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General Forums => Staged Missions => Topic started by: USRanger on December 23, 2008, 02:06:53 PM
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Introducing the lastest installment of my map/mission misadventures, "Hell's Gate":
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5650/hgxj1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Here is the custom map you will need:
RngrCove Map (http://www.esnips.com/doc/407df89f-eb8a-4098-b5f9-ca32d5e8247f/RngrCove-Map)
Map contains:
Full custom terrain
Non-default and Custom Skins
Custom Muzzle Flashes
Custom Ships by Croduh
Custom Explosions by Croduh
The mission: Hell's Gate (http://www.esnips.com/doc/cf54c7c1-b306-4cce-984e-ea82720f1285/HellsGate-Mission)
Mission Group contains two missions:
Widow Maker
A Japanese port on a nearby volcanic island has been causing major grief for the American Pacific forces. It's time for naval air forces to take it out.
12-TBMs
12-SBDs
16-F6Fs
8-F4U-Ds
Bushido Blues
Spotters have eyed a large American strike force on the way to the port of RngrCove. Japanese air force must intercept the attackers and prevent them from destroying another Pacific foothold.
8-Ki-84s
8-Ki-61s
12-A6M5s
Recommended Arena Settings:
It is highly recommended you change these arena settings in-game prior to starting the mission(s). To do this go to Clipboard->Options->Arena Setup->Evironment->Arena Settings.
Change GroundAutoLethality(Armored,soft and hard) to 0.001
Change PlaneAutoAmmoMult and PlaneGunAmmoMult to 3.00 (3x the ammo)
Change ViewModeFlags to enable External Fighter
To play the "Director's Cut" version, change the sky to a gray color as in the picture above. Really sets the ominous mood.
Good luck and enjoy. Any problems, let me know. Merry Christmas.
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:rock
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A few more things. The battle will start over the port, then the Americans will circle the island counter clockwise, the Japanese clockwise, to collde head on for round 2 at the north side of the island. So if you run out of bad guys at the port, head north.
I also recommend hitting Alt-I once at the start of the mission to change from AI names to plane type. Helps to tell who you should be with. Your flight leader's icon should also be a different color from the rest for easy finding.
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:aok Awesome man, seriously :rock I just ran it, and had a blast....I ran it with regular ack settings(and will be changing them :D)
Great job, thanks and Happy Hollidaze :salute
Lagger
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Downloading now.
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Hmm, thats weird.
My computer wants to download the file as a .WMV file. Any ideas I can do to fix this?
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When I play the American mission it ctds right when it says cleared for takeoff. I was using the f4uD flight. (second from top)
EDIT: It does the same for f6fs.
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There is a folder called "hells Gate" that contains custom sounds. Move that to your missres folder in AH
When I play the American mission it ctds right when it says cleared for takeoff. I was using the f4uD flight. (second from top)
EDIT: It does the same for f6fs.
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I have. He is right on the fact that the sounds are not working. I have vista, which is probably the problem. I will try on our xp.
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I have.
weird, it works for me...I'll let someone with more computer knowledge field this one.
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Is AH on your C: drive or another? Btw, I don't know jack about dealing with Vista.
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Yeah it is on C. I have never had this problem with my missions, but they do not contain sound files.
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Alright, Never mind
Was able to download it.
Great job, Ranger. :aok :rock
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It works on the XP. Thanks Ranger....Awesome mission!! It was worth the wait.
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Good to hear fellas. <S>
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WOW! I really liked that one. Thanks :O
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WOW! I really liked that one. Thanks :O
:aok :aok :aok
Fun one, this is.
Thanks for creating and sharing it.
:salute
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Thx fellas. Started work on the next one.
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any hints?
:pray
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Thanks for the GREAT Christmas present Ranger! :salute Outrageous graphics & LOVE the music from the "Final Countdown". Absolutely fantastic creation. Merry Christmas to you Sir.
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well nothing less then what I expected, simple AWESOME, Ranga, HTC should put your butt to work, you by far have the best Missions, I cant imagine how much time you put into these,actually, I can been messing around with the ME, KUDOs to you bro, I took up the KI, and we smoked the nme round "round eye" :rofl seriously though,I very much enjoy your work!
I have to admit though I really enjoy the "winter breakout" so far the best. every time I fly the la5, when the music starts at the beginning of the battle it gives me goosebumps!!
<S>
JETSOM
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Very AWESOME Ranger. You rock man :aok :aok :aok :aok
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Link to mission is broken, did I get here too late?
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Try again. I just checked and it worked fine for me.
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Works now...
Downloading mission.
edit: esnips must be having problems, have to make an account to download and I tried making one but every time I click create accout it just reloads the page.
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I guess try again tomorrow or something. I just tried it again, without logging in my account, and it worked fine again. You don't need an account to download, so I'm not sure what's going on for ya. Hope you get it figured out.
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when I downloaded it, the site asked for a password only when I tried to download both of them at same time. One at a time no problem
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I got it now, no idea what the problem was.
Anyway I bet it would have been an awsome mission but my computer just can't handle it; game crashed when I got to the port.
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Wow, Ranger.
Loved it :aok
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I just downloaded it, changed all the "c:" lines to "D:" for my computer, etc. But everytime I start it, about the time I gett off the ground (in the F6F), the thing dies and I get the "Aces High needs to shut down" message. . .
Any ideas on what to fix?
So far, looks like a fun mission if I could get it to work.
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I had a similar problem. I went back through the text and found I had missed a few lines. Once I changed them, I had no problems.
BTW, great mission USRanger. Really liked how the mountains look. :salute
Coogan
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Thx Coogan. John, make sure you didn't miss any C: to D:'s and make sure you put the folder with all the .wavs in your missres folder.
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I went back and checked - all "C's" are now "D's", and yes, the folder with the .wav files is in the missres folder under "hellsgate."
Strangely enough, the Japanese side of the game plays fine, the US side crashes.
I did find one flaw with the Japanese side - when I get behind a group of TBM's, my engine starts smoking and spraying oil all over the place, then eventually the engine stops and I have to either bail or crash land. Any idea what would be causing that? :)
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Lol nope, never heard of that. I'll have to try it out. As for the Japanese side crashing, I don't know what it could be, as we have the same version and the Japanese side is the one I play and I've never had a problem. Weird.
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Ranger, other than the aforementioned problem with the TBM gunners, the Japanese side plays fine for me as well. It's the US side (in the Hellcats) that crashes a minute or so into the game.
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Roger, my mistake. I'll fly it tonight and check it out.
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USranger, Having played your mission it got me thinking. It looks nearly perfect for a Pearl Harbour mission. Ok, it hasn't got Battleship row, but it does have a nice harbour, with work places just inshore. Could be an idea for another mission? Just a quick one.
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USranger, Having played your mission it got me thinking. It looks nearly perfect for a Pearl Harbour mission. Ok, it hasn't got Battleship row, but it does have a nice harbour, with work places just inshore. Could be an idea for another mission? Just a quick one.
now that sounds like a good idea :aok
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now that sounds like a good idea :aok
Do we get to shoot down Ben? Repeatedly?
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Pearl has always been a future plan, but I'm going to make my own map for it. I played the one AH currently uses and I'm just not a fan of it. The transitions weren't update when they changed the way we build the terrains and they don't match the terrain tiles. So, look for it in the future. My nexr project is a fictional Battle of Britain 1945. You can read some about it here:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,256041.0.html
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Yea read about that ranger, just not me scene. Sure it will be awsome as per norm. I was just wondering about Pearl, I've started using the D3a in offline mode to simulate it (Sad I know, but probarbly the best I can do) Be good to see it when it comes out :aok
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Pearl would have came before my current project, but CV starts are impossible and for the life of me I can't get air starts to work in offline missions. I've tried many times, but I think it's like the .res file and some other things, it just doesn't work.
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Good fun,
However...
When in a Ki 84, i was checking out the carrier, was certainly not close enough to hit it and all of a sudden lost my prop.
Also when taking off in a F4U, about 30 seconds after the Clear for Take-off call, i lose Aces High.
Great mission though, love the terrain. :aok
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I just flew both flights of F4Us. Everything worked fine here. Question, did you have to edit the .mis file for your pc, as in is AH not on your C: drive? If so, it sounds like you missed the USAmusic.wav for the F4Us. Just a guess.
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Neg,
AH is on my C:drive, however no music played for me. I remember having this problem with winter breakout until i specified the MISSRES ( i think it was) into a seperate folder, i didnt see that file this time...
I think the music part is what killed me.
Also it was jsut the 2 flights of F4Us, it was the F4Us, F6Fs, TBMs, and SBD,s i think were all there, didnt get very far in the mission. :lol
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Not sure exactly what you mean. You are putting the folder with the .wavs in your MISSRES folder, correct?
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Sorry all this computer mumbo jumbo i get tongue tied :D
But yes that was my problem, i didnt put the .wav in my MISSRES, problem was, i must have looked over the .wav and never put it in the correct folder.
Thanks for the help and i apologize for most likely making you do this :huh and scratch your head. ;)
:salute
EDIT: Hope you didnt read this before i modified it, because it didnt even make sense to me. :lol
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Are you moving individual .wavs? If so, no need to. Drop that entire folder containing the .wavs in your MISSRES folder. Don't take the .wavs out.
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I never put them in my MISRESS in the first place :o
I got a new computer and never created that folder again, as when i download AH it doesnt come already in the package.
All figured out now though. :aok
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Hi USRanger:
Encountered a wee bit of a problem, in that (1) sounds are dead in U.S. & Japaneses planes, (2) whilst in flite (in either U.S. or Jap planes), my screen turns
totally black - - - - system crash!! :uhoh
I've Vista OS & domiciled AHII in C:\Games\HTC\Aces High II per HTC's instructions.
Read "Hells Gate" instructions most assiduously & downloaded as follows:
(a) Ranger Cove.res into AHIITerrain
(b) Hellsgate.mis into Offmis
(c) Sound file (.wav) into Missres
The skins on all a/c are fantastic, landscape great! However am unable to enjoy the game due to problems listed. Any suggestions as to what causes the
problems? Solutions?
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Make sure you put that entire folder containing the .wavs in the MISSRES folder. Don't take the individual .wavs out.
One more thing I just noticed re-reading your post. The mission is looking for the sounds in C:\Program Files\HTC\Aces HighII\Missres.
Open the .mis file up with Notepad ot another text editor. You will have to change sounds from looking in Program Files to Games, then resave. Should take about 5 minutes. That should get you good to go.
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Thx USRanger, everything's done & done! :salute :aok
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i am having a problem with this mission every time im about to take off the screen goes white.....and yea thats about it. :(
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Make sure the Hellsgate folder containing the .wavs is in your AHII->missres folder. Is AH on your C: drive? If not, open the .mis file with notepad, and anywhere you see C:, change it to your drive. I'd bet the farm it's one of these two things.
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WOOO thank you ranger great job flown the mission a few times and still am....the music gives it a nice touch haha :aok :salute
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Glad you got it working. :) What did you have to fix?
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what is the extension 4 the map file? im using my psp 2 save this
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Rngrcove.res
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Just tried this one out. As usual great work Ranger :salute
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WOW! Great job Ranger, that was great! The music really added to the mission.
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Just discovered this one. Very fun, very well done!
:salute
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Thx Dave. :)
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TY for spending time doing what you do to make my life and other people's lives less boring.
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This terrain & mission are currently undergoing a facelift. If all goes well I will have it finished over the weekend.(Crosses fingers)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7164/cove.jpg) (http://img134.imageshack.us/i/cove.jpg/)
Oh, and reworking my clouds, I believe I can make smoke billow from the top of the volcano.
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:O :rock
(needs the "bows down" emoticon)
:salute
Stalwart
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Does anyone have the working link that will let me download this mission?
Every time I try to go to the listed links I get the message "Bad Link"
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Does anyone have the working link that will let me download this mission?
Every time I try to go to the listed links I get the message "Bad Link"
Hellls gate is not ready yet.
try some of these.http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,274387.0.html
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The terrain is done. Trying to get the mission updated, but real life is killing me right now. The mission runs fine, I just need to re-do the sounds/music and add more planes(since we can see more on-screen now). I'll go work on it now as a matter of fact.
(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7159/19357092.jpg)
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The terrain is up for download if anyone would like it:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/f9f52912-edd0-4c01-9db7-fb466cf9fe09/RngrCove-Terrain
Just need those darn mission editor bugs worked out before I can redo/update the missions for it. Place both the .res & .fld files in your AHTERR folder.:salute
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The mission itself is on a broken link!!!
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The mission was removed, since it was in an older version of AH & needs to be updated. People are free to make their own missions to release on this terrain. That's what I make em for, to be used. :salute
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I got a message from the map link that the link was not complete. Doh! Sorry, I didn't scroll down & see the other post before typing that. Sorry. :)
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will this mission work on the latest version? :headscratch:
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Negative. It's on my to-do list.
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Don't worry Ranger, I'm SURE we'll all understand that you have a life and need a break.
Take a rest, pal. :)
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Just can't seem to get any free time lately. Sucks.
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I know what you mean, pal.
Anyway, good luck with the stuff you have to do in real life. We're here for ya :rock
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*oops, wrong thread :D
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,258940.msg3588322.html#msg3588322
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This will be the next mission I update/upgrade to the current AH version. :salute
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The link is broken ranger I was realy hoping to fly it cause I gotta practice the ki-84.
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:(yah the links broken
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broken :cry
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Terrain & mission are out of date.
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oh lol :lol
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this mission and terrain need updating Ranger! :furious and so does the lost soul map!
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Terrain & mission are out of date.
this mission and terrain need updating Ranger! :furious
Really? :P
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Really? :P
wow, I said that in response to:Terrain & mission are out of date.