New Steel Fury Mission

[Rends]

Hi guys here is my first mission.
It´s not an uber mission but my first map/mission for SF.
It comes with everything a stock mission has. History text, maps, image, briefing ingame text messages, random functions so it won´t be the same everytime you play it.


Get it here


Once downloaded the best way to extract the zip file is rightclick and choose from the context menu extract to "Rends Steel Fury Missions".
Next follow the Readme:

Rends first test mission V.0.1


Installation instructions.

First make sure that you have the JSGME mod enabler installed and that the Steel Panzer mod 1.4 (or higher) is enabled.
Next copy the "Rends Steel fury missions" folder into the "MODS" folder you find under
c:/program files/Lighthouse Interactive/Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942
Run the JSGME mod enabler and activate "Rends Steel fury missions"
Nothing will be overwritten!
There is only one line that needs to be added to a file so the game engine knows about the new mission.



Open the user_camp.ENGCFG with notepad. You find the file under

c:/program files/Lighthouse Interactive/Steel Fury - Kharkov 1942/data/k42/loc_rus/levels/LEVELS/camp/

2. Now add following line between { }


Rds1, txt_mc_Rds1, 1, 0, rds1back.tga, txt_cit_01, 30, txt_histrends_intro, rds1karte, levels\levels\cm_users\Rds1.level;


If you havn´t made or installed any user missions it should look like this after adding the line:


//Graviteam mission create system ver. 0.1

user1()
{

Rds1, txt_mc_Rds1, 1, 0, rds1back.tga, txt_cit_01, 30, txt_histrends_intro, rds1karte, levels\levels\cm_users\Rds1.level;
} //end of user1

Close notepad and you will be asked to save the file. Click on the yes button.

That´s all!


What i need to know is:

I hope that i havn´t forget any file. Please report if it doesn´t work for you.
Well i could need a spell checker. English isn´t my native language and there might be some errors in the mission description.
How is the balance? I testet it with AI only and the germans lost everytime if i don´t command a PzIII.
So it´s up to you to win the mission.
How is framerate?
Any suggestions or ideas?

Rends

[frinik]

Thanks for the new mission Rends.Looking forward to playing it.I read your post on the Sim HQ forum. However one question comes to mind;since you created it using the Mission Editor why didn´t you make it available as a datapack file that we can unpack using the ME?It seems much simpler than using the JSGME(which I only use to enable mods).That´s what I do with the user-made missions that I make and those of others that I download?

[Rends]

Hi Frinik,
the only reason i didn´t pack it as datapack is that i don´t know what files will be packed and what files will be leaved out (text message file, map or background images?). I havn´t found any information about the pack feature and just wanted to make sure that all files are in my zip file. Would be cool if you can sheet some lights about the datapack feature.

[Rends]

The all who already downloaded the file please read this.
Well there wasn´t many but anyways.
There is one file in the zip that shouldn´t be in.
If you never made own missions before or installed other usermade missions there won´t be a problem but otherwise it can cause trouble and your own missions won´t show up anymore.
This affect only missions you find under usermade missions. There is no problem with singleplayer or campaign mission from the stock game or Steel Panzer mod for example.

Please delete following file "user_camp.ENGCFG"

you find under "data/k42/loc_rus/levels/LEVELS/camp/" in the extracted zip file folder.

Don´t delete the one in your Steel Fury game folder!

Or trash the zip and download the mission again. I´m just uploading it without the user_camp.ENGCFG file.

Sorry for the mess,
Rends

EDIT: New version without the file is available now under the same download link you find above

[frinik]

Hi Rends,

I undertsand your predicament.My own user-made misisons don´t have text so that issue never came up-I´ll pòst on the Graviteam forum asking that question and check some of the threads to see if one deals with this.

Looking forward to trying your misisons.It will have to wait my retunr home because on holidays I don´t bring my games to devote all my time to my family.

Keep making them this is very good news.And don´t be afraid to post it on the tanksim.org.ru for our Russian friends to try.

Cheers

[Rends]

Nice that you want to try it out.
Still waiting for some feedback.

Rends