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public static String BAVARIA = "Bavaria";
public static String WURTEMBURG = "Wurtemburg";
public static String SAXONY = "Saxony";
public static String PRUSSIA = "Prussia";

Use what is in quotes. I really need to make that a drop down box. I kept it open for role playing reasons, i.e. an American pilot could put in "Alabama" - it would have no effect but I thought it would be fun.

Need some help. In testing 9.4 the missions are greyed out. They load successfully in the mission editor but I cannot load them in the game. Any ideas?

Figured it out: RoFCampaign uses the squadron aircraft instead of the player aircraft in the options section. If the player does not own that aircraft then RoF will not allow the mission to load.

9.4 has been submitted to WoH

V9.4
New Features:
- Bristol now supported as a flyable
- Autumn Textures Supported
- Correct payloads for recon and arty spot (camera and radio)
- More variation in bomb payloads
- Bristol will do scout and standard 2 seater missions.
- New config parameter: Allied2SeatScoutMission - odds that a 2 seater mission will be a scout mission
- See alseo Central2SeatScoutMission
- Under recon mission configs on config page
- Added select all and deselect all buttons to planes owned config
- Made region a drop down box during pilot creation - displayed for German pilots only.
- Added "EarliestDate" - the earliest a plane will appear.
- Different from introduction date
- Example: BE2 is replaced by Brisfit. Brisfit earliest date is 1/1/1917.
Squadrons assigned a BE2 will not appear before 1/1/1917 (since it's really the Brisfit).
- Prevents modern planes from showing up too early.
- See AircraftInfo.config to adjust if you want to.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed inclusion of an airfield more than once that could cause unloadable missions
- Fixed start pos over map border at Bray Dunes
- Fixed issue where not owning the squadron plane could cause the mission not to load

@PatrickAWilson

The WingsOfHonor download page link ( http://www.wingsofhonour.com/forums/ipboard/index.php?/files/file/7-rofcampaignzip/ ) does not identify which is the proper version of PWCG to grab. The page shows four download buttons. I tryed all four buttons and downloaded each of the four zip files to but none of them were V9.4. Am I trying too early?

OlPaint

Maybe a bit early - I saw three files - 8.0, 9.2, and 9.3. If you choose to open the file with explorer you can open the README in the RoFCampaign directory. That will say 9.4 when it becomes available.

Thank you Pat.

Finally got it....

OlPaint

The Download page says Version 9 (there are four download options, I tried several) but the Readme says version 8 and there is no F2b in the planes owned.

Is the Download page titled correctly?

Aha!

There are four download links.

The one with the new version is the second down (it says 77 at the bottom of the screen when you place your cursor on it).

That's 9.4, the current version.

I confirm that...

Many thanks Patrick!

Patrick,

First of all, thank you for your great campaign generator! We are really having a grreat time with it. What I do is generate a mission, open it in the editor, change it to cooperative, move it to the correct directory, and then we fly it.

One of the challenges is all that editing, and it doesn't seem to update correctly.

Have you ever given any thought to having a setting for your application to generate coop campaigns from the get go? Something that you and a few friends could enjoy and that would maintain the careers of each of us?

thanks again

Ted

I can but I have never generated a cooperative mission. Very willing to work with you to get it done. Sending you a PM.

Version 10.0 is in the works. This version will be all about performance. The idea will be to combine the best of the flight pathing with the ability to spawn.

Instead of having all flights in progress with you, I will calculate earliest possible point of contact (or the first action waypoint, whichever comes first) for each flight and trigger the flight at that point. If I can do it I will make it more sophisticated by having the timer trigger a proximity MCU, such that flights that are nowhere near you simply do not spawn. From your PoV you shouldn't notice a thing since the spawn point is exactly where the planes would be when they would be there if they flew the entire mission.

Further, I am going to attach proximity triggers on all ground units. Why have an MG taking up valuable CPU cycles if you are nowhere near it?

The biggest goal of this is to make time compression more useful during ingress. Hopefully it will have a further effect of improving performance throughout the mission.

Wow, sounds like an epic update, Pat!

May I add a tiny little request, if possible?
I have noticed, in the Official Career, the Flight Leader waving when reaching a waypoint and is about to change course.
I found that totally immersive! Could this feature be implemented to RoF Capmaign as well?

Yep, Pat keep on, please.

Wow, that would be great!

Finally got it to work but I seem to have a bit of a problem which may have been dicussed somwhere in the 98 pages, I'm getting problems with the sound and a very slow rate of fire when in the cockpit, when outside the sound is OK but the rate of fire is still slow. Any answers? thanks. PS this is in offline mode.

Yes, it is somewhere in the 98 pages... I didn't know about this either until I experienced it, but if your system is computationally over-taxed with too many aircraft in the air or ground objects, then RoF will play at half speed until something resolves it (i.e a flight lands). What are your system specs, marginal to low? I'd characterize mine as middlesies...

The only way to correct is to tweak the mission generator to lower the number of flights and/or lower the number of ground objects. Poke around in the options, you'll see the variables. Lower number of opposing flights and/or number of aircraft per flight for both sides by just 1 or 2 a little at a time. It will resolve eventually.

Also, turn off ground unit generation - i.e. MGs, and airfield AAA.