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Bondy -> (5/25/2000 10:22:00 AM)
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This is by Wild Bill:
Managing Campaigns in SPWAW
By Wild Bill Wilder
SP: WAW allows two types of campaigns. There are campaigns generated by the computer and there are also what are called "User Edited Campaigns." That means that these campaigns were designed by individuals much like the scenarios that are included with the game. These are not computer-generated and may prove quite different from the campaigns the computer creates on request. User-Defined Campaigns are often more historical in nature and are built around a particular unit or a particular theater of battle during the World War II period.
Managing Campaigns
User-defined campaigns require a little different care than the scenarios in the game. A separate subdirectory or folder should be created to hold these campaigns. Inside each campaign is a zipped (or compressed) package. To use the files needed for a campaign, you'll have to "open" or unzip these files into the \scen subdirectory of the game.
Do not delete the zip file. If you remove the campaign files, the zip file will remain intact. If you keep it, you'll always have these files for future play.
The Problem to Avoid
There is a definite reason for doing it the above way. When you load a campaign into SPWAW (an edited one, like ours), it occupies a certain space. When you load another of the same type, it overwrites the old one. In other words, you cannot have two of this type of campaign open in SP: WAW at the same time.
There is one master file that controls all the scenarios in one campaign. It is called usercamp.dat. Each campaign has the same master file name. It is the only one the game will recognize. The game was originally designed by SSI so that the owner of the game could design campaigns on his computer and they would all be saved into this one file.
Because, however, we are doing campaigns on separate computers, we cannot access the same usercamp.dat file. Each campaign we create has its own usercamp.dat file. Again, if you load an edited campaign into the game and one is already there, it will load right over the top of it and sometimes mix the scenarios of the two campaigns.
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