PatrickAWlson Posted September 14, 2017 Posted September 14, 2017 (edited) Download PWCG here Installation It's a Java program so you have to have Java installed - latest version always works. The download is a zip file. Download into your BoX install directory. Unzip the file into your BoX install directory. PWCG will install into a folder called PWCGBoS for Great Battles and PWCGFC for Flying Circus.- Enter the PWCG install folder and run PWCG.exe First Run - Creating Your First Campaign After the program starts for the first time everything is disabled except Planes Owned - press Planes Owned and tell PWCG which planes you own. Once you do this the other buttons are enabled. Create a campaign (New Campaign). First select the service that you will fly for. After that there is a step by step work flow ... do each step and then press the Create Campaign button Configure BoX for PWCG Ensure that mission logs are enabled - BoX/Data/startup.cfg - mission_text_log = 1 Playing the Campaign Press mission to create a mission. Follow the flow through accept mission. Fly the mission - it will be under the BoX Missions section - NOT CAMPAIGN (BoX has no idea that a PWCG mission is part of a campaign) Return to PWCG Press Combat Report Claim your air to air victories - You will not be credited with victories you do not claim - Unless you really want to, do not over claim Proceed through the debrief. Repeat until the war is over Edited January 9, 2023 by PatrickAWlson 14 13 8
blitze Posted September 18, 2017 Posted September 18, 2017 Hi Pat, wished I'd seen this earlier. Once I found right link got things running in my steam version of BoS. Only a couple missions in so far early Moscow in an Il2, ground set high and air medium. Nice. It is nice to be rookie in a flight group. Flight seemed to engage ground target so ai working ok. We were intercepted by 109E7 's. Fun and aa that unlike online mp settings isn't a dozen 38mm all with guided targeting. Thanks, can't wait to fly some more missions. GUI is a bit wierd to navigate but cn be learned. 1
snoopy-joe Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Great work Pat As an SP player only I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into this Really looking forward to 3.0 (Spitfires in the Kuban ) Keep up thje fantastic work 1 1
dburne Posted September 28, 2017 Posted September 28, 2017 Agreed it is a great program, I am 49 missions into my first BoS Campaign with it and loving it.
Wolfram-Harms Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) Knowing your great contributions to RISE OF FLIGHT, I will check this out. Thank you for making it, Patrick! Sent the 5 Dollars - it's a bargain! Can anyone tell me, if it is possible - like it was in RoF for me - to be an online host for three friends, without making it a public server for eveyone to enter? Edited February 7, 2018 by Wolfram-Harms
SCG_Space_Ghost Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Knowing your great contributions to RISE OF FLIGHT, I will check this out. Thank you for making it, Patrick! Sent the 5 Dollars - it's a bargain! Can anyone tell me, if it is possible - like it was in RoF for me - to be an online host for three friends, without making it a public server for eveyone to enter? Co-op mode is coming.
Lusekofte Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 New PC incoming in a couple of days, I will DL this as one of my first. Thank you for your effort.
dburne Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 New PC incoming in a couple of days, I will DL this as one of my first. Thank you for your effort. Congrats! PWCG is an absolute blast! 1
No74_Cheese Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Hi Guys Can someone please tell me where the read me is to where I have to put it: Thanks in advance and sorry if its a stupid blindingly obvious answer Cheese
PatrickAWlson Posted February 7, 2018 Author Posted February 7, 2018 Hi Guys Can someone please tell me where the read me is to where I have to put it: Thanks in advance and sorry if its a stupid blindingly obvious answer Cheese Unzip the download into your root BoX install older. It will install into a directory called PWCGCampaign
Lusekofte Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 (edited) Congrats! PWCG is an absolute blast! Singel player is hellish on my 10 year old PC , Now I bought one that should last as long as my old . But it always when it is new they are best. I probably buy the new HTC Vive Pro when it arrives too, they say it got much improved resolution Edited February 7, 2018 by 216th_LuseKofte
Yogiflight Posted July 27, 2018 Posted July 27, 2018 8 hours ago, 71st_AH_Mastiff said: 4.1.1 Never before someone posted his opinion that clear. Mastiff you clearly are a master of written word (or numbers in that case).
71st_AH_Mastiff Posted July 27, 2018 Posted July 27, 2018 (edited) 51 minutes ago, Yogiflight said: Never before someone posted his opinion that clear. Mastiff you clearly are a master of written word (or numbers in that case). lol. just saying its updated. (Someone had to do it) I'm like, isn't what this sticky thread should be about, the version numbers updated? Edited July 27, 2018 by 71st_AH_Mastiff
dburne Posted July 27, 2018 Posted July 27, 2018 Actually this is Pat's "official" thread for PWCG 4. Perhaps they should make it a sticky... 1
pjmack11377 Posted December 20, 2018 Posted December 20, 2018 Pat, Will this allow the Spit ixe to be flown? Thanks for all your work on this. Excellent
DOGIRO Posted February 7, 2019 Posted February 7, 2019 Hi Pat on version 5.0.5 the load ( bomb,gun ect..) of the p-40 is the one of the p-47 ?? and when you get the p-47 the pwcg said no load for p-47 thank
PatrickAWlson Posted February 7, 2019 Author Posted February 7, 2019 2 hours ago, DoGiro said: Hi Pat on version 5.0.5 the load ( bomb,gun ect..) of the p-40 is the one of the p-47 ?? and when you get the p-47 the pwcg said no load for p-47 thank Fixed on my machine and will be available in the next update. 1
71st_AH_Mastiff Posted April 17, 2019 Posted April 17, 2019 Hi, Pat fixed mine too had a PSU failure and the new one they sent was DOA. had to wait another week. testing out v513.
jollyjack Posted August 24, 2019 Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) Hi Pat, thanks for all the work, just downloaded it .... still had no time to work with it, but if useful for me i'll donate. But i am already stuck, version 6.1.3, i think when i tried 6.1.2 a while ago it was OK, not sure though. PLS see log, Cheers, J PWCGErrorLog.txt Edited August 24, 2019 by jollyjack error log added
PatrickAWlson Posted August 24, 2019 Author Posted August 24, 2019 (edited) "pwcg.core.exception.PWCGException: Name must be English characters" The game will blow up if you don't use English characters in an eng file. Did you not get a popup stating this was the issue? If not I'll work on exposing this error as soon as you are entering data. Edited August 24, 2019 by PatrickAWlson
Blitzen Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 Does it matter that this l "setup.cfg is not showing up in "Data?": BoS/Data/ setup.cfg - mission_text_log = 1
PatrickAWlson Posted December 12, 2019 Author Posted December 12, 2019 57 minutes ago, Blitzen said: Does it matter that this l "setup.cfg is not showing up in "Data?": BoS/Data/ setup.cfg - mission_text_log = 1 I'm going to try to answer the question without really understanding it as written In the Great Battles data directory is a text setup file that allows the player to set game configurations. One configuration is mission_text_log which will cause the game to emit text log files of mission events. These log files are critical to PWCG to perform the combat report. So yes, mission_text_log = 1 must be set properly in the Great Battles setup file. If it is not set then text log files will not be created and PWCG will not be able to do a combat report.
Yogiflight Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Blitzen said: Does it matter that this l "setup.cfg is not showing up in "Data?": BoS/Data/ setup.cfg - mission_text_log = 1 Mission_text_log = 1 should be in the startup.cfg which is located down in the data folder.
Blitzen Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) sorry for my lack of clarity...but this is what I have in Data. No setupcfg.: ( In the meantime I'll run "Verify steam Files" in Steam utility & see if it turns up..) Edited December 12, 2019 by Blitzen added info
PatrickAWlson Posted December 12, 2019 Author Posted December 12, 2019 @Blitzen Try startup.cfg. If that's it then apologies for the error.
Blitzen Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) Yes there it is Mission_text_log =1...so its just in another spot...? Edited December 12, 2019 by Blitzen
Miris Posted January 21, 2020 Posted January 21, 2020 I'm sorry about my question but I'm new in use PWCG.. When update 4.004 came out today will it be possible to use PCWG or have to wait for the update? Thank you for answer
PatrickAWlson Posted January 21, 2020 Author Posted January 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Miras said: I'm sorry about my question but I'm new in use PWCG.. When update 4.004 came out today will it be possible to use PCWG or have to wait for the update? Thank you for answer Should be fine. New versions of Great Battles rarely break PWCG ... like almost never. 1
Zeev Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) Hi, I am getting message "Pilot does not have his assigned plane. Mission will not be written. Edited January 29, 2020 by Zeev
Varibraun Posted May 4, 2020 Posted May 4, 2020 @tuck4412 Pat may be updating the download PWCG version, he has been working hard on some fixes over the past few days. I would just try back a little later. 1
mrBruce2 Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 I downloaded pwcg for BoX and installed correctly but it keeps saying I need java to use it. I have Java. I use pwcg for rise of flight all the time and have used PWCG for BoX in the past no problem? What gives? Is the lastest version on the site broken?
PatrickAWlson Posted May 8, 2020 Author Posted May 8, 2020 14 minutes ago, mrBruce2 said: I downloaded pwcg for BoX and installed correctly but it keeps saying I need java to use it. I have Java. I use pwcg for rise of flight all the time and have used PWCG for BoX in the past no problem? What gives? Is the lastest version on the site broken?
mrBruce2 Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 Just now, PatrickAWlson said: I have 64 bit java. I used PWCG for BoX like 4 months ago no problem and I use It for RoF nearly daily, thanks for the suggestion though
Nadelbaum Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) Been using latest version 8.7.3 for several days, if not a week already, there's no problem if you have 64-bit version of Java installed. What is the error you get? Edited May 8, 2020 by Nadelbaum Typos...
mrBruce2 Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Nadelbaum said: Been using latest version 8.7.3 for several days, if not a week already, there's no problem if you have 64-bit version of Java installed. What is the error you get? Got it resolved, I kept getting the error "Something something java 64 bit" Even though I have had it. What I ended up doing was installing an older version of Java and did a new install of PWCG. For some reason PWCG wasn't recognizing the version I had (even though it worked with RoF). But now I get half way through a mission and my game freezes and crashes with an error box that I cant click out of, no matter how many times I hit okay or X it keeps popping back up and im forced to shut off my computer ?? Only mods I have on are the colored tracer and cloud mods, so I don't know whats up now. I just wanna do ground attack in a p47 dammit Edit: Well I got pissed off and threw my computer away, after installing Il2 and PWCG on this one everything works fine now. Thanks guys Edited May 8, 2020 by mrBruce2 solved the issue at hand
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