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OOB Question - 8/25/2002 12:32:00 AM   
Bing

 

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Joined: 5/20/2000
From: Gaylord, MI, USA
Status: offline 		I can't find the OOB section, if it is still in business please direct me to it.

If it no longer exists and this is duh place, then:

We have a situaiton where an OOB has been heavily edited to reflect modern equipment. The problem is not all the edits are showing up - even though the nominal time frame has been observed in generating a battle, some of them don't show up at all in the purchase screens and a few of them have a button but will not respond when the button is clicked.

I seem to remember someting about this from the past but without an OOB section to search I am lost. Just vaugely I seem to recall a limitation of sorts on how many equipment types can be successfully edited, or there is a trick to get them to appear.

Can anyone help? A thread, an article, anything? Thanks all for your help,

Bing

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- 8/25/2002 1:34:04 AM   
Kanon Fodder

 

Posts: 196
Joined: 9/8/2001
From: Portland, Orrygun
Status: offline 		SPWaW OOB

I never did understand why this forum is not a sub-forum to the main SPWaW

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- 8/25/2002 1:42:32 AM   
Supervisor

 

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Joined: 3/2/2004
Status: offline 		Because it's suppose to deal with all OOB's for all games that use them. SPWAW is not the only one.

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Re: OOB Question - 8/25/2002 2:24:40 AM   
Warhorse


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Joined: 5/12/2000
From: Birdsboro, PA, USA
Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bing
[B]I can't find the OOB section, if it is still in business please direct me to it.

If it no longer exists and this is duh place, then:

We have a situaiton where an OOB has been heavily edited to reflect modern equipment. The problem is not all the edits are showing up - even though the nominal time frame has been observed in generating a battle, some of them don't show up at all in the purchase screens and a few of them have a button but will not respond when the button is clicked.

I seem to remember someting about this from the past but without an OOB section to search I am lost. Just vaugely I seem to recall a limitation of sorts on how many equipment types can be successfully edited, or there is a trick to get them to appear.

Can anyone help? A thread, an article, anything? Thanks all for your help,

Bing [/B][/QUOTE]

I'll try to look at them tonite after work, I've yet to have any problem getting things to appear, there is usually a reason why they won't!! Stand by....

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- 8/25/2002 10:40:17 PM   
Bing

 

Posts: 1366
Joined: 5/20/2000
From: Gaylord, MI, USA
Status: offline 		Sorry - I found the OOB section. Didn't expect it to be in the general, overall forum main page. I'll take a look there, however still appreciate whatever help the WAW'ers can provide.

Thanks again,

Bing

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- 8/25/2002 11:03:07 PM   
Bing

 

Posts: 1366
Joined: 5/20/2000
From: Gaylord, MI, USA
Status: offline 		OK, I found the OOB sction and searched far enough back to the point where someone was asking: No version 5.0 yet??? In other words, early 2001.

From what I could find no one asked the specific question about why under certain circumstances equipment on the OOB will not apear on the pruchase screens, l though is does in the encyclopedia. This isn't a matter of setting the correct year, we have done that and as one example the light tank sections won't respond. Is there a possiblity that if ONE of the entries is out-dated the entire section won't respond?

Ex: J. Wood has done a modern OOB - its great, very much fun, Jamie now has me designing scenarios which I never did before - the equipment runs all the way to current but of course 1949 is the latest date we can enter in the editor screens. If, say, 8 of 9 light tnaks are available in June 1949 and one, just one, dropped out in 1946 would that cause the ENTIRE light tank section to be unusable?

Or is it something else? Is a puzzlement.

Bing

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- 8/25/2002 11:47:19 PM   
Bing

 

Posts: 1366
Joined: 5/20/2000
From: Gaylord, MI, USA
Status: offline 		OK - I think the problem is solved, at least for the time being. Been a while since I' ve fooled around with editing scenarios and have never done a complete scenario from scratch, other than the limited one for the arty tutorial I did way back when.

The reason this came up is my acquired dislike for snow. You live where I do, you get 160+" snow per season. You could easily grow to hate the white junk. I don't play winter scenarios. Period. I see enough of that stuff from November until late March.

So when I went to generate a map, naturally it was June. Then when I went to purchase equipment certain types were not available, including the entire light tank section (per above this is heavily modified OOB). What I have to do is: First, generate the map for June 1949. Then change the map date to December 1949; do not regenerate, just change the date. Then when I go to purchase I can buy the units I want, when done I can go back to the map screen and change the date back to June 1949.

The same routine works for replacing units in a scenario already saved: Change the date to Dec 49, go to the buy screen, click on units to be replaced, select the replacements, go back to map screen, change date back to June 49 - everybody happy, everybody singing.

The Battle of Pokanoza may now commence. Actually, not sure of the location. There are two towns in close proximity, Pokanoza and Pokadanoza - take your pick. It is our guys trying to save the world from godless Commies.

Bing

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