Raiders of the Rising Sun Mission

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Ranja when i started your mission, and the bagpipes started up, i got goose bumps all over, truly
it made me think about all the men that have died for us, and put me in that place at that time,

seriously awesome man

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your pal
paul

[Dichotomy]

Well thx .  I've got another one almost finished that I think is even better.  Same map, but on the winter terrain side.  Russians vs. Germans. Has all those extra goodies also, but I think the action is even more intense.  I haven't counted em up, but it's around a 50 vs. 50 fight with around 3-8 planes per side ever making it home.  The mission has been finished, it's just taking me a bit to get the time to place all the add-on goodies in there.

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Rainja

OOOOOHHHHHH  It's going to be an early Christmas for me 

[yanksfan]

WOW!

USRanger that is fantastic! You have added a work of art to the game, no words to describe what a fabulos job you have done here.

Well Done!  keep up the great work!

Don

[USRanger]

Thanks fellas, I appreciate that.  It was my first mission, so it was a learning experience.  I"ve got more ideas, just gotta get the time between work & kids to get em done.  I have one almost ready for release.  Anyone who enjoyed this mission should it check out when I get it out there.  Same map, so it will only require the mission download.

 

[jedi25]

 

Awesome Ranger... 

[crazierthanu]

Ranger,
Your sounds are awesome,
Your missions, fantastic. Im glad your part of the AH community.

[Stixx]

Awesome work Ranger 
I've been using the map for LAN games with my Grandson.
He's amazed with your work.

 

[Suave]

Mission is a blast, especially with icons off. I had to turn the ack leathality waaay down. And when i flew in bombers the invisible enemy planes shot me down, anybody find a fix for that yet?

I look forward to your next missions.

With icons off i found myself getting into situations that you hear wwII pilots describe. Escorting buffs, got into a fight with p38s that ended up on the deck. Got seperated from everybody, spotted a friendly fighter flew too him except it wasn't friendly. Good thing I approached from his low six. P39s look like green zekes untill you get pretty close, especially when you think that the enemy is only flying p38s.

[USRanger]

As it is now, only a certain number of AI can show up at once.  I don't know the exact number but I'm guessing 30-50.  In my next mission I'm finishing, the plane sets are better spread out to help take care of "phantom" planes.

[Knite]

Hey Ranger, very cool. 
Just wanted to re-mention the below instructions though. When I tried your mission last night I would constantly crash to desktop. I did the below fix, and it worked great! (except for the invisibile planes  ). I think the instructions might need to be added to the Wiki?
Very cool mission, and I like the little touches. Thanks!!

If your Aces High files are NOT installed in the usual C:/Program Files/whatever folder, then what you need to do is to copy the path of where they actually are installed.

Then, use a text editor (I use Notepad because it's easy and it works) to open up the ".mis" file.  Scroll down until you see an "EVENTS" bit, and you'll see there's a file path under that (which will be the default path for where Aces High is installed).  Then, open up the "Replace" thing, and type in the first few bits of that file path you just found, and then replace it with the appropriate bits of YOUR AHII installation.  Once you've done that for the whole file, just save, close, and it should all work.

[wantok]

Thanks, Knite.  I've added that to the wiki now. 

[Yossarian]

As it is now, only a certain number of AI can show up at once.  I don't know the exact number but I'm guessing 30-50.  In my next mission I'm finishing, the plane sets are better spread out to help take care of "phantom" planes.

I'm not sure about this, one mission I made (it's on the Wiki), has over 100 missions, and I don't recall any problems with phantom planes.

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Yossarian

[Dichotomy]

I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, the 'phantom' planes are appearing out of their spawn points.  In Raiders the bombers pop onto the scene shortly after the fighters show up typically to my 6 or 7 o'clock. 

[DPQ5]

USRanger when I try to extract the miss2 file it says no files to estract, can you help please.

[USRanger]

I just downloaded it and it worked fine, so I'm not sure why it didn't work for you.  What are you using to extract it?