Weapon Delivery Planner released

[drtbkj]

@LorikEolmin Don’t you just love it when solutions are so frustratingly simple? Thanks , Lorik, that got me past the bottleneck.
The reason for the compatibility testing is that in Nevada we get an error message “conversion from string 00-35 to type Integer is not valid.” We wanted to see any other theaters with issues.
So far we’ve found that…
KTO, Balkans, Nordic, OFMKTO(select Korea as theater) ,Korea 2012(same) and Kuwait-working
Nevada, not working as mentioned above
Viet Nam and Taiwan are not on the Theater List

[gabrielgcosta]

Hi, I have been trying to use MC and WDP after formatting my computer and doing a clean install of everything related to BMS but it says it cannot load the DLL LzssNative.dll. It was working fine before the format.

It seems to be a common problem and usually fixed copying the file from MC to WDP or vice-versa, but it is not working here. Same error appears on both applications.

Tried reinstalling, downloading again, but no luck. Any other suggestions?

[Tomcattwo]

@drtbkj ,
Just looking at the clues: 1) No other theater except Nevada seems to have this exact issue 2) Nevada is the only theater that uses “negative latitudes” (e.g. N-35 29.877 vice N35 29.877) 3) the error seems to occur because WDP is asking to convert a string to an integer value that cannot be properly converted because the string contains a “-” in it. 4) The exception error occurs when WDP is loading and makes a call for convert string to integer when passed the value of “00-35” which will fail. The call is made to function “ConvertCoordToFeet” which contains arguments string, DefLat and DefLong.

It seems odd that Nevada is the only theater using negative latitudes and has this specific problem. It may be too hard to convert everything to “normal” positive latitudes (@Chuckles or @eddropper , can you comment on thus?) .

I also note that the 216 WeaponDataPlanner\Database\Nevada files are woefully out of date and point to a folder that does not exist in the …Data\Add-On Nevada\ folders. However, I checked those .xml files (Theater.xml, Countries.xml, Areas.xml and Airports.xml) and none contain the string value “00-35” which is the symptom of the WDP exception.

Can anyone shed help some light on this error?
R/,
Tomcattwo
(VoiceClone)

[eddropper]

@Tomcattwo

yep , you are right. That was the major problem.

if you put this in \Weapon_Delivery_Planner_3.7.20.216\Database\Nevada

https://www.mediafire.com/file/gfqmdmrf32xu139/Theater.xml/file

and this in
Falcon BMS 4.36\Data\Add-On Nevada\TerrData\terrain

https://www.mediafire.com/file/bgz3fb1ae76ozx0/theater.map/file

That error won’t pop up . The airbase list is longer, than needed but with the right .map file and correct directory from xml… It seems to work fine.

[Tomcattwo]

@eddropper , Brilliant! @drtbkj will be very happy
Note some other things if you are thinking of updating the WDP database\Nevada .xml files:

1. The Nevada.png map size is 2048 x 2048. This will need to be changed in Theater.xml
2. The DefLat and DefLong points (the lower left corner of the map in Mission Commander) are DefLat = n-35.9998 and DefLong = 120.0005 The North, South, East and West limits in the file are also incorrect. All need to be updated in Theater.xml
3. In Countries.xml, only the US is defined. All 7 countries need to be defined.

Here is a link (updated)
to corrected Theater.xml and Countries.xml files - check them and feel free to use them if you wish.

Nevada WDP Theater and Countries - Corrected

Good luck updating Airports.xml! If you need any help on that, give me a holler.

Regards,
Tomcattwo
(VoiceClone)

[eddropper]

@Tomcattwo thanks! Will do.

[drtbkj]

@Tomcattwo said in Weapon Delivery Planner released:

@eddropper , Brilliant! @drtbkj will be very happy

Regards,
Tomcattwo
(VoiceClone)

You bet! Thanks again for pointing us in the right direction. I was commenting to Eddie that WDP now seems to load faster in Nevada then elsewhere!

[Falcas]

@Tomcattwo said in Weapon Delivery Planner released:

1. The Nevada.png map size is 2048 x 2048. This will need to be changed in Theater.xml
2. The DefLat and DefLong points (the lower left corner of the map in Mission Commander) are DefLat = n-35.9998 and DefLong = 120.0005 The North, South, East and West limits in the file are also incorrect. All need to be updated in Theater.xml

.1, There is and has never been an entry in the WDP database for the size of the Nevada.png. So why and where do you want to change that?
.2 BMS can’t handle negative coordinates, was never the case. So why are you trying to do so?

[gabrielgcosta]

@gabrielgcosta Replying to my post since I could solve after a few days. This can help other ppl.

What worked for me here was to download and install all Visual C++ Redistributable, both x86 and x64, available at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170

MC still didnt work, but WDP did, so I just copied the dll from WDP to MC to make it work.

[JUmpstart5179]

If anyone has ran into issues with WDP and the 4.36.1 release I found that loading the DTC then loading the mission file works. I was getting an error everytime before doing that.

[arabianjules]

@Falcas hi m8 what am i doing wrong seems to have stopped working, 4.36U1?

John.

[MaxWaldorf]

@arabianjules download package again from another browser…

[arabianjules]

@MaxWaldorf said in Weapon Delivery Planner released:

@arabianjules download package again from another browser…

Thanx Max

[arabianjules]

still some thing wrong?

[Falcas]

@arabianjules

Pretty strange location to put BMS and/or WDP…
C:\Users…\Documents\BMS… and so on.
But biggest chance is the"1.BMS v4.36" directory.
That is really asking for problems.

How about just putting it in C:\WDP

[arabianjules]

@Falcas said in Weapon Delivery Planner released:

@arabianjules

Pretty strange location to put BMS and/or WDP…
C:\Users…\Documents\BMS… and so on.
But biggest chance is the"1.BMS v4.36" directory.
That is really asking for problems.

How about just putting it in C:\WDP

worked before in there

[jayb]

@arabianjules How big is the .jpg file ? Seem to remember there is a limit…

Edit: Never mind, it is one of WDPs own pictures