Midway Missions - Part 1 by Dasuto247!

[dasuto247]

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

Description: These are two missions from the Battle of Midway. I plan to release several more covering various phases of battle. Since today is June 4, the 74th anniversary of battle figured I would release these two completed missions. More to come in near future.

Mission one covers VMF-221's interception of the Japanese carrier planes on the morning of June 4, 1942. Player flies a F2A Buffalo. Plane count is historically accurate, so quite a few birds in the air on this one.

Missions two covers the strike by VMSB-241 flying the SB2U-3 Vindicator. Eleven of these obsolete birds left Midway, attacked the imperial fleet, and only seven returned.

Make sure to check over the README carefully.

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit Midway Missions_Part 1.zip (http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?linkid=21458&catid=43)
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

[Typhoon Willy]

Thanks Dasuto!

[dasuto247]

Thanks Dasuto!

Not a problem

[Rami]

Dasuto,

Many thanks for your dedication on these missions! :very_drunk:

[dasuto247]

Dasuto,

Many thanks for your dedication on these missions! :very_drunk:


No trouble at all Rami. Great community has provided so many tools to work with.

[ElsnerMarkus]

Hey all, i need martins gsl editor ( for midway installs). I had send him a email months ago but never became a answer from him.

Can anyone upload this tool?

EDIT: The Midway scenerie works. I had found my Mistake.

Thank you for this good Missions!

[ElsnerMarkus]

I need help with one of the planes.

I can't find the Alpha pby plane for the mission, downloading all of the planes from warbirds libray, many months ago, but i dind't find the PBY alpha?

[UncleTgt]

Alphasim Freeware Page
http://www.virtavia.com/Freeware/
PBY5 for FS2004
http://www.virtavia.com/Freeware/ALPHA_PBY_Catalina_FS9.zip

[ElsnerMarkus]

Alphasim Freeware Page
http://www.virtavia.com/Freeware/
PBY5 for FS2004
http://www.virtavia.com/Freeware/ALPHA_PBY_Catalina_FS9.zip

Okay, thank you but i had other problem. I have Past the File from dasutos mission in the PBY folder and the game can't find the modell file :(

[UncleTgt]

Check the model.cfg. It needs to reference the model name correctly
Check the the aircraft.cfg to make sure it's not referencing the FS2004 model name.

[dasuto247]

Check the model.cfg. It needs to reference the model name correctly
Check the the aircraft.cfg to make sure it's not referencing the FS2004 model name.

I included the model and model cfg file to replace the default one in alpha so plane could be used as AI bird. No issues on my end, files were named appropriately.

[UncleTgt]

I included the model and model cfg file to replace the default one in alpha so plane could be used as AI bird. No issues on my end, files were named appropriately.

So Elsner, did you do this, as Dasuto had thoughtfully provided the correct files already? :ichile:

[ElsnerMarkus]

So Elsner, did you do this, as Dasuto had thoughtfully provided the correct files already? :ichile:

Yes, i do this.

I replace in Alpha PBY 5 A the air file with the air file from the Mission and the model cfg and ALPHA_BlackCat_Amphibian mdl with the file in the missions ordner. But the Game can't find the Model folder?

[kelticheart]

THANK YOU, DASUTO!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:



KH :ernaehrung004:

[UncleTgt]

Yes, i do this.

I replace in Alpha PBY 5 A the air file with the air file from the Mission and the model cfg and ALPHA_BlackCat_Amphibian mdl with the file in the missions ordner. But the Game can't find the Model folder?

Elsner, just checking, you copied and pasted
model.cfg
ALPHA_Blackcat_Amphibian.mdl
into the ALPHA PBY-5A Catalina MODEL folder? (this has model.cfg + ALPHA_PBY5A_USAF.mdl in it). :teapot:

I ask because the ALPHA Blackcat model is in model.4 folder, but CFS2 won't look for the model.4 folder unless you change the first entry in the aircraft.cfg file to read model=4

I think it would be useful if Dasuto could include the aircraft.cfg for the ALPHA PBY-5A Catalina - the Alpha FS2004 has many different versions & lot's of data that CFS2 doesn't need in order to load - it can be confusing for some to know what to change:dizzy:.

[ElsnerMarkus]

Elsner, just checking, you copied and pasted
model.cfg
ALPHA_Blackcat_Amphibian.mdl
into the ALPHA PBY-5A Catalina MODEL folder? (this has model.cfg + ALPHA_PBY5A_USAF.mdl in it). :teapot:

I ask because the ALPHA Blackcat model is in model.4 folder, but CFS2 won't look for the model.4 folder unless you change the first entry in the aircraft.cfg file to read model=4

I think it would be useful if Dasuto could include the aircraft.cfg for the ALPHA PBY-5A Catalina - the Alpha FS2004 has many different versions & lot's of data that CFS2 doesn't need in order to load - it can be confusing for some to know what to change:dizzy:.
I have the same Problem . Don't know where are my mistake?

Here is ia little Video with my Steps for the Plane.
The CFS 2 Version is in german , my Win 7 is a Englisch version
https://youtu.be/qer6uQLpWoo

[UncleTgt]

Hi Elsner,

Watched the vid, it looks like you did everything correctly.

I opened Dasutos mission files with Notepad & noticed the object is called "PBY5A_CATALINA".

Change the Alpha PBY-5A Catalina aircraft.cfg to read "Title=PBY5A_CATALINA" :frog:

[ElsnerMarkus]

Hi Elsner,

Watched the vid, it looks like you did everything correctly.

I opened Dasutos mission files with Notepad & noticed the object is called "PBY5A_CATALINA".

Change the Alpha PBY-5A Catalina aircraft.cfg to read "Title=PBY5A_CATALINA" :frog:

I had chancged the Name, but the game dont find the plane in the libray

[UncleTgt]

Hi Elsner, I'm back home, so I've fired up CFS 2 & loaded Dasuto's mission. I gave you the wrong steer earlier today. The title in the aircraft.cfg can remain the same, it's the name of the aircraft folder that needs to change.

Instead of "ALPHA PBY-5A Catalina", the folder needs to be called "PBY5A_CATALINA"

Then the plane will load. This is a large mission - my PC has 8gig of RAM & the first time it failed to load "PBY5A_CATALINA". This model is not multi-LOD, so takes a lot of processor power to load multiple aircraft to a mission. In my case I pressed load mission again, & this time it loaded successfully.

As the PBYs are just ground objects in this mission, they need to be simpler models. Shessis PBY5 is multi-LOD, hopefully his reworking of the PBY5A isn't too far away. Otherwise I think the mission would benefit from changing these ground objects to simpler PBY models, so that people running less powerful hardware can enjoy Dasutos hard work.

[ElsnerMarkus]

I have Rename the Folder but it doesn't work.

http://www.speedyshare.com/nQyny/PBY5A-CATALINA.zip

No more idea

[UncleTgt]

I take it you can't get the PBY5A to load in Quick Combat either?

I looked at your zipfile. There are two possible errors.

Remember this is a FS2004 aircraft. The panel.cfg references FS9 gauges, so won't work. I don't think this will stop the model loading though.

The sound folder aliases to the DC3. This isn't a stock CFS2 aircraft. Replace the sound.cfg with

[fltsim]
alias=C47_Dakota\sound

This should get it to load.

[ElsnerMarkus]

I take it you can't get the PBY5A to load in Quick Combat either?

I looked at your zipfile. There are two possible errors.

Remember this is a FS2004 aircraft. The panel.cfg references FS9 gauges, so won't work. I don't think this will stop the model loading though.

The sound folder aliases to the DC3. This isn't a stock CFS2 aircraft. Replace the sound.cfg with

[fltsim]
alias=C47_Dakota\sound

This should get it to load.


I had changed the cfg file, but the model can't load?

i can't see the Plane in Quick Combat.

[UncleTgt]

Hi Elsner,

I examined your zipfile. For some reason you decided to rename the air & dp files as "sim=Catalina PBY5", but didn't actually rename the airfile!:rocket: If you do this, it will definitely load ...

[ElsnerMarkus]

Update:


Okay, ich bin einen schritt weiter.


it works in quick combat and i can see the plane in the Aircrafts list on Mission, but he seraches and can't find the modell if i start the Mission? The game say's error loading on mission file?

I can see the Plane correct in free flight ect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djDzhTNB4-Q

[miamieagle]

Thank you!:applause:

[UncleTgt]

Update:


Okay, ich bin einen schritt weiter.


it works in quick combat and i can see the plane in the Aircrafts list on Mission, but he seraches and can't find the modell if i start the Mission? The game say's error loading on mission file?

I can see the Plane correct in free flight ect.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djDzhTNB4-Q

See my post earlier. The ALPHA PBY is a big, single LOD model. It took 2 goes at loading the mission for me to get it to load. If your hardware isn't up to it, you can efit the .mis file using Notepad. Change the PBY5A to PBY5 (Shessis model is multi-LOD) & the mission will load.

[ElsnerMarkus]

See my post earlier. The ALPHA PBY is a big, single LOD model. It took 2 goes at loading the mission for me to get it to load. If your hardware isn't up to it, you can efit the .mis file using Notepad. Change the PBY5A to PBY5 (Shessis model is multi-LOD) & the mission will load.

Okay, i had changed the Modell von Alpha with the Model from Shessi.

Can see the plane in quick combat ect. had change the Name in Missions file to your. But the Missiont won't load. The game did not find the Model?
What the ****. In Quick combat the game find the Model and i can see it but not in the Mission?
In the zip file are the changed pby with shessis modell and mission files.

http://www.speedyshare.com/ca2XT/Modding-PBY.zip

[UncleTgt]

:banghead:I never said change the aLpha model for the Shessi model.

I said change the object name in the mission file so it references the Shessi model instead.

I don't have the file with ATM, but I changed all of the objects, ships, aircraft I didn't have already in my test install & still got it to load!!!!

[UncleTgt]

Elsner,

I just looked through your attached zip.

1. The mission file edit is good - don't change it.

2. The PBY aircraft.cfg is different (again).

My solution - go back to your previous PBY5A zip you linked to.

i) rename the airfile correctly
ii) change the sound.cfg so it points to the stock C47_Dakota (as above).

Make sure you exit CFS2 after any changes.

Load CFS2

Try to run the original mission 004B.
If it says cannot load PBY5A, click through, & go back to the Main Menu.
Select the mission again & try to load. This sequence worked for me.

I believe it is because the Alpha model is too large & complex & triggers some sort of time out if the mission doesn't load within a certain amount of time. Older PC hardware will suffer from this more.

If this doesn't work, try your modified mission 004B. This mission now just looks for the PBY5 object (Shessis model, which is multi-LOD), & doesn't use the ALPHA_PBY5A.

If it doesn't load, click through & try to load it again (it is a large mission with lots of objects).

If that doesn't work - give up & try flying something that does load with your hardware.:pop4:

[ElsnerMarkus]

:banghead:I never said change the aLpha model for the Shessi model.

I said change the object name in the mission file so it references the Shessi model instead.

I don't have the file with ATM, but I changed all of the objects, ships, aircraft I didn't have already in my test install & still got it to load!!!!

Sry my english is not the best, it is middle and i make mistakes.

But Offtopic. I can play since today the Force Z Mission from Dasuto. Remember i had the same problem 1 year ago with the japanese claude, but thank for your tips.the mission works fine. Thanks to Dasuto for the Force Z Mission.

ich glaube, dass ich das problem mit der PBY auch noch hinbekomme

[ElsnerMarkus]

Yeha, it works.

I have found my mistake. Sry for my stupid questions and that i had not understand you faster :-(

Thank you Dasuto for this very beauty Mission!

[UncleTgt]

Elsner,

No problem, & sorry if some of my posts came over as SHOUTING. Your english is way better than my German :a1310:

Glad you got thing sorted.:encouragement:

[ElsnerMarkus]

Elsner,

No problem, & sorry if some of my posts came over as SHOUTING. Your english is way better than my German :a1310:

Glad you got thing sorted.:encouragement:

No problem.

I Use the X key in mission for the warp to the waypoint 23 Miles nortwest of midway but, no japanese planes to see? The only message i see what "val 2 is collieded with val 3"

Im Wait/ search them for the For the First japanese Wave to shoot many if i can down .-)
happy to see that a Modder reworked the Battle of Midway and Coreal Sea Missions. The AF Missions and Coreal Sea Strike and Counterstrike are good but old :-)

[ElsnerMarkus]

Oh my God. So many enemy Planes?

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=38837&stc=1

[glh]

Oh my God. So many enemy Planes?



I'd land and head for the underground bunker.

[ElsnerMarkus]

I'd land and head for the underground bunker.
No, I#m stand and fight.

A really good mission :-). 108 Enemy Planes xD

[dasuto247]

No problem.

I Use the X key in mission for the warp to the waypoint 23 Miles nortwest of midway but, no japanese planes to see? The only message i see what "val 2 is collieded with val 3"

Im Wait/ search them for the For the First japanese Wave to shoot many if i can down .-)
happy to see that a Modder reworked the Battle of Midway and Coreal Sea Missions. The AF Missions and Coreal Sea Strike and Counterstrike are good but old :-)


Warp is not enabled in most of my missions.I thought I put it in the readme.If not, I apologize. I do not include warp in most missions due to the warp bug with fuel and key events are triggered by certain activities to make it come together properly are "thrown off" by warp. My missions can be flown at 4x time.For the long range missions I will release such as PBY, heavy bombers etc that cover great distances, will include warp so playe rmay use if would like.They are designed differently so warp may be used.

In the First Midway mission..the intercept, warp is not necessary as bandits are roughly 30 minutes flight time from Midway, enough time to take off, get to altitude and intercept them 20 miles out as mentioned in the briefing.

In the second missions flying Vindicators, warp is not enabled, simply follow the mission briefing and intel instructions as well as any given during flight.Fly at 4x time, then drop to 1 when find enemy force, and will be in the action in no time.

[dasuto247]

No, I#m stand and fight.

A really good mission :-). 108 Enemy Planes xD


Glad you enjoyed it. Did you survive? Any kills? Yes, the Japanese launched a large raid that morning, 36 D3A, 36 B5N with 36 A6M2 escorting.

[dasuto247]

Thank you!:applause:

No problem at all

[ElsnerMarkus]

Glad you enjoyed it. Did you survive? Any kills? Yes, the Japanese launched a large raid that morning, 36 D3A, 36 B5N with 36 A6M2 escorting.

I Did:t survive. A Val shoot my Buffalo Burning and i jump out but the parachut didn't open :-(

I Shoot Down 23 Japanese Planes - 10 D3A1 Val Dive Bombers and 13 B5N2 Kate Level Bombers