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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

LST: I REALLY like what you have done with your scenario premise. If it weren't for having to move about 1,000,000 items from one database to another I just might try it with one of my Mods. Could not imagine re-doing RA or BTS entirely onto a clean database. THAT would suck.

Stupid Question: Is it possible to move an entire database and import it in? Had JWE help me once there but don't know how to do it myself.

Will add my Mods descriptions when the boys are off to school this morning.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Yes, witploadae.exe can help, but since so many values are interconnected but on different panels, it is difficult to move items. Want to move a ship from one slot to another? Don't forget to update the slot number of the ship in the leader panel and possibly in the TF panel as well...

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ORIGINAL: Yaab


Drw61, could you add scenario numbers in your first post? For example, Andy's New scenario 1 is listed the game's scenario selection screen as scenario 33. Would be easier to visualise scenario name-scenario number correspondence.

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Drw61, could you add scenario numbers in your first post? For example, Andy's New scenario 1 is listed the game's scenario selection screen as scenario 33. Would be easier to visualise scenario name-scenario number correspondence.

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ORIGINAL: drw61

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ORIGINAL: Yaab


Drw61, could you add scenario numbers in your first post? For example, Andy's New scenario 1 is listed the game's scenario selection screen as scenario 33. Would be easier to visualise scenario name-scenario number correspondence.

Added the scenario numbers.

If there are two scenarios that you want that have the same number just open one of them with the editor and save it to a new scenario number.

If you are playing against the AI you will need to copy the AI files to match the new scenario number. Example: to copy scenario 2 to 100 you would make a copy of aei002-01.dat and then rename it aei100-01.dat . Do this for each of the aeiXXX-XX.dat files.

Hope this helps

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ORIGINAL: Vipersp

Hi drw61,

I would like to mention my own scenario to this great list, Silver Wings, an alternate history mod where the Pacifc war starts in in 1949;

Best wishes,

Vipersp

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

@Admiral DadMan:
I'm not a native speaker and not familiar with that expression - what does it mean?

@John:
The witploadae tool allows to dump the scenario files into a collection of .csv files which can be opened with Excel for example, and to compile the .csv files back into scenario file format.

There is a .csv file for locations, one for ship classes etc. - like the panels in the editor. You can copy&paste huge amount of data between two scenario "dumps" easily. However, since data is "interconnected" there are some traps. For example, if you copy ship files from scen A to scen B, each ship with an assigned captain will have a slot number pointing to the assigned captain in the leader file - so you must copy&paste that leader slot in the leader files from scen A to scen B as well, otherwise the leader will not exist and the assigned captain of the ship will not show up in the game. Similar, a ship in scen A might be assigned to a TF, so you will have to copy the slot of that TF from the TF file of scen A to the TF file of scen B as well. Things get nasty when slots in the destination file are already being used by your own mod work - then the juggling of slots and assignments begins...

The tool is also useful to change values for multiple units easily. For example, setting the small amounts of sys and engine damage the ships start with in my mod - since it is really unrealistic that all ships started the war in pristine condition - with the editor would have required to access each single ship individually to enter the values. With witploadae, I just selected the columns representing sys and engine damage in the ship file of the .csv dump and used the random number generator of Excel. Three seconds in the .csv dump what would have taken bloody ages with the editor.

Finally, the .csv files give access to certain attributes NOT available in the editor. For example the movement stance of LCUs. You can give move orders and destinations to ground units in the editor, but they will move in combat mode by default. In the location file of the .csv dump there is a column which will allow to change the movement stance to strategic, reserve etc. Other "hidden" values concern AA and DP guns and are being used in DBB to enhance the flak.

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ORIGINAL: Three63

I'm kinda confused. What battles do those scns cover? Can someone give me a basic rundown of some of them.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

@Admiral DadMan:
I'm not a native speaker and not familiar with that expression - what does it mean?