MISSION BUILDER

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Fibber

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"Come out, come out wherever you are!" Okay, I really have the case of the dropsies, loosies! Somewhere, somehow I seem to have lost "Mission Builder". It is not on the "start "screens, nor appear in "Single" , "Campaign" or anywhere missions. It is not even in my exploded view of CFS2 installs by ways of Window Explorer. I tried to look at the install disks, hit the wrong icon, and all that did was destroy my 5 year old installation of the PTO! Still rebuilding that, and STILL no Mission Builder. Anyone know where this bloody thing hides on the main install disks or anywhere?
 
Try: Start/All Programs/Microsoft Games/CFS2/Mission Builder. I would recommend before you open it, you send it to desktop as a shortcut.
 
As far as I know, it's not actually a seperate program per se, but just a special way of opening up CFS2.

What you need is a short cut that has the target: ["C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator 2\cfs2.exe" /BUILDER:] (Obviously omit the (x86) bit if you are not on a 64bit system)

Best way of doing that would be to copy the shortcut you have for CFS 2 then right click, hit properties and then add [ /BUILDER:] to the end of the target path (the space is neccescary)

I am new round here though so I could be very much mistaken :jump:
 
THAT'S THE PROBLEM

Thanks guys, but I tried all that. It is I can't seem to find it in the game at all! IIRC it used to have its' own folder, now nothing. I have searched each folder looking for it as a sub-folder with neg results. I have even gone to Start\Find and let XP look for it with neg. results. I am stumpted. I don't have a clue as to where it went, Besides gone!


UPDATE!!!!!! The gremlins are at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now it appears but I get the "failed to initialize blah, blah, blah...." message. Any suggestions now?
 
Hi Fibber,
Not sure what is going on here

Mission Builder doesn't have it's own folder - it is built into the core CFS2.exe and is accessed via a command line switch as described by Ian (only without the : at the end of /BUILDER)

There is a folder called Missions which contains the individual missions that appear within CFS2, just like Campaigns contains the campaign missions (quick tip - if you want to fly campaign missions individually just copy them to the Missions folder)

The fails to Initialize message is caused 99.9% of the time by too many aircraft in the aircraft folder. The system will count every repaint as a separate aircraft and as you get close to 100 this message will appear. The other 0.1% is caused by too many ships.

Gavin
 
gavinc said:
Mission Builder doesn't have it's own folder - it is built into the core CFS2.exe and is accessed via a command line switch as described by Ian (only without the : at the end of /BUILDER)
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Can confirm mine does have the colon.
 
mb folder?

I thought that there was a MB folder as I did recall seeing something with MB in a file\folder once before. Maybe it was from a download somewhere that just stuck in my mind. Anyway, lets start from scratch. Someone remind me how to get there. When I go to START\ALL Programs\CFS2\MISSION BUILDER I get the " Failed......" message. Been so long since I used it I just can't seem to remember how to get in the thing again.
 
Unless there's something really FUBAR with the state of your general installation, the chief causes for this message are going to be the same one's that precipitate the failure messages in FF and QC, i.e. aircraft and/or ship counts, object dp's "over the limit" (varies with each user), poorly formatted QC file, etc. In short, whatever steps you take to eliminate the failures in FF and QC will resolve the MB issue as well.

If everything you try fails, just install all of your desired objects and miscellaneous items to a clean installation and work with MB in there. Test the final in the clean install, then port the completed mission(s) over to your fully customized install for play.
 
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