UPDATE: 30 August 2020
Greetings mates!
It has been a while since I had an update with some screenshots, so I figured this is time. I have some exciting news, well from my perspective. I have a working algorithm to convert my previous “uqmg” save files, which as some of you may know, are the UQMG script files which generate IL-2 mission files, but are saved for later use in case you want to re-generate a previous UQMG mission. I’ve always included those files to allow players to quickly generate missions using whatever new features were available with the latest update.
I realize a lot of this includes stock content, but nevertheless provide good guides for mission building in UQMG. I thought it would be a shame to lose all that content with the latest update I am working on. May not be much but they are altogether 407 different missions I have created in the last two decades of IL-2.
What I did is that I used many of the features I have been working on to convert the old files into scripts which are compatible with BAT WAW 3.8.x. Of course there are some limitations, which must be done, unfortunately, and here they are:
* Aircraft which are not present in BAT WAW (such as stock Fw-190D-9 Late, 1945) use a suitable substitution from BAT
* Only default Regiment/Squadrons are used (it would be grueling work to use the exact unit). So if something in the original mission was in JG52, it will be in the default Luftwaffe regiment. Sorry.
* Composite flights which were stupid to begin with, like a single Bf-110 towing an Me-321, would be replaced by something reasonable(ish).
* The only Rule Set for all missions is the default “(A)(U) Unlimited” one. Sorry, but there is no way to rebuild those old sets. It would be a lot of work, and it is so simple to create your own. Plus, some of those sets are so outdated, with only original IL-2 stock content, and surpassed substitutions, like Pe-2s being used instead of Bf-110s because they were not available… so what is the point?
* Currently, only ground objects up to 4.12 are available, except for static aircraft. All static aircraft are updated to BAT WAW 3.8.x. This will be updated later, and that is a for sure!
OK so let’s take a look at the original content… I will use a favorite of mine, which is a mission which was in my last release. The name of the mission is: “blu_(beta1.2)Re2002vsUKBase.uqmg” and maybe familiar to some of you, as it was in the “_beta_upgrd0018” save directory.
Here it is what it looks like in your current UQMG:
Once it is updated, this is what it looks like… Note I decided to change the mission (very easily) to include BAT objects, and used the Winter Map...
Does not look like much, but you can see that the update does work in IL-2 BAT WAW (currently it is 3.8.4, but running in 3.8.5). Things to keep in mind: Some of the composite flights work better than others. So original tugs and gliders generally work in a more stable manner than the latest ones. When using the ground matching feature, it will take longer to generate a mission. BAT introduces a plethora of new objects, so it takes longer, at times.
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