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Flying campaigns

highpockets

highpockets

SOH-CM-2025
I have installed all 4 of Talon's campaigns into a single, clean PTO install with the proper add-ons. I am trying campaign flying for the first time in all these years. Always flown just missions. I have flown 3 missions in the USMC Aces campaign, but none of the other campaigns show up on the campaign screen. I thought I could jump from one campaign to the other if I wanted to. All the campaign missions are loaded into the campaign file and I have run the cleanout of filelistdat and the CDP files.
Some guidance please.
Thanks
 
Col Wolf
Its does not even give me an option. The only one I had was the USMC Aces. No 44FG, no USMC'43, no USMC SBD., no P-38-38 \All of theres were in the solomons '43 D/L of talons. USMC ACEs was separate.
Shadow Wolf
Only using the standard county.cfg. Talon did not instruct otherwise.
 
Reply...

Highpockets,

Something is rotten in Kingwood...but I can't figure this one out. :dizzy: What more have you done to try and correct this?
 
Rami
:banghead::banghead::banghead:
_486_Col_wolf had it right. Dummy did not add a different pilot name for each set of campaigns:dizzy::stupid:
Sorry I had you all scratching your heads. :wink:
 
Shadow Wolf
I have.
I have added several A/C to Talon's install and they all work just fine except FGD2 SBD5_ Dauntless_ Guad 43. In free fight it does not show any selection in bomb loads but I can fly it. The FDG2 SBD5 Dauntless_ Guad does and flies. The Dauntless_Guad works in the missions in USMC aces. The Dauntless Guad_43 is called out in the USMC'43 missions and does not work.Checked the .dp files on both and they look the same. However the Copley P-38G_Lighning is not anywhere? have been here before, just need to sort it out.:dizzy:
I am doing some more working today. i need to learn about these issues so I don't have to keep coming back! There were JMK ships that were not showing and I know about the missing dummy texts in those panel and sound models.:jump:
At least I learned that.
Sorry for the blah balh.
Thanks for your help. I know you and others are "watching the store":applause:
 
Sounds like you've done everything I can think of. Note: on the JMK ships, open the dp and scroll down to the bottom to Misc Data and change the unit family from 7 to whatever family of ships it belongs to: ie, cruisers are a 5. The category should also conform to the type of ship. Again, for example: carriers are unit family = 7 and category 13, merchant ships are 5,19. Check your stock ships for the correct fam and cat, Usio built all his ships as carriers. That may help. :wiggle:
 
highpockets said:
Shadow Wolf
I have.
I have added several A/C to Talon's install and they all work just fine except FGD2 SBD5_ Dauntless_ Guad 43. In free fight it does not show any selection in bomb loads but I can fly it. The FDG2 SBD5 Dauntless_ Guad does and flies. The Dauntless_Guad works in the missions in USMC aces. The Dauntless Guad_43 is called out in the USMC'43 missions and does not work.Checked the .dp files on both and they look the same. However the Copley P-38G_Lighning is not anywhere? have been here before, just need to sort it out.:dizzy:
I am doing some more working today. i need to learn about these issues so I don't have to keep coming back! There were JMK ships that were not showing and I know about the missing dummy texts in those panel and sound models.:jump:
At least I learned that.
Sorry for the blah balh.
Thanks for your help. I know you and others are "watching the store":applause:
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Highpockets,

Did you give us a clue in this post? Talon says "FDG2 SBD5 Dauntless_Guad_43" (note the underscore before _43), but you wrote "they all work just fine except FGD2 SBD5_ Dauntless_ Guad 43" No underscore before 43?

Looking at Talon's Solomons 43 zip, it seems the intention was for you to fly David Copley's P38G in the P38 Campaign. Make sure DCC's P38G folder name matches the name Talon uses (P-38G_Lightning) for those missions & it should show up.
 
Shadow Wolf & Uncle Ttg
The ships worked ok in other missions once I corrected the panel and sound files. I think the problem is ME. I have somehow not followed the proper instructions from Talon's readme. I have gone through it again earlier but I am again. His instructions are to D/L "this" and "transfer that" to" this" etc etc. Somewhere in there I think I must have missed a step. One of the D/L A/C is KM_p40f_v1 and it works just fine!
I will post my soulution when I find it.
 
Talon's P-38G_lightning shows "A/C initialization failure on P-38G_lightning" and
"Error loading mission file".
player_aircraft_string= P-38G-13 Lightning
[fltsim.0]
title=P-38G-13 Lightning
sim=P-38G
panel=
model=
sound=
texture=
kb_checklists=
Model= P-38G
mission unit 3952= p-38g_lightning
sound and panel aliased to P-38F_lightning
I have not idea what I am missing here. I have redone this about 6 times:dizzy:
 
A we bit of conflict there , model = ----Plus---- Model = p38-g check the aircraft model folder and use the correct name -- delete the one you don,t have
 
Sarge Willy
I should have qualified what I was posting. the "model=" is in the air.cfg.
The two folders inside "model"folder in the main A/C folder match to P-38g as I think they should.
 
HP...........

... on a quick glance here take a close look at what you have in the mission call.

Talon's P-38G_lightning shows "A/C initialization failure on P-38G_lightning" and
"Error loading mission file".
player_aircraft_string= P-38G-13 Lightning
[fltsim.0]
title=P-38G-13 Lightning
sim=P-38G
panel=
model=
sound=
texture=
kb_checklists=
Model= P-38G
mission unit 3952= p-38g_lightning
sound and panel aliased to P-38F_lightning

Do you see any difference there? The failure has a underscore in it, when the mission "player aircraft string" and the title have none! Also, mission and sound and panel aliasing are underscored. THIS will give the plane "failure to initialize" message. Has happened to me a lot in the past. They ALL have to read the same.
All lines have to agree or "plane no go Joe!!"
Adjust them, then have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!:wavey::very_drunk:
 
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