Initial starting status of SAVE*.CAM file
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Does anyone know if it is possible to start a new campaign, run the clock forward for say 2 hours, save it, rename it as SAVE0.CAM (for example) and use that as an initial starting status for a fresh campaign?
I’ve tried several times now but it always throws a wobbly at me. Are there any specific things I need to do to it before renaming?
No biggie if it can’t be done, but it would be good to join the fight with action taking place from the first minute.
As an extra wee bit of info, I have a good working ground campaign based on ODS now. Months of toil and labour have finally paid off. Kuwait Theater is really going to happen! New theaters without working campaigns have a short shelf-life - it’s my belief Kuwait won’t go the same way…
One member of these forums has very recently agreed to help out with a far better tileset than the crappy base tiles I am currently using, and another has agreed to assist with an accurate (as constraints allow) aerial OOB too. Not only is it going to be fun to fly and fight in, it’s going to be beautiful to look at as well ! is happy today…
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Malc; I think the way to do is save the camapign at a time when there aren’t any aircraft airborne. Very difficuly but possible. Before you hit save, you need go to the persist tab in tacedit (just below Objective Delta) and delete everything you see in the Persist page.
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I also used a bit later CAM file (savegame) as starting point for my EU campaign in AF. The reason was simple - I have set some parameters and events in game. Did try to make SAVE0.cam from it too, but did not try too hard and without sucess IIRC. I can remember the linkeage among save files is strange - all the objective deltas and other stuff referenced to original file was a bit chaotic for me….
I can recall one reason for this - ATO did not generate flights for a bit neutral (not at war or something) countries. I wanted agressive patrols for these countries, so I created them in game for first 3 campaign days. I considered my 9:01 savegame as startgame…But as I said, never did save0. cam of it.
Good job on Kuwait.
Edit: There is Mission Comander utility available today. Perhaps this program has some more advanced import/export for units, tasked flights etc…to put this all from savegame to to save0.cam…???
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Does anyone know if it is possible to start a new campaign, run the clock forward for say 2 hours, save it, rename it as SAVE0.CAM (for example) and use that as an initial starting status for a fresh campaign?
A gurantee for disaster (ctds).
Generally no. But! i think if done right i might work. In order to do that alot of values would have to be resetted accross many parts in tacedit and the question is, if the work is worth it instead of just forwarding the campaing for a day or two and participating from there. Or creating a campaign from scratch, which is move active or aggressive.
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Thanks for your thoughts all - no luck though.
CTD is not really the issue I find, when you try to start the campaign if tells you the win conditions have been met and all the Allied Forces have gone home, before the clock ticks over by a second.
I am not going to lose any sleep over it - the ground campaign works and that’s good enough for me.
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There are many ways to manipulate the “CLOCKS” in a Falcon campain’.
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