DGen for B.A.T. - for all your dynamic campaigning needs, compatible with B.A.T. - World At War moduleOver the many years of IL-2's existence there have been a lot of addons and sub-versions of dynamic campaigns. Additions to the existing stock ones, modified ones, completely new ones.
A problem always was (and is) compatibility to your mod pack. BAT has some different content than for example DBW or CUP had or any individual install.
Up until now there was no dynamic campaign set (aka DGEN folder) fully compatible with BAT. Users could always encounter unexpected mission failures, like for example "
plane crash on spawn" or the dreaded "
beeeep" mission creation failure, which are all caused by some sort of incompatibility, be it loadouts, maps, aircraft...
DGen is complex, relying on a very large number of database files, which reside in the DGEN folder and from which the missions and campaigns are created dynamically with an element of randomness. Most DGen campaigns were compatible already but it was very possible to encounter an incompatibility here and there and it could kill all your progress and having these errors is just a bummer.
The nucleus for this project was the collective DGen set of VP Modpack, thanks to
vpmedia for the good selection!
With the invaluable help of
Whistler, we finally tackled the task of making a compatible DGEN folder and creating a B.A.T compatible dynamic campaign set for you, the player! We have done our best to comb through hundreds of files, filtering out and adapting possible conflicting entries and this is the result
Download B.A.T. DGen 1.4: DGen_for_BAT-WAW_v1.4.zip- "Disaster on the Frontiers" fix
- [DGen-WAW] prepended to campaign names
- Asterisks "*" removed
- X marks "(x)" removed
Download B.A.T. DGen 1.4 Patch v6.0: BAT_DGen_patch6.0.zip- will replace old Bf-110 and I-180 "AI stand-ins" with the real Ki-45 and Ki-44 in late Pacific campaigns!
- Fixes Bf-109 late loadout bug
changelog:
10.12.2021: Patch v6 posted
14.07.2020: Patch v5 posted
27.04.2020: v1.4 posted
10.02.2020: v1.3 posted
01.09.2019: Patch 4.0: Rufe Iwo Jima segment fix, Berlin Mai44 fix (Venator77)
09.08.2019: Patch v3.0 fix in Boelcke RV campaign - no missions created
01.08.2019: Patch v2.0 fix in Prokhorovka 43 campaign segments - "beeeep" issue
25.07.2019: v1.2, includinng Hs123 fake skins to enable Murmansk campaigns
20.07.2019: v1.1 posted
765 dynamic campaigns compatible with B.A.T. WAW
Polish language packby markov5
I added "_pl" index to files from DGEN directory, version 1.4 now works for Polish language. Polish people don't need to change the locale=pl on locale=us line in file conf.ini.
All campaign files already have a translation.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/a3gezc2j277m59t/DGen_pl.7z/file
Installation:this is a remove/replace process, do not simply overwrite.
1. Make sure to have no open DGen campaigns, no other active DGen mods or active DCG.
2. Remove/delete/backup your existing DGen folder and DGen.exe from you BAT main game directory. (It's your choice what to do or where to store it, but you need to move it out of the way to have a clean fileset in the end)
3. Put the DGen folder from this .zip download into your BAT main game directory
4. Put the Dgen.exe from the zip into your BAT main game directory
5. Put the three fake Hs123 skins into your CR_42 folder
6. play and enjoy
Some recommended extensive skinpacks for DGen missions:useful links and info about DGen:DGen Knowledge base articles on M4TDGen debugging guide by VTrelutDGEN Campaign File Structure Notes by Barkhorn1x[DGen] section in conf.ini explainedYou can add and modify a section in your conf.ini file under the header [DGen] which can influence your campaign generation.
Each entry is optional and will operate on default if not present in conf.ini.
NoBadWeather=1
Can be set to zero or one, one meaning you never get bad weather
MissionDistance=50
Can be set to from 10 to 200 Kilometers, depends on the map and targets available. It is not guaranteed that there will be suitable targets in this distance
NoAirfieldHighlight=1
Set to one to zero. Zero meaning you'll have AAA/flak unit at some unused airbases
RandomFlights=0
Can be set to 0 to 5 Random flights are flights not related to your mission, both friendly and enemy are just incidental you may or may not see these flights, they might not get close enough. Default or not having the line in conf.ini is average (3). Can affect frame rates.
MaxFLAK=5
Can be set to 0 to 100, default or not having the line in conf.ini is 10. Can affect frame rates. Affects the amount of flak generated from your airfield to target, so can affect frame rates very much.
AirIntensity=Low
Settings are low, medium and high. Default or not having the line in conf.ini is medium. Sets the number of flights, enemy and friendly, that are related to your mission. On low setting, there will be no random flights and it will override the "RandomFlights=" setting in that case, ( see above ). Can dramatically affect frame rates.
GroundIntensity=Low
Settings are low, medium or high. On low, you'll only have ground objects around target or active airfields. Default is medium (or not having the line in conf.ini ) and there will also be extra objects around your flight route, besides target area and active airfields. High gives you extra targets of opportunity to and from your home field. Can dramatically affect frame rates.
Maxbomberskill=1
Settings are 0, 1, 2 and 3, ( for rookie, average, veteran and ace ) and default or not having this line in conf.ini, the AI bomber gunners will be kind of random or depend on other settings like CampaignAI=. This limits the entire bomber skill ( not just the gunners ) to a lower level if preferred, so you can attack bombers more easily if you limit it to a low setting. It affects only enemy AI for bombers, not friendly. Unfortunately, this does nothing for transport aircraft, such as LI-2, C-47 or JU-52, so be careful around those and don't assume they will be limited like the bombers if you set this to a low setting!!! Sometimes FW-200 Condor can also sometimes be assigned as a transport plane in some maps, so watch it!!!!
CampaignMissions=Hard
Settings are easy, normal or hard. Default or not having the line in conf.ini is normal. This changes the scripts ( ops files, I.E. - ops41-E.dat, where "E", means easy ) files in the Dgen folder used to generate missions. Affects the number of enemy planes encoutered as opposed to the number of friendly planes in your group/s. For example, set on easy, you might have a mission generated which gives you four fighters on your side with four bombers, and two enemy fighters will later show up to intercept your bombers. The very same mission on hard might give you only two fighters on your side, maybe the same number of bombers to escort, but you'll run into four enemy fighters to deal with!! This balances out so it does not affect frame rate much, if at all.
CampaignAI=Hard
Settings are easy, normal or hard. Default or not having the line in conf.ini is normal. Increases enemy and friendly AI by a factor of one. Low increases friendly AI level higher while lowering enemy AI level. High does the opposite. Normal gives you a more even match of AI strength."
CampaignLength=Short
VeryShort, Short, Medium, Long, VeryLong (VeryLong is default)
CampaignDifficulty
CampaignDifficulty=Easy
CampaignDifficulty=Hard
Easy settings will add one level to all friendly groups and decrease enemy experience
OperationVictory=100
In Pacific Fighters dynamic campaigns the player's actions influence the outcome of individual operations as well as the whole war. The system works by assigning a static number of points to each target destroyed, and calculating a total number of points for each side. If your side destroys enemy targets, points are added to your side's tally. If your side's targets are destroyed by the enemy, the points are subtracted from your side's tally..Each side is assigned a predetermined number of points which in each operation means a historical outcome (victory or defeat). If the operation's tally does not match the historical outcome, an alternative briefing is triggered which may mean a defeat for the side that historically won, or vice versa.For example, if you want mission outcome to always be historical, you can set the parameters to unachievable high values, such as:
OperationDefeat=-100
OperationVictory=3000
WarVictory=1000
OperationDefeat=-3000
WarDefeat=-1000
WarVictory=30000
WarDefeat=-30000
Default value for an operation outcome is 100 points (added if it's a victory, subtracted if it's a defeat). War outcome's value is 1,000 points By reducing the numbers you can make your contributions matter much more in the overall war effort.
The following point values are used
Carrier = 100 points
Other ship = 20 points
Plane = 5 points
Tank = 3 points
All other targets = 1 point
The tallies are recalculated after each mission, and they're checked at the end of each operation.
UseParachutes
Japanese have chutes from start of war
Error reportingIt is simply not possible to test all Dgen content. We have done our best to test and to solve all the possible logic errors that we found but should you encounter any mission creation bug with this pack, please don't hesitate to report it here in this thread
-provide the exact name of the campaign
-provide an error description
-provide a log
disclaimer:
Because we know these question will arise:
This is not "new" content! It is important you understand this before you ask. This was about making existing DGEN campaigns BAT compatible - which was a lot of work already.
This is not the so called "DGen mod" or anything new, this is old-school DGen, but made compatible for BAT, starting point was the DGen set for VP_modpack
DGen.exe is version 4.0.8.6
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