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[SpongeBob]

Hello,
I made this some time ago, expecting to make a racing campaign. I didn't manage to complete more missions, and after seeing that TGA is too quiet, I decided to share the only mission I've got.

Forget your guns for a moment and relax (?) on a thrilling race over the Nevada desert in the thirties.





You will be at the controls of the Gee Bee Model R, one of the fastest and most dangerous planes of those years.
Try to complete the circuit as fast as you can and try to stay alive for another race.
Be careful, because the Gee Bee is quite sensitive and will stall if you turn too tight (and a stall at such a low altitude will lead to a surely death!!!).

The circuit is marked with pairs of poles, just remember you must let the red pole on your left, and the blue pole on your right. If you feel like a real daring pilot, don't forget to land just in front of the audience as a 'grand finale'!!

Here you have the link to the mission. Just download and unzip into the main BAT folder. Run under TGA era. The mission will be found under Single > NN > 1933_Race folder.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ddc2m6o9w74u8it/1933_Race.7z/file

The zip file includes a new skin for the Dewoitine D.510 (which stands for a Howard DGA), to make it look like a racing plane.

WARNING: You will face two racing rivals, but remember that IL-2 AI has serious limitations. The rivals are only eye candy. They won't try to win the race and they probably will do stupid things. Their only purpose is that you do not feel alone.

Here you have some pics:

Ready for the race



This balloon leads you to the Start point. When you reach it, fly to the right and follow the road.



The public is enthusiastic!





Two or three poles at one side means that you must turn tight to the opposite side to follow the circuit:



Over the trees...



... and down the hill.



Last yards over the city:



Finish!!!


Hope you like it.

 

[anitek]

Hey..this looks cool!!
 

[Vampire_pilot]

awesome scenery building!

[SpongeBob]

Thank you. Yes, it took a lot of object searching to make something similar to a stadium seating. However, it is quite difficult to see it from the cockpit, and especially when flying fast. 

I've realised that I originally put a skin for the Dewoitine with no colour indexing, so it is 3 MB. I've fixed it now to have 1 MB as usual, and I've corrected the .7z file and the link in the first post. The old skin won't hurt your game, but anyone that downloaded the mission yesterday can now replace the skin by a lighter one (in terms of MB). Sorry!

[asheshouse]

Very nice vintage feel to this.

[EHood]

  I'm sorry to report that the mission won't start in my installation. Instead, I get an error window that includes the phrase "Landscape 'Reno/load.ini' loading error. Here's what the logfile says:

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[Sep 8, 2018 3:58:35 PM] ------------ BEGIN log session -------------
OpenGL provider: dx8wrap.dll
OpenGL library:
  Vendor: 1C.Multimedia.Dev/Maddox.
  Render: DirectX8.
  Version: 1.1
  Extensions: GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_compression
Size: 1280x1024
ColorBits: 32
DepthBits: 24
StencilBits: 8
isDoubleBuffered: true
DirectX Joystick NOT created: DirectX joystick driver: device not attached

*** Looking for Advanced CPU Instructions...
[x] PentiumPro
[x] Multimedia (MMX)
[x] 3D (SSE)
[x] 3D (SSE2)
[-] 3D (3DNow)
ColourBits 32, ABits 0, ZBits 24

*** Looking for Render API Extensions ...
[-] 'GL_EXT_paletted_texture' extension - Palettized textures (8 bit RGBA palette).
[-] 'GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array' extension - Compiled Vertex arrays.
[-] 'GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint' extension - Frustum clipping optimization.
[x] 'GL_EXT_secondary_color' extension - Secondary Color for 3D fog & specular optimization.
[-] 'GL_EXT_separate_specular_color' extension - SeparateSpecular for 3D fog & specular optimization.
[x] 'GL_ARB_multitexture' extension - Multitexturing.
[x] 'GL_EXT_texture_env_combine' extension - Multitextures advanced combining for special effects.
[-] 'GL_NV_texture_env_combine4' extension - Multitextures advanced combining for special effects.
[-] 'GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3' extension - Dot3 Bump advanced combining.
[-] 'GL_NV_depth_clamp' extension - Corrects Shadows rendering
[-] 'GL_NV_texture_shader' extension - NV Pixel Shaders
[x] 'GL_ARB_texture_compression' extension - Saves texture memory by 400%
[-] 'GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic' extension - Anisotropic texture filtering.

Maximum texture size : 8192
Maximum simultaneous textures :8
MaxAnisotropic (1.0 = none) : 1.000000
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required latest drivers with 'vertex buffer' support
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required pixels shaders
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode required latest drivers with vertex shaders support'GL_ARB_vertex_program'
WARNING: 'Perfect' Mode is not supported for this combination of hardware and drivers.
15 Splashscreens available.
BAT Version Info (from BAT.version file): IL-2 1946 · Battlefield-Airborne-Tactical · v3.4 · LINEBACKER
INTERNAL ERROR: Str2FloatClamp() - Clamped 3 -> 2 (delta = -1) to Range 0..2
INTERNAL ERROR: Str2FloatClamp() - Clamped 5 -> 2 (delta = -3) to Range 0..2
INTERNAL ERROR: Str2FloatClamp() - Clamped 3 -> 2 (delta = -1) to Range 0..2
INTERNAL ERROR: Str2FloatClamp() - Clamped 600 -> 32 (delta = -568) to Range 0..32
INTERNAL ERROR: Can't open file '3DO/Effects/TEXTURES/JetSmoke.mat'
WARNING: object '3DO/Effects/TEXTURES/JetSmoke.mat' of class 'TMaterial' not loaded
INTERNAL ERROR: Str2FloatClamp() - Clamped 1024 -> 512 (delta = -512) to Range 1..512
INTERNAL ERROR: Can't open file '3DO/Effects/GunShells/GunsmokeI.tga'
WARNING: object '3DO/Effects/GunShells/GunsmokeI.tga' of class 'TTexture2D' not loaded
INTERNAL ERROR: Texture required
WARNING: object '3DO/Effects/GunShells/Cannonsmoke.mat' of class 'TMaterial' not loaded
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke24'
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke25'
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke26'
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke24'
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke25'
No spawner for 'com.maddox.il2.objects.vehicles.stationary.Smoke$Smoke26'
Initializing DirectSound playback device...
Primary buffer created.
Playback format is set : sampling rate = 44100, num channels = 2.
Not enought hardware buffers (0), hardware disabled
Buffer caps : Transfer rate = 0, CPU overhead = 0.
Default speaker config is : 1310724.
Direct sound audio device initialized successfully :
DX Version : 7
Hardware    - disabled [buffers : 0]
Extensions  - enabled :
  EAX ver. 1 [ ]  - disabled
  EAX ver. 2 [ ]  - disabled
  EAX ver. 3 [ ]  - disabled
  I3D ver. 2 [ ]  - disabled
  ZoomFX     [ ]  - disabled
  MacroFX    [ ]  - disabled
SIMD render [X]
num channels 32
Cannot open audio file samples/infinite 1

Loading mission single/nn/1933_Race/Cold_Springs.mis...
Month = 8 , Hour = 12
Temperature -     0m = 22.0 .
Temperature -  1000m = 15.51001 .
Temperature -  2000m = 9.019989 .
Temperature -  3000m = 2.5299988 .
Temperature -  4000m = -3.9599915 .
Temperature -  5000m = -10.450012 .
Temperature -  6000m = -16.940002 .
Temperature -  7000m = -23.429993 .
Temperature -  8000m = -29.919998 .
Temperature -  9000m = -36.410004 .
Temperature - 10000m = -42.899994 .
Temperature - 11000m = -49.39 .
Temperature - 12000m = -55.880005 .
Loading map.ini defined airfields:
INTERNAL ERROR: TGA: Unsupported format (RLE encoding) in MAPS/_Tex/Trees/whc_Jungle.tga
INTERNAL ERROR: LoadTextureFromTga('MAPS/_Tex/Trees/whc_Jungle.tga')
WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'WARNING: Error: 'W'
WARNING: TLandscape::LoadMap('Reno/load.ini') - errors in loading
Landscape 'Reno/load.ini' loading error
java.lang.RuntimeException: Landscape 'Reno/load.ini' loading error
at com.maddox.il2.engine.Landscape.LoadMap(Landscape.java:436)
at com.maddox.il2.engine.Landscape.LoadMap(Landscape.java:385)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.loadMain(Mission.java:858)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission._load(Mission.java:647)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.access$600(Mission.java:123)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission$BackgroundLoader.run(Mission.java:409)
at com.maddox.rts.BackgroundTask.doRun(BackgroundTask.java:155)
at com.maddox.il2.game.MainWin3D.loopApp(MainWin3D.java:108)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main.exec(Main.java:422)
at com.maddox.il2.game.GameWin3D.main(GameWin3D.java:235)
Landscape 'Reno/load.ini' loading error
java.lang.RuntimeException: Landscape 'Reno/load.ini' loading error
at com.maddox.il2.engine.Landscape.LoadMap(Landscape.java:436)
at com.maddox.il2.engine.Landscape.LoadMap(Landscape.java:385)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.loadMain(Mission.java:858)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission._load(Mission.java:647)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission.access$600(Mission.java:123)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Mission$BackgroundLoader.run(Mission.java:409)
at com.maddox.rts.BackgroundTask.doRun(BackgroundTask.java:155)
at com.maddox.il2.game.MainWin3D.loopApp(MainWin3D.java:108)
at com.maddox.il2.game.Main.exec(Main.java:422)
at com.maddox.il2.game.GameWin3D.main(GameWin3D.java:235)
[Sep 8, 2018 3:59:06 PM] -------------- END log session -------------

As always, any advice or assistance would be most welcome and appreciated.

[Vampire_pilot]

Loads perfectly fine for me.

What graphics card do you have? Could be one of those specific issues....

[EHood]

Intel. My stock, 4.13.4 installation works quite well with the Intel graphics and CPU cards, but I've had problems running my BAT installation in OpenGL mode. To name one example, in OpenGL I was getting the spiky clouds. Things like that stopped happening when I started using DirectX, a mode I'd never thought I'd use.

I might note that I recently loaded and started flying Mr. Prosser's Singapore (BAT/TGA) campaign, and it works perfectly well. I'm inclined to think that the problem to hand, with the Gee Bee mission, has something to do with the Reno map. When I try to open the Gee Bee mission in the FMB, no map appears, just a legend at the bottom of the screen which reads like that in the above-described error window, something about the "tirrain(sic)" not loading. Indeed, similar lines appear in the logfile I inserted into my previous reply.

The Singapore campaign can be found here:

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,59486.0.html

Once again, my thanks for your patience.

[Hans-Joachim Marseille]

This is really nice. My guess is that "Reno" map is only available with BAT and not as a single map!?    Just tried to play this in DBW but not such map installed. 

[SpongeBob]

Hi Hans-Joachim and EHood.

Nice to know that you are interested. I am sorry that you found difficulties to run the mission, but it was always intended to work under BAT.
Have you ever considered to install it?

The main advantage of BAT is that it has all the mods integred, so in theory, all users would have the same install and missions should work the same for everyone without further individual installs.

Cheers!

[Vampire_pilot]

Intel. My stock, 4.13.4 installation works quite well with the Intel graphics and CPU cards, but I've had problems running my BAT installation in OpenGL mode. To name one example, in OpenGL I was getting the spiky clouds. Things like that stopped happening when I started using DirectX, a mode I'd never thought I'd use.

There have been known cases where certain tga files can't be read properly by ATI or Intel graphic cards.
So this is no general issue for you, you just might encounter the odd map with a graphics file your card does not want to digest...

My guess is that "Reno" map is only available with BAT and not as a single map!?

You could use the site search function. But I don't know if that's a good idea... I am really unsure you should.

No, forget it. Do not use search!

[mexchiwa]

Relatedly, I made this a while back:

http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads3&file=details&id=1750