Campaigns.
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Hi there i want to ask a simple question, is there anyway to convert an FF campaign for use with bms?
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Monos,
Short version is yes, it is possible. I did it with both Kuriles and Panama, so I know it can be done.Long version is, although I was able to do it with those two theaters I couldn’t get it to work with others like Europe or ODS. So I can’t explain why it worked for some and not others.
I might be misunderstanding “campaign” with “theater.” If you’re trying to convert an FF campaign, you might try this:
Back up your BMS campaign folder.
Copy your FF campaign folder into your BMS install.
Open the .cam file with Tacedit.
Within Tacedit, have it rebuild air units/squadrons (I can’t remember what the exact term is anymore).
Save.
Open BMS and see if the new campaign will work. It probably won’t.
Go back into your theater folder, open up the FF campaign folder and BMS campaign folder side-by-side and see what files have changed, and which haven’t, and systematically move BMS files into the FF folder, allowing them to overwrite, and see what happens.
I have no idea if this will work, but it might. I will depend on just how much unusual stuff is in the campaign files.
That’s about the extent of my knowledge on campaigns.
For converting a theater, I wrote down my process at PMC right after I did it here: http://tactical.nekromantix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22515
down towards the bottom of the page
http://tactical.nekromantix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22515#p187040 -
Copy that Toonces i will try and see if it works
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toonces, No joy unfortunatelly the campaign i tried to copy was shown on the selection screen, squadrons as well, the map was correct but when i hit commit the game crashed. Ill try again to see if i made something wrong… And see if it found something, with tacedit as soon i tried “rebuild squadrons” then it deletes them all! Anyway i will keep on looking to find a way…
