DCE Campaigns

[ldnz]

10 minutes ago, Miguel21 said:

I'll see what I can do,

But it is also necessary to integrate UTIL_AddPropAircraft
and
radios_freq_compatible

However, it is CEF which makes the loadout, and there, it is unavailable.

Understood. I'm not too worried about loadouts (I've been creating them locally for each campaign), and have found that for AI use just adding to UTIL_Data was sufficient. Is there a repository where I can contribute a pull request?

[ldnz]

Theres a bug with eastern callsigns causing a crash in the latest version of DCS. looks like previously eastern callsigns were just a number, and western used a structure. Now DCS expects all to have the structure and fails to parse the file. Attached iATO_FlightPlan.luas a fix, drop into scriptmods.ng

~lines 290 ish

[Miguel21]

1 hour ago, ldnz said:

Theres a bug with eastern callsigns causing a crash in the latest version of DCS. looks like previously eastern callsigns were just a number, and western used a structure. Now DCS expects all to have the structure and fails to parse the file. Attached iATO_FlightPlan.luas a fix, drop into scriptmods.ng

~lines 290 ish

347.zip

I realise that I'm late for a release, but there are so many changes and corrections.

Here is the latest, this is a test and not a release.
I need to check it.

Otherwise, I'm surprised about the East camp callsigns.
In which campaign does this create a bug?

[ldnz]

I tried with War on Tchad and Harriers over Cauc, as well as my own. In all cases DCS just hangs on loading the mission, and complains about that callsign not being a table (in the log). Seemed to be a change last DCS patch I think.

[Miguel21]

OK, thanks for the info

[ldnz]

My campaign builder for DCE is nearly ready for public testing. Builds a fully functional campaign with sensible defaults from a simple dcs mission as a template. Allows friendly editing of most DCE parameters - targets, triggers, airbases, loadouts without touching any lua. Outputs a zip file ready for use with DCE Manager. 

Edited June 1, 2023 by ldnz

[Miguel21]

great work, well done.

[Miguel21]

22 hours ago, ldnz said:

Theres a bug with eastern callsigns causing a crash in the latest version of DCS

After testing, I didn't have any problems with eastern callsigns, DCS hasn't changed that.

Are your bugs linked to a country that is normally in the Eastern bloc, that you have to switch to the West?

WestCallsign in data file

[ldnz]

17 hours ago, Miguel21 said:

After testing, I didn't have any problems with eastern callsigns, DCS hasn't changed that.

Are your bugs linked to a country that is normally in the Eastern bloc, that you have to switch to the West?

WestCallsign in data file

I just tried with the 347 version you supplied and War on Tchad campaign. In DCS loading freezes with this in the log:

DCS version 2.8.5.40170, Multithreaded

Gets stuck here:

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Edited June 3, 2023 by ldnz
dcs version

[Spartan111sqn]

On 4/18/2023 at 5:24 PM, Miguel21 said:

Cef is working on a campaign in Lebanon, where almost all playable aircraft can be activated on demand.

Any news on deadlines?

 

Thanks 

[Miguel21]

8 hours ago, ldnz said:

I just tried with the 347 version you supplied and War on Tchad campaign. In DCS loading freezes with this in the log:

DCS version 2.8.5.40170, Multithreaded

Gets stuck here:

Can you give me the mission generated?

[ldnz]

21 minutes ago, Miguel21 said:

Can you give me the mission generated?

Here you are!

War over Tchad 1987-Blue_first.miz

[Miguel21]

the isWesternCountry function (DCS editor) is effectively restrictive. This would mean that the old ["callsign"] = 152 system still exists, but for purely Russian/Chinese countries.
If you have the old MissionEditor\modules\me_utilities files, I'm interested.

If not, does it bug when opening the mission in the editor? or also when loading in the game? (I don't have the DCS PC this weekend)

 

-- returns true if country is not russia and ukraine
function isWesternCountry(country)
    return not (
		 (russia 		== country) or 
		 (ukraine 		== country) or 
		 (insurgents 	== country) or 
		 (abkhazia 		== country) or 
		 (south_osetia 	== country) or 
		 (china 		== country) or 
		 (belarus 		== country) or
		 (USSR 			== country) or 
		 (yugoslavia	== country) or 
		 (GDR			== country) 
		 
	)
end

 

[Miguel21]

do you have a mod, or change anything in the db_countries file?

[PB0_CEF]

11 hours ago, Spartan111sqn said:

Any news on deadlines?

 

Thanks 

Hum ... it progresses well but I'm not able to give a precise deadline ... 2 more weeks ?

To be more precise : OOB is nearly completed... Base_mission well advanced (if It's not overcrowded )  I need to build few templates ... and few other things

 

Edited June 3, 2023 by PB0_CEF

[RedeyeStorm]

Looking forward to it @PB0_CEF.

[ldnz]

20 hours ago, Miguel21 said:

do you have a mod, or change anything in the db_countries file?

Nope, nothing at all sorry. It fails on selecting the campaign and clicking load, and also fails on trying to open it in the mission editor. Looks like War on Tchad uses CJTF Red and Libya 

[Miguel21]

6 hours ago, ldnz said:

Nope, nothing at all sorry. It fails on selecting the campaign and clicking load, and also fails on trying to open it in the mission editor. Looks like War on Tchad uses CJTF Red and Libya 

OK, so we're going to use their data to find an east/west country.

Try this over several campaigns if you like:

 

UTIL_Data.lua ATO_FlightPlan.lua UTIL_Functions.lua

[Jazz_44]

Hi all,

So I'm trying to install DCE with the latest installer (DCE_Manager_5_11_25_61) that I found in this forum post. When I run setup I get the following error message "Cannot download the application. The application is missing required files. Contact application vendor for assistance".

I did unzip the content to a folder on my hard drive before running setup.

Appreciate your help.

[Miguel21]

i check

[Miguel21]

32 minutes ago, Jazz_44 said:

Hi all,

So I'm trying to install DCE with the latest installer (DCE_Manager_5_11_25_61) that I found in this forum post. When I run setup I get the following error message "Cannot download the application. The application is missing required files. Contact application vendor for assistance".

I did unzip the content to a folder on my hard drive before running setup.

Appreciate your help.

sorry,
there are two ways to "publish" this utility:
- one good one: local installation, CD type
- a bad one: installation via a website, which has never worked for me

And sometimes, publishing is done the wrong way, sorry

DCE_Manager_V5.11.26.62.zip

[Jazz_44]

1 hour ago, Miguel21 said:

sorry,
there are two ways to "publish" this utility:
- one good one: local installation, CD type
- a bad one: installation via a website, which has never worked for me

And sometimes, publishing is done the wrong way, sorry

DCE_Manager_V5.11.26.62.zip 1.64 MB · 1 download

Thank you for looking into this. I downloaded the new zip file and extracted it but I get the same error message as before 

I'm including the error details as well if it helps.

 

DCE Error.txt

Edited June 5, 2023 by Jazz_44

[Miguel21]

34 minutes ago, Jazz_44 said:

Thank you for looking into this. I downloaded the new zip file and extracted it but I get the same error message as before 

this programme is driving me crazy ^^

Change this file in what you unzipped, and cross your fingers

DCE_Manager.application

[Jazz_44]

1 hour ago, Miguel21 said:

this programme is driving me crazy ^^

Change this file in what you unzipped, and cross your fingers

DCE_Manager.application 1.89 kB · 0 downloads

Yes, that fixed it, thank you!

But, we are not done just yet 

Now that I run the installer I get this pop up first (Please select another server, this one is too long.), when I just ignore it I'm able to open the application, I set all the paths as instructed, but when I click the Install Campaign button I get another error screen (Unhandled exception has occurred...).

Any idea what's wrong?

I'm also including the error log.

Thanks!

 

Error2.txt

Edited June 5, 2023 by Jazz_44

[Miguel21]

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