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BoB campaign problem

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nik112

Charter Member
Hi all
I installed "CFS2 BoB manual install" and started bob-August 1940 campaign after 2 days of installing scenery-planes-objects according to Rami's tutorial and i faced 2 probs
1/ i took a strange message when i tried to start campaign saying "the pilot name contains illegal characters or its invalid.please select another name"
then i copied mis & dyn from campaign to mission folder and the i faced the second prob

The first mission "August 1940 1 mis" said that i take off from Manston but i took off from fields. i checked mis
with airbases dat from August 1940 folder and base lon-lat was the same. Also i took a look at Achim's jhs England scenery and at the airbases dat had the same figures.

Any help will be appreciated
thanks:running:
 
Reply...

Nik112,

I haven't faced the campaign issue before, but your observation of the Manston problem dates back to CFS1. Manston aerodrome should be NNE of Hawkinge, which, by the way, is also not located correctly, but CFS1 has it located in southwest England. The airbase that is approximately where Manston would be is named "Ramsgate." Not wanting to have to make numerous changes to that mission, I chose to leave it in the "improper" Manston location.

If you're striving for 100% authenticity, I apologize on that point. However, I want to stress that if you fly other Early ETO campaigns (Chianti Raiders, Heinkels, Battle of France, etc.) you will notice that many of those same objects and such are used over and over again. You've essentially installed the granddaddy of the early ETO campaigns, with the most to download and install.

"Battle for Europe" is the same type of thing in the late ETO, it's the beast by which all others are measured, in terms of the stuff you need.
 
Scenery

Rami here its my scenery installation. its ok or i had done something wrong? As for my first quest have you any idea whats happening?
 
Reply...

Nik112,

I can't tell from that picture...it is WAY too small. I tried expanding it on my desktop, and I can't even read it.

I'm still not sure about the first problem you mentioned.
 
Reply...

Nik112,

So far it looks good...if you can post your scenery.cfg I can tell for sure. But from the looks of this, you'll need to install the bases for JHS_England and JHS_France_North.
 
bob campaign

here is the scenery cfg

[General]
Title=CFS2 World
Description=CFS 2 Scenery data
Cache_Size=64M
Clean_on_Exit=TRUE

[Area.001]
Title=Default Scenery
Local=scenery
Active=TRUE
Layer=2
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.002]
Title=Terrain
Local=Scenedb\world
Active=TRUE
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.003]
Title=CFS1 Library
Local=Scenedb\library
Active=TRUE
Layer=3
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.004]
Title=Airport Facilities Data
Local=Scenedb\AFDFiles
Active=TRUE
Layer=4
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.005]
Title=Scenery Ships
Local=Scenedb\Ships
Active=TRUE
Layer=5
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.006]
Title=Aircraft Weapons
Local=Scenedb\weapons
Active=TRUE
Layer=6
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.007]
Title=Vehicles
Local=Scenedb\veh
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.008]
Title=Effects
Local=Scenedb\fx
Active=TRUE
Layer=8
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.009]
Title=Runways
Local=Scenedb\runways
Active=TRUE
Layer=9
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.010]
Title=Buildings
Local=Scenedb\inf
Active=TRUE
Layer=10
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.011]
Title=FS2000_props
Local=Scenedb\fs2kprop
Active=TRUE
Layer=11
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.012]
Title=DEM mesh
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh
Active=TRUE
Layer=12
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.013]
Title=DEM mesh LOD 8
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 8
Active=TRUE
Layer=13
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.014]
Title=Global_Exclude
Local=SCENEDB\Global_Exclude
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=14

[Area.015]
Title=cfs2_eurw_LC_su_BETA4
Local=SCENEDB\cfs2_eurw_LC_su_BETA4
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=15

[Area.016]
Title=Eurw
Local=SCENEDB\Eurw
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=16

[Area.017]
Title=SC_Eurw_FeaturePack
Local=SCENEDB\SC_Eurw_FeaturePack
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=17

[Area.018]
Title=CFS2BoB
Local=SCENEDB\CFS2BoB
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=18
 
Reply...

Nik112.

You only have the BoB bases in your scenery.cfg file. The RAF side to the Battle of Britain requires Achim's England airbases and his Northern French airbases. (There are links to these packages in the readme document)
 
scen library

thats my new scenery pic & scenery cfg
[General]
Title=CFS2 World
Description=CFS 2 Scenery data
Cache_Size=64M
Clean_on_Exit=TRUE

[Area.001]
Title=Default Scenery
Local=scenery
Active=TRUE
Layer=2
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.002]
Title=Terrain
Local=Scenedb\world
Active=TRUE
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.003]
Title=CFS1 Library
Local=Scenedb\library
Active=TRUE
Layer=3
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.004]
Title=Airport Facilities Data
Local=Scenedb\AFDFiles
Active=TRUE
Layer=4
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.005]
Title=Scenery Ships
Local=Scenedb\Ships
Active=TRUE
Layer=5
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.006]
Title=Aircraft Weapons
Local=Scenedb\weapons
Active=TRUE
Layer=6
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.007]
Title=Vehicles
Local=Scenedb\veh
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.008]
Title=Effects
Local=Scenedb\fx
Active=TRUE
Layer=8
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.009]
Title=Runways
Local=Scenedb\runways
Active=TRUE
Layer=9
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.010]
Title=Buildings
Local=Scenedb\inf
Active=TRUE
Layer=10
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.011]
Title=FS2000_props
Local=Scenedb\fs2kprop
Active=TRUE
Layer=11
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.012]
Title=DEM mesh
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh
Active=TRUE
Layer=12
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.013]
Title=DEM mesh LOD 8
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 8
Active=TRUE
Layer=13
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.014]
Title=Global_Exclude
Local=SCENEDB\Global_Exclude
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=14

[Area.015]
Title=cfs2_eurw_LC_su_BETA4
Local=SCENEDB\cfs2_eurw_LC_su_BETA4
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=15

[Area.016]
Title=Eurw
Local=SCENEDB\Eurw
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=16

[Area.017]
Title=SC_Eurw_FeaturePack
Local=SCENEDB\SC_Eurw_FeaturePack
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=17

[Area.018]
Title=CFS2BoB
Local=SCENEDB\CFS2BoB
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=18

[Area.019]
Title=JHS_England
Local=SCENEDB\JHS_England
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=19

[Area.020]
Title=JHS_France_North
Local=SCENEDB\JHS_France_North
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=20
 
Reply...

Nik112,

Now you're cooking with gas. As long as you have all the objects required for these bases, you're good to go. :icon29:
 
required objects

thanks Rami for your reply.Now about Achims required objects i tried to d/l but it couldn't be possible (server problem) maybe. Also i had a problem with mission builder,i took the familiar message "failed to initialize the database..." i checked the a/c and ship folder and its under 100 items each. Whats next step to solve the prob?

thanks
 
Reply...

Nik112,

The library problem looks like a bad redirect, we senior admins are looking into it and grabbing our tool kits. So just hang tight on that one.

As far as the "failure to initialize" message, remember that this includes aircraft AND skins. (texture sets) If this total eclipses 100, (or less on some systems, some say it's as low as 90) you'll get that message.

How to fix it depends on the operating system you have. What's yours?
 
Rami said:
NIk112,

The library problem looks like a bad redirect, we senior admins are looking into it and grabbing our tool kits. So just hang tight on that one.

As far as the "failure to initialize" message, remember that this includes aircraft AND skins. (texture sets) If this total eclipses 100, (or less on some systems, some say it's as low as 90) you'll get that message.

How to fix it depends on the operating system you have. What's yours?
Click to expand...

win 7*64
 
problem on starting a campaign

Hi guys
When i start a campaign and after writing the pilots name taking the following message "the pilot name contains illegal characters or its invalid. Please select another name"
Has any other faced that?

thanks:running:
 
Reply...

Nik112,

My apologies, but I have been so busy, I forgot to respond to this. In a Windows 7 system, I'm not sure that you can recover the sim without a re-install. To fix the "failure to initialize" error, you need to make sure your aircraft (and skins) as well as the amount of ships you have, are below 100.

To attempt a fix, use your windows search feature to look for and delete all of the filelist.dat files in your CFS2 scenery folders, and also have it look for all .cdp files. deleting those as well. Additionally, you'll have to replace your Quick Combat (.qcb) file with a backup, from either your folder or from your install disks, and then allow CFS2 to run, where these files will re-generate. If this fails, you will have to reinstall the game. I know these steps work for an XP system.

This might be the cause of your campaign issue, as well.
 
reply

Thanks Rami for your reply.
I reinstalled the game and runs fine except the messages am getting of missing objects. i found some but still missing the "sbx_ballon_90 + sbx_ballon_150".
i will be grateful if you know and post a link

cheers
 
Reply...

Nik112,

No problem, I was checking the forms after having finished a German nightfighter mission in a Ju-88 I've been working on.

It didn't work out too bad, I was flying a Ju-88g and managed to bring down about four Halifaxes before I endured heavy fire and had to break off with two engines burning. I managed to put her down at Oldenburg, barely.
 
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