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Myron wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:26 pm

All is fixed; I just had to uninstall and delete everything, and then start over.

Glad to hear that.

So, are you happy with the changed italy1 mission that i made for you?

Could i start next with the italy2 mission?

However, i will not change the sniper position on the factory roof to face the bomb craters, because if i do this, the only secure exit from sewers will be no longer secure. I could try to add machine gun position on the factory's roof and test that.

Well, is actually after midnight in Poland so i will go to sleep in a few minutes. If you want to add something or ask about do it now. Thank you in advance. I will continue the modding work for you tomorrow. I am simply tired.

Not so good news.

If I simply copy-and-replace the stock Italy1 with the new one, the game crashes upon startup.

If I delete the stock Italy1 and then move in the new one, the game starts alright, but after picking the mission, no instructions happen, it just goes right to selecting the men, and weapons, and then when I click OK after equiping the team, the music stops, and nothing happens.

It's not frozen, it's that, nothing happens. I can click Back and Exit just fine.

Myron wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:27 pm

Not so good news.

If I simply copy-and-replace the stock Italy1 with the new one, the game crashes upon startup.

If I delete the stock Italy1 and then move in the new one, the game starts alright, but after picking the mission, no instructions happen, it just goes right to selecting the men, and weapons, and then when I click OK after equipping the team, the music stops, and nothing happens.

It's not frozen, it's that, nothing happens. I can click Back and Exit just fine.

Well, this is very strange. I have this updated mission working with no problems. See the picture below. Notice the SAS soldiers with helmets.
I made already some progress in this mission, judging from the sight of the dead German lying on the ground, lol .

Maybe just re-install the whole game, enable the decensor mod plus new Panther and PZ IV textures. You could still keep the stock German uniforms textures, if you don't like the look of those new ones, that i am currently using.

You must delete the stock italy1 mission from your stock missions.dta archive to get the new mission to work.
You need to have missions folder in your H&D Deluxe main directory with the new italy1 mission in it. You also need the correct data.dta archive.

There is/are some file/files missing in your copy of H&D Deluxe for sure, so the game or the mission won't start.

As far as i know, i didn't add any new models or equipment into this modified italy1 mission. I used only stock H&D Deluxe resources.

The Germans are using items already listed in the modified data.dta archive, so there couldn't be any wrongly assigned weapons.

Please download again the italy1.rar and data.rar archives, that i posted below.

I will keep trying. Have a good night. :)

Myron wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:36 pm

I will keep trying. Have a good night. :)

Did you manage to launch this edited mission or not?

I just completed this mission - see picture below.

So, first I DELETE the original Italy1, and then move in the new one, or do I simply move in the new one, and when the computer asks, "do you want to replace the folder?", I click "yes"?

First I delete, and then move in the new one, but it skips the instructions.

And then in the team selection screen, where if I click OK, the mission starts, well, nothing happens when I click.

The switch clicks, the music stops, and for a split-second, I see the loading percentage appear, and then it vanishes, and the game pretends I never clicked OK at all.

Myron wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 29, 2017 6:32 pm

So, first I DELETE the original Italy1, and then move in the new one, or do I simply move in the new one, and when the computer asks, "do you want to replace the folder?", I click "yes"?

Well, maybe perform those steps instead:

1) Unpack your stock missions.dta archive into your main H&D Deluxe directory

2) Make a backup of your stock missions.dta archive

3) From the unpacked missions folder remove the sub-folder italy1

4) Copy the modified italy1 sub-folder into your missions folder

5) Delete the stock italy1 sub-folder from your stock missions.dta archive.

6) Unpack the modified data.dta archive to your H&D Deluxe / data folder and replace the stock data.dta archive (make a backup first)

7) Install the decensor mod

8) Unpack the models.rar archive posted below into your main H&D Deluxe directory (in case that there are some models missing)

9) Launch the game and the modified mission

By "unpack", you mean "double-click the missions.dta, which opens up WinRAR with the missions folder, which has the mission folders in it?

Yes, of course. Unpack (Extract) the whole original missions folder to your main H&D Deluxe directory. You never used Winrar before?

I use WinRAR all the time, but I think I may have forgotten one little detail, like what/where is the "Directory"?

Is it this?

Yes, indeed. This is the correct place to unpack the missions folder from the missions.dta archive. See the picture below.

So, do I simply place it right there, or inside the Missions folder that I see, which has only the !test in it?

Myron wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 29, 2017 7:21 pm

So, do I simply place it right there, or inside the Missions folder that I see, which has only the !test in it?

This became boring...

The original missions folder, beside having the "!test" sub-folder inside, has also ALL the rest H&D Deluxe missions!!!

So, you are using wrong missions.dta file!!! Use the original stock H&D Deluxe one!!!

Crom give me strenght to help this mortal soul! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j6nyEcIk98