For 4Shades bug report, Please Help

[242Sqn_Chap]

I just retyped and send this to you and the body does not show up in the message again...I copied it this time and maybe it will be visible if I post it here instead to you:-

Anyhow what does not kill us makes us stronger so here here we go again.

I will try and outline everything that I encountered but also be concise:-

(server is 102nd dedicated, latest versions of everything I believe, Cmirko had certainly posted details)

A couple of weeks ago we ran into a problem with the Italy map and I believe you were sent a copy of the mission and DB.

The mission generated would load but if you shift tabbed in game it showed all kinds of error messages and when a number of players joined it became unplayable/server kicked everybody.

Zoltan and I traced the problem, with normal road following movement SEOW was generating missions with sudden negative values in the <chief> vehicles movement waypoints.

We swapped to simple movement and reverted to backup and after this it generated perfect a mission. (a map route finding problem ?)


Now we have encountered another problem with the Murmansk campaign that we have been playing. More complex I think and also stranger as we have managed to already play quite a number of trouble free missions.
But some aspects are similar.

Built and generated a (fortunately ai only) mission as normal.
This played through ok but after analysis all ships, 90% of aircraft and all stationary ground units had disappeared from planner...obviously this is pretty disasterous.

I had a hunch that it was to do with the obj_mission_data file becoming too large for our SQL settings in some way. Gross reported a similar problem and got around it by deleting the first 1000 entries in this table.... returned to backup, tried this and it didn't solve problem.

So I looked at the mission file generated....This is where it gets weird...similar negative values appeared in the <Chief> vehicle movement
waypoint paths as with Italy...stranger still the mission got to the WP's for <Chief> 88> ...nothing after it, no stationary ground...static objects, front markers or anything.

Not surprising that everything disapeared from the planner. But it still loaded !

Returned to back up and reset movement to simple. Like Italy this seemed to solve the problem and the mission generated looks complete (link provided).

However after playing this mission through the outcome is the same as all previous...all non moving ships, ground units...and the majority of both sides planes have disappeared from the planner.

Here is a link to the DB and the mission file that generated out ok after resetting movement to simple (try it set to normal, the mis file is incomplete but surprisingly does still load.)

Link :-
(Sent to you in a PM )

The DB's are hybrid to an extent as they have the new objects_specifications inserted into them in order to make them compatible with latest SEOW. I doubt this is the above problem as we have played quite a few Murmansk missions already with this setup.

Anyhow after many hours I realised that I do not really know how to proceed with resolving this problem.

Hope you get some time to give it a look, sorry about the blank posts I just retypes and sent this to you again as a PM and same thing seemed to happen so I decided to repost here.

Cheers
Charlie

[IV/JG7_4Shades]

Hi Chap,

Email sent - can you confirm that you are using DCS v3.1.5? It seems like there was another re-occurrence of the "capture" bug.

Also, I found a need to re-dimension ObjMissionDisposition fields.

Cheers,
4Shades