Updated Dynamic Campaign by theOden: DynMis EXE

[theOden]

Updated version:

https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads5&file=details&id=293

 

Edited May 11 by theOden
New Scenarios and fixes

[ATAG_Flare]

Wow, Oden, this is fantastic!

 

A seriously impressive amount of work you've put in to this.

 

This starting to look seriously like something that rivals the PWCG for IL2 Great Battles. I hope lots of people try this out. I certainly will! Great work!

 

Question, what does the "parameters" field do?

 

Second question, is there any squadron in particular which results in some exceptionally fun missions?

Edited October 1, 2020 by ATAG_Flare

[Sokol1]

I have a doubt with Tab-4 (mission)

5 - Request heading for (Tangmere)

 

Ground Control answer, say "stand by", but heading is not informed (or is not audible), after he make a "joke". ?

 

Flight leader don't land, but keep circling near home base.

[theOden]

4 hours ago, ATAG_Flare said:

Question, what does the "parameters" field do?

 

Second question, is there any squadron in particular which results in some exceptionally fun missions?

 

That's a carry over from the other two sims I have under this and is mereley startup params for the sim if using "start IL" checked.

Any particular fun squadron? naaa not sure - maybe the fighterbombers in general, should see both groundattack and intercepts in due time.

 

 

44 minutes ago, Sokol1 said:

I have a doubt with Tab-4 (mission)

5 - Request heading for (Tangmere)

 

Ground Control answer, say "stand by", but heading is not informed (or is not audible), after he make a "joke". ?

 

Flight leader don't land, but keep circling near home base.

 

Yeah, sorry about that - if you ask for airfield still within 8 km he will just mock you and not tell info.

Landing sequence in Dover could see some improvements yes, nothing much I can adress as mission maker - can only give flight a landing WP and not individuals.

 

[Sokol1]

10 hours ago, theOden said:

Yeah, sorry about that - if you ask for airfield still within 8 km he will just mock you and not tell info.

 

Was the case, I am very near Tangmere, just testing the options. All good. 

[Thundercracker]

Playing through now with operation compass and RAAF 3rd sqn and enjoying every minute, plenty going on.

 

Only issue encountered so far is the flight refusing to land, but I just leave them to it. Correction: flight also just circling airfield instead of proceeding with escort mission. 

 

Is there a way to bump difficulty or are the ai levels set randomly?

 

All in all thank you very much for putting your time into this. 

Edited October 1, 2020 by Thundercracker

[Sokol1]

34 minutes ago, Thundercracker said:

Only issue encountered so far is the flight refusing to land, but I just leave them to it.

 

This is curious, because selected mission have landing waypoint:

 

[BoB_RAF_F_43Sqn_Early.01_Way]

 TAKEOFF 104593.50 199293.70 0.00 0.00  
 ...
  LANDING 104593.50 199293.70 0.00 394.00

 

In my case could be because  nº 2 landing on water but it didn't sink, and he are the second in landing order, perhaps the leader are awaiting him join the flight. ?

 

BTW - A nice touch is the use of wind layers, noticeable at some altitudes. 

[Thundercracker]

I haven't been through the mission files, but from the waypoints on the map the landing waypoint is there. Of the 4 or 5 missions I've played the leader tends to break off early taking the rest of the flight with him, out of ammo or engine damage, Then they just circle endlessly.

 

I did also notice a change in wind with altitude, really caught me off guard with the gladiator with the sudden roll. ? Not something I've noticed before, I'm guessing it's something that needs setting by the mission builder rather than just part of the weather system? 

[Sokol1]

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Not something I've noticed before, I'm guessing it's something that needs setting by the mission builder rather than just part of the weather system? 

 

Is the 'advanced part" of weather, available for mission makers in FMB.

[theOden]

Regarding the no-land-let's-circle-instead, is it only fighters and never bombers from what you guys seen so far?

Maybe it is my bad if so since fighters are given intercept WP updates during flight - their last landing WP should still remain but it could be that AI gets messed up by the "reload" of WP's.

No showstopper I guess but I'll have a look at possible workarounds someday.

 

Difficulty setting isn't really there but all squadrons have a general idea behind skill in the templates, Battle of France for instance see LW as veterans and A'dAir and RAF on average. In the desert I think I put Italians as average and others as veteran - you can edit this in the campaign ini-file if you feel it's wrong/unfair looking for SQN lines like this:

SQN,BoB_LW_JG3_I.31,Merville_Calonne,Aircraft.Bf-109E-3,Veteran,,,11,1

(actually a good way to cheat in general and maybe set asset ratio in BoB below 1)

 

Great to see you notice small things like layers

[Thundercracker]

51 minutes ago, theOden said:

Regarding the no-land-let's-circle-instead, is it only fighters and never bombers from what you guys seen so far?

 

Speaking for myself, as if yet I've only tried the fighters. But having watched some of the bomber ai in external view they seem more will to land in the missions I've played so far. 

 

Thanks for explaining the difficulty and how to tweak it.

[vonGraf]

Great! Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a try.

[Kapteeni]

This is amazing!

I have played few Desert missions and everything works fine.

Good job!

 

[OBT-Mikmak]

I tried this famous "DynMiss" today and it is really a wonderfull dynamic mission generator ! ?

Thanks theOden ! ?
 

[ATAG_Flare]

Mods, can we pin this thead?

[BladeMeister]

Thanks theOden. Has anyone tried this with Win7? or am I going to have to be the lab rat?

 

S!Blade<><

[Stromboli]

Hi Oden,

I'm having a Problem with Campaigns not advancing. Once the first mission is generated and completed, it will generate the second mission. But when I finish the second Mission

it won't generate the next one Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks,

Stromboli

[Ace_Pilto]

Wow, a pleasant surprise to see this mission generator still going and ported over to Cliffs of Sand. You're outright tempting me to go ahead and pick up a copy.

[theOden]

18 hours ago, Stromboli said:

it won't generate the next one Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Should be me that's done something wrong in that case

I guess you didn't get any errors from the GUI but try to exit and press "Stop", "Rebuild Mission" and maybe that will show an error - if not press "Start" and fly the mission again and see if it gives you a new one after that mission.

What scenario is it?

[vonGraf]

I'm trying the Generator for the first time in the Battle of France. Runs since 5 missions without recognizable problems for me. Well done.

Thanks!

[Thundercracker]

Still loving this, although I seem to be helping the enemy win the war more than my side ?

 

One thing I've noticed though, so far every ground attack mission I've flown has resulted in my flight bombing empty dessert. Is this a case of ground vehicles waypoint times not matching up with the flight? 

 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Thundercracker

[theOden]

Ground attack on enemy columns get their GATTACK_TARG wp right between the column starting spot and arrival at town with a reference to the column unit - maybe these are the missions they drop bombs in the middle of nowhere?

 

I noticed a handful of such events in early development but I noticed a missing space in the mis-file waypoint line and had it work ok since.

 

The AI is supposed to find the moving ground units but if they fail they usually bring the loadout back and drop all prior landing.

 

Other occasions I've seen bombs dropped in nowhere is just when they've got bumped by enemy fighters and when entering landing area.

 

If possible, next time you notice random bomb drops, alt-tab back to dynmis GUI and press stop-button to not have the missionfile overwritten when exiting the mission then have a look at it in the editor and check that the attack waypoint has the green line to enemy ground unit - or just PM me the mis-file and I'll have a look.

[Thundercracker]

Ok I'll have a look if it happens again. If I spot anything odd in the waypoints, I'll pass it on. 

 

Thanks again theOden

[theOden]

3 hours ago, meplanes1969 said:

can you do one for great battles ?

I had the intention once but can't get my head around that mission editor (and to be honest I have lots of work redoing the 1946 version leaving vanilla switching to B.A.T. along with another title not to be mentioned that are even further behind in features compared to Tobruk)

[ATAG_Flare]

Gave this a try for a few missions, it's loads of fun!

 

Trying to keep up with the AI in the DH 5-20 Hurricane is almost impossible though! That darn 2 pitch prop but the AI seem to manage it perfectly. That's not an issue with the campaign though, just the CloD AI.

 

On 10/10/2020 at 8:27 AM, meplanes1969 said:

many thanks for this ,works really well and what blitz,tobruk was crying out for

can you do one for great battles ?

I think Pat Wilson's Campaign Generator might be for you, it is similar to this one of TheOden but for GB, I've never tried it myself but I've heard lots about it.

[Sandinourcoffee6]

I did try pat wilsons campaign gen but could not get it to work,to be honest in great battles I just play single missions and scripted campaigns.

The campaign mode in great battles is slightly repetive.

I do enjoy the desert theatre a lot and do hope they expand it in future but I do think that depends on VR when it comes.

I do love to fly the Italian birds in tobruk

I was really hoping for a med theatre in great battles but do not think that will never happen!

[Kapteeni]

This a nice addition and needed one too! How ever, i would like to see something for winter/autumn  maps too. Maybe phoney war scenario or something after BoB. I haven't seen any missions/campaigns for those maps.

Cheers and thank you again for your hard work!

[Kapteeni]

On 10/15/2020 at 12:47 PM, Kapteeni said:

This a nice addition and needed one too! How ever, i would like to see something for winter/autumn  maps too. Maybe phoney war scenario or something after BoB. I haven't seen any missions/campaigns for those maps.

Cheers and thank you again for your hard work!

OOps! My bad. There is missions for autumn map!

Sorry....

[Stromboli]

Hi Oden,

Sorry for the long pause. So this is what I get when I try to start a Campaign. I can't figure out what I did wrong.

Thanks,

Stromboli

 

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[theOden]

Hi Stromboli,

That seems to be the when both mission JPEG files are written to disk so possibly a permission issue.

You get the same error no matter selected template I guess?

 

I could try and compile a picture-less build for you but I suspect we will see a similar error when the actual mission files are to be written when you press "Start".

 

Win10 or Win7?

 

 

Edit:

Try the attached binary.

I've added a filepath line in dynmislog right before trying to export the picture, should work despite you getting an error on the lines after.

 

Look in "Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" for dynmislog.txt and check if my pathfinder might not work on your system.

You should see something like below:

 

Starting DynMis
Main Picture: C:\Users\LG\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\single\DynMisFrancemain.jpg
Thin Picture: C:\Users\LG\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\single\DynMisFrancethin.jpg

 

dynmisDover.zip

Edited October 25, 2020 by theOden

[Stromboli]

Hi Oden,

Thank you so much for your help, I got it sorted out and running perfectly.

Thanks again,

Stromboli

[102.R.dd_Fufek]

Hi Oden!

 

there is something wrong with my il2, the app makes the dynmis files but i cant find them in the simulator. i tried to copy paste to another folder but it not worked as well.

do you have any idea how can i fix this?

thanks

[Sokol1]

In "Single Select" click in the circle  "(- -).." for see more single mission folders inside "Single" folder. 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Sokol1

[102.R.dd_Fufek]

these are the missions inside the "Single" folder. i've tried to make a new folder and just copy the dynMisBritain files. but it didnt show up. so my path  inside the sim is not the problem i think. 

Edited November 9, 2020 by MuiMui

[theOden]

Hi MuiMui,

 

I can't see why it should behave like this since you seem to have all the needed files in place.

 

Can you open the ".briefing" file and check it's readable similar like below?

 

Maybe it's a localisation issue (I'm pretty new to this c-sharping stuff still).

 

[Info]
Info
<Slide>
DynMisCompassmain.jpg
<Caption>
DynMis Operation Compass
<Slide>
DynMisCompassthin.jpg
<Caption>
Operation Compass
14.January 1941
[Mission]
<Name>
Mission
<Description>
Operation Compass
14.January 1941
Halfaya, RAF 73 Sqn

	Situation
Babini Group I Medium Tank Battalion attacks 6th Australian Division at Tobruk Fortress West

RAF 274 Sqn attacks Italian 10th Army armor column at Tobruk Fortress West
RAF 33 Sqn attacks Italian 10th Army armor column at Tobruk Fortress West

 

[102.R.dd_Fufek]

it looks the same with notepad and notepad++ /except the time and theathre/. ive tried fresh install,different campaign etc, no luck yet. / :

[Sokol1]

Do you have Tobruk expansion?

Is required:

 

[PARTS]
  core.100
  bob.100
  tobruk.100

 

Although I don't think this is the cause of mission don't be visible in Single Select, since al five files needed in the folder.

 

Make a Steam file validation for CloD.

 

BTW - You can run from a new folder:

 

 

 

[102.R.dd_Fufek]

that was it!! ive deleted the line "tobruk.100" from the .mis file and now it shows. im going to test it tomorrow if it works.

thank you for the help for both of you!

 

/i dont have tobruk yet but if this dyn mis works i think i will : )  /

Edited November 10, 2020 by MuiMui

[Sokol1]

Removing Tobruk .100 reference the this first mission run OK, but later missions include Tobruk contend and result in error. 

When I test this DynMiss I don't have Tobruk installed and are able to run only first mission.

[danperin]

4 hours ago, MuiMui said:

that was it!! ive deleted the line "tobruk.100" from the .mis file and now it shows. im going to test it tomorrow if it works.

thank you for the help for both of you!

 

/i dont have tobruk yet but if this dyn mis works i think i will : )  /

 

The content Tobruk adds to the game is imense, mate. I strongly recommend you to buy it. ?

 

And i love your profile name/pic. LocoRoco is awesome!

 

You will have plenty of new powerful firepower to obliterate those pesky Mojos with the Tobruk module! ?

Edited November 11, 2020 by danperin