BETA v0.1 Multiplayer Campaign Upgrade

[Snake Man]

Here is BETA v0.1 Multiplayer Campaign Upgrade that fixes the CTD when receiveing objects.

We ran successfull eFalcon v1.10 multiplayer flight with this one.

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/downloads ... pgrade.zip


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Snake Man

[Snake Man]

Install instructions:

Make sure ODS is applied from F4Patch, then just unzip this packet to campaign\save directory.

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Snake Man

[Washout]

Hi Snakeman

Just out of interest what was the problem?

Later


Chris

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Washout:
Just out of interest what was the problem?

Mr X-Files you must have some telepathy thing going, I was just about to email you and Schumi

There was 4096 objects in ODS campaign (err 4096 is familiar number but I think it was just random it was like that). Mostly there were bridges, so I removed the bridges and voila it works! Now the objects number is about 1400.

I was wondering, is there some limit in Falcon (eFalcon 1.10) that it barfs up when doing multiplayer if there are too many objects to load?

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Snake Man

[Greywolf]

Snakeman,

Just a brief note to let you know that patch for ODS also works for people running 108i2 and RP5. Thanks for the quickfix, anyway you can come up with a similar fix for Vietnam Multiplayer?

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Greywolf:
anyway you can come up with a similar fix for Vietnam Multiplayer?

Yes I can, if the same bridge removing will work. I'll test it today with Widowmakers help if he has time.

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Snake Man

[Widowmaker]

Sure I'll be setting it up after Work

This time a daymission,,


Widmak

[Washout]

Hi Snakeman

Manfred knows more about this than I do but I believe there are a limited amount of objective (not sure if these are CT entries or not) entries available and that the number has to include missions generated by the ATO.

I also belive that Mnafred had to renumber a block of entries for the Balkans so as not to interfere with what are essentially reserved numbers by the exe.

As I said Manfred knows more on this subject and can probably let you know what blocks of numbers you have to assign to bridges in order to get your campaign working again with all the objectives you placed originally.

Hope that makes sense.


Chris

[Snake Man]

My (nonworking) bridges for ODS start from ID 6000 and continue to 8627

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Snake Man

[Schumi]

quote:Originally posted by Snake Man:
My (nonworking) bridges for ODS start from ID 6000 and continue to 8627

There are blocks of defined ID areas:

4-3999 = Objectives
4000-5999 = Units
6000-9999 = Packages
10000-13999 = Flights

The objective ID's are long variables, this means in theory you can make an objective have the ID number 4.000.000.000 (that's 4 billion ).

I haven't tested it yet, but it should work.

By default, you have a maximum of 14.000 objectives, units and "volitile units" as the source code describes packages and flights. This means, counting them together, the maximum is 14.000.

This boundary will probably be increased by F4SuperPAK to 32.767, which is a short and the absolute maximum.

Manfred.

[Snake Man]

quote:Originally posted by Schumi:
4-3999 = Objectives

As 128 theaters are coming up we have now ODS which has 5511 objectives, Vietnam with 3779 (well just barely short the limit) and Afghanistan with 7791.

None of these theaters have bridges placed yet and none of those "special" objectives like nuclear plants, army bases, ewr sites and such. These objectives are four kinds: Villages, Cities, Factories and Airbases. If we add all those other needed objectives and then bridges... we can believe the number goes up almost as two times.

We definitely need a fix for this, no question.

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Snake Man

[Zaggy]

Wont removing the bridges affect the ground war?? I know ODS doesnt yet have a ground war, but VNam does...

wont ground units be 'stuck' on one side of river?

[Ender Wiggin]

I noticed a prob with bridge removal. i had a stike mission to hit a bridge but the bridge was not there. i think it was removed when i added the new mp patch but because it wasnt there i failed the mission. is there a problem somewhere?