F/A-18C Dynamic Campaign: Battle Group Delta

[GPatricks]

Ok, I must be an idiot as i've stared at this for an hour, read all the posts and DCE shows up in DCS World (with no mission) I get this error when I run FirstMission.bat - C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\luae.exe: cannot open C:\Users\xxx\Saved: No such file or directory.

 

My FirstMission.bat file is - start "Generate First Mission" cmd /k ""C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\luae.exe" C:\Users\xxx\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\Mods\tech\DCE\Scripts\BAT_FirstMission.lua && exit"

 

I see the error truncates the path of Saved Games, no idea why, is that it? What the heck am I missing? The install looks fine, I made all file adjustments required.. likely something simple i've overlooked?

 

Double checked camp_init.lua also, as i'm not 100% sure how the path should look due to the instructions in bold, this is what I have now - path = "C:\Users\xxx/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Mods/tech/DCE/Missions/Campaigns/FA-18C Battle Group Delta/", --path of campaign folder within USERPROFILE (use / for folder seperation as \ is an escape character in LUA)

Thanks for any help.

Edited August 10, 2020 by GaryR

[Alexbeav]

Is there a way to manually change the mission to a GPS era so that it can be played with the current features the F/A-18C has access to? Or do we just need to wait until ED gets carrier TCN alignment working?

 

You could update the year to 1996, instructions further back in the thread.

 

However I believe today's open beta update fixed this.

[rhoady]

Hi!
I keep getting this error message when I load up the first mission, and my wins/losses aren't carrying to the next one. I've checked the lua file and according to the info I've found it appears to be scripted right. Any help on this?

sanitizeModule('os') in MissionScripting.lua has not been disabled. Mission results will not be accounted and campaign will not progress


Here's my missionscripting.lua
--Initialization script for the Mission lua Environment (SSE)

dofile('Scripts/ScriptingSystem.lua';)

--Sanitize Mission Scripting environment
--This makes unavailable some unsecure functions.
--Mission downloaded from server to client may contain potentialy harmful lua code that may use these functions.
--You can remove the code below and make availble these functions at your own risk.

local function sanitizeModule(name)
_G[name] = nil
package.loaded[name] = nil
end

do
--sanitizeModule('os';)
--sanitizeModule('io';)
--sanitizeModule('lfs';)
require = nil
loadlib = nil
end

[norman99]

Just curious if anyone has managed to get this campaign working with 2.7?

I'm aware of CEF's great campaigns, and his DCE manager, but I've always enjoyed this campaign too, and would love to try it again if possible.

[Steel Jaw]

7 minutes ago, norman99 said:

Just curious if anyone has managed to get this campaign working with 2.7?

Plus One.

[norman99]

If anyone is interested in having a look, the error I'm getting is the following:

Please Wait...

F:\- DCS -\DCS World\bin\luae.exe: ../../../Scripts/DC_UpdateTargetlist.lua:103: attempt to concatenate field 'name' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
        ../../../Scripts/DC_UpdateTargetlist.lua:103: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'dofile'
        ../../../Scripts/MAIN_NextMission.lua:137: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'dofile'
        ..\..\..\Scripts\BAT_FirstMission.lua:43: in main chunk
        [C]: ?

C:\Users\Michael\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\tech\DCE\Missions\Campaigns\FA-18C Battle Group Delta>

I've had a brief look at the mentioned DC_UpdateTargetlist.lua. It would seem the latest DCS update has changed something that is required by this script, but don't know enough about DCS scripting to identify what it is.