Question for all Mission Editor builders

[GOA_Walter_Nowotny]

Dear Mission Editor builders:

 

I am GOA_Walter_Nowotny from Chile.

I am a regular user of IL2 and I have done some campaigns for the simulator and also have a dserver that I upload from time to time.

Some of you helped me with mission editor issues sometimes.

 

The situation is:

 

To save time I keep templates of the maps with the cities, airfields, etc. and I am arranging them according to the mission I build. I save the templates as a map and not as a group, so, I load the map that I want (example: Stalingrad-summer with all the icons pre-loaded)

Occasionally I have some weird problems after updates when doing missions. Currently I also have strange missions problems since the last update.

They usually pass me with Reinland maps. A while ago I had a problem with the Me 262 that when flying in a certain area, the game take me out of the cabin and show me my plane from outside (as if I were seeing it from an external camera (F2). It was impossible to return to the cabin until after about 20 seconds. It was solved I don't know how.

I am currently working on Reinland map with the Me 262 and some strange problems happen now. They are random problems such as unfix and out the cabin, showing the map without pressing the button to see the map, showing the external artillery camera without pressing F5. All with nothing apparent. Having to go back to the cabin as fast as possible and not crash.

I have looked for these problems in the forum and cannot find them. Sometimes I report them.

Thinking and thinking I have concluded that it can be a problem of the templates of the maps that I keep. Although I save them with the new update when I use them, I am thinking that they could keep some error that cannot be solved by re-saving them.

My question: Is possible that the map templates keep a certain "cache memory" that gives issues when opening them with a new update?

And the solution is to start from 0 every time I create a mission in the editor?

Or better is to save in groups all the icons and add in a new map?

If you have any suggestion I appreciate it.

My English is not the best, I hope you have understood.

Thank you,

GOA_Walter_Nowotny

[Deacon352nd]

Have you re-saved your missions after an update before trying to fly them?

[GOA_Walter_Nowotny]

35 minutes ago, Deacon352nd said:

Have you re-saved your missions after an update before trying to fly them?

Yes, everytime that I open this file and make a mission, I "save as" with the name of new mission.

[JimTM]

18 hours ago, GOA_Walter_Nowotny said:

...when flying in a certain area, the game take me out of the cabin and show me my plane from outside (as if I were seeing it from an external camera (F2). It was impossible to return to the cabin until after about 20 seconds. It was solved I don't know how.

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This sounds like what happens when you fly off the edge of the map.

 

Are you anywhere near the map edge when this happens?

 

Do you see a message in red telling you to turn around?

 

[GOA_Walter_Nowotny]

2 hours ago, JimTM said:

 

This sounds like what happens when you fly off the edge of the map.

 

Are you anywhere near the map edge when this happens?

 

Do you see a message in red telling you to turn around?

 

Hi Jim, no, that happened to me on the Reinland map arriving at Ijsselmeer over the city Harderwijt, that's inside the map. No message about the limit of the map. That happened to me a while ago. I should check it again.
Just a few minutes ago flying with the 262 in Moscow map, the cockpit flew out of nowhere. I was being attacked by several AAA without hitting me, but the plane was moving entirely because of the explosions. Yesterday flying the 262 making a not so tight turn, the cockpit also flew away.

 

Edited May 24, 2020 by GOA_Walter_Nowotny
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[Jaegermeister]

Try using the "Resave folder as Binary" tool in the Mission Editor. That has worked for me in the past. I had different issues, but it fixed them. 

 

Under "Tools" its "Convert missions to binary in folder" and browse to the mission folder or specific mission. Then wait.

 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Jaegermeister