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I submitted this post over at the ROF forum,but figured i may get a quicker response here.


Thanks Pat for this great program.

I tried to convert the mission this program produces to a coop mission for on line play using the mission builder. Everything saves fine after I make the alterations, but when my squad mates try to join they get a error msg ending with 17.

Does any one know what might be causing this to happen?

Cheers
Fawlty

Could someone point me to an explaination about how to install this?

Thanks.

From the readme ... where you should have downloaded the program ...



Make sure your Java is current and up to date.

Thanks for that.

When will the Nieuport 17 be available in this Campaign Generator tool?

Last I heard Patrick was having computer problems. Then there was rumor that maybe he lost all his original work, then that was put to rest when he mentioned he found it intact ...

If he's anything like me, as long as I'm working on something it stays in my head, the minute I quit doing that and start something else, I loose a little bit of the old stuff ... chances are he's gotta go back and refresh himself with what he's done, and there were some other things that he said he wanted to try, adding new planes was part of that ...

So I reckon just give him time to get his head wrapped around the code again and I'm sure he'll have us in the air with everything we need in no time.

lol - you hit it on the head. I have all of the code. I am up and running on my new computer. It's just that after a month away it is taking me a bit of time to pick it back up again. That, combined with a very busy life and general tiredness when I do have a moment means minimal progress. But that should be temporary.

I have got my java workspace up and running and I have started to review the code. I am currently working on historical aces. I have them in other squadrons and they will be assigned to friendly and opposing flights. However, there is more to do. What happens if an ace is in your squadron? What happens if the ace is the squadron commander while when you rise to squadron commander? I also do not have premature death coded - i.e. you shoot down the ace. Nor do I have non-historical victories coded. I know how RedBaron did it, I'm just not sure that I want to duplicate their design.

Per the N17 and Alb D.III, they are not included because I simply do not have enough planes for that era (late 16/early-mid 17). At the moment RoFCampaign starts in September of 1917. I will move the date backwards as planes become available. I have the data, I just need the planes.

Fawlty: unfortunately I have noanswer to your question. I am notterribly active online so my multiplayer experience - includingdealing with multiplayer errors - is limited. Any chance that you could ask on the official boards? My missions are really just like any other single player mission, so any generic single to multiplayer conversion should work. Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful.

Cheers Pat, I appreciate the reply.

Fawlty

I asked these questions over at neoqb 3rd party Apps Forum....

How Do I kill this java program??? I shut it down every which way I can...but if I try to change a simple text file in it, I'm told the file is in use (by a running application). I can't even delete the "ROFcampaign" Folder. When I attempt to do so, I get the message that the Folder is open in another program.
I was told not to use the Drop-down "Close" option (same as the X box closing)when done with the Campaign generator...but Too Late, of course. I had already, previously,"Closed" the program using the drop down (same as using the X). That works fine for pretty much all other programs/applications I normally run.


This is getting to be a slight pain. Now all I want to do is get this Off of my Computer. I'm concerned that it might be still eating up memory or CPU use even though it shows all indications of not running. Very weird. Once gone/shutdown/deleted, I might then download and re-install again...hopefully remembering in the future to use the "Exit Program" button rather than the X.

Any ideas how I can do that, delete it entirely? I suppose a re-boot should do the trick to 'shut it down', then I could delete it, but I'd rather remove it manually....as a learning objective with regard to Java applications.

Is this very irritating (Java?) quirk common to all java applications?

Go to task manager.
Open processes tab
End process on instances of javaw.exe

In the meantime I will try to fix this behavior.

Fixed the phantom process on red-x thing. It will be in the next release.

Any hints on the release date? I'm looking forward to this as much as the new official patch haha

+1!! I'd love to get my hands on your revisitation of this!

Thanks much, Patrick. Worked like a charm; I ended a dozen or more such java.ew's. I've learned something new.

What I had been doing was trying to add a few words to the Combat report for each shootdown by adding text in the *.campaign file. Works like a charm, now,though there is a string limitation as to length so comments must be very short, such as "crash landed", or "down in flames", or "mid-air explosion"...etc

Is there a possibility in the future of lengthening the string restriction so that one might add more detailed/extensive comments as in a 'Log" or "Diary" or "Post-mission Debriefing"? Is it possible to add such a feature into the Application interface so one can type in comments just as one now types in the numeral for number of kills?

Adding aces is a very difficult process. Getting aces into other squadrons is fairly straight forward and, in fact, is done. Dealing with all of the things that have to happen when an ace is in your squadron gets very complex. They have to replace an AI squadron mate but use very different logic. Working on it again.

Doolittle Raider: the text of a has the following limitations:
1. It must be between the quotes
2. It must be before the semi-colon
3. it must be on one line.

Beyond that it is a Java string and not of fixed length.

Patrick,

Question for ya if you got time.

Previously installing the campaign generator has not caused me any problems. However, now since installing all the various paints, (the only thing I've done since the last time,) it seems that the generator now has a problem finding Axis aircraf to finish writing missions.

I can install it as I normally do, (at least I think I'm doing it right,) and then I go and create a pilot and then ask for my first generated mission and it gets started and then produces an error dialog box saying that the axis aircraft can't be found.

Any idea?

Here's another one if I might ask:

I took off from Baizieux but I didn't go for the mission, but I wanted to check out Vert Galant and Bertangles, because they are historically modeled, not only sample airfields. However, I couldn't see any buildings there. Why is that? Is it an option while generating missions in order to save FPS?

Is there any way to get it populated by default? Is it possible to modify a squadron's home base?

Thanks in advance

Any solution for the "access denied" in Vista when the generator tries to write the campaign mission to the folder? I don't want to have to reinstall in a new directory (it's in Program Files\Rise of Flight).

smith

Pat first thanks for all the efforts
Noticed that your RoF campaign contains photo's and medals but they do not show up, so what to do in the Campaign mode adjustments or do I something wrong here???

Pat, there is no claim for Balloons btw

Found another bug:
Sometimes some of my wingmen spawn without pilots, so none of them would take off with me :S