Conundrum...

[bearcat241]

Thanks to Morton's updated Yak9 package (excellent work as usual Mort!) i decided to finally put some serious effort into finishing my Ostfront install...haven't been there for a long time. So i get to Achim's Barbarossa Central scenery installation and look at the airbases.dat entries and find that the first three entries read like this:

[runway.0]
id=1234
name=Base Normandie Niemen
base_lat=N50* 0.00'
base_lon=E30* 0.00'
base_alt=400
heading=0
allegiance=18
units_across=1
takeoff_start_pos=100,0
takeoff_stop_pos=1600,200
landing_start_pos=5000,350
landing_touchdown_pos=550,0
landing_stop_pos=-250,0

[runway.1]
id=1235
name=Base Normandie Niemen
base_lat=N50* 0.00'
base_lon=E30* 0.00'
base_alt=400
heading=0
allegiance=18
units_across=1
takeoff_start_pos=100,0
takeoff_stop_pos=1600,200
landing_start_pos=5000,350
landing_touchdown_pos=550,0
landing_stop_pos=-250,0

[runway.2]
id=1236
name=Base Normandie Niemen
base_lat=N50* 0.00'
base_lon=E30* 0.00'
base_alt=400
heading=0
allegiance=18
units_across=1
takeoff_start_pos=100,0
takeoff_stop_pos=1600,200
landing_start_pos=5000,350
landing_touchdown_pos=550,0
landing_stop_pos=-250,0

Note that each one has a different, sequential ID number, which suggests some purpose in design. Now, based on my experience with this scenery stuff, this looks like a typo, but who am i to say for sure? Or is this by design for a Normandie Niemen campaign setup. Thought i should ask before proceeding any further, but isn't this the kind of thing that sparks CTD's when loading missions and Mission Builder?

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Bearcat,

Those are entries from Ajax's Normandie-Niemen campaign. I don't know what he (Ajax) did to require them, but I know that campaign package has a great deal of hand-edited missions, so I'm sure those are needed for that.

 

[bearcat241]

Those are entries from Ajax's Normandie-Niemen campaign.

Yeah, i copy, but all three have the same coordinates, suggesting one location. So the question is do we need three exact entries with distinct ID's for the same location in any case?

 

[The B24 Guy]

Hi BC,

You might have to search each mission and see if runway #### is called for.

Regards,
B24Guy