Adding single player missions and/or campaigns

[fliddlesticks]

How does one go about adding single player missions or campaigns to the game. More than anything else, where does one add them, in Documents location or in steamapps  location?

[Sokol1]

Single Player missions: extract the mission files for:

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\Single\ <<< Optional, create a new folder and rename with mission name, specially if mission has custom files, slides, help in keep  folder "Simple" organized.

 

Custom Skins eventually included in the mission (or campaign):

 

... :\user\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\PaintSchemes\Skins\"name of the plane"

 

Quick Missions:

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\quick\

 

Campaigns (3rd part made):

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\campaign\custom\"campaign name" <<< create a new folder and rename with campaign name. EDIT - Important, campaign name need have _ between names, in the same format used in "campaign.ini", e.g.  campaign_Battle_of_France

An small difference, even a space in those names can hidden campaign in game menu.

 

In the root of folder "custom":

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\campaign\custom\

 

 

Update de file "campaign.ini" file (if don't have any create one). Example with one campaign, e.g. "Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo":

 

[Main]
campaign_Dunkirk

[campaign_Dunkirk] 
folder campaign_Dunkirk
title Dunkirk: Operation "Dynamo"
image Poster.bmp

 

After add a second campaign, e.g. "Battle of France"

 

[Main]
campaign_Dunkirk
campaign_Battle_of_France

[campaign_Dunkirk] 
folder campaign_Dunkirk
title Dunkirk: Operation "Dynamo"
image Poster.bmp

[campaign_Battle_of_France]
folder campaign_Battle_of_France
title Battle of France
image Poster.bmp

 

 

And so on for new campaigns.

 

In "tittle" don't use _ between names, for other lines _ is required.

 

Attention: are two folders, mission and missions, don't mix then.

PS -  Some early made (~2011/2012) campaign's don't have the reference bellow at top of "Campaign.mis" file, or lack this file, if is the case add this manually. Without this the campaigns are not show in game Single Player menu.

 

[PARTS]
  core.100
  bob.100
[MAIN]
  MAP Land$English_Channel_1940
  BattleArea 150000 100000 100000 150000 1000
  TIME 12
  WeatherIndex 0
  CloudsHeight 0
  BreezeActivity 0
  ThermalActivity 0
[splines]
[CustomChiefs]
[Stationary]
[Buildings]
[BuildingsLinks]

 

The above entries is for campaigns in the Channel map. Campaigns for Tobruk map is not affected, because they came after the changes.

 

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by Sokol1

[fliddlesticks]

This is great!  Thanks

[Blitzen]

On 10/12/2020 at 5:01 PM, Sokol1 said:

Single Player missions: extract the mission files for:

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\missions\Single\ <<< Optional, create a new folder and rename with mission name, specially if mission has custom files, slides, help in keep  folder "Simple" organized.

 

Custom Skins eventually included in the mission (or campaign):

 

... :\user\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\PaintSchemes\Skins\"name of the plane"

 

Quick Missions:

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\quick\

 

Campaigns (3rd part made):

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\campaign\custom\"campaign name" <<< create a new folder and rename with campaign name. EDIT - Important, campaign name need have _ between names, in the same format used in "campaign.ini", e.g.  campaign_Battle_of_France

An small difference, even a space in those names can hidden campaign in game menu.

 

In the root of folder "custom":

 

..:\User\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\campaign\custom\

 

 

Update de file "campaign.ini" file (if don't have any create one). Example with one campaign, e.g. "Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo":

 

[Main]
campaign_Dunkirk

[campaign_Dunkirk] 
folder campaign_Dunkirk
title Dunkirk: Operation "Dynamo"
image Poster.bmp

 

After add a second campaign, e.g. "Battle of France"

 

[Main]
campaign_Dunkirk
campaign_Battle_of_France

[campaign_Dunkirk] 
folder campaign_Dunkirk
title Dunkirk: Operation "Dynamo"
image Poster.bmp

[campaign_Battle_of_France]
folder campaign_Battle_of_France
title Battle of France
image Poster.bmp

 

 

And so on for new campaigns.

 

In "tittle" don't use _ between names, for other lines _ is required.

 

Attention: are two folders, mission and missions, don't mix then.

 

Ok Will give your recommendations a try .Will these old ( but newly added )  campaigns show up, in game , in the "Campaigns" choice? Thanks for your help!?

 

 

[Sokol1]

20 hours ago, Blitzen said:

Will these old ( but newly added )  campaigns show up, in game , in the "Campaigns" choice?

 

Yes, see in the picture, default campaigns (Cliffs of Dover, Adler Angriff, Tobruk campaigns) and 3rd part campaigns for select.

 

 

If you add some campaign and don't show up, check names as above, and look in campaign folder if are the file "campaign.mis".

If not add the attached, or copy from another campaign folder, is just a generic map reference. Of course, copy from campaign in the same map.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PARTS]
  core.100
  bob.100
[MAIN]
  MAP Land$English_Channel_1940
  BattleArea 150000 100000 100000 150000 1000
  TIME 12
  WeatherIndex 0
  CloudsHeight 0
  BreezeActivity 0
  ThermalActivity 0
[splines]
[CustomChiefs]
[Stationary]
[Buildings]
[BuildingsLinks]

 

 

 

 

 

Campaign.zip

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 27, 2020 by Sokol1

[Sokol1]

UPDATE - For campaigns made in TF 5.0xx standards, is not need update the "Campaign.ini", these campaign came with their own "campaign_'CampaignName'.ini", just drop this file root of the folder custom in:

 

..\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover\mission\campaign\custom\

 

Edited April 5, 2022 by Sokol1

[BladeMeister]

Thank you Sokol1. I had made a mess of my Campaigns after the last few years  and the release of Tobruk. Thanks to you and your help here I have them all in the right folders and CLOD/DWT loads faster and all 3rd party campaigns are working again. I even went and got the fix for my only Desastersoft Wicks vs Dundas campaign and it is working again also. With all of this SP content working I probably won't be back here for another 10 years. Cheers everyone!

 

S!Blade<><

Edited October 9, 2021 by BladeMeister