DCE Campaigns

[Miguel21]

5 hours ago, tn_prvteye said:

Another quick question.  Is the CWGermany map supported?  If I started working on the base mission file, and all the required info for the INIT folder, would it work?  Nobody get excited, because I probably won't finish it.     But I didn't want to start if there are parts in the background that need to be updated.

Hi.
All maps can be added.

Just give me the details so I can add them automatically in the next update (to avoid overwriting your data).

movedBullseye in UTIL_ConfModCheck.lua
and
LocationForEphemeris in UTIL_DataMap.lua

That's all I can see for now.

[tn_prvteye]

It'll be probably be awhile before I have anything to send.  The big issue is the Airfield DB.  There are SO many Airfields on the Germany map.  

[Miguel21]

13 hours ago, tn_prvteye said:

It'll be probably be awhile before I have anything to send.  The big issue is the Airfield DB.  There are SO many Airfields on the Germany map.  

You can start creating the db_airbase table using the RunwayLife table in the temporary end-of-mission file: camp_status.

However, it is not necessary to include all the bases. You can start with 10 on each side, for example, which will give you an overview.

 

    ["RunwayLife"] = 
    {
        [1] = 
        {
            ["baseObject"] = 
            {
                ["id_"] = 5000002,
            },
            ["life"] = 3600,
            ["life0"] = 3600,
            ["name"] = "Banak",
            ["pointVec3"] = 
            {
                ["x"] = 233623.484375,
                ["y"] = 5.2753481864929,
                ["z"] = 88526.1171875,
            },
        },
        [2] = 
        {
            ["baseObject"] = 
            {
                ["id_"] = 5000004,
            },
            ["life"] = 3600,
            ["life0"] = 3600,
            ["name"] = "Rovaniemi",
            ["pointVec3"] = 
            {
                ["x"] = -151314.21875,
                ["y"] = 186.5428314209,
                ["z"] = 152281.609375,
            },
        },
        [3] = 
        {
            ["baseObject"] = 
            {
                ["id_"] = 5000006,
            },
            ["life"] = 3600,
            ["life0"] = 3600,
            ["name"] = "Kemi Tornio",

 

[tn_prvteye]

Ok, then I probably won't add all the heliports if it's not needed.  Thanks for the info!  Is there an easy way to get the coordinates (the x,y,z) other than just looking at the map?

Edited November 4 by tn_prvteye

[GPatricks]

New to DCE Campaigns, downloaded and installed Afgan Bear Trap MiG-15. I believe all went (sort of) well as it shows up under DCE Campaigns in game, but shows as "Inactive" and there is no mission or briefing available (mission created by running FirstMission.bat does not show up)? Doublechecked paths under Path.bat, all seems good. Did I miss something?

 

Here is the screen I get.. so close. 

 

 

Edited November 5 by GPatricks

[PB0_CEF]

Well, this campaign is quite old and I’m not sure it’s author is still working on it

[GPatricks]

11 hours ago, PB0_CEF said:

Well, this campaign is quite old and I’m not sure it’s author is still working on it

Likely not, thought it may be something obvious to those using DCE. Sad there are not more F-86 Sabre\MiG-15 bis campaigns available but since there is no Korea map for the Korean War planes guess its inevitable..

Edited November 7 by GPatricks

[Aspiteri9]

Hi all.  

I can get MBots NG campaigns working.  But not this older one "FA-18C Battle group delta." It appears in DCS.  But the mission just keeps repeating.

I hit START CAMPAIGN in DCE manager and keep getting this error on black screen.

There is also no option to alter the config file.  

ALSO, if i try to clone and hit "+", I get the DCE_Manager error also attached.

Anyone know the fixes?

Edited yesterday at 02:40 AM by Aspiteri9

[GPatricks]

7 hours ago, Aspiteri9 said:

Hi all.  

I can get MBots NG campaigns working.  But not this older one "FA-18C Battle group delta." It appears in DCS.  But the mission just keeps repeating.

I hit START CAMPAIGN in DCE manager and keep getting this error on black screen.

There is also no option to alter the config file.  

ALSO, if i try to clone and hit "+", I get the DCE_Manager error also attached.

Anyone know the fixes?

 

 

My advice is to forget about DCE as it apparently is no longer supported and move to the DCS Retribution Campaign generator. I'm having a great time with it, as close to a Dynamic Campaign as you will see in DCS... 

[Miguel21]

3 hours ago, GPatricks said:

My advice is to forget about DCE as it apparently is no longer supported and move to the DCS Retribution Campaign generator. I'm having a great time with it, as close to a Dynamic Campaign as you will see in DCS... 

Haha ^^
No, DCE isn't dead yet ^^
It's just that the old (very old) campaigns can no longer be supported because their owners have left the ship.

The list of supported campaigns should be updated by Cef.

For now, we're working on releasing a campaign on the theme of Vietnam, but based on the Kola map.

[Miguel21]

11 hours ago, Aspiteri9 said:

Hi all.  

I can get MBots NG campaigns working.  But not this older one "FA-18C Battle group delta." It appears in DCS.  But the mission just keeps repeating.

I hit START CAMPAIGN in DCE manager and keep getting this error on black screen.

There is also no option to alter the config file.  

ALSO, if i try to clone and hit "+", I get the DCE_Manager error also attached.

Anyone know the fixes?

As I wrote above, Cef should clean up its list of campaigns supported by the current DCE_Manager, as well as by the current DCS.

Mbot's original campaigns will no longer be supported here,

such as

Delta Group

EastMed Fleet Defence

Screaming Eagle

Desert 76

F-5E Dynamic Campaign: Wild Weasel:

 

as well as all campaigns by

Eagle01

 

The campaigns currently supported are:

Those by Cef (of course)

Those by Roll

Those by Polia (to be confirmed ^^)

 

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[Miguel21]

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[PB0_CEF]

Indeed, DCE isn't dead!

We've neglected updates a bit because, while working on a rather ambitious new campaign, I've been asking Miguel a lot to code new things.

I think we need to be clearer in the first post to properly differentiate between older campaigns that are no longer being maintained by their creators and that didn't use DCE_Manager from the start.

I'm actually planning to start a new thread dedicated to DCE_Manager to be clearer. EDIT : Change the first Post only

After the release of NAM, I'm going to try to update all our campaigns to take full advantage of the new features introduced in the latest campaigns or DCS updates.

Edited 17 hours ago by PB0_CEF

[PB0_CEF]

I would also like to update and clarify the help documentation while allowing users to better utilize the capabilities of DCE_Manager. One or more videos would be a plus, but that's an area I'm not at all familiar with...

 

[GPatricks]

19 hours ago, PB0_CEF said:

Indeed, DCE isn't dead!

We've neglected updates a bit because, while working on a rather ambitious new campaign, I've been asking Miguel a lot to code new things.

I think we need to be clearer in the first post to properly differentiate between older campaigns that are no longer being maintained by their creators and that didn't use DCE_Manager from the start.

I'm actually planning to start a new thread dedicated to DCE_Manager to be clearer. EDIT : Change the first Post only

After the release of NAM, I'm going to try to update all our campaigns to take full advantage of the new features introduced in the latest campaigns or DCS updates.

Sorry for implying it was, I assumed as the Korea campaign I was trying to run was abandoined that DCE was no longer being supported, my bad.  I do seem to have lit a smoldering fire, so that's good! 

Edited 2 hours ago by GPatricks

[PB0_CEF]

1 hour ago, GPatricks said:

Sorry for implying it was, I assumed as the Korea campaign I was trying to run was abandoined that DCE was no longer being supported, my bad.  I do seem to have lit a smoldering fire, so that's good! 

No problem  
We had to be be clear with the fact that some really old campaigns are not playable anymore because of the huge updates me makes to DCE. We are not able to work on those campaigns because it's not ours. 

After NAM release we will work on all our campaigns to update them massively I hope