Battle of Britain modding faux-pas

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

Can someone gimme a quick hand. I'm rebuilding a WOV build of BoB. I've followed the installation instructions exactly as outlined here:

http://combatace.com/files/file/5246-battle-of-britain-campaign-pack-beta-v060a/

...all planes are 'sploding as soon as loading is complete, making it unplayable-- in fact, it freezes all menu functions and yet the game continues as normal, so I can't even quit out, I have to jump back into the desktop and kill the program manually. Obviously I'm missing something here. Can anyone help me jog my memory to figure out what the issue might be?

Kind Regards
SW
 

Edited June 28, 2014 by SayWhatt

[+RAVEN 414]

I seem to remember that was caused by having the wrong 'DesertAirfield_Data.ini's , Not real sure through?

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

Reckon I'll check that out. I vaguely remember instantly exploding being an issue with other airfield installs in the past...

[Wrench 9,747]

using WoV for a basis of a 'stand alone' Is not the right game to choose. It's internal working (read: the dlls) and NOT conducive to what you're attempting.

 

Rather, I'd suggest WoE or at the least, SFP1. They have the proper coding.

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

In a previous build, I originally used WOE, but I couldn't find the patches preceding 083006 and ran into a few issues I thought might be patch related, which is why I tried WOV this time around. Are the final patches for WOE/V/SFP1 all-in-one or do I need the previous patches from '06, et al?

[+Gepard 10,982]

Quick and dirty solution

 

If you have no desert airfields, then try to use the airfields of WOV.

 

Open the file

Battle of Britain_targets.ini

with Notepad Editor.

 

press CTRL+H

 

look for

 

DESERT_AIRFIELD

 

and replace it with

 

VIETNAMSEA_AIRFIELD

 

save the file

 

and try it again.

 

Could work.

[Wrench 9,747]

the 08 patch for all are readily available in the downloads section.

 

http://combatace.com/files/category/31-sfwo-patches/