How to Take Off and Blow Stuff Up tutorial mission not working anymore

Anyone got this mission working in DCSW 1.2.2.7570?

When I try and play it, it just hangs on a screen that says loading with no progress bar. I tried to load and save it in the ME but it does nothing when I click the Save button so I have to click cancel instead and can't save it.

Anyone got this mission working in DCSW 1.2.2.7570?

I just wanted to check, but I can't seem to find a download link that still works. The links in the ED Wiki and on the SimHQ article appear to be broken. Do you have any working links available?

If not, PM me for email address so you can mail me your .miz, then I can check if I can get it to work. I've currently got 1.0.2, 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.2.7570 installed.

I just wanted to check, but I can't seem to find a download link that still works. The links in the ED Wiki and on the SimHQ article appear to be broken. Do you have any working links available?

 

If not, PM me for email address so you can mail me your .miz, then I can check if I can get it to work. I've currently got 1.0.2, 1.1.1.1 and 1.2.2.7570 installed.

PM Sent.

PM Sent.

File received, thanks.

At first, I couldn't get it to work in 1.2.2 either, witnessing the exact same symptoms as described by you.

But I found an installation of 1.2.0 that I had forgotten about. In 1.2.0 I could save the mission in the editor. That copy could then be saved in the 1.2.2 editor (not sure if this step was even necessary), and I can now successfully load the mission in 1.2.2.

The Ka-50 skin seems to be missing or renamed because the chopper shows with the bright orange "texture missing" texture, but that should be easily fixable in the ME.

PM with download link sent.

Does it now work for you, doveman? If so, I'll test-fly the whole mission (haven't done that yet), adjust the applied skin and then, if all checks out, hop over to SimHQ and ask parabellum if it's okay if I make the download link public.

Edit: Word of advice. Don't fly in 1.2.2 and 1.2.0 in turns. All my campaign progress in 1.2.2 is lost, and I can't think of any other reason for that to happen than having loaded the "Blow Stuff Up" mission in 1.2.0 an hour ago. Well, I wanted to restart my Basic Flight Training Qualification campaign anyways because a few hiccups had screwed with my scores. :)

At least the Logbook appears to be okay. The MoH did take some flying hours after all. :)

File received, thanks.

 

At first, I couldn't get it to work in 1.2.2 either, witnessing the exact same symptoms as described by you.

 

But I found an installation of 1.2.0 that I had forgotten about. In 1.2.0 I could save the mission in the editor. That copy could then be saved in the 1.2.2 editor (not sure if this step was even necessary), and I can now successfully load the mission in 1.2.2.

 

The Ka-50 skin seems to be missing or renamed because the chopper shows with the bright orange "texture missing" texture, but that should be easily fixable in the ME.

 

PM with download link sent.

 

Does it now work for you, doveman? If so, I'll test-fly the whole mission (haven't done that yet), adjust the applied skin and then, if all checks out, hop over to SimHQ and ask parabellum if it's okay if I make the download link public.

Thanks Yurgon, I've tested it and it seems fine now. I haven't played it fully but it loads OK so it should be fine.

Lucky you still had 1.2.0 installed :)

Thanks Yurgon, I've tested it and it seems fine now. I haven't played it fully but it loads OK so it should be fine.

 

Lucky you still had 1.2.0 installed :)

I just flew the whole mission and it worked just fine (except for my rather rusty Ka-50 skills :)). I also changed the Ka-50 skin to the default camo. I asked Para_Bellum for permission to make this version public. With an affirmative reply from him, I'll post a download link.

Edit: Oh, the 1.2.0 installation, right. All my DCS installations reside on a 2TB disc, so there's no need to throw the old stuff over board. And somehow I'd had a feeling that might come in handy one day. :)

Sure, go ahead!

I've updated the original thread on SimHQ, too.

Thanks for your work!

I've updated the original thread on SimHQ, too.

 

Thanks for your work!

Thanks for the excellent tutorial. :)

Here we go:

How_To_Take_Off_and_Blow_Stuff_Up_(DCS_World).miz

MD5:    37f336f410a20b7d3206e22f180003c8
SHA1:   65403e70e2a8439673cd78c95a6f7caa85a43fdd
SHA256: a9436af10459ec3b00b9128f3aecc8ad2acb1e2bbbf30eec5e99d931b6c05afa

Thanks Yurgon & of course Para_Bellum for your original work - this is exactly what I was looking for :)