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Dawntaker
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5 hours ago, BFCElvis said:
Andrew got a weird one like that a little while ago. He recieved a battle that he recieved was not a batle he was playing.
This seems to have been what's happened. There's a SyriaCupressus vs BritsCargol 024 file in my incoming email folder. Not sure how PBEM has sent the wrong file but it has.
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I've received a weird pbem. It's still called grand invitational tournament round 2 in the description but the title of the scenario is UK Breaking the Bank. On top of that the file seems to be password locked with something that I don't know and never set. Any ideas? I do have one pbem through that's correct for the scenario but I haven't seen the side where I would play uncons yet.
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50 minutes ago, George MC said:
Ah see when I created this I'd higher spec T-72s, But they wiped the T-62s so I down graded em. Even then in my playtest it was a close thing.
It definitely could have been a close thing if I had a different plan that was built with the tank's true capabilities in mind. Instead what I was expecting was a use of the tanks on the hill to dominate the surrounding terrain and shoot anything that risked approaching the objectives turned into them getting boxed in on the hill by the T62's unable to do anything and would quickly get destroyed if they tried to get off the hill.
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Wasn't my finest performance. My defence plan was entirely ruined to the unexpected poor performance of the T72s. I would take T72s from cold war any day over these pieces of scrap metal.
And typical of me, I messed up the timing of my attack so more troops were killed then needed before the arty could do its work.
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3 hours ago, Butschi said:
Well, so far I only gave it a cursory check. So there is still room for gaining fame and glory by taking a closer look.
Did a bit more digging and you're right, the ALOS data is DEM/DSM which means its affected by buildings and trees. However the commercial 5m version has a DTM option which is the bare ground, but you know have to pay for that
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I see, that would probably limit the data to only be useful for parts of the middle east that are fairly flat and lack the trees and urban density to mess with the data.
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@Butschi Still busy with stuff so I haven't given this a full test run yet. But I did stumble across this https://portal.opentopography.org/raster?opentopoID=OTALOS.112016.4326.2 its a site that provides geotiff height data for pretty much the entire world and for free. No account needed or anything either. The only downside I see is the resolution of the data is 30m, I guess in combat mission terms that's about a three by three square. Do you think this would be useful to add as a data source to your wiki? The data is actually based on 5m resolution data but that doesn't seem to be available to the public.
Out of curiosity as well, do you know what resolution the German sites are?
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Well I went down a long rabbit hole looking at this. Seems like one of the easiest things to access are heightmaps in the form of png or raw files. So creating converters for those might be something worth looking into in the far future.
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9 minutes ago, Artkin said:
Yooo I can't wait for this still !!!!!!!!!!! Let me test it or something for you. I want to see how it spits out my redo of the Donetsk airport map.
So all the auto creation of height maps is already available to download and run if you can get your head around command lines and how to get height maps from the internet. If your waiting for the Openstreet maps stuff @Butschi is working on that will do more then a height map, that's likely still a bit of a way off. As for more UI stuff from me, I'm in final year University and as a consequence they decided to hit me with the overwhelming work tactic.
So all work has halted on my side, likely until I finish Uni sometime later in the year.
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https://github.com/DerButschi/CMAutoEditor/releases/tag/1.3.1
1.3.1 has been released that adds a user interface to the cmautoeditor, this means that if you double click on it or run it from a command line/shortcut without any additional parameters, a interface will come up giving you the option to select a csv file and set the countdown via a combobox.
To allow those who enjoy using command lines, the program can still be run how @Butschihas described it in his 1.2.1 post.
Thanks @Butschi for making sure the code wasn't a load of rubbish will millions of bugs and for the suggestions on how the UI should be implemented. Future UI's for the data converters to come!
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On 12/31/2022 at 6:34 PM, Butschi said:
The only way I see is using pyinstaller and make standalone packages, with the added benefit that you have clickable executables like so:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/goth529mnvxwkoh/cmautoeditor-1.0.1beta1.zip?dl=0
I've already asked people to try it but so far... no feedback.
I've given this a try and it works, none of the python libraries were required to be installed through pip or anaconda. The only problem that I can see tripping people up is that if they double click the exe to run it, it immediately closes the python window as there was no input parameter (so it errors). So the only way to currently run it is by opening a cmd window and then running the exe from that with parameters.
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Yeah first post, only got the account recently and saw this somehow. I've been around on the discord server run by Dom for a while but hadn't bothered to be present in other areas until now.
17 hours ago, Butschi said:I've considered it but it is not no. 1 priority right now. Tkinter and PyQt look like total overkill to me and the respective documentations are enough to not look any further at them. PySimpleGUI would be more than sufficient for that.
Fair enough, PySimpleGUI looks like a wrapper for Tkinter to simplify the code which will work fine for simple GUI's but could get messy for more complex ones. Like I said if you would like help then I'm volunteering to give it, to work on lower priority things whilst more important things are done by you. Seems to be something crazy with open street maps as far as I can see.
17 hours ago, Butschi said:The only way I see is using pyinstaller and make standalone packages, with the added benefit that you have clickable executables like so:
This is what I was thinking, hadn't realised you had already done it. I can give it a test when I get home.
17 hours ago, Butschi said:The code is tested with 1920x1080 and 2560x1440. @JM Stuff also managed to get it to work on 1024x768. Since apparently there is no UI scaling, the only thing that needs to be done is set PAGE_N_SQUARES_X and PAGE_N_SQUARES_Y to an appropriate value. Which is a fancy way of saying: Count the number of squares in the editor that fit on the screen and change above values accordingly.
That's fortunate, not much work needs to be done then, it would still be good to set some values for PAGE_N_SQUARES for each of the resolutions that would then be selected from an option that the user inputs. If the user needs to go into the code itself to set it for their specific resolution it wouldn't be a great experience.
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@Butschi This is amazing, wish I had found this before deciding to make a 4km by 3km Coldwar map.
On the accessibility side for the users that aren't experienced in the pains of software engineering a simple UI could be added in to replace the command line inputs, something like Tkinter or PyQt look promising for this. Packaging the python project will also help as it can be packaged with the requirements so people don't need to run pip or anaconda to install the necessary packages.
I assume you probs haven't taken a look at if the thing works on other resolutions yet. This could be pretty easy to fix, just add in some of the popular resolutions people are likely to use, figure out the values needed for them and then add in a option/parameter to select one of them.
Finally, I've taken a look at your code. Please comment it, I would say I'm pretty good with python even though I use Java and C# mostly in my job and I only understand half of it.
If you want me to help I'm more then welcome to collaborate adding in more features, could try and tackle the a UI implementation for instance.
Combat Mission Shock Force 2 - Invitational Grand Tournament
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I've tried that, the breaking the bank file just comes back instead of the correct one. I think we need tournament admins help with this one.