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In all the scenarios for the EC2000 series of Battlesets, the Strategic window shows the IOPG area no matter what area the scenario is actually played in. The Group and Unit windows aren't affected and display correctly. Buddha

HCE - 2008.048 ============== - Chg:0000 SE When loading a scenario that had a % chance of inclusion for planes, that % chance of inclusion was lost. That means only scenarios using % chance of inclusion other than 100% for planes that were only saved once acctually honor the denoted % chance of inclusion. (thanks TonyE) Brad, I think you are the only one other than me capable of testing this conclusively, but the rest of you can use some common sense testing (i.e. use low % of inclusion and see how that works in the GE after messing with the scen in the SE a few times, changing loadouts of thos…

Component: SE Version: 2008.045 (and earlier) When adding air units the scenario designer is allowed to specify a % chance of inclusion for that air unit. However, if the loadout is changed in the SE, even if all planes in the unit are changed at the same time, the % chance of inclusion is reset to 100%. Correct behavior: 1. If you change the loadout for the entire unit (which may be 1 plane or 8 planes, whatever increment they were added in the first place), the unit should keep the % chance of inclusion originally denoted. 2. If you change the loadout for part of the unit I think the % chance of inclusion should stay as originally denoted as well. …

HCE - 2008.047 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Game Options - Added separate map color options for the Unit window. - Chg:0000 GE Game Options - The dialog now enables and disables the textured water option as appropriate per battleset. - Chg:0000 GE Disabled map lat/lon grid lines since they are quite inaccurate.

I just noticed that Map Grid lies Lines are set to off in .047 and can't be changed. Not sure if this came up before.

HCE - 2008.046 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Saved game version incremented due to UI changes. Saved games from prior builds will NOT work with this version! - Chg:0000 GE Revamp the Unit window using the display code from the Group window. This results in 2x zoom in the Group window showing the same distance per pixel as the Unit window at 2x. Also allows the use of textured land and water in the Unit window where available. - Chg:0000 GE Above change results in distances in group and Unit window being correct. - Chg:0000 GE Show the Unit window rectangle in ta…

Bug in SE 2008.44 : Is this a known bug ? When unit window is at x1 zoom, distances are double what they are in group window. Seems to happen at other "ratios" between unit window zoom and group window zoom, eg. certain combinations of zooms seem to trigger that bug in other situations than the 1x unit window. Haven't been able to 100% reproduce a list of such zoom settings, but could give it a try, if it's needed.

Defect Name: PD crashes program in custom BS Build: 2008.044 Repeatable: Yes Operating System: All DB used: Any with platform images Scenario used: Any Battleset: EC2003+ Long Description: The most recent battleset builders use a battleset.rsr file (i.e. hdsu.rsr) that is non-zero in size in hopes of future expansion where the Staff Assistant, sunk ship, victory, etc. images are embedded in the battleset. This conflicts with some code that chooses whether to read platform images out of the hdsu.rsr file or the commondb.rsr file (if size of hdsu.rsr > 0 the GE/SE look in hdsu.rsr for the photo even when it is really in commondb.rsr). Discovered by noxio…

Now would be a really good time for everyone to go to work on the Pipe Dreams forum. Terminal maneuvers is low hanging fruit (smaller topic than most), for those aching for a beating work on logistics. Either way there are plenty of topics there and an extreme dearth of ideas, discussion, and commentary about what everyone wants.

Okay, with all of the change verification going on we're very close to sending our next patch off to Matrix. While we haven't included a lot of things I'd like to have in this patch, we have done quite a lot and what feedback we've had says to release the patch and move on to the next big set of changes. Today I put together the installer for the patch and it is working well. We do still have a few things to do, some of them you can help with: Anyone - Finish up verifying releasenotes items 2008.044 - http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2998 TonyE - Add the new battleset descriptions for the four new battlesets. Brad wrote them, I have to add…

HCE - 2008.044 ============== - Chg:0000 BB delres.bat just wasn't handling spaces in the pathname correctly. changed it so that the pathname isn't fed in on the command line and now it works. - Chg:0000 BB If user hadn't yet made a custom BattleSet and chose to embed the database, the hdsu.rsr file would be skipped. Thanks to TEPonta and noxious for pointing me distinctly in the right direction to take care of this. You two especially please try 2008.044 BS Builder. You should get both hdsu.res and hdsu.rsr files created without error (other than possibly seeing a Not Responding message). The file will fin…

Since upgrading to .042, I have been unable to run the BS Builder. On the rare occasions that I can get past "Not Responding", I get the attached error message. Also, a shortcut named "DelRes" suddenly appeared in the Harpoon menu group. I'm not sure what that does. Any suggestions, anyone? Buddha

HCE - 2008.043 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Torpedo acquisition range now converted internally from yards to DUs. 0.3260943 yards = 1 DU. - Chg:0000 GE Updated Credits - Chg:0000 DB HCDB-080616 - Chg:0000 DB commondb.rsr, added res0688.bmp thru res0691.bmp compliments of AoA. So the testing is pretty easy on this one... 1. Look at yourself in the credits. If you got missed, mis-spelled, or think someone got missed, speak now or forever hold your tongue (until the next patch) 2. For those testing the installer mechanism, make sure you delete the spurious delres, res..., etc. shortcuts before installing the patch, th…

HCE - 2008.026 ============== - Chg:0000 GE For pre-commondb battlesets, play prop launch sound only when propulsion type == 1. (thanks NAVMAN) http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1732358 - Chg:0000 GE In debug builds, show when the GE expires. - Chg:0000 GE Split sounds out of Harpoon32.dll and into individual files within the Sounds directory. - Chg:0000 GE Allow high PicIDs for commondb battlesets. - Chg:0000 GE Ignore BattleSetPath from registry, make it the same directory as the one the game was launched from. - Chg:0000 SE Allow high PicIDs for commondb battlesets. - Chg:0000 SE Ignore Battl…

This scenario, 'Worst Case Scenario', is for play by BLUE in the Westpac Battleset. This is a "monster scenario", depicting a war between Russia/China/DPRK vs USA/Japan/ROK/Vietnam across multiple fronts in the Western Pacific. It has over 1,700 aircraft, nearly 50 bases and nearly 100 ships in play. It is PC memory intensive, and labour intensive. It will be a challenge to keep control of all of your units, let alone successfully employ them. But thats half the fun, right? You will need the latest version of the HCDB. Please take this scenario for a spin and let me know if you have problems, issues, thoughts, opinions, whatever. The scenario is NOT read…

A new scenario (for play by BLUE only) using the Caribbean Basin battleset found here and the latest version of the HCDA database. Please take this scenario for a spin and let me know if you have problems, issues, thoughts, opinions, whatever. The scenario is NOT ready for release, so please do not distribute it. Thanks again in advance.

HCE - 2008.029 ============== - Chg:0000 BB Increased allowable scenarios in battleset from 12 to 21. - Chg:0000 BB Started the work to allow embedding a database in the .res file. - Chg:0000 GE Changes to use the DB embedded in a battleset. Made sure that the DB Flavor shown is for the embedded DB if it is being used. - Chg:0000 GE Fixed another problem with crashing when a battleset had no scenarios and user tried to load a user-made scenario. The map wasn't being loaded. - Chg:0000 SE Changes to use the DB embedded in a battleset. Made sure that the DB Flavor shown is for the embedded DB …

HCE - 2008.042 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Torpedo acquisition range now converted internally from yards to DUs. 3.260943 yards = 1 DU. - Chg:0000 BS WestPac 1.0 orders section 11, "in tact" changed to "intact" (thanks Larry) http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?s...;showtopic=2922 - Chg:0000 PE Changed "LRMTS" flag to "NOE - Nap of the Earth" flag. - Chg:0000 BS Added descriptions for the four new battlesets. (thanks Brad) - Chg:0000 BS Radically changed boundaries of South Atlantic BattleSet to fit Ascension on the map. - Chg:0000 BS Removed sample scenarios from the …

I have been tinkering away and sampling various sounds and turning them into something suitable for HCE! And for my efforts I bring you the attached file which contains several brand new sounds for HCE in the form of a Mod. Just backup your sounds folder and spill the contents of this zip into it. This Mod includes: - New jet takeoff sound - New prop takeoff sound - New helicopter takeoff sound - New missile launch sound - New torpedo launch sound - New torpedo hit sound - New explosion\hit sound - New gunfire sound Please give this a whirl and let me know what you think. Also please dont just listen to the sound file, please give me some fe…

HCE - 2008.027 ============== - Chg:0000 GE Split graphics out of Harpoon32.dll and Winharp32.exe and into individual files within the Graphics directory. So in addition to testing the things in 2008.026 release notes, note if images are missing from dialogs (victory, staff assistant, etc.) in various battlesets. If you are a bit more advanced, try replacing some of the graphics and see what happens. If you are really advanced, look for memory leaks as there are two parts of the changed code that may be leaking memory with each load of one of the graphics.