Mission Titles in IL2

[DennisSoren]

I have a short question regarding the Mission descriptions. When I create a mission everything is working fine, but I don´t see any mission descriptions in the game. In the video from Pat I can see that there are some texts for the missions. Even when I choose my mission file in the main game i can see only my name but no despcritions. I hope I could explain it somehow. :-) Thank you very much. Regards Dennis

[74_jim_nihilist]

You probably have a different language than english ingame.

 

I am german and start the program in german and I don't see them too because of that.

[Azdack]

Hello I had the same problem and a few days ago I made a full reinstall of BOS/BOM from my account on the site BOS/BOM not from Steam. Before the full reinstall my game was located in "Programme Files (x86)" and now the game is located by default in "Programmes". I don't know if it is the solution but since the game is located in Programmes, I have a PWCG mission description into the game and by the way the missions are much more shorter to upload...

[DennisSoren]

Vielen Dank. Das war das Problem. Ich habe es auch englisch umgestellt. Jetzt klappt alles. :-)

 

Thaynk you very much. That was the problem. I switched the language to english. It working now. :-)

[PatrickAWlson]

What do you call a guy who knows three languages?  Tri-lingual.

What do you call a guy who knows two languages?  Bi-lingual.

What do you call a guy who knows one language? American.

 

Despite a good dose of German in the mix (mom was German and I was born in Germany) I'm still pretty American. Doing all of the different language files is not going to happen.  The most daunting thing is that the game blows up based on character set.  For instance, if I use any non-English characters in the .eng file the mission load flat out fails.  I don't want to think about all of the different restrictions around Cyrillic

[Sim]

The most daunting thing is that the game blows up based on character set.  For instance, if I use any non-English characters in the .eng file the mission load flat out fails.  I don't want to think about all of the different restrictions around Cyrillic

 

Patrick, the language files (.eng, .ger etc) can contain a wide range of characters and the missions will load just fine - just make sure the first two bytes of the file are UCS2 little-endian BOM flag (0xFFFE). The problem is mostly with .Mission file - this one cannot include non-english characters (but the binary .msnbin can!). I have tested this extensively in my mission generator (il2mg).

 

By the way, you could use english text for all the other language files (e.g. just copy .eng to .ger during generation). That way even if you are in a non-English game user interface - you will have english briefing texts.

[PatrickAWlson]

Thanks for the correction SIm.  So the language files are not an issue, just the mission files.  Good to know.

 

I can do something in PWCG that allows the user to select the language files to create.  Alternative is to just create all of them as you suggest.

[74_jim_nihilist]

By the way, you could use english text for all the other language files

 

That would be perfectly fine for me. Wouldn't expect a translation anyway.