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My first post on the new Forum:

Progress on WWII Europe this weekend:

1. Improved the algorithms on detecting hex xy coordinates at all levels.  Operations now work smoothly on mid level maps now.  Tinkered with allowing ops on the high level maps.  It could work, but is really only useful for long range bombing missions where the target hex has an enemy unit in it so you get positive feedback of the hex in the command panel.  Will revisit during playtest.

2. Began the task of moving cities from AGW to the WWIIE arrays and adding the extra information (e.g. city names, county the city is in).  200 of 1800 are now done.  I have a few of these background tasks that I need to make progress on.  The terrain array is another...

3. Found and fixed a couple of annoying bugs near the edges of the maps.  434 x 360 hexes

Ron

Status on WWII Europe for the weekend:

1. Developed a report that shows the operations performed by the current player during the Turn Deploy Phase, and a seperate report for the Ground Move Phase operations.  Completed all other reports at the larger font.  The final tally is 5 combat reports (air-air, air-naval, naval-naval, air-ground, ground-ground), two Computer opponent reports (Turn Deploy ops, Ground Move ops), and 4 current side friendly reports (Turn Deploy ops, Ground Move ops, out of supply, Reinforcements).  The combat reports shows attacks by both sides, while all other reports show only the current side (maintain FOW). The ground-ground report combats are numbered, and the number is displayed along with a red border on the map, giving a good visual link.

2. Converted another 100 cities from AGW to WWII Europe format.  300 of 1800 converted.

Ron

Thanks for the update Ron, sounds like you could do with some help performing those AGW to WWIIE city updates - is it a task enthusiastic volunteers could help with? I suppose the difficult and time involved step is adding the correct new info to the data arrays.

@spelk,

I appreciate the offer.  What would be very helpful is an ASCII file (created using Notepad) with the xy coordinates of each AGW city followed by four zeroes (I can fill out that data later) followed by 25 characters with the city name spelled out.  I need underscores to make up the reamining 25 characters.  (the code converts these to blanks when building the scenario).

For example, one line would be:

133 71 0 0 0 0 Berlin___________________

I've completed the first 70 columns of AGW, but the rest remain to be done.  The information is on the AGW map.  Press the INS key to get the xy coordinates on the screen.

Bonus points if you add 56 to the AGW x coordinate, and 96 to the AGW y coordinate. This converts AGW xy coordinates to WWIIE xy coordinates.

Let me know if you are willing to take this one on.  Send me a file with a few cities done so I can make sure I have communicated what is needed.

I am a bit overwhelmed.  I don't have words for this type of wargaming enthusiasm...

Thanks,

Ron

I'll have a look at it this evening Ron, and see how far I get.

Are there any cities/ports that span multiple hexes? Do you just replicate the information with the hex co-ords?

Does it matter what order they are recorded in? I was thinking that doing it country by country might be easier than sweeping the very large campaign map row by row, but until I've had a look at it properly I'm not sure.

I suppose a country by country sweep could be co-ordinated with others easier too. If there are any others who fancy chipping in and helping.

I had a quick look-see over lunchtime, lets see if this works...

0 11 0 0 0 0 Virtual_USA/Canada_______
43 13 0 0 0 0 Mallaig__________________
53 12 0 0 0 0 Inverness________________
60 5 0 0 0 0 Thurso___________________
62 7 0 0 0 0 Wick_____________________
62 3 0 0 0 0 Scapa_Flow_______________
63 2 0 0 0 0 Scapa_Flow_______________
64 3 0 0 0 0 Scapa_Flow_______________
63 3 0 0 0 0 Scapa_Flow_______________
104 14 0 0 0 0 Stavanger________________
105 1 0 0 0 0 Bergen___________________
119 3 0 0 0 0 Finse____________________
122 5 0 0 0 0 Noreanlegget_____________
124 0 0 0 0 0 Fagernes_________________
131 0 0 0 0 0 Lillahammer______________
131 2 0 0 0 0 Gjovik___________________
132 4 0 0 0 0 Skrela___________________
134 3 0 0 0 0 Hamar_Mjosa______________
127 10 0 0 0 0 Drammen__________________
130 10 0 0 0 0 Oslo_____________________
130 7 0 0 0 0 Roa______________________
180 1 0 0 0 0 Mantyiuoto_______________
182 2 0 0 0 0 Pori_____________________
180 4 0 0 0 0 Rauma____________________
180 7 0 0 0 0 Uusikaupuriki____________
184 10 0 0 0 0 Turku____________________
187 14 0 0 0 0 Hango____________________
191 1 0 0 0 0 Tampere__________________
191 3 0 0 0 0 Toijala__________________
196 8 0 0 0 0 Hyvinkaa_________________
196 12 0 0 0 0 Helsinki_________________
200 10 0 0 0 0 Porvoo___________________
202 10 0 0 0 0 Lovisa___________________
200 6 0 0 0 0 Lahi_____________________
205 5 0 0 0 0 Kouvola__________________
205 9 0 0 0 0 Kotka____________________
207 8 0 0 0 0 Hamina___________________
211 5 0 0 0 0 Simda____________________
211 4 0 0 0 0 Lappeenranta_____________
214 3 0 0 0 0 Inatra___________________
217 2 0 0 0 0 Hiitola__________________
220 3 0 0 0 0 Kakisain_________________
214 7 0 0 0 0 Viipuri__________________
218 10 0 0 0 0 Terijoki_________________
218 12 0 0 0 0 Oranienbaum______________
221 11 0 0 0 0 Leningrad________________
222 12 0 0 0 0 Leningrad________________
222 13 0 0 0 0 Leningrad________________
222 14 0 0 0 0 Pushki___________________

Very good.  The carriage returns/linefeeds showed up on this information.

I do need all cities on a single x coordinate in a column, followed by the x+1 column and so forth. 

The underscores  on Lillahammer need to be removed.  Looks like a hot link of some sort...

Thank you!!

Ron 

Any update on making the grand campaign will be soloable?