French aircraft at German airfield

[vonOben]

Thanks ndicki

I'll check again so I haven't missed to change any xdp-files.

Cheers

 

[Daiwilletti]

country.xml?

Hi von Oben,

if you download "campaign generator 1-1.xls" from here at SOH, and if you have MS Excel, you can list all the aircraft in a spreadsheet and see their nationalities at a glance. Then you can open each xdp you need to modify, directly from the spreadsheet. Much quicker than manually doing it.

Another left-field thought: what is the order of nationalities listed under the <Alliances> section of your country.xml file? The order of nationaliteis will affect which nationalities spawn for Axis and Allied as default.

it seems you have persistent spawning of a particular nation for Axis Alliance, so maybe its the country.xml file?

David

 

[gosd]

Hi von Oben,

if you download "campaign generator 1-1.xls" from here at SOH,

David

Where is this ?
Thanks.

 

[Daiwilletti]

Where is this ?
Thanks.

here is the link - it is in the Warbirds archive, CFS3 Other:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/downloads/download.php?lloc=downloads&FileID=2461

sorry I was dashing out before so did not have time to find it.

D

 

[vonOben]

Thanks for the tip David! :salute:

I'll try the campaign generator and check the country.xml when I get home from work.

Cheers

 

[vonOben]

Hi

The Country.xml (ETO default) looks like this in the beginning:

<Base>
<!--NEK ETO Edition-->
<Defaults CountryID="USA" PilotModel="Walker"/>
<Alliances>
<Alliance ID="Allies" Name="Allies">
<Country ID="Britain"/>
<Country ID="USA"/>
<Country ID="Australia"/>
<Country ID="Britain_FAA"/>
<Country ID="Canada"/>
<Country ID="Italy_Allied"/>
<Country ID="France_Free"/>
<Country ID="US_Navy"/>
<Country ID="Other_Allied_Nations"/>
<Country ID="Russia"/>
<Country ID="Belgium"/>
<Country ID="Netherlands"/>
<Country ID="Spain_Republicans"/>
<Country ID="Poland"/>
</Alliance>
<Alliance ID="Axis" Name="Axis">
<Country ID="Germany"/>
<Country ID="Italy"/>
<Country ID="Vichy_France"/>
<Country ID="Finland"/>
<Country ID="Other_Axis_Nations"/>
<Country ID="Spain_Nationalists"/>
</Alliance>
</Alliances>
<Countries>

I tested the campaign generator xls file and there were two Vichy_France aircraft I had missed to change:

ai_Po631.xdp and DR_D520_ChauP.xdp.

So that explains my problem!

There were some other strange things in the aircraft xdp files also regarding some tanks, armored car and U-boat saying Left service: eral Allegience=
Is that correct and what does it mean?

One aircraft had the wrong left service date, but it's not an ETO aircraft so that might be intentional:
DR_LeO451_Syria.xdp Left service: 13/31/1942

Cheers

 

[ndicki]

13/31/1942 can't be right, because the calendar stops at 12; the date is given the American way, month first, which is rather confusing to say the very least. I'd change it for something more reasonable, say, 12/31/1942...

Glad you found the trouble with the aircraft spawns.

 

[Daiwilletti]

Nothing wrong with the country.xml. Germany is set as the first Axis nation. I wonder of the "owner" column in the global layer is set for Vichy_France for the airfield you are looking at?

You will get a bit of corruption in the results in the Cagen file, because different xdp files are set up differently so the macro cannot cover every eventuality. I think the Allegiance= stuff is because the left service date is optional in xdp files so is sometimes missing.

 

[vonOben]

My airfield is Boeblingen which is German in the Global layer.

I've changed France_Vichy to France_Free in ai_Po631.xdp and DR_D520_ChauP.xdp now, so I hope that will fix the problem.

Cheers