Rule The Waves-1936

[alant]

Checking to see if this happens to non-player squadrons on carriers that begin the game on active service and BINGO!

United States


AT9Name=F3F

AT9Manufacturer=Grumman

AT9Year=1936

AT9BaseModelYear=1936

AT9MaxSpeed=229

. . .
AT9Nation=6

AT9Version=99

AT9Obsolete=1

AT9ReliabilityKnown=1

AT9ValuesKnown=0

AT9AvailableAircraft=649

AT9Id=10

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AT86Name=F3F D

AT86Manufacturer=Grumman

AT86Year=1939

AT86BaseModelYear=1936

AT86MaxSpeed=273

. . .
AT86Nation=6

AT86Version=3

AT86Obsolete=0

AT86ReliabilityKnown=1

AT86ValuesKnown=0

AT86AvailableAircraft=33

AT86Id=3165

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From one of the original active fleet carriers

AU28AircraftTypeId=10

AU28AircraftType=F3F D

AU28Id=50

AU28AircraftNumber=14

AU28DesiredAircraftNumber=20

AU28Role=0

AU28Nation=6

AU28Experience=-2

AU28Name=1229 Squadron

AU28CarrierCapable=1

AU28AirKills=0

AU28BombHits=0

AU28TorpedoHits=0

AU28Elite=0

AU28HomeBase=1470

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Ship16Id=1470

Ship16Name=Lexington

Ship16Classname=Lexington


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From a carrier that was built after the start of the scenario. NOTE: Apparently "AircraftTypeId=-1" is important, as it appears in nearly all AUxxxAircraftTypeId lines throughout the BCS file.


AU249AircraftTypeId=-1

AU249AircraftType=F3F D

AU249Id=2237

AU249AircraftNumber=2

AU249DesiredAircraftNumber=3

AU249Role=0

AU249Nation=6

AU249Experience=2

AU249Name=2237 Squadron

AU249CarrierCapable=1

AU249AirKills=0

AU249BombHits=0

AU249TorpedoHits=0

AU249Elite=0

AU249HomeBase=1476

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Ship22Id=1476

Ship22Name=Pensacola

Ship22Classname=Princeton

Ship22EnemyClassName=Pensacola

Ship22ShipType=CVL

[seawolf]

My guess is the way I initially built squadrons has something wrong, since I'm writing a lot of it from scratch. The next update should have this fixed

When the ID is -1 the squadron seems to be corrupted.  I'd experienced this a while back but thought I had fixed it.

[alant]

Changing the value of AUxxxAircraftTypeId to -1 for 33 air units (all nations) may have done the trick:

Before:


After: 

[seawolf]

Jan 3, 2021 15:10:01 GMT -6 alant said:

Changing the value of AUxxxAircraftTypeId to -1 for 33 air units (all nations) may have done the trick:

Before:
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Yeah that's weird.  What's the ID for airgroups you created yourself?

[seawolf]

Also, try running a few turns and make sure that the other airgroups don't convert to your TB

[alant]

What's the ID for airgroups you created yourself? -1

There were 944 air units and only the first 33 had a number other than -1

I've run 2-3 peacetime turns and no error messages.

[seawolf]

Jan 3, 2021 16:24:33 GMT -6 alant said:

What's the ID for airgroups you created yourself? -1

There were 944 air units and only the first 33 had a number other than -1

I've run 2-3 peacetime turns and no error messages.

And you've saved/restarted and all of the airgroups are working properly?

[alant]

And you've saved/restarted and all of the airgroups are working properly?

Yes, no changes to aircraft models after save/close/restart and now we are at war. No battles yet involving carriers.

[alant]

Fought a carrier battle, it worked as expected.

[seawolf]

alant
I figured out that the squadron problem was due to version incompatibility, its fixed in the next release

[seawolf]

Here's a beta version for 1939, currently only USA and Japan exist/are playable but everything works fully
drive.google.com/file/d/1xtexYj1_VAzNOSNrm8yV1BUhd9sRb4p7/view?usp=sharing

[andrzej597]

Hi Seawolf! May I ask how to create ship images from Shipbucket or Navypedia drawings like in your mod? It would be great if you create a tutorial for doing that - I tried doing this with online image resizer, but failed (output drawings were horribly blurred). Could you please explain step-by-step how to convert usual drawings/linearts into RTW-acceptable format for usage in-game? Thanks!

[seawolf]

Apr 17, 2021 16:40:25 GMT -6 andrzej597 said:

Hi Seawolf! May I ask how to create ship images from Shipbucket or Navypedia drawings like in your mod? It would be great if you create a tutorial for doing that - I tried doing this with online image resizer, but failed (output drawings were horribly blurred). Could you please explain step-by-step how to convert usual drawings/linearts into RTW-acceptable format for usage in-game? Thanks!

Hi-I'll upload some images of a step by step process
1st. Save a Jpg image of the ship by screenshot or saving

2.  Resize the image into the shape you want.  White out any writing, but make note of authors/sources for copyright reasons.  If you leave any writing it will just blur.
Then, save and exit.

3.  Reopen the file, and resize the width to 590 pixels(Note, there's a different way to do this if you want the resulting image to look exactly like the picture above this and you have a 1920x1080 resolution computer, but this process will make the image work for all computers, hence why I do it in my mod)

4.Then, drag the bottom of the image 11 pixels down past the bottom of the ship

5.  Then, drag the top of the image down until it is 160 pixels tall

6.  Then, drag the right side of the image until the image is 640 pixels wide

7.  Finally, add the authors name back in and the name of the source.  Save the file, and you should have a ship picture you can access in game!

[andrzej597]

Thank you very much! That is really a nice and complete guide. Thanks for your attention!