign and the ngen one too. I've delibrately kept it that the only mod is the map and possibly the 4.09bm1 FMB objects I might have used and left the flyable/non flyable aircraft as per the std DCG. If you particularly want other aircraft (or an IJA campaign) you'll have to change my setup and/or DCG's files. I'm hoping that it runs ok on other people's pc's and that it gives you some hours of enjoyment. Fingers and toes crossed.
Cheers,
Stonehouse
ANy textures that we should load with this map? I've read the all.ini thread and this entire one but still can't seem to get it to work.
Flyingbullseye
Sorry my bad. I am running 4.09m. Haven't tried it in FMB and can't see it in the map list under QMB.
Flyingbullseye
You need an additional line in your config.ini to add the map to QMB. If you read the QMB thread (The link is inoperative) you'll see how to do it.
Cheers,
Stonehouse
Some news on the DCG campaign, Lowengrin has been doing some testing and suggested a few changes. I'll make the updates and barring any more issues being found will forward him the final version in the next 3 or 4 days - so with a bit of luck you'll have it as an Easter present. Apologies for the delays.
Cheers,
Stonehouse
That's good news Neil. I know we've talked about the coastline and some of the features of the town and you've said above that you won't get it in this version but one for you to look at is the RAAF base at Darwin. Lowengrin ended up helping me with additional DCG setup to force traffic to take off in a particular direction because a fully laden 2 engined bomber always hit the trees on the northern end of the strip. This seems to be because the full runway length is never used - ie when you add a flight in FMB and set the first way point to be a take off point and the way point snaps to one of the runway end markers. But when you fly the sample mission the aircraft are sitting nearly half way down the strip. Even taking off to the south they only just make it........It looks like there might be an issue with the way the airfield is set up in the map. I don't know the technicalities of map building but that is how it seems to me.
Not a show stopper for me because DCG lets me get around it but a 4 engine bomber like B24 would have real trouble getting off the deck and Liberators did operate out of Darwin on occasion.
I should have said I was using 2 flights of 4 aircraft in testing this
Cheers,
Stonehouse
PS if possible don't forget a bit more sea room to the north would be good too!
Hi Neil,
No problem, it's not much of a test mission it's just 2 flights of 4 Blenheims with 100% fuel and 2*500lbs bombs take off in a northerly direction from Darwin. I've added the same to Parap so you can see the difference. At Parap the eight a/c start from the far southern end of the field and only the last one gets off the ground. At Darwin the eight a/c start basically half down the runway and only the last three get off the ground - it's like Darwin runway is only slightly longer than Parap as far as the internal mechanics of the game is concerned even though graphically Darwin is nearly twice as long as Parap. Lowengrin also noted the same thing.
I'll try to send to you via a PM anyway.
Cheers,
Stonehouse
nope can't send attachments via PM.
Mission file contents is:
[MAIN]
MAP NTL_Darwin_Small/NTL_Darwin_Small_load.ini
TIME 12.0
CloudType 0
CloudHeight 1000.0
player r0102
army 1
playerNum 0
[Wing]
r0102
r0101
r0103
r0100
r0110
[r0102]
Planes 1
Skill 1
Class air.A_20C
Fuel 100
weapons default
[r0102_Way]
NORMFLY 62330.41 39546.14 3333.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 63195.51 36730.40 3333.00 300.00 &0
[r0101]
Planes 4
Skill 1
Class air.BLENHEIM4
Fuel 100
weapons 2x500
[r0101_Way]
TAKEOFF 68084.06 40890.77 0 0 &0
NORMFLY 66527.03 42262.72 300.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 66233.74 44417.56 600.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 67527.19 45643.64 900.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 69645.17 46206.96 1200.00 300.00 &0
[r0103]
Planes 4
Skill 1
Class air.BLENHEIM4
Fuel 100
weapons 2x500
[r0103_Way]
TAKEOFF 68088.59 40890.24 0 0 &0
NORMFLY 66533.98 42243.66 300.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 66232.56 44378.75 600.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 67539.42 45639.35 900.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 69622.09 46211.36 1200.00 300.00 &0
[r0100]
Planes 4
Skill 1
Class air.BLENHEIM4
Fuel 100
weapons 2x500
[r0100_Way]
TAKEOFF 66916.30 38081.60 0 0 &0
NORMFLY 66862.81 41456.01 300.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 64683.14 44398.71 600.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 62312.25 44773.29 900.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 60132.26 40749.44 1200.00 300.00 &0
[r0110]
Planes 4
Skill 1
Class air.BLENHEIM4
Fuel 100
weapons 2x500
[r0110_Way]
TAKEOFF 66916.57 38081.12 0 0 &0
NORMFLY 66868.27 41454.20 300.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 64690.44 44419.66 600.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 62319.33 44793.72 900.00 300.00 &0
NORMFLY 60124.13 40730.96 1200.00 300.00 &0
[NStationary]
[Buildings]
[StaticCamera]
67016 38171 100
68081 41044 100
[Bridge]
[House]
