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problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:39 am
by fcam1387
Hi
I installed the CHS standard/extended maps, the base package (with the update) and scenario 156. I believe I followed all the installation instructions, but nonetheless the following problems occur:
When I load the standard map, the South American and Middle East bases appear on the far right and left corners of the screen (they are just base symbols w/o any attachment to land but there are also units on them). Also, none of the artwork seems to appear for any capital ship (with the exception of the Ise class). Originally, the game crashed to the desktop when I tried to examine some ships and aircraft, but after I reinstalled this didn't happen any more - however, the other problems still remain.
Anyone know how I can fix this?
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:03 am
by Andrew Brown
ORIGINAL: fcam1387
Hi
I installed the CHS standard/extended maps, the base package (with the update) and scenario 156. I believe I followed all the installation instructions, but nonetheless the following problems occur:
When I load the standard map, the South American and Middle East bases appear on the far right and left corners of the screen (they are just base symbols w/o any attachment to land but there are also units on them). Also, none of the artwork seems to appear for any capital ship (with the exception of the Ise class). Originally, the game crashed to the desktop when I tried to examine some ships and aircraft, but after I reinstalled this didn't happen any more - however, the other problems still remain.
Anyone know how I can fix this?
That sounds like the extended map is not loaded. You should exit the game, run the "ModSelect" utility, select the extended map, then restart the game. Then the Aden and Panama bases should have land below them.
If the game crashes when you click on some ship art, then that means the art for those ships is not in the ART folder. As for the map, this should be solved by running the ModSelect utility and selecting CHS art for loading.
Andrew
Andrew
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:38 am
by fcam1387
Andrew,
I used the mod select utility first for the extended map - those bases now had land on them. I then selected the standard map, and the bases disappeared but the land did not. Are the Middle Eastern and South American bases supposed to be on the standard version?
Also, unless I corrupted it (although I don't know how I could have), the art in the actual CHS zip does not appear to be entirely new. Some of the bitmaps for capital ships just seem be the vanilla versions - while others are new.
I'm not quite sure what to do here...
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:37 pm
by Andrew Brown
ORIGINAL: fcam1387
I used the mod select utility first for the extended map - those bases now had land on them. I then selected the standard map, and the bases disappeared but the land did not. Are the Middle Eastern and South American bases supposed to be on the standard version?
Bases are in the scenario files, not the map file, so what bases you get depends on what scenario you play. CHS has Aden and the Panama bases included, but not all scenarios made for my map include them.
Also, unless I corrupted it (although I don't know how I could have), the art in the actual CHS zip does not appear to be entirely new. Some of the bitmaps for capital ships just seem be the vanilla versions - while others are new.
Yes there are some stock bitmaps - not all ships were redrawn for the CHS art. So that is not a problem (unless you don't like the stock art). There are some alternative ship art packages for CHS that do include more redrawn ships, I believe.
Andrew
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:28 pm
by fcam1387
Thanks very much Andrew, but just one last thing: Is scenario 156 (on the standard map) meant to have those the Aden and Panama bases situated in the ocean and not on land, or was this scenario designed to be played on the extended map?
Are there any others scenarios that don't include these bases?
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:01 pm
by rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: fcam1387
Thanks very much Andrew, but just one last thing: Is scenario 156 (on the standard map) meant to have those the Aden and Panama bases situated in the ocean and not on land, or was this scenario designed to be played on the extended map?
Are there any others scenarios that don't include these bases?
If it has Aden and Panama - it is supposed to have the extended map.
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:16 pm
by Andrew Brown
ORIGINAL: rtrapasso
ORIGINAL: fcam1387
Thanks very much Andrew, but just one last thing: Is scenario 156 (on the standard map) meant to have those the Aden and Panama bases situated in the ocean and not on land, or was this scenario designed to be played on the extended map?
Are there any others scenarios that don't include these bases?
If it has Aden and Panama - it is supposed to have the extended map.
That's right. All CHS scenarios use the extended map. I used to have a variant of CHS that used the standard map, but that was a long time ago. All of the current CHS variants use the extended map only.
Andrew
RE: problems with CHS
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:29 pm
by Halsey
I have complete ship graphics downloads for CHS at Spooky's.[;)]
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