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Europe Theater v0.6 has been released!

Post by Snake Man » 2007-12-21 20:13:20

Europe Theater v0.6

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This is PMC Europe Theater release for Falcon 4 Allied Force, RedViper and Open Falcon. This version comes with full exe installer which has been now fixed for AF only users too.


Changelog

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--- bugs
- ZELTWEG AB bridge in the middle of the runway.
- OF camp sqd sel/news blip maps has color palette error. ???
- Kavelstorf Highway Strip not leveled.
- on OF 4.5 TE, it freezes when we click on the back button.
- Zuibrucken airbase not leveled.
- is it possible to make only 1 training mission to the Europe theatre,
with start on Kjevik/Kristiansand Airport in the very south of Norway?
- AF 3d flying gives buffer overrun error in after about 10-15min.
- emmen airbase is not leveled.
- twenthe has 2 parrallel runways, in real they have a 24-06 and a 11-29
- pak map image missing, but pak is configured properly.
- small islands should not have farmland tiles (no roads/population)?
- save1 (hardest, bottom) campaign is missing/empty, didn't get it to work in time.
- all campaigns crash on sim exit, does not effect normal gameplay.
- eastern edge, terrain features missing, russia or something else?
- payerne airbase is on top of a bridge, (yellow team).
- coastlines need terrainview + tacedit check and coordination.
- bergen is bit cutoff terrain/road wise.
- BA102 DIJON LONGVIC airbase on top of a bridge.
- Drachten airfield is too short
- AB unleveled at x=198.26, y=1111.29, z=-930.83.
- Hungary there is the Balaton, a big lake without water.
- SE from Aviano AB. Sea is growing up, coast directly before Rijeka AB.
- fix the terrain in alps?
- RedViper B52's cannot takeoff from Wonsan type airbase in Europe campaign(s).
- Fairford ab in the UK is unleveled
- Spangdahlem ab in germany is off the spot

Eelde in the netherlands was never a militairy field

Schiphol in the netherlands was never a militairy field

Maastricht-Geilenkirchen is not a field, maastricht in the netherlands is a civil field 
and geilenkirchen in germany is the awacs airbase of europe, it's approx. 35 miles north 
east of maastricht !

here some fields that are important but dont exist in europe v0.5
* Ahlhorn in Germany
* Gutersloh in germany
* Wildenrath in germany

Futhermore, in germany there is a nuclear plant near the city of Lingen, it's not in 
europe v0.5

--- fixes v0.6
- AV campaign squadron selection/news blip map small palette transparency, fixed.
- AF missing campaign strings, fixed.
- AF missing theater strings, fixed.
- OF missing campaign strings, fixed.
- RV missing campaign strings, fixed.
- OF missing theater strings, fixed.
- RV missing theater strings, fixed.
- RV campaign squadron selection/news blip map small palette transparency, fixed.
- installer fails on AF only systems, fixed.

Install

Delete any and all old Europe theater installs. Read the readme and manual in the release rar but remember that manual is quite outdated by now. Run the PMC_Europe_Theater_v0.6.exe file and choose either RV/OF or AF install depending on your Falcon version. Remember that the installation takes a long time to complete and is extremely heavy on the system, be prepared not to do anything on the background and to reboot your computer after the install is complete.

Done!


Feedback

We are looking for bug reports and feedback, if you are interested of helping to edit this theater, just let us know, we will welcome any and all help being it research, bug testing or actual editing. Report all bugs into the Europe v0.6 bug reports topic.

We will answer all your questions and then some. If you do not have account in PMC Tactical, you need to email me so I can create one for you (new user registrations disallowed because of too many spammers). Email me to pmc at pmctactical dot org address.


And finally the readme:

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	Falcon 4 - PMC Europe Theater

v0.6 released December 22nd, 2007.

We have the new User Interface (UI) for all falcon versions in this installer. OF even has the background image for main screen and campaign. All the campaigns will crash on exit, terrain tiling has quite some errors. Worst problem is that AF while in 3d gets buffer overrun error (a CTD) at some point. As you can see, this is quite developer release but at least we now have one single exe installer for all three different falcon versions with UI, the development from here goes easily and we can drop in quickfixes if they help (like campaign crash fix etc).

Having said all that above, the theater is still enjoyable to fly with RV, I have flown many OCA and SEAD Strike missions against in the middle campaign. I havent had any CTD's in 3d with RV so far (I have tested mostly with RV since AF has the CTD bug).

There is the old PDF manual included in the download package, its pretty much unchanged from the last release, I just changed few addresses and basic info. If anyone want to contribute for the manual, I would be very happy. Let me know in the forum if you want to help document this theater.


	Changelog

--- bugs
- ZELTWEG AB bridge in the middle of the runway.
- OF camp sqd sel/news blip maps has color palette error. ???
- Kavelstorf Highway Strip not leveled.
- on OF 4.5 TE, it freezes when we click on the back button.
- Zuibrucken airbase not leveled.
- is it possible to make only 1 training mission to the Europe theatre,
with start on Kjevik/Kristiansand Airport in the very south of Norway?
- AF 3d flying gives buffer overrun error in after about 10-15min.
- emmen airbase is not leveled.
- twenthe has 2 parrallel runways, in real they have a 24-06 and a 11-29
- pak map image missing, but pak is configured properly.
- small islands should not have farmland tiles (no roads/population)?
- save1 (hardest, bottom) campaign is missing/empty, didn't get it to work in time.
- all campaigns crash on sim exit, does not effect normal gameplay.
- eastern edge, terrain features missing, russia or something else?
- payerne airbase is on top of a bridge, (yellow team).
- coastlines need terrainview + tacedit check and coordination.
- bergen is bit cutoff terrain/road wise.
- BA102 DIJON LONGVIC airbase on top of a bridge.
- Drachten airfield is too short
- AB unleveled at x=198.26, y=1111.29, z=-930.83.
- Hungary there is the Balaton, a big lake without water.
- SE from Aviano AB. Sea is growing up, coast directly before Rijeka AB.
- fix the terrain in alps?
- RedViper B52's cannot takeoff from Wonsan type airbase in Europe campaign(s).
- Fairford ab in the UK is unleveled
- Spangdahlem ab in germany is off the spot

Eelde in the netherlands was never a militairy field

Schiphol in the netherlands was never a militairy field

Maastricht-Geilenkirchen is not a field, maastricht in the netherlands is a civil field 
and geilenkirchen in germany is the awacs airbase of europe, it's approx. 35 miles north 
east of maastricht !

here some fields that are important but dont exist in europe v0.5
* Ahlhorn in Germany
* Gutersloh in germany
* Wildenrath in germany

Futhermore, in germany there is a nuclear plant near the city of Lingen, it's not in 
europe v0.5

--- fixes v0.6
- AV campaign squadron selection/news blip map small palette transparency, fixed.
- AF missing campaign strings, fixed.
- AF missing theater strings, fixed.
- OF missing campaign strings, fixed.
- RV missing campaign strings, fixed.
- OF missing theater strings, fixed.
- RV missing theater strings, fixed.
- RV campaign squadron selection/news blip map small palette transparency, fixed.
- installer fails on AF only systems, fixed.


	Install

1) Delete all earlier Europe theater installs.
2) Run the PMC_Europe_Theater_v0.6.exe and choose RV/OF or AF.

Done!

If you're AF only user, this installer has been fixed and should work ok now.

Please take a notice that the LxNormalFix utility is very heavy on your computer, it will cause approx 780mb memory usage so if you're short on memory get prepared for very heavy swapping by win. Its most likely you cant do anything else while the installer run and then you have to reboot your computer. Also if you install to RV or OF there is additional SeasonSwitcher which takes long time to run also.

We are looking for bug reports and feedback. More details can be found at PMC Tactical forums in this theater area where all bug reports should be posted.

We will answer all your questions and then some in the forum. If you do not have account in there, you need to email me so I can create one for you (new user registrations disallowed because of too many spammers). Email me to nospam address.

December 22nd, 2007.
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Re: Europe Theater v0.6 has been released!

Post by Snake Man » 2010-07-29 01:16:47

We have just released v0.6.1 which contains FreeFalcon 5.5.1 fixes. Campaigns for FF551 has been heavily reworked, meaning it was difficult task to get them to work. OF and AF campaigns are the same as in v0.6 release. CCC's nice FF551 theater selector image has been added.

There still appears to be "CTD on exit" bug on the 1985 campaigns, the present day campaigns doesn't seem to have any CTD issues that we saw, but we didn't have time for thorough testing.

The campaign ground unit movement in FF551 is quite decent. There is lot of ground units, whole divisions placed on the front line and on some PAK cities. Any feedback on how the ground campaign starts to live would be appreciated.

Luk's, Tobias Adam's and others work has now been included in this minor sort of release, that work will be implemented to the next major release.

Please provide feedback and enjoy the theater ;)

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