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Battle for Europe mission issue

highpockets

highpockets

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Devildog73
You say you have Battle for Europe running well. I am having trouble with the BSK_MosquitoNFII. It won't initialize and says "Error loading mission file. Either the mission file is corrupt or formatted improperly. Give me a heads up please.
Thanks
 
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Highpockets,


Why won't it initialize? Does the Mosquito show up in free flight? If not, you may want to open up the panel.cfg and sound.cfg files to see if the aircraft is either missing files, or they are aliased to an aircraft that is not in the sim.
 
BSK Mosquito NFII

Highpockets,

I always have problems with the BSK Mosquito and the BSK Martin Maryland ; so I swap out the panel and the sound and replace with another Panel and sound and it then works fine.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
1150
 
Rami
It is installed right out of the d/l with dbolt weapons selection. There is a panel file notepad and a Gryphon panel file notepad in the panel folder. The a/c sound is aliased to the P-38F which is there. The player a/c string is Dehaviland Mk.IV which does not match the air.cfg title in fltsim.0 ??
This is mission 22.

1150
What panel should be substituted should I decide? I can get the Merlin sound and place it in the sound file.
 
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highpockets said:
Rami
It is installed right out of the d/l with dbolt weapons selection. There is a panel file notepad and a Gryphon panel file notepad in the panel folder. The a/c sound is aliased to the P-38F which is there. The player a/c string is Dehaviland Mk.IV which does not match the air.cfg title in fltsim.0 ??
This is mission 22.

1150
What panel should be substituted should I decide? I can get the Merlin sound and place it in the sound file.
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Highpockets,

Try changing the name in the aircraft.cfg to read this: BSK Mosquito NFII, as well as the player a/c string. :dizzy:
 
BSK NFII Mosquito

Highpockets,

I couldn't get the BSK Mosquito to show at all .
So I took the Mosquito Sounds and replaced the one that it came with; then I added a FS98 Panel from flightsim for a NF30 Mosquito and then added that to BSK Mosquito and bingo.!!!!
Away she flew !! The only issue I have is that you have to stretch the panel out to fit the screen because it is for FS98.

Hope this helps,
Regards'
1150
 
Can be frustrating , but sometimes , its something we have done as a mistake , Eg a missing bracket
fltsim] = as in the forward bracket , will drive you nuts , you will repeat , repeat all the other causes till the cows come home , and still not see it , been there done that ,whf it worked before?
 
highpockets said:
Devildog73
You say you have Battle for Europe running well. I am having trouble with the BSK_MosquitoNFII. It won't initialize and says "Error loading mission file. Either the mission file is corrupt or formatted improperly. Give me a heads up please.
Thanks
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highpockets,

I do not alias anything to another aircraft, ever.
I put Mosquito panels and sounds in the BSK_MosquitoNFII.
I make sure the missions aircraft called for and aircraft names are exactly the same.
I use Jones QC Editor to make sure the MosquitoNFII is functioning in Quick Combat.
I make sure the BSK_MosquitoNFII is listed in both Descript.dat and mdlnames.

I know this is a bit overboard for some of our friends here in the basement, but I leave nothing to chance.
I highlight, copy and paste the aircraft name from the DP and AIR files so that I know they are exactly the same.

Hope this helps.
Lee
 
Devildog73
Thanks for the response. There are a few trails you mentioned haven't gone down yet. I see a couple of clues to my problem. I was getting pretty tired of messing with this particular a/c.
I did find the player a/c and the air.cfg title had :
DH 98 in the title and 98 DH in the player a/c. That still didn't fix it. Back to work on it tomorrow with your tips.
 
Over the course of thinking about this in the back of my mind, deep pocket......

Seems to me there are name issues in the files of the BSK_MosquitoNFII.
I will do some checking.........
 
Devidog73

NOPE! I gave up. I went through every iteration on the list I had for " AC missing in the library":
Folder name matching the mission a/c name
a/c cfg matching the player name
Air and dp matching the " sim=name"
I missed something somewhere. Spent a lot of time trying to find it-- moved on to fly other missions or other campaigns.
 
A total of 70 aircraft , should be under the limit , So something is a miss with the aircraft itself , because its not loading in free flight , If you changed panel and sound alias , then look at the model Cfg , for miss naming , Sub in a working air file ,
and cfg for the mosey -- bac up the org first --

Still a problem -- something has got corrupted -- looks ok but went bad -- try a new download ---
or zip up the problem and post , and I,ll see I can track it down ,
 
my findings Brunno Mossey ,

The zip loaded , to free flight , no issues , The dp , was not an issue ,
What ever load outs were used , Gave no Prompts can,t find ,
I took off From Lieston Airfield , climbed to 2.500 ft , went through Panel selection,s,
Got a CTD error On number 6 Panel pop up --

The panel entre is no-5 = GPS --
My system nas no GPS gauges to find -- Removed a long time bac --
I do use NDB,s for locates ,

I blocked the panel entree to = GPS by //

Ran the aircraft again and No CTD resulted !

So the aircraft Zip is working -- from your down load --SOH --

All I changed was sound file Alias -- to the stock -- (P38) --

copy -- of it reads

[fltsim]
alias=C:\1s\38

Which is a remote out of sim folder ,

If the p-38F Lightning loads . in free flight , then the sound , Alias to it may be corrupted !
dump the file sound Cfg , Alias , copy in one that you know works ,
then rename it ,

[fltsim]
alias=P38F_Lightning\sound


And I found out the hardway , when you have something that works, be that any --
CFG file contained in the M$s sim,s --- Always right click , the finished product ,
Select propertys -- Choose Read Only ! Click OK ,

It kills the cloak and dagger agent , that strips your system of all Cfg controller files ,
I,m still in fix it mode , with one computer , from a shop that fixed something ,
All they said was it should not have happened ,
Zip files were safe ,
Something ate half of the Cfg files , and they didn,t know why ?

Dislexia and function , [Alais] meaning you see it correctly -- but still type it wrongly !
one of my life long battles !
should be [Alias] the Sim doesn,t like the first one !
 
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Good evening,

I plan on looking at this as soon as I hand in my final graduate paper. I do my final presentation tomorrow night, and I expect to have the paper finished by the end of the week. Sorry about any issues regarding this; these missions have not been looked at in a LONG time. :santahat:
 
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