New PWCG Issues Thread

[TheSNAFU]

Thanks Pat. That’s what I figured it was. 

[Seamus]

I would have to double check to confirm but I believe those stuka missions would generate to an attack altitude of 2000 meters with the default mission generator and 4000 meters if the mission was selected to dive bombing. Again this is by memory. I can check tonight to confirm.

[PatrickAWlson]

1 hour ago, Seamus said:

I would have to double check to confirm but I believe those stuka missions would generate to an attack altitude of 2000 meters with the default mission generator and 4000 meters if the mission was selected to dive bombing. Again this is by memory. I can check tonight to confirm.

 

The first is correct.  Stukas need 4K meters to dive bomb.  The AI is very persnickety about that.  The lower altitudes are for situations where a low cloud ceiling prevents dive bombing.  The Stukas will fly underneath the ceiling, whatever that may be.  In this scenario the Stukas will drop bombs like any other attack plane.

[FTC_JM_Johnnie]

Dear Patrick

First, thank you so much for your work. I wish 1c would hire you to get a more comprehensive campaign.
I've installed everything accordingly, but after the first mission the new ones don't appear in the in game folder mission on BoS. They're there in the real folder inside the mission folder but the game won't recognize them. Any ideas what's happening, I've tried reinstalling everything, checking all the options and making sure all the planes I own are selected.

Thank you, 

Best wishes.

[molodoi]

3 hours ago, Joao_de_Medeiros said:

Dear Patrick

First, thank you so much for your work. I wish 1c would hire you to get a more comprehensive campaign.
I've installed everything accordingly, but after the first mission the new ones don't appear in the in game folder mission on BoS. They're there in the real folder inside the mission folder but the game won't recognize them. Any ideas what's happening, I've tried reinstalling everything, checking all the options and making sure all the planes I own are selected.

Thank you, 

Best wishes.

I have encountered this problem last week and, for me, the reason was that some of the Fw190 in my flight were A6 that I did not own.

I only own A8 so I took care to always pilot A8 but it was not sufficient. When I restarted this campaign, I choose a period were only A8 were used in my squadron and it worked.

[PatrickAWlson]

2 hours ago, molodoi said:

I have encountered this problem last week and, for me, the reason was that some of the Fw190 in my flight were A6 that I did not own.

I only own A8 so I took care to always pilot A8 but it was not sufficient. When I restarted this campaign, I choose a period were only A8 were used in my squadron and it worked.

 

PWCG offers the ability to replace any plane in your squadron with a different plane.   

Campaign->Activity->Equipment Request

 

This way you could swap an A6 for an A5 until A8s are available.

[molodoi]

Thanks for the tip (and for the continuous work on PWCG).

[PatrickAWlson]

24 minutes ago, molodoi said:

Thanks for the tip (and for the continuous work on PWCG).

 

NP.  The equipment algorithm of PWCG does not allow me to easily ensure that there is a player flyable plane available.  The equipment request mechanism was put in place to solve the problem.  You can drop an Me109 into an FW190 unit if you want.  In reality, some German pilots actually did that.  

[FTC_JM_Johnnie]

Patrick, you think that's the case? Would that make BoS not recognize the new missions?

Thanks!

[PatrickAWlson]

2 hours ago, Joao_de_Medeiros said:

Patrick, you think that's the case? Would that make BoS not recognize the new missions?

Thanks!

 

If you don't own the plane that the player is set to fly then 1C will not show the mission in the list.  If you want to zip up the mission files (I need all of the files for the mission) you can post the zip here.  I own all of the planes.  If I can fly it then it is almost certainly the case.

 

Suggestion:

Take a 1 day leave

Make another mission, paying careful attention to the plane that you are flying.

Make sure you own that plane.  If not, change it to one that you own.

Fly the mission

 

[KodiakJac]

Hi Pat,

 

I tried to start an Airco D.H.4 campaign on June 1, 1917 with RFC 2 in PWCG tonight, but the flight is lined up to take off into a row of nearby trees.  Half my flight crashed into the trees on takeoff, and the ones that made it through only did so as they flew between the trees.  They were carrying 4 x H.E.R.L. bombs, so they were a little heavy, but I don't think they will be able to clear the trees under any circumstances.

 

So then I tried to start a D.H.4 career on June 1, 1917 in RFC 12.  No problems with trees on takeoff, but before my plane started to roll the game freezes just a few seconds into the mission.  I tried twice.  I deleted the first mission and generated a new mission, but the game froze again just a few seconds into the mission.  All my other careers in PWCG are working fine...flew a couple of other PWCG missions tonight.  But it's impossible to start a career with a D.H.4 on June 1, 1917 in PWCG right now.

 

Thanks for your help!

Edited November 20, 2021 by KodiakJac

[No105_Swoose]

7 hours ago, KodiakJac said:

 

 

So then I tried to start a D.H.4 career on June 1, 1917 in RFC 12.  No problems with trees on takeoff, but before my plane started to roll the game freezes just a few seconds into the mission.  I tried twice.  I deleted the first mission and generated a new mission, but the game froze again just a few seconds into the mission. 

I'll let @PatrickAWlson give you the definitive reply to the unfortunate problems you're experiencing.  I'll add though that, from my experience, the game freeze problem could be due to the "Object Not Found" error.  I use Mods and game freeze happens to me occasionally.  My solution is to (1) ALT + TAB, (2) Click OK on the little box with text "Object Not Found" which should allow you to go back to the game but with another, similar "Object Not Found" box on the IL-2 screen, and (3) Click OK in the "Object Not Found" on the IL-2 screen.  That should clear out whatever was causing the game to freeze.  I hope that helps.    P.S.-FWIW I'm also having problems with DH4s failing to take off from their airfields as well as problems with AI bomb loads.  I've given up on trying to start a DH4 career for the time being.

[KodiakJac]

Thanks for the info and the tips, Swoose!

 

I'll have another go at the "Object Not Found" error.

 

Cheers! 

 

P.S.  Another question...

 

I have mods enabled, but only to use custom skins.  Other than custom skins I have no mods running at all.  Is using custom skins possibly a factor?  Guess I should just test this myself, but is it necessary to have mods enabled to use custom skins?  Are custom skins even considered a mod?  Thanks!

Edited November 20, 2021 by KodiakJac

[PaulTheSalty]

22 hours ago, KodiakJac said:

I have mods enabled, but only to use custom skins.  Other than custom skins I have no mods running at all.  Is using custom skins possibly a factor?  Guess I should just test this myself, but is it necessary to have mods enabled to use custom skins?  Are custom skins even considered a mod?  Thanks!

You do not need to have mods enabled if you’re using custom skins. If you’re changing something on the aircraft model, like maybe making parts transparent to improve cockpit visibility, then that’d be mod-reliant.

 

As for your DH4 crashes on take-off, sometimes there’s issues with asset placement that can cause things like that to happen. Pat does a great job staying on top off all these things, so I’m sure he’ll address it when he’s able to.

[Azdack]

Hello everybody

Flown a few missions with no bandits into the sky...I play as single on sommer Stalingrad map with a bf 109.

Configuration settings allow to be sure to meet ennemies but I'm not sure about which setting to select.

Any advice ?

Thanks

[PatrickAWlson]

7 hours ago, Azdack said:

Hello everybody

Flown a few missions with no bandits into the sky...I play as single on sommer Stalingrad map with a bf 109.

Configuration settings allow to be sure to meet ennemies but I'm not sure about which setting to select.

Any advice ?

Thanks

 

Units are probably depleted.  

Campaign->Intelligence->Emergency Resupply

[Azdack]

Thanks Patrick. It works. Flown a low altitude mission with ennemies meeting. Do I have to activate Resupply from time to time to be sure to have bandits to fight ?

[Varibraun]

3 hours ago, Azdack said:

Do I have to activate Resupply from time to time to be sure to have bandits to fight ?

 

Hi Azdack - Check your intel screen, it will show combat ineffective (i.e. not flying) squadrons in Red.  If there are several enemy squadrons showing in red you might want to hit emergency resupply to get more action.  The squadrons will replenish pilots and aircraft over time also, so you shouldn't have to go the emergency route too often.  At least that has been my experience.

[JG1_Jaus]

Did the ability to transfer pilots disappear in PWCG-FC?    It used to be under 'Administer pilots' as I recall along with 'Retire Pilot'  but now I don't see either option.

[PatrickAWlson]

3 minutes ago, JG1_Jaus said:

Did the ability to transfer pilots disappear in PWCG-FC?    It used to be under 'Administer pilots' as I recall along with 'Retire Pilot'  but now I don't see either option.

 

Select the pilot to transfer then the "Transfer Pilot" button will appear.

[JG1_Jaus]

I did try selecting several pilots but the only visible button was 'Add pilot'.

[STG77Jeeves]

Running 13.5

 

Found some fixes with the skins/error report that might be helpful:

 

This folder is incorrect:  la5ns2
The skins in here should go to:  La5FNs2

Same here.  Move skins in this:  tempest
To this: TempestMkVs2

On this one:  `Bf109G2_9_JG52_Y10_Grislawski.dds
Remove the apostrophe from the front of the name.

 

This one:  Plane: A-20B, Skin Name: 321st Bomber Air Regiment
 is an I-16 skin

 

These don't seem to exist in the skinpacks (or at least, I can't find them!):

 

Plane: Spitfire Mk.IXe
    Skin Name:No403
   

Plane: Spitfire Mk.VB
    Skin Name:No403
  

Plane: Bf 109 F-2

    Skin Name:II_JG52
   

 

Plane: Fw 190 A-3
    Skin Name:PatrikSchorner  

 

Plane: Fw 190 A-5
    Skin Name:FW190a5_4096_stab_jg2_walter_oesau_francia1943
    Skin Name:I_JG2 

 

Plane: P-51D-15
    Skin Name:355th FS 354th FG
    Skin Name:356th FS 354th FG
 

These G6 skins are a mystery.  Some or all of them are in the correct skins folder but PWCG reports them as missing.  The names seem to match.  I'm stumped:

 

Plane: Bf 109 G-6
    Skin Name:Bf-109-G6-7-JG3-White1
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6  yellow 1   II JG52 Lipfert
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6  yellow 5  II  JG52
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6 163306 RQDR Red 3 GS
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_ Black 13 JG3
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_ Stab III JG3

    Skin Name:Bf109G6_ red 2  IV JG51 Shitomir
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_ white 3  I JG3
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_10_JG11_Rudschinat
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_2JG52_Trenkel_4k_V002
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_4_JG52_W03
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_4_JG52_W10
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_4k_7JG300_3BLACK
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_5.JG52_B15_Quex_4K
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_5_JG2_12black
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_6.JG52_Y11_Heinz_Ewald
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_A.Grislawski
  
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_Black 1 III JG52
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_Black 4 III JG52
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_JG27_Franz_Stigler_4k
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_JG300_12Y_4k-V003a-UL
 
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_SLOVAKIA_7W_4k-V003a-UL
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_stabII.JG52_Heinz_Ewald_4K
   
    Skin Name:Bf109G6_white 6 IV JG3
   
    Skin Name:Bf109_G6_Factory_Gray
   
    Skin Name:Bf109_G6_Factory_Green
 

 

Hope this info is helpful!

[=NOSIG=Ask]

Hey,

I logged in to my PWCG server from my regular machine with 150% scale. PWCG got big. I've set it back to 100% on my machine but PWCG is still huge.

 

Is there a solution for this?

[=NOSIG=Ask]

And as far as I can see it's only a problem when running 1600x1200. Instead of getting smaller for a lesser resolution it gets bigger and we can't see the skins in the second column 

 

0 resolution.

[Vishnu]

Error report after mission with Mustang, 3 kills.

 

 

PWCGErrorLog.txt

[PatrickAWlson]

15 hours ago, Vishnu said:

Error report after mission with Mustang, 3 kills.

 

 

PWCGErrorLog.txt 33.74 kB · 2 downloads

 

Can you press "report error" and post the zip?  The error log says there is a plane in the mission that is not available in the inventory.

[FTC_Zero]

Started new career with halberstadts ai has difficulties to take off they crash, while others circles in endless loops until they crash. Same for landings, ai just cant handle it. While landing is not an issue because you can land yourself first and avoid that, taking off issue is quite a bummer. I assume that is out of your hand..

[Ace_Pilto]

Historical Ace transfers are infinitely looping. Lothar von Richthofen has been trying to transfer in for a week now, someone needs to send a car to the train station to pick him up. Same thing happenned in 56 Sqn, Cecil Lewis kept getting lost on his way to the orderly room.

[Vishnu]

On 11/28/2021 at 6:34 AM, PatrickAWlson said:

 

Can you press "report error" and post the zip?  The error log says there is a plane in the mission that is not available in the inventory.

I tried...says it's larger than 5 mb

 

[vincentmoy]

@PatrickAWlsonHi there! I just updated to 13.5. Whenever I went to change equipment using the "equipment request" function, I'm greeted with the following error message. Something about constraints must be a GridBagConstraint. Do you have this problem?

Luffwaffe202112010312263.zip PWCGErrorLog.txt

[vincentmoy]

1 hour ago, vincentmoy said:

@PatrickAWlsonHi there! I just updated to 13.5. Whenever I went to change equipment using the "equipment request" function, I'm greeted with the following error message. Something about constraints must be a GridBagConstraint. Do you have this problem?

Luffwaffe202112010312263.zip 535.9 kB · 0 downloads PWCGErrorLog.txt 10.43 kB · 0 downloads

@PatrickAWlsonUnder further testing, I found that the error started with 13.4.0. I went all the way back to 13.3.0 and it didn't have this error

[LeftyHC]

Hi!

 

I updated to current version and now for some reason i'm not able to generate a new campaign. I added all the required information, but the Create Campaign stays greyed out.

 

Any ideas what could cause this?

 

 

[Ace_Pilto]

You need to look up to the top right and click, "Complete Data Entry" would be my guess. It's one of Pat's new tricks.

[LeftyHC]

4 minutes ago, Ace_Pilto said:

You need to look up to the top right and click, "Complete Data Entry" would be my guess. It's one of Pat's new tricks.

 

I did click it and selected all the options there, but no luck. Strange.

Ok, i figured it out. It didn't like the umlaut i used on the pilots name. :D

 

Works fine now.

[Leon_Portier]

I'm doing the iconic missions with the SU-152 howizer. It keeps generating anti air missions though, planes are very hard to hit with a howizer.

[BladeMeister]

3 hours ago, [N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier said:

I'm doing the iconic missions with the SU-152 howizer. It keeps generating anti air missions though, planes are very hard to hit with a howizer.

Practice, Practice, Practice!

 

S!Blade<><

[PatrickAWlson]

3 hours ago, [N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier said:

I'm doing the iconic missions with the SU-152 howizer. It keeps generating anti air missions though, planes are very hard to hit with a howizer.

 

Which missions?  Most of them just put you on the ground with everybody else.  There is air and ground activity.  What you choose to do is up to you.

[Ace_Pilto]

Trucks.

 Please donate 50c to my online charity to help mentally underdeveloped truck drivers (and anti aircraft gunners) to park their bloody vehicles off to the side of the airfield!

 

(Is there some way to turn off the truck spam???)

[Chief_Mouser]

16 minutes ago, Ace_Pilto said:

Trucks.

 Please donate 50c to my online charity to help mentally underdeveloped truck drivers (and anti aircraft gunners) to park their bloody vehicles off to the side of the airfield!

 

(Is there some way to turn off the truck spam???)

 

Yes please! What's the point of parking everything and anything all over the place? The Transport Officer needs to be put on a charge!

[Dusty926]

I'm having an issue with the most current version;

Running a COOP campaign with a friend, I select the Stalingrad map, but it uses East1944 instead, with completely different progression and sometimes just different airfields outright. It doesn't seem to actually be using Stalingrad as its basis like it's supposed to.

 

Additionally, by August of 1942, planes in this progression start to accelerate seemingly to Kuban times; Yak-7s, Yak-1bs, 109 G-4s, etc.

Edited December 6, 2021 by Dusty926