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    87 Days of Cactus 2022 Campaign


    A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Campaigns Add-Ons

    Description:
    87 Days of Cactus Campaign 2022
    67th Fighter Squadron, USAAF

    Development by:
    Captain Kurt
    UncleTgt
    Skylane
    Highpockets

    This campaign is based closely upon the history of the 67th Fighter Squadron flying P-400s and P-39s at Henderson field during the epic siege of Guadalcanal. Henderson was code named "Cactus", hence the campaign name.

    Originally it was intended to simply update the 87 Days of Cactus mission set from 2001 by Carl Gulde with the most current versions of CFS2 aircraft and ships. However, it soon became apparent that in the last 21 years our understanding of CFS2 and the availability of many development tools and techniques unavailable in 2001 made the original missions obsolete. The development team decided that we would create a new historical campaign instead.

    We did all we could with CFS2 to make it immersive, including new G2K ground scenery for the Guadalcanal theater, new local airfields as they were in 1942, new spawning bomb craters, ground and cloud textures, effects, the latest ships by Stuart277, Usio etc, the latest aircraft models available, correct period aircraft skins, etc.

    The campaign is auto-loading and is complete with everything required - no additional downloading necessary.

    To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit 87 Days of Cactus 2022 Campaign
    The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

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    Thank you guys - that is a huge decision to do a full campaign, so hereby a big YHANK YOU. I'll get it immediately, and look forward to fly it.
    Finn

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    Thanks very much pals - this looks like a monumental effort! I'll install right now.

    Cheers,
    Kevin

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    A brilliant idea. Thanks for such a huge effort and for making this so user friendly. Well done guys!

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    Thank you very much Captain Kurt, UncleTgt, Skylane and Highpockets. I am looking forward to flying these missions again but this time with all the latest in updates for this campaign. Thank you all again. S!

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    I thank you all for this great contribution to this sim and the PTO!
    "De Oppresso Liber"

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    Oh boy! Thanks guys.

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    Hi All
    Thanks to everyone for such a huge effort.
    Cheers
    Stuart

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    Icon28 87 Days Of Cactus

    Hi Captain Kurt ,

    I did as all the instructions in the "read me" said and I installed a complete new CFS2 on my "C" drive and all went well.

    All my other CFS2 installs are on my "J" drive .

    I loaded her up . Looks great !!!! Flew a couple of Missions . Also Great!!

    The new Screens are also very impressive!!!

    Then I tried to fly a Campaign .

    No pilots listed so I thought I would add some of my own. No Go.

    So I uninstalled and re-installed. Same again.

    I love everything you've done the scenery,the aircraft the whole lot.

    I'm starting to wonder if I've got Kraft disease or that I am complete D..khead.

    Regards and Keep up the good work,
    1150

    PS. Even if there is no fix. I'll keep using it just for the missions

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    1150

    You realise it's an Air Force campaign, so you need to select USAAF nationality for it to show?

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    I'm traveling and won't return until April 6th. I can check into it then, but offhand I think the problem may be that the nationality is the American USAAF, not the Marines which is what automatically comes up when you select the campaign window. You need to scroll down and select the USAAF nationality to fly the campaign. If it's not that, I will have to troubleshoot when I return.
    Cheers,

    Captain Kurt
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    "Fly, you fools!" Gandalf the Gray

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    Uncle tgt and Captain Kurt are right. Under campaign, scroll to USAAF an enter your pilot name.

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    UT's optional files question

    Hi All
    I have just installed this great campaign
    Super easy install.
    Great work

    I did spot something of interest.
    This is in UT's optional files.

    The Solomons_Excludes_UT has been included twice?
    There is no DEM mesh LOD 7?



    [Area.09]
    Title=DEM mesh LOD 8
    Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 8
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=9

    [Area.010]
    Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=10

    [Area.011]
    Title=Runways
    Local=Scenedb\runways
    Active=TRUE
    Layer=11
    Required=TRUE
    Remote=

    [Area.012]
    Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=12

    [Area.013]
    Title=87Days_Excludes
    Local=SCENEDB\87Days_Excludes
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=13

    Not too sure of this is important.
    It runs as is.

    Cheers
    Stuart

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    Hi All,

    Everything is working really well .

    Thank you to Captain Kurt & Uncle TGT and Highpockets.

    I did as suggested and all works perfectly.

    Thank you all again.
    I did say I had KRAFT disease!!!!

    Regards to All,
    1150

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1150 View Post
    Hi Captain Kurt ,

    I did as all the instructions in the "read me" said and I installed a complete new CFS2 on my "C" drive and all went well.

    All my other CFS2 installs are on my "J" drive .

    I loaded her up . Looks great !!!! Flew a couple of Missions . Also Great!!

    The new Screens are also very impressive!!!

    Then I tried to fly a Campaign .

    No pilots listed so I thought I would add some of my own. No Go.

    So I uninstalled and re-installed. Same again.

    I love everything you've done the scenery,the aircraft the whole lot.

    I'm starting to wonder if I've got Kraft disease or that I am complete D..khead.

    Regards and Keep up the good work,
    1150

    PS. Even if there is no fix. I'll keep using it just for the missions
    1150,

    The likely culprit for this is you do not have the expanded country.cfg file. The campaign uses the USAAC country listing, which is No. 7, rather than the US Navy, which is No. 3 on the list you need this file to expand your country.cfg: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...id=17&id=17924

    Ajax provided some nifty UIRES screens if you want them: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...id=173&id=6333
    "Rami"

    "Me? I'm just a Sea of Tranquility in an Ocean of Storms, babe."

    My campaign site: http://www.box.net/shared/0k1e1rz29h
    My missions site: http://www.box.net/shared/ueh4kazk3v
    My scenery site: http://www.box.net/shared/knb1l0ztobhs2esb14rb

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    Stuart277,

    You could easily replace the duplicate layer of excludes with the DEM 7 layer if you wanted to.
    "Rami"

    "Me? I'm just a Sea of Tranquility in an Ocean of Storms, babe."

    My campaign site: http://www.box.net/shared/0k1e1rz29h
    My missions site: http://www.box.net/shared/ueh4kazk3v
    My scenery site: http://www.box.net/shared/knb1l0ztobhs2esb14rb

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    Captain Kurt and UncleTgt,

    Thank you so much for all of your efforts on this! I'm looking forward to flying some CFS2 again over the summer.
    "Rami"

    "Me? I'm just a Sea of Tranquility in an Ocean of Storms, babe."

    My campaign site: http://www.box.net/shared/0k1e1rz29h
    My missions site: http://www.box.net/shared/ueh4kazk3v
    My scenery site: http://www.box.net/shared/knb1l0ztobhs2esb14rb

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    Quote Originally Posted by stuart277 View Post
    Hi All
    I have just installed this great campaign
    Super easy install.
    Great work

    I did spot something of interest.
    This is in UT's optional files.

    The Solomons_Excludes_UT has been included twice?
    There is no DEM mesh LOD 7?



    [Area.09]
    Title=DEM mesh LOD 8
    Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 8
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=9

    [Area.010]
    Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=10

    [Area.011]
    Title=Runways
    Local=Scenedb\runways
    Active=TRUE
    Layer=11
    Required=TRUE
    Remote=

    [Area.012]
    Title=Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Local=SCENEDB\Solomons_Excludes_UT
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=12

    [Area.013]
    Title=87Days_Excludes
    Local=SCENEDB\87Days_Excludes
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=13

    Not too sure of this is important.
    It runs as is.

    Cheers
    Stuart
    Ha! Good catch Stuart

    My fault, should've proof read more carefully.

    Here's an amended scenery.cfg eliminating the duplicate exclude layer & including the LOD 7 mesh layer.
    Attached Files Attached Files

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    Icon5 Questions

    From the newest (above) scenery.cfg:

    [Area.09]
    Title=DEM mesh LOD 7
    Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD 7
    Remote=
    Active=TRUE
    Required=FALSE
    Layer=9

    Should this not read: [Area.009] ?

    Could it cause a problem?

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Past that:

    I'm trying to locate the cause of poor frame rate @ Henderson.
    Can't t-o or land.
    FR @ 5 or below.

    Have LOD5,7 & 8 installed too.

    Been working on this with Rami & Shadow Wolf (on Skype) this morning - no joy.
    It appears to be caused by the Henderson scenery anytime it is within view.

    Sitting on the runway forward view has less than 5 f/r
    Look left it's 25 f/r, right is 30 & rear is 45.

    Away from Henderson (air start on USAAF mis. 1) 300-500 frames

    AMD FX-8370 8 core @ 4GHZ
    16GB DDR3 1600 RAM
    GTX 750-TI 2GB GDDR5
    Win7 x64 Ultimate
    - I really don't think this is a "hardware" issue.


    Getting 40-60 frames over MR's SI Henderson on a different install - same settings w/ LOD5 only.
    (both on C)

    Have excluded different parts of the Hend. scenery - still no joy.

    Is anyone having or has had this problem?
    I could appreciate some new ideas.


    Thanks in advance;
    Durt
    Dirtman


    ~~ CFS2 Fulfills my need to "peacefully" blow things up ~~

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    Dirtman,

    Henderson makes use of Wolfis forest & palm trees

    I found that the textures used by these objects, in anything other than DXT1 format, lower framerates.

    The other "new" objects were the open-sided hangars I made. These objects also, by their nature, make extensive use of alpha channel transparency.

    I saved the texture bitmaps as 555-1 format. Maybe you'll see an improvement if you save them as dxt1 ( with alpha) format?

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    Thank You

    Quote Originally Posted by UncleTgt View Post
    Dirtman,

    Henderson makes use of Wolfis forest & palm trees

    I found that the textures used by these objects, in anything other than DXT1 format, lower framerates.

    The other "new" objects were the open-sided hangars I made. These objects also, by their nature, make extensive use of alpha channel transparency.

    I saved the texture bitmaps as 555-1 format. Maybe you'll see an improvement if you save them as dxt1 ( with alpha) format?
    Yo UT;

    First: I really don't think the problem is in your campaign. Others have installed it with only minor hiccups ... if any at all.
    I had a look at the contents of the installer before I installed it and was VERY IMPRESSED at what you & the Team have created!

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    Rami spotted the scenery.cfg problem early but correcting it didn't help.
    It's gotta be something "unique" in my install causing the FR issue.
    I've tried all the "usual" things but I'm presently scratching my head & looking for ideas.

    FYI:
    YES - I followed all the instructions. Did 2 installs - no joy. .... same poop ... same spot

    NO - Rami's PTO scenery guide is not included
    (as per your .PDF) - hadda find it to used it.

    - I've got Wolfi's trees in most of my 10 installs with no issues.


    BTW - my PC "breathes fire & brimstone", an absolute beast with power to burn.
    It does NOTHING SLOW ... and have NEVER had a FR issues in the 6 years since I built it ... which is the reason WHY I built it in the 1st place.
    Which makes this poop a real head-scratcher!



    Many Thanks for the Campaign and your offer of help; it is Greatly Appreciated!
    - Durt
    Dirtman


    ~~ CFS2 Fulfills my need to "peacefully" blow things up ~~

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    Hi Rami ,

    Thanks for the information on the country configure files.

    I have downloaded & installed it.

    Thank you for your help again.

    Regards,
    1150

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    So far no problems

    Captain Kurt
    UncleTgt
    Skylane
    Highpockets

    Guys this was so slick I just had to say so. What an easy install. I've got over a dozen different Theater Installs going back over 10 years and this add on was, bar none, the slickest, smoothest job I've ever done. No hunting for obscure stuff on other web sites, no missing objects. I already had a PTO Rhuimba Basic I created some years ago. I just clicked your installer and pointed it at my basic theater install and bam. Took a hop from Henderson to Tulagi and back. Scenery is great. I'm looking forward to this. Many thanks!

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    Spoke to soon

    No problems with CFS2, but Mission Bldr. crashes. I get to the main screen and as soon as the box opens showing scenery generation, I get CTD.

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