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HCE - 2007.023 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Prevent potential crash when launching weapon with long name - Chg:0000 GE Allow battlesets with zero scenarios, no more crashing - Chg:0000 GE Upon scenario load, suppress the orders window if no orders are available, go straight into the game. - Chg:0000 GE Refueling manually will now replace any existing refueling events that haven't started to transfer fuel. The aim is to prevent an inability to manually refuel (i.e. the command is given but no refuel occurs until much later). - Chg:0000 GE Let BOL weapons hit anybody, including player ships. - …

Using Tony's new Battle Set Creator (Thanx Tony), I designed a Caribbean BS and wanted to try a scenario involving the USCG and modern day pirates. The problem I ran into is that the Red pirate unit cannot be ordered to attack a Green merchant. If I use a Blue merchant, the attack goes OK, but the merchant also acts as an extension of Blue sensors, and the pirate is immediately reported upon detection. It seems in the real world no report would likely be made until after an actual attack/distress call. This is probably similar to a report I made to MANTIS regarding Harpoon BOL shots overflying neutrals and hitting hostiles, even though the neutral was beyond the se…

The only changes were to the ExportDLLs, test them if you like, but keep playing anyway

Try 2 at the guns only working at their database limited altitude bands. Same tests as 2007.020 1. Test AAA guns in pre-EC2003 battlesets 2. Test AAA guns in EC2003, test for altitude Also you'll see in the zip file a DLL file that wants to go in a directory called ExportDLLs. When you have appropriate DLLs in that folder they will be sent information from the game (to be documented eventually). I'm hoping you can test somewhat with the DLL in place but it will slow the game down and will make a pretty large file datadump.txt in your HC directory so once you get sick of it, rename the dll to datadump1.dll.bak. Naturally if you have crashes and such please …

The only change in 2007.020 is to limit guns to their altitude limits as presented in the database. Previous behavior was that all guns could fire to any altitude. I placed limits both in regular air defence and in point defenses. Things to test: 1. Behavior in EC2003+ 2. Behavior in Legacy battlesets

I didn't test this much at all before posting up... Both GE and SE are updated. This addresses what Rene found, text descriptions were being read incorrectly in some situations, this was due to the GE and SE trying to read data out of the battleset .res file instead of commondb.res. So any code that reads from the database is impacted by my commenting out a single line to fix the bug Rene found. That means testing is both hard and easy. Easy to use Rene's test files and see if you have an error yet in 2007.018, difficult in that many other things should be tested, playing thru a scen, different types of weapons, etc. Rene's post and files http://harp…

the attched file provides a Battleset and the db files when you Play Matrix Siege from Blue and go to the Unitwindow selet the FFG and hit "Full" the Unitdisplay should shoh upo but the Text is messed up do the same with the DDG and the game crashed here. The Scen/DB works fine with the original GUIK BS! Regards René hdsm.zip

http://www.advancedgaming.biz/mantis/view.php?id=1943 Can someone please test this with the 2007.017 SE? I've gone over 1062 with EuroDB but not by much.

2007.017 Sees Scenario Editor (SE) zoom levels added, 16x, 32x, 64x. Please Test: 1. Make sure scenario made in this SE plays in the GE.

OK, seems like a single thread for these as they pop up will be best. Current Issues I've found: PT Shersen and PT Turya are currently armed with SET-53 torpedos, these are SUB only, my research shows they should be 53-65K torpedos. PT Huchuan currently also carries SET-53. This type should carry the YU-1.

2007.016 Sees more AI Ship to Ship torp launch work as well as work on the battleset builder and the introduction of hdsm battleset (so you don't have to overwrite an existing battleset). Please Test: 1. Make sure AI will fire torps against player ships (it will only do this when it cannot fire missiles or guns) 2. Keep testing the battleset builder. It needs work but the acceptable parameters have yet to be found (on how large/small/wide/tall/etc. at battleset can be before the GE and SE go really strange).

So I'm safe overwriting:

Hi There are some issues with ths tool. 1. when you include some scens in the Battleset they show up, but when you try to play them you get totally different ones(from they original/replaced bs?) 2. would be nice if there´s a way there´s a way to "remember" former settings (chart and scens)or and "Add" fuction if one want to add new scens to an existing Battleset.

The focus of 2007.015 was the Ship to Ship torpedo firing, specifically . The goal is for it to remember the side and position of last base added, until you exit the base add dialog Please Test: 1. Make sure AI will fire torps against player ships (it will only do this when it cannot fire missiles or guns) 2. Make sure ASuW range ring include dual purpose guns.

The focus of 2007.014 was the Base Add dialog. The goal is for it to remember the side and position of last base added, until you exit the base add dialog Related Mantis Entries: http://www.harpoon5.com/mantis/view.php?id=1920

The focus of 2007.012 was allowing the use of battlesets created with the BSBuilder. Please Test: 1. Using BSBuilder battlesets with the GE and SE. a. Textured maps should not be used as you'll see when you try.

The focus of 2007.011 was fixing the attack type dialog where you choose Missile, Torpedo, or Guns attack. Please Test: 1. Make sure the dialog is consistent for you. a. i.e. Missile attack doesn't include torps, torp attack doesn't include missiles, etc. 2. Make sure ASROC type weapons work (torps in missiles) a. From player side b. From AI side 3. Make sure Subs can attack ships (from player and AI sides) a. With missiles b. With torpedoes 4. See if AI ships will torpedo Player ships (Rene verified this to be non functioning) a. Probably requires DB customization. Related Mantis Entries: http://www.harpoon5.com/m…

Post up those things you think are in most urgent need of change and we'll try to keep this first post updated with them. Rank/By is where the item sits in the submitter's priority list which may not reflect the chances of it being dealt with quickly. Mantis ID Rank/By Fixed When Description 000000 1 divefreak 0000/00/00 Smarter SAM and AAA handling 000000 1 Akula 0000/00/00 In SE, allow searching for class/installation by country or name 000000 3 divefreak 0000/00/00 Show loadout ranges in attack launch screen 000000 1 Stalintc 0000/00/00 Drop a string of sonobuoys close together until the next waypoint is reached Completed: 0…