PWCG 8.0.0 Beta 3 Available for Test

[TheSNAFU]

3 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Thank you - and I have to point out Murleen's contributions, especially cold start and the fix for skin assignments.  

 

Yes indeed, my bad.

 

Murleen's work has added much to the PWCG experience. Thank you Murleen!  

[HerrBree]

2 hours ago, TheSNAFU said:

no abnormal behavior noted on the ground

After dozens and dozens of ground attack missions I can say I am having the complete opposite experience. What exactly happens on the ground when you play?

 

Edit: Never mind I think I realized you were talking about taxiing and such.

Edited February 28, 2020 by HerrBree

[dburne]

1 hour ago, TheSNAFU said:

 

Yes indeed, my bad.

 

Murleen's work has added much to the PWCG experience. Thank you Murleen!  

 

 

Absolutely! I definitely love the Cold Start option and I am sure it was a ton of work for him to get all the mapping in.

Very much appreciated Murleen!!

[Varibraun]

This bug has not repeated for me.

 

Beta Bug Report - Imported 7.4 SP VVS campaign. 

 

Encountered the following error when trying to add/create a new pilot following the death of player pilot:

 

PWCG Error
Fri Feb 28 17:14:42 EST 2020
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setSelectedIndex: 0 out of bounds
    at javax.swing.JComboBox.setSelectedIndex(Unknown Source)
    at pwcg.gui.maingui.campaigngenerate.NewPilotDataEntryGUI.makeCoopUserChoices(NewPilotDataEntryGUI.java:626)
    at pwcg.gui.maingui.campaigngenerate.NewPilotDataEntryGUI.createCoopUserSelectWidget(NewPilotDataEntryGUI.java:242)
    at pwcg.gui.maingui.campaigngenerate.NewPilotDataEntryGUI.makePanels(NewPilotDataEntryGUI.java:125)
    at pwcg.gui.maingui.campaigngenerate.NewPilotGeneratorUI.changeService(NewPilotGeneratorUI.java:181)
    at pwcg.gui.maingui.campaigngenerate.CampaignGeneratorChooseServiceGUI.actionPerformed(CampaignGeneratorChooseServiceGUI.java:126)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.JToggleButton$ToggleButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Edited March 1, 2020 by Varibraun

[Yogiflight]

In this mission on the Kuban map there were no buildings on the airfield Krasnoarmeyskaya and the town itself.Jagd Kampagne 1942-06-02.zip

The names of pilots, who get transferred to my squadron are missing in the notification.

I noticed, you added the beacon antenna again, thanks for that.

If you now add, that destroyed ground targets are named in the AAR and not just called 'vehicle', I can move my 110 out of the hangar.

Thanks for your continuous work on this great program.

[Columbar]

P47 48FG Bierset, 6/9/1944 campaign.

I have little problems with ground missions. Leader starts attack probbably nearest ground target after take off long before mission objective. 

Also in ground attack mission type: destroy road traffic, there is no cars/armour/other vehicle in target area (at least I didn´t find them - and I tried hard ? ) Only flak is there. But very very inactive. It shooted back only when I attacked it.  Ground activity setup - high, air - medium.

 

To be honest: I´ve never met column of wehicles on the road in PWCG. Same for trains.

 

In fighter missions everything is normal and works well.

 

Thank you and Murleen very much for your great work ??

 

PS Here is sample mission 3 days later attached. Leader attacked with bombs AAgun near Vise railway bridge about three minuts after start and then continued in mission as planed. Again no vehicles except flak in target area. I don´t know if this is game or PWCG thing, but destroyed bridge in target area did not count.

Thunderbolt 1944-09-10.rar

Edited February 29, 2020 by Columbar

[Goffik]

On 2/28/2020 at 2:59 PM, HerrBree said:

Using air start results in you and your flight spawning at 10k alt and just turning in circles.

 

Just confirming this bug. I tried three missions and deleting the ingress waypoint, but all resulted in the AI circling the initial spawn point. Not sure if it helps, but with waypoint markers turned on, there were no yellow active waypoint markers displayed on-screen or on the map.

[Yogiflight]

I had an error log during mission creatingJagd Kampagne 1942-06-02.zip

[TheSNAFU]

Noted two issues today. Ground attack mission against a train. There were ground targets at the site but not a train. My 3 mates hit target all vehicles at the edge of a town so no issues with not attacking.  No flak at all. 
 

The other issue was on the same ground attack mission I changed my load and one mates load from rockets to 500 lbs bombs in PWCG but in game we all had rockets. 

Edited February 29, 2020 by TheSNAFU

[Varibraun]

On 2/28/2020 at 5:19 PM, Varibraun said:

Beta Bug Report - Imported 7.4 SP VVS campaign. 

 

Encountered the following error when trying to add/create a new pilot following the death of player pilot:

 

This has NOT repeated with new campaigns, and was even able to add the pilot to this same campaign after restarting 8.0 today. 

 

Many brave pilots named Tester Testingham gave their all...so it appears all is well on the "Add Pilot" front.

Edited March 1, 2020 by Varibraun

[Guims]

Tempest MK V ser 2

Grimbergen aifield

Cold start and taxi to track just fine, radio chat comfirms take off, but flight leader just stays and do not take off.

 

Sorry I'm not able to upload the mission file in 7zip format....

[Murleen]

1 hour ago, Guims said:

Tempest MK V ser 2

Grimbergen aifield

Cold start and taxi to track just fine, radio chat comfirms take off, but flight leader just stays and do not take off.

 

Sorry I'm not able to upload the mission file in 7zip format....

 

Can you use regular zip for the mission file? The game seems to have some odd behaviours with different relative locations of airfield, runway and taxi paths.

[Dutch2]

This is the first time I run PWCG for BoS, maybe already been published, sorry if so, but I have problems in reading in the rev8beta, as you can see below.

Another point why I have always click at the "Next step" icon, why not let use the return or Tab key, bit confusing now. 

 

 

edit: btw Pat, did you read this: 

 

Edited March 1, 2020 by Dutch2

[Varibraun]

8.0 Beta Potential Bug:

 

-Squadron Log - Seems to report that a pilot is transferred "out" when I believe the pilot has actually transferred "in" (based on the AAR report screen showing the transfer into the squadron).

-Name of the above pilot is missing in both the AAR and Squadron Log (as previously reported by others), this keeps me from being certain of the above report.

[Columbar]

Another strange ground traffic mission.

My wingman attacked some ground target on the road to the mission objective. In target area was only two flak guns and P51 escort felt from the sky without reason. All of them.

 

I will try P38 campaign on BP map and i will report back if there are same problems.

Thunderbolt 1944-09-14.rar

[Yogiflight]

In my actual fighter campaign in june 1942 on the Kuban map, I noticed there is an Italian fighter squadron Canary (Lumme) 22 Gruppo Caccia, based in Popovicheskaya, who are talking German instead of Italian language, as they should. But I don't know if there is an Italian language file, that could be used.

[Murleen]

The game doesn't have Italian audio files.

[Yogiflight]

1 minute ago, Murleen said:

The game doesn't have Italian audio files.

I suppose, because they would be too long

Thanks for the answer, Murleen.

[Varibraun]

On 3/1/2020 at 5:09 PM, Varibraun said:

8.0 Beta Potential Bug:

 

-Squadron Log - Seems to report that a pilot is transferred "out" when I believe the pilot has actually transferred "in" (based on the AAR report screen showing the transfer into the squadron).

-Name of the above pilot is missing in both the AAR and Squadron Log (as previously reported by others), this keeps me from being certain of the above report.

 

Can now confirm this bug - had 3 pilots transfer into the squadron (at one time) after some big loses.  The Squadron Log reported 3 as transferred "out." 

[PatrickAWlson]

4 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

In my actual fighter campaign in june 1942 on the Kuban map, I noticed there is an Italian fighter squadron Canary (Lumme) 22 Gruppo Caccia, based in Popovicheskaya, who are talking German instead of Italian language, as they should. But I don't know if there is an Italian language file, that could be used.

 

I'll rerecord the German audio file and put "o" on the end of everything (reference: Horatio Hornblower novels  )

[Yogiflight]

3 hours ago, PatrickAWlson said:

 

I'll rerecord the German audio file and put "o" on the end of everything (reference: Horatio Hornblower novels  )

If it is plural, it has to be an "i", like in Cappuccini or Espressi.

[Almenas]

Picture German 71 seems not to be german pilot.

[Yogiflight]

PWCGErrorLog (2).zip

I had an error log again

[Columbar]

Taxiing on Petit Brogel is problematic. Second aircraft start taxi to early and colide with leader. 

[Murleen]

59 minutes ago, Columbar said:

Taxiing on Petit Brogel is problematic. Second aircraft start taxi to early and colide with leader. 

 

 

This is generally an issue if the taxi path turns right from the parking area, as the leader has further to go than the others. I'll have a look, but it could take a while to solve.

[Yogiflight]

49 minutes ago, Murleen said:

 

This is generally an issue if the taxi path turns right from the parking area, as the leader has further to go than the others. I'll have a look, but it could take a while to solve.

If you can spawn the aircrafts closer to the forest behind them, it should work, as they had enough space to turn left and taxi to the first taxi waypoint.

[Columbar]

12 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

If you can spawn the aircrafts closer to the forest behind them, it should work, as they had enough space to turn left and taxi to the first taxi waypoint.

or put the first turning point between second and third airplane which will cause not so sharp turns. Or just delay taxi start of the rest aircrafts. 

Edited March 5, 2020 by Columbar

[Yogiflight]

Something I noticed in my fighter campaign 06/1942 on the Kuban map. In version 7.4.0. the only friendly flights I saw and/or heard, were bombers we were escorting and Ju 52 on their way back to a base. In 8.0.0. alpha and beta the Ju 52s are missing. I have plenty of friendly flights now, but no Ju 52s. I don't know of course if this is on purpose.

[Murleen]

7 minutes ago, Yogiflight said:

Something I noticed in my fighter campaign 06/1942 on the Kuban map. In version 7.4.0. the only friendly flights I saw and/or heard, were bombers we were escorting and Ju 52 on their way back to a base. In 8.0.0. alpha and beta the Ju 52s are missing. I have plenty of friendly flights now, but no Ju 52s. I don't know of course if this is on purpose.

 

I think this might be related to the NullPointerException issue on payloads - it could be any mission with a Ju52 flight fails to generate.

[Yogiflight]

2 minutes ago, Murleen said:

 

I think this might be related to the NullPointerException issue on payloads - it could be any mission with a Ju52 flight fails to generate.

So the error logs I posted might be because of this reason?

[Columbar]

error log from mission creation.

PWCGErrorLog.txt

[Nadelbaum]

Hi,

 

I'm stuck at Campaign creation. I did the Owned planes configuration part and next trying to Create New Campaign, which stops with error dialog after typing the campaign name. The dialog is saying: "Name must be English characters".

 

I have tried to use Campaign Name: PWCG_800b_JU52

Even "JU52" as the name gives an error. 

 

Log attached.PWCGErrorLog.txt

 

In the logs it complains about missing planes file, but the file is there. Attached as well (renamed to .txt)

 

 

PlanesOwned.txt

Edited March 6, 2020 by Havulinna

[Nadelbaum]

Okay, I got through the Campaign name issue. Apparently you really DO need to use only English characters. Would be worth emphasizing that in the dialog by saying that only A-Za-z are allowed.

 

In any case now trying to create a mission I end up with another error (attached). It complains about the payload. I assume that this is a known issue based on some reports previously, but just in case.

PWCGErrorLog.txt

[Murleen]

6 hours ago, Havulinna said:

Okay, I got through the Campaign name issue. Apparently you really DO need to use only English characters. Would be worth emphasizing that in the dialog by saying that only A-Za-z are allowed.

 

In any case now trying to create a mission I end up with another error (attached). It complains about the payload. I assume that this is a known issue based on some reports previously, but just in case.

PWCGErrorLog.txt 3.05 kB · 1 download

Yes, ju52 missions (player or ai) don't work right now.

[Varibraun]

8.0 Beta Bug Report - Transfer squadron screen does not transition to the new squadron when the "Accept" button is selected - you just stay in the Transfer screen.  If you X close PWCG from the Transfer screen and then restart, the transfer is complete and you are in the new squadron. 

[Stonehouse]

Actually I am finding that adding a new human pilot to a campaign has the same issue. Have to exit and come back in to see them in the list of a squadrons pilots

 

[Nadelbaum]

Oddly enough some JU-52 missions will be generated without the null pointer issue. 

 

In any case here's some early feedback:

 

1) Smallest amount of fuel selectable (Fuel 60%) is quite high for JU-52. Typically a mission requires something between 15-40%. Not a big deal for user's own aircraft as the fuel amount can be changed before the flight in IL-2 side, but for friendly AI planes it is not good in case they start with too much load for most of the flights…

 

2) Fellow JU-52 (AI planes) don't land at all during cargo drop missions. Maybe this is expected, but just a bit funny as you will be left behind due to landing, unloading cargo and taking-off again while the AI planes are already flying back home.

 

3) Cold start with JU-52 was a bit tough for the AI planes. They managed to barely taxi to the runway, but after 30 minutes only the flight leader could takeoff while the other AI plane just stood there for the whole mission time. Mission files zipped as attachment.

 

4) Typos in Advance Config:

  Scrample -> Scramble

  Shipppping -> Shipping

 

5) Typos in Mission creation:

  carrgo -> cargo

 

Overall I have to say that I'm very impressed by the work that you guys have done! I'm new to PWCG and I understand that it has taken several years of development, kudos!

 

KasinollanollaJUviiskaks 1941-10-04.zip

 

[PatrickAWlson]

Murleen has a fix for the Ju52.  I'm working through some improvements on the AAR.  These started as bug reports and have turned into something bigger.  Changes are significant enough that there will be a Beta 2 and not go straight to release.

[Napping-Man]

I was having issues with Cold Start on the Kuban and Moscow maps.  Both times trying a MiG-3...no one would start their engines.  The AI would turn on their lights, but then nothing.  Sorry if this has been posted before.  I can attach a mission if you'd like.

[PatrickAWlson]

Beta 2 is up

 

Murleen contributed several fixes, including a correction for the error when generating transport missions.  

Most of this dot release is around the AAR.  This started as a bug report and turned into quite a bit more. The AAR will present much more information, especially when you take a leave or time off for a transfer.  Aircraft lost are presented.  The debrief has an issue fixed where it doesn't just say "vehicle".  All events over a span of time are stored up and presented in the AAR, so you will see all of the pilots lost, planes lost, replacements,  medals, etc. that happened in the time span.  

 

What is not in Beta 2: several bugs have not yet been addressed.

1. Anti shipping missions do not have ships.

2. Scramble missions do not have opposition

3. Air start results in circling.

 

Those are next

Edited March 15, 2020 by PatrickAWlson