I tried a mission taking off from a grass field in England. The spit bounced so bad it took three tries to takeoff without damage. That was from Unified 1.1 upgraded from 1.0
I then installed a fresh copy of IL2 and updated it to 4.08...then to Unified 1.1.
Flew from the same field with no problem. The severe bounce was gone.
The Airfield Blankplate objects are the problem.
The Channel 1940 map uses Canons Blankplates
There is some sort of compatibility issue going on with UI 1.1
The Blankplates are what gives you a smooth takeoff.
They should be installed in MODS\ObjectsMap
Under MODS/ObjectsMap/3do/airfield/BlankFieldPlate, both the 4.08 to 1.1 and the 1.0 to 1.1 versions have the same files with the same properties.
Both are 281,435 bytes for 6 files.
But the ground smoothness in the program are still different.
These lines should also appear in the static.ini file
Your "Title" text line may be different. If so that wont matter.
//===========================================================================
[***]
Title Canon Blank Field Plate
//===========================================================================
[buildings.Plate$BlankFieldPlate]
Title BlankFieldPlate
Mesh 3do/airfield/BlankFieldPlate/live.sim
Interesting.
But, 1.0 didn't have it and it didn't bounce. Is this the result of some change going to 1.1?
I don't know when things were added to 1.1. I'm still using Soundmod 0.93 successfully and have not yet downloaded 1.1
However, in order for the Canon map to work with smooth airfields you must have BlankFieldPlate installed.
From what you have said the MODS folder does contain the BlankFieldPlate mod.
The only other thing to check is the static.ini
Ensure you only have one copy of this file.
In the static.ini do a "Find Text" search for BlankFieldPlate and see what you get.
Maybe your 1.0 version is finding a different static.ini to read? because otherwise you will have bumpy airfields without BlankFieldPlate
It was missing from the 1.0 and 1.1...but was in the 1.1 when created from a clean install.
My flying buddies here had the line after upgrading from 1.0, so it seems to be related to me...
Maybe it got removed accidentally when I moved things around to reorder them in the static.ini file.
Anyway, it works now. Thanks for the help. Once those lines were added everything ran 'smoothly' is all senses. ;-)
