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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
I was ttrying to add it to an existing file, was thinking could add it to the coastal battery file. Okay, so if I made a new file for example "Japanesefactories" say, could make one the factory and oil tanks in various locales at different point.I would...create and place them via the ME, name the layer, save it.Then put it into the campaign.cfg and they should show up?
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You can do it either way, add to the coastal battery file or make a new one. If you add to an existing it should already be in the campaign.cfg, if you make a new one you need to add it.
Just make sure the dates are right in the ME and in the campaign.cfg so that it will be there for the entire war.
I don't know how much you have worked with the ME, so I want to point out one thing. If you save it as a 'normal' mission you need to go to the menu 'Mission/Parameters" and at the bottom put a check in "Ignore Player Submarine" or it will not allow you to save it.
Or you could save it as a scripted layer, just make sure you do not have any Random groups, they will not save.
For your info and maybe anyone else that does not know.
1. Saving as a normal mission is the only one that does a validation. Since your mission will not have any player sub you need to check the box. It will also check any triggers, events, objectives etc.
2. Random layer only saves random groups, anything else is not saved.
3. Scripted layer does not save random groups, it does save everything else.
4. Land Unit Layer only saves only land units. As you mentioned, these are NOT land units.
That is why I use 'Normal mission' to save most of my stuff. It saves everything. For example let's say you did use the existing 'Jap_CoastalBattery.mis" and put your Oil Tanks in and then decide you want to have a "Random" destroyer patrolling the coast in the area making it more difficult to attack. If you save as "Land Unit", the Oil Tanks won't save, if you save as a 'Scripted Layer" the Destroyer won't save.
So it's just easier to save as a 'normal' mission and then delete the .tsr file if you don't need it.
Hope that helps.
Peabody