Adding scripted ships to SH4

[peabody]

Originally Posted by denny927

hi man, very good post, i create a .mis only for try something, and after create a 2 routes and add the section in the campaign.cfg(follow your rules, sections dates etc.) i discover yes it works, my ships are in approch in the right bearing, units and so on, but i have a little problem, i cant plot my course in the nav map, picking a plotter and nothing happens, no lines at all, and when click right button to confirm simply my sub stopped due to last waypoint reached....another thing is when i load a savegame my WO starts yelling all torpedos i've launched, a little freezing, but the big problemm as i said is the plotter tool.

I've tried remove the .mis made by me and all come back to normality....any clue about this?????

It's a bit hard to tell from the information given. You only say you wrote a .mis file, they are all .mis files. Shipping traffic, Patrol objectives, Land units, Single missions, all the files created are .mis files.
Also are you writing a single/quick mission (it is saved in the single mission folder, but is called quick mission in the menu) or are you writing a career/campaign mission? Or possibly a patrol objective?
Any mods?

You said you can't plot the course but it reached the last waypoint, did you create a Campaign mission and leave the players sub in it? I don't know without testing if this will cause the problem you describe but any traffic or Patrol Objectives should not have a player sub in them. It will not let you save without one, so you go to the menu under mission/parameters and remove the player sub, then check "ignore player submarines" and save.

But it is hard to tell what the problem is from the very little bit of informaion you give. Be more specific about what you did.

[denny927]

Originally Posted by peabody

It's a bit hard to tell from the information given. You only say you wrote a .mis file, they are all .mis files. Shipping traffic, Patrol objectives, Land units, Single missions, all the files created are .mis files.
Also are you writing a single/quick mission (it is saved in the single mission folder, but is called quick mission in the menu) or are you writing a career/campaign mission? Or possibly a patrol objective?
Any mods?

You said you can't plot the course but it reached the last waypoint, did you create a Campaign mission and leave the players sub in it? I don't know without testing if this will cause the problem you describe but any traffic or Patrol Objectives should not have a player sub in them. It will not let you save without one, so you go to the menu under mission/parameters and remove the player sub, then check "ignore player submarines" and save.

But it is hard to tell what the problem is from the very little bit of informaion you give. Be more specific about what you did.

oops im sorry, so, i save like a random generated group .mis, is not a single/patrol mission, but i played in the normal campaign/career mission.Mods, yes in this order:

tmo2
tmo update 2 to 2.2
rsrdc tmo v502
rsrdc v5xx patch1
stock map icons
tmo stock gramophone
bigger better protactors
living brething ocean vs3 new lighting
row torpedos texture vs2


for the last waypoint reached i mean when im in the nav map and try to plot my course, and confirm my plotted course with a right mouse button(even if my plotting tool dont work) my sub simply stopped with the classic "last waypoint reached, sir, stop" because the game dont recognize any plotted course...and yes, when creatin this mission i have checked "ignore subamarine player".

The thing is i cant plotting the course, i CAN picking a plotter tool, but i CANNOT tracking any course, is very frustrating, and when i delete my .mis in the campaign folder, all come back to normality like i said before...and starting a new campaign?maybe....i'll give a try now...

[denny927]

good news, like i said, starting a new campaign all like before....so, again, sorry...

damn, in this carreer i sunk a jap submarine...anyway, again in 1941

thanks

[denny927]

I have another question, now I want change something in rsdc, but when i change something by myself, like bearing, speed, or spawn and hours rate, all my traffic disappear, ive tryed saving like normal mission, random layer, but with no luck...why i cant modify the rsdc missions??

[peabody]

Originally Posted by denny927

I have another question, now I want change something in rsdc, but when i change something by myself, like bearing, speed, or spawn and hours rate, all my traffic disappear, ive tryed saving like normal mission, random layer, but with no luck...why i cant modify the rsdc missions??

From the Readme files in RSRD:

Special Notes/Known Problems:

(a) For those of you who enjoy “reverse engineering”, if you use the SH4MissionEditor on the “Battle” or “Task Forces” layers, under no circumstances make changes or select “ok” in the “Group Properties” window. If you do, you will cause All the tracks within the layer to longer generate correctly. The reason is that I’m making “hand” edits to these files to ensure that the tracks generate “on time”

The mission editor has some default dates and times it uses if you don't change them. If Lurker deleted this information during a "hand edit" then the mission editor will put it back in and you will save it incorrectly. If you don't know what he means by "hand edit", the missions can be edited in notepad since they are simple text files.

[denny927]

oooooh I see, so, if I want change something, I have to do from the notepad, but I believe is better dont touch anything, right?

thanks for the answer...

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by denny927

oooooh I see, so, if I want change something, I have to do from the notepad, but I believe is better dont touch anything, right?

thanks for the answer...

Just stay away from the layers mentioned, battle and TF as he has timed all the legs. Stay away from the invasion files as well. Anything else you should be OK.