French aircraft at German airfield

[ndicki]

The French aircraft in MAW were nearly all Vichy, for obvious reasons. As ETO borrowed a huge amount of material straight from MAW, there were things which apparently were overlooked... The version I have of this aircraft is not France_Vichy, but then my version is the original and has not been recompiled into the 4-in-1 package you get in ETO. Just do as suggested and replace France_Vichy with France_Free in the XDP. Don't forget to delete the BDP file.

[Led Zeppelin]

The other alternative, I suppose, is to simply open up the aircraft XDP and change the nationality from Vichy_France to France_Free. You could always change them back, I suppose. Perhaps someone else would know for sure.

Or, simply change from allowsoawn="y" to allowsoawn="n" in xdp file.

[vonOben]

Just do as suggested and replace France_Vichy with France_Free in the XDP. Don't forget to delete the BDP file.

OK, I'll try that!

Thanks for your help guys!

Cheers

vonOben

[vonOben]

Hi

I'm flying another ETO "Phoney War" campaign as a German and this time we are stationed at the Boeblingen airfield.

I've edited the MS406, BR693 and PO631 xpd files and changed France_Vichy to France_Free but now other French aircraft show up and I can't find which one it is.

Any ideas?





Cheers

[ndicki]

Those are Po631s. I imagine that it's still the usual problem, that the xdp file nationalities were not set correctly or something to that effect.

If you reset the xdp files to read 'france_free,' deleted the bdp files and then updated your install, the probability is that it simply over-wrote your version with the original one from MAW - though why, I don't know.

[vonOben]

Thanks ndicki

I'll check again so I haven't missed to change any xdp-files.

Cheers

[Daiwilletti]

Hi von Oben,

if you download "campaign generator 1-1.xls" from here at SOH, and if you have MS Excel, you can list all the aircraft in a spreadsheet and see their nationalities at a glance. Then you can open each xdp you need to modify, directly from the spreadsheet. Much quicker than manually doing it.

Another left-field thought: what is the order of nationalities listed under the <Alliances> section of your country.xml file? The order of nationaliteis will affect which nationalities spawn for Axis and Allied as default.

it seems you have persistent spawning of a particular nation for Axis Alliance, so maybe its the country.xml file?

David

[gosd]

Hi von Oben,

if you download "campaign generator 1-1.xls" from here at SOH,

David

Where is this ?
Thanks.

[Daiwilletti]

Where is this ?
Thanks.

here is the link - it is in the Warbirds archive, CFS3 Other:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/download...ds&FileID=2461

sorry I was dashing out before so did not have time to find it.

D

[vonOben]

Thanks for the tip David!

I'll try the campaign generator and check the country.xml when I get home from work.

Cheers

[vonOben]

Hi

The Country.xml (ETO default) looks like this in the beginning:

<Base>
<!--NEK ETO Edition-->
<Defaults CountryID="USA" PilotModel="Walker"/>
<Alliances>
<Alliance ID="Allies" Name="Allies">
<Country ID="Britain"/>
<Country ID="USA"/>
<Country ID="Australia"/>
<Country ID="Britain_FAA"/>
<Country ID="Canada"/>
<Country ID="Italy_Allied"/>
<Country ID="France_Free"/>
<Country ID="US_Navy"/>
<Country ID="Other_Allied_Nations"/>
<Country ID="Russia"/>
<Country ID="Belgium"/>
<Country ID="Netherlands"/>
<Country ID="Spain_Republicans"/>
<Country ID="Poland"/>
</Alliance>
<Alliance ID="Axis" Name="Axis">
<Country ID="Germany"/>
<Country ID="Italy"/>
<Country ID="Vichy_France"/>
<Country ID="Finland"/>
<Country ID="Other_Axis_Nations"/>
<Country ID="Spain_Nationalists"/>
</Alliance>
</Alliances>
<Countries>

I tested the campaign generator xls file and there were two Vichy_France aircraft I had missed to change:

ai_Po631.xdp and DR_D520_ChauP.xdp.

So that explains my problem!

There were some other strange things in the aircraft xdp files also regarding some tanks, armored car and U-boat saying Left service: eral Allegience=
Is that correct and what does it mean?

One aircraft had the wrong left service date, but it's not an ETO aircraft so that might be intentional:
DR_LeO451_Syria.xdp Left service: 13/31/1942

Cheers

[ndicki]

13/31/1942 can't be right, because the calendar stops at 12; the date is given the American way, month first, which is rather confusing to say the very least. I'd change it for something more reasonable, say, 12/31/1942...

Glad you found the trouble with the aircraft spawns.

[Daiwilletti]

Nothing wrong with the country.xml. Germany is set as the first Axis nation. I wonder of the "owner" column in the global layer is set for Vichy_France for the airfield you are looking at?

You will get a bit of corruption in the results in the Cagen file, because different xdp files are set up differently so the macro cannot cover every eventuality. I think the Allegiance= stuff is because the left service date is optional in xdp files so is sometimes missing.

[vonOben]

My airfield is Boeblingen which is German in the Global layer.

I've changed France_Vichy to France_Free in ai_Po631.xdp and DR_D520_ChauP.xdp now, so I hope that will fix the problem.

Cheers