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[Seppel]

Hi everyone!

I have a technical question, conserning transfering maps from HSFX to BAT.

I had to recognize, that there are two objects in HSFX, which could be find in BAT, too.
BUT: The objects are in total different design.

While the HSFX-objects

House$GermanyCityBlock1  and  House$GermanyCityBlock2

are a row of houses,



the BAT-objcts (to which they are transfered) are single houses!

The result is, that in my maps (Silesia, Eastern Frisia and Baltic Sea) the German and Polish towns look like as if
there have been  houses stolen between the remaining! Ugly!

HSFX

BAT




Is there a way, to compensate this, without changing the HSFX-objects to new ones, that we have in BAT?

I allready tried to replace the objects by using this BAT-objects:

House$germancityblock
House$germancityblock3



But these are to long and so it looks like I didn't have time to create the towns properly.

[Epervier]

Solution 1:   
- extract the two objects from HSFX (GermanyCityBlock1 and GermanyCityBlock2) and put them in BAT.
- disadvantage: all BAT maps using these objects will be changed and possibly visually altered. 


Solution 2:   
- extract the two objects from HSFX (GermanyCityBlock1 and GermanyCityBlock2)
- rename them and install them in BAT under the names (folders and static.ini entries):
[buildings.House$GermanyCityBlock5]
Title           GermanyCityBlock5
MeshLive        3do/Buildings/Germany/CityBlock5/live.sim
MeshDead        3do/Buildings/Germany/CityBlock5/dead.sim
Body            RockBig
Panzer          0.96

[buildings.House$GermanyCityBlock6]
Title           GermanyCityBlock6
MeshLive        3do/Buildings/Germany/CityBlock6/live.sim
MeshDead        3do/Buildings/Germany/CityBlock6/dead.sim
Body            RockBig
Panzer          0.96

- Using a hex editor (e.g. HEdit), modify the "actors.static" of the map. Find the string "GermanyCityBlock1" and replace it with "GermanyCityBlock5". Find the string "GermanyCityBlock2" and replace it with "GermanyCityBlock6". In this exercise, it is IMPERATIVE to replace a string of x letters with another string of the same number of characters.
This kind of change has already been used.

HEdit : see here https://www.mediafire.com/folder/xuwc5rxara3av/IL-2_Public
Tab : Outils_IL-2

[Seppel]

I like Solution 2, but I'm totally out!

I understand what you were saying, but have no idea how to do that
I never got this deep into the guts of IL-2.

[genXgamer]

Solution 1 would be very easy to implement.

I'm pretty sure VP Modpack would have the same buildings as HSFX.
If I provide them to you all you would need to do is place them in,

#WAW3/STD/3do/Buildings/Germany

[vonOben]

Solution 1 would be very easy to implement.

I'm pretty sure VP Modpack would have the same buildings as HSFX.
If I provide them to you all you would need to do is place them in,

#WAW3/STD/3do/Buildings/Germany

House$germancityblock1
House$germancityblock2

I've been using those houses in VP Modpack on my edited Poland_1939 map, but they look the same as those in BAT.
But it's possible they are there but with other names perhaps, I can't recall seeing them though.

[vonOben]

I like Solution 2, but I'm totally out!

I understand what you were saying, but have no idea how to do that
I never got this deep into the guts of IL-2.

I also like Solution 2:
But instead of using a hex editor I suggest to use the ActorsTool which is easy to use:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61796.0.html

It converts the actors.static to a number of txt-files, and then you open inBuildings.tx and replace those buildings in Notepad or similar program.
Then you convert back to actors.static.

[genXgamer]

Hi vonOben

Isn't he after GermanyCityBlock1 and GermanyCityBlock2?
I'm at work, but what do those look like in VP Modpack?

By the sounds of it, he's not interested in option two.
And yes Nowekat's ActorsTool is a must have.

EDIT:   Sorry mate, I took "I'm totally out!" as you like that option but have no desire to pursue it.

[Seppel]

By the sounds of it, he's not interested in option two.

Hi genXgamer,

I believe it's a missunderstanding - resulting from my English maybe-

I would prefer Solution two, as it creates two "new" objects.
Otherwise -as I understand it- the "old" BAT objects
Housegermsncityblock and ...block3 would change into the HSFX objects.
So everyone who uses my Baltic Map would have a change in all his other BAT maps (with this special objects).

But I am not able to generate new objects.

Maybe some of you could send me a very ... very very very ... very detailed explanation for dummies via pm.
This way I would be able to use the HSFX zeppelin hangars, too (see thread)

Thanks to you all

[Epervier]

But instead of using a hex editor I suggest to use the ActorsTool which is easy to use:
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,61796.0.html

I had this tool in my archives but I had never tested it!
I am ashamed... 
It is very easy to use. Even me, who doesn't understand English, managed to use it. I took the liberty of adding a text file in French... 

[vonOben]

Hi vonOben

Isn't he after GermanyCityBlock1 and GermanyCityBlock2?
I'm at work, but what do those look like in VP Modpack?

My mistake, corrected above now.

I've checked GermanyCityBlock1 and GermanyCityBlock2 in VP Modpack and they are the same as in BAT.

So if they are not included under other names or released separately, they must be found and extracted from the HSFX sfs files.

[Frankiek]

You can install and use the selector version 4 (and above) to launch HSFX 7.03 in this way game load faster thanks to the improved wrapper, you can modify memory usage, and extracting content with the dump mode is very quick and easy.

[Seppel]

-> vonOben:

I should double check all the 4000+ objects in BAT. Maybe you were right and the objects hide there somewhere else.