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[UberDemon]

Update 0002 For Pre-Alpha is Now Available (15 Jul 2024)

Read About it and Get it here:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72779.msg791876.html#msg791876

[16 Jun 2024 Update 2]

Announcement:  UQMG 1946 Max Public Pre-Alpha Release (Download Now, or when you feel like it…)

[Download Links Below, but I urge you to read this before installation.]

Greetings IL-2 Sturmovik Community,

For about a year now I have been working on an updated version of the UberQuick Mission Generator (UQMG) program.  UQMG 1946 Max is a completely new approach to UQMG which has a similar intent but it is a lot more flexible, and ultimately, I want it to be a fully functional mission building aid for single- , online and campaign mission building.

It is very different from UQMG, but uses some of the concepts that were important to UQMG, namely, the Clone algorithm, which allows the addition of enormous amounts of flights which would take, let’s face it, ages to design manually in FMB.

That means that in a couple of seconds I can take a flight of 4 aircraft, and I can add 50 copies in organized fashion, without causing issues.  Suddenly you have 250 aircraft flying.  You can’t do that with anything else out there.  You could have them all be in the mission, or you could choose to have them come out in waves (spawning in user-set intervals).



But of course this is a Pre-Alpha, typically reserved to the development team.  I am it.  And you, the community is… uh… are… English is hard… the team.  I request you take a look at this humble new approach and give me some honest feedback.  I can’t promise I’ll fix or implement everything, again, because I am a team of one, but I will acknowledge your recommendations.  I may be able to implement them in the future.  Or I could whine like a little boy/girl and say that you are mean and post a rant reply on how the world is mean and unfair… unlikely.  You get the point.

The installation of this version should be a lot easier than UQMG Classic, and it includes documentation that has a guide, as well as a tutorial which I hope is fun for you.  As you know, UQMG Classic was very limited due to how moronic my implementation of script based code made it so file-intensive, and how it made it so hard to update it with new objects and maps.

I tried to include a lot of documentation that allows you to develop Map templates right now.  No more bureaucracy!

Thank you for your support.

PLEASE READ GUIDE AND TUTORIAL BEFOREHAND (INCLUDED IN FULL DOWNLOAD - updated 16 June 2024):  https://www.mediafire.com/file/pk130zyty5sitel/UQMG1946MaxGuide%2526Tutorial.pdf/file

DOWNLOAD LINK:  https://www.mediafire.com/file/l5g7q0j4x2nlwx7/UQMG46Max.zip/file or
* Mission4Today:  https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=3201

Update Link:  https://www.mediafire.com/file/5ktifrqqxp5tzsn/%25230000_PreAlphaUpdate.zip/file
* Update Instructions
---- Download File to the same folder you installed UQMG Max
---- Unzip it to the "UQMG_Updates" folder
---- Run JSGME.exe
---- Remove any previous updates
---- Install New Update (All updates will be cumulative so you only need the latest)
---- You may erase older updates
* Update Log
---- Updated Guide PDF File (16 June 2024)

Please make sure you check the files in the “\ini\documentation” folder, it includes a lot of good stuff including a guide for building your own map templates for UQMG.

Important information:
IF UQMG 1946 MAX DOES NOT RUN OR FAILS
* I have never deployed a VB.NET 2022 application before, but tests at home in different computers seem to indicate this should all work, because upon building of a release version of a program it SHOULD include all required Microsoft Library libraries required.
* UQMG 1946 Max was generated for the NET 6.0 environment
* If you have NET 6.0 libraries of Runtime Files Installed, UQMG Max should run
* If not, you will have to install them.  As it has been shown below, upon first run, you should get a prompt to download the NET 6.0 libraries directly from Microsoft.  The benefit is that it should detect your CPU (Intel x86 or x64, or AMDx64), or you can download them yourself and you can install it.
* More info here:  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0 (.NET Desktop Runtime 6.0.31)
---- For x86 (32-bits):  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.31-windows-x86-installer
---- For x64 (64-bits):  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.31-windows-x64-installer
---- For AMD 64-bits:  https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.31-windows-arm64-installer

MY ASK:
* Please go through Guide and Tutorial before posting any bugs
* If you are advanced in mission design and you design a new map template, please share it with me so I can make it a part of the next release.  I request you also supply updates to the Template spreadsheet, as I can fix issues you may encounter
* If you design new missions with the interface and you are happy with them, please share them so I can include them in the next release.

CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL WHO HELP.

In all sincerity, thank you for all the support I have gotten for almost a quarter of a century (sounds more impressive than 24 years).

And here is a 100% non-AI picture my daughter drew for me...  Better than the AI ones!



More Information on UQMG 1946 Max Development
* Map Templates:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,71913.0.html
* Development Log:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,71120.0.html
* Pre-Alpha Preparation:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72370.0.html
* Cloning Update:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72347.0.html
* Development Help Requests:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72197.0.html
* Development Videos:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,71733.0.html

[sercrets]

I am very, very excited to see this finally releasing... The future is now! Give me a few days to finish highschool and I will happily test!

cheers

sercrets

[TWH_Pixy]

interested to give it a try potentially... but uh... whats the deal with all those horrendous ai images? lmao

[UberDemon]

interested to give it a try potentially... but uh... whats the deal with all those horrendous ai images? lmao

That is what happen when you ask for AI to generate a P-47 in hell... actually I think I had to ask for the P-47 to be flying through fire first, then a hellish landscape because apparently if you say hell it offends the people who wrote the AI routine.  thanks.  But in more serious notes, my own daughter is unhappy with me using these pictures so she said she will draw better ones.  I am sure that will happen soon.  In two weeks... 

[UberDemon]

I am very, very excited to see this finally releasing... The future is now! Give me a few days to finish high school and I will happily test!

cheers

sercrets

Well heck, high school is like what...  less than a decade?  Since I have been doing this since around 2000, hey that is no time at all!  I am more interested in seeing your RRR succeeding.

[Update:  More about this exciting new RRR effort here:  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72611.msg790366.html#msg790366 ]

[larschance]

Tried to download but mediafire kept telling me it was repairing the download. will try again later

[UberDemon]

Tried to download but mediafire kept telling me it was repairing the download. will try again later

I went to MediaFire and checked the files are there correctly, they have been downloaded a handful of times.  I just downloaded the PDF and Zip files, installed it, and ran it successfully.  I used the link I provided.  I checked the archive with Malwarebytes just to make sure and there was no issues.  When you run it the first time Windows may block it because I am an unknown publisher.  I assure you there is nothing bad in the file.  Could it be your antivirus/ malware program is blocking it?  If so I would disable for the download, then re-enable it, and I would run a check on the archive and then if you want, run the scan in the unzipped folder.

After the first time I ran UQMG Max the folder contains 1698 files and 61 folders.

[larschance]

Thanks for the clarity. It was the 'repair download' message that confused me. It had downloaded but took a few seconds to appear.

The zip file says 95491KB or Properties says 93.2MB. Is this right as it is less than you state.

[larschance]

Okay. loaded onto my spare BAT Flashpoint HF4. Will test it out tomorrow and let you know. A lot of work so well done.

[UberDemon]

Thanks for the clarity. It was the 'repair download' message that confused me. It had downloaded but took a few seconds to appear.

The zip file says 95491KB or Properties says 93.2MB. Is this right as it is less than you state.

That is not a problem because a byte is 1024 bits, the counting varies.  When I right click on the Zip file in my Windows 10 this is what it shows:

Okay. loaded onto my spare BAT Flashpoint HF4. Will test it out tomorrow and let you know. A lot of work so well done.

Sweet!  And thank you.  If you installed any MOD planes on top of your installation, check out the ones I have enabled in the Flight Editor.

[larschance]

I tried to merge with my BAT Flashpoint HF4 but there was no executable line. i.e. UQMG1946.exe as you state in your notes. So I pressed the UQMG1946Max application and was advised to download the NET windows runtime 6.0.31 but am reluctant to start manually adding files which will take time. Of course I may have pressed the wrong line but your instructions do not list the 9 different lines and what they mean.

Sorry if I am being a numbskull but I hate altering a working file unless absolutely necessary.

[UberDemon]

interested to give it a try potentially... but uh... whats the deal with all those horrendous ai images? lmao

That is what happen when you ask for AI to generate a P-47 in hell... actually I think I had to ask for the P-47 to be flying through fire first, then a hellish landscape because apparently if you say hell it offends trans-giraffes from the planet idiotica.  But in more serious notes, my own daughter is unhappy with me using these pictures so she said she will draw better ones.  I am sure that will happen soon.  In two weeks... 

An update... my daughter is so upset about my use of these cheezy horrible pictures she asked for some photos of P-47s so she can draw them for me...