SHIII/SH4 mission editor

[Leandros]

Hi, Leander, I am not trying to install files from SHIII ME. I am only using the SH4 ME. I have installed the game in the "Programs 86" folder, it also accepted the 1.4.0 update.

What intrigues me is that the folders/files I have created, when I try to open them from the ME, they are there - as are all the rest! But when I look for them from the Windows (C drive) folder side those I have created are not. I run it as administrator.

Folders/files are correctly configured.

Fred

[CapnScurvy]

This is getting back to the question about Windows 8.1....what's it doing to folder's/files that try to change/add things in the "Programs (x86)" folder? I still think you need to have the game installed in something other than the Programs (x86) folder. It would seem even running as the "Administrator" the OS isn't adding the Saved .mis files correctly.

You could try one other thing.

Right click on your desktop. I'm guessing Win 8.1 still allows you to create a "New Folder" on your desktop. Create the folder naming it "Game Missions". Open your ME, then open the "Normal" mission you've already created. Save this mission (as I've stated earlier, use the Save (normal mission) as.... heading) into the "Game Missions" folder on your desktop. Close out the ME. You should see two files in the desktop "Game Missions" folder.....one xxx.mis file, one xxx.tsr file. Now, open the Silent Hunter Wolves of the Pacific/Data/SingleMissions folder, and create a new folder within it, using the same name as the .mis file you just saved. Copy/paste the two files from the desktop "Game Missions" folder into the newly created folder in the games SingleMissions folder.

Are they there? Or, did the OS refuse to allow the copy/paste?

If your game's SingleMissions folder list's your mission as expected, start the game to see if it shows in the list of "Quick Missions" found on the main game's menu page. If so, start the mission to see if that's what you made?

If not......remove the game from the Programs (x86) folder. Open the Registry and remove any remnants as described HERE, and do a complete re install. Directing the path of installation to a new folder like C:/My Games. Before starting your newly installed game, add the 1.4 patch to your game. Delete any old shortcut's you may have on your desktop (the .exe/app shortcut to start the game; the shortcut you may have made to open the Mission Editor)....make new ones from the new main game folder.

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A Google search can help explain WHY you should not put games into the Programs or Programs (x86) folders. Here's one of the search results:

[Leandros]

Leander, you did it again! That is, I followed your advise to shuttle it through a folder on the desktop. The reason I obviously did not get them through directly was that when I transferred from the desktop folder to the SH4 folder the machine asked for andministrator's approval on both files. It never did that when I tried to save them directly from the ME.

Below is a picture of my quite modest test scenario - a Sargo waiting for a Japanese destroyer North of Lingayen Bay.

Again, a thousand thanks to you! You are truly a half-god!

I shall PM you.

Fred

[CapnScurvy]

That's great!!

No half-god here (although it's nice of you to say so....I'll run it past my wife tonite). Just a guy with a little bit of computer knowledge, sometimes just enough to get into trouble!

Your finished book "River Wide, Ocean Deep" looks very intriguing! I had no idea that Germany had such wide ambitions as to include the possible early invasion of England. It goes to show what little I know, I had not heard of the "Operation Sea Lion" before. Interesting to say the least!

Take care my friend.

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by CapnScurvy

That's great!!

No half-god here (although it's nice of you to say so....I'll run it past my wife tonite). Just a guy with a little bit of computer knowledge, sometimes just enough to get into trouble!.

Well, Leander was a Greek mythology semi-god........

Originally Posted by CapnScurv2276454

Your finished book "River Wide, Ocean Deep" looks very intriguing! I had no idea that Germany had such wide ambitions as to include the possible early invasion of England. It goes to show what little I know, I had not heard of the "Operation Sea Lion" before. Interesting to say the least!

Take care my friend.

You'll get the chance to know more about it now...

I have been trying out the editor a little. It works fine now - with some adaptations.....still lacking a few functions I have in the GWX SHIII. I miss the possibility to jump to the planes with the camera, too.

I have posted a couple of pictures just to give you an idea on how I intend to make some use of it - pictures for my next book project - "Saving MacArthur".

Fred

USS Enterprise leaving Pearl Harbor for The Philippines on Dec. 18th. 1941



IJN Kongo battling on after three torpedo hits by USS Swordfish.




USS Gridley receives a direct hit from the main battery of IJN Kongo.

[Leandros]

Hi, everybody - is there a way to add more US airplane types into SH4? I have the 1.4.0 version.

My version has only the Buffalo as fighter, the Vindicator as light bomber and a Lancaster (iii) as Heavy bomber.

Fred

[Leandros]

I found a rudimentary way to transfer airplane types from SHIII to SH4. So, the "Pacific" Lancaster is out and the PBY is in. Next in is the Liberator. Unfortunately I only have the basic SHIII on my new computer so the selection is somewhat sparse.

Below - change of guards:







And the Liberator:



Fred

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by CapnScurvy

That's great!!

Your finished book "River Wide, Ocean Deep" looks very intriguing! I had no idea that Germany had such wide ambitions as to include the possible early invasion of England. It goes to show what little I know, I had not heard of the "Operation Sea Lion" before. Interesting to say the least!

Take care my friend.

Hi, there - long time. I'm well into my "Saving MacArthur" project now and I have used some SH4 pictures as illustrations. Not as much as I'd liked, though. First five books posted at Kindle with the 6th well under way. I've been using the WitP game as a sort of filing cabinet to keep track of men and materiel. Quite intricate, actually. First one here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...=1&*entries*=0

Any developments on your side?

Fred