divefreak Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Looks like there´s some confusion how to work with this db series... About the DBs Those DBs are a series created by Enrique Mas (Planes) and René Haar (Ships, Installations partly planes) of DBs roughly splitted into chunks of aproximatly 15 Years. At the Moment it contains the HC-35to50-DB, the HC-50to65-DB, the HC-65to80-DB, the HC-80to95. An expansion into the Future HC-10toXX is in progress! And we have the HC-Weapons-DB a DB only conatining weapons and sensors. this file is our masterfile for weapons and sensors used by all timeline dbs, so each timeline db uses the same weapons set. For example an AIM-9 Sidewinder of a certain Version doesn´t change it´s values and beahviour only because we shift the time frame or region. It always beahves the same in our DBs for the same Submodel of a certain weapon or Sensor! About altering and using our DBs, each DB has a license agreement, but feel free to ask about a permission to use our work as a base for your personal project! The only requirement is that you mention the use of our work! How to use them easily First thing, you need the picturefile for HCxxtoxxdb otherwise the unit display may crash when you open a Unit with a drawing/picture not support by the file provided with the game. There´s a good and a bad thing about this file. The good, it is 100% compatible with the stock db! The bad thing it is around 50mb in size. second take care not to confuse the files, the Game engine only supports a specific name and folder for the db files so you need to replace the file in the main game folder with the db you want to use. But there´s a perfect workaround for those that only play the game without creating new scens. It is called the HC Launcher created by TonyE, simply install it and you can choose wich db you want to use and lots of more settings, please check HG for further information about this tool! And addtitionally to the launcher you can use the hc-timelines-db collections file, it provides a zip file containing some subfolders with the db files. Simply unzip it into the main folder and choose the db file with the HC Launcher! When future db updates are published simply unzip them into the right zub folder and that´s it! I hope this little explanation helps to bring more joy and less confusion into the gameplay with the HC-timeline-DB dbs. Kind Regards René Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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