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[Atoka220]

Hi

Looking around on M4T I found some promising bomber campaigns for 4.13 and 4.14

Before anything else, would such missions be compatible with BAT 4.2?
Looking at the amount of content BAT has and TD basically using modders' work for their patches (lol), I think they would be right?

[Vampire_pilot]

maybe, maybe not?
Most content may work, certain content may be there but under different class names....

checking mission compatibility (and making missions compatible) is some work on its own. You need tools around to make it easier to scan and compare many files at once. It's  python scrips somewhere here on SAS.
Then there's mass search and replace... once you know what to change.

But if you have a specific campaign in mind, point it out and it can be investigated.

[Atoka220]

I'd link it, but the site does not even want to load for me anymore

It's rather a collection of 14 campaigns, called Total Bomber Collection, or TBC for short

I think it would be a huge amount of work...

Edit: Ok, finally it loaded lol
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=5562

[Vampire_pilot]

yeah, no, that's a bit much for on the fly.

I have converted some of saldy's stuff before and what I can tell you is that they will not work just like that. It's a huge work with his stuff.
IIRC he used HSFX and special mods. I doubt all of these are "stock game" campaigns even...

Name one you are interested in most.

[Chess100]

Total Bomber Collection is working correctly on BAT 4.2.

[Vampire_pilot]

No they don't.

I random checked the very fisrt campaign and found a missing loadout, missing aircraft and other missing items immediately. That loadout alone will cause a crash on spawn.

As I said above: Some may work, some may work with objects missing, some may not work

[Chess100]

Where I can find information about compatibilities and requirements of campaigns? Instead of info in these campaings folders and .pdf/.txt ad other files?
 I still have some campaigns which are making lovely ,,beep''. I understand how is Dgen/DCG working in some level.
I'm just looking for something more to know about it.

[Vampire_pilot]

You have to work on it yourself.
You need to check all objects, all loadouts, all planes, compare them with game ini files.
There is a python tool that can help you ID the problems:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,65584.0.html

Then you need a mass search and replace tool to edit the camapign .mis files to replace the wrong entries with available ones.

And mind you, all of that that does NOT work the same with DGEN or DCG.

For DGEN, use only this, when flying in BAT:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61913.0.html

[Chess100]

Ok, thank You!

[_1SMV_Gitano]

[...] and TD basically using modders' work for their patches (lol), I think they would be right?

Based on?