request for help

peabody · 03-04-09, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starforce2

I have absolutly no idea how to make missions/warpatrols, so I have a request. If anyone is familiar with one called "Mackerel's Mission", a war patrol, it seems to have a crash in it when used with FOTRS. Now, it was probably intended for 1.4 or 1.5 stock, but just before it crashed there was an epic horizon spanning fleet of destroyers (and possibly other warships) on the order of the actual size of the jap fleet of either the solomans battle or midway (I forget which one they had 6 carriers, 42 destroyers..ect) anyways the idea of this mission is to take out a yamato class "Kurita". Given the massive nature of the fleets it'd be worth fixing for FOTRS but I don't know how to do it. I'd like to take another look at that nice fleet. Also the objectives are broke (you must hit return to game immediately after starting)

Will it even open in mission editor? If you write a mission with modded ships in it, those mods must be enabled before you can even get it into the mission editor to fix it. You could fix some stuff manually with a text editor but your first line sort of rules that out.
And if it will load into the mission editor, then it is probably only written with stock ships.
Will it run without FOTRS?

Peabody

tater · 03-04-09, 09:36 PM

If any of the stock ships in FOTRS have their unit type changed this will happen. The editor will crash as well. It might warn you that it cannot find a given ship (or ships) first.

The simple fix would be to figure out what units changed. My guess might be the Minesweeper to type=1 as a starting point.

Starforce2 · 03-08-09, 02:12 AM

I don't know. it's either a stock 1.4 or 1.5 mission. I'll look to see if I have the original DL, however most don't include readme's in their zips with their usernames contacnt info or exacly what version they used. I am going through some of these missions and war patrols using the FOTRS mod to see what happens. Those that work and those that crash will be reported for the entertainment of others. Since I don't yet know how to make them, perhaps I can atleast do people a favor and tell them which ones function. So far a couple have, and this one crashed. I've not had time to try more recently. Going to try a bunch of tambors 1.4's in it too.

tater · 03-09-09, 03:12 PM

I've never seen that mission, I checked my install. The mission looks to be part of a mod perhaps.

Starforce2 · 03-11-09, 05:18 AM

nah it was individually released. I'll repost it's files..I don't remember the ori dl either.

cdrsubron7 · 03-11-09, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tater

I've never seen that mission, I checked my install. The mission looks to be part of a mod perhaps.

The original mission was done by William Shultz. You can find a link for d/l here.

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03-04-09, 09:36 PM	#2
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	If any of the stock ships in FOTRS have their unit type changed this will happen. The editor will crash as well. It might warn you that it cannot find a given ship (or ships) first. The simple fix would be to figure out what units changed. My guess might be the Minesweeper to type=1 as a starting point.

03-08-09, 02:12 AM	#3
Starforce2 Planesman Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: minnesota Posts: 189 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	I don't know. it's either a stock 1.4 or 1.5 mission. I'll look to see if I have the original DL, however most don't include readme's in their zips with their usernames contacnt info or exacly what version they used. I am going through some of these missions and war patrols using the FOTRS mod to see what happens. Those that work and those that crash will be reported for the entertainment of others. Since I don't yet know how to make them, perhaps I can atleast do people a favor and tell them which ones function. So far a couple have, and this one crashed. I've not had time to try more recently. Going to try a bunch of tambors 1.4's in it too.

03-09-09, 03:12 PM	#4
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	I've never seen that mission, I checked my install. The mission looks to be part of a mod perhaps.

03-11-09, 05:18 AM	#5
Starforce2 Planesman Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: minnesota Posts: 189 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	nah it was individually released. I'll repost it's files..I don't remember the ori dl either.