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HOw do you find out an aircraft's 4-digit number? (Read 748 times)

Feb 7^th, 2004 at 1:14pm

raybakerjian Offline
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I downloaded a CFS1 mission, Nachtjagd, and am having trouble getting it to run. Message comes up in CFS that there was an error loading the mission and that it may be formatted wrong. A notepad version with the problem appears in <CFS> and it reads:
[Mission file error]
error=Unit type ID 3001 not found (specified for unit 1012)
title=Nachtjagd 1944 I/NJG1
filename=MISSIONS\Venlo`44

Looking in the mission file itself, unit 1012 is:
id=1012
type_id=3001
name=%name_string.7%
position_lat=
position_lon=
position_alt=
position_pbh=
speed=150
skill=0
level=0
points=0
damage=0

The mission also shows that these aircraft are available:
player_aircraft=3003
allowed_aircraft=3001,3003,3004,3005

How do you know where and when an a/c has been loaded and what its 4-digit number should be?

Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Feb 7^th, 2004 at 4:51pm

Hagar Offline
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Hi Raybakerjian. The most common cause of problems with missions is that 3rd party aircraft used in the mission are missing or not installed correctly. This will give you the error message you describe.

The error.log file will tell you the unit number of the one causing the problem. In your example this is unit 3001. Open the mission file in Notepad & use the Search/Find feature to find this number. From this you need to search again for the [unit_type.x] entry that will give you the folder name. I don't have CFS1 installed right now so this is an example from CFS2.

[unit_type.0]
type_id=3800
unit_family=1
name=a6m2_zero

The name= entry is the exact folder name of the aircraft. Make sure you have this aircraft & that it's installed correctly. A common problem with unflyable AI drones is that it won't have Panel and/or Sound folders. If these are missing, copy/paste them from another aircraft you know works. (Empty folders with the correct names will fix it.) Once you've found & fixed the problem try the mission again. There might well be other problems that you will need to check individually in the same way until the mission loads properly.

I hope this is some help.

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Reply #2 - Feb 8^th, 2004 at 3:42am

mikencfs Offline
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Is this mission part of a Nachtjagd package by Richard Rubio?
If so, I have the same mission but it's different from yours even though the title is the same.

Here's the info in the one I have;
[unit.7]
id=1012
type_id=3100
name=%name_string.7%
position_lat=
position_lon=
position_alt=
position_pbh=
speed=150
skill=0
level=0
points=0
damage=0

And the Unit type_id=3100, which is;
[unit_type.2]
type_id=3100
unit_family=2
name=Lancbbmf
allegiance=3
gun_ammo=13000
cannon_ammo=0
rocket_load=0
bomb_load=30
addons=0000000000000000000000000000000

This is the Lancaster that Richard Rubio included with two missions in his package.
There are three aircraft included with the version I have and the folders have to be placed in your CFS aircraft folder.
There is also some scenery to install.

If you would e-mail me a copy of the mission you have I'll take a look at it.
mikencfs@aol.com

Mike

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Reply #3 - Feb 12^th, 2004 at 9:47pm

raybakerjian Offline
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Hey guys,

Thanks for your help.. I think I got it.

Ray

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